Facilitators' work this week. "The Dark Side of Texbooks"

This week our group has had two facilitators, Mariano and Irene.

Our experience as facilitators of this group during this week has been quite interesting. Our group has been working in a project called “The dark side of the textbooks”. We decided to divide the group to look for information individually because in that way we could get more resources than doing that in peers or with the whole group. We also decided to divide the articles that were uploaded to virtual classroom by the teacher. Each person had to read only an article and not all of them, summarize it and if the information was in Spanish, this person had to translate it into English.

After this process, when we had got the whole information, each person had to explain it to our group. And all together we started to do the infography which was one of the options that we had for doing our project on “The dark side of textbooks”.

Our conclusions once we have finished our role of this week, we have realized that to do a good presentation, it is important to create a solid group of work; it is also important that the components interact each other to express their own opinions; we have to have the aim object of the practice clear and we have to know how to deal all the problems that could appear in that kind of works. So we think that this week some components haven’t followed all these rules, so the project was hard to do because some of the components worked more than others, and this has influenced us a lot.

Facilitators: Mariano Castillo & Irene Martínez