A summary of the results we got from our students after completing Assessment 2 Page 8.2 Assessment-2 template and evidences from students.

Koldo Mitxelena

Students feel motivated and engaged although the platform doesn't help much. They mention. They mention that this year the English lessons are different. Those who have taken part for the first time in eTwinning and those who are not new eTwinners are really happy when they don't have to compete the typical English exercises and can use English for a real purpose. They enjoyed creating the logo and sharing the voting the sessions with the community. They also enjoy the Geography challenge and are looking forward to finishing their exams to continue with the #SID2023 activities as we just started with the warming up activities in February, just before exams. They are looking forward to connecting live in next live sessions. Most of them remember the ship from Greece in the Advent calendar ;-) and they like working in their international teams. Besides, they say that they have improved their work in this second term. The project is 20% of the total mark and the activities are included in the competence assessment of writing, speaking, meditation etc.

IES Cantabria

Students have learned how the project works and feel engaged with the activities, although the platform is very slow and doesn't work in a reliable way.

In Assessment 2, students reported that they successfully completed most of the activities and that they fell more active and engaged. Going East and Going West activities have given our student the opportunity to collaborate with other students and learn about their countries and culture: Geography challenge, Poetry challenge, International Teams, logo contest. New Year resolutions in Flip ... Those students in charge of adding an entrance to the collaborative Diary, enthusiastically completed this task. Students feel more confident with digital tools and with the use of English. We have met students from Anselmo Andrade-Almada and from Kopernik-Rybnik in online sessions and students loved these tow meetings with their peers.

"My team has done most of the tasks, we tried to do them in the best way we could, and I think we have done a good job. Ont the three meetings,, I have been pretty active and I have talked a lot with our partners from Portugal and Poland. In addition, I have done some other individual tasks such as the diary." Álvaro

Anselmo de Andrade

Students fully engaged in the activities, especially the Live sessions with Spain and the Basque Country, which allowed them to interact directly with their international peers and get to know them better. The project also encouraged them to express their creativity by writing poems and entries in the Comp@ss diary. This way, creative writing helped them to express their opinion and emotions. Using digital tools to create a logo for the project also challenged their creativity and teamwork.

Interacting, communicating and expressing their creative views were the most mentioned benefits of the project. Overall, students found a purpose in the project activities, which they value as an enriching intercultural, open-minded experience. As one student stated, "the compass is a metaphor for our emotions and a way to find ourselves as a person and improve as students." (Ines P.)

Kopernik, Rybnik PL

The students really enjoyed all the project activities. Working for the logo competition allowed them not only to develop creativity, but also communication skills as they collaborated in competing pairs so they eagerly discussed their designs to make them possibly the best. The same relates to preparing geography challenges. The students generally expressed very positive attitudes towards all the project activities, some mentioned illustrating poems with AI as the one they enjoyed a lot, some others  - writing an entry for the Wakelet Diary. One of the students admitted the latter was really hard to her but she liked it anyway. Needless to say, everyone stressed the fact that live sessions (during the second term we met students from the Basque Country and from Santander), the opportunities they had to meet their peers from other countries, were their favourite lessons and they would like to participate in such  meetings more often.

Here comes one comment confirming the above statement:

The best thing in the project so far for me was every live session. I don’t have a favourite one, because it’s really hard to choose one as all of them were just very nice. I think I chose them for the reason that we learn a lot of new speaking skills, not only for me but also for my colleagues from class. We met so many nice, kind and funny people. It’s also given me the chance not to be stressed around new people and when talking in English.
Did I not like anything? No, everything is really nice and I enjoy it a lot. There’s also nothing that I would like to improve. /Oliwia/
 

K. Lorenz Italy

The students have acquired knowledge about the project works and are actively participating in the activities, despite experiencing difficulties due to the platform's slow and unreliable performance.
During Assessment 2, students tried to complete the majority of activities and all of them were actively involved. Through the "Going East" and "Going West" activities, Italian students have been able to engage in collaborative efforts with their peers, gaining insights into different countries and cultures. These include engaging in a geography challenge, a poetry challenge, international team collaborations, a logo contest, and sharing New Year resolutions using the Flip tool.

Szabó Lőrinc Bilingual High School Budapest, Hungary

This part of the activity was the most interesting for the students from Budapest. In their assessment they wrote that they learnt a lot about poems, rhymes and emotions expressed in poems. We worked with the poems and translations a lot also with the imagery and videos posted in Flip. 
In spite of the technical challenges we had two very interesting live session with Ilion, Greece and Tábor, Czech Republic. Students talked a lot and they even had a mentimeter with wquestions and feedback at the end.
In "Going East" and "Going West" activities we not only develop creativity but also communication skills as they collaborated with each other in international groups, writing poems and making imagery based on their lines.

 

Obchodní akademie Tábor

Going East was a part full of different activities. The students were interested in Geography challenge, first they accepted challenges from their counterparts and searched the internet for answers. After that they prepared their own challenges about Czechia. Activities connected with poems were challenging for the students, they couldn't dive in properly. But we completed them, we used DeepL for translating poems and saw that AI translates poems in a good quality. Making joint poems went well in all teams, the students tried to create AI pictures using Padlets. An Advent calendar and cards were a nice calm time brought by Christmas. A logo contest was really creative and the students learnt to use Canva app. Recording New year's resolutions on Flip was an activity welcomed by many.

"I enjoyed the activities very much because it was fun and the best was getting to know something interesting about foreign countries. And it was something new compared to the primary school." Lukáš

"I enjoyed the project and my favourite part was Going West because it contained my New Year's wishes. I could share my goals with other students and heard their goals. It was very interesting for me and I was happy that I was a part of it." Terez

11th Junior High School of Ilion

The students had many activities and they were very motivated to work in the project mainly because of their communication in chat with the Spanish students and their LIVE session with the class from Budapest. It was their very first time  to experience such activities and their were very excited of having such kind of communication. It was a pity that we could not implement the chatting activity using the platform's tool ir by leaving messages to partners' profiles and the admins of the project had to find an external tool that managed to cover this need in great extend but was not much convenient for all the students.

This destination offered to my class the opportunity to work with many ICT tools. They have worked individually in canva to create the logo, they have voted on the logo with which Ilion participated in the logo contest and they had voted their favorite projects logo using the poll in the platform.  

They have collaborated in teams of 4 for the geography challenge creating the challenges for the partners and they had answered to the partners' challenged in the shared padlet individually. 

The poetic compass was an activity to introduce my classes in AI tools. They had written poems collaboratively in their class using web and AI tools and they have contributed to their international teams. Canva app (text to image) offered a very creative expression of the students' poems and was a very successful activity

The Holidays activities were very rich: Posting cards and receiving cards offered great joy, the advent calendar was a very interesting activity -sharing our customs and watching our partners' celebrations- while the videos in flip offered the students the chance to think about themselves and be creative to express their new year resolutions. Also, these videos was an opportunity to communicate with their partners.

These activities were very inclusive, each student could find one that was very inspiring and enjoyable and each one has contributed to a team.

"The activity I liked more in the compass project is ‘’New Year Wishes’’! Amazing to watch our partners’ videos! And a challenge for us to think about the future and express our dreams in a video" (Zacharoula, C5b)

"In this section I liked the most the project with the poem that we wrote in international teams. Also one of my favourite was the meeting that we had with the Hungarian pupils, because we learn more things about a country that we didn't know about." (Ioanna F, C5b)

"The writing of a poem was interesting but the illustration with canva AI was really impressive!" (Achilleas, C5a)

"During the lessons i have learnt a lot of things about the culture and geography of the partner countries." (Kostas, C4a)

"I personally really enjoyed cooperating with my class members and that I spent time in Comp@ss Rose, is an unforgettable experience. I’m fond of the fact that we learned new things about other countries and we shared our thoughts with them too." (Efthimia, C4a)