fourth MobIlIty to MAZEIKIAI, LITHUANIA
The students’ exchange held in Lithuania took place from 23rd-27th April 2018. Each partner prepared for workshops: made the draft of ETWINET book on Google Docs, studied about local arts, literature, music, selected the most representative images of local artworks with short info about artists, students wrote and translated texts into English;collected statistics about economy, employment/unemployment in their countries, made presentations at school and used this material in ETWINET ebook; created SCRATCH study games and uploaded the best of them on Edmodo; made videos giving advice about healthy/unhealthy lifestyles for the workshop “I do my first application”; registered on code.org; collected photos and short information about all mobilities, created scenes for a play “Hope for Europe” and presented scripts in ebook. Lithuanian partner created links between these scenes, a script for the beginning and ending of the play. All videos were filmed in partners’ countries and sent to Lithuania as mp4 files. The main objectives of this mobility were to continue collaboration, learn from each other by face to face, use English in real environment, gain European dimension, handle the technological challenges and bring previous study experiences of 21st century digital competences with 2.0 tools. We continued pursuing the achievement of project goals and accomplished the following activities:
A9: the "EntrepneursTWINET" activity: developing the critical thinking through debate about economy, employment and unemployment in European countries. Students discussed the information about economy, unemployment and employment levels in their countries. Then each team presented these facts and leaflets, made the conclusion about the economy in their countries. To measure the impact of project activities, students did the quiz about economy terms in English: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ad1e10300e91d001930d1d0. The results proved the effectiveness of project activities;
A10: “I do my first ETWINET App”: learning code.org. Participants learnt how to use code.org and 20 coding steps to make the object move; every participant received the Certificate;
A11: Creation of the "ETWINET" book: we finished the layout of the digital version of ETWINET book and edited the last chapter;
A11: There was a workshop “The use of different web 2.0 tools, such as Canva, Calameo or Joomag etc.” for designing the ETWINET ebook, making posters, leaflets about project activities;
A12: Scratch,Robotics. There were the workshops “Making a short Scratch story” led by the Italian partner and “Robotics” led by Turkish partners. Students learnt to choose, create and resize the Sprite, change background, use motion blocks, control and presentation modes. SCRATCH stories were uploaded on EDMODO platform and presented to all participants; students programmed some steps for making robots move and did some practise with them;
A14: We filmed the beginning, linking and ending parts of the common play “Hope for Europe. The filmed scenes were introduced. The final version was to be mounted in Italy and sent to all partners using wetransfer.com;
ETWINET Language Workshop was led by school students: partners learnt the basic vocabulary of the Lithuanian language;
There were sightseeing tours presented the historical and cultural context of Lithuania. There were trips to the Cold War Museum in Plateliai and the Hill of Crosses to give the partners a sample of culture and history, and show the most beautiful places in Šiauliai and Klaipeda with its marine atmosphere of the Baltic region.
Project coordinators discussed planned activities, the questionnaires evaluating Lithuanian mobility and the project impact on our communities, signed documentations, stated the dates and agreed about the completion of project websites, eTwinning-TwinSpace and about the last transnational meeting in Turkey set from the 4th to 5th June.
Workshops: “Making a traditional Lithuanian wooden dool”,“The Tree of Life in Lithuanian art”, “Modern art: Fractals. Scratching” were arranged to take a breath of Lithuanian art and culture. Partners assisted by Lithuanian students made a wooden doll, a traditional in the past toy; decorated frames with the Tree of Life.
To create a friendly atmosphere we arranged a welcoming concert, teambuilding games, student-guided tour around school. Project dissemination was provided by collaboration with our social partners: local TV “Roventa”, newspaper “Būdas Žemaičių”, the representative of the member of Lithuanian Parliament, the member of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Mažeikiai, the Vice Mayor of Mažeikiai council, the Head and the senior inspector of Educational Department of Mažeikiai, the Priest at St. Pranciškus Asyžiečius church participated in welcoming events at school, there was also the meeting with the Vice-Mayer and the Head of the Educational Department of Mažeikiai at the Town Hall of Mažeikiai.
A9: the "EntrepneursTWINET" activity: developing the critical thinking through debate about economy, employment and unemployment in European countries. Students discussed the information about economy, unemployment and employment levels in their countries. Then each team presented these facts and leaflets, made the conclusion about the economy in their countries. To measure the impact of project activities, students did the quiz about economy terms in English: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ad1e10300e91d001930d1d0. The results proved the effectiveness of project activities;
A10: “I do my first ETWINET App”: learning code.org. Participants learnt how to use code.org and 20 coding steps to make the object move; every participant received the Certificate;
A11: Creation of the "ETWINET" book: we finished the layout of the digital version of ETWINET book and edited the last chapter;
A11: There was a workshop “The use of different web 2.0 tools, such as Canva, Calameo or Joomag etc.” for designing the ETWINET ebook, making posters, leaflets about project activities;
A12: Scratch,Robotics. There were the workshops “Making a short Scratch story” led by the Italian partner and “Robotics” led by Turkish partners. Students learnt to choose, create and resize the Sprite, change background, use motion blocks, control and presentation modes. SCRATCH stories were uploaded on EDMODO platform and presented to all participants; students programmed some steps for making robots move and did some practise with them;
A14: We filmed the beginning, linking and ending parts of the common play “Hope for Europe. The filmed scenes were introduced. The final version was to be mounted in Italy and sent to all partners using wetransfer.com;
ETWINET Language Workshop was led by school students: partners learnt the basic vocabulary of the Lithuanian language;
There were sightseeing tours presented the historical and cultural context of Lithuania. There were trips to the Cold War Museum in Plateliai and the Hill of Crosses to give the partners a sample of culture and history, and show the most beautiful places in Šiauliai and Klaipeda with its marine atmosphere of the Baltic region.
Project coordinators discussed planned activities, the questionnaires evaluating Lithuanian mobility and the project impact on our communities, signed documentations, stated the dates and agreed about the completion of project websites, eTwinning-TwinSpace and about the last transnational meeting in Turkey set from the 4th to 5th June.
Workshops: “Making a traditional Lithuanian wooden dool”,“The Tree of Life in Lithuanian art”, “Modern art: Fractals. Scratching” were arranged to take a breath of Lithuanian art and culture. Partners assisted by Lithuanian students made a wooden doll, a traditional in the past toy; decorated frames with the Tree of Life.
To create a friendly atmosphere we arranged a welcoming concert, teambuilding games, student-guided tour around school. Project dissemination was provided by collaboration with our social partners: local TV “Roventa”, newspaper “Būdas Žemaičių”, the representative of the member of Lithuanian Parliament, the member of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Mažeikiai, the Vice Mayor of Mažeikiai council, the Head and the senior inspector of Educational Department of Mažeikiai, the Priest at St. Pranciškus Asyžiečius church participated in welcoming events at school, there was also the meeting with the Vice-Mayer and the Head of the Educational Department of Mažeikiai at the Town Hall of Mažeikiai.