Although we have not yet decided on a concrete topic, we agreed that we would be interested in making something as real as possible, always taking into account the pedagogic perspective. We believe that bringing to class authentic material is a propitious manner to encourage our students. Thus students could identify themselves someway with the content of the video, as well as this material could serve as a source of information for them.As far as the nature of different projects with MovieMaker in the classroom is concerned, I have noticed that film depictions of partial or entire texts are being more and more employed. For instance, the classical and popular coming-of-age novella of The House on Mango Street (by Sandra Cisneros) is represented by students from a literature class. Taking into consideration this piece of literature, let us check how the vignette “Sire” is filmed by the own students.
However, out of the ample of fields we have talked about, so far we have thought of simulating a more realistic situation, that is, a typical visit which a student makes when s/he has just arrived in a foreign country. In other words, how students copy with reality the very first days in a different country. Since s/he is in an abroad context, s/he needs to contact different administrative people to find out some piece of information.
As brainstorming, we would need to have: a couple of native speakers of Spanish (i.e., “us”) to serve as the undergraduate coordinator and the study abroad program director, who inform the students about the registration process, about the school, etc. ; and, on the other hand, a couple of students who asks about the possibilities of taking specific classes, about the requirements they should meet, etc.
All in all, for us this representation would resemble a very common situation in which students are when they begin to consider the possibilities of studying abroad. However, we are still working on this!
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