eTwinning “ S.O.S.: Save Our Sea” - Part 7

 

May was a month of intense activity, as we worked on our final products.

We began by compiling a poetic anthology featuring various types of short poems, either celebrating the beauty of the Mediterranean or highlighting some of its problems. To achieve this, we worked in transnational teams, with each school tasked with illustrating poems from the other countries according to the students’ interpretations.

Look at our worksheet, which we shared among all partners:

Poems about the Mediterranean - Worksheet από Theofani Iatropoulou

Read the complete anthology below:

Read this book made on StoryJumper

We also created a virtual exhibition of students’ artworks, created under the guidance of our art teacher, using “treasures” from the beaches, such as shells, pebbles, sticks, and even plastic bottle caps, as a form of upcycling. The goal was to showcase the beauty of our sea.

Visit the complete exhibition below.

Browse the exhibition catalogue below.

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/d8345705d9.html

In addition, we co-authored a transnational story-fairytale about the Mediterranean, aiming to highlight its issues and inspire people to take action. This story was illustrated with the help of Artificial Intelligence tools, with learners providing appropriate prompts.

Eventually it was turned into a video, narrated by AI.

You can watch it by clicking on the link below:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGqgMq3X7M/XaXQe5GMFNcQ7uyqB-XQpw/watch

We also held our final online meeting. After the usual greetings, each school sang two songs about the sea or its islands in their mother tongue, offering students a rich experience of cultural exchange and multilingualism. The excitement was palpable, and we said goodbye in an atmosphere full of joy. 

The songs were recorded, and videos were made with English subtitles so that everyone could understand and enjoy them. You can have access to them below:

The eTwinning project showed us what we can achieve when we collaborate, share, and dream together. Even though it has ended, it has left a deep impression on all of us. After all, every ending is simply the beginning of a new creative adventure!

Flip through the memory book of the eTwinning program “S.O.S.: Save Our Sea” by clicking the link below:

SOS Save Our Sea

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

read.bookcreator.com

eTwinning “Do you need me? Because I need you” – Part 7

 

May was a month bursting with creativity, filled with a wide range of collaborative activities that brought learning and imagination together reflected in our final products!

Forming transnational teams with our partner schools, we created a collaborative storybook about pets: one school would generate an image using Artificial Intelligence, and a school from another country would write a story inspired by it.

We also wrote acrostic poems about pets - in transnational teams again - in another shared book, with each school starting an acrostic, which was in turn completed by another, demonstrating true teamwork across borders! 

 

A further activity involved participation in Code Week, during which we took part in pixel art activities that encouraged computational thinking. Students had to crack the code in order to reveal the pet hidden in each design.

Another highlight, which was the culminating product, was the creation of transnational “TV interview with a pet.” Students from one country posed the questions, while their peers from another provided the answers according to a set schedule that specified the transnational groups. At the same time, AI-generated images were created by the learners through provision of proper prompts in order to illustrate the interview. Finally, we recorded the voices of students from the participating schools and turned the whole project into a video. You can watch the video of the interview below:

To wrap things up, we reflected on our experiences i and everything we had achieved during this project and carried out an evaluation through online questionnaires.

Although our eTwinning journey has now come to an end, the experiences, friendships, and bridges of collaboration we have built will stay with us for a long time. We will carry with us the smiles, the knowledge we have gained, the creativity we have shared, and above all, the belief that learning knows no borders.