My experience as Facilitator!

Hello everyone! I’m Elena Sánchez and I’m the facilitator of Keep Calm and Keep Organized this week. My role consists in helping the group so it works in an adequate way and we do our job successfully.Then I have had to divide the tasks, solve problems, organize the content...

Firstly, we had to decide the topic and organize the ideas. At the beginning the topic we chose was the digestive system, but later we decided to talk about history because it is a subject which is in most of the courses we study. We start studying it in primary school, so what we learn about it at this age is the base of our future history knowledge. Because of this, we thought that it would be a good idea that our exposition was about it and our purpose was to try pupils learn the main history concepts in an easy way so they will remember it in their next studies.

To develop this idea, we decided to make five boxes, each one about one period of the history: Prehistory, old age, middle age, modern age and contemporary age. We thought pupils would understand better our explanation if we showed them objects of each age.

This week we also have had to do a slide share about creative commons and 20 tips about how to do a good power point presentation, so the work has been harder than other weeks, but we have organized properly and we have got it ready on time.

I have divided the work between the members of my group so each one of us have had a task and we have worked fast and really involved in our respective tasks.

Paula, our star this week, looked for information in a book from the fourth grade of primary school of science, translated it to English and elaborated what she was going to speak about in her exposition on Monday.

Ángela and Clara searched photos on internet related with the different ages of the history and elaborated a power point presentation with a chronological axis to support Paula’s explanation.

Marina and Marta’s charge was to create and decorate the boxes where the different objects were inside.

Noelia looked for information about creative commons and made the first ten slides of the presentation.

And finally Holly and I did the last twenty slides of the power point with the twenty tips about how to do a good presentation.

During the time we were working in this task, we had some problems but fortunately we could deal with them.

When we were talking about meeting one day to make the work, we found some difficulties because we all have different timetables and extracurricular activities and we couldn’t meet all together the same day. Then I proposed to divide the work so people who couldn’t meet had the option of doing it at home, for example Marina and Marta were in Cartagena so they met there together to do their part.

Another problem we found was that we haven’t worked before with creative commons, so we had to search information about it and looked for web pages where we could find images or videos that we could use and because of that we worked slower.

Apart from dividing tasks, organizing ideas and trying to solve problems, as facilitator I have been controlling everyone were working correctly this week and I have revised and corrected some mistakes of every post of my partners before they publish them.

In conclusion, I previously thought that the role of facilitator was going to be boring but I have really enjoyed this role because I have felt really satisfied when I have seen that work was going adequately and all the members of my group were working hard and doing a great job.

I would want to add that we have been reading all the comments of our previous posts with the mistakes we were making in them and we have tried to solve them. I hope this week we had improved our performance and this could be reflected in our blog.

Thank you so much for reading me and I really hope you like our posts this week.