Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 80

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Our video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHBOQ5EJvuc
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Each student also answered an online survey about
e-safety done by the teachers. The results are
here:
https://docs.google.com/a/stmichaelcollege.nl/form
s/d/1VJiC7B1jQAyrfOZl80IhUX5T4XA3QLeThTS8PM
o6rds/viewanalytics

Students got to know each other by writing emails
to each other and by describing each other orally
using Fotobabble, etc.
In intercultural groups students did research about
topics: Social Networks; Smartphone Use;
Addiction to Video games; Cyberbullying;
Plagiarism; Sexting/Grooming.
Everything was gathered on a collaborative Google
doc per topic. They produced their own survey and
ask students at their schools to complete them. The
results are analyzed; posters and infographics were
made.

Deyana Peykova is an English teacher in Hristo
Smirnenski Primary School, Rakovski, Bulgaria. She
has been registered on eTwinning since 2010.
eTwinning is a very special place for her because
she has met her Comenius and Erasmus+ friends
here during these years.

Small Scientists from European Kindergartens
by Ionela Camelia Lazea
The project “Small Scientists discovering the sky”
started in January 2016 and it had 11 members
from 8 European countries: Poland (2 partners),
Romania (2 partners), Turkey (2 partners), Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal and
Croatia. We used English to communicate during
this project and all the children involved were
between the ages 3 – 7. The objectives the project
focused on were enhancing and improving
communication between the pupils from different
cultures, improve their English Language skills,
begin to use computer and ICT, do science
experiments which improve pupils’ creative
thinking.

The innovation in this project was mainly from its
theme "Small scientists discovering the sky".
During this project we used various methods and
techniques especially experiments, to learn more
about our theme and to attract children and
motivate them.
For a 6 month project, the activities were plenty,
interesting, well planned, in a logical succession and
succeeded in drawing us closer together. Every
task planned in this project could be carried out by
the partners only through intense collaboration and
serious commitment.
In January: Partners voted the logo, presented their
group, school, city and country on Twinspace and
made a board with the partners. The children were
presented the project name and partners and we
searched for partners’ countries on the map of
Europe and made a project board. They were also
presented the pictures and videos taken by partners
with their kindergartens on Twinspace and they
watched with great interest.
In order for children to learn more about the other
countries present in the project, in February we
prepared a series of games where children could
learn more about different cultures, flags etc. Each
partner had to think and propose one game in the

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