The new webmag by European teenagers THE EUROPEAN TOUCH

Where did it all start? Once upon a time, in an Etwinning workshop in Scotland 2

Who are we?  enthusiastic students  motivated English teachers  In the school’s computer room  And with – of course - the authorisation of their supportive headmasters … 3

What did we do?  With other European teenage partners:  Ages 16-18from France, Netherlands, Italy and Belgium  Ages from Slovenia, Netherlands, UK, Spain  In order to reflect other teenagers’ points of view in Europe  On different current issues and topics in which teenagers are interested in We decided to create a webmag for teenagers and by teenagers … 8

What were our goals?  To publish online at least 3 webmags a year :  Presenting 1 or 2 main files  Including recurring columns (news, culture, cooking, beauty and fashion, ups and downs, sexuality…)  To diversify our media: articles but also video and audio podcasts  To advertise for our webmag (with flyers and posters … and maybe on a radio station soon dealing with Europe !) 9

How do we work?  We have created eTwinning clubs in our high-school  With volonteer students  Selected according to their motivation and sense of initiatives or their capacities in English or their knowledge in softwares and computers … well, their different talents ! Selected  Recruited through individual 5-minute-interviews 10

How do we work?  We have a one-hour session every week  During which we work in groups of 2 to 4 people  On the different files and/or columns  And exchanging through our web collaborative platform "moodle“ (forums, chats, sharings of files…) forums 11

What have we already achieved? The first issue of our webmag was published online mid-october : ages 16-18: ages 11-15: zines/EuropeanTouch11_15 zines/EuropeanTouch11_15 zines/EuropeanTouch11_15 Of course, it isn’t perfect yet but we have great hopes for our second issue ! 12

Our hopes for tomorrow?  To meet our European partners for real !  To develop the concept of Students Ambassadors of eTwinning projects by presenting our club :  at teachers training sessions with our teachers  In different schools in our surrondings or even further !  In Etwinning workshops 13