Margarita León, José Miguel Correa Gorospe, et al.
Didactic of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression
University of the Basque Country

An experience of the use of a social network in a class of art education: students as co-producers

This is an action research project based on intruduce social network technology into an art class in the initial training of future teachers to share discourses and products, and build a collective reflection around the learning process. Our main focuses are to try, to play, to try out and to investigate new ways to communicate using the possibilities that the digital languages offers, and to do so in an open digital space where the students can see what their partners are saying and can interact with each other giving their feedback and supporting each other. A particular feature of this experience is that the teacher is one of the researchers of this educative experience and she is developing a blog as well. This teaching-research methodology has changed the classroom traditional dynamics as much as the relationships and roles, and we feel that is necessary to adopt an ethnographic approach to analyze this change since we need to understand how the meaning is built and how the students are living and interpreting this collaborative experience.