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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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students in the project they got certificate and
awards. They also participated for school visit to
Science Center. In our project, students had
opportunities to share their works with the world.
A virtual journey of cultural heritage in Europe
/ Virtuelle Kulturerbereise in Europa
by Johanna Chardaloupa
Getting certificates and awards motivated students.
This project improved student’s motivation and
success in computer science lessons. Project helped
teachers to develop student’s ability of collaborative
works, digital and social skills and awareness of
cultural difference. My students learned that they
can achieve much more through projects. This work
encouraged other students in school. They wanted
to participate in next projects. Our students were
nearly 10 at the end of the project we reached 22
students.
We created connections that will last in future. We
took a video at the end of the project and
participant student said that they were very
satisfied about the project. It was a great
experience for them.
The evaluation shows that all partners have
reached the goal of the project. We used a lot of
web 2.0 tools actively during the project.
The most successful result
Our project resulted in an e-book that was the best
proof of our collaboration. In fact, it was the best
results of the project, which emphasized the
importance of the relationship between
responsibility and other values.
Işıl Gulmez is a vice principal and computer science
teacher at Yıldırım Belediye Ortaokulu in Bursa,
Turkey. Her student ages are between 11 and 14.
She is also a Scientix ambassador. She has a
Master degree in computer science. She is a PhD
student in educational administration. She likes
attending courses and workshops and collaborating
for new teaching practices. She is interested in
projects about educational administration,
leadership, teaching programming to children with
Scratch, robotics and using social media in
education. Her school is interested in KA1 and KA2
Erasmus+ projects that can help improve the
school.
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This eTwinning project started officially on January
15 th , 2018 but the preparations and project design
began on October 2017. The two partners (Johanna
Chardaloupa - Experimental Junior High School of
the University of Patras/Hellas - an eTwinning
School and Aimi Jõesalu - Gymnasium
Põlva/Estonia) have been working together on
various eTwinning projects since 2013.
This time they decided to enrich their own and their
students’ knowledge by "investigating" cultural
heritage in their homeland and in German spoken
countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Lichtenstein, Luxembourg)!
First step: The students searched and made
presentations about cultural heritage monuments in
their own countries. They present it to each other
during our live online meetings (via Skype).
The Greek students created some “experiences”
(questions) about the monuments by using the
METAVERSE App (Augmented Reality – AR). [The
Greek students took part in an “inside competition”
via METAVERSE, just to realize what it is about and
how they can use it.]
Second step: The teachers gave the students
some internet sites to look up, where various
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