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Susana Pozuelo Glera. DBHI Antonio Trueba. Barakaldo.

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Susana Pozuelo Glera. DBHI Antonio Trueba. Barakaldo.

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I am very happy to have participated and I would like to thank everyone especially to my colleague Amaya, because it was she who offered me to collaborate on this project. It has been a productive experience to improve knowledge in the use of new technologies while learning about plants.
On the other hand, I think that the project was too big, too many groups and too many plants and I felt a bit overwhelmed.
Even so, I believe that magazines are very beautiful  and that we have all worked and learned. Thanks for all your help.

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Isabel García Ferrer. IES Riu Túria, Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain

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Isabel García Ferrer. IES Riu Túria, Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain

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I am really pleased to have had the opportunity to participate in this Project. Not only has it provided me the chance of learning about how etwining projects work, but also to know teachers who share with me the motivation to innovate and learn with our daily practice. It has been a great pleasure to coordinate with them, and I really appreciate the ideas and proposals from the most experimented etwining teachers. Although our founders weren’t able to participate in the project, I think it was easy to carry out it, thanks to our frequent contact and collaborative work. Despite some difficulties that delayed our schedule, we were able to complete our digital books, and from my point of view, the final results are nice and useful.

Related to the students, the participation in the Project has boosted their creativity. For them, it has been a great experience, and they have been excited in every stage of the project: recording the video presentation, participating and voting the logo proposals, sharing information about plants.... Their English skills have improved, and also their knowledge about the plant around us and ITC skills. They would have liked to interact more with their team mates and with students from other countries, which we should have to take into account for future projects, adding more time in our schedule to program more interaction activities and games.

The main drawback has been the time coincidence of the project development and the end of the year, when students accumulate many works and exams. The delayed tasks have made it a bit stressful. In future projects, we should improve the schedule and take more time during the year for doing the different tasks.

It has been a great pleasure to work with you in this project, and I hope we can work together in a new Project in the future. I am sure our experience have provided us many ideas to make projects even more successful!

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Sonia de Dios, Eduardo Gracia and Rocío Valenciano - IES Bajo Cinca, Spain

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Sonia de Dios, Eduardo Gracia and Rocío Valenciano - IES Bajo Cinca, Spain

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When we received the proposal of this project last summer, we found it very suitable for different reasons. As Biology teachers, we found the content really attractive to develop with 12 years old students. Since last year we are carrying out a project about the species of our playground, studying the changes they perform throughout a schoolyear. This project would be a good complement to it.
This etwinning project was accurately planned and organised. Unluckly, the teachers that designed it couldn't perform it for different reasons. Luckly, some other teachers took control and hardly working, have been able to lead the
project with many schools and students participating. Thanks to all our colleagues, we are grateful for that.
In our school it was our second etwinning project, so we didn't have much experience. We've learnt a lot with the teachers team, not only new ICT tools, but also about projects organisation and other possibilities of the Twinspace.
Working with our students has been a hard work because we involved all of our students aged 12 years old (1st ESO), 90 students all in all! Some of them with important learning difficulties. For them, it has been important to feel part of an
international team, and they enjoyed a lot to get in touch and collaborate with students from other schools.
Language has also been another issue to deal with: 30 % of our students are bilingual students in English, so it has been easier to work with that group.
Finally, the number of students per group has also made difficult to help them in class (one group with 29 students).
At the end, the effort has been worth it, the collaborative books are a good and varied sample of the "Plants around us".
Thank you to all the teachers involved in the project!

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Maria Goreti Alves, Escola Profissional de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural de Ponte de Lima, Portugal

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Maria Goreti Alves, Escola Profissional de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural de Ponte de Lima, Portugal

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Participating in the project was an outstanding experience. I began this collaboration with some fear, because my students were from a vocational course. These students are in general unmotivated to the school chores especially if they involve additional effort. It was a good surprise to see them enthusiastic about the project, taking photos around school, asking about when they would meet some of the students from the other schools, watching the posts on the Project Journal and taking part on the activities. We were able to complete all the tasks, which was an interdisciplinary effort - Natural Sciences, English, ICT and Gardening. We needed to accompany and tutor the students very close, because of their difficulties.
In some teams it was difficult to have all the students communicating in the Forum, but for my students was important to see their work acknowledge by other colleagues – so thank you for the nice comments.

This is the second year I collaborate in an eTwinning project, but it was the first one at the school I’m teaching this schoolyear. It was a surprise for many of the teacher, who were also looking forward to seeing the outcome of the project.

Collaborating with all of you was rewarding! So many e-mails that it was easy to lose track… but so many things that I have learned from them! Thank you for sharing your knowledge along this schoolyear. This collaboration and exchange of opinions made this project possible. The e-books are becoming beautiful and very useful as well.

It was with regret that we saw some of our partners having to give up the project. I hope they are fine, fully recovered and that they enjoy all the work that we were able to accomplish. Thank you for this wonderful project. It was a pleasure to work with you. I also hope that in the future we will have the chance to collaborate again!

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Asuman Baş, Eskişehir Fatih Fen Lisesi, Eskişehir, Türkiye

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Asuman Baş, Eskişehir Fatih Fen Lisesi, Eskişehir, Türkiye

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I am grateful to have been one of the partners in this excellent project. I have been active in etwinning projects for 7 years and I am enthusiastic about new ideas to work on in projects. Although I am an English Language teacher, I am satisfied with the knowledge I developed in the field of planlts in biology. It has been informative and leading creativity.
The result is a collection of three ebooks on plants which were searched in terms of description, translation, medical use, gastronomy and designed for the books. There was lack of communication between team members since the school exam weeks or national holidays prevented the common project time. Because the project was realised in a short time when we imagine how long such  activities could take place. When we evaluate it about language use, I can say it contributed a lot to their communication skills, reading and writing mostly.
As I stated earlier the project process was short, it was impossible to add any entertaining activities with web tools.
Teachers were very collaborative and helpful to help the project activities follow because of high valued communication supported.
I am sure the project will receive all the labels with such excellent books. I am delighted to be involved in this project. Thank you all the participants for their contribution.

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Ülle Kreos Kuressaare Vanalinna School Estonia

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Ülle Kreos Kuressaare Vanalinna School Estonia

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I am very happy to have participated in the eTwinning project with our students!
This was the first eTwinning experience for both me and my students.

A lot of effort was needed to achieve the result, because the students’ and my own IT and English skills are not very good. Neverthrless, the work itself was interesting and caused excitement in many students and in me too. Creating a movie and the doing the logo competition were interesting and fun.

Participation in the project gave both children and me a lot of new knowledge and skills in both English and IT.

The project resulted in an eBook about plants and their use. The book is very beautiful and useful too!!
I hope we will continue to cooperate in the future!
Thank you!

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Amaya Alonso Cabria IES Antonio Trueba BHI (Barakaldo, Basque Country)
Amaya Alonso Cabria IES Antonio Trueba BHI (Barakaldo, Basque Country)

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Amaya Alonso Cabria IES Antonio Trueba BHI (Barakaldo, Basque Country)

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Amaya Alonso Cabria IES Antonio Trueba BHI (Barakaldo, Basque Country)

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I am very happy with the participation of the students because they have shown a great interest in the topic (plants and uses) and the have taken part in an active way.
On the other hand, teachers have had some difficulties because there are a lage number of schools, the founders of the project were not able to continue in it and the number of plants in order to work on has been too much to handle with.
Luckily, the teachers' team has been very active and communicative at hte same time, so that problems have been solved thanks to the big effort of the teachers in charge of coordiantion.
Thank you very much and it is a pleasure to work with you.