November 30th, 2018
Geovivència is a transversal Teleduca project that is carried out at the Instituto Barri Besòs. It consists of making a participative video about social and geographic problems in the neighborhood. Some social sciences topics are discussed (morphology, historic memory…). The videos have a sense of protest, complain and with a fun tone. The project has allowed potencialize crossed skills, and increase motivation and interest in geography and history by the students.
Teleduca is the 2nd course that participates in this project. Up to now, there has been around ten participative videos created.
In the sessions we encourage the students (divided in three subgroups of 3-4 people) to make an analysis of their surroundings, their concerns, and a later pooling to decide the topics they are concerned about and they would like to discuss.
On our side, we informed them of the possibility of working around the request of a neighbor that after seeing Geovivència 4, would like to clarify a small “error”. We gave them the option to have that in mind and the students received it positively. In no time, ideas started to arise about what we could do to incorporate it.
From this point, deciding the theme of the video was quick and easy. They are all good consumers of the internet and they like a lot the “Youtube” format
because it’s dynamic and has a sense of humor. Therefore, we are going to create a sort of feature of a youtuber that will be contacting strangers that will talk about different topics and contact people from the neighborhood.
Most likely, there will talk about environment, urban tribes, and neighborhood association topics.
