Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 66

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------to “Dead Poets Society”. The mode of expression
will be poetry.

game. They created and voted for the logo of the
project. Secondly, the pupils used a Voki
programme to create avatars and say ‘once upon a
time’ in their native language. Then, they used their
language and literacy skills, imagination and
creativity to create a joint fairy tale, which was
presented as an eBook. The pupils suggested the
title for the fairy tale and voted for it. Finally, they
participated in a collaborative and interactive online
drawing for the cover of the book.

The link to the project trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4wrALmONs.
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Digital resources at early ages in the
eTwinning project “Fairytale between
cultures”
by Vasilica Gazdac
Using digital resources to kindergarten ages is still
a step forward for IT skills training of children and
the eTwinning platform offers space for
presentation of the results through collaborative
projects, teachers’ groups, laboratories and
webinars.
eTwinning project "Fairytale Between cultures"
http://twinspace.etwinning.net/4261/home was
conducted during the school year 2014-2015 in our
kindergarten and gathered schools and
kindergartens throughout all Europe: 2nd
Kindergarten of Nea Triglia, Chalkidiki, Greece,
Preschool Teacher Tsirimpasi Eleni; Şehit İnan Er
Akçam İlköğretim Okulu, Ardahan, Turkey,
Preschool Teacher Ibrahim Onur Gökdoğan;
Lopšelis-darželis "Krivūlė", Vilnius, Lithuania,
Preschool Teacher Aida Makutėnienė; Regent's Park
Children's Centre, London, United Kingdom,
Preschool Teacher Violeta Korkucyte; School Tiberiu
Morariu Salva, Salva, Romania, Preschool Teacher
Vasilica Gazdac.

I have integrated the project into the existing
curriculum by meeting Foundation Stage early
learning goals in most areas of development and
learning. For example, personal, social and
emotional development (working collaboratively in
groups; being independent; talking about their
interests and opinions; turn taking and sharing),
communication and language (listening to a story;
retelling and sequencing events), literacy (creating
their own stories; making drawings and ascribing
meaning to them), understanding the world
(learning about different countries and cultures;
talking about differences and similarities; using a
camera, computer and whiteboard), and creative
arts and design (making drawings; creating a
story).

The project “Fairytale between cultures” aimed at
sharing and exchanging ideas, thoughts and
experiences between different cultures. Firstly,
pupils found out about different countries by
watching schools’ presentations and playing
interactive online games, such as a fl Y