An etwinning project stretching from the far,cold North to the sunny Mediterranean

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An etwinning project stretching from the far,cold
North to the sunny Mediterranean

• Fiorenza Iori
• Nova Gorica 19-20-21 April 2007

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Young Europeans care, discuss, realise .

• Schools and teachers
• in the project
• ???????a????? S???? ?e??a??? Jeanne d' Arc -
  Greece
• Síðuskóli Iceland
• I.I.S.V. Benini - Italy

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• Eftychia Bouchayer she teaches Biology,
  Chemistry and Geography
• Sigurdur Sigurdarson he teaches P.E., Ethics,
  Physics, Maths, Science
• Fiorenza Iori I teach English

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Pedagogical value

• The project aims at giving students the
  opportunity to work together on the subjects they
  prefer. In this way their collaboration will
  improve and they will find out that they all care
  about the same things even if they live in
  different countries. As a result, their bonds
  will strenghten and they will feel citizens of
  the same land. Besides, the project will give an
  idea of the issues todays young Europeans are
  interested in.

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• Age group 14-18 years old
• Duration November 2006-May 2007
• ICT tools emails, forums, power point
  presentations, pictures, web sites, chat rooms,
  e-magazine
• Topics art/cinema, music, human
  relationships/teenagers problems, nature, sport,
  people, folklore, popular places .

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• Process
• preliminary talking among the teachers
• (how to introduce the activity, how to involve
  the students, which ICT tools to use etc)
• introducing students to the etwinning platform
  and dealing with computer problems
• choosing the topics
• creating folders in Twinspace
• preparing some PPT presentations
• using the chatrooms and the forums to exchange
  comments

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• finding it difficult to find the ppt
  presentations in the folders and to add comments
  (Twinspace not so user-friendly)
• collecting all the material and publishing it in
  a magazine (articles and comments easier to find
  and easily visible to parents and teachers)
• http//www2.edu.fi/magazinefactory/magazines/Italy
  GreeceandIceland/

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Difficulties and benefits

• dealing with computer problems
• keeping students involved
• surfing the web, collecting information and
  reorganising it
• getting (more) familiar with ITC tools
• practising English (reading, writing,
  rephrasing)
• getting curious about and appreciating different
  habits, lifestyles and landscapes

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What about the future?

• adding more articles and comments in the magazine
• expanding the topics
• collecting the students opinions/suggestions in
  a final document
• organising an exchange focused on art and
  environment
• anywaykeeping in touch