Calendar of Values

Our Values, Our Voices: A Calendar of Community"

Report of our Project

eTwinning Project Greece- Italy - Romania- - Turkey

Our Values, Our Voices: A Calendar of CommunityA Journey of Young Hearts Across Borders

“Our Values, Our Voices: A Calendar of Community" is a heartfelt journey undertaken by our young eTwinners from Greece, Italy, Romania, and Turkey to explore the core values that make our world better. Working in six transnational teams and guided by mentor teachers, the students chose values that resonated deeply with them—such as honesty, kindness, justice, and cooperation—and brought them to life through creative expression.Month by month, they collaborated to co-create a calendar filled with poems, proverbs, stories, artwork, songs, and digital designs. Each contribution reflects not only their growing understanding of these values, but also their unique voices, cultural perspectives, and the joy of building something meaningful together. This storytelling invites you to witness their journey—one rooted in empathy, enriched by creativity, and united by a shared hope for a kinder, more respectful world.

Our Journey

Transnational Teams work for a common goal

All about us

- Team 1 works on the values for June and July

- Students & Teachers and our schools

- Team 2 works on the values for March and September

- Our project logo

- Team 3 works on the values for August and October

- Team 4 works on the values for February and November

Becoming aware of Web Risks

- Team 5 works on the values for January and December

- Collaborating for online safety

- Team 6 works on the values for April and May

Our Calendar of Values is ready

Let's embark on our journey to explore values

- Exploring Shared Values For A Better World

Celebrations

- Jigsaw of Values

- New Year's Messages

- Calendar Kickoff: Spinning the Wheel to Assign the Months

- eTwinning Day

- Creating 6 Transational teams of Values

Key Ingredients of our project

- Collaboration

- Transnational team meet to plan their contribution

- Frequent monitoring

- Dissemination

All about us

Teachers' introductions

Our schools

Students' introductions

Students, helped by their teachers, learned how to pick a location and add information about their school in the shared Padlet map

Students created posters to introduce themselves to their partners. They included an avatar of themselves. their favorite food, hobby, or color, and a photo or drawing of something special from their culture—such as a famous landmark, traditional clothing, or a local dish.

All the partners introduced themselves in a Padlet

Click on the photos to see the Padlet

Pupils could choose to create the logo of the project by drawing or by using digital tools. Then they showcased their logo in Padlet.

. Each school chose 4 of their best logos, uploaded them to a shared google form and voted

The logo should be: - Simple, Original, Clear – Easily recognizable and memorable. - Limited in Color (just 2-3 colors for a clean, professional look that works well on any background.)

Here is the most voted logo

ONLINE RESPONSIBILITY

collaborating for online safety

We shared some Project Rules and esafety Tips for everybody

Teachers shared resources, materials, activities and games about the main webrisks and pupils revised them

Let's embark on our journey to explore values.

Exploring Shared Values For A Better World

They thoughtfully explored important life values using simple materials that their teachers had shared on Digipad

warming up

Students shared meaningful values in a Twinpoll. They used one word each to describe a positive value.

Each student shared why those values mattered to them.

Here are some photos of pupils while doing the activity

Jigsaw of Values

Students completed the jigsaw puzzles about values that teachers prepared for them. They had fun learning about ethics, respect, honesty, and integrity.

Here are some photos of pupils while doing the activity

calendar Kickoff: Spinning the Wheel to Assign the Months

warming up

We used a wheel to match each team to two months.

Results of the matching

We started by matching each team with two months.The next step was to organize the students into teams based on their favorite months.

Creating six Transational teams of Values

Teachers analyzed what their pupils had written in Padlet and created the transnational teams based on the students' preferences.

Pupils wrote in the section of their favourite months.

We started by matching each team with two months.The next step was to organize the students into teams based on their favorite months.

Transational teams meet, discuss and make decisions

Transnational Teams met.. During the meeting they played games

Then we used a spinning wheel to match an adjective to each month

Finally, pupils unmuted themselves and the shyest wrote in the chat to share what they would like to create for their month.

Transnational Teams work for a common goal

Transational team 1: June- July (kindness- encouragement)

forum

Team 1 had two pages (one page per month) on TwinSpace and was led by Miss Emel and Mr. Ramazan. The mentor teachers created a thread for each month, and the students' first activity was sharing their ideas about the works they could create for their assigned months.

online meeting

Finally, the mentor teachers shared the calendar template with the pupils, demonstrated how to edit it, and provided suggestions on how to use the shared document effectively

Mr. Ramazan showed a digital tool to the pupils who proposed rap music to support them in creating their rap songs.

The members from each partner school were asked to complete a table with the contributions they wanted to make for their two assigned months

Afterwards, the mentor teachers created a Padlet and demonstrated how to write acrostics, and the pupils enjoyed writing some

TThe mentor teachers presented the word cloud they had created from the pupils' proposals in the forum and discussed it together

Transational team 2: march- september (respect - generosity )

forum

Team 2 had two pages (one page per month) on TwinSpace and was led by Miss Nilay and Miss Anna. The mentor teachers created a thread for each month, and the students' first activity was sharing their ideas about the works they could create for their assigned months.

online meeting

Finally, the mentor teachers shared the calendar template with the pupils, demonstrated how to edit it, and provided suggestions on how to use the shared document effectively

... and a second template for a story about Generosity.

The members from each partner school were asked to complete a table with the contributions they wanted to make for their two assigned months

Afterwards, the mentor teachers created a template on StoryJumper for writing a story about respect.

TThe mentor teachers presented the word cloud they had created from the pupils' proposals in the forum and discussed it together

Transational team 3: august- october (love - justice )

forum

Team 3 had two pages (one page per month) on TwinSpace and was led by Miss Diana and Miss Bilgesu. The mentor teachers created a thread for each month, and the students' first activity was sharing their ideas about the works they could create for their assigned months.

online meeting

Finally, the mentor teachers shared the calendar template with the pupils, demonstrated how to edit it, and provided suggestions on how to use the shared document effectively

The mentor teachersinformed the pupils that it would be lovely to create the pages of our months with a great variety of contributions, not only proverbs, that's why Miss Bilgesu created a Mindmap with Digimindmap (ladigitale) and we asked pupils to share more ideas.

The members from each partner school were asked to complete a table with the contributions they wanted to make for their two assigned months

Most of them had proposed proverbs, that's why the mentor teachers asked the pupils if they knew some proverbs about these two values. To help the shyest pupils, Miss Bilgesu created two Linoit boards, one for August and one for October.

The mentor teachers showed what pupils had shared in their forums.

Transational team 4: february- november (cooperation - peace )

forum

Team 4 had two pages (one page per month) on TwinSpace and was led by Miss Damla and Miss Elena. The mentor teachers created a thread for each month, and the students' first activity was sharing their ideas about the works they could create for their assigned months.

online meeting

Finally, the mentor teachers shared the calendar template with the pupils, demonstrated how to edit it, and provided suggestions on how to use the shared document effectively

The mentor teachers used the chat again to encourage students to propose other ideas for the calendar

Some suggested Canva, but many couldn’t use it, so Miss Damla showed a tutorial from the project’s digital tool library and created a template for them (she shared the link in the chat box) to make posters about the month's values

The members from each partner school were asked to complete a table with the contributions they wanted to make for their two assigned months

Since most pupils proposed making posters, the mentor teachers asked in the chat if they knew any digital tools for creating them.

Transational team 5: january- december (honesty - friendship )

forum

Team 5 had two pages (one page per month) on TwinSpace and was led by Miss Naya and Miss Pelin. The mentor teachers created a thread for each month, and the students' first activity was sharing their ideas about the works they could create for their assigned months.

online meeting

Finally, the mentor teachers shared the calendar template with the pupils, demonstrated how to edit it, and provided suggestions on how to use the shared document effectively

The mentor teachers used the chat to encourage students to propose other ideas for the calendar

The mentor teachers showed a tutorial from the project’s digital tool library on using Voki to create talking slogans and invited the pupils to create some on the values of their months on the next days. Most of pupils made amazing slogans!

The members from each partner school were asked to complete a table with the contributions they wanted to make for their two assigned months

Since most pupils proposed making slogans and posters, the mentor teachers asked them if they knew a funny way to create slogans

Transational team 6: april-may (gratitude - patience )

forum

Team 5 had two pages (one page per month) on TwinSpace and was led by Miss Violeta and Miss Muazzez. The mentor teachers created a thread for each month, and the students' first activity was sharing their ideas about the works they could create for their assigned months.

online meeting

Finally, the mentor teachers shared the calendar template with the pupils, demonstrated how to edit it, and provided suggestions on how to use the shared document effectively

The mentor teachers demonstrated how to use WordArt and encouraged the pupils to create word clouds based on their month's values and upload them to the shared Canva.

Some pupils suggested making word clouds, so the mentor teachers asked which digital tools they could use for this.

The members from each partner school were asked to complete a table with the contributions they wanted to make for their two assigned months

The mentor teachers showed the pupils of Team 6 what they had proposed in the forums and asked them for more ideas.

our calendar of values is ready!!!!!

CELEBRATIONS

TALKING NEW YEAR'S WISHES

EtWINNING dAY

Cooperation

Trust

Inspiringeach other

key ingredients of our project

Enthusiasm

Flexibility

Communication was frequent. We used many channels!

Effective communication is the key to working together as a team. We shared the project Netiquette with partners and we informed pupils and families about Data protection, Copyright. and we got the Privacy consent signed by them

Communication was necessary in order to know the progress of the project, to plan future activities, to give information about the roles for a particular task. The starting point was the sharing of the draft of the Project plan with all the partners by a common google doc. Everyone could make suggestions

messenger group was created and used for faster information

Click on the interactive element to read the original plan

online meetings were used to discuss about the project plan, activities, and distribution of the tasks

emails were used to sum up what we had said during the videoconferences and to give more detailed information

Chats, forums and online meetings with pupils were used to know each other, to share opinions, to discuss, to make decisions

We also considered the results of the the pre surveys

Monitoring had an important role because it allowed us to make adjustments in our teaching methods and strategies but also in the planning of future activities. Moreover it gave us the chance to provide feedback to pupils.A component of monitoring was the systematic observation of pupils at work and play, how they interacted with teachers and with peers,, their involvement in the project activities.

• Do I listen to my pupils' opinions ?
• How much are they involved in this type of activity?

• Are my pupils having difficulties
• to do this task?

• Are pupils interacting with their peers?
• Are they collaborating with their team?
• Is each of them contributing to the final product?
• Are they respecting deadline?

And for the project final evaluation we considered continuity of participation, completion of products, and the final surveys for pupils, teachers and families

dissemination

These are some of the ways we spread the word about our project, because sharing our work helps inspire others and connect with a wider community.

sharing is caring!

Thanks

Collaborative work by :eTwinners of "Our Values, Our Voices: A Calendar of Community" 2024-25 PARTNERS: GREECE ITALY- ROMANIA-TURKEY