Gema's personal reflection about cooperative learning presentations.

Here I left my opinions and reflections about the presentations that the different teams made about cooperative learning:

Musical Chairs. This group is compound by Irene, Ayperi, Bea and David. They were the first team and I have to say that they weren't to much nervous and they did it really nice. They had a nice organization and they spoke well with a very fluent english.

They prepared all the exposition together and in the same way, I mean, when someone was speaking and the teacher stopped him/her asking another partner, we saw that they know what his partner was talking about.

They focus the presentation as it was a guide or a tutorial about cooperative learning for someone who doesn't know anything about it and they made a poster with the clear ideas and the main concepts of it.

Their activity was the boxes one. They created some teams and they gave them a box with some papers on it about a country. We had to decored it and search some information about tht country and then explain it to all the class.

I think that it was a really nice activity for promoting the participation with different partners and then for speak in public.

I liked so much that presentation.

Amigos del Football. This group was compound by: Alex, Sandra, Çisem and Melike.

In their presentation they had a really nice organization in their table where we could see that they made the most of the time that we had in class so they didn't have to meet outside our timetable.

They prepared a Power Point with the main ideas of cooperative learning and they talked about some things that the other groups didn't, for example the advantages and disadvantages of work in groups. They also talked about the importance of reward all the pupils and motivate them even if they don't do the things properly because we have to motivate them for the next time they will do it right or better.

I think that this was a really nice presentation with, in my opinión, one of the most usefull activities of cooperative learning.

Their activity was the one that was similar to a 'Diana'. It was for meet better to our team. There we had to write personal things as: favourite colour, what do we like to do in our free time and what was our favourite type of music. As I said before, this was one of the most usefull ones because we had to compare what we like and what we don't.

Team Perk. They were: Irina, Javi, Sara Granizo and Silvia.

They created a power point with the ideas of cooperative learning as the rest groups but they had something that the other didn't and it was really interesting. It was a sheet of evaluation and I think that it's a very useful thing.

Another important thing is that, for the power point, they went to a school for take pictures of the organization of the class for the cooperative learning. This make us see that they spend more time in the proyect.

Thei activity was really fun. It was the one with the tennis balls that consist on pass the ball to the partners of our time saying norms that a class have to have.

I think it was really funny and useful because it makes us see the different things that a class need to have for work properly.

Cronicas Viajeras. The members of this group are: Miguel Carazo, Zuleika, Elvira and Amaya.

This was a very original presentation because they used their name for making their power point. They showed us the cooperative learning as it was like a trip or something relacionated with it. I think that it was very original idea.

They explain really well the cooperative learning ideas and they had a good organization during the exposition in the team.

Their activity was about bring to the class something that remaind us a trip and we had to explain it to our partners of the team and then, one of them had to go out to the blackboard and explain it to the class.

In my opinión it was a good activity for talk with our team and know more things about us.

This is a very good example of cooperative learning where we share our knowledge and experiences.

Unknowns. This team is formed by: Alfonso, Virginia, Marina and Marta.

They created a prezi with the ideas of cooperative learning and I thing the most important and interesting of their work was the rotative roles and the importance that the teacher as a guide for them have.

This team introduced the topic of cooperative learning with an index, something that not to many groups did.

Their activity was really funny and usefull. It consisted on make a circle with the hole class and pass the ball saying what we like and what we didn't like. This was a nice method for knowing each other. For example, I dind't know too many things of the Erasmus girls but with that game they told us what their likes and dislikes are.

Modern Students. They are: María Encinas, Patricia, Borja, Shabaneh and Elia.

This group created a poster talking about cooperative learning and it was really good as the other ones that we saw. During this presentation we had to participate because there was a part about the different 'skills' on coopeartive learning where the teacher, Yolanda, asked each group to explain a skill.

In this presentation there was something that the teacher liked so much as it was the 'tips for teachers' for example: talking about group problems, promoting positive interdependance, etc.

They created a really funny activity that was the one of the stickers.

In this activity we had to close our eyes so our partners put us a sticker in the face. When we opened our eyes we had to find without talking, the oartners that had the same sticker as us.

It was really funny and usefull for make the kids interact and play with their partners.

Wanderlust. This team is compund by: Sara Mora, Miguel González and Belén.

This was the last team that showed us their presentation and it was the different one.

They didn't créate a power point, a prezi or a poster, they created some video for explain us de base, expertise and sporadic groups. They did it in a visual way so I think that because of that is better for us to understand it. I think that they worked a lot doing it and they did it really well. While they showed us the videos, they also explained what it was about so it was easier for us to understand it.

The activity that this team made was about in different groups we had to discuss a conclusión of cooperative learning. With that activity we made a good use of it because we share our different ideas of cooperative learning with partners of different teams.