This document summarizes an eTwinning project between a nursery school in Milan, Italy and a nursery school in Xixón, Spain. The project aims to promote reading in Europe through a children's campaign and collaborative creative writing workshops. Teachers and students from both schools will work together online over the 2010-2011 school year sharing ideas, resources, and methods to encourage reading. The objectives are to enhance teaching practices, promote language learning, use technology for collaboration, and exchange experiences around children's literature and reading.

1. eTwinning Proyect – Course 2010/2011
Milano, Italy)
Scuola dell’Infanzia Opera (Noverasco di Opera, Milano, Italy)
Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Tremañes (Xixón, Asturies, Spain)
Spain)
Europe: Reading is also the Future
Title:
itle: Europa: La Lettura è anche il Futuro
Europa: La Lectura también es el Futuro
Logo:

2. Scuola dell’Infanzia Opera
– Noverasco di Opera Country:
Country: Italy
(Milano)
schools:
Participating schools:
Colegio de Educación
Infantil y Primaria Spain
Country:
Country:
Tremañes – Xixón
(Asturies)
Participating Tiziana Cippitelli Nursery school teacher - 5 years
teachers: Scuola dell’Infanzia Opera – e-mail:
Noverasco di Opera (Milano) tiziana.cippi@tiscali.it
Nursery school teacher - 4 years
Valeria Giacomelli e-mail:
Scuola dell’Infanzia Opera –
valeria.giacomelli@yahoo.it
Noverasco di Opera (Milano)
Emily Lewis English Teacher
Scuola dell’Infanzia Opera – e-mail:
Noverasco di Opera (Milano) emily_lewis21@hotmail.com
Graciela Peña Suárez Music Teacher
CEIP Tremañes – Xixón e-mail:
(Asturies) gracielapf@educastur.princast.es
Mª Luz Pérez Rodríguez Nursery support teacher
CEIP Tremañes – Xixón e-mail:
(Asturies)
luz1970@hotmail.com
Lucía Prida Cueto English Teacher
CEIP Tremañes – Xixón e-mail:
(Asturies) luciao@educastur.princast.es
Patrizia Ruggeri Nursery school teacher - 5 years
Scuola dell’Infanzia Opera – e-mail:
Noverasco di Opera (Milano) patrizia.ruggeri@yahoo.it

3. Nursery school teacher - 4 years
Mariano Suárez Rodríguez e-mail:
CEIP Temañes – Xixón (Asturies)
marianoar@educastur.princast.es
Mª Teresa Vicente Loredo Nursery school teacher - 5 years
CEIP Tremañes – Xixón e-mail:
(Asturies) mayvic@hotmail.es
Duration:
Duration:
tion September 2010 to July 2011
• Scuola dell'Infanzia Opera – 4 years
classroom (20 children) and 5 years
classroom (20 children) of Nursery
school.
Second Cycle of
Courses:
ourses: Nursery Age:
Age: • CEIP Tremañes - 4 years classroom
(16 children), 5 years classroom (13
children) of Nursery. Musical
collaboration with the class of 6th
year of Primary Education (10
children).
• English
languages:
Proyect languages: • Spanish
• Italian
• Project for the creation of a children's campaign in order to
topic:
Proyect topic: encourage reading in the European and collaborative
development of a creative writing workshop.
The eTwinning project attempts to link the main symbols of the
European Union1 (flag, anthem and motto) with the ideas of reading and
future of the European project.
Promotion
Promotion of The European Union flag2 has been an inspiration to create the logo of
European dimension: the project, in which the twelve official stars are replaced by yellow
figures of a girl who reads.
The European Union anthem3 is played with flute by a group of students
of the 6th year of Primary Education, with accompaniment to the videos
of their younger colleagues.
1
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/index_es.htm
2
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/emblem/download_es.htm

4. Also, the motto of the European Union4 ("United in diversity") has
influenced on the conception of this project, this motto expresses how
the diversity of cultures, traditions and languages of Europe is its
greatest asset. And, as you have seen below, inspired the choice of the
phrase that encapsulates the philosophy of this eTwinning project,
reading relating to the recognition of the value of diversity and collective
future guarantees.
"WE ARE READING THROUGH ALL CONTEMPORARY MEN AND
CITIZENS OF ALL COUNTRIES"
[Ode, XV, à l'Académie française]
Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731), french writer and playwright.
The philosophy of our
project in one
sentence:
sentence:
There are various ways for the citizens of Europe to feel part of the same
future. But we are convinced that one of these clear, direct, rewarding,
inspiring, engaging and liberating roads is reading. And the children of
our schools, book lovers and school library lovers are the best
representatives of that message with this eTwinning project:
Europe: Reading is also the Future.
Europa: La Lettura è anche il Futuro.
Europa: La Lectura también es el Futuro.
description:
Proyect description:
3
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/anthem/index_es.htm
4
http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/motto/index_es.htm

5. • Type of e-Twinning project: Twinning of two schools, nine
teachers, four groups of students of Nursery Education and a
group of students of the 6th of Primary Education.
• Two schools with Nursery students and the musical collaboration
of the 6th year of Primary Education, cooperate in the design and
creation of a children's campaign to encourage reading in Europe,
the development of a collaborative, creative and literary
workshop and the maintenance of a blog about books for
children. Both schools share their friendship and exchange ideas,
creations, resources and methods, using the Information,
Communication and Technology. The students interact around
reading, creative writing and ICT.
• Work to enhance the teaching-learning processes themselves
aware of developments in other European schools.
• Become familiar with the use of other European languages,
getting the primacy of the exchange of information and
education about language barriers.
• Use Information Communication and Technologies in the
teaching-learning processes, as well as school collaboration and
educational exchange.
• Encourage interdisciplinary work of teacher teams and
collaboration of students of different ages in achieving shared
goals.
• Exchange experiences, knowledge and educational resources
related to children's literature, the initiation literate, the school
Objectives:
Objectives: library and encourage reading.
• Promote self-esteem in our students through belief in the
creative potential of their ideas and their social utility.
• Strengthen the role of literature, books and reading in the range
of interests and values of our students.
• Provide new experiences to our students in order to expand their
literary creative skills.
• Helping our students to know the cultural and linguistic diversity
of Europe and everything European people have in common.
• Expand and strengthen the positive attitudes of our educational
communities to the book and reading.
• Continue to blog "We talk about Children's Literature - Hablamos
de Literatura Infantil – Parliamo di Literatura Infantile"
(http://infantiltremanes.wordpress.com).
• Design and creation of a children's campaign to encourage
Content
Contents: reading at the European level.
• Development of a collaborative, creative and literary writing
workshop.

6. • Maintaining the blog "We talk about Children's Literature –
Hablamos de Literatura Infantil – Parliamo di Literatura Infantile"
(http://infantiltremanes.wordpress.com).
PHASE 1
Project design and negotiation, the drafting of its programming.
Presentation of students and teachers involved in the project.
Activities:
Activities
Groups of children are established correspondents across classrooms in
the same age:
• Each of the 13 children of 5 years of Tremañes is assigned a
correspondent or two of the 20 children of the same age in
Noverasco.
• Each of the 16 children of 4 years of Tremañes is assigned to a
correspondent or two of the 20 children of the same age in
Noverasco.
The presentation work will consist of photo sharing, PowerPoint
presentations, videos or games presentation. Each school will decide the
way to report.
Using a video-chat program (Windows Live Messenger, Skype or similar),
the children will take a virtual meeting with correspondents filing their
age.
Activities:
Activities:
ties In the TwinSpace folders will be created for each pair or small group of
correspondents, as a virtual classroom. In those folders are arranged
materials generated by students in order to introduce themselves to
their correspondents.
PHASE 2
Exchange of a gift package.
Activities:
Exchange, by mail, a package of surprise gifts for reporters. The package
will contain sweets and a bookmark for each child.
PHASE 3
3.1. Development of the advertising campaign for reading in
Europe.
3.2. Collaborative writing of a story.
Activities:
Activities
3.1. Development of the advertising campaign for reading in Europe
Children will develop this part of the project in collaboration with fellow

7. correspondents who have been assigned, forming thus couples or small
groups.
Each child will decide a reason why it's important to read or a reason
why he enjoys the books, expressing it in a short sentence. If two
children share the same correspondent, the two together will decide a
sentence.
Each child will send your idea about reading and your photo to its
correspondent or correspondents. So in each school will work with the
ideas of the correspondents, so accustomed to using the ideas of others,
respected, valued and caregivers.
Each idea will be prepared with two tasks:
First task:
There will be a small sign photo with each child and the idea of his/her
correspondent, photographing each one while holding in his/her hands
the picture of his/her correspondent. A comic balloon will be addedto
the photos with the text of the idea of the correspondent. At the
discretion of teachers, children may participate as their literate
capacities in the writing of texts. All posters will have an agreed format
(size, titles, logos ...). These posters will be published as image files in
JPEG format will be three versions of each, with texts in English, Italian
and Spanish.
Second task:
Some interventions will be videotaped exposing the idea of the
correspondents, while holding in hand his/her photographs. Criteria will
be agreed upon in advance minimum technical and aesthetic
development of these videos. Children will have a European symbol in
their hands (eTwinning logo, yellow stars representing the European flag
...) or a background of European flag. Each school will record the videos
in your language (Spanish or Italian) and all will be subtitled in English.
As the music video, the students of 6th year of Primary Education from
Tremañes School will interprete with flute the "Ode to Joy", recognized
as the anthem of the European Union since 1972. This piece is the last
movement of the Ninth Symphony composed in 1823 by Ludwig van
Beethoven playing music to the poem "Ode to Joy" written by Friedrich
von Schiller in 1785 and expressing the idealistic vision of humankind as
brothers.
3.2. Collaborative writing of a story
First task:
Each class will work with the classroom correspondent of the same age
to write a story together. To do so we will practice creative technique
known as "Bit-tales." It consists of having 112 suggestive images (33
characters, 18 views, 8 animals, 10 vehicles, 43 different everyday
objects). Of those images have to choose between the two classes

8. correspondents, 2 figures, 1 landscape, 1 animal, 1 car and 2 objects.
These 7 selected images must appear in the storyline. A class begins the
story and sends to his correspondents, it continues and returns it, the
class that the story began preparing two alternate endings and the other
class decides on the final and proposed a title for the story.
Second task:
Each school children draw the story. In his drawings he writes the text
with a computer, doing an Italian version and a version in Spanish.
Children can participate, according to their literate abilities, to write
texts on their computer in their language. Prepare a digital book
(Camalea, Slide, Issuu ...) and it is exposed on the Internet.
PHASE 4
4.1. Presentation of campaign materials in schools and in
Internet.
4.2. Farewell correspondents.
4.3. Final assessment of the project.
Activities:
Activities
4.1. Presentation of campaign materials in schools, at public libraries and
online
All materials developed (video, posters, stories) are exposed on the blog
presentádolo as a collaborative campaign in favour of reading in Europe.
Each school will print the posters in their language and exposes them in
their facilities so they can be seen throughout the school community and
generate a call for reading.
Also managed an exhibition of these materials in the Municipal Library of
Opera (Opera, Milano) and the Municipal Library of the Ateneo de La
Calzada (Xixón, Asturies).
4.2. Farewell correspondents
Using a video-chat program (Windows Live Messenger, Skype or similar),
kids will have a virtual meeting farewell to correspondents of their age.
4.3. Final assessment of the project
Through a final report of the project, is collected an analysis of
compliance with the objectives, the use of ICTs, student participation,
the views of students and families, etc.
PHASE 5
Maintenance of the blog "We talk about Children's Literature –
Hablamos de Literatura Infantil – Parliamo di Literatura Infantile"
• The project will continue in the blog "We talk about Children's
Literature – Hablamos de Literatura Infantil – Parliamo di

9. Literatura Infantile" (http://infantiltremanes.wordpress.com),
offering him the information, project materials and information
and experiences related to Children's Literature The introduction
to literacy, school library and encourage reading.
Phase 1
Project design and negotiation, the drafting of its programming.
Timing: September / October 2010.
Presentation of students and teachers involved in the project.
Timing: October and November 2010.
Phase 2
Exchange of a gift package.
Timing: November and December 2010.
Phase 3
3.1. Development of the advertising campaign for reading in
Europe
schedule:
Time schedule: 3.2. Collaborative writing a story
Timing: January to May 2011.
Phase 4
4.1. Presentation of campaign materials in schools and in the
network
4.2. Farewell correspondents
4.3. Final assessment of the project
Timing: June 2011.
Phase 5
Maintenance of the blog "We talk about Children's Literature –
Hablamos de Literatura Infantil – Parliamo di Literatura Infantile"
(http://infantiltremanes.wordpress.com)
Timing: Ongoing.
Expected
Expected results or tangible
tangible • Presentation materials for mutual knowledge of the
(Page
products: (Page Web, correspondents (photos, slide shows, games ...).
videos, posters ...)
• Promotional posters reading (JPEG format).
• Video to promote reading (WMV format).

10. • Stories created collaboratively as part of a literary workshop
(e-book format).
• Anthem of the European Union recorded flute by a school
group (audio format MP3, WMV video format).
• Blog where materials are produced and collected during the
project.
• Computer Rooms schools.
• Personal Computers teachers.
• Scanner.
Hardware • Digital photo camera.
• Digital video camera.
• Printer.
• CD/DVD recorder.
• Webcam
• Word processing (Word)
• Design programs (Publisher, Paint)
• Programs audiovisules presentations
(PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker)
Technology Resources
Needed: • Treatment programs (Photoshop,
Software Microsoft Office Picture Manager)
• Programs for file compression (WinZip,
WinRar)
• Multimedia player (Windows Media,
Audacity)
• Internet browsing programs (Mozilla
Firefox, Internet Explorer)
• Layout Tools digital books (Camalea,
Slide, Issuu ...)
• Email
Communication • Videoconferencing (Windows Live
tools
Messenger, Skype...)
• Blog

11. Tiziana Cippitelli tiziana.cippi@tiscali.it
Valeria Giacomelli valeria.giacomelli@yahoo.it
Emily Lewis emily_lewis21@hotmail.com
Graciela
Graciela Peña Suárez gracielapf@educastur.princast.es
Mª Luz Pérez Rodríguez luz1970@hotmail.com
Lucía Prida Cueto luciao@educastur.princast.es
Patrizia Ruggeri patrizia.ruggeri@yahoo.it
Mariano Suárez Rodríguez marianoar@educastur.princast.es
Mª Teresa Vicente Loredo mayvic@hotmail.es