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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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eTwinning international project seminar on
Quality in early education
by Nicoletta Hustiuc
The event brought together pre-school teachers
from 11 countries: Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus,
Czech Republic, France, Latvia, Malta, Republic of
Moldova, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. The
seminar was an opportunity to find project
partners, start working with other school units in
Europe, and familiarize all participants with the
most important steps to guide us in delivering
quality projects.
Activities over the three days were primarily aimed
at starting an international eTwinning collaboration.
On the meetings we had I learned about new ways
to communicate and collaborate by sharing our own
experiences and encouraging other to join the
eTwinning team. I heard about new tools of
collaborating like PosterMyWall, AnswerGarden,
MeetingWords, Bitly etc.
The best thing about this experience was the
opportunity to practice my English speaking skills
and I was very happy for becoming able to sustain
my own speech in front of many people with
braveness.
I am also happy for getting to know others
ambassadors from different countries such as
Republic of Moldova, Denmark, Turkey.
I really appreciate this opportunity as being great
for my own development. This is why I am deeply
grateful.
The plenary session on the first day of the seminar
explained that eTwinning is the school community
in Europe that "promotes school collaboration in
Europe through communication and information
technologies and provides teachers with continuous,
online and free professional development
opportunities. eTwinning provides teachers working
in schools in participating European countries with a
platform for communication, collaboration, project
launching and information exchange
(www.etwinning.net).
On the second day of the seminar through the
proposed workshops, we were able to discover the
tools offered by the eTwinning platform that can
help us in project development and management,
examples of good practice through already
developed and awarded eTwinning projects related
to sensoriality in early education, the role of
creativity and teamwork in eTwinning projects, ICT
tools we can use in projects to expand collaboration
with project partners, but also with our parents and
implicitly with our community and last but not least
which are the key steps to develop a quality
eTwinning project.
Iuliana Florentina Ispir has been working in the
educational sector for the last twenty years. She
teaches at Grădinița cu Program Prelungit
“Dumbrava minunată” in Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Romania.
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