Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nastratin. Not only the characters but also the story was intercultural. Above all as participants we had a chance to practice many web 2.0 tools, learned to learn and gather amazing cultural information about different countries. Time flew quickly and we came to an end leaving excellent memories and friends all over Europe. eTwinning / Comenius project, whose title was " I & R- European Industrial technology and Robotics, new educational approaches for creative learning ". I received Barbara Ponizy ' s request to have our pupils on a video conference on the occasion of the Minister of Education Mr. Vincent Pellion ' s visit to the Poitier Etwinning Central Agency.
The proposed activity was absolutely instructive for our students, since they could show each other the robots they had planned and assembled, directly discuss Robotics programming and plan together the radio broadcast event to be performed during the following meeting at LP2I- Poitiers.
During this Learning Event we had the chance to practice the definition of Herbert Marshall McLuhan:“ The world is a global village”. With the help of eTwinning we realize that European countries are neighbours!
Nilüfer Dinc Demirok is a teacher of English for 17 years working in Zonguldak, Turkey. She has worked as a Teacher Trainer for the Ministry of Turkish Education and had many trainings about adult education, including summer school in U. S, Massachussetts. Now she is working with the gifted children.
With the help of my colleague Antonio Spano, who coordinates the group of our " Robotics addicts ", we prepared the Skype meeting: it had to be at at 2.00 pm, immediately after the bell rings the last period end, not even time to eat a sandwich... " Great, no problem, teachers, we will be there on the fly, all we have to do is assemble the robots on time!"
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A Video Conference with Our French Partners: An Example of Cooperation, Exchange of Ideas, Good Practices and Fun by Laura Rua
Yes, fun and amusement as this is the approach our students had to the activity!
Barbara( France), Jesmond( Malta), Leopoldo( Spain) and I were working together for an
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