Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 39

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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The best 62 projects were selected, of which the
winners of this year came out. You can watch them
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
49QrZkcWhk.
One of the projects that was classified as a
successful project is the project "Languages and
Cultures around the World" developed with several
European teachers, where I was founder together
with Julia Czerwik from Szkoła Podstawowa im.
Powstańców Śląskich Kamienicy Śląskiej Kamienica
Śląska, Poland. We had 16 other partners from
different countries.
This project provided students with cognitive skills
of various European cultures and festive traditions.
Pupils promoted the culture of their areas and cities
by creating different essays, presentations and
questionnaires. A nice experience was learning a
song from another country and singing in class from
them. The students were delighted to hear some
languages they had not heard before; they started
reading and caring about them. This is a good
opportunity to connect the knowledge acquired in
different subjects such as geography, music,
figurative art, IT, history etc. They integrate
knowledge with projects and this is a productive
lesson.
Another wonderful experience this year was co-
operation with several schools in the “Once Upon a
Time, the West” project. The students worked in
international teams and studied three Westerners.
From a historical point of view, they learned about
the historical elements that referred to the extract.
From the philosophical point of view, they discussed
the issues related to the notions of 'The Idea of
Progress', 'Forms and Places of Power', 'Myths and
Heroes'.
The particulars of this project were American
students from Oklahoma who participated in the
project. Learners like projects in the eTwinning
network, this brings about improvements in their
linguistic and digital competences.
As eTwinning Albania's ambassador, along with
other ambassadors, I have focused on encouraging
Albanian teachers to register in this network and to
make use of the training on platform usage that is
available.
As a Scientix and Leader Teacher network
ambassador for the European Week of Coding
2019, I have conducted some activities in other
schools and rural areas where teachers were
interested in how they would develop the course
and create their own activities.
I have collected, for you to read, some of the
impressions and thoughts of students about
eTwinning projects:
Romina Balashi 9 grade
“Freedom Conditionality” Tirana
Teacher: Dhurata Myrtollari
eTwinning is a very secure network for students,
teachers and parents. At first I had no experience
with the virtual world I did not know how to use a
computer rather than the eTwinning network. The
influence that eTwinning has had for me is an
impact on the positive side. Thanks to the teacher,
I learned to use the computer, to make online
presentations, to get acquainted with new friends
also to have knowledge about the virtual world.
This is also thanks to the teacher time gift that
made this ring yet fun and more beautiful to me...
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