Hi everyone! This week I am the analyst and this week our task was to make a movie, using the stop motion method!
Using movies as an educational purpose is a really good way of expressing different things, it is a useful learning method and it is also a good way to vary the lectures. What we might not know when we are seing different types of films we do not think about the hard work behind it. So the best part of this activity was to notice how difficult but also challenging it is to make a good educational film. It takes time, creativity and a lot of effort. Which almost everything does, as the life of a teacher. But the important thing is that we learned that everything takes time and it was a great feeling when the movie was done.
The worst part of the task was realizing that it is really difficult to brainstorm and making the video an educational one. Even though I do think we did it well, the worst part is still hard to do a movie when you really want it to be perfect, but with in a very small time limit. So I believe that the best moment of the week was when we were finished and also when we were in the top 6 after the contest in class. The worst moment was probably then that we were not in the top three ;-) because we had really hoped for a great educational film and we did not really get there, even if our movie was good according to ourselves.
I think the whole group has learned a lot about how hard it is making a movie and sending the right message to the audience. I have learned a lot about that at least but also that making a good movie is about being prepared before you start shooting. Being prepared is everything when you are studying to become a teacher and it will be everything when you are a teacher. I think that is the most important thing and that is what I will bring with me for all the things I will do in the future. Being prepared and communicate.
For next week I think that we will bring our good and creative ideas and I think that we will try to communicate better for next week and try to be more present in the groups work.
What we have does this week I think is linked with everything we done earlier. It is about TPACK, the school organization overall and also the small details about how to present in the best way, what are we using as materials to represent education and so on. I think that primary education you can link with your daily life as much as you can compare it with sience. As we said before the proffesion is so complex that there is almost no wrong answer. It always depends on the situation and what type of people you are dealing with. And by sharing all our ideas by the film we did this week and the last week others can use it in similar situation but we also need to have in mind that others might think the tasks we are doing are wrong because they never been in that kind of situation. Everthing is very complex and we need to have have that in mind while we are studying but also when we become real teachers.
That was all I had to say for this week. Hasta luego!!
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