Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 91

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------commerce, also compared prices of devices of
different shop lines and countries. They make a
wish list of the devices they would like to have, also
collect devices used in the past. We also discovered
the modern technology slang and music about
technology. We closed the project by setting up
some guidelines for using technology and a virtual
online quest in the world of augmented reality.
The project involved many innovative tools:
brainstorming (Padlet, linoit), designing newspapers
(Sway), creating videos (Windows Movie Maker,
Photopeach), presentations (MS Powerpoint), photo
editing softwares (Notegraphy, MS Autocollage,
recitethis), cooperation (Google Docs, Symbaloo,
Thinglink, Titanpad), Augmented reality (QR codes,
Aurasma), videoconference (Skype), mindmap
(coggle), evaluation (OneDrive survey), creating
PowerPoint games to test each other’s knowledge,
presentations using Sway, infographics.
We managed to integrate many subjects, like
English, English for Special Purposes (selling
electronic devices), IT and Training Practice. The
project developed many 21st century competences:
life and career skills (using your professional
knowledge for specific purposes), innovation (being
in a project), IT skills (using IT for specific purposes
not just Facebook, doing independent research),
social awareness (how does technology affect our
everyday lives? does it also have dark sides?
Discussing very important topics such as cyber
bullying and identity theft), responsible decisionmaking (work in a group and divide the roles,
present your findings and teach the others),
collaboration (group work, pair work).
In conclusion, eTwinning projects are a great
chance for many students all over Europe, and the
use of technology facilitates the communication
between their schools, helps teachers and students
to learn and grow each day – together.
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Experiences from the seminar "How to make a
good collaborative eTwinning project"
by Dalibor Todorović

"How to make a good collaborative eTwinning
project" was a seminar organized by the eTwinning
National Support Service of Slovakia in hotel
Saffron in Bratislava between 21 and 23 May 2015.
The seminar was intended for school teachers from
Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatian,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Albania who
work with children aged 12 to 18 years. The aim of
the seminar was to establish cooperation with
European counterparts and launch European
projects using eTwinning portal.
Regarding the fact that Serbia officially joined
eTwinning in January 2015, eTwinning National
Support Service of Serbia enabled the participation
of five teachers from the Republic of Serbia at this
seminar and invited interested teachers who work
with children aged 12 to 18 years to apply for
participation. Interested teachers needed to meet
the following basic requirements for the
registration:
- work in schools in the Republic of Serbia, with
children aged 12 to 18 years;
- are registered at the eTwinning portal;
- have participated in at least one eTwinning
project;
- speak good English since the seminar was being
organized in the English language.
Besides these basic requirements for choosing
participants, the candidates who were the founders
of at least one European eTwinning project had the
advantage over the other candidates. They also had
to submit basic information about their project, how
they organized working with children within the
project, the way they cooperate with European
partners, which items are included into the project,
how the project's theme is linked to the curriculum
and which TwinSpace portion of the portal and tools
were used by the project.

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