Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 21

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Shall we meet at the harbour?
(https://twinspace.etwinning.net/80701/home):
Three countries, Greece, Azerbaijan and Italy
(Catania) joined their forces and from January to
June they worked collaboratively to promote three
harbours, learning about their history and
highlighting lighthouses and social life inspired by
the use of Europeana platform. After working in
chain to search for and present Alexandroupolis’,
Baku’s and Catania’s port, encouraging inquiry
learning, they formed transnational groups and as
Scientists, Historians, Writers, Artists and
Photographers they worked collaboratively to find
information about their harbours’ lighthouses.
Reading makes me fly
(https://twinspace.etwinning.net/71630/home):
Promoting reading as an important ethic which
helps to build independence and self-confidence,
students from Spain (Catalonia) and Greece worked
collaboratively in transnational groups using google
docs to write ten different poems during the month
of poetry. At the beginning of this task they
brainstormed words related to their poem category
in the transnational group they belonged to and
using these words they tried to write the poems. An
interesting ebook of 10 different categories with
poems was the result of this collaborative work and
it is available to students and teachers who wish to
use it.
They posted the result of their research in five
transnational Twinboard walls getting inspired to
draw a common lighthouse during a live event and
to write and illustrate a common lighthouse story
while creating an ebook.
Harbours’ social life gave them the chance to work
in transnational groups again, this time as:
Fishermen, Visitors, Traders, Sailors.
Summarizing, teachers who developed this year
this kind of eTwinning projects, noticed that the
work in transnational groups brought positive
changes to their students
(https://padlet.com/akougiou/e6pa3wuxv1h9).
They started to feel confident while working
collaboratively to gain new knowledge
understanding that they are not alone despite the
age, the different cultures and the distant
communication. They broaden their learning
horizons contributing on jointly designed goals,
learned from each other enchasing their creativity
and knowledge.
Taking advantage of the online environment quite
quickly they increased skills and abilities in using a
foreign language. Teachers, as facilitators of the
work in transnational groups, encouraged social
interactions between students from different
countries to achieve individual development and
thus to promote opportunities for future
perspectives giving an added value to their work,
which is furthermore appreciated by parents as
well.
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