Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This illustrates how messages can be distorted in an analogous way through social media sites because the meaning can be distorted from one user to the next. Probably fake news could be generated this way too!
# Real time communication through 2 TwinSpace chats: they solved other eSafety issues such as“ Think before you post” in a quiz generated by the Web 2.0 tool“ Quizizz”. Students showed what they had learned so far, in other words a formative assessment( but fun!) through a quiz competition in international teams. In the second chat, they had a role play in teams with the task of“ fake news detectives” they had to use what they had learned in a previous lesson to fish out the real news articles, from the fake ones. They had so much fun learning that they didn’ t want to stop when they heard the bell!
# Last of all, to develop their collaborative competences even further, in international teams they helped build the eSafety dictionary, each team focusing on a number of letters. On their own they learnt specific vocabulary in English, but also in their native tongues.
Assessment and dissemination in eTwinning projects As in all eTwinning projects, teachers should make allowances for both phases in their project plan, the former being a method for improving eTwinning project tasking and creation, and the latter a way of“ coming out of invisibility” thus providing a real audience for students’ work, motivating them to ulterior eTwinning projects. For“ Look before you leap!” this assessment was provided by Google Forms questionnaire, which make the statistics easy, with tables and graphs generated by the tool itself. There are also great templates for various occasions. Embedding these into the TwinSpace is simple.
Regarding the dissemination, my favourite methods are through eTwinning boards created in both schools where I work; through the school website( particularly if you can curate it yourself, like I do);
# How to make students aware of copyright and not acknowledging someone else’ s work which they copied without permission? Put them in the author’ s place! This was the purpose of the task called the Copyright challenge. Practically after searching the net for photos of their native towns, they had to take a photo of a place / object still unkown, then upload it to Flikr. com after applying to it a Creative Commons licence with user conditions which they thought appropriate. They finally understood something about what C. C. licences meant. They posted these in the appropriate Padlet.
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