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SUZAN FROM ISTANBUL BURAK BORA HIGH SCHOOL,TURKEY

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SUZAN FROM ISTANBUL BURAK BORA HIGH SCHOOL,TURKEY

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It was my the third year in this project.Many thanks to Claudine ,Carmen and to all of the teacher who contributed here.
I always benefit from the work we do every year and I have learnt a lot by the help of this project.I am really grateful working in this project.I am sure the next year project will be better.
Have a wonderful holiday and hopefully see you next year !

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AURELIE FROM MICHELET HIGH SCHOOL, FRANCE

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AURELIE FROM MICHELET HIGH SCHOOL, FRANCE

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This is my second year in the project in collaboration with Claudine who is a real guide for me! (Thanks a lot Claudine!)
I enjoy sharing this experience with all of the teachers' team.
Unlike most of you, I’m not an English teacher and it's a challenge for me because I must improve my English like students!
I think it’s very important -and especially today- to work together in a “European mind” for the teachers and the students.

For this project, Claudine and I have insisted on the necessity for the students to quote their sources and to put the copyright of the pictures. It was not easy, but it was certainly useful for a lot of them and we must pursue next year in this way.

This was also a great experience for our students to work with an international team, to learn how they can collaborate with others, share their ideas, organize their arguments and manage to agree together!
I’m very interested in the web radio project because the students can try another way to collaborate together. I think that this media could help them to make more personal common work.

Have a nice summer and see you next year!

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ISABELLA FROM LICEO ANGUISSOLA SECONDARY SCHOOL, ITALY

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ISABELLA FROM LICEO ANGUISSOLA SECONDARY SCHOOL, ITALY

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This is our third year and how incredibly we moved forward in this amazing project, exchanging ideas, plans, learning from each other sharing joyful moments as "winners".
I think what made our work so special this year was the coming of new teachers who gave their personal support and contribution and - as students pointed out in their acrostics - TEAMWORK for both teachers and pupils.
What was also remarkable  was the introduction of the FOOD FOR THOUGHT section and the related reactions students wrote in the forums. They had the opportunity to share and reflect over the terrorist attacks and to learn a lot about street art.
We also enriched this 2016 project in spaces where they could express their opinion and INTERACT by voting the favourite cover or article, evaluating their participation in progress and in the final part of the project and by discussing their ideas about the articles.
But I absolutely agree that the most challenging task was to make them respect the rules about copyright !!! but really worthwhile and pushing them to use their own images or creating their own videos.

Plans for next year are hard to figure out because I have been assigned to another school and totally different classes, but I will be happy to work again with all the colleagues if possible, following their new ideas and focusing more on SPEAKING skills than writing.
Thanks for being always available, competent and hardworking !!!!

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SANDRA FROM GOETHE SECONDARY SCHOOL, GERMANY

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SANDRA FROM GOETHE SECONDARY SCHOOL, GERMANY

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It was the first year I collaborated in this project and I was overwhelmed by how we were welcomed with open arms and by how intense everybody's contribution was. We teachers all believe in the same European spirit which makes this project so unique!

What I enjoyed most was the communication between all of us, teachers, tutors and students. I would like to say special thanks to the tutors whose help was essential to the students. Their support helped our students to maintain their focus on the work process throughout the year.

The respect for copyright and the quoting of sources was a challenge to many students and has taught them a more careful usage of the world wide web, especially with regard to their own publications.
The result is two brilliant magazines with topics that matter! This proves our teenage students have turned more into mature and critically thinking personalities who show that they have opinions!

Another way of expressing their thoughts could indeed be a radio station, making them even more conscious of spoken words and their oral skills. Many young people nowadays are not used anymore to verbal communication, having been spoilt by chats, messengers and texting, so a radio program could help to express themselves. I have worked with digital audio editing before at our school and can imagine to include it into next year's project.

Thank you for a great year full of new inspiration!!! I am looking forward to working with you again!

Have a fantastic SUMMER!

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YOLANDA FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL, SPAIN

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YOLANDA FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL, SPAIN

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This is my second school-year working with you. I am very happy with new elements in our Project Interacteen, because we are trusting more in our students above all in their abilities to be European responsible citizens. I was controlling tutors. It was a very good idea that we must improve. They have done a hard job this year. Besides to create articles and covers, they have decided how they wanted to express their feelings using  forums and padlets. We only helped them to open their minds using cooperative tools and to be polite. I have learnt from them we are living a new world where we can believe in them.
I want to show gratitute to Jesus, Carmen, Claudine and all members of this great team. Next year we are preparing new challenges as you can read in other posts. I will contribute from my Music classes. I hope next Project will be better than this.
Good summer and see you soon.

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JESÚS FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL, SPAIN

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JESÚS FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL, SPAIN

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In general terms, satified with the overall result of the project. Students contributed very interesting ideas and concepts, working together and making important decisions when it was needed. The support of older students was vital to the project, as they were the first to detect mistakes to be corrected, and design challenges to be amended. The cooperative tools such as google docs and madmagz worked wonderfully with the international teams, and they should be mantained for next projects. Room for improvement can be found on communication and integration of mixed media. As my partners comment, the development of a project such a radio station or a video channel can allow students to work on oral skills and improve their digital literacy. Content creation could be also encouraged, as some CC sources feel somewhat lacking.
To sum up, thanks everyone for the wonderful support. I hope that you truly enjoy the holidays that you deserve, and hope to work with you next year.

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CLAUDINE FROM MICHELET HIGH SCHOOL, FRANCE

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CLAUDINE FROM MICHELET HIGH SCHOOL, FRANCE

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This was the third school-year I took part in this project and I enjoyed it as much as ever. What I appreciate is the fact we really manage to work as a real team of teachers,  as we share the same vision of our job and all of us contribute with our ideas, which are usually complementary. Which is why, I believe, we managed to guide our students in collaborating in international teams successfully as well, even if this is quite a demanding task. I particularly enjoy the cross-curricular dimension of the project and working together with my colleague Aurélie within the school, as I think it is really a big plus for the project.

This year for the first time teamwork was enhanced by the contribution of some Spanish senior students working as tutors, guiding and advising the teams - I think we should renew this experience as it was particularly enriching.

I find it particularly noteworthy that among the key-words the students chose to describe and assess their experience  (page 14) the 4 words that were chosen the most were creative, teamwork and interesting/original: if the project could help the students develop their creative skills, teach them to collaborate in teams, and engage them, then I feel it was a useful worthwhile project!

This year we tried to insist more on digital literacy skills, teaching our students to respect copyright and quote their sources for example, which is quite a challenge as most of our students are quite confident using digital tools but not always competent. So I feel we must keep working on this aspect and find more teaching strategies to help them develop more their critical thinking and media literacy skills.

To do so, it would also be interesting to work on other types of media productions too, such as a web-radio. This would require working on new tools and new skills (radio formats, speaking skills, audio editing, etc.) while keeping working on media literacy and citizenship in a collaborative way. This is a project I have been trying to develop in my school lately and eTwinning would be a great tool to do so. Another idea would be for us (in France) to use more the resources of the CLEMI.

Thank you for this awesome collaboration, and have a great relaxing summer holiday!

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CARMEN FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL, SPAIN

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CARMEN FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL, SPAIN

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What really worked this year in our project has been the collaborative work in the international teams and among teachers. Students planned and organised articles better. They were also more concerned about the use of free copyright materials. The support of older students working as tutors has been very useful in the organisation and respect for authors' right.

For next year we should engage students more not only in the process, which they did this year, but in the result of our project. So they have more time to enjoy what they have done together. We should improve oral skills too. For next project, I suggest the creation of a radio station where every international team can be in charge of a different programme (music, literature, sports, international news, entertainment, gastronomy, etc) creating the logo, theme music and contents. We could include both written articles and audio podcasts  using the tool Madmagz in order to improve oral and written skills.
Now it is time for holidays!

Thanks for sharing your time, effort, resources and ideas with us!!!  Nice summer and see you next year!!!