Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 5

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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eTwinning as a walk of life
by Daniela Bunea
Recognition of National and European Quality
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by Rosa Luisa Gaspar
eTwinning provides for the development of
curricular flexibility, quality and internationalization,
as well as the creation of collaborative work
networks between European schools with the use of
information and communication technologies (ICT),
in order to develop the spirit of European
citizenship.
Teaching with eTwinning means teaching with
authentic, technology-rich projects in a secure
learning environment and with partners from across
Europe and beyond. But it is also so much more.
The experience is enhanced by collaboration with
colleagues, for instance. This newsletter is here to
give you a taste of just that. By sharing good
practice, the authors of the articles continue their
collaboration with peers in the evaluation phase of
their projects. Their texts seem to be able to turn
themselves into actual incentives for others to
follow in their footsteps and adapt the design to
their own context, thus creating new engaging
learning experiences for their students.
eTwinning encourages independent thinking,
creative problem-solving skills and an
interdisciplinary approach. Read about all these,
and more, in the articles selected to be part of this
yearly newsletter!
Daniela Bunea is a teacher of English as a foreign
language at a secondary school in Sibiu, Romania. She
has been an eTwinning ambassador since 2010 and a
Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert since 2015. For 2
years now she has been a Scientix ambassador, a
member of the Europeana User Group and a National
Geographic Certified Educator. She has been a Galileo
Teacher since January this year and an Adobe Campus
Leader since May. She is also the editor of this newsletter.
In this sense, this program provides a platform for
education professionals who perform roles in the
European schools involved to "communicate,
collaborate, develop projects and share
experiences".
The 2nd and 3rd Cycles Basic School Dr. Horácio
Bento de Gouveia in Madeira, Portugal received the
3rd eTwinning Regional meeting on January 25th
and 26 th , 2019. This was an event attended by the
Regional director of education, Marco Gomes.
The meeting was also attended by two plenary
sessions, led by Laura Filipe, representing the
Directorate-General for Education (DGE), and
myself. I am an eTwinning ambassador from the
Autonomous Region of Madeira (RAM), and I
presented a reflection on the evolution of eTwinning
Programme at national and European level since
2005 and the great potential of eTwinning as a
collaborative work platform and methodology.
The programme also included the communications
of Marco Teles, coordinator of the Europe Direct-
Madeira Information Centre, Carlos Silva,
Ambassador of the Security of RAM, and Dora
Pereira, eTwinning Ambassador and representative
of the learning laboratories of the autonomous
region of the Azores.
In this meeting there was also a place for the
realization of parallel workshops, related to the
programming, which counted with the participation
of Luís Ferreira, of the National Support Service of
the DGE.
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