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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 65