Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 25

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Motivating end-of-school-year activity
All in all, it was a very motivating lesson for
wrapping up the English units of the school year. By
playing the Breakout game, my students learned
new vocabulary, practised their listening and
viewing skills by watching real world videos and
their speaking skills by talking to their partners in
English.
Additionally, they did a mediation exercise from
English to German to explain their findings to fellow
students who didn’t fully understand a task or some
content of a video.
The most valuable success was that the students
dealt thoroughly with the Sustainable Development
Goals of the United Nations since they were already
interested in “Fridays for Future“ and Greta
Thunberg‘s speech.
All you need for a digital Breakout
We used tablets and mobile phones with wifi in the
classroom.
You can also go to the computer lab and play a
digital Breakout game with personal computers and
speakers or headphones. Our eTwinning colleagues
put the challenges and introduction on a Smore
(https://www.smore.com/fjmu1) page and
explained the functions of the challenges on a
genial.ly page (https://kurzelinks.de/genially). The
Quizizz app is fun to play with in a classroom with a
whiteboard or beamer which is connected to a
laptop to show the progress of single players.
Conclusion
In the past, when I heard of Breakout EDU and
Escape rooms used at school, I always wanted to
create one for my classes, but never had the time
or deeper knowledge on how to prepare. Now we
have had this great opportunity of participating in a
Breakout activity prepared by students around the
globe in the course of an eTwinning project. What a
chance we had and what a challenge to continue -
as lifelong learners. Ideas for a new eTwinning
project with digital Breakout for the coming school
year are already in my mind. With eTwinning we
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