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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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The aims of the project were the following ones:
- Improve students' knowledge about European
cultural heritage
- Improve foreign language skills
- Improve use ICT tools in a competent way
- Encourage critical thinking, problem solving and
creativity
- Provide opportunities to develop cultural
awareness, European citizenship and identity
- Encourage the development of soft skills such as
the ability of working in groups and taking up
initiative
- Use innovative teaching and learning
methodologies
In the first phase of the project the pupils got to
know each other by sharing their personal
presentations on Padlet, a virtual board. They were
also asked to answer the question "What does
culture mean to you?" and to upload a picture that
they associated with the concept of culture.
Besides, each student had to identify who his/her
ideal friend could be, justifying their choice. In this
way they went through their partners' presentations
and find out a lot of common interests.
After that, each partner presented their school and
territory by creating videos, multimedia
presentations and documents. In order to make it
more interactive each partner school prepared a
series of questions about their work for their foreign
partners. During the Christmas holidays the pupils
got the chance to deepen their knowledge in a more
informal way. They were divided into small
transnational chatting groups of 4 or 5 and
encouraged to talk freely on several topics.
In the second part of the project the students did a
web quest about the concept of cultural heritage.
They had the task to search a series of information
by answering to guiding questions created by their
teachers. They browsed several websites such as
the UNESCO one and learned about the differences
between tangible and intangible cultural heritage,
as well as about the criteria to be enlisted as
cultural heritage.
From February to May the pupils got involved into
the most challenging activity of the project, which
was the creation of a virtual cultural heritage tour
across 5 European countries. They worked in
groups and chose a place, a tradition, a cultural
expression of their area which they thought to be
worth being told and promoted as cultural heritage.
They searched for information about the past and
the present of the cultural heritage sites and
expressions chosen and try to imagine possible
ways to preserve them in the future. They created
videos to narrate them and put them on a virtual
map.
The videos were categorized according to the type
of cultural heritage displayed, such as architectural,
natural, intangible, etc. in order to create paths to
be followed across the 5 European countries
involved in the project.
Finally the tour was made accessible both online
and offline, by means of brochures and posters with
qr-codes.
At the end of the quest they recorded an interview
to present their outcomes.
In January the project finally got its own logo.
The students, divided into small groups, designed
different logos and voted for the best one, which is
a beautiful and meaningful drawing done by some
Italian students.
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