6th WEEK

Nice to see you again!

This week has been very useful, I have learnt a lot of things, I have clarified some issues and I have organised much better all the information I had until now. Here you can see a summary of it!

BUS METAPHOR

The class has just started when the teacher said we had an exam. First I was scared, I have been working really hard through all the materials provided, but I didn’t know if I could show everything I learnt in the exam. Once I read it, I was more relaxed, most of the questions were familiar to me. Then, the teacher said we had to stop and I thought it was the end of the time, fortunately, it was just a moment because we were going to continue it in couples. At this point, I was far more calmed as I knew I had the support of a colleague who had also prepared the materials and, to my surprise, almost all the answers were very similar!

Finally, we made groups of four where two of my peers had the answers to my exam and vice versa. At this moment I realised three things:

1) I had underestimated me because my answers were on the right track. I think I could have done it well if it was a real exam. 

2) Children also suffer this anxiety during an exam. Moreover, the final result made from the combination of the pair or group work is even more rewarding than the individual one.

3) Everything, from the individual exam through partners and finally in groups, is part of the learning process.

Here you can see my feelings before the exam and after it: 

BEFORE   &   AFTER

Afterwards, each group explained the ideas of each TEPBLL; ours was called “The Holiday Buzz”. It was a really discouraging session because we were very engaged in our project and it wasn’t telecollaborative enough. Moreover, we didn’t know how to make students collaborate by creating interdependence between them. We thought a lot of different ideas but anyone actually fitted in. However, I have to say that the group to whom we were presenting our TEPBLL was very helpful as they provided some suggestions to improve it. Finally, during the meeting I came out with an idea, why not searching information from different countries rather than exchanging only their own experiences? From here, everything went better. 

At the end of the class, each student had to explore one tool, in my case Wordle. I must say that I have never thought before that I could take such profit for a TEPBLL from a tool that, at first, seems quite simple! 

In the meeting...

4th meeting

Throughout this week, I also finished my critical review. Initially it was a challenge that I did not know if I would be able to overcome, I have never used camptasia and I have never done a tutorial before, not even in my mother tongue! I prepared carefully what I was going to say and, with clear ideas, I carried out my proposal. Actually, it took me less than expected and I'm pretty satisfied with my result considering that I haven’t had any prior experience in this field.

I hope you enjoy it!