Activities at school could be the enemy.... again.

Dear all

I have had some problems to continue with the project. First, the target group is participating in another project called "Hermes", and there are a lot of activities, and additionally to the fact that in the school some activities are not announced timely, I have had to postpone those that I had prepared for the ARP.

Well... the students have created scripts for other shows, but recordings are missing, and the software necessary for the recording has not been installed yet.

On the other hand, I got a deep migraine and the doctor have given me six days of sick leave. Consequently I have not gotten in touch with the school.

I am really worried. My plan B is the moodle platform that I designed for 8th graders. Anyway I need to talk to them.

Meanwhile, I am adjusting theoretical framework, according to the comments that I received from my project director, professor Liliana Cuesta. She has let me think a lot.

Constructs-- After the first tutorial session.

I thought that I have included in my journal, but I have not done. In my opinion, what I am going to say is important because this is something that commonly happen when conducting a research study.

After my first tutorial with professor Liliana Cuesta, I found that I had to reconsider some constructs. I did not have a clear idea about including Cooperative or Collaborative learning, or perhaps both. After reading Gillies (2007) and Barkley, Cross and Major (2005), I found more appropriate to include only cooperative learning because the participants made decisions on some aspects, but not all of them. In this study, I kept some "traditional roles" (if I can say that).

I also had to clarify which aspects of radio the participants worked, and be concrete in the terminology.