Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 62

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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The Fourth Door was devoted to Father Christmas
and his superpowers. Students also learnt the
Christmas symbols, sent Christmas cards to their
eTwinning friends and sang Christmas carols with
them during a video conference.
In the Third Door little eTwinners collaborated in
three international teams and studied creatures
from fairy tales. Each team worked on a different
topic, i.e. creatures living under water, creatures
living on land, and creatures that can fly. Team
members had different roles according to their
abilities. They chose fairy tale creatures to describe,
searched for information about them in books or on
the Internet and watched videos. Then they
processed what they had found, filled in
worksheets, drew pictures and presented their
findings to the other teams. The three teams
together created an eBook of the classical fairy tale
characters. They also shared videos with the fairy
tales from which the chosen creatures come in
English and partner languages. At the end students
self-evaluated how they contributed to their team
work.
Little eTwinners enjoyed the Fifth Door activities
that concentrated on modern superheroes from
comic books and films. They searched for
information and coloured pictures with them. Thus,
a gallery of male and female superheroes was
created. Working in international teams, students
used ChatterPix App and made the superheroes
talk.
In the Sixth Door all the four teams created
together the map of Wonderland and prepared a
challenge for their partners. Each of the teams had
to solve the challenge and include it into a comic
strip describing their adventure on the way through
Wonderland.
The Seventh Door task was to create the project
logo. All the partners chose their favourite
superhero and met online in Wonderland. During
the videoconference students coloured their
superheroes and created the logo together with a
web tool Twiddla.
The Eighth Door completed the whole year work.
Students, their parents and teachers evaluated the
project and its activities.
Each of the eight doors included self-evaluation
activities which enabled students to find out how
well they had managed the project tasks. The little
eTwinners also expressed their feelings and
opinions about the particular tasks.
The dissemination of the project has developed on
three levels: Local, National and International. Each
level aimed to inform a wide audience of people
both about the various project activities aimed at
developing linguistic competence, digital
competence and democratic citizenship and about
disseminating the eTwinning platform in its entirety
and the variety of learning possibilities.
The project has become a promoter of widespread
dissemination aimed at enhancing the eTwinning
platform as a community of highly motivated
European teachers able to support the improvement
and innovation of teaching practices to guarantee
students a school that sees them as more active
protagonists of their own cultural growth process,
and as participants who are aware of their
European and international citizenship.
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