"Illustrating Words"

This is an activity inspired in the activity "Picturing Words" by Punya Mishra. We made it on 10th of February in class. It consists on illustrate fifteen concepts:

1. Future
2. Belligerent
3. Tactics
4. Fixantly
5. Learning
6. Indignantly
7. Admission
8. Teaching
9. Concret
10. Deep
11. Blatant
12. Wide
13. Dismissively
14. Stagnant
15. Succes

Every gruop must illustrate four or five of these concepts in twenty minuts. After that, the group must interchange the collection with other group and then the groups will choose a word from the list for every picture, image, etc...  Finally, the group will give back the list and images to the original group and we will analyze  in the big group what are the results of the "experiment". 

Our group ("Alpino Group") has analyzed the pictures from "The Painters" group. We have been right in four images. The four pictures represent these concepts: deep, concrete, blatant and wide. 

We have failed in one image: 

We thought that this picture were related to the concept "learning" because the picture shows a class and the students are "happy" because they are learning. But really the picture were related to the concept "admission". "The Painter" group explained us that the students were happy because a new collegue had been admitted.  

We have conclude some ideas from this activity.

1.  We have had some difficulties to illustrate our concepts due to the fact that many concepts were  abstract and difficult. For example, the terms "dismissively" and "stagnant". However, we have illustrated all the concepts in the period of time proposed. These are our pictures: 

2. We thought that is easier to know a concept with a picture because it is more expressive than a drawing. Furthermore, it is easier to recognize a photo or a picture because it shows perfectly the topic that you want to describe while with a drawing you can confuse yourself because the picture maybe is not clear due to  the painter or the different points of view (both the painter and the person who see the image). 

3. We have realized that messages in illustrations help to clarify the concept because sometimes we can't illustrate some pictures without a support (the text). An example of this is the picture related to "dismissively" because if this picture won't have text it only shows two persons apparently talking.   

4. Finally we thought that the other group have had some difficulties to find the word related to the picture number 5 (the images on the internet) because it shows two photos: One of them shows a protest and the other one shows a war situation so it is confused because it can be related to two words (belligerent and indignantly). It is the only picture that the other group has failed. 

* This has been the "summarize" of our first class. 

   See you tomorrow! :)