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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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Letters & Postcards Project
by Ișil Gulmez
Project name: Letters & Postcards
Project initial activity: 22.10.2017
Project subjects: Geography, History of Culture,
Music, Art, Foreign Languages
Project language: EN
Pup ils’ age: 11-14
Project tools
Audio conference, Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other
software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and
drawings), Project diary, TwinSpace, Video
conference, Web publishing
Project aim
To make penpal friendship.
Project summary
We aimed to do a penpal friendship project that
brings students from Ukraine and Turkey to learn
about different schools, cities, countries and
cultures. We wanted to make penpal friendship
without personal information, private photos. We
prepared etwinning boards in our schools. We
wanted to promote learning language, culture and
using ICT to share our steps of the project. Subject
of the project is part of curriculum; as
communication, collaboration and using technology
are between competences of 21. century. We
collaborated to determine different subjects for
learning about each other in every letter we write.
We put all letters in one envelope, and teachers
checked letters for security of students. Teachers
helped students to read and write letters. We
shared about ourselves using web 2.0 tools. At the
end of the project, we prepared and shared project
magazine. All works were shared in EBA website,
twinspace and social media.
Project partners: Julie Butenko, Kyiv gymnasium
№ 107 "Vvedenska", Kyiv, Ukrayna and Işıl
Gülmez, Yıldırım Belediye Ortaokulu, Bursa, Turkey.
Public TwinSpace:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/46586/home
School web page: https://bit.ly/2m526QF
EBA: https://bit.ly/2KKHgF9, https://bit.ly/2ulE3ke
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2L5MBmq
Twitter: https://bit.ly/2zqIT5z
District National Education Directorate official
account retweeted our work: https://bit.ly/2m5PbOl
Collaboration between partner schools
As project founders, we prepared a project schedule
which shows what works needed to be performed
and when each activities should be done. Partners
had to comply with project schedule. Teachers had
to add students in Twinspace. They had to follow
student’s work and posts. Partners collaborated
with Skype, twinspace, Facebook, Google docs and
e-mails for sharing their ideas. We organized Skype
meeting to get introduced. We created collaborative
slideshow using Google docs that students could
add slides about themselves, their schools and
cities. We made a flipbook of this activity, shared it.
Students were divided into small groups. They
discussed on what they would write and share.
They collaborated to make an introductive
presentation and discuss their ideas on twinspace.
Students also could ask questions and get answers
from other partners there. We used Google docs to
create collaborative slideshow in which students
could add their slides about themselves. We made a
flipbook of this work. The links of the works was
shared in Twinspace and all project pages. Students
collaborated to learn from each other and they also
competed for doing the best work. We organized a
ceremony for awarding participant students.
Use of technology
We used Skype for our meeting; twinspace,
youtube and facebook and e-mails for
communication and collaboration between partners.
Google forms were used to get partner’s
suggestions during the project. We also used
youtube during the project and after the project we
took a video with participant students to get
opinions about overall project. Partners collaborated
using the TwinSpace, Facebook, Skype, Google
docs and e-mails. Students introduced themselves
adding slides to project slideshow using Google
docs. We used Flipsnack tool to make a flipbook of
presentations using http://flipsnack.com/ web
page. We used Kizoa and Picovideo to create videos
for the project. Students in groups up to four
collaborated to write letters and create slideshow to
introduce who we are and where we live. They
shared their works using slideshow. Then we
converted storyboards to flipbook with flipsnack and
shared in project pages. In project twinspace pages
we embedded padlet pages to facilitate posting and
sharing. Our students used YouTube, Padlet and
school boards for presenting their works to others.
They also prepared an eTwinning corner and
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