Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 8
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Firstly, students carried out most of the activities
and tasks with the partners using the TwinSpace.
Mainly in small groups, they had to reflect and give
their opinions, ideas about their character
strengths and traits, optimism, gratitude, selfconfidence, self-compassion and the importance of
an affective education at schools interacting in
English though the Forum by using several ICT
tools. They created different products that shared
and compared with the other European mates. They
had to listen to videos, read comments and replay
to them writing simple sentences or texts, but also
to interact with the partners during Skype meetings
so they needed to improve their knowledge about
new lexis and to recycle structures developing
communicative skills and then their competence in
Communication in foreign language.
During the Italian language classes learners were
asked to read short stories about the project topic
and reflect on them expressing their feelings and
ideas. Then, they were asked to make up and write
stories exploiting some of the teenagers’ common
character aspects applying skills and competences
correlated to Communication in the mother tongue.
The Art teacher engaged students in adorning all
the tales with drawings that illustrated some
chapters. Social and civic competence was
improved during both Italian and English language
activities when learners were invited to reflect on
the different aspects of their characters and how
they influence their relationship with together
adults and mates. They shared their emotions and
thoughts but also expressed empathy and tolerance
while comparing them with the partners from
different social contexts and cultural identities.
Always with regard to them and their habits,
learners had the chance to improve their social
skills understanding and appreciating the diversity.
Working in groups each student got a role and
respected the others collaborating during the
project work to reach common goals. They looked
for specific information, collect and select materials
such as articles and pictures, then organized and
planned them in order to create final products to be
shared in the TwinSpace of the project. The key
competences Sense of initiative and
entrepreneurship and Learning to learn took place
constantly in most of the tasks because students
had to recycle their previous knowledge, skills and
competences to acquire some new ones interacting
and cooperating firstly with pairs in class and then
with the partners in the TwinSpace. Students
showed to be more concerned and encouraged
while working to reach the final product and
particularly to receive partners’ feed-backs. As the
previous competences The Digital competence
occurred during all the activities and students had
the opportunity to know and use new tools. A part
from Power Point Programme that they mainly used
in class to show the results of the group works,
students became familiar with other programmes
such as Padlet, Isuu, Youblisher , Animoto ,
Smilebox, Photopeach etc… to make their task
products. They had constantly to communicate and
share materials exploiting the Forum or the Blog
always being responsible and aware of their roles in
the project.
Students enjoyed this opportunity a lot because
they had the chance to enrich their knowledge and
built up competences effectively cooperating
through innovative activities and ICT tools that
stimulated their motivation and creativity in some
subjects at the same time during the school year.
Once more eTwinning platform has given my
students this challenging occasion to learn in a
different way developing competences useful to
interact and communicate effectively with other
students and teachers in order to reach common
aims so as it has encouraged some of my
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