Hello! I am Elena Belver Morales and this week I was the Analyst, which means I was in charge of valuing the efforts of the team members and making a reflection on what we have learned with this task.
In this week's task, Potentialities of the digital in the classroom, we were required to reflect the four main potentialities of the ICT in a graphic story. There were a few possible formats to perform this activity and, after looking at all of them, we decided that the one who worked better for us was 13 Rue del Percebe Style.
This activity has proven to be extremely creative, which is something we believe to be crucial, especially considering that, as future teachers, we understand the importance of coming up with original ways to keep students engaged in the learning process.
The best part of the activity was, without a doubt, seeing how the vignette was beginning to take shape and what was the final result; we were all very proud of how it turned out. Meanwhile, the worst part of the task was probably searching for the right figures to use and how to distribute them for telling the story in a clear and concise way.
The highlight of the work of the group was how well we organized and structured our work —let us hope we can keep it up in the following weeks to come—. Everyone was really involved in the activity and gave great ideas. In order to be more productive, sometimes we divided into smaller groups, which was a very useful strategy.
However, it is also true that when you are working as a team there are always patches of miscommunication and different opinions, which sometimes makes it difficult to decide the best way to approach the task. Luckily, those are small problemas which were easily solved with communication and respect for others' ideas.
This activity has been a great acquisition of knowledge for all of us. Firstly, we have discovered many new Internet platforms and became well-versed in how to use them. Moreover, we have learned some basic aspects of comics since none of us had really been into them when we were younger. Also, we have mastered the ability of telling a story with very few words, which seemed really easy at the beginning but not so much when we were actually faced with having to design a vignette
This activity is, clearly, related to the contents of the subject, as it addresses the potentialities of the ICT in the classroom and how they are presented when we are in the context of the school. In addition to this, technology was indispensable for carrying out this task, as we did the whole vignette via the Internet and we needed Zoom and Google Drive to communicate with each other.
Finally, regarding the social connection of this task, it is clear the predominant role that technology has been playing in education ever since the Coronavirus pandemic changed the way schools were used to working. Nowadays, ICT are more important than ever and, almost certainly, they will continue holding a relevant place after this situation is over, because many teachers have discovered how useful technologies can be for education.
That was all for my weekly reflection. Thank you for reading this post and have a nice week!
