Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 107

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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conditions for optimal development of creative and
innovative pre-school children.
life. She has used a wheelchair since she was
thirteen - it was difficult for her at first but
eventually she got used to it. She graduated from
university, works and has a family. The children had
a chance to try moving in a wheelchair and walk
with their eyes blindfolded, to see how disabled
people must feel in their everyday activities.
Elisabeth Gustovic works at Ecole Maternelle Tordo in
Tourette Levens, France. She has studied biology,
chemistry, and biochemistry in university and for 15 years
worked in a pharmaceutical laboratory. After that, she
decided to teach children and now works in a big school
with children from 3 to 10. Teaching science to children
and making science more attractive to them is important
to her.
How to teach disability etiquette
by Branka Lamza
Marking important dates has always been an
important part of the primary school curriculum.
eTwinning projects are a great way to expand
marking important dates on an international level.
The article tackles the theme of marking the
International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I will
share with you ideas how to mark this important
date, which I selected together with my project
partners Zoi Kaouri, Ewa Tyborowska, Mihaela
Mihăilescu, Angela Gordino, Tina de Rosa and
Emma Foster.
All activities have been a part of the eTwinning and
Erasmus+ KA2 project Innovate Together, carried
out between 2017 and 2019 by primary schools
from seven countries: Szkoła Podstawowa nr 19,
Legnica (Poland), St Michael's Roman Catholic
Voluntary Aided Primary School, Houghton-le-
Spring (UK), Scoala Gimnaziala nr. 1, Independenta
(Romania), 9th Primary School Limassol (Cyprus),
Istituto Comprensivo San Rocco, Faenza (Italy),
Agrupamento de Escola de Rua Afonso III, Loureiro
(Portugal) and II. osnovna škola Čakovec (Croatia)
as the coordinator.
Seventh graders from Croatia, led by the English
teacher Branka Lamza, watched a short film about
a teenage girl with a disability. They also did a
research on the disability etiquette – how to treat
people with disabilities with respect. Pupils had a
task to highlight the rules of good communication
they find the most important. Here are some of
them:
Speak directly to a person with a disability, not to
their companion; Respect their personal space;
Offer your arm - don’t take theirs; Be specific when
giving directions; Always ask before you help;
Children with disabilities and interested in the same
topics as all other children.
The Web 2.0 tool Voki was used to create animated
characters with audio messages containing
previously selected rules of disability etiquette. We
also used Kizoa, a very simple-to-use tool to create
slideshows.
The main aim of the project as a whole has been
strengthening 8 key competences for lifelong
learning. Among many activities carried out within
our project, for this article we have chosen the
International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Second graders from Croatia and their teacher
Dunja Mikulaj had a guest – a mother of one of the
students, who kindly told them a story about her
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