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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------messages. That will lead to more tolerance and dialogue through a sharing of various experiences, opinions and perspectives. The more media literate, the more socially competent! Bibliography: Banchi, H., Bell, R. (2008). The Many Levels of Inquiry. Science and Children, 70 (7) http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/lessons/files/20 13/05/The-Many-Levels-of-Inquiry-NSTA-article.pdf My First Exciting Learning Event: eTwinning and Interculturality by Nilüfer Dinc Demirok When I first heard that an LE (a Learning Event) was going to be held by Daniela Bunea, Cristina Nicolaita and Adil Tuğyan, I got very, very excited, because I have always been fond of self improvement and this was a great opportunity to meet teachers like me. Hobbs, R. (2010). Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action http://www.knightcomm.org/digital-and-medialiteracy-a-plan-of-action/ Kuhn et al (2000). The Development of Cognitive Skills to Support Inquiry Learning. In Cognition and Instruction https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/dk100/faculty profile/files/opingcognitiveskillsthatsupportinquiryle arning.pdf Postman, N., Weingartner, C. (1969) Teaching as a Subversive Activity. New York, Delacorte Press. Rogow, F. (2011) Ask, Don’t Tell: Pedagogy for Media Literacy Education in the Next Decade. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 3(1) http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? article=1058&context=jmle http://ec.europa.eu/culture/library/studies/literacytrends-report_en.pdf http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/five-keyquestions-form-foundation-media-inquiry http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/whatmedia-literacy-definitionand-more https://namle.net/publications/core-principles/ Ana-Maria Ghioc is an ELT teacher at "Grigore Moisil" National College in Bucharest, Romania. Her interests include project-based learning, creative writing, the integration of Web 2.0 tools in education, project management and media literacy. At first I was not sure if I could be one of the lucky participants since the LE took place among all teachers around Europe. I always consider myself as a lucky person, and soon my luck has been proved again. It was one of the precious moments of my life for me when I learned that I got one of the seats as a participant! This was my first LE and I had not the slightest idea about where to begin with and what to do. Above all, the LE would last for two weeks between the 23rd of May and the 3rd of June, which was challenging considering we were at the last weeks of the school. However all of my concerns disappeared when I saw the road map Daniela posted. It was clear, well prepared and helpful for all the participants. Step by step we began to know each other and started to have little tasks in our groups (leagues) as we called them.Everybody was very helpful and open. From the first moment, I really felt that there are people all over Europe, giving their hearts to t he jobs they are doing. This feeling was amazing! Plus while working in our teams we realized how some cultures are surprisingly similar. One of our tasks was creating an e-book based on a folk story of our own culture. During the task we realized that Romanian folk stories carry nearly and surprisingly the same elements. I chose Nasreddin Hodja and the other character was from Romania named 15