Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 98

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The result has been very satisfactory. 3 projects
have already been agreed and set up between
Italians and Spanish, and a follow-up of the
course/project is going to take place next school
year.
You can see all the work done in the TwinSpace of
the project:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/17187/home

Marta Pey is currently working as Coordinator of
Foreign Languages Programmes for the Department
of Education in Catalonia (Spain). She has been an
eTwinning Ambassador since 2011.
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School Libraries Can Play a Key Role in
Building eTwinning Projects
by Manuela Maria Baptista
The eTwinning project “Express Yourself!” was
boosted by librarians teachers (Manuela Baptista
from Portugal and Jasna Sojer from Croatia) in
partnership with teachers curriculum and special
needs teachers (from their schools and from
German and Turkey schools) focusing on methods
and techniques of bibliotherapy and dramatic
expression, involving students in the regular
curriculum and also with special educational needs,
with the goal of providing children and young
people the opportunity to develop communication
interpersonal, to extend the life experiences to
enrich the skills of reflection, decision and choice
and provide creative problem solving (such as the
difficulty of self-acceptance, peer acceptance,
insecurity, conflicts, etc.) and the adoption of an
appropriate social behaviour.
Throughout the school year, each month has been
selected and worked one problem in the daily life of
children and young such as stereotypes, prejudice,
virtue, empathy, friendship, conflict resolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlKae5NGxK4
Students had the opportunity to work
collaboratively not only within their group as well as
children and young people from four European
countries involved, creating strong emotional ties
afforded by the frequent moments of reflection and
sharing documents (videos, drawings, texts, etc..),
by conducting joint exercises and even drama
together and the possibility of interaction through
videoconferencing. They understood that children
and young people in different countries face similar
situations found shared values, such as acceptance
of differences, tolerance, knowing the virtues
privilege regarding defects, the value of friendship,
how to solve conflicts, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gA1A3STnGQ
In our project we used literature of authors from
different European countries but also the national
ones. We chose books that deal with contemporary
children’s problems, analyzing them and discussing
the problems, searching for possible solutions in the
acts of main characters. In that way children
developed their language and verbal skills, critical
thinking and learned from those experiences. They
used both, mother tongue and English, developing
in that way foreign language skills.
Playing through theatre they learned to express
their feelings, communicate with others, improve

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