Curricular integration of the eTwinning project “Renewing European Values for Social Inclusion and Democratic Citizenship under the Auspices of eTwinning and Erasmus+ Programmes” (2020-2022)

In January 2022, 32 students involved in the eTwinning project “Renewing European Values for Social Inclusion and Democratic Citizenship under the Auspices of eTwinning and Erasmus+ Programmes” (2020-2022) created-together with their teacher of English-a virtual travel guide of Europe. 

The main aims of the project activity were:

- to encourage autonomous multimedia learning (research, gathering and selection of information, problem-solving, comparative and collaborative work etc.);

- to enable the project participants to actively involve in the process of creating a multimedia product;

- to develop the students' key competences (their linguistic, learning-to-learn, digital competences etc.) as well as their oral presentation skills;

- to provide an opportunity for a class of Romanian 11th graders (the Humanities profile) to create a teaching and learning resource for the other schools involved in the project to be used during their English classes;

- to share information about Europe that may be relevant not only for tourist purposes, but also for improving knowledge and communication skills in English;

- to promote cultural diversity and European heritage;

- to foster interaction, student engagement with each other and the content they shared;

- to apply the Multimedia Principle which states that we learn better from words and pictures than from words alone;

- to put technology (Canva, Google Meet, PowerPoint, Video apps etc.) to good use and create accessible copyright compliant and reader-friendly materials.

The teacher of English invited each student to create a poster including travel information about a European country of their choice, similar to the one selected for the poster below, created by the teacher, using either Canva or PowerPoint:

The students created their own posters and then they presented their work in class, answering questions asked by the English teacher and sharing feedback and suggestions. Their work was finally graded and their posters became a virtual travel guide which was shared with the other project partners to be used as a teaching and learning resource and an example of good practices. The final results were also shared on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pOpdrNZUC7s.

The activities were also consistent with the requirements of the National Curriculum for English language teaching in terms of specific competences, communicative functions, attitudes and values.