Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 112

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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environment of Central and Eastern Europe, to
encourage them to become active citizens, being
aware of and taking part in community service. The
objectives were divided into 3 categories: didactical
(developing critical thinking, flexibility, interest in
Europe, exchange of diverse cultural knowledge),
methodical (use of modern technology, developing
tasks through team work) and social (long-term
interest in community service activities, learning
about cultural differences, sharing opinions).
Students conducted research, discussed, analyzed,
collaborated, made questionnaires, presentations,
quizzes, digital stories, videos, a magazine and
bimonthly newsletters. Teachers created learning
scenarios based on 21 century skills, assessment
rubrics and digital badges recognizing completed
tasks. As the project heavily relied on constant
online communication, teachers and students alike
learnt to use new digital skills of collaboration,
communication, creativity and critical thinking
internationally, creating outputs on community
service and volunteering. Students came into
contact with inquiry-based learning,
entrepreneurship activities, presentations skills,
social and emotional learning, critical thinking
based on learning scenarios created by teachers
participating in the project.
Thanks to transnational collaboration, the
participants got to know partners from other
countries of the European Union and learnt to work
together, taking into consideration cultural
differences, the need for tolerance, the art of
listening to others, of expressing oneself in a
foreign language and gaining confidence in
international communication. I think we all became
better European citizens.
Adriana Mariș is a Mathematics teacher at Liceul Teoretic
“Coriolan Brediceanu” in Lugoj, Romania. She has been an
eTwinner since 2010 and an eTwinning ambassador since
2013.
discussed, shared ideas, programmed, coordinated
and cooperated with each other in order to produce
an IT asset management program in order to be
able to handle the stocks of our schools. We used
MySQL to create a database file which includes all
the necessary tables, and installed it on our
database servers. The creation of a IT program
allowed the students to use their professional skills
in a real world task. The program is free to use, if
you are interested, do not hesitate to contact us via
eTwinning
They also worked collaboratively in international
teams to get acquainted with entrepreneurship;
they created brainstorming to gather qualities you
must have to be a good entrepreneur. They met
business people who created their own companies.
And then they invented mini-companies. The mini
companies created by the students were intended
to develop their skills for employability, foster
creativity and foster entrepreneurship and learn
how to work in a multicultural environment.
The different cultural visits enhanced the aspect
of diversity and tolerance and fitted completely with
one of our aim of the whole project develop and
active conscious European citizenship to respect
differences and to value each other cultures.
Track it - Don't Lose It
by Murièle Dejaune
This is an Erasmus+/eTwinning project which lasted
two years with three vocational schools from
Cyprus, France and Portugal. The students
presented their schools and countries. They
Murièle Dejaune is an English and French teacher in a
vocational school in the suburbs of Paris, France. She has
been working with eTwinning for 11 years now and cannot
see her job without eTwinning projects.
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