Tutor’s assignation

October 17th, 2009

At the beginning of the third semester the university assigned us the tutor to guide our Action Research Project. She asked us for the final paper we did during the second semester. So, we gave it and after a LASAM class, we asked her about our proposal. She told us that she had many questions about it. So, that night we started to work with our tutor using skype. In the first section, we spent more than 2 hours working on the idea that we had for our Action Research project. It was difficult because she needed to see the meaning of the virtual classroom. So, we decided to plan the F2F section to make some changes.

So, we started to plan the F2F meeting but we had a lot of problems. The first date we went to the university but she had to cancel the tutorial because of a meeting; however, she spent 15 minutes to clarify the meaning of virtual classroom. she claryfied that it was a moodle platform. After that, she gave us another date to have a F2F tutorial; but, that one was canceled because she was not in Bogotá. During the week (October, 5th-9th, 2009) she sent us by mail some readings about the early literacy and she suggested us to read them to change the title and the question of the research. During the recess week we read some of them and the meeting that was planned for that week was canceled because we were in a field trip with some students of the school. Fortunately, the last Tuesday, October the 13th, 2009 we finally met at the University.

During this section she gave us feedback about the last AR paper that we did last semester. She explained us the changes that we had to do such us the research question, to modify the theoretical framework, to check another bibliography etc...

So, we started to work on the suggested changes. We wrote three possible questions:


1. What are the effects of the creation of a noodle course to develop early literacy in terms of vocabulary in four five years old students?

2. How can the creation of a module course foster /encourage four five years old to develop early literacy in terms of vocabulary?

3. How can the creation of a noodle course influence four five years old to develop early literacy in terms of vocabulary?

We sent them to the tutor by mail. Then, in a skype section we discussed about them and finally we got the new question: “What will be the effects of the creation of virtual course for independent work on early literacy development of four year olds? However, she emphasized that we had to continue working on that. After that, thinking about implementation and the suggestions from the tutor, we designed the first module.


Resources

Woman meeting. [Google online images]. Retrieved on November 1st, 2009 from http://www.sendgirlstoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/women-meeting.jpg