Irina Chapodze/ Kutaisi Public School N45

https://youtu.be/Y56SZX5uRpU

https://youtu.be/Ai_HRMCnt00

2. Explanation of the meanings of mythological symbols

3. Reading Georgian myths in sign language and creating a video clip for foreign peers:

https://youtu.be/PCEMBiWs00o

https://youtu.be/Hlq6V7uYbVU

https://youtu.be/boNu83-xJX0

4. Reading adapted Turkish myths in sign language.

https://youtu.be/EIhncHvAfuM

https://youtu.be/wNl15XOEqR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNvkfRkh50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-hYdihOEqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oy2D-9crSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yY6ckVo9OU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeeNfVI0_TU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8wsDyI7gY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciwRea9J4Ng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWZSBBsgac&t=60s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHY7mmJYyyY&t=53s

 2. A fun task:
Pupils worked in the Canva digital editor and created a video: "Traveling through time and space". It is a meeting of Romanian, Polish and Turkish mythological heroes to help Amiran, who is chained to the Caucasus Mountains

https://youtu.be/WT8-wztWiu4

3.  Pupils completed the quiz created in Learnings.app: "Identify mythological characters by nationality".

https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pof5k316a24

4.On the occasion of International Book Day on April 23, expressing a poetic attitude towards a book and creating a stanza by the group.

https://zumpad.zum.de/p/yqDFfaSwCO4_tAg2I-9w

5.Selecting one joke from Turkish comedian Nasreddin Hoxha's work and creating a video clip to create a common collage

https://youtu.be/Li-NZ2eAAng

"Who gives the money blows the whistle"

Smeeni Secondary School, Rodica Moldoveanu, Adriana Radu

Description

We did a survey to find out the winning logo.

The project "Whispering Myths and Stories" made a great contribution to improving the critical thinking of deaf students.

"Whispering of Myths and Stories" was  a project focused on multifaceted development of pupils.

This project was also one of the best opportunities to improve media literacy and critical thinking among hearing impaired pupils, because reading and analyzing myths required the activation of higher thinking skills.

According to the educational principles of media literacy, I selected some myths from Georgian, Turkish, Polish and Romanian myths and offered the students their adapted version to read in sign language.  At the same time, I searched the Internet and showed the pupils animations based on these myths in order to make the mythological narratives and symbols more visible through multimedia resources.

In the next step, using media literacy research questions, I conducted an interactive dialogue to analyze the strange stories and symbols in the myths.

Turkish mythology is rich in symbols, for example Ulukain is the tree of life , that connects heaven and earth; Asena the wolf represents leadership, protection and strength.

By looking at the details (tree roots, trunk and branches reaching towards the sky; wolf lifestyle-leadership and hierarchy) I helped them to recognize the meanings of these symbols.

My goal was for the children to express their assumptions and discuss their opinions.

Myths often contain moral dilemmas and challenges that characters face. Discussing these situations helped pupils  to solve problems and make ethical decisions.

One of the tasks of the project was to choose the desired joke from the works of Nasreddin Hoxha, role-play and create media content in which morality would be presented in a funny way.

This activity is related to the creative aspect of media literacy. Pupils had to use techniques that affect the audience emotionally, such as non-verbal communication, facial expressions, costume of the characters, the background, the text of the dialogue and the indirect ideological message - "Treat others as you would like to be treated", which should make the audience think.

I would like to point out that reading, interpreting and role-playing myths within the eTwinning project really provided valuable opportunities for pupils to improve their media literacy, creative and critical thinking skills.