About the etwinning project "Music helps us live".

Here are the results of our project: Music helps us live

After working on the etwinning project for a year, students , teachers and the school generally got a lot of benefits.
Students and teachers impoved the knowledge of ICT and the foreign language. Everybody of them is a good user of the twinspace tools and are ready for another etwinning projects.
The students awareness of other European cultures was raised and their interest for learning has increased highly. They consider the lesson a pleasure when cooperating with their European partners , using the twinspace in the meantime. The music and English language lessons were no a burden at all. They were taught how to surf the internet safely and how to evaluate the material they find in it.
The teachers made their lessons very exciting through the project, gave their teaching a European dimension and an intercultural approach , as well. They exchanged teaching methods, were influenced and influenced at the same time their counterparts.
The school enjoys a good reputation not only in local community but across Europe as well.
Certain difficulties arose in the first months, such as students’ lack of good knowledge of twinspace tools ( a group not ivolved in an etwining project before), access to the school’s computer room were successfully overcome, thanks to their willing to participate in something different, something challenging. The principal’s support helped a lot , too. I am sure that next time I will collect a new group of students because I strongly believe that the more students come in contact and work together with Europeans ones, the best results teachers, schools , educational and local community get.

Evaluation of the greek song sung by the czech etwinning team of Gymnasium of Ceska Lipa

After three successful cooperative years with the gymnasium of Ceska Lipa, I thought that I knew my Czech partners very well.
However, to our surprise, one day I saw a file on the twinspace. There was a small video with the greek song “ fourteen nightingales” ( aidonia dekatessera – in greek language ) sung by the Czech students.
I played it in the staff room without saying what it is exactly to my colleagues. Immediately , they asked who sings the traditional song so well with such a good greek accent! I explained to them and all agreed that the Czech etwinning teachers made a great job and that we, the greek etwinning teachers , instructed them how to teach it to their students, in the right way.
The Czech students pronounced the greek words correctly , the lyrics are understandable by everyone who knows and speaks greek. Of course, a native greek speaker realizes the foreign accent at once, but this happens to all languages due to the different sounds the languages have. The important thing is that our partners worked so hard that the result was excellent.
The performance of the song can be compared with a professional one. Very soon , parents and local authorities learnt about this achievement and wanted to listen to it. I wrote the URL of the twinspace on the school notice board so anyone who would like to listen to the song could visit the site.
The feelings we had at school, after listening to them singing, was that of pride, satisfaction, happiness, because we showed them successfully, how to learn the song, other European people sang one of our traditional songs, the greek culture and traditions became part of the Czech school life. We also felt quite moved for the fact that our song touched and inspired other people.
Finally, All these feelings gave us motives and urged us to learn the Czech song Darmo ca ty trapis.

Our presentation-final version