Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 83

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------collaboration skills when participating in an
eTwinning project. It offers the opportunity to see
how kindergarten teachers from other countries
work, to adapt those practices in our work and also
enhances our abilities to collaborate, improve our
language and ICT skills. My kindergarten benefits
from prestige and popularity in the community after
the completion of an international project.

GOOD PRACTICE: The Use of the Methodology
Based on Projects
by Francoise Altamura

The most successful result of this project is that at
its end, my students know more about water, air
and sky since the beginning of the project. I think
the project was very well planned and it offered the
opportunity for collaborative work in almost all the
activities, this way all the teachers and students felt
involved and part of a great project.

What is PBL
It is proposed to the class a target, a final product,
something to create, something tangible and visible
to realize in a certain time.

Ionela Camelia Lazea is a pre-primary teacher from
Bistrita, northern Romania. She has been teaching
for 8 years to children between 3 and 6. She has
been active on eTwinning since 2010 and she has
participated in many Learning Events, webinars and
eTwinning projects. She also had the opportunity to
be member in a Comenius project in her nursery
school. She enjoys very much the challenges
eTwinning provides teachers with, and she loves
applying them into her work.
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Personally, working with PBL has facilitated a lot my
teaching of French conversation, managing to
engage students actively to participate in their
education.

Features of the PBL
Working in small groups, each student is
commissioned to produce something according to
his/her tastes or to his/her skills. Each member of
the group helps the others to produce an outcome.
Project planning
You have to plan the project in detail: the timing
and the activities to be carried out by the different
groups of students, and supply worksheets that will
help the organization of the group work
Assessment
It is important to provide both group and individual
feedback in order to avoid discussion. Each member
produces his/her own part that converges in the
work of the group.
Visibility
At the beginning of the project it is fundamental to
plan how to make outcomes of the class visible: on
the school website, during the party at the end of
year, making exhibitions etc ... I think that the
most important moment for students is when they
become part of the community, when they feel
proud and satisfied of their product.
Example
This year, I proposed to a second class to produce a
cookbook. The food topic is part of the French
program of the second year. After a brainstorming
session on the food that is being wasted, the
students collected the family recipes made with
leftovers. First, they made a presentation of the
recipe with https://snapguide.com/
Then they created intelligent games with the
lexicon used for recipes with https://quizlet.com
Everything has been collected on a digital wall here
https://padlet.com/sefralt/recetteantigaspillage2n2
016 Finally, some students have produced an ebook with all the work published on the school
website http://joom.ag/kBpQ

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