Milli mála - 2019, Side 75

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PILAR CONCHEIRO
4. ¿A dónde vamos? Trip planner with video blog and Zeemaps30
5. Si vienes a mi país. Padlet about advices and useful tips for
people moving to Iceland to work.
In order to design these projects, it is relevant to emphazise the fact
that the pre-service teachers at UB were requested to take into acco-
unt which students they were going to work with. So, for example,
for project number 5, they knew that the two students at HI were
concerned about social issues, like proper integration of people
moving to other countries, and that their studies at HI were also
related to that issue. The five projects wanted to connect with HI
students’ interests and studies. They were designed for practicing
Spanish as a foreign language, but also to create a final product that
would fit in with the students’ lives.
4.5. Evaluation
As revealed in the introduction, for the students of Spanish as a for-
eign language at the University of Iceland, the telecollaboration proj-
ect represented 50% of the final grade, while it implied 80% of the
final grade for pre-service teachers at the UB. In this article and this
section will describe and discuss the evaluation in relation to the HI
students. Even though the experiences of both groups are interesting
and deserve a discussion, the focus on this paper will be on HI stud-
ents’ experience and in future papers the other side of tellecolabora-
tion will be explored.
The first part of the project, represented by the three tasks
described above, was equivalent to a 30% of the final grade while the
second part of the virtual exchange, where the HI students had to
work on the final project designed specifically for them by the UB
pre-service teachers, had the value of 20%. In order to evaluate the
three initial tasks and the final project designed by the UB students,
the following criteria were taken into account:
30 https://www.zeemaps.com/. Zeemaps is a mapping service. It allows to create, publish and share
interactive maps. For more information about how to use this application to teach and learn for-
eign languages see Pilar Concheiro. (2017). “En mi ciudad hay.” Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht
Spanisch, 35, pp. 4–11.