Communication    

From the very beginning of the project all teachers involved have agreed that effective communication and collaboration are essential to achieve the set goals and make students become successful learners and enjoy school time. They are conscious that it is primarily through dialogue and examining different perspectives that students become knowledgeable, strategic, self-determined, and empathetic. Moreover, they strongly believe that involving students in real-world tasks and linking new information to prior knowledge requires effective communication and collaboration among teachers, students, and others. Indeed, it is through dialogue and interaction that curriculum objectives come alive. Collaborative learning affords students enormous advantages not available from more traditional instruction because a group - whether it be the whole class or a learning group within or outside the class - can accomplish meaningful learning and solve problems better than any individual can alone.

Throughout the project the partner teachers have communicated by:

- email and Twinmail (emails were regularly sent to decide the period in which activities had to be started, to agree on the kind of products the students had to focus on, to ask for advise or clarification, to ask confirmation on how to proceed)

-  live events. Live events were used to check the progression of the project and clarify uncertainties

- a WhatsApp group dedicated to the project. 

As for the students they kept in touch through:

- the forum section in the eTwinning project. They used it to discuss topics related to the project

- Messenger groups. Messenger was used to communicate quickly

- TwinBoards in the TwinSpace, Google forms, Wix blog  and Flipgrid. They were used to work collaboratively

- eTwinningLive/Google Meet/ Hangouts. They were used to allow classes to meet.

Communication has been a constant element of the project and it has fostered collaboration. It has allowed to implement the activities in the involved schools at the same time and to achieve the planned learning outcomes with great satisfaction for both students and teachers.