Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 101

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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materials concerning the dissemination of the
project as well as its medium and long term
implementation at our school. It will also be a
permanent bridge to connect with other European
schools and might be inspiring for those who want
to take advantage of the wonderful opportunities
offered by Erasmus+ or need information and
advice about course providers.
Flexibility, a wide range of possibilities and above
all a user-friendly safe environment are its key
features making it an excellent online platform to
manage challenging projects such Erasmus+KA1.
After weeks of planning and emails, we finally
kicked it off in September and we are confident the
team working on it will have a definite impact on all
the target students and teachers. The former have
begun creating games, stories, plays, learning how
to take an interview, but most importantly,
understanding how they really learn.
The first few weeks were dedicated to celebrating
EDL together, learning about each other, creating a
logo and voting the best one, organising Safer
Internet Day activities, presenting the project to
parents and preparing for the first teacher meeting
in Lithuania, between 11-14 December.
Francesca Falconi works as a teacher of English language
and culture at Liceo T. Mamiani, an upper secondary
school in Pesaro, Italy. She has been an eTwinning
ambassador since 2018.
Learning Differently with Creative Writing
by Loredana Popa
Last year, a courageous group of teachers from 5
different countries decided it was high time
something was done regarding young people’s poor
skills when it came to understand written texts and
expressing themselves. Being able to understand,
really comprehend a text, with its nuances and
elusive meaning at times, being able to synthesise
information, not just copy paste it with no regards
to punctuation, coherence, all this meant students
often do their literature and language tasks just to
have them done and not retaining anything, not
gaining any knowledge, not improving as people.
This gave us an idea, to write a KA229 project,
accompanied by an eTwinning one, called Learning
Differently, as we wanted to change the paradigm,
make learning meaningful and fun, unforgettable
and useful, give it purpose, by changing our
methods, learning from one another and involving
the students in the process and allowing them to be
creators of content.
Coordinated by a relentless, hardworking team from
Gedminu progimnazija, Klaipeda, Lithuania, 4 other
schools joined.
Soon we were 5 motivated schools, Lithuania,
Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania (School
nr.17 Botoșani).
The Romanian students, all the 6 th graders, 3
classes, really outdid themselves, searching for
information on each country, linguistic, cultural,
historical, culinary. They also looked for
personalities and created trading cards or posters,
summarising what they had read, including arts and
crafts if they felt like. From trading cards to
introduce themselves to trading cards with
traditional recipes, a cookbook with desserts from
all 5 countries, main courses and other recipes, a
tourist’s guide in terms of famous places, natural
and cultural heritage, a dive into the countries’
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