Patricia González Aldea

Audioblogs y Tvblogs, herramientas para el aprendizaje colaborativo en Periodismo

The aim of the present submission is to show the results of the study carried out with 199 students of journalism degree from the University of Valladolid. This experience evaluates to what extend blogs promote individual and group competences and skills, with the goal to determine the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative learning in the virtual environment of the blogosphere. New hybrid weblogs, audioblogs and tvblogs, have been used for practical on the subjects of News on Radio and News on Television for two consecutive courses. The experience has shown great usefulness not only in building the horizontal knowledge about the journalistic work from the classroom, the labs, and in their individual work outside the university environment, but it has also contributed positively to their community integration, enhancing negotiated decision-making and respect for the work of the others. These multimedia logs have enabled students to participate in the creation of content, in the production process, corporate design, bringing out and social media distribution, while learning to organize every element in harmonious and consistent way in order to create an independent audiovisual product related to other webs that can be used as documentary, specialized or critical complement. This collaborative experience has joined creativity, initiative, self-assessment and knowledge of online news production.The aim of the present submission is to show the results of the study carried out with 199 students of journalism degree from the University of Valladolid. This experience evaluates to what extend blogs promote individual and group competences and skills, with the goal to determine the advantages and disadvantages of collaborative learning in the virtual environment of the blogosphere. New hybrid weblogs, audioblogs and tvblogs, have been used for practical on the subjects of News on Radio and News on Television for two consecutive courses. The experience has shown great usefulness not only in building the horizontal knowledge about the journalistic work from the classroom, the labs, and in their individual work outside the university environment, but it has also contributed positively to their community integration, enhancing negotiated decisionmaking and respect for the work of the others. These multimedia logs have enabled students to participate in the creation of content, in the production process, corporate design, bringing out and social media distribution, while learning to organize every element in harmonious and consistent way in order to create an independent audiovisual product related to other webs that can be used as documentary, specialized or critical complement. This collaborative experience has joined creativity, initiative, self-assessment and knowledge of online news production.El proposito de la aportacion es mostrar la experiencia llevada a cabo con 199 alumnos del Grado de Periodismo de la Universidad de Valladolid para analizar hasta que punto los blogs potencian habilidades y competencias individuales y grupales, con el objetivo de determinar las ventajas y los retos del aprendizaje colaborativo en el entorno virtual de la blogosfera. Para ello se han utilizado nuevos formatos hibridos, «audioblogs» y «tvblogs», con los que se han construido las practicas para las asignaturas de «Radio Informativa» y «Television Informativa durante dos cursos consecutivos. La experiencia ha demostrado una notable eficacia no solo en la construccion horizontal de su conocimiento sobre la profesion periodistica desde el aula, los laboratorios y su trabajo individual fuera del entorno universitario, sino que ha contribuido positivamente a su integracion comunitaria, potenciando la toma de decisiones negociadas y el respeto al trabajo de los demas. Estas formas multimedia han permitido a los alumnos participar en la creacion de los contenidos, en el proceso de produccion, diseno corporativo, edicion y distribucion social, mientras aprendian a organizar cada elemento de forma armonica, coherente, para construir un producto audiovisual independiente que se relaciona a su vez con otras web que sirven de complemento documental, especializado o critico. Esta experiencia colaborativa ha unido en su elaboracion creatividad, iniciativa, actividad continua, autoevaluacion y conocimiento de la produccion periodistica en Internet.