eTwinning Camp 2007

When the final ceremony was over, the Camp summed up through a great array of skits, videos, animations, songs and photos, the eTwinning Winners 2007 came together for one last photo before saying goodbye.

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On behalf of the entire eTwinning Team, we would like to thank all the teachers and pupils for making this year's Camp a great success. Over the course of three days, many friendships were created and we were all happy to share these moments with you.

To see all the photos from the Camp - and to upload your own! - be sure to check out the eTwinning Camp 2007 Photogallery.

Best of luck in all your future endeavours - eTwinning projects included!!!

The eTwinning Team

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Armin Hottmann interviews Oscar Stringer during the eTwinning Camp.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpi2-MW9psA

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In this last set of workshops, Spanish and Slovakian students completed the last set of digital animations at the camp. Again, they were all a great success!

Clay Animations: Workshop 3 (MPEG file, 6 MB, 1.13 minutes)

All animations from the three days were then shown during the closing ceremony and as a group, all participants voted for the best ones - although overall, they were all fabulous!

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The eTwinning Team has been working hard for many weeks preparing the Camp and its activities. At last they are here and now they have a chance to relax. You can see them here relaxing a little after the day's activities. Even the baby came!

From left to right: Oscar, Sylvia B, Bettina, Anne, Silvia S, Sophie, Silvia D, Sofia, Christina, Bart and Armin with baby Anouk

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The Polish students have been enjoying the sun, and making new friends.

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The camp continues with the daily routine of workshops in the morning and leisure in the afternoon.
This group are busy on their animation projects

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To take a break from workshops and enjoy the Sicilian life a bit more, the group spent the afternoon in Palermo to visit the city and experience the Palermo city life.

Between historic buildings and streets, a breath-taking cathedral and ice cream and shopping, the entire group had a great afternoon.

To see more pictures of the afternoon in Palermo, please visit the photogallery.

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Italian and Polish students worked together to create the second set of great eTwinning Camp animations.

From simple to complicated constructions, all animations were a great hit! Great job!

Clay Animations: Workshop no.2 (MPEG file, 3.3 MB, 46 seconds)

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This is the link to the eTwinning Camp 07 photogallery on Flickr.com

http://www.flickr.com/groups/etwin_camp07

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Eduardo Jose Padial Gil and Nicolas Garcia Martinez

The interview

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Talking about the camp...

Our interview

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Nadia Figueroa & Paula Cretu

Our conversation

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Namir Sayed-Ahmad Baraza and Francisco Jose Huete Morales

Our Podcast

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Fernando Kowarik Andugar and Juan Francisco Fernandez Torres

Here we are!

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Maria Eugenia Lopez and Jennyfer Roman

Our interview

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Jorge Martinez Lopez and Mario Sanchez Gonzalez

Our podcast

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Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish students work together to create great digital animation stories

In a workshop on creating digital animations using clay, Oscar Stringer showed pupils just how easy it is to create original, creative digital stories. From there, the students mixed together in groups, came up with their story lines and from there developed their very own digital stories.

The workshop was a great demonstation of intercultural teamwork as the pupils managed to mix their ideas and culture to create excellent stories. It was also a great way for them to get to know each other and make new friends.

Clay Animations: Workshop no.1 (MOV file, 2.7 MB, 1.50 minutes)

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Czech and Slovakian students depict camp life using Comic Life to arrange and sort photos from the first day.

Have a look at the stories they created:
Story 1: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Story 2: Part 1
Story 3: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Story 4: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Story 5: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Story 6: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

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During the first morning of workshop activities, Czech and Slovakian children came together to sing traditional songs after having learned about digital comic strips and podcasting.

Singing traditional songs from their respective countries, the children also came together to sing a traditional song that mixes both the Czech and Slovakian languages.

Listen to how the children used their natural singing skills to apply their new-found podcasting skills through 3 recorded tracks.

Czech and Slovakian song (MP3 file, 476 KB, 30 seconds)
Czech song (MP3 file, 1.6 MB, 1.50 minutes)
Slovakian song (MP3 file, 880 KB, 56 seconds)

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This is one of the pupils' workshops

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What do I do now?

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Enjoying the intercultural experience

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The sun is shining and the sea is blue

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Today 15 teachers and 104 pupils from Italy, Slovakia, Spain, Lithuania, Poland, and the Czech Republic came together in the beautiful location of Citte del Mare in Sicily to the 2nd eTwinning Camp. Eugenio Riviere from the European Commission opened the events and spoke about the importance of the growing eTwinning community in European education. Anne Gilleran from the Central Support Service also welcomed the participants. Now we are all looking forward to the coming days of learning and having fun together.

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After a day of travel, all participants are now safely in Sicily at the eTwinning Camp 2007!

Throughout the day, teachers, students and speakers made their way to Città del Mare to join their friends from around Europe. Tomorrow morning, the camp will be officially launched and workshops will start.

Stay tuned to keep up to date on daily activities!

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The eTwinning Prizes 2007 winners are heading to Città del Mare, Sicily, from 25-29 April for the second annual eTwinning Camp

Awarded on 23 February in Brussels as the top eTwinning projects in Europe for the 2005-2006 school year, teachers and pupils from the three winning projects will spend three and a half days together in sunny Sicily to meet their project partners face-to-face, learn about ICT tools… and have fun!

In light of the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, the theme of the Camp is “Celebrating Europe with eTwinning”. In addition to meeting friends from other countries, pupils will also spend time learning about the history and everyday running of the European institutions.

The Workshops

Pupils will learn about fun and easy ways to create animation movies from Oscar Stringer; podcasting and blogging from Bart Vanhulle and Christina Crawley; Internet safety from Sofia Aslanidou; and European institutions and celebrating Europe from Silvia Dell’Acqua and Sylvia Binger.

Teachers will work on media education from Armin Hottmann; intercultural communication from Bettina Zeidler and Marta Hunya; and Internet awareness from Sofia Aslanidou.

Cultural Activities

Taking advantage of the sunny seaside area of Città del Mare, participants will also have the opportunity to play sports and go on afternoon excursions in the area.

Following the Camp

Through this online blog, you will be able to follow how everything is going as pupils write about their experiences throughout the camp. Stay tuned for more details very soon!

Christina Crawley
EUN Team

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