Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 92

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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group, coordinating all steps during monthly stages.
We have communicated with partners via
TwinSpace page, live connection through Chat and
social media. Every work was shared and
commented on TwinSpace of the project. All news
was easily seen on TwinSpace and the
corresponding information and steps, were just in
time. In this order we created chat information
meetings, creating eTwinner membership,
students-school-country introductions, panel
preparations, organising seminars about project,
posted logo and posters about our work in the
prepared sections on TwinSpace and presented
materials, videos, making reports, publish e-book of
our work and the final common big magazine, as
the final product, also preparing short videos about
the project works with partners and schools
activities. The final step was the evaluation of the
project and the final appreciations from all and from
the visitors of the project, where students and
teachers express their opinion and thoughts about
entire fruitful project work on a surveymonkey tool
or questionnaires. The opinion about all work of the
project was registered on TwinSpace Forum at
special final section.
This project had the aim to improve IT-technologies
skills for students using online techniques. The web
2.0 tools were diverse and innovative for teachers
and for students, too. We have learned from each
other new interesting tools and also games that we
used in the project to express the steps of the
project. Students developed their computer skills
and also discovered or trained themselves in new
techniques and other tools, for presenting their
work. The work was collaborative and was proved
with many pictures with students working on the
class individual or in teams on the space of online
tools using diverse techniques of editing activities.
Students trained with many web 2.0 tools and
chose the easy ones for them, which made the
presentation on the project and could be added on
TwinSpace. More Web 2.0 Tools were used as:
collage-photos, info-introduction in Padlets, boards
of the project in Padlets, logos in Padlets,
impressions and reports, padlet.com, animoto.com
for short videos, googlemaps, biteable, powtoon,
kizoa, quizziz, logmaker, bookcreator, picArt,
canva, calameo, smallpdf, voki, ourbox, flipsnack,
learning-apps, kahoot, surveymonkey, googleforms
and many more. The project has a dedicated page
with IT tools that were used during the project by
partners.
The project had the objectives for improving health
between youngsters. The project achieved its
objectives by increasing the students’ interest and
motivation on learning by researching in a daily
attractive and important activity. Their awareness
for healthy living gained good aspects and
perspectives. Students become more confident in
their behaviour regarding their meals, they started
to be aware about diseases correlated with the
habits in eating, also with the necessity of being
active and sportive. They have grown their
responsibilities for an open-minded approach about
their living all the time.
Being integrated in learning national curricula as an
added activity to the Biochemistry Modules, through
the proposed activities, the project developed
multiskills being interconnected with many other
disciplines so important in future careers, such as:
professional profile, English Language, IT
competences, last two absolutely necessary for
professional future. The activities and the activating
methods were approached with a high utility and
curiosity, success wish, motivating students for a
final good result and self-satisfaction. The students
were engaged in new contact experiences, changing
cultural interesting information and reports about
others life, cultures and other schools system. They
gained knowledge, experience, developed skills,
trained themselves in English, learnt how to
research something useful for all life-living. They
worked with responsibilities that were shared during
collaboration and contact with partners. The
coordinating teachers had a very good collaboration
and contact with all partners in meetings, like
students had in chat-events.
The school had the advantage of landing to a
complex system of learning tasks through our
eTwinning project. The project was disseminated in
school, between the participant members from
different classes and had a high appreciation. The
project received also encouragements and support.
Alina Mirela Popa works at Liceul Tehnologic de Industrie
Alimentară G. E. Palade in Satu Mare, Romania. She is a
Food industries teacher and the coordinator of 6
successful eTwinning projects. The “Stories to be told”
eTwinning project 2018 was awarded with first prize for
‘involving students’ category in Romania. She coordinates
the Erasmus+ projects in the school. Also she coordinated
the eTwinning School 2019 process and continued with
Selfie School 2019 and Skills Competition Week 2019.
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