Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
They carefully keep the eTwinning pin and do not want to come to school without it. For the 13th anniversary of eTwinning some 4th class students, outside school hours, gathered at the home of one of them and involving their mothers, they wrote on the white T-shirts the various letters of the word eTwinning that have then used in the ballet, on choreography made by Giulia( 4th grade student), for the event " Let ' s celebrate the 13th Anniversary of eTwinning all together!".
Maria Teresa, a student of 5th class, dedicated her poem to eTwinning.
Dr. Claudia Improta Minister of Education of the City of Herculaneum delivered to our students the Quality Label for 2016-17 eTwinning projects. A family from the Infancy School donated to the School the wonderful cake that we then tasted together.
March 21st to April 24th our students also took part in the UNESCO Poesie Festival organized by the President of the UNESCO Club Napoli, Dr. Fortunato Danise, who involved all the schools of Ercolano. On this occasion our students performed with a dramatization curated by me a song " Bullo " on the music of the famous song " Pensa " by Fabrizio Moro, directed by Ms. Angela Infante on the stage of the main Hall of the MAV( Virtual Archaeological Museum) of Ercolano.
For this event an eTwinning event was created by me: " UNESCO World Poetry Day- We are all of... verses- We are all of... verses " which saw the participation of 290 European eTwinners, some of whom posted work of their pupils on the Padlet created to collect all the work.
For our eTwinning projects during the " Code Week " and " Code. org " awareness campaigns, our students, helped by their families, have built beautiful Robots with various recycled materials. At school we organized the " Festival Robot " event which involved everyone: families, teachers and ATA staff. On March 23rd 2018 the Robots took part in the " Introduce your Robot " Prize Competition-“ Innovative Technique and Teaching Fair TEDI 2018” and Giuseppe ' s Robot, a 4th class student, won first place.
This year our students have been involved in multiple eTwinning projects:
● Think
● Be Digital!
● First Step to Coding
● eTwinneRobot
● Happy Coding Together!
● Problem Solving with Scratch & Arduino
● The Children’ s Point of View 2.0. An European Newspaper, through which their spirit of initiative was strongly developed, which allowed to activate a wonderful team of Tutor pupils who were able to involve pupils with special educational needs too and very introverted pupils who, with the help of their older comrades, have surpassed their timidity and managed to get involved in various video tutorials, in which we teachers simply provided them with the initial input, which allowed them to bring out their creativity, making video tutorials just like perfect youtubers.
For all eTwinning projects the students were the promoters of a conscious use of the internet. From
Our students also participated in the " Today at Apple " where they used a MAC computer for Code Time and many lessons of Code. org Courses 1 and 2, obtaining for each of them the Certificates issued by the platform. Pupils are very fond of unplugged
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