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This is me receiving an eTwinning award in Albania :) 

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Hello everyone! My name is Valentina Lamaj from Albania and this is the fourth year that I cooperate in eTwinning projects. I am an English teacher in one of the most prestigious high schools in the small Southeastern European country. Working with high school students is a great challenge but also incredibly exciting, because they love to participate in various activities. The learning process with my pupils and colleges is never monotonous thanks to the innovations and ideas I've learned through different workshops, courses, and talks with like-minded teachers.

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Qemal Stafa is one of the distinguished high schools in Tirana and therefore is the only eTwinning school in Albania. My school is located in the capital of Albania, which benefits the quality of the technologies that we access. We have two IT labs, a chemistry lab, a school library, an activity hall, and more environments to establish various projects. I am an English teacher, but that is not my only role in my school, except that I am an eTwinning ambassador and teacher that organizes different activities that engage students and stimulates them to collaborate with peers in other European countries throughout these initiatives. Promoting eTwinning activities is something I am very enthusiastic about since it is a way to grow professionally and change the mindset of students for the better. Up until now, I have planned loads of activities that promote eTwinning projects online but even in person. With the help of colleges in my school and also the passion of students, these projects have been a great impact on other students that learned for the first time what eTwinning is. We have started an excellent campaign about climate with our school's chemistry, biology and geography teachers. One of my most extraordinary difficulties has been the COVID-19 situation. With the lockdown, it was challenging to find a way on how to continue with our activities, but platforms like Zoom and Padlet came to help. Through Padlet, students would submit their work about our ongoing eTwinning projects, and through Zoom, we would discuss the projects and how our final product was flourishing day by day.  Empowering students was the only way that we could get through the hard lockdown time. So every time we would discourse, and the students would be down mentally, I would boost their confidence by saying positive words and encouraging them that the path to success gets hard, but what matters is to keep going forward. Their excitement and positive spirit helped me to reflect in everyday situations and the way that I teach. My students, colleges, and eTwinning projects have transformed me as an individual and teacher.

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Activity : eTwinning project "We learn through projects" 

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Activity : eTwinning project "We learn through projects" 

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My certificate for participating in an European course about internet safety

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My certificate for participating in an European course about internet safety

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Being an eTwinner means to be a winner! 

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Being an eTwinner means to be a winner! 

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Our school's active and closed eTwinning projects

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Our school's active and closed eTwinning projects

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These are all the projects that I have participated in with the help of my colleges and students!

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Poster made by one of my students for the eTwinning project "Treasure of Wisdom"

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Poster made by one of my students for the eTwinning project "Treasure of Wisdom"

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"We learn through projects"  Posters done from my students :)

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"We learn through projects"  Posters done from my students :)

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Treasure of wisdom #EDLComp19 European Quality Label 

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Treasure of wisdom #EDLComp19 European Quality Label 

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One Painting One Story European Quality Label

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One Painting One Story European Quality Label

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My school director and other teachers were giving certificates of participation to students who participated in "We learn through projects" eTwinning project

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This is a workshop I have participated in 

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This is a workshop I have participated in 

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This is the link of our Consume Less Create More Twinspace project !

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This is the link of our Consume Less Create More Twinspace project !

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Our aim is to bring people together around a modern-life problem and try to find solutions for that problem. In today's society,people's madness for consuming everything is growing from day to day. We buy and buy, then make huge dumping grounds for the things we bought. We are destroying the world by turning this heaven into a ugly place with full of plastics wastes and unnecessary things we possessed once. With our project we will guide our students to raise awareness about less consuming; to learn how to create things without buying -like growing plants, making "do it yourself" projects etc.-; to spend their time with activities that will satisfy their heart and mind. In our project we will increase awareness for some values like self-actualization; self-expression; healthy living; caring for nature; being interested in art; loving unconditional -people, animals and nature-; being conscious consumers. We will use web 2.0 tools in every activity; try to improve students' ICT skills.

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Our aim is to bring people together around a modern-life problem and try to find solutions for that problem. In today's society,people's madness for consuming everything is growing from day to day. We buy and buy, then make huge dumping grounds for the things we bought.