1. ETWINNING PROJECT
“PRINCIPLES OF FAME: FAMOUS PEOPLE
OF MY COUNTRY THAT MADE A POSITIVE
CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD.”
Prof. Dan and Cristina Nicolăiţă
Şcoala “Gh. Magheru “ Caracal, Olt
4. FOUNDER SCHOOLS
Thalia Hadzigiannoglou, 7th Primary School of Agii Anargiri, Greece
Dan and Cristina Nicolaita, Scoala Gheorghe Magheru, Romania
PARTNER SCHOOLS
Nikolaos Lekkos, "Demetrion" B Primary School of Pafos, Cyprus
Anabela Brígida, Agrupamento Vertical Fernando Casimiro Pereira da Silva,
Portugal
Orsolya Lengyel, Battonyai Szent István Általános Iskola, Hungary
Carole Scheuer, Centre scolaire Parc Hosingen, Luxembourg
Valérie Taricco, Ecole Rothschild Mixte 1, France
Anna Palumbo vargas, ICA FRANCESCHI, Italy
Francesco Papello, Istituto Comprensivo "Dante Alighieri", Italy
Burhan SEL, Karacaoglan I.Ö.O / Primary School, Turkey
Ingrida Taraude-Šakova, Ojara Vacieša Gaujienas vidusskola, Latvia
Ksenija Vidmar-Nincevic, Osnovna škola Bartula Kašica Zadar, Croatia
Wendy Gordon, Roch House, Abbots Bromley School for Girls, United Kingdom
Corina Ghita, School no. 29 "Mihai Viteazul" Constanta, Romania
Nedyalka Stancheva, SOU "Zheleznik", Bulgaria
Maria Corredor, St. Mary''s Special School, Ireland
Malgorzata Porebinska, Szkola Podstawowa w Mstowie, Poland
Beata Janus-Lewczynska, Szkola Podstawowa nr 24 im. Jana Marcina
Szancera, Poland
Magdalena Kucharczyk, Zespól Szkól nr 3 Dabrowa Górnicza, Poland
Silvia Rigova, Základná škola Krosnianska 2 , Slovakia
Michaela Gleichová, ZŠ Generála Klapálka, Czech Republic
5. Registered on 28.08.2009
Status: Active
Aim: It is important for our culture that children mature into altruistic
adults who are able and willing to contribute their share and beyond for
the common good. Thus, using ICT, we will attempt to make our students
realise that in all areas of human endeavour, famous people have shaped
our understanding and practice of the field.
Subjects: Foreign Languages, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature,
Philosophy / Logic, Primary School Subjects, Social Studies / Sociology,
Technology
Languages: English
Pupil's age: 8 - 14
6. Objectives (Bloom’s taxonomy):
Cognitive
Students will:
Improve their native as well as foreign language skills.
Learn about famous people in other European countries.
Identify the principles of fame for people who contributed
positively to the society.
Affective
Students will:
Develop a positive stance towards ICT, native as well as EFL
language.
Value personality traits that contribute to the common good.
Be open to the introduction of the European dimension within the
school setting.
Psychomotor
Students will:
Develop their ICT and artistic skills.
7. Methodology
The steps descibed below will be used for the project implementation:
1. In groups or in pairs students think about an area they
have a fascination for (eg. music, sports). Alternatively,
an interest inventory might be used.
2. They select one person to write about.
3. Using www.wordle.net they make a beautiful word cloud
with the names of people they are going to work with.
4. Students search the Internet to collect information about
the person they selected.
5. Students use a specially developed graphic organizer to
depict information about the person.
6. There will be used various e-tools and sites:
youtube.com, jigsawplanet,com, voki.com,
sketchfu.com…
7. Students will create a quiz about the famous people from
their country.They will solve the quizes of other countries
.
8. Students make a slide show presentation of their work.