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Something completely different

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I love web 2.0 tools! No, that's rather an understatement! I adore tools! I enjoy exploring this vast sea of new technologies and  experimenting with them to see what would work best in my classroom.  Some of the tools are really awesome, but yesterday I stumbled upon one that is beyond awesome!!!! Videoscribe by Sparkol   is "a unique way to create engaging animated videos quickly and easily ". It's something completely different! I've seen and admired such animated "doodle-style" videos so many times before and I always thought that you need to be an artist to produce such stunning pieces of art! Until I saw a jaw-dropping video created by Adrijana Leko , an innovative and creative teacher from Croatia. And I immediately gave it a try and was euphoric all day yesterday and still am about this fabulous, fantastic, awesome, wondrous tool! Now I can draw too! I can be an artist as well! So here's my first Videoscribe - eTwinning 3.0 . It&

Summer in the shade with 2 eTwinning publications

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With temperatures between 36-38 degrees Celsius here in Croatia, there's no better thing to do but to grab a book and find a shade somewhere near the beach. Instead of a book, I'd suggest grabbing these 2 inspiring eTwinning publications. Daniela Bunea , English teacher from Romania, is the leader of the Visibility of eTwinning projects Group on the eTwinning portal and the editor-in-chief of the eponymous newsletter,  published once a year. Each newsletter brings a huge number of articles written by teachers from across Europe about their innovative projects and creative ideas that they have put into practice. I'm especially proud to be one of the contributors to this year's newsletter . I've written an article about the learning event that I co-ran in the Learning Lab of the eTwinning portal earlier this year. Another reason why I'm tremendously proud and deeply honoured are three more articles in the newsletter that mention my projects and „endeavo