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

“eTwinauts in the (in)visible cities”

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

TRUSTABLEPARTNERS

MEETINGS

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

2013

2013

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

TEAMWORK

COLLABORATIVE WORK - TWINSPACE FORUMS

STUDENTS FROM EACH PARTNER COUNTRYDISCUSS THEIR ACTIVITIESUSING TWINSPACE FORUMS

COLLABORATIVE WORK - TWINSPACE WIKI

KLASICKÉ A ŠPANĚLSKÉ GYMNÁZIUM BRNO (CZECH REPUBLIC) &CPI VIAŇO PEQUENO (SPAIN) & IES MARC FERRER (SPAIN)

PLANNING

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

KEY COMPETENCES

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

New eTwinning projects!

FUTURE?

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

EXAMPLES of activities

VIDEO PRESENTATIONS: https://prezi.com/9lf0f6acjh3r/etwinautas-en-directo/

LINK TOORIGINAL RESOURCE IN TWINSPACE

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PROJECT PARTNERS