Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 79

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------close attention to the behaviour of other people;
flexibility and adaptability, overcoming anxieties,
worries and insecurities about meeting and
interacting with other people who are perceived to
be different; linguistic, communicative skills, that is
to communicate clearly in a range of situations
expressing their opinions, explaining and clarifying
ideas, advocating, promoting, arguing, reasoning,
discussing, debating, persuading and negotiating;
co-operation and conflict resolution skills, taking
action together with others in a reciprocal and coordinated manner, identifying and setting group
goals, pursuing the goals of a group and adapting
one’s own behaviour for the purpose of achieving
these goals, appreciating all group members’
talents and strengths, and helping others. The
project h elped all of us gain a basic knowledge and
understanding of critical human rights challenges in
our world and we strongly hope that through
eTwinning we can give a hand to young people
build up a better future.

Maria Teresa Rughi is an English teacher in upper
secondary school in Italy, an eTwinning ambassador
since 2012 and a pedagogical referent for the
region of Umbria since 2014. In her experience
eTwinning projects represent the added value to
education.
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Better e-Safe Than Sorry
by Deyana Peykova
TwinSpace:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/4386/home

The project
This eTwinning project included schools in six
countries – Bulgaria, France, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Spain and UK. We aimed to equip
children with the skills and knowledge they need to
use the technology safely and responsibility,
managing and recognizing the risks, wherever and
whenever they go online; to promote safe and
responsible behaviours.
The aims
All the students use ICT in a lot of different ways:
creating slideshows, taking pictures, making videos,
doing research, writing emails, etc. But do we know
how to use them safely? The aim of the project is to
try to:

Implement good ICT practices in our
schools by creating or improving our
Acceptable Use Policy

Raise e-safety awareness

Improve our pupils' English skills.

Help our pupils to work/to do research
collaboratively
Activities
When we started the project we applied for an
eSafety label. Our school got the bronze one.

Each school got an action plan – different activities
the school has to do in order to become safer.
The students present their schools presenting the
equipment they have at their disposal in their
school (multimedia room, laptops, wifi, tablets,
etc.) and explaining what action of their action plan
they want to focus on and why.

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