The Origami project implemented by the CEIP Les Arenes school (Valencia) was awarded the 2017 eTwinning National prize for the age category 0-11 years old for projects carried out in the 2015/2016 school year.. Continuar leyendo
We present ‘No barriers for Europeans‘, an Erasmus+ project and school association which involved six schools from Spain, Turkey, Poland, Portugal, Italy, and Lithuania with children with special needs. The main goal was to raise awareness of the situation and needs of disabled pupils and to promote equality and group integration. Exchanging experiences and the visits to the different schools helped the teachers share opinions and good practices for improving the students’ teaching and learning process. Sara Antolín and Rafael Sanjosé, the teachers involved in the project, tell us about their experience of implementing this project.. Continuar leyendo
Os presentamos el proyecto ‘Are you ready to live in the 21st century?’ Proyecto premiado en los premios nacionales eTwinning 2016 en la categoría de edad 4-11. Ha sido realizado por cuatro socios de España, Italia, Polonia y Portugal con alumnos entre 8 a 12 años. El trabajo en eTwinning se integra en en el currículo de cada uno de los centros participantes para desarrollar competencias transversales como la digital, la social y la ciudadana. Se trabajan todas las disciplinas involucradas en el proyecto desde un enfoque metodológico CLIL. Los estudiantes han intervenido activamente durante el desarrollo del proyecto, comunicando por videoconferencia con distintos objetivos, como recopilar datos y comparar con los de sus socios, realizar valoraciones, encuestas en línea y finalmente evaluando el proyecto. También se ha dado un espacio a la participación de las familias, votando en concurso de canciones o de logos.
Maite Elejalde Guerra, fundadora de proyecto y docente en el CEP Virgen de la Guía, País Vasco nos describe cómo ha sido el desarrollo de esta experiencia en su centro.
‘I take the floor’ is an eTwinning project between schools in France, Italy, England, Turkey and Spain. It is mainly focussed on the language proficiency of participating pupils, using Spanish as the working language. The activities carried out in collaboration with partner schools show more than satisfactory results that have increased pupil motivation, encouraged work on key competencies and teamwork in international groups. In addition we should underline the good diffusion of the project through the school website and through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The teacher Juan Fco. Peñas Viso, coordinator at the school of CPEIP San Babil (Navarra) describes the experience and how important it is to build a team and make use of eTwinning projects. Continuar leyendo
Surely by now you’ve heard the term STEM used more than once, you might even be familiar with it. But, do you know how you can integrate this approach into eTwinning?
WALL, Wizards at Language Learning WALL, is an eTwinning project involving primary schools from Poland, Latvia, Romania, Croatia, Greece and Spain (CP Ponent, Inca, Mallorca).
The aim of the project is to develop the language skills of students through various collaborative activities in the context of a fictional city.
The project is aimed at students from 9-11 years old who take on the role of ‘language wizards’, symbolically tearing down the ‘walls’ (WALL) that prevent learning of a second language. They participate in the curricular areas of Foreign Languages, Visual and Plastic Education and Computing.
Pupils work in groups and complete tasks related to their immediate environment and everyday life, which they then present in the form of videos, comics, word clouds and interactive images.
The project also promotes the creation of student clubs formed by members of the various partner schools. These clubs are led by a teacher who acts as a ‘club president’ and communicates with them through emails and TwinSpace. In this way, students learn to perform work and communicate online with other European partners. Feedback is also encouraged in carrying out the tasks, making pupils participate with comments and suggestions and develop a critical view of their achievements and those of others.
We congratulate project teachers and students for an innovative and creative methodological proposal. From the eTwinning NSS we encourage you to continue this fruitful line of classroom learning.
Link to the project TwinSpace.
Image Source: Project TwinSpace
Iberpatrimonio Natura is an eTwinning project between a Portuguese school (Agrupamento Escolas José Relvas) and a Spanish school (Ramón del Valle-Inclan secondary school, Seville), which involves protection of the Iberian ecosystem and, in particular, the figure of the Iberian lynx. Continuar leyendo
Loli Iglesias, Secondary education adviser at the Berritzegune de Getxo (Basque Government teaching orientation centre) shows us the benefits offered by CLIL (content and language integrated learning) focussed eTwinning projects Continuar leyendo
Inspector Green is an eTwinning project on the environment carried out between schools in Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, Greece and Spain with pupils aged between 5 and 11.