Friday 17 June 2016

"Our passions" magazine

Here is the online magazine putting together all the materials from

 "Our passions" task. 

Enjoy reading!



Let's play a Kahoot quiz about our project :)

We created a Kahoot quiz and played it with several groups.

Now the quiz is available and other teams and individual students

can play it as well. It's a great fun! :)






And the students from other countries also played the quiz :)







Wednesday 15 June 2016

Project evaluation survey

Create your own user feedback survey

Our passions

Dozens of entries about the participants' passions have appeared on our FB site recently. It was so interesting to read about all your interests, hobbies and things that make your life more colourful :)



Thursday 9 June 2016

"What matters in your life?" popularised on the website of the Copernicus Upper-Secondary School in Tarnobrzeg, Poland

Today a short article covering the issues we've been working on

and a photo gallery has appeared on the website of the school.







Manifesto of our project

We have just started working on the project manifesto.

The participants learnt what should be included in such a composition.






Interview with the finalist of the Global Teacher Prize - Jolanta Okuniewska



Jolanta grew up and trained to be a teacher in communist Poland. At that time there were few chances to collaborate with other teachers internationally, so when the Iron Curtain fell in 1990 she eagerly embraced the new opportunities available. She began to learn English to work with other schools in Europe and explore new teaching styles.
Her major innovation has been to implement tablets in her primary school classes to enhance learning through online puzzles, games and posters that she developed with a colleague, in addition to using free Polish and English e-learning resources. She used ICT to allow a chronically ill pupil to follow lessons and stay in touch with her class despite having to spend a lot of time in hospital. Jolanta makes extensive use of eTwinning projects so that her students develop a broad range of collaborative, linguistic, intercultural and technical competencies.
Last year her class occupied first place in the school ranking of educational achievements and won several prizes. Jolanta herself has received several awards, including the Commission of National Education Medal and the 2012 Award of the Minister of Education.
She shares lessons with other teachers throughout Europe, and trains Polish teachers at conferences, online and in publications on integrating ICT into lessons and setting up eTwinning projects.

1. What matters in your life? 
Most of all, agreement with myself and peaceful co-existence. I appreciate peace and taking actions which are in accord with my conscience and don’t harm others, and I am able to help them.
I like inspiring others, giving people clues and observing how they develop. I don’t like imposing or being in the centre of attention. The most important values for me are my family, love and friendship.

2. What mattered to you when you were a teenager?
When I was a teenager I loved learning. I was lucky to meet teachers who carried out interesting classes or were people with a great personality. And thanks to that even Physics, which wasn’t my favourite, became more interesting.
I used to read a lot. Brand new books from the district library were always my first choice. That was my privilege. 

3. What are your passions? 
Teaching is my passion. I feel best in the classroom. Little children give me a lot of energy and love and they are devoted friends. We treat each other with respect, trust each other and these are the basis I’ve been building my school relations on. Butterflies are also my passion. Observing and taking pictures of these colourful insects is an absorbing activity on holidays. I collect notebooks from all over the world. I have got over eighty now.