25 PARTNERS FROM 7 COUNTRIES RAN THIS PROJECT.

From TURKEY

· FADİLE EFSER NECİ – TOBB Fen Lisesi, Gaziantep (Founder)

· DENİZ AKŞAMOĞLU – Osmangazi Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep (Founder)

· BERNA ELMACI – Dumlupınar Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· BERRİN BACAKSIZ – Sabahattin Zaim Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi, Gaziantep

· ÇİĞDEM BAYDAR - Özel Erdem Koleji, Gaziantep

· EDİZ TÜRKOĞLU - Gaziantep Uğur Okulları, Gaziantep

· FATMA KOLUMAN – İMKB Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· MERVE ANUL KAYIŞ - Gaziantep Kolej Vakfı, Gaziantep

· NESLİHAN BOZGEYİK - Şahinbey Belediyesi Mehmet Emin Er Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi, Gaziantep

· SEDA KATİPOĞLU - İl Genel Meclisi Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· SEVİL KURT - Mimar Sinan Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· ŞAKİR ADIGÜZEL - Şehitkamil Belediyesi Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· ŞİRİN ÖZKİRİŞÇİ - İnci Konukoğlu Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· TEKİN BURSAL - Cumhuriyet Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· TUBA BOZOĞLU - Güneykent Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· TUĞBA ALTUNÖZ - Fitnat Nuri Tekerekoğlu Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· ZEKİYE SEVİNÇ TOPUZ – Hasan Ali Yücel Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

· ZELİHA HARTOĞLU - Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi, Gaziantep

From AZERBAIJAN

· ALİYA AGHAYEVA - Tefekkur lisei, Sumgayit

From CROATIA

· PETRA BRNABIĆ ULEMEK - Srednja škola Markantuna de Dominisa Rab, Rab,

From GREECE

· EVANGELIA MIKA - 1st Geniko Lykeio of Edessa "Nikolaos Oikonomidis", Edessa

· MARIA KIOUZEPI - ΕΣΠΕΡΙΝΟ ΕΠΑΛ ΓΙΑΝΝΙΤΣΩΝ, Giannitsa

From MOLDOVA

· ANASTASIA MALCOCI - Gimnaziul Viişoara, R-Ul Ştefan Vodă

From POLAND

· MAGDALENA KIJEK - Zespół Szkół im. Leokadii Bergerowej w Płocku, Płock

From SPAIN

· ESTHER CANO - Obra Diocesana Santo Domingo de Silos

WE ALSO NEED TO SAY THAT THIS PROJECT WAS THE FIRST eTWINNING EXPERIENCE FOR MOST OF THE PARTNERS BOTH FROM TURKEY AND FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PROJECT TO THE TEACHERS FROM GAZIANTEP

First we arranged a meeting as Project Partners for the objectives, the activities and the expected results of the project.

FOR STUDENTS

To develeop students speaking skills,

To develop students reading, writing, listening skills while they are improving their speaking skills,

To develop students 21st Century Skills To develop creative thinking,

To promote students effective communication competence,

To promote the usage of modern technology,

To develop group interaction skills,

To make students produce something with collaboration,

To put the students in the center of both learning and teaching,

To make students learn, improve their skills while doing,

To make students use English not only for lessons but also in their daily life,

To make students aware of the advantages, disadvantages and risks of internet,

To make students aware of the importance of eSafety

To have fun during speaking activities.

FOR TEACHERS

To improve their teaching skills through interaction with other teachers,

To improve their digital skills,

To make their lessons more effective for their students.

FOR SCHOOLS

To prepare today’s learners to confidently embrace challenges as adaptable, empathetic global citizens, To be an example, a model to the other schools.

FOR PARENTS

To make parents aware of their children potential,

To make parents aware of the advantages, disadvantages and risks of internet. To make parents aware of the importance of eSafety.

Then we arranged meetings at our schools with the students who were willing to participate in the project. After that we get Parent Permission Forms to share the works of the students on our school websites and on social media.

We wanted to learn the expectations of both the teachers and the students from the project and we started with Presurveys.

Here are the results of the presurvey for teachers

Here are some photos while students were answering the questions.

We asked our students what comes to their mind first when they think eTwinning.

Our students made some posters of the project to announce it at our schools. For the posters students used Canva or Postermywall Web Tools.

We wanted our students to create their Avatars and to use these avatars instead of the photos while introducing themselves. They used Avatarmaker web tool.

After avatars, students were ready to meet their friends. But this time we followed a different way.

We didn't want our students to introduce themselves, we wanted them to introduce their friends. So with contribution of all partners we prepared Student Information Forms. Students filled in these forms and then we matched the partners as group of 2 schools by using Keamk Web Tool. And after that the students shared this forms with their friends.

Students introduced their friends by using the information on their friends forms. For this task they used Voki for creating their animation characters by recording their voice.

We also arranged some chat hours for our students. By this way they communicated with each other, they talked about the project, their cultures, interests, etc. Here there are some screenshots from some of these chat hours

While 2019 was ending both the teachers and the students celebrated new year of their friends both by sharing their animated new year cards or creating their own New year cards. We used tridivi and Canva for our cards. Here you can see some of the examples of these cards

Our students designed their own logos that represent the project.

And after that we organized logo contest among the logos of our schools.

As a result of these logo contest we collected the winner logos of 25 schools and we organized the logo contest to choose the logo of the project. After finishing the logo contest we opened it to make it happen to see.

And here are the results

On 11 February 2020 we did some activities with our project teams to attract the attention of all students in our schools to the importance of being safe on internet and what can be done to do this. Here are some photos from these activities

We as project partners we prepared, made a game of "Who Am I?" together.

Like the other tasks our students at our schools worked on the task as a team.

Each school chose 4 students for the task.

For the "Who Am I? Game there were 7 groups.

1- Singers (Female)

2- Singers (Male)

3- Actors

4- Actresses

5- Sport people

6- Scientists, Politicians, Presidents

7- Famous People in History, Painters, Musicians

On each group there were 3 / 4 teachers / schools.

By using the forum part of the Twinspace portal students communicated with the other students of their group and decided, about who they would prepare the card. They shared their cards on the padlet page and teachers collected the cards together from these padlet.

In total 104 cards prepared by the students.

On the front side with our students we decided to use our project logo.

We were planning the play with the cards at our schools but because of Covid-19 we couldn't.

Here you can see some examples of these cards with the instructions of the game.

For the project we decided to write some Open Ended Short Stories with our students.

On the task of writing Open Ended Short stories communication and collaboration were the most important aspects.

On this task fist we matched the teachers for writing 7 different open ended stories. On each group there were either 3 or 4 teachers, schools.

After the matching and arranging the 7 groups to write the stories, each school chose 5 students and they wrote one paragraph of their story.

A school started the the story then the other schools after reading the paragraph before them continued the stories.

We haven't finished the stories because we wanted the students to read theses Open Ended Stories and to talk about the possible endings at their schools.

We collected all the stories on a book and by using two different Web.2.0 Tools we shared these books with other students and teachers, too.

Because of Covid-19 students couldn't talk about the stories at their school and we had to change the plan..

Some volunteer students read the stories they chose with their own endings, they recorded their voice, shared on Padlet page. After that the others listened to these stories wrote their ideas about the endings on discussion part of Twinspace.

As 25 partners we decided to write an Acrostic Poem about our project.

Each school wrote a line of the poem.

A student from each school was chosen and these 25 students wrote the poem together (of course they got the ideas of their teams while writing).

They read the lines which were written before their lines and continued the poem.

Through this poem we also saw the ideas of our students about the project.

We liked it a lot we hope that you like it too.

Our students wanted to talk to each other and we again arranged chat hours for them

Our students prepared presentations about 27 EU Countries

As the founders of project Efser Neci and Deniz Akşamoğlu's students were responsible for 2 countries, the other partners' students were responsible for 1 EU Country.

Each school chose 4 students for the presentation of each country.

They together used Google Slides, with collaboration and communication they made their presentations.

According to the plan students were expected to present their presentations in front of the class. We were planning to use the information from all 27 countries to make speaking activity for comparion of the countries, too. But Because of Covid-19 they couldn't.

After the presentations the teachers chose at least 1 student and the students collected the information from the presentation of their school.

These students put shared them on the word template which was prepared by the teachers.

And all these word documents collected on our EU Countries Book which was planned to be shared on social media on Europe Day.

The students who worked for the presentations and the word document about the EU countries wrote some questions about the countries they were responsible for.

As teachers we collected these questions and created some digital games for our students.

In fact we were planning to play these games after presentations and the speaking activity at our schools but because of Covid-19 we couldn't. The students played them at their home)

(If you want to play with your students fo too http://www.triventy.com/library and write EU COUNTRIES to find and play our game with your students)

We as project partners we prepared, made a game of "Taboo" together.

Like the task of "Who am I? Game" our students at our schools worked on the task as teams.

Each school chose 4 students for the task and there were 5 groups.

GROUP 1-

Animals – Flowers/Plants – Vegetable – Fruit – Objects related to these (such as cage, vase, shovel, etc)

GROUP 2-

Countries – Landmarks / Famous figures from countries – Words about travelling (such as passport, airport, bus, etc)

GROUP 3-

Jobs – Famous people – Sports – Words, Objects, Places related to sports ( like swimming suit) - Clothes

GROUP 4-

School objects - Parts of school (like library) - Lessons (Geography lesson taboo words, Math lesson taboo words, Music lesson taboo words, etc (excluded physical education lesson)

GROUP 5-

Objects that are used at home – Kitchen tools – Parts of a house (like kitchen, bathroom, etc.)

By using the forum part of the Twinspace portal students communicated with the other students of their group and decided, about what they would prepare the card. They shared their cards on the padlet page and teachers collected the cards together from these padlet.

In total 103 cards prepared by the students.

As we did on Who am I? Game on the front side with our students we decided to use our project logo.

We were planning the play with the cards at our schools but because of Covid-19 we couldn't.

Here you can see some examples of these cards with the instructions of the game.

We shared the Book of "Countries of the EU" on social media on Europe Day

With our students we shot a video. The students answered the question of "What is eTwinning for you?"

The students wanted to hear and see each other. Therefore, we arranged some Zoom meetings for our students.

During these online meetings they talked to each other about their cultures, interest, activities during Covid-19 and of course the project.

We decided not to share the photos of these online meetings because of eSafety

After finishing all the activities we wanted to see whether the expectations of the teachers have been satisfied or not.

Because of this the teachers answered the questions of the Evaluation Survey at the end of the project.

As teachers we tried to guide the students. The students were in the center of everything. Therefore their ideas were very important for us both for this project and the future projects.

As we did to the teachers, after finishing all the activities we wanted to see whether the expectations of the students have been satisfied or not.

And we made an Evaluation Survey to the students, too.