"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality" (John Lennon)

Sunday, January 7, 2018

When a photo talks: etwinning project of class II H

Students of class II H of the school "L. Da Vinci - O. Nucula" in Terni are involved in an etwinning project called "When a photo talks" together with students from other European countries.
Here are all the schools taking part in the project.



The activities focus on developing the main key competences for lifelong learning as follows:

- Communication (writing and speaking skills) in English and mother Language.
- Digital Competences (the use of ICT tools in the classroom).
- Learning to Learn.
- Social Competences.
- Raise of Awareness of European and Global Citizenship.
- Respect for Diversity (culture, people).
- Cooperation, working together on the same goal -> Protection and Appreciation of Life, Culture, Environment, Tradition.
- Develop of Creative Thinking and Artistic Expression.
- Increase students’ Knowledge about Past, Present and Future.
- New ways of Learning, via Photography.


This project also wants to raise awareness on the importance of each country cultural treasure in the European year of Cultural Heritage. 

Students introduced themselves using a post in a padlet which is an online billboard, then they worked in groups in class and described their school, their town and their Christmas tradition using "talking photos". To create the photos they first took photos then used an app called  PicTalk to add the baloons. 

The students had the chance to collaborate in small groups all of them gave their contribution to the work. 

Here are the results

Our town


Students also created a quiz on their presentation for the students of the other schools. 


Our school


Our Christmas traditions

In the following weeks students will be involved in other collaborative activities and will keep on working on photos. 

Saturday, January 6, 2018

LEFT: Learn English with Fine Tunes - eTwinning project 17/18

Students of class II G of the school "L. Da Vinci - O. Nucula" in Terni are working at a new etwinning project this year. 
In this project they will work on songs and will create language activities together with their friends from France and Portugal. 
The main aims are: 
use English as a means of communication among teenagers; 
develop the competence in communicating in a foreign language; 
develop the digital competence with the ICT tools and apps; 
create language activities; 
know more about music styles and genres;
learn to work collaboratively;
know more about other cultures in Europe; 
realize we are part of the EU;
broaden cultural horizon; 
making European friends.

This is the map of our project



After having introduced themselves in a padlet (an online billboard), the students started listening to songs and created activities on them as in the examples below.

Galway girl by Ed Sheeran



Language activities by Italian students


French students worked on the song "My name is Luka" by Suzane Vega and here are their activities.







So all the students of the partner schools will do the activities they prepared for each other.
They will also discuss about their favourite songs and singers, choose and listen to other songs and create more language activities together.

Stay tuned to know more!

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Teenagers in Europe: an involving etwinning project in class IG.

Students of class I G of the school "L. Da Vinci - O. Nucula" in Terni are carrying on with their etwinning project called "Teenagers in Europe".
After celebrating the European day of Languages in September they have started to introduce each other in the TwinSpace of the project and got to know their Finnish peers.
They talked about their hobbies and pets using padlets as in the example below.

Creato con Padlet



Finnish students created surveys Italian students filled in and Italian pupils did the same so they came to know each other tastes better, in fact they talked about themselves, their possessions, their pets and hobbies, their reading habits and so on.

Here are the Finnish surveys:

https://fi.surveymonkey.com/r/ZD2M5XH
https://fi.surveymonkey.com/r/ZYJ2PL6
https://fi.surveymonkey.com/r/L7TTKVQ

Here is the Italian survey created by all the students during an English lesson using google forms:



To strengthen the link among them, they also exchanged messages in etwinning and wrote letters in the old way using paper and pen and of course received letters from Finland too as you can see in the video below. They loved this activities and all of them took part in it with enthusiasm.




Before Christmas they created and sent Christmas cards as well and Italian students prepared a surprise for their Finnish friends: a song in Finnish!



Cards from Finland arrived during Christmas holidays and when students get back to school next week will find a very nice surprise!