Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 65
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Collaborative story:
We decided to create a collaborative story were
pupils could show their view regarding various
values of life. The concept of the story was the
adventures of a young Syrian refugee girl, who
traveled to all partner schools and learned some of
the European values. Each school added their part
on a dedicated TitanPad and as a summarize we
created an e-book on cliptomize with title “Values of
life have no borders”.
http://www.cliptomize.com/Clipbook/View/218722
developed oral communication and social
interaction skills.
improved their English as a collaboration
tool to communicate information, ideas, and
feelings.
became more responsible and learned the
importance of keeping to timetables.
understood the importance of the exercise
of group work with others to prepare for
future collaborations.
trained their skills in using ICT as a strategy
for sharing and disseminating results and as
a communication tool.
Was the project successful?
Specify “success”. The fact that pupils were eager
to get in contact with their schoolmates and flooded
the Forum to show the others their interests cannot
leave any teacher untouched. And yes, pupils
worked together in “Cooperation” and showed
“Respect” to each other. Weren’t these values in
the center of our project?
But most of all they made friends for life…
“Chatting Nights”
Since “only work and no fun makes a dull person”,
we met in interesting “Chatting Night” events on
planned and specified topics, exchanging hobbies,
ideas, and interests at a “late night” level in our
Forum. Of course we did not hide our work from the
outside world, but we tried to disseminate and show
our achievements to schoolmates, families, even
the national television!
Evaluation
In theory even more important things happened
than listed below:
Pupils:
gained individual and collective democratic
maturity and an awareness of equal social
dignity and equality of all citizens.
discovered, through comparison, similarities
and differences in the lifestyles of
individual, family, school and society.
met different lifestyles than their own and
found out that there are many common
elements despite the long distance.
experienced deeper their own culture by
sharing their way of life.
recognized that by accepting everyone’s
differences and similarities is going to lead
them to live peacefully together and in
harmony, regardless of religion, colour and
gender.
Kostas Loukas is a teacher in Greece, with an MSc
in Environmental Education and a BSc in
Pedagogics.
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