This eTwinning project was an interesting possibility to collaborate with other schools abroad and get in contact with students from different European countries. In our eTwinning project “Discover Europe” we cooperated with students from 5 other nations: Moldavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, France and Italy. The school class 1AHEL with the project teacher Prof. Hubert Winkler from the HTL Rankweil in Austria started this international cooperation project in 2021.
The project aims were to introduce beautiful and well known geographical and historical places, landscapes and nature from different countries in Europe to the students. Each month was dedicated to a different natural landmark. With this project the students increased their skills in searching and presenting different historical and geographical landmarks in Europe. The educational benefits for students were to get better communication skills in English with writing, grammar and speaking. Furthermore, the students learned to work with different digital tools. Our project was cross curricular with the subject IT, social skills, Geography, History and Science.
During our project we have sent some bookmarks with sightseeing information to our school project partners. We had several online meetings together, at least one time a month with the other schools and we have participated in some international lessons about our mutual tasks, like nature, forests, mountains, Cultural Heritage Sites, castles and ruins, caves and European holidays.
The students also made friends with peers from different parts of Europe and learned together across the curriculum and exchanged information and had together some school lessons. The students produced during their project many tasks like padlets, an eBook, an eMagazine, many puzzles and Kahoot games.
Im eTwinning-Projekt "Discover Europe", das im Schuljahr 2020/2021 startete, kam es zu einer Zusammenarbeit und zu einem Informationsaustausch sowie zu gemeinschaftlichen Lernsynergien zwischen den 6 Projektländern Moldawien, Bulgarien, Türkei, Italien, Frankreich und Österreich.
Gemeinsam ging es mit 15-jährigen Schülerinnen und Schülern mit Unterstützung des Projektleiters Prof. Hubert Winkler auf eine vielfältige geografische, naturfokussierte und kulturhistorische Entdeckungsreise durch Europa, in der monatliche Themenschwerpunkte transnational und kollaborativ bearbeitet wurden. Einzelne Themen wurden ergänzend zum Geografieunterricht auch interdisziplinär bzw. fachübergreifend behandelt. Durch die angewendete Methodenvielfalt im Unterricht, wie Partner- und Gruppenarbeit, länderübergreifende Teamarbeit, Lernspiele, Einsatz neuer Lern- und IT-Tools und Online-Videomeetings mit den Partnerschulen kam es zur Förderung eines nachhaltigen und freudvollen Lernens.
Der Lernertrag und die Stärkung der Kompetenzen der Schülerinnen und Schüler zeigt sich in den vielfältigen Produkten, die gemeinsam entstanden, wie z.B. ein E-Book über eine UNESCO-Kulturstätte, ein virtuelles Museum und viele Lernmaterialien zum Thema Wasser, Wald und Berge.
Am Projekt, das im Schuljahr 2020/21 startete, beteiligten sich 17 Schüler der 1AHEL. Im Zuge des Projektes wurden auch Bücher, Lesezeichen und Pflanzensamen an unsere Partnerschulen gesendet.
Wenn ihr auch gerne an einem eTwinning-Projekt mit internationalen Schulen teilnehmen möchtet, in dem es zu einem Austausch und zu gemeinsamen Aktivitäten und Projektarbeiten kommt, dann meldet Euch doch bei Prof. Hubert Winkler oder bei einem unserer eTwinning Lehrer/innen. Mehr Informationen findet ihr dazu unter: https://www.etwinning.net/de/pub/index.htm
Anbei sind ein paar Bilder exemplarisch aus den gemeinsamen Projektbeispielen angeführt.
Attached you can see the link list from our eTwinning project „Discover Europe“. Our project page is https://twinspace.etwinning.net/116361/home
The Project results:
www.ourboox.com/book-preview/1169990/
www.artsteps.com/embed/60cb6c5cdfc349fbf010734c/560/315
padlet.com/elenadimitrova735/3ches7gry2emdi6h
padlet.com/fockchuiprof/p9rackcmu90mmfil
padlet.com/leaauriolroybry/271v4ozp73lvr4l1
docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q3jgNeNnfRW8OmZk_YlSFMCLBqwY4VGWb90c94ui8ZQ/edit
docs.google.com/presentation/d/156nI-l3OAhporAinnLxiS53iPmPXDenjf0afM3exw0E/edit
www.emaze.com/@AOQRQOQWO/dscover-europe-vrtual-exhbton
The eTwinning project „Global Tour Bus“ was awarded in 2021 with the National Quality Label and with the European Quality Label.
Gratulation for the successful cooperation in this international school project to the students from the class 1CHEL and the project leader Prof. Hubert Winkler.
Our school started in October 2021 with the organization for an international school cooperation to increase the internationalisation and networking from the HTL - Rankweil. The kick-off start for this project was 16. November with a Zoom Meeting with all 60 schools form 38 nations and 3 continents. It is actually the biggest eTwinning project in Europe. The duration of this programme is until 30. May 2021. With this project our school will apply for the “National Quality Label”. This will be one step to lead our school to an eTwinning School in 2022.
In this project 16 students from the class 1CHBT worked actively together with 60 other schools form Europe. The project leader has been the teacher Hubert Winkler and he has been in contact with the main project organiser from Turkey and the other international schools sometimes even on a daily basis. The students worked approximately one hour per week at school for this project and had regularly an Online Video Meeting via Zoom once a month in the evening with the other European Schools. The project was sometimes interdisciplinary with other subjects. We carried out many cultural activities and changed information about other European countries regarding cultures and people. The common tasks were activities to increase social skills, English language, technical abilities and the geographical knowledge. We produced a common cooking video with all schools, also we made a video about transnational work with poems, songs, eTwinning calendar and we played Kahoot and made eBooks about Sport & Games, Art & Clothes, Music & Dance and Food &Drinks from Austria. A common topic we dealt with the other students concerned media literacy, media competence and disinformation.
Some of our common work links in the project “Global Tour Bus”:
youtu.be/MD9NM3UQBcg (presentation of school);
www.ourboox.com/books/global-tour-bus/ (cooking video);
youtu.be/QvyF9kENX1k (Acrostic Poem);
youtu.be/oZ40Iw6peTM (Song);
twinspace.etwinning.net/125669/pages/page/1568903 (Media Literacy and Disinformation);
www.ourboox.com/book-preview/1130342/ (Part1 Traditional Food and Drink);
www.ourboox.com/book-preview/1130576/ (Part2 Traditional Food and Drink);
www.ourboox.com/book-preview/1135198/ (Traditional Sports and Games);
www.ourboox.com/book-preview/1136065/ (Traditional Arts and Clothes);
www.ourboox.com/book-preview/1131267/ (Traditional Dance and Music);
create.kahoot.it/share/about-countries-aspects/093db6ac-7a34-40ba-873e-a963cc11fa6c (Quiz about European states and cities)
create.kahoot.it/share/38-countries-and-flags-for-global-tour-bus-etwinning-project/e9e503c6-4fa5-4632-8677-13b2e3d41069 (Kahoot about European Flags);
www.canva.com/design/DAEeQgYVusw/0tccBztIrwIW1406teqH7Q/view (eTwinning Calendar) );
We had fun with it and we hope you enjoy it too.
1. Global Tour Bus
International eTwinning Project was a collaborative work with 38 nations from 3 continents, with around 60 schools from abroad, about cultural awareness and to improve the knowledge about other cultures and countries. In this project 16 students by the class 1CHBT and 3 students from the 3AHBT and the teacher Hubert Winkler are involved.
2. Discover Europe
In this international eTwinning Project with 10 schools from Europe the aim is to explore cultural heritage places, the landscape, and the nature. 16 students from the 1AHEL and the teacher Hubert Winkler worked active in this programme and changed information and made common projects.
3. To be or not to be addicted? That is the question! Am I?
The HTL Rankweil started in the school year 20/21 an Erasmus School Project, the “School Exchange Partnership” with 6 European Countries. The school started this project with eTwinning to be in contact with the other schools before our mobilities will start. In this project 15 students and the project leader Hubert Winkler are involved. Because of the Corona Pandemie the project mobilities were postponed and will start in November 2021.
4. DökoT - Das ökologische Talent
The HTL Rankweil takes part at an Erasmus Consortium Project by the Education Department from Styria. In this project our teachers will get the possibility to take part at many mobilities like jobshadowing or teacher training courses. For the communication with the other schools and the education department we will use the eTwinning platform. 8 Teachers from our school are involved in this project.
Our school is part of the eTwinning community and collaborates with other schools from Europe. We´re interested in increasing our connection to other eTwinners and international schools to create new common projects. Our school want explore and discover new insights into other countries and schools and globale problems and learning from each other´s across borders. One of our actual project is to describe the habit of students and their addictions, where we work together with a school from France, Italy, Turkey and Romania.
Mit eTwinning können sie Schülerprojekte über das Internet bzw. auf einer geschützten Plattform mit anderen Schulen erarbeiten und präsentieren. Es werden auch regelmäßig eTwinning Fortbildungen im In- und Ausland für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer angeboten. eTwinning ist die Gemeinschaft für Schulen in Europa. Sie bietet jedem (LehrerInnen, SchulleiterInnen, BibliothekarInnen, etc.), der in einer Schule in einem europäischen Land arbeitet eine Plattform, um zu kommunizieren, kooperieren, Projekte zu entwickeln, sich auszutauschen und Teil einer Lerngemeinschaften Europas zu sein. Europäische Schulen können sich über eTwinning vernetzen und gemeinsam Projekte bearbeiten. Unsere Schule ist auch seit 2010 im Bereich eTwinning aktiv und auf der Plattform registriert, um sich mit anderen europäischen Schulen auszutauschen. Weitere Informationen dazu erfahren sie gerne beim Erasmus+ Schulkoordinator Prof. Mag. Hubert Winkler.
Aktuelles eTwinning Projekt: „Abhängigkeiten“
Derzeit bearbeitet eine Schulklasse ein Projekt über Formen und Ausprägungen von Abhängigkeiten mit einer Schule aus Frankreich, Italien, Türkei und Rumänien. Ziel ist es diese Abhängigkeiten im Ländervergleich zu analysieren und ein Videofilm zu präsentieren. Dieser Film soll präventive Wirkung haben und dem Ministerium für Gesundheit der Europäischen Union gezeigt werden.