final report: etwinauts in the (in)visible cities
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eTwinautas en las ciudades (in)visibleseTwinauts in the (in)visible cities
PROJECT REPORT DECEMBER 2014
Olga Martínez Cancelas | Klasické a španělské gymnázium Brno (CZECH REPUBLIC)María del Carmen Buitrón Pérez | CPI Viaňo Pequeno Trazo (SPAIN)
Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
“But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai Khan asks.
“The bridge is not supported by one stone or another”, Marco answers, “but by the line of the arch that they form.”
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.”
Polo answers: “Without stones there is no arch.”
“
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, tr. by William Weaver, London: Vintage Books, [1972]1997 p. 74
This novel starts with the dialogue between Marco Polo
and Kublai Khan, the emperor of the tartars: a good
example of intercultural dialogue and understanding.
This parable of the bridge in Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible
Cities illustrates very well how little elements build together
a useful and meaningful whole. Without the elements, the
whole is just something abstract and without the whole as a
structuring principle, the elements are simply disorganised,
separated.
This perfectly explains our first idea of creating a project
to build something meaningful together, to experience from
the distance the power of cooperative learning
FIRST STONES OF THE BRIDGE...
2 partner schools:
Klasické a španělské gymnázium Brno (Czech Republic)
CPI Viaňo Pequeno (Galicie - Spain)
started our first eTwininng project
and
as a tribute to Italo Calvino's book
we decided to call it
“Matemáticas para viajar a las ciudades (in)visibles”
“Mathematics to travel to the (in)visible cities” [February-July 2013]
Project's language: Spanish
This first experience grew up and continue with
“eTwinautas en las ciudades (in)visibles”
“eTwinauts in the (in)visible cities” [ December 2013- December 2014]
13 professionals
106 students
5 partner schools:
1 Czech Republic (Brno)
2 Spain (Galicia, Formentera)
1 Italy (Albino)
1 Norway (Moss).
http://etwinautas.wix.com/etwinautas-en
CLEAR OBJETIVES
- To build a space for multicultural collaboration.
- To raise awareness on the importance of valuing and preserving human world heritage and foster respect for other cultures.
- To improve communication skills.
- To discover new European cities, their citizens, their traditions and customs.
- To build and share knowledge with people from different countries.
- To develop ICT skills and competencies in Mathematics, Literature, History, Art, Chemistry, Physics,
Foreign languages …
- To put into practice Project based learning | CLIL methodology
2013/2014
EUROPEAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION | MUSIC AND CULTURE | MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS | CHEMISTRY | SIGN LANGUAGE | LITERATURE | HISTORY | ART
UNESCO HERITAGE | TECHNOLOGIE | INTERNET SAFETY | GAMIFICATON
SPANISH LANGUAGE | ARCHITECTURE
ACTIVITIES
INFRASTRUCTURE(TWINSPACE, ICT)
VIDEO
PODCAST
WIKIS
HTML
GEOGEBRA
SOCIAL MEDIA
SCHOOL LIBRARY
VIDEOCONFERENCE
FORUMS
CHAT
COMPUTER GAMES
SPAIN: CPI VIAŇO PEQUENO
- RESOURCES FROM SCHOOL LIBRARY- READING CLUB PARTICIPATION
CZECH REPUBLIC - ITALY
SPAIN - CZECH REPUBLIC
COLLABORATIVE WORK - TWINSPACE FORUMS
STUDENTS FROM EACH PARTNER COUNTRYDISCUSS THEIR ACTIVITIESUSING TWINSPACE FORUMS
KLASICKÉ A ŠPANĚLSKÉ GYMNÁZIUM BRNO (CZECH REPUBLIC) &CPI VIAŇO PEQUENO (SPAIN) & IES MARC FERRER (SPAIN)
EVALUATION
- EVALUATION MATRIX
- SURVEYS
- REFLECTIONS
ALL RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS ARE PUBLISHED HERE:http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=34155703
TV
SOCIAL MEDIA
BLOGS
WEBSITES
NATIONAL ETWINNINGWORKSHOP
NATIONAL& EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
NEWSPAPERDISSEMINATION
Things we have learnt
- To respect other cultures- To work in teams with students/teachers from our school and from abroad- To know better each others- How to manage electronic resources- How to assess critical information- Develop communication skills- The power of cooperation- Spanish language in a multicultural environment with native speakers
OUTCOMES
But also... we have learnt how to deal with difficulties
- Adjust schedules for meetings- Bad Internet connection in rural areas- Embarrassment of the students communicating in foreign language - Promoting cooperation in a big group of students- Communication among partners
… and we got good inputs to feed our project:
PRIZES AND RECOGNITIONS
- Spanish, Czech and Italian Quality Label- European Quality Label- Czech National Award
OUTCOMES
a book is a space which the reader must enter, wander round, maybe lose his way in, and then eventually find an exit, or perhaps even several exits, or maybe a way of breaking out on his own.
We pretended not to write a book but to develop a project in which all of us, members of a school community, were going to enter, wander round, maybe lose our way in, find an exit, perhaps several exits...
“ Italo Calvino
LINK TOORIGINAL RESOURCE IN TWINSPACE
LINK TOORIGINAL RESOURCE IN TWINSPACE
LINK TOORIGINAL RESOURCE IN TWINSPACE
LINK TOORIGINAL RESOURCE IN TWINSPACE
LINK TOORIGINAL RESOURCE IN TWINSPACE