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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Engineering issue all partners were informed end expressed what Scientix is. Collaboration was achieved after uploading ppts or one short video, with comments on which part they think is interesting. They also did scratch for arduino with gigo s4 programming bricks. Also, the the Greek school was selected to be one of the five schools in Greece which will implement Umi-Sci-Ed as a pilot implementation and they shared their experience. Furthermore, a week summer school was organised in the School for UMI technologies. https://youtu.be/0-1VPJW8DZw In Mathematics issue Volunteens were able to get an insight into geometry, calculus, analysis and logic while observing changes over a period of time, e.g. changes in the currency values , the inflation rates, or company profits. While discussing about a pie chart created by themselves, they learned at a glance how a total amount is divided up such as a budget, their expenses, etc. Eleni Rossiou holds a PhD in Applied Informatics, an M.Sc. in Computer Science, an M.Ed. in Adults Education, an M.A. Science of Education Studies concentrated to Educational Leadership and Policy, Postgraduate Certification in Open and Distance Education, and a BSc in Mathematics. She is an eTwinning Ambassador, a Scientix Ambassador and an ambassador in Teachers4Europe project. She is Vice Principal and a professor of Mathematics and ICT in Experimental School of Aristotle University, certified teacher trainer and member of various scientific Associations. Her research focuses on blended learning and game ‐ based learning in Secondary, Education, in Higher Education and in Adults’ Education. eTwinning and Scientix: The perfect tandem for working STEAM in schools by Lorenzo Castilla Mora Nowadays, schools are changing not only physically but also as far as methodologies and resources are concerned. Among the active methodologies used in the classrooms, one standing out is the STE(A)M - Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics- because of its beneficial interdisciplinary approach. According to Bybee (2010) “true STEM education should increase students' understanding of how things work and improve their use of technologies” and this is something that can be worked in our schools by helping us with eTwinning and Scientix. eTwinning is a platform that allows us to develop a project in its entirety. The TwinSpace, apart from being a closed and safe environment for students, offers a series of tools that help to interact with project partners. Therefore, with eTwinning it is easy to use in our teaching practice a STE(A)M approach as we will see. As far as Scientix is concerned, it is a community that, in addition to training, news, etc., provides a series of resources of great value to work with STE(A)M approach without the need to invest great effort in the creation of resources or in searching for them through the network. Based on these premises, we are going to show how eTwinning and Scientix can be used in our schools to work STE(A)M. To this end, examples of activities in which several disciplines have been worked in an interdisciplinary way in the projects MAVEN-MAth Via English and Sharing Our Cultural Heritage: Coesfeld, Örnsköldsvik and Huelva (SOCH) are shown. MAVEN is a project to promote the learning of Mathematics in English through videoconferences, games and varied activities. At the same time, other topics of the curriculum are worked transversely: Geography, plastic and visual or ICTs using the CLIL methodology. In the SOCH Project, our students have shared their cities cultural heritage and got closer in this way to Swedish, German and Spanish cultures respectively. Besides, many subjects have participated in this project. Science is part of our student’s life and this is a very important reason to count with it in our projects. In MAVEN the Social Science and Geography were worked together with language and mathematics. The activities of each month were related to a topic in the Mathematics 45