Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 111

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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together a sports competition called “All different,
all equal”. Students noticed that people in
wheelchairs can play high quality basketball or table
tennis and realized that none of us is immune to
invalidity, since some of the participants were born
physically ill, but some of them became so after an
accident. A special moment was the presentation of
Vasile Stoica’s travels around the world in his
wheelchair, travels that included him in the
Guinness World of Records Book. National
presentations about Paralympics teams completed
this powerful life lesson.
The meeting in Hungary included volunteering in
animal shelters. To prepare our presentation on a
local animal shelter, our students organized a short
campaign to raise money in our school, they bought
food for the animals and visited the local shelter
“Free Amely”, where they donated the food, played
with the animals and documented their video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64JLx3nwQyY.
During our learning – teaching – training activity,
we had lunch in a restaurant in Budapest, where all
employees were disabled, we visited the ”Blind
Exhibition”, where we had to find our way and
experiment how to live in complete darkness, and
went to an animal shelter in Gyor, where our
students voluntarily participated in taking care of
the dogs.
Our last meeting, in the Czech Republic, focused on
voluntary activities in the benefit of children with
vulnerable backgrounds. We visited two daily
centres mostly frequented by Roma children and
joined them in games, sports and music activities.
Teachers and students from our schools also
participated in a charity run in the benefit of a
hospital for terminally ill people.
But our voluntary actions did not happen only
during our meetings. Our students are regularly
involved in community service, and we included
some of our best moments in a project online
magazine, https://padlet.com/tabor1/volunteering,
one of the project outputs. Another output is the
booklet containing our bimonthly newsletter, with
all partners’ contributions, in national or
transnational teams. It also includes the description
of voluntary actions that our students took part in:
https://issuu.com/adriana0437/docs/whole_booklet
During the entire project life cycle, online
transnational groups collaborated to create outputs
on sensitive subjects as destitute people, single
parents, unemployment, fake news or hate speech.
They also imagined the world they want to build for
their children, in 20 years from now.
https://create.piktochart.com/output/29361878-
new-piktochart
https://create.piktochart.com/output/29361506-
new-piktochart
https://youtu.be/ycOIbFDsbdA
https://create.piktochart.com/output/29361506-
new-piktochart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOIbFDsbdA
A summative analysis showed us that we reached
our project goals. Our primary objectives were to
enable students to learn basic digital skills within
the frame of practical tasks in an international
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