Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 96

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Making it to the national phase of the competition
for final products of European projects, Made for
Europe, in 2015 and getting in 2nd place was a
recognition of their dedication, creativity and
imagination.
If you want to see our videos, the tutorials to the
web tools some schools used for publishing their
stories, or our interviews, you can check our
TwinSpace page called “Videos – tutorials and
students’ videos”, available here:
http://bit.ly/1fyavXa.
This was the story of our project, which put a new
spin on learning a foreign language through writing
stories, all thanks to eTwinning, which for us has
come to be a way of life.

Speaking of which, some of the students even
made up stories about how eTwinning came to be.
You can check them out by accessing these links:
http://bit.ly/1fyeO4O, http://bit.ly/1D0B6qQ or
scanning the two QR codes below:

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Show, share, spread: 3 keywords for a
successful eTwinning project
by Veronique Sarrere
On Friday June the 12th 2015, Jean Giono’s
students of the European section really wanted to
share the results of the two-year
Comenius/eTwinning project which is entitled VIOLA
(Values In Our Lives Always) with their parents first
but also with the local authorities among them the
Mayor of le Beausset and his collaborator as well as
the teachers who were involved in the project. So,
they invited all of them to an open evening at J
Giono Secondary School in le Beausset.

And just to give you a taste of how this project
made use of students’ imagination, here is the glog
on the origins of eTwinning – Glogster is a Web 2.0
tool that allows users to create virtual posters
combining text, audio, video, images, and
hyperlinks and to share them with others
electronically; it is a cloud-based platform for
presentation and interactive learning; a teacher can
create Glogster accounts for all her or his students
in a class:

They did everything they could to make sure this
evening was a complete success for everyone and
so they fully ensured the performance from the
beginning to the end.
On stage, in turn, they started with presenting
videos that showed pictures of the different
countries they were hosted in such as Austria,
Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, the Czech
Republic and they added France since they also
hosted partners last May. Their comments were

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