HISTORIAN

Hello there, I hope you are coping well with the quarantine and keeping yourself busy! 

Because of COVID-19 our classes are still online, so we all met up via zoom on Tuesday morning from 10 to 11. Linda told us what our new task would be: after reading the text „21st century skills - Rethink How Students Learn“ (Lemke, 2010) about the three innovational ideas with technology for teaching we are supposed to reflect them in a graphic story. 

First of all I will say how the roles of the week were devided:

Facilitator: Ben

Historian: Martha 

Curator: Alex, Alicia

Translator: Celia, Molly, 

Analyst: Marta, Natalia

Star: Carlos

We could decide which format to use for our graphic story. The options were cave art, hieroglyphics, cartoons, photo comics, superhero comics, modern comics and 13 Rue del Percebe Style. As a group we chose the last one. This is the example of the Rue del Percebe that Linda showed us.

Charlie had the idea to call the comic „30 days of confinement“, related to the situation with COVID-19. He designed the building with empty rooms, so each person in the group could think of a graphic situation for each room. Here is the template he created: 

The problem that connects all rooms is that everyone in the house has problems with the internet connection and the people in the rooms think of different ways to deal with this. 

On Wednesday evening we met up via zoom to discuss each of our ideas and talked about how we could make them funnier.

After that we all sent our graphics to Charlie, who then added them to the template that he made and colored them. 

On thurday we met up with the whole class via zoom again to present our finished projects. A lot of people had technical difficulties and after a while Lindas connection got bad, so she did not show up in the meeting anymore. A lot of students stayed online for a while but then after a bit it seemed like nothing was changing, so I decided to leave the zoom meeting. 

We then posted our comic in our instagram account.