Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In June we created an e-book with the experiments entitled“ Science Experiments for Preschool”. The children made drawings of their experiments and some of them are found in the book. This last month we also had a survey for the evaluation of the project. so we have their parents’ consent to use their photos. We used ICT tools in many of our activities throughout the project:- the children used photo cameras to capture images required for the presentation of the kindergarten and its external environment or snapshots of classroom activities;- the children watched on the project’ s TwinSpace posts about other partners and representative images of their countries;- the children had fun learning more about other countries when playing the computer games prepared by the partners;- the children participated in online video conferences via Skype;- I used special software for image and films processing and presentation: Padlet, Vimeo, Cyberlink Power Director, Collage Maker to present children ' s activity and evaluation;- I used StepMap to create a virtual link between our countries on the European map;- I used a special tool to create computer games: Learningapps. org;- the teacher administrators special software to create the e-book“ Science experiments for preschools”;- the teacher administrators used Weebly to create a website for the project.
Participating in this eTwinning project was a great opportunity for me and my students to play with experiments. They really enjoyed it and told their parents about the experiments they liked and also did them at home.
All throughout the project we collaborated very well with the partners, especially the administrators. Although the time was short and we had many activities, we where all very interested and helped each other in accomplishing all the project activities. Children participated in all the activities and followed with great interest the participation of the other children. From games to experiments, the children and partners had to propose and then chose from the partners’ proposals and apply the same number of games or experiments. This was a great idea, one that encouraged us more to see that we were not working in parallel, but working together.
In order to achieve the project’ s pedagogical objectives we used many ICT tools. Firstly, we made sure the children are safe in the virtual space,
All my students’ parents were very glad that I introduced this project in the classroom; they congratulated me for the idea and thanked me for the opportunity. My students told them each time we had a meeting or did an experiment and the parents were very interested to find out more about the partners and experiments. They always checked for new additions on the eTwinning board. Some of the parents also did some of the experiments at home with the help of their children. As a general opinion, they were all very pleased to see their children so interested and eager to participate in this project and congratulated us all( all the partners from this project) for our initiative.
My headmaster and colleagues appreciated all the experiments as a good way to implement good practices and also the students and their parents’ reactions and experiences during this project. They believe that the methods and techniques used offer innovative and creative kindergarten education. They also agreed that the students develop their foreign language, communication and also
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