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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stage 3: Cooperating In 2016-2017 we continued to implement the MeJ workshop through the eTwinning project Doing Math as Researchers Do It – MatReLan (https://twinspace.etwinning.net/25444/home). The project’s TwinSpace offered us a lot of tools (the Forum, the Chat and the Live event) for improving the students’ collaboration. We created a dedicated Forum for each research topic and each group of students decided on the student who was in charge of communication. In each Forum, we created 3 threads: research development, preparation of the oral presentation of the research findings and preparation of the research article. At the end of each lesson/research workshop meeting, the students wrote a summary of their findings and, at the beginning of each lesson/ research workshop meeting, the students read their peers’ post. We organized seven Live events during which students who worked on the same research topics shared their findings and started the preparation of the oral presentation of the research. Each group of students participated in 2 live meetings. Some of the students communicated also via eTwinning chat, Facebook or eTwinning email. For improving students’ collaboration, in December 2016, we collected students’ feedback via a Google form. Students’ responses were analysed, and we managed to address some of the issues: quicker responses on the Forum, more Live events. Live event / video-conference D edicated forums for each research topic The MatReLan project – in brief – 2:30 minutes video – at https://youtu.be/usr23PGMaaw Nota bene: The MatReLan project was awarded 1 st Prize in Romanian eTwinning 2017 competition, Math and Sciences category. Here are some of the students’ statements related to the most successful result of the MatReLan project: - working together as a team and learning how to cooperate was the most successful thing we did; - in spite of being a project which requires and improves Mathematical skills, this project also developed a lot of friendships between the students; I think that the results which we obtained during the research, the communication skills developed, and the experience of meeting new people and cultures are a successful end result of our research; - having the opportunity of doing a broad project different from anything at school, making people consider a career in research and getting to know another culture; - our most successful result was our article. The final products of the MatReLan project are: 10 ppt presentations of the research results, 10 research posters, 10 research articles and 10 interactive presentations of the research results which all were done by the RO&FR groups of students through a clear work division (done by students), feedback from teachers and researchers and communication (Forum on TwinSpace, Live meetings, e-chat and email, face-to-face communication). Stage 4: Co-creating The success of the MatLan project and of the eTwinning project Doing Math as Researchers Do It - MatReLan convinced us that the twinned Mathematics research workshops for high-school students are very good opportunities for 28