Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 95

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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the Padlet Spring Campaign 2019. Two posters
made by students from Croatia were highlighted on
the main pages Planet of History and Planet of
Media.
Dissemination activities
To make our work visible to all eTwinners, Iva
Naranđa created two eTwinning Live Events. The
first one named “EWWR - Let’s reduce e-waste!”
during November 2018 and the second one named
“Electronic Waste Around Us” at the end of the
project, during June 2019.
Schools used the school websites to publish articles
about the main project activities on their mother
tongues and in this way we have a complete
overview of activities from our schools in native
languages.
Many partners published articles on the national
portals for education in their countries and the local
news portals.
In Romania, Cecilia Vicoveanu with students
promoted their recycling patrol and our project on
the occasion of the 8-year Buzz newspaper.
We worked hard on the dissemination in our schools
to motivate other teachers and school staff to join
eTwinning. The boards in our classrooms and school
corridors were decorated. In Croatia the project
was presented at the Teacher's Council in school in
July 2019 and in Greece, the project was presented
at the annual ICT teachers’ conference of the
Regional Educational Planning Centre of Attica from
Irene Papadopetrakis.
Furthermore, Stavroula Skiada, who presented our
project’s methodology and activities, gained the
Best Good Practice reward.
Conclusion
The project had positive results for all participants:
students had the opportunity to collaborate with
alternative teaching techniques, to show talents of
their creativity and skills, to acquire necessary
digital skills, to be involved in real problem solving
and acquire this way a good understanding of e-
waste management. Teachers also had great
benefits and improved their professional
development as they collaborated, exchanged
ideas, knowledge and techniques.
The dissemination of the project (schools’ recycling
corners, schools’ websites, European School Radio,
the TwinSpace, eTwinning Live Events, conferences
and competitions, publications to educational and
news portals) had also a significant impact the
wider school community.
Members of the project: founders
Iva Naranđa, OŠ Vladimira Nazora Pribislavec,
Croatia and Georgia Lascaris, 2nd Primary School of
Nea Erythraia, Greece; Bilge Varel, 100. Yıl Atatürk
Ortaokulu, Aydın, Köşk, Turkey; Irene
Papadopetraki, 8th Primary School Of Kifissia,
Athens, Greece; Stavroula Skiada, 8th Primary
School of Nea Filadelfeia, Athens, Greece; Maria
Tzouma, 2nd junior high school of Ioannina
Intercultural Education, Greece; Cristina Mato, IES
Escultor Juan de Villanueva, Pola de Siero, Spain;
Cecilia Vicoveanu, Palatul Copiilor, Botosani,
Romania.
In Turkey, Elif Şimşek disseminated the project in
Samsun eTwinning Project Exhibition and by
creating a science fair at school.
Great dissemination activity was also realized by
Bilge Varel from Turkey who participated in the
eTwinning Azerbaijan-Turkey Bilateral Contact
Seminar held in Baku between 1-3 May 2019 and
presented the eTwinning project “Electronic Waste
Around Us” in the “best practices” section.
The project was also disseminated by Stavroula
Skiada, Lascaris Georgia, and Irene Papadopetraki
from Greece through the Bravo Schools initiative
which aims at highlighting the most integrated
educational approaches on social responsibility
issues related to the 17 UN Global Sustainable
Development Goals. The three schools gained the
privilege to be part of the ONLINE SCHOOL
INSTITUTIONS NETWORK for the 17 SGDs Schools
Club in action, a great Global Network of Schools.
Iva Naranđa has been an IT teacher at two Croatian
primary schools, since 2003. She has graduated Grammar
School Čakovec, Faculty of Organization and Informatics
Varaždin and Faculty of Teacher Education, University of
Zagreb and she has been active in eTwinning since 2012.
Georgia Lascaris has been an IT teacher for the Greek
Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs since
2005. She has graduated Athens, University of Economics
and Business, Department of Informatics-School of
Information, Sciences&Technologies. She has been active
in eTwinning since 2014.
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