Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 39
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I can honestly say that during the shooting for the
main part of this project, a video about Hungary,
we had the time of our lives with my students. We
held a big Hungarian breakfast, shot the video then
ate all up :)
It was so good to be together that we had other
breakfasts later on too, a French and an American
one. All these small pieces of cultural knowledge
that I know my students would never forget in their
whole lives.
The culmination is definitely the video itself, where
one of my girls is singing a song about Hungary,
another has shot a short video about her dog (a
traditional Hungarian breed), the girls volunteered
to dress up and dance- all these made the video so
special.
Eva Toth
http://www.pinterest.com/evatoth547727/ has
been a teacher of English in a vocational and
technical school in Nagykáta, Hungary for 6 years.
She has been dealing with ICT in education to lower
the digital and social gap, and she is a winner of the
prizes Sulinetwork 2014 Award and Digital Teacher
Award 2014. She is the author of many articles and
translations about practical examples of ICT use,
also a teacher trainer of ICT.
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Using an eTwinning Project for Mentoring
Teachers
by Diana Linford
This article will show how an eTwinning project can
be used to mentor teachers in using eTwinning and
Erasmus+.
I was asked by the head teachers of my local
cluster of schools to train colleagues in the use of
eTwinning and Erasmus+. We decided to use a
shared eTwinning project so that everyone could
learn through participating. We used a Christmas
project, rather than a subject specific project, so
that pupils of all ages could take part – and this
also enabled more teachers to participate.
Our ‘Christmas around Europe 2015’ eTwinning Plus
project therefore included a number of my loc al
schools and several international partners. The
project was designed with teaching and learning
elements for both pupils and teachers as we
intended to use the project to mentor colleagues in
the use of eTwinning and to find partners for
Erasmus+ projects.
The project for pupils
The project was based around the exchange of
instructions for making Christmas decorations. We
started with a logo competition – this is something
we now do regularly as it helps the pupils to
understand the project, and be involved, right from
the start. We used the Project Journal regularly
through the project.
Here you have Hungary as presented by class 11/2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EDCgA18lBk
For the main part of the project, pupils made videos
and wrote explanations for each other about how to
make decorations. In each school, we tried some
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