Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Farther more eTwinning aims to integrate a feeling of European identity, as well as an awareness of the continent’ s linguistic diversity into the learning process( European Commission, 2013; Crawley et al., 2010)
To enrich this learning process with the advantages and the benefits that Europeana offers, eTwinners are invited to use Galleries’ curated selection of images on a certain theme, find suitable items, authentic and with a high quality to implement a learning scenario, regardless the subject they teach. Well-designed activities could help students to probe into Galleries, investigate, and appreciate the resources more fully, but with some foundational content knowledge that they can use to navigate and enrich the experience.
The first step towards realizing an eTwinning project aimed at teaching History and Geography for example, through the use of Europeana’ s Galleries amongst European schools, is to define the topic, lunched by the question:“ Shall we meet at the harbour?”, within which educators and pupils will move so as to draw the required material. Secondly, goals are set. For instance, pupils to be able to:
� Use Europeana’ s platform for inquiry learning
� Search and find information about the existence of harbours in the participant countries
� Collaborate with partners from abroad to combine all the selected information to produce a harbour map
� Comprehend the need for harbours and their role throughout history and people’ s life
� Be aware of the importance to preserve this kind of landmarks and to pass them on to the future generations
We should add to the above goals the practice and use of the English language in oral and written speech through the collaboration and
communication with peers from abroad, the extension of the results from this collective effort to the school as well as to the local community, the development of ICT skills in a didactical way to develop the following scenario:
Introduction-dream Students will be encouraged to watch a short presentation, made by teacher, with photos from their old city ' s harbour and with photos from the Europeana Gallery: " Trawlers, harbours and fishing communities ". Teachers will stimulate them with this driving question: How could we embed our harbours ' history in a map? During a videoconference through the TwinSpace platform students will be encouraged to:-Discuss about their prior visits to the Europeana portal and to harbours-Review relevant content and vocabulary. Students will form teams, within the classroom, organize group work according to their interests, choose their own role within the micro-group, select and assign roles( team leader, writer, organiser, researcher, producer, etc), plan how to use the tablets or the pc. They will, also, visit the TwinSpace platform to find out the relevant team they are going to work with. Teacher will encourage students within their country to use hand signals to rate or indicate their understanding of content.
Explore Students will search to find relevant to the topic information. They will start investigating, using the resources provided by the suggested Europeana Gallery. They will select the resources that are most useful to make notes on how they will explain the topic and what kind of material they will need. They will, also, collaborate within their transnational eTwinning groups and write notes in order to have interdisciplinary approach: The existence of the harbours is a topic which can be examined through various subjects of the curriculum like History( inquiry learning: important dates, historical elements, legends and traditions) Maths( problemsolving concerning the trade or the distances) Geography( existence of harbours in cities and their role to the local community) Language( several kind of texts and exercises, a possible collaborative story) ICT( critical thinking on searching the web about information, different kind of web tools to use for the final product) Social and political Education( people ' s attitudes concerning the preservation of such kind of landmarks) Art( related crafts) Theatre( role play and pantomime).
Teachers will give them a feedback and advise them on how they could use all these elements to create a harbours ' map. Students will discuss about the process, learn to listen, negotiate, persuade.
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