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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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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
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