Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 51

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dotstorming is just like Padlet. What makes Dotstorming different is that once the notes are posted, you can have people vote for their favourite notes, or comment on them. As the creator of a Dotstorming space you can restrict the number of votes that each person can cast. For example, you could say that each person gets three votes and once those votes are cast they're prevented from casting any more votes. After the voting is completed, you can sort the notes according to the number of votes they received. During the project I had the opportunity to visit Athens and I met the Greek team, visited their school and had a great time (thanks, Vasiliki!). We arranged a Skype meeting dedicated to diversity, and participated in the eTwinning campaign with a poster and a video.      I liked to learn the culture of other countries through their legends I learned a lot about new tools of ICT I met a lot of teachers. I exercised my English language I enjoyed the guessing game. Thank you, eTwinning, for another great project! Cristina Nicolaita is from Romania, a teacher of Physics and Computer Science, an eTwinning ambassador since 2013, actively involved in eTwinning since 2008. In addition, she is an Inspiring Science Education Mentor and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. 14 of her eTwinning projects received European Quality Label and 2 of her projects were awarded in the national contest Made for Europe in the last 3 years. She participated as facilitator in face-to-face and online workshops and learning events on http://iteach.ro/ (a platform connected to eTwinning) and on eTwinning Learning Lab/ eTwinning Live. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves by Olivera Ilic In Serbian schools, there are different approaches of working with students with special educational needs (SEN): students can either attend classes with students who do not have special needs, with their curriculum moderated, or they can attend special schools or separate classes in ordinary schools for special needs’ students. Our students’ opinions about the project are very relevant:  I could speak English with children about my age and I liked it.  I can ask questions in English more fluently  I learnt to use Google sheets  I learnt to cooperate with friends from foreign country I had taught English as a foreign language for years before I was assigned to teach a class of SEN students. Although I had a vast experience of teaching SEN students in a regular classroom, most of which were students with mild to moderate learning difficulties, teaching a whole class of SEN students was a different story. As I didn’t have any official or university training in working with SEN students, I read about it as much as I could, did online courses for SEN teachers, joined online support groups, talked to SEN professionals. However, I still didn’t feel I was teaching the right way. That is when I thought that joining an eTwinning project for SEN students and working 51