Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 27

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

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APPinventor Workshops team:

Microcontrollers to find out when a plan needs
being watered:
Congratulations to eTwinning, to this wonderful
community of teachers and to my MORE team!
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eTwinning since the very beginning…
by Elena Pezzi
Well… it is not true, actually the very beginning
(back in 1999) was a Socrates project, but after
finishing it I swore to myself: "Before getting
involved in a new European project, I have to forget
about this one"...
The truth is that after that Socrates-Lingua project
and all it involved I was really exhausted, feeling of
having been buried under mountains of things to do
– the bureaucratic, organizational, logistical aspects
–, always and invariably alone, even if the project
had been positively received in my school.
Workshop about Robotics:

Then, over the years, I began to realize that maybe
I had to act in a different way, through small steps:
if in my school colleagues were not ready yet for a
“massive” involvement, then it would be better to
start with a small class project, limited in time...
Some foreign schools with which we had
partnerships do not feel confident to embark on
large-scale projects? Do not worry, we could plan
more flexible and less demanding pathways...
And at this point, that’s it! I was ready to "take off"
again, but from a different perspective and with
other objectives. I landed on the eTwinning “planet”
by curiosity, thanks to a colleague, just to see what
was moving around Europe; but I was immediately
captured. I had finally found the right tool for me

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