Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 28

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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The most intense task the students had was to
create an algorithm so that all the students would
learn how to tie their shoelaces. After long
discussions and negotiations, they created a 5-step
algorithm to help all their colleagues tie their shoes
by themselves.
Florentina Păduraru has been a primary school teacher for
20 years in Botoșani, Romania. She loves her job and
thinks that education is the best way to make the world a
better place.
The wonderful and magical eTwinning world
by Emilia Elisabeta Nițescu
The world is in constant change, and the one in
Education is no exception in terms of technology.
But my changes were beneficial from a professional
point of view when I discovered another world. A
magical world full of empathy, kindness, simplicity,
a community of people gathered to help everyone,
beginner or advanced, adults or students, whoever
is willing to collaborate.
This world I have discovered and that I find it hard
to distance is the world of eTwinning. Many can see
it as a platform, and so for me, no, I say this
because from the moment I am I find this place, I
want to come back daily, to follow, to learn to ask
for help and always receive it. And in this world
there are special, altruistic people who help without
waiting for something in return, they are open, they
share and they are poor.
The first meeting with the platform was something I
could not understand, I was afraid of the new, I
was thinking not to grind or to disappoint. But I did
not leave, I came back. I have found that many
colleagues love and work here together, then I
figured out how I did not understand. Then I slowly
managed to slowly discover the platform world. It's
simple! All you have to do is discover, explore and
understand how things are seated, how they are
divided.
One day I saw that I had a message on the
platform. It was a contact request that I approved.
The next day I received a message asking for a
founder in a project about "healthy habits and an
active way of life". I stammered, sweating my
hands instantly and responding that I was not
ready to participate, because I was a beginner, I
was on an unknown field! I sent the message, but
my thought was to the opportunity that I gave
myself and I gave up too easily. I regretted the
decision for the whole day. Towards the evening I
received another message in which my colleague
begged me not to give up, for her it did not matter
that I was a beginner, and she was also unknowing
but helped. I immediately accepted and I followed
all the steps to give life to that project. I had two
extraordinary partners who had the courage to start
a project with an apprentice. We worked,
collaborated, discussed, made decisions together,
formed a wonderful team, but most importantly I
learned to use technology in a different way. I did
not know apps, I did not know how to use them,
and when I did not know much, of course I did not
know very well how to work with some applications,
but I was not afraid to ask for help, and I can say
that I learned a lot of things which I then used with
my students. The experience has been wonderful,
pleasant, fruitful, we have “tied” as friends that are
still “alive”.
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