This eTwinning project involves elementary school students ages 10-12 from Turkey, Romania, Italy, Greece, and Romania. Over the course of 6 months, the students will learn about each other's customs and traditions by creating and sharing presentations, videos, photos, and other materials using ICT tools like PowerPoint, YouTube, and Skype. The goals are to improve the students' English, ICT skills, and pride in their own traditions while learning about other cultures.

1. eTwinning project plan Age of the pupils: 10 to 12 Used language: English Duration: 6 months School type: elementary Details: Teachers from Group 10 in e-Twinning Learning Lab - Exploiting Web 2.0 10: Ayça Oğuz (Turkey); Ana Tudor (Romania); Colaiuda Cinzia (Italy); Pinel Paraskevas (Greece); Iuliana B ă la ş a (Romania) Partners: Our Customs and Traditions Name of the project:

2. eTwinning project plan PowerPoint presentations, slides of photos, Word documents, Webcam, slideshare, videos through Youtube, messenger, skype, etc. ICT tools: The goals of our project are: to motivate our pupils working harder, improve their English and ICT skills, to keep their traditions and to be proud of them. Goals: This is a project about the customs and traditions in our countries. We will try to show to each other what beautiful customs we have. In this way, we have the chance to see the similarities and the differences between our countries, to link a nice friendship. Short description:

3. eTwinning project plan the work in groups of students; the work in groups of teachers; the mixed groups; communication by e-mail creating PowerPoints, slides, videos, pictures, drawings and finally common posters Working methods: The aims of this project is to contribute to improving our pupils’ skills, to know the real face of Europe and to understand the importance of keeping traditions. They will be more involved in activities, willing to share and learn. Pedagogical basis:

4. e-Twinning project timetable The project team of each country * Using PowerPoint presentations , movies, slide pictures, digital photos , slideshares, slide pictures, Trilulilu program, etc. Month 2 Teachers and students of our partner schools Sending e-mails and introductions in Word or PowerPoint in order to know better our partners and their schools Cooperating using known ICT skills Month 1 Responsible person(s) Task description – tools to be used Time/ period

5. e-Twinning project timetable The students of each partner country - Presentations through photos, Animoto, Jigsaw, Slidecom, Google of old customs and how we try to keep them along the centuries Month 4 The coordinator of the project in each school - Describing the most known traditions in our countries by using Teacher Tube Video, Slide Share, Blogger, Word documents, Paint Month 3

6. e-Twinning project timetable The headmaster from each school and the project coordinators Feedback, Evaluation, Awarding Prizes and Certificates Month 6 Teachers and students from our schools Talking about traditions similar to our countries Sharing news about traditions spent in our schools using different tools Month 5