-Asya-Demet Akça-Körfez Atatürk Anatolian High School-

Hi everyone,dear readers👻,for the first time in my life I'm writing a blog which is a skill that the project adds to me. Let's start with what the project adds to me. There are so many answers to this question that I can give because we have improved ourselves in every way and we continue to do so. First, the foreign language. It hasn't been a year and a lot of words have been added to my word libary. I'm happy to see so much innovation in myself in a short time. Second, I met new friends. I have a French friend. I guess we wouldn't have met if it wasn't for this project. I can use Web2 tools better. Actually, before I joined this project, I had no idea what web2 tools were but now I do almost every job with them. There were just a few of them. And the more we learn about the project, the more fun we have. I had just moved to high school, I had just known my friends and my teacher, and I think doing something with them on the project brought us closer so we met quickly and got along very well. It was a lot of fun planing things together in our group work. So is our individual work. Speaking for myself I don't want it to ever end. Made addictive. I love holidays, especially summer holidays and I dont want to do anything I just want to have fun but now I say that I wish we could continue on summer holidays so I wish we could do it all year. Maybe when you're reading it right now ''no don't exaggereate😜''and you're saying but I think you can understand how much I love the project. I'm pround and very happy to be here to work with you and what we've done. I say it every time I write and everywhere I talk about the project, but I'm really happy. Thank you very much  to everyone who was on the project. I love you all. I'll see you in the next article.💖💖

Şebnem Naz / Demet AKÇA / Körfez Atatürk Anatolian Highschool

 I always love reading books and writing since ı know myself. And this project made this possible. Actually this project made a lot of thing to me. For example; it increased my self-confidence, helped me become a more enterprising person, made it possible to exchange ideas, let others hear my ideas, I was also influenced by the ideas of others, I met others, we talked and we are still talking, the person I am talking to taught me new language. And of course it improved my English very well. I never thought that this project would benefit me so much. And benefits aside, I want to talk about why I want to join in this project. Actually reading a book is like a door to a separate life for me. When I read a book, I feel that book. And really this happens to me every time. I imagine the characters, always feel those events. I feel like it's all real. And writing... Writing is a way to convey my thoughts. I love writing! And working on "writing gothic stories" really expanded my imagination and showed me that I can do better. And also I really had fun while using web2 tools. I learned a lot of things and I will use these web2 tools in the future. Finally, I'm so grateful to all the teachers who give us this chance.

Miray İ./Demet Akça/Körfez Atatürk Anatolian High School

 I really like to read books. That's why I wanted to participate in this project. I love gothic novels, so reading Frankenstein was very enjoyable. I was turning each page with excitement and curiosity. Also, we had knowledge the author of the book. After reading book, we did a lot of events. We had both group and individual work. We did with enjoye each activitiy. If I talk a little about the events, for example we found the words we didn't know in the book and prepared a game, then we wrote our own gothic story. It was the event where we wrote our own story, which my liked and was a little surprised. Reading and writing are different things. But we did it with our teacher's encouragement and motivation. Thus, very beautiful and creative gothic stories emerged. ''Creative Reading'', we have carried out beautiful events that are suitable for the name of our project.We did all of this in our common language, English. Thus, we met new friends from different countries with different cultures and improved our English. It was a pleasure to be in this project. I gained a lot of experience in this project.

A mind map for our joint and collaborative products

mind map for our joint and collaborative products 

Sevval/Demet Akca/Korfez Ataturk Anatolian High School

  The biggest reason I wanted to participate in this project was because it was about reading books. I love reading all sorts of books, but for me the most remarkable are the Gothic and the exciting ones. I'm interested in eTwinning events. I think I've improved a lot thanks to this platform. For example, I didn't even know web2 tools existed before. With the help of my teacher, I soon realized that I had learned a lot. Before I read this book, I didn't know this author. I read the book and learned a lot about the author. To tell you the truth, before I started the book, I thought Frankenstein was a monster. The cover art made me think of him. At events like this, the Demet teacher supports us a lot. He makes my job easier by answering all our questions. Thank you very much to him for this. As Mission students, we strive to deliver the work given to us by finishing it on time. as a school, we actively participate in such activities. I love that part of my school. Our days are full and fun. Creative Reading is one of my favourite eTwinning events. Because reading a book is so fun, and our time is precious. I will definitely participate in other eTwinning events, trying to bring up the tasks assigned to me on time makes me care about my responsibilities. thank you to all the teachers who have contributed to me

Demet AKÇA/Körfez eTwinning Project Festival

 I'm so glad to introduce our project during Kocaeli/Körfez Provincial National Education Directorate

eTwinning Projects Introduction and Dissemination Webinar.

Demet AKÇA/ You're invited to Körfez eTwinning Project Festival!

 

Demet AKÇA/KAAL/Media Literacy and Disinformation

Cooperative Presentation via zohoshow  

Media Literacy/Kübra KOÇ/Ünye Science High School

 

 

                                          ASUDE Ö. NAZILLI SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

                                NATIVE LANGUAGE and CREATIVE READING

     Reading book is so important for our self improvement. We can expand our vocabulary and it heps us to change our point of view towards life and sometimes changing our point of views helps us to solve our daily problems quicker and get away from them much easily. Because sometimes we can’t see the solution of problems because we are always thinking in the same way also it expand our imagination. 

    Classical books are more educational than ordinary books. Ordinary books are just for fun but you can learn new things from ordinary books as well but if we compare in way of educational they are not as educational as classical books because Classical books are written by experienced authors and most of the stories of classical books are based on lived stories. As aresult of this you can point a moral about life. But while you are reding these classical books you should read it carefully. You shoul focus on just book and you could try to understand what author meant while the author was writing the book so creative reading is so important. While you are reading that book you can take notes because sometimes there are so meaningful sentences even though we may not pay attention. 

    Most of the classical books were written in old times so you can learn informations about culture, people, clothes of old times. One of the reason thet ı joined to this Project which is called “Creative Reading” is how ı can read the book more efficently and ı learnt that if you search the author and if you research in which years the book passed in consequence of these researches before you start to read the book you have foreknowledge anymore as a result of that you could read book more efficently likewise you can understand what the aouthor meant.

What eTwinning Has Given Us (Nisanur E. - Nazilli Science High School)

 

Etwinning is a project where we can talk to the world. Etwinning provides many opportunities for us students. We know brand new individuals and worlds with project we participate in. It ıs a great excitement to learn about the culture and traditions of each new world. While we know many different countries, we find the opportunity to develop our foreign languages mutually. We make new friends and host fun conversations. In the meetings we have with our teachers in different countries, we have the chance to make many new friends. We have a pleasant time while adding brand new information to each other.

We use web2 tools while doing activities in etwinning. In this way, we learn to use web 2 tools actively and better. The activities carried out give us a sense of responsibility and duty. We discovers creativity in reading with the Creating Reading Project that ı am also involved in. And we look at the english literature from different perspective. In this project, while understanding the importance of reading a book, we also learn the opinions of people from different culture about the content of the book and have discussions on this subject. While we improve our reading in English, we also improve our English writing with story writing activities.

Etwinning provides a safe environment for students. Security problems that started with the internet in our lives are of great importance today. In addition to all the facilities it provides, Etwinning also offer a safe internet environment. Student engage in activities, have fun and improve their cultural level without safety concerns.

What eTwinning Brought Me (Nazilli Science High School/Nisanur D.)

 Hi everyone. I wanna share my ideas about our project. You know it is called Creative Reading. Firstly thanks to this project cause I met a lovely book. 

And I used many web2 applications.I learned   more applications to use. And know I now something about partner countries' literature. We met friends from other countries I pleasure this. 

And now I came the web2 applications what we use to this project 

Actually I used mostly Canva for my works. Also I used Cram, you know for the words game.And Storyjumper used  for this project.

Finally I can say those:

This project provided an interaction between cultures.  I hope to see you again in another eTwinning project.

By my good wishes 

Creative Reading Yağmur K. / Nazilli Science High School

 Native Language 

Regardless of your purpose of reading, it doesn't matter. Reading books will always be useful. Reading classical books is better than reading more ordinary books. Classic books open your horizons. It expands your vocabulary and is more specific. Ordinary books just make you have a good time. Yes, ordinary books are useful too, but not as much as classic books.  I think everyone should definitely read cult and known works such as Frankenstein.

I believe that great books have great authors. Otherwise, how could they have the imagination to create such works?

In addition, the readership is also very important. The general type of a writer's reader shows how he or she addresses people. If a writer does not have a general type of reader, that writer has reached real power. It proves that it appeals to everyone. Addressing everyone is a difficult task, and only great writers achieve it.

If you only read a book, you gain only a few features, but if you research and feel that book, you will gain a brand new life. So you have to do creative reading. Creative reading is actually not a simple concept. It is not easy to give a full definition. It is a reading approach that feeds on thinking skills and scales. It enables the reader to establish meaningful connections between her inner world and the outer world through text and images.

Reading a book that is not your native tongue can always tire you a little. But it also allows you to improve in a foreign language. You will learn more words. It would be best to have a dictionary while reading it. It is difficult if you are reading a heavy book, but it is even more difficult if your native tongue is not.

Anyway, if you read a classic book with creative reading, you gain a whole new perspective.