Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 68

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------project you will nearly always touch some of the subjects of your school. When you are planning your project have a look at the programme of the year. Maybe you teach more than one subject in your class, as I do. I knew that we would talk about Europe (Geography lesson), learn about hobbies (English lesson), need a certain ability to use presentation tools (ICT) and practise music. In this case we teachers agreed to have these subjects and content included into our eTwinning project. The students then had the opportunity to make their own choices about the means and content of the project. Evaluation Don’t forget to ask the students what worked well and what could be improved in further projects. They will be able to give you valuable feedback. Possible evaluation tools can be padlet.com to comment and discuss with the European partners. https://answergarden.ch/ is also a useful ICT tool to just post one word (an appropriate tool for younger students or students who have just begun to learn a foreign language). Pâques en Europe! Easter in Europe! by Crina Clapou eTwinning projects provide great opportunities to share knowledge and experience in the teaching community. This was also the case in the eTwinning project "Pâques en Europe! Easter in Europe!". We wanted to share Easter traditions with 25 partners from European countries (Romania, Italy and Turkey). The main objective of the project was to know Christian values and ways of celebrating religious holidays specific to the Romanian people or other European nations. Communication was done using French and Romanian and the project involved children aged between 4 and 12 years. Throughout the activities, I helped the children to know and accept differences given by different cultures, to express themselves in an artistic way and to realize the importance of communication, acceptance of diversity and the need to establish affectionate relations among all children, regardless the country where they live. Children, with my help, have used ICT to view all activities posted on the TwinSpace of the project. Our project I heard about Sway https://sway.com/my in an eTwinning learning event and I now like this ICT presentation tool very much. It is easy to use and a presentation with sway is never boring. You can see more of our Greek-German project work here: https://sway.com/dcRLtVSvDEFCkaCp In the implementation of the project activities we used small group activities, interactive methods, techniques and innovative work we put emphasis on cooperative learning to awaken and maintain the interest of children. The results of their work were presented in an exhibition with produce made during the Easter themed project. Heidi Giese is a teacher in a Secondary school (French, Politics, Art), Europaschule Anne-FrankSchule, in Eschwege and an Erasmus+ Ambassador in Germany. The activities had a strong interdisciplinary character carried out through a harmonious combination of activities such as “reading” pictures or conversations with auditions and artistic activities with themes related to specific national celebration of Easter (dyeing and decorating eggs, 68