Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 99
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------their social skills (self-knowledge, self-esteem,
cohesion, team work; art skills like body
expression, improvisation, performing and also
mental skills like thinking, inventing, imagination,
critical thinking.
National Support Service Portuguese, as part of the
celebrations of Europe Day.
If you want to use some of our lesson plans, please
send an e-mail to [email protected]
Also, working on TwinSpace they developed their
digital competences through using different webtools for presentations, communication, shooting
videos and working on montage. Also, great
diligence was put on internet safety.
Manuela Maria Baptista is a Portuguese teacher
librarian and she also teaches mother tongue and
French. She has been an eTwinner since 2012. “I
think eTwinning is a real value to my daily teaching.
The eTwinning community allows me to keep
updated with latest educational trends and I love
it.”
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Learning by Playing with eTwinning
by Irene Confalone
With this project students learned to deal with the
problems of everyday life and got ideas to solve
them, to express themselves through drama
activities, to make a positive change in themselves
and to accept others better, to be better with life.
Students "grew" with the project and improved
their self-esteem and self-confidence.
This past academic year was a very intense year,
full of challenges and difficult tests but, on the
other hand, I was offered an opportunity for
professional growth and creative development. A
school that is constantly changing, you cannot
stand still and wait. eTwinning will not allow you to
stay still!
As a teacher it was extremely rewarding having the
opportunity to work collaboratively with my
European partners and provide an experience of
development of the whole group of students from
different countries who participated in the project
growth.
The project was highly visible in our schools and
gave visibility to the value of eTwinning, especially
in Portugal, where it received the National
eTwinning Award.
The project has received the following awards:
- Portuguese National Prize 2014;
- 2nd place in the German competition "European
Award 2014" in the category "School of the Future";
- Winner unanimously Contest eTwinning Cards:
Creativity Innovation, spurred by the eTwinning
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