Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 82

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------endeavour. What we loved about MeetingWords
was the chat feature that enabled students to plan
and discuss before, while, after writing and gave us
teachers a peek into the dynamics of the writing
activity.

visuals in collaborative creative writing activities?
How can photography taking techniques positively
influence composition writing? How can we pair
students to stimulate the creative flow of ideas and
promote new language acquisition? The beauty of
eTwinning is that we can further explore these
topics and experiment by launching yet another
thrilling project.
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The small children and the greatest composers
by Svetla Popova
eTwinning is a wonderful way in which teachers can
go to look for new ideas and interesting methods
for working with children. These projects provoke
us - to think, to be curious, to share our
experience. They charge us and inspire. The
benefits of implementing eTwinning projects in
education are sufficiently proven in time. The
effective international cooperation is simultaneously
implementing innovative teaching methods, an
incentive for self-improvement and professional
qualification.
Very important condition for success and mutual
benefit is finding a suitable partner. I had the
exceptional luck to meet Małgorzata Kalińska from
Poland - incredible professional and methodist. We
created the “European composers” to exchange
ideas on enrichment of compulsory educational
content of the subject Music in preschool.

Throughout the collaborative creative writing
activities, especially in mixed-nationality groups,
but not only, students had to interact in English in
order to generate ideas, produce, edit and improve
the quality of their narrative texts. Along the way,
students had to negotiate meaning and structure
and to make their writing more comprehensible
concentrating on coherence and cohesion rather
than mechanics. Another important observation was
that more linguistically able students helped their
peers by asking questions to clarify the meaning of
words and ideas and offered support and guidance.
Also, the students made recommendations to their
peers regarding books that could make an
interesting read, thus stirring their curiosity and
whetting their appetite for reading.
As in any project, there are questions that left us
teachers pondering. How can we better exploit

I can talk for hours about the wonderful partnership
and friendship with children from Poland and
incredible Małgorzata. I will begin with:
Why the project is innovative?
“European Composers” completely changed the
standard music lessons in both countries organization of classrooms, learning content,
teaching methods and communication.

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