On Monday 30th May 2011, Ms. Amanda Debattista from the eTwinning National Support Service visited St. Ignatius College, Blata il-Bajda Girls’ Junior Lyceum to present tokens to the winning eTwinning pupils. The students of Ms. Josephine Ebejer Grech, Biology and Science teacher, took part in the eTwinning project Caustic. The project placed first in the Secondary schools section of the eTwinning National Awards 2011.
The project Causticwas a Biology-themed project, where each partner country - Malta, Romania and Italy – looked at their syllabus in order to find common topics and experiments they could work on collaboratively. Students from each country filmed their experiments, shared them on the TwinSpace and commented on each others’ work. Towards the end on the project, students also had to vote for their favourite video clip.
It-Tlieta, 3 ta’ Mejju, l-iskola Primarja taż-Żebbuġ Għawdex, organizzat Jum il-lingwa Maltija bħala parti mill-attivitajiet relatati mal-Jum Dinji tal-Ktieb 2011. Għal din l-okkażjoni, is-Surmast tal-iskola, is-Sur Saviour Grech, stieden lill-awtur żagħżugħ Għawdxi Charles Daniel Saliba biex jaqra lill-istudenti tar-raba’, il-ħames u s-sitt klassi siltiet mill-ktieb tiegħu “Rocco jitgħallem il-Karate”.
On Friday 27th May 2011, Ms. Jeannette Cardona and Ms. Amanda Debattista from the eTwinning National Support Service visited Gozo College, Victoria Girls’ Secondary Schoolto present tokens to the winning eTwinning Pupils. The students of Mr. Mario Xerri, Computer Studies and ICT teacher, participated in the eTwinning Project Eurobots. The project placed third in Secondary schools section of the eTwinning National Awards 2011.
Bonding with Nature is a project between the Year 2 class of Ms. Marika Vella Montebello of St Margaret College, Zabbar Primary A and 7 other partner schools from Turkey and Romania. This project focuses on the beauty of nature and how everything in nature bounds together in perfect harmony. Ms. Vella Montebello was aided in the realisation of this project by the class LSA, Ms. Elaine Camilleri.
On Wednesday 25th May 2011, Amanda Debattista from the eTwinning National Support Service visited two schools which placed first and third respectively in the eTwinning National Awards 2011.
The students of Year 2 in Ms. Marika Vella Montebello class, of St. Margaret College, Zabbar Primary A, placed first with their project “Bonding with Nature”. In the course of this project, the students visited Buskett for fieldwork exercises, and created some interesting e-books. Ms. Elaine Camilleri who is an LSA in Ms. Vella Montebello’s class also helped the teacher and the students in their project.
by Ms. Josephine Ebejer Grech, St. Ignatius College, Blata il-Bajda Girls’ Junior Lyceum
The name “Caustic” refers to an eTwinning project where students from 3 different countries shared their experiments. The students who took part in this project were Biology and Science students from St Ignatius College GJL Blata l-Bajda Malta; Science students from Sibiu in Romania; and Chemistry and Science students from Antonio Paccinotti, Taranto Italy.
At around September the three teachers discussed the topics that they teach. At first they were going to share only those topics that are common amongst the three, but then they decided that they would share any interesting experiments that they were going to do along the scholastic year.
The second step was to invite students into the TwinSpace. They started introducing themselves, their countries and their schools by video clips, picturetrails, word documents and power points.
After the ice breaking exercises, the teachers started working on the first topic “Acids and Alkalis” which was a common topic amongst the three countries. It was very interesting to see the different approaches that different teachers take to teach the same topic. It was also very interesting and innovative for the students to take a video camera in their hands and film each other doing the experiments. Now it was their responsibility to understand well the procedure of the experiment as it was their turn to explain well to the students in the other countries. This was the first advantage achieved by this eTwinning project – motivation. The students used to look forward to see themselves explaining on the TwinSpace, and they looked even more forward to see the comments written about their explanations.
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The project proceeded by sharing more and more experiments – not only by sharing video clips, but also sharing the write ups, comments about how to improve the practical, critical notes, prezi presentations, power point presentations, picturetrails, slideshows, etc.
Sample of videos:
Towards the end of the project the students had to vote for their favourite video clip.
This project was awarded the national quality label as well as the first prize during the national eTwinning awards on the 13th May 2011.
by Ms. Nathalie Scerri and Ms. Romina Briffa, St. Theresa College, Mriehel Girls’ Junior Lyceum
The aim of this project was to make the students aware of the beauty of nature around them, by focusing mainly on locally growing flowers. The students were expected to observe flowers, photograph them as a whole or to focus on various parts of the flowers. Such photos were used to create paintings, a wall mural, framed posters, photobooks and calendars. Besides, all the students acquired knowledge about the different flowers, mainly their names and characteristics. Such characteristics were then uploaded in a website which was developed during this project. Anyone willing to view the website, its URL is: www.magicofnature.weebly.com. The students worked as a team, sharing ideas and information.
Watch this short video about the key moments of the eTwinning Conference and Awards 2011: you can find out about the students’ workshops, the teachers’ work on the stands and the eTwinning Awards Ceremony.
The eTwinning Learning Event “Internet Safety and You”, led by Karl Hopwood and sponsored by eTwinning Malta, starts today. If you have been accepted, you will receive an email with your login and password in your mailbox today, Monday the 23rd of May. This Learning Event will run until the 3rd of June.
The winning projects from the Secondary Schools Category were:
First Prize
Caustic by Josephine Ebejer Grech of St. Ignatius College, Blata l-Bajda Girls’ JL
Second Prize
Let’s make the best out of Nature by Nathalie Scerri and Romina Briffa of St. Theresa College, Mriehel Girls’ JL
Third Prize
EUROBOTS by Mario Xerri, Gozo College, Victoria Girls’ Secondary
The winning projects from the Primary Schools Category were:
First Prize
Bonding with Nature by Marika Vella Montebello of St. Margaret College, Zabbar Primary A
Second Prize
Welcome to our World by Joseph Saccasan of San Gorg Preca College, Paola Primary B
Third Prize
Intercultural Dialogue though Fairytales, Drama and Art by Marouska Azzopardi Duca of St. Clare College, San Gwann Primary B (Ms. Spiteri, head of school, received the prize in her name.)
Biex tikteb bil-Malti fuq il-kompjuter mingħajr ma jkollok problema bl-ittri Maltin, niżżel dan il-manwal u attiva l-lingwa Maltija li diġà qiegħda fil-kompjuter tiegħek.
