Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2023 Newsletter
The aims The main aims of our project were to learn about Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) and Green Computing , to understand the connection between SDGs and Green Computing , to share information on Green Computing , to understand the importance and possibilities of implementing Green Computing in our lives , generating ideas to adopt green computing habits in everyday life and work , to improve foreign language skills ( English ), to develop students ' and teachers ' teamwork skills , to increase the awareness of connection between nature conservation and using IT among project participants , to develop digital competence by students , to learn the use of some Web 2.0 tools , to develop students skills of critical thinking , teamwork and communication skills , developing creativity skills and collaboration through the use of Web 2.0 tools .
Project activities were aligned to the crosscurricular topics Sustainable Development and Use of ICT . We tried to develop key competencies of our students , especially Digital competence and Communication in foreign languages . Students developed these competencies by working on collaborative tasks .
Magazines The main project activities were divided into five units and included collaboration on the creation of five digital magazines with the following topics : E-waste , Green Practices in IT Companies , eSafety , International Day of Forests and How Technology Can Help the Earth .
Our older students were familiar with the basic principles of writing professional articles . We introduced our students with the necessity of
adding sources used to write articles , students learned about copyright and the topic of plagiarism was mentioned . Although our students were mostly young , in some schools we had older students and to those age groups some basics of quotation was presented . All this can help our students in their future education and work .
First , students wrote their articles as individual work . The next phase was the creation of articles by working on shared documents with classmates from their school . Final phase was to write an article in collaboration with students from other countries , by working on a shared document .
Some schools participated with younger students , and teachers wrote articles for our magazines to describe activities conducted with students .
Thanks to the articles they created for our project , our students learned the scientific research process and which steps they should follow to write an article .
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