The e-Twinning project “3C - Digital Citizenship” stimulated multicultural discussion between project partners through using new technologies. It opened the gateway to knowledge, promoting creativity and innovation for effective lifelong learning. Digital citizenship is a norm of appropriate, responsible use of technology and it is a concept which has helped teachers and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Teachers and students have had an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student-centered, adaptive environment where learners contributed to the course material, formulated and expressed their own insights and opinion, constructed their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learned from one another in collaborative environments.
Through this project, we want to:
1. Develop our students XXI century skills for critical thinking and creative learning through using Glogster Edu and eduBuncee.
2. Provide multicultural communication between partner classes using in an eSafe mode of eTwinning live, chats, groups 2.0, Skype.They will learn and share each other culture and values. They will improve their English language skills
3. Partners classes will collaborate on a common product -a twin space where they will share learning materials created by them-glogs,buncees, online bulletin boards - games,quizzes, e-worksheets,fun learning activities. They will create them by glogsteredu, learning apps org, j2e, socrative,kahoot,wizer.me, MIE apps for education and GAFE.All tools and learning practices will help partner teachers and students to:
- Acquire skills for the XXI century http://www.p21.org/ ;
- Encouraging to use the Flipped Classroom in partner schools
- Students became esafety curators of digital learning.
November activity was: "Let’s know each other better" - students from Bulgaria and Romania met each other on eTwinning live and exchanged information about their schools and classes. After their meeting online they prepared and shared on Twinspace their Glogster multi media posters to make a deeper expression of their communication.
December activity was: "Let’s celebrate Christmas Together" - Students used Glogster EDU and edu Buncee tools to share with their partners how they celebrate Christmas in their schools and countries. They worked in small groups and created interactive Glogster posters and buncee multimedia presentations, they talk about similarities and differences in celebrating their common Christmas holidays at their homes and schools. They sang carols and national Christmas songs on eTwinning live and did their Christmas greetings verbally and through digital e-Cards exchange on Twinspace.
January activity was: "Let’s share our school activities with our partners" - apps by choice (suggested: sway, thinglink, Glogster, video apps) Project partners created digital applications to describe activities they usually do in their classrooms - they shared their PBL activities, Learning by doing activities, their casual class activities and the moments in the classroom which made them happy and pleased with learning. They studied from each other how to make their learning environment and learning process more attractive using multimedia and digital tools for making their researches and finding solutions.
February activity was: "Let’s celebrate Safer Internet Day 2017 and play together e-safety" Partner students created and played educational games ( using learningapps.org tools, wizer.me applications, j2e5) playing on e-safetykit.net. They studied many new rules about e-Safety and reflected on what they study on a mutual padlet board with used resources.
March activity was: "Let's collaborate to celebrate mother's day using GlogsterEDU" Partners used Glogster edu tools making glogs templates for expressing their love to their mummies. Students collaborated together, they personalised these templates, changed them in a way they like to send their own messages to their mothers.
April activity was: "Easter spirit in our school". Project partners celebrated Resurrection and Earth Day by doing digital applications for this holidays. Students learned from each other more about orthodox Christianity and find similarities between their national customs in celebrating Christian holidays in both countries. They made the connection between being full of Christian virtues and doing prosperity for others and the world. Project partners completed and enlarged their vision about the ways of making our planet clean and green. Bulgarian students made a PBL to create an e-book "Symbols of Easter" using buncee edu and Glogster Edu tools and platforms. They also created paper eco cities of the future and described them in a collaborative buncee application.
May activity was: Evaluating activities-online conference on eTwinning live . “Let's give peace a chance!” Project partners did research and gave their solutions how to make the world a better place for living. They researched and found other names of peace on the internet, made paper doves and wrote the name of peace (synonyms of peace) on doves wings. They shared their paper doves and words of peace on an eTwinnining online meeting. They made a quiz with quizlet to train and study these names in languages of the partnership - English, Bulgarian, Romanian. Bulgarian project partners did PBL at class using Glogster Edu - they created multimedia digital posters to express and present their future plans on topic: " My future" They shared the results of their classroom activity with their Romanian partners using a padlet board on Twinspace.Project partners and their teachers collected all project activities and outcomes on a common collaborative buncee application and generated an e-book with QR codes using platform and tools of Edu Buncee.
https://padlet.com/lucianecurator/saferinternetday3ceTwinning
https://padlet.com/rosesunrise65/t0hyl4uvsplr
https://sway.com/sC1cop5CW0KoOJFG?ref=Link&loc=play
https://app.edu.buncee.com/buncee/be7faf06155146c5867a581a133a9c62
More than 50 students from Scoala Gimnaziala Speciala Caransebes and Пето основно училище \"Митьо Станев\" Stara Zagora, Bulgaria cooperate to finish monthly tasks . We use a lot of social media and web 2.0 tools and for a fruitful collaboration we organized also 3 video conferences on skype .
For Romanian partners - SEN students - this project had a cross-curricular integration with Religion, History and ICT. They were excited to present themselves in english language and using a lot of edtools and edapps they share with Bulgarian partners their creative work and activities. Romanian partners focused on Christmas and Easter celebrations, they shared with their project partners their class and outdoors activities, and both classes learn from each other about important customs and traditions which happened in their schools and communities. Also they celebrated with their partners Safer Internet Day 2017 when they have learned useful things - how to protect themselves in the online world .
Bulgarian project partners - young English language learners integrated this project in some ongoing lessons and topics of their English language Curriculum and textbook - like “My future” project activity, where students master the use future simple tense. On online meetings with partners 10-year Bulgarian students trained oral speech (speaking) presenting themselves shortly to their Romanian partners. They also improved their writing and reading language skills by making digital posters and e-books on the project topics, commenting on project partners’ applications, collaborating on mutual applications with partners. Bulgarian partners integrated this eTwinning project to another global project “Earth day 2017” with Buncee Buddies digital pen pals global project and this way made the ideas of eTwinning spread globally.
