Etwinning “Think, act, inpire!” is a project aimed at 13-15
year olds accross Europe to get to know each other, and work together to make
the world a better place. As they go along, students will create a journal with
reflections and tips to help others. Participating counties are Greece,
Portugal, Italy, Malta, Bulgaria, Spain. 16 students have participated from
Greece. And teacher Vasiliki Dogani has participated from Greece
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project overview
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project
datails
The project was created to enable students to work with their peers
across Europe and to make students aware how they can be inspires and inpire
others to do good that even small gestures truly change.At the end of the project
a journal was created among parteners that is disseminated among schools. There
was a draft programme of what the project should be like.If the students or
teachers came up with an idea we discussed and included in the project.We knew
that we were here to get inspiration and inpire others to be more minful about
internet safety, to be more appreciative of what life is and to keep as
positive as possible.We worked within these parameters but expanded it further
to extend it to our respective school communities and organizations who showed
interest in our project.
· This Project is aimed at 13-16 year olds accross Europe to get to know each other, and work together to make the world a better place. As they go along, students will create a journal with reflections and tips to help others.
Aims:
To enable students to work with their peers across
Europe, especially if we have lockdown again. To make students aware how bees
help the world and how they can be like spread positivity. To create a
journal among partners that would be disseminated among participating schools.
Topics would include: Internet Safety, healthy relationships among others.
Work Process:2
Aspects: Activities & Journal
The
Topics/Activities:
- School introductions
- What do you love about Autumn?
- Self- Care
- Saving Our Sea
- Positive values at Christmas
- Saving our Sea
- Coping with stress in stressful situations
- Our digital footprint
- Preparing for the world of work
- Sustainable Environment
- The Importance of self-Reflection: How as
the project changed you and the world around you?
The
Journal:
Introductory
pages: Project Introduction, Project Map, School details.
2 pages per topic which include: photos
from project, tips, self-reflection. Also: important links. Each
partner will be responsible for a section.
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project plan
and timeline
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MGMKwf1ITaJoYMLVJxacaQ6nSkER4sh1PqDpGDM3vI8/edit
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Time-frame |
Task |
Responsibility of: |
Done/Not Done |
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Beg of Project |
Online code of conduct (Internet Safety, GDPR issues and
copyright) |
Everyone |
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Throughout the year |
Integration of project in curriculum |
Everyone |
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Oct 20 - May 21 |
Project Journal:
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Oct 21 |
Introductions:
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Oct 21 |
What do you love about Autumn?
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Each
partner |
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Nov 21 |
Self-Care: In class the concept of self-care and why it
is important is discussed, especially in pandemic times. Students share
their favourite tip on padlet |
Each
partner |
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Nov 21 |
Saving our Sea: students look at the video by national geographic and create a
poster to save the sea, which will be shared at school. |
Each partner |
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Dec 21 |
Positive Values at Christmas:
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Each partner |
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Jan 21 |
Back to School: Revising the Netiquette rules
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Organised by Ms Maria La Porta |
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Jan 21 |
Coping with stress: Gratitude When it comes to stress, appreciating what we
have can help our morale a lot. |
Each partner |
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Jan - Feb 21 |
Our Digital Footprint - Internet Safety Day Each school creates a short video of no longer
than 30 seconds about our digital footprint. These videos will be merged
together and shared at school and media on 9/02/21 |
Each partner |
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Preparing for the world of work: Quiz: |
Each partner |
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Apr for May 21 |
Easter/Spring Traditions & eTwinning Day |
Each partner |
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Sustainable Development: the SDG Goals |
Each partner |
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Apr-mid May 21 |
Final evaluations: Teacher evaluations student evaluations Evaluations distributed to parents (if
applicable) Evaluations distributed to organisations who
helped us. A report about the findings will have to be
written. |
Each partner |
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Project Plan Adjustments
·
Important Project Plan
Adjustments
The project pages don't exactly
fit the original plan, we had to make some adjustments.
This year has been particulary
challenging because:
- We had no idea of how we
would be teaching at the time that the project plan was finalised
- Each country and school had
it's particular conditions. Some of us worked on-site / hybrid / online /
started one way, continued another / changed throughout as instructed by Health
Authorities
- Our students had different
needs than previous years
- When working on site in
schools we had various restrictions:
* students
had to be 1.5m-2m distant all the time, hence no groupwork
* students
couldn't move around the school to take photos, promote their projects etc
* we couldn't
decorate our classrooms with the work done in our project
* we had
classroom demographics that changed continously
- Resources that we needed
weren't always available and we had to adapt
- Some of us were sick, in
quarantine or had to take care of loved ones
- all of us suffered some
degree of covid-19 fatigue in one way or another
- we had to change sequence of
topics, according to the new developments at our schools
- we found resouces that we
thought were beneficial to our students at this particular time and decided to
take up the opportunity and use them (example: t friendship cards)
So we changed the topics
accordingly:
- for flexibility so we could
work together
- to make it possible for our
students to benefit from the project as much as possible
- to include students' requests
an focus on their needs
- focused on one aspect more
than another to make the project more interesting and
stimulating
- included more topics
that are positive and heartwarming to the students
This was possible because:
- As partners we supported each
other as much as possible, we were more like family rather than partners.
- Our students appreciated and
filled us with energy to continue working as best as we could
- we found support from
entities within our communities who offered to support us across
boundaries eg Frienshipcards | Communication Skills for Children
(friendshipcards.org) sent cards to all of the partners in the
project for FREE
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Paedagogical innovation and creativity
I try to motivate students and keep them alive through covid and through
quarantine. So I involve etwinners on twinpace and non etwinners in eclass .
They had a variety of tasks, each school had to vote and come up to an
agreement with logo encouraging democratic practices. We used mixed nationality
groups and students discussed in the class and
shared them with other teams. For example came up with the goo-vibes
game in class .Student voice was very important and they suggested apps to use,
asked them to solve problems intead of creating physical cards, create digital
cards.urriculum
integration
· curriculum integration
· It's very important to note that:
· - We teach different subjects and have managed to create a project plan that works for all of us. If it's Personal, Social and Career Development, if it's Italian or English, we have managed to work in sync together for the students to benefit as much as possible from the project.
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9th , 10th grade, subject english, language
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-e-safety rules, engagement, to create a digital future,
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friendhip and self care
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- Environmental activities, sustainability
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-good vibes
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Experiences:charities and Volunteering
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-Use of friendshipe cards
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-enviromental campaigns, footprint
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-developing digital skils
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-project based learning
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-Emotional Literacy playing games. We feel that nowadays, during the
pandemic, it's very important for our students to express themselves well as
regards to emotions, so that they are able to express themselves well.
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Beyond Curriculum
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We wanted to give our students skills that go beyond the curriclum. We
still want them to:
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- feel part of the world, even though we are physically segregated
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- help them develop their skills to adapt and survive
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- help them take care of themselves
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- help them feel empowered as positive agents of change, even from behind
a screen
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- strengthen their digital literacy skills through the various tasks
assigned.
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-e-safety rules, engagement,
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digital future,
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friendhip and selfe care
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- Environmental activities, sustainability
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-good vibes
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experiences:charities and Volunteering
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-Use of friendshipe cards
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links for communication
Cross Curricular Integration
It's very important to note that:
- We
teach different subjects and have managed to create a
project plan that works for all of us. If it's Personal, Social and Career
Development, if it's Italian or English, we have managed to work in sync
together for the students to benefit as much as possible from the project.
Emotional Literacy
- We feel that nowadays, during the pandemic, it's very
important for our students to express themselves well as regards to emotions,
so that they are able to express themselves well.
Beyond
Curriculum
We wanted to give our students skills that go beyond the
curriclum. We still want them to:
- feel part of the world, even though we are physically
segregated
- help them develop their skills to adapt and survive
- help them take care of themselves
- help them feel empowered as positive agents of change, even
from behind a screen
- strengthen their digital literacy skills through the various
tasks assigned.
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Friendship cards, nature trust who shared
with us replaiced to a certain extent to provide students outcomes.
Links
Communication
Teacher's Private
Facebook Group
Here we share, discuss and plan
at any time of day. We vote for ideas, remind each other of deadlies, ask for
advice etc.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/815246822550031/
Messenger
We used messenger to chat,
especially when we required urgent feedback.
Email
When we need to write articles
we usually use emails and correct each others work, add photos etc.
Video Calls
We used these when we needed to
meet up to take important decisions or use new tools such as the Friendship
Cards.
e-class
Webexmeetings
Apart from Twinspace, we used
other media to communicate with our students.
Since, most of us had online
schooling due to the pandemic.
Session
about friendship cards relationships are Forever Foundation, they sent a free
copy cards to each of the parteners. I told my partners how to use them, some
parteners use them to solve class conflicts too.
A
logo creation where pupils had to create
and vote for their favourite logos, shared pictures autum in their country,
worked on the internet safety posters in mixed nationality groups and created
questions shared with other nationalities.Shared their views on padlet, forum,
came with a good vibes game.Etwinners and non etwinners worked and present
their activivites in class. Planner was to be internet safety posters,
etwinning calendar, culture cards. Etwinning helped them to connect with the
rest of the world, how to collaborate with entities outside school community,
speak about social issues.
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https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1460812
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1210245
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1210147
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1210160
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https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1369521
Voting
logo
results
code of contact
self care
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In this project we want everyone to feel safe,
included and valued so for this project to work
smoothly we need to follow
some guidelines:
GDPR
1.
Students
participating in this project need to have a consent form signed by their
parents/guardians.
2.
As
much as possible, students' faces shouldn't be showing in photos. One might
cover up one's face during an activity or have it blurred before being posted
online.
3.
Photos
that include other people not involved in the project are not allowed.
(Do not upload photos with your family members/friends or people in the street)
Personal Safety
1. Keep your passwords safe, do
not share with others. If you lost your password ask your teacher.
2. Keep passwords safely
stored, not where they can be accessed.
3. Log off the Twinspace when
you aren't using it, from your device.
4. Do not disclose personal
information: no private contact details, no sharing of personal problems or
photos, not even through Twinmail.
5. What you write through your
account appears on yourself. Never let others use your account, never use
the account of others.
Netiquette
1. Be respectful. No
offensive or hurtful language is allowed.
2. Be open to other
people's opinions. Just because you don't agree with something, doesn't
mean you have to judge it or the person saying it. Agree to disagree and drop
it.
3. Never be offensive,
not even through "jokes" especially regarding references to
gender, sexual orientation, ethicity, race, nationality, religion.
4. What is a joke for you might
not be a joke for someone else, it might cause offense and hurt. Avoid jokes.
Sarcasm is not allowed.
5. Be polite and
respectful. Think before you post, choose your wording. The way your
message is understood is your responsibility too.
6. Respect
deadlines. If you are late, it will effect everyone, as the work
would be left incomplete and that the other partners cannot move on. If
you have a difficulty regarding completing a task, inform your teachers.
Copyright
1. Make sure that the
work you upload is purely yours, not copied from the internet or your
classmate's. Plagiarism is a crime.
2. Do not just google and
download photos. Make sure that the photos/videos/other materials that you use
have a CC (creative commons) license. If you purchased a resource
and you may not share it, do not.
3. Materials from
pirating websites are not allowed.
4. When using Web 2.0
tools respect company's agreements. If the free version means that your
work has to be watermarked by the mentioned company, you may not remove that
watermark.
5. Some Web.2
tools/websites/apps have their own inbuilt CC licensed materials (music,
photos etc) for you to help you out. Stick to these.
6. Credit the authors of
the materials and add references when you use websites/materials.
Links to resources respecting
CC license copyright
Safe Browser:
Swiggle.org.uk - Child Friendly Search Engine for Kids
Images:
CC Search (creativecommons.org)
Creative Common Pictures | Download Free Images on Unsplash
Free
Creative Commons Zero Images · Pexels
Photos For Class - The quick and safe way to find and cite images
for class!
Music:
Royalty Free Music by Bensound | Stock Music
Let's learn together in a
safe environment, have fun, and enjoy this journey!
References:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5mqG_gsWL_qSigyDM-BxksM_0ZYWAaiVDt_0-hyckS8SafA/viewform
Use of
technology
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twinspace
Facebook
Messenger
Email
Video Calls
Friendship Cards.
e-class
Webexmeetings
docs.google
wakelet.com
padlet.com
slideshare.net
www.blogger.com
calameo,
kahoot, think link, powtoon, genially, www.swiggle.org.uk
canva, adobe
spark, tricider, bitly, we video, google forms, google slides
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https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1028561
Students
evaluation
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBgN3C6m7jRmkXjc_O_gZpNFlUeJTKExopyfYz-olhqGzLZw/viewform
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1433750
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1433796
teacher’s
evaluation
evaluation
e-book
https://wakelet.com/wake/rDEEm9vIeHF_jTJUX40J3
https://padlet.com/melaniecini/8ft3o4pj6l3akofo
posters
etwinning day
inspiring words
https://www.facebook.com/groups/815246822550031/
https://www.slideshare.net/12do/earth-day-249398653/secret/ovY0zLZGtsezw
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/tphUNeMjlA4Nhq
https://www.slideshare.net/12do/etwin-249533851/12do/etwin-249533851
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/preview/5980165590838484364/1884676151006883755
https://bravo.sustainablegreece2020.com/gr/bravo-schools-practices?cat=2&g=14
https://en.calameo.com/read/002085363f1c2ce8ad70c?page=31
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1606346
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1327198
Raising
awareness of online safety keeps students safer both at school and home when
they are browsing the internet. Students can choose any online tool to
create their poster with messages and tips for internet safety.
https://view.genial.ly/60187aec6e2cb50d83c921ae/vertical-infographic-esafety-tip-poster
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1218041
e-safety
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1375610
campaign
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1460879
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1327203
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1458511
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1133383
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1133383
environment
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1460879
easter
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1327203
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1458646
sustainable environment
https://view.genial.ly/608eab6d4206fc0d0e5e4ee4/interactive-content-save-oceans-and-seas
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1431584
Positive change
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1460847
Our posters shared on slide share
https://spark.adobe.com/video/zWM7GzwpEEtMM
Christmas cards
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1312596
project dissemination
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1312619
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1614375
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1293124
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KaH-IctfOk3yzcg6HYacIViYyXvZY7am/view
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1327300
Evaluation
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1606296
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1649337
Final products of the project
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1654015
feedback
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1606319
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1606769
https://padlet.com/etwinning12/bbtuuyhu71nrd2pa?
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1649337
My contribution I try to collaborate with orther schools and to collaborate with organizations outside
school” Smile of the child”. I try to inpire others and my pupil and make sure
that everyone was woking happily. My students understand their tasks and
correspond to it.
project awards
https://bravo.sustainablegreece2020.com/gr/bravo-schools-practices?cat=2&g=14
A collaboration http://www.friendshipcards.org/
Collaboration with Nature Trust
Collaboration with KPE Mesologiou
“Pandemia to see it as a chance”
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1614233
etwinning day
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/pages/page/1665025
questionnaire results and analysis
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/forum/131781/thread/1938588
forum
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/forum/131781/thread/2545256
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/forum/131781/thread/1662757
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121034/forum/131781/thread/2132757
https://thalassaviki.blogspot.com/2021/07/etwinning-think-act-inpire-is-project.html
https://blogs.sch.gr/gymmarko/2021/07/02/etwinning-think-act-inpire-quot/
presentation at our school blog