Subjects: Foreign Languages,Informatics / ICT,Religion

Languages: - PT - EN -

This kit provides pedagogical guidelines and examples on how to use blogs for communication to promote the European dimension. Weblogs have been extremely popular among teenagers for the last few years, and they have also found their place in classroom activities. They are easier to manage than websites and are free and interactive, allowing for the integration of texts, videos and sound. They are also suitable for collaborative online writing in eTwinning projects. Age: All ages. Duration:Two school years. ICT tools: Weblog, email, text processing software, image, video, sound, digital camera, cassette player/recorder. Subjects Several school subjects can be involved (history, geography, foreign languages, economics, arts, music and sciences). Any subject where learning can benefit from different points of view and cultural exchange will find an added value in using blogs. Objectives To foster the European dimension in education. To support intercultural dialogue. To develop a true European identity. To diversify learning through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). To use ICT to create, communicate and share. Pedagogical value From a teaching point of view, blogs allow for asynchronous communication on a given subject among pupils of various ages, environments and countries. All the participants submit their contributions and update content, sharing a global view of the published articles on the blog. Moreover, blogs promote cultural exchange through dialogue among different communities. By taking part in the development of a blog, pupils discover the cultural differences and similarities between their environment and that of their partner. Finally, blogs in an ICT context are tools for on-line communication. Thanks to them, pupils have a raised awareness of certain problems, such as the relationship between private and public space, respect for author's rights, safety of published content and originality and quality of texts.

Subjects: Citizenship,Cross Curricular,European Studies,Mathematics / Geometry

Languages: - EN -

I´m a Math teacher. I like to teach and to search for new methodologies and to share new ideas about my professional field. I invest in Math, but I like to discuss all the aspects relevant to learning. I´ve been involved in some projects and I´m available to new ones... for now i´m just thinking in "what is the next"... and growing some ideas... I´m use to teach using some math´s software... and its my first real contact with the eTwinning...

"Saying goodbye to the school year by getting to know each other” (Closed on 15.09.2009)

To learn about each county and other places.The aim of the project will be to provide an improved form of education to the students through various interactive methods, so that there will be no children that fall behind from their classmates and peer...

,,Every year students from all over Europe celebrate The Birth of Son of God or Christmas ” (Closed on 19.12.2009)

We want to know how students from all over Europe celebrate God's Birth in their countries . In this project parteners schools can make with their studdents many activities wich is about the Bird of Son of God or Christmas , and our children will mak...

be my m8 (Closed on 04.12.2012)

Project involves sharing information about students and their lives. Students will describe themselves (their family, home, school, town) and their likes/ dislikes (music, games and free time activities). They will be allowed to choose the topics. Em...

Christmas in Europe (Closed on 21.03.2010)

Partner schools of Europe upload the music, movies and photos of traditional Christmas songs, dances, custom from their region and country in a common blog and web space. Pupils in the partner school then make cards or write lyrics that are inspired ...

Funny scratching in Scratch (Started on 10.10.2012)

The main aim of this project is to introduce Scratch programming to young students and give them some hints how to programme simple animations. Students will use up-to-date scratch programme that is very popular these days in the ICT field and it is ...

Geometric shapes on monuments (Started on 03.10.2012)

Students identify geometric shapes in European monuments, calculating areas and volumes and know a bit of the patrimony of the countries of the partner schools.

Happy European day of Languages 2012! (Closed on 09.04.2013)

Postcard Exchange. Students write cards wishing a Happy EDL to their friends in Europe using their mother tongue. They send a postcard from their hometown as well.

International Teams (Started on 13.04.2012)

The project consists of creating small teams composed of members from different countries working together with the aim of accomplish a given task. It could be to create a Christmas presentation, a web page etc..By now two schools have joined the pr...

Know your Country (Closed on 26.09.2012)

We want to develop pupils' writing and reading skills in a foreign language; To develop collaborative writting; To develop their inter-cultural skills; to post different types of blog entries (new stories photos,...)

Let's talk about our schools! (Closed on )

The idea of this project is to present our schools (the system of education, the subjects, the timetables, the activities offered at midday and on Wednesday afternoons, what the pupils wear, lunchtime, the trips organized, the dates of the holidays,...

Meeting Point (Closed on 14.09.2008)

Create a blog where students can share their ideas and experiences. They could post stories about our county, power point presentation,..., and get almost immediate feedback from other students in the project.

MUSIC,SPORTS AND DANCE FOR HEALTHY LIFE (Started on 05.11.2011)

This would be a project for our teenagers and pre-teenagers students who are socially and physically very talented but don't have the oppurtunities to develop themselves.Students will take place in several kinds of activities to improve themselves an...

Our landscapes (Closed on 16.09.2008)

Introducing schools, hometowns, regions{ regional heritage, interesting places, regional recipes, stories and legends}

To be European by studying and respecting our natural and cultural environment, our similarities and differences in order to understand our place in the world, to embellish the Earth, which is our life (Closed on 01.09.2009)

Let’s discover our European natural and cultural environment on a regional and national level, our resemblances and differences. This work in common leads us to feel European and to discover our place and part in the world. Thus we realise our life i...

WARP it -- Weather And Rosy Places interest teens (Started on 08.03.2012)

A small project on weather and the home town 1) The idea is that for one week, the students film a weather forecast every day about their home town. All schools involved in the project put their weather forecasts online in the same week so that ev...