This document summarizes the 7-year eTwinning partnership between kindergartens in Greece and Latvia. Over the course of their collaboration, they completed several projects focused on topics like the environment, art, safety online, and learning English. Their work included creating online stories, videos, blogs, and virtual exhibitions. Throughout, they emphasized clear communication, setting deadlines, flexibility, and making the projects fun for students. This long-term partnership demonstrated how eTwinning can be an effective new approach to teaching and learning across borders.

1. Kindergarten of Mežmaliņa

2. K I S S
Keep It Sort and Simple
Clear & Flexible
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3. Good Communication
• Exchange : 1-2 emails addresses, tel, fax,etc
• Always reply to messages, even in a short respond
• Be aware of cultural differences
• Netiquette : your partner read only just a text and
has to be clear and kind
• If something upset you, don’t react immediately
give a second thought
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4. Set deadlines and keep to them
• Set deadlines and stick to them
• Agree on the tools to be used to avoid
frustrations ( e.g a web conference without
suitable Internet connection)
• Flexibility is a must but first we can be able
to trust each other and this takes time
• Invest time to build a mutual understanding –
is the basis for the best cooperation
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5. Don’t afraid to Ask!
• Regular e-mail contact
• Support each others work in a good way
• Choose the appropriate
work-rhythms for the involved classes
• Enjoy the procedure of the whole
project because this new pedagogy
has to be FUN.
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6. Our 7 years eTwinning adventure!
Year 1: 2005 –2006, LEDILEO -I-
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7. KISS: Keep It Short Simple ..and Flexible
1 year project
• We planned our activities into 3 terms
• So that it became Short, Simple and Flexible
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8. To learn: how to learn from each other
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9. Year 2: 2006 –2007, LEDILEO II
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10. Learning from our ‘mistakes’
• We set more realistic targets for our young
students
• We experienced what they are able to do and
what not
• We learned how to listen more carefully
students needs and suggestions
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11. Year 3: 2007 –2008,
‘Travelling with our e-story’
Kindergarten of Mežmaliņa
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12. 9 Kindergartens .. 1 e-story
• ONE οn-line story:
the synthesis as much
as many pupils ideas.
• Our concept: the
following Key words:
• Equality, Friendship, Freedom, Love, Loyalty,
Brotherhood, Kindness, Tolerance, having
common characters, a Kid with a Dog.
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13. New web 2.0: Blog & Wiki
Wikispace: Presentation of the Project
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14. Blog: How students worked
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15. Year 4: 2008 –2009 IT’S UP 2U
• Good use of Web 2.0 with the creation video
Clay Animations, concerning the eco-issues we
face today LATVIA
GREECE
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16. Wikispace: 9 GREEN IDEAS
What we have planned .. What we have done
• 1. PRECYCLING by taking a little action before
• 2. SAVE ENERGY turn off .. the lights – the tap
• 3. OBSERVE THE PHENOMENA make and exchange data
• 4. PLANT A TREE… at school and care of it
• 5. RECYCLE BOOKS .. sending them to your partners
• 6. CHOOSE AN INDOOR PLANT observe its phases
• 7. REDUCE THE USE OF PAPER AT SCHOOL make a craft
• 8. SING A SONG about environment and make a VOKI
• 9. MAKE AN ECO-BROCHURE to disseminate
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17. Blog: Eco4kids
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18. Year 5: 2009 –2010 e-S@fe acting
• Students learn through cross curricula ways how to
use and behave on the Internet with safety, making right
options.
Resources : Videos - Games- Crafts- Good practices
Mascots: one4each
Safe Tips: from kids to kids
Safe Stories: ‘Antivirus’ ‘Privacy’ ‘Safe Pages’
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19. Glogster: Alphabet in synergy
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20. This Project:
• Was a necessity for our schools after 5 ICT
years
• Was the outcome of listening our Students
needs and their parents concerns
• Was the ‘navigator’ to our the future plans
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21. Year 6: 2010 –2011 Act-in-Art
• 5 Kindergartens learn about 5artists and co-create 5 traveling canvases.
KLEE
KLIMT
MONET
PICASSO
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22. How we worked?
KLEE
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23. Visual Biography
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24. Extra activities
Timeline
Picasso outdoor
Klee on the window
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25. Exchange students’ artworks
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26. Virtual Museum
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27. Sites we used
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28. Year 7: 2011 –2012
P.A.L.E Play and Learn English
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29. 5 Kindergartens 7 years e-Twinners
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30. 1rst term: Play & Learn English
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31. 2nd term: Skype: Share the knowledge
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32. 3rd term: collaboration with Interaction
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33. Project Evaluation
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34. Project Dissemination
INSAFE EUROPEAN COMPETITION
1RST NATIONAL PRIZE in LATVIAETWINNING CONFERENCE
LANGUAGE LABEL ‘12
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35. eTwinning is the new pedagogy!
Anna Karidi Pirounaki -Greece
http://playle.wikispaces.com/