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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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By the end of the school year, we also closed our
project with sweets and exchanges of holiday
greetings. Till next year! transform the world with culture, unlock cultural
heritage treasures and make them available online
for everybody to enjoy, work or educate with”.
The TwinSpace:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/58785/home Europeana education, one of the expert groups, is
an initiative to “bring together all those who want
to embed Europeana's collections in education” and
an online space at the same time which “brings
Europe’s digital cultural heritage closer to
education”.
Johanna Chardaloupa teaches German as a Foreign
Language at the Experimental High & Senior School
of the University of Patras/Hellas (Peiramatiko
Gymnasio-Lykeio Panepistimiou Patron) - an
eTwinning School. She has been a passionate
eTwinner ever since its start in 2005 and loves
involving new technologies and Web 2.0 tools to
inspire & motivate her students in her foreign
language classrooms.
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Shall we meet at the harbour? Europeana’s
Galleries in the service of eTwinning projects
by Angeliki Kougiourouki
The purpose of this teaching proposal is to identify
the potential use of Europeana’s digital cultural
heritage platform in teaching History and
Geography in the context of collaborative
educational eTwinning projects where students are
working in an interdisciplinary manner and taking
further advantage of the use of ICT tools.
Europeana is Europe’s platform for digital Cultural
Heritage launched in 2008, to make Europe’s
cultural and scientific heritage accessible to people.
Funded by the European Commission, Europeana’s
platform provides nowadays access to over 50
million digitized items from more than 3.700
institutions across Europe contributing to the
platform. Museums, libraries, archives and
galleries, major International names as well as
regional archives and local museums from the
European Union share their high- quality collections
with a global audience.
Diverse and inspirational content like photographs,
videos, music, newspapers, text including letters,
diaries and books, spoken word and newsreels,
suitable items for use in education, galleries,
curated exhibitions and themed collections in over
30 languages serve Europeana’s mission: “to
European Schoolnet Academy introduced recently
Europeana to teachers, teacher trainers from
Europe and beyond, aiming to help them being
familiar with the Europe’s digital platform for the
Cultural Heritage. The “Europeana in your
classroom: building 21st-century competences with
digital cultural heritage” MOOC provided useful
knowledge to help teachers integrate cultural
heritage into lessons and practices, while teaching
several subjects. It was a beneficially course for all
the participants to understand the importance of
integrating European Cultural Heritage in education,
to learn how to use Europeana’s digital content,
collections, galleries, apps and tools and to be able
to develop learning activities using Europeana’s
resources. Thematic collections, Galleries and
Exhibitions offer a huge amount of material to use
for the teachers who want to teach topics related to
Cultural Heritage and further more to develop cross
curricular and international projects, such as
eTwinning ones.
eTwinning, the European School Community,
promotes cooperation in Europe by means of using
ICT providing schools with support, tools and
services. It is about a Digital Community of
Learning whose potential for collaborative learning
and for social networking creates hopeful and
innovative intercultural cross-curricular prospects,
as it offers many opportunities for teaching and
learning through the given tools from which
teachers but mainly students benefit from the
collaboration they achieve with schools in other
countries (Angelopoulos P., Pateraki I., 2014).
Through technology mediated communication
eTwinning allows the active participation of pupils
and teachers in cooperative learning tasks with the
aim of achieving common goals (Paloff & Pratt,
1999). The relevant bibliography (Schulz-Zander,
Büchter & Dalmer, 2002) supports that e-
collaborative learning is a promising educational
means as it helps teachers to design activities
based on ICT, applying the PBL, putting into use the
modern concepts about cross-curricular approach to
knowledge.
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