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 &edit=vd 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 80