Follow the Facilitator by Feli Travieso.

 A GOOD PATH TO LEAD A VERY DIVERSE GROUP

    
To acquire a wide knowledge of any subject is essential to be involved from the very beginning. TPACK has been our first objective to achieve.

As future teachers, in order to teach a subject and achieve that our students feel attracted to it, it is necessary to develop a range of skills throughout our trajectory while we are learning. It is of overriding importance to know the path our students would take, the difficulties they would go through, and the way to make the subject appealing for them. There is nothing better for us that getting ourselves through the same experience. Once we get over this, we would be able to predict and anticipate the best way to make the subject appealing for our future students. Therefore having all the necessary skills to guide them through a path of experiences, intrigues, challenges and constant effort, so that they can achieve self-fulfilment. My first role reflects exactly this idea.

As a facilitator, and having in mind that it is our first week, it has been complicated to get everything together. My first goal to achieve in this subject was to coordinate a group and also being able to get used to new ways of technology.
My weakest point:

Having into account that I barely use networks such as tweeter, facebook, among others technology devices, it has required more effort on my behalf, due to the fact that in order to divide tasks equally, I needed to have many clear concepts. The desing of our block was a little bit difficult. Maybe it is because we wanted to  change the  blog default letter into comic sans and that change drove me a bit confused. The other fact is that all texts were created in Word format and for me they have been somewhat been difficult to justify everything.

Therefore I have invested time searching the way to open and organize a blog as well as Twitter.

My strengths:

On the other hand I have leading skills experience acquired during my working years. Not to say that I love challenges, thus, compensates my shortcomings in the Technological area.

My idea of ​​taking the group on the right track has been to encourage them and split the investigation tasks to make everyone feel equally involved.

The group:

Our group consists of members who had mostly worked in previous groups. So it's the first time we worked together. Despite this, the integration and cooperation of all members has been very efficient.

Research processes were developed jointly. Perhaps in our first week the results won’t be optimal, since our knowledge is still limited.

Nevertheless as time passes by and we learn from mistakes done, we will cross our path of learning.

Task assigned to the team members:

Apart from their main tasks, all the members were assigned different investigation tasks, in order to build our blog accordingly, the followings were:

Raquel was in charge to look for TPACK social media and organization. She also opened our tweeter section.

Rocío wrote the seven components of TPACK.

Rosana was in charge of creating the mind map and read all the information downloaded by the group.

Cristian was in charge to look for information about the TPACK development in Europe.

María was the one who associated the components with the subjects that we are facing this year.

Fernando was assigned to investigate everything related to mind map. He compiled the information about the main features of this method.

And I have created our presentation page, as well as researched about TPACK history, and I have also added the results of our findings. And before add all the relevant  information to the blog, there were sent it to me, to check that everything was worded correctly.

Feelings:

During our first experience, all the forthcoming feelings were hand in hand; doubts, fear, motivation, stress and eagerness to excel.

Steps we all have followed under my supervision:

I considered that the group should be presented in a creative way, so I asked them their opinion about this item, they agreed on that, and we introduced ourselves in an innovative way.

We wanted to present TPACK with our own words in order to make the subject understandable.

Went through different pages, to find its onset.

We also tried to create different perspectives, such as point of view of different countries, results, etc.

The group has tried its best to go through this task and we are concerned that the task won’t exceed your expectances. But we all know that as difficult as it might seem, with time and experience and your advice we will increasingly improve.

Speed dating day:

I have to admit that the way to make us understanding the subject, using the speed dating methodology is extraordinary as well as creative and innovative.

Even though we have searched what speed dating was, we really did not know what to expect of it.

This was my personal feedback.

• The star had repeated the same topic 10 times, during the process she was able to summarize the most important to be reflected and transmitted to our classmates
• While we were moving through different groups, we were able to catch diverse point of views.
• We could listen and evaluate at the same time, that fact helped us to develop new skills, such as being critical and objective.
• We could listen to different stars and reach consensus in order to evaluate equally.
• And overall we have learned from other groups the way to improve our forthcoming presentation.

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