Etwinning “Harbourers of the sea”
https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/etwinning/projects/harbourers-sea/twinspace
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Students will embark on a fascinating
journey to rediscover the everlasting influence of the on our societies. The
sea provides food, work, a peaceful haven in stressful times as well provides
connections between our communities. Through this project, students will learn
to appreciate not just what the sea has to offer, but also explore how we
should preserve it and its inhabitants for future generations to come. Our
students need to appreciate what they have in hand and understand that unless
everyone does their part, we shall lose what we have left. Students need to be
aware of how their day to day habits and practices should change in order to
protect our sea.
Students 12-15 years old
Participating countries Greece,Malta,
France, Turkey, Portugal, Bulgaria.This project offers an opportunity to learn
about marine environment and how to protect it, through life skills,
citizenship education, cross curriculum
activity and digital literacy.
https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/etwinning/projects/harbourers-sea/twinspace/pages
Project overview
Brief
Description:
We shall embark on a
fascinating journey to rediscover the everlasting influence of the sea on our
societies. The sea provides food, work, a peaceful haven in stressful times as
well provides connections between our communities.
Through this project, you will
learn to appreciate not just what the sea has to offer, but also explore how we should preserve
it and its inhabitants for future generations to come. We need
to appreciate what we have in hand and understand that unless everyone does
their part, we shall lose what we have left.
We need to become aware of how
our day-to-day habits and practices should change in order to protect our sea.
We will do this through:
- various collaborative
activities in class and across nationalities, on Twinspace and using a variety
of Web 2.0 Tools
- key competencies that include: citizenship,
cultural awareness and expression, digital competencies, entrepreneurship,
literacy, personal social and emotional learning.
Welcome
Netiquette
rules
We hope we will enjoy this adventure together. Here are some
instructions that will help the project run smoothly:
1. Let's collaborate together, let's make this project a real collaborative effort and
enjoy it. We are going to work in mixed nationality groups and do beautiful
things together.
2. Respect the time-frames. On certain tasks
we'd need to follow up and merge all the work together, it's best to work hand
in hand. It's very important that if you have any difficulty contact your
teachers.
3. When uploading pictures we need to have a sub-folder with
your country & school names for easier access, unless we all need to collaborate
on the same page.
4. If you cannot continue the project or an activity, kindly
let us know as soon as you can, so that we can assist you.
5. I have created a group on Facebook for Teachers to join
and talk more easily there. For you students, we shall be in touch through the
official school channels.
6. Visit Twinspace to see what's happening from time to time.
7. Be respectful and considerate towards each other.
8. We have to apply for Quality Labels starting at end of-April.
Please finish as much as you can before :)
Members meeting
point
Pin a beach in your country
https://padlet.com/digitalcollabs247
Say an important
marine creature that you like
Answer garden
By participating
in this project, you are agreeing to abide by the following rules:
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
Students
participating in this project need to have a consent form signed by their
parents/guardians.
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.
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, ethnicity, 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:
https://www.photosforclass.com/
Music:
https://soundcloud.com/ikson/ikson-last-summer-free-download
Royalty Free Music by Bensound | Stock
Music