Ilustrating Words

Hello, I'm the journalist, María! :-)
In our class today (10th february 2012) we have done a practise where we have to draw some words.
Our group is called "las camaleonas" and we have drawn the words: tactics, learning, concrete, and dismissively.
The object of this practise is knowing to draw some words that for children could be a bit difficult for undestanding. we have drawn this words like you coulds see in this pictures.

Later other group have to give us their draws and we have to guess what word represent the draw.
The group that give us their draws is called "alpino" and we have guess their words.
This words are: dismissively, teaching, deep, blatant and belligerent.
And this are the pictures:

Now we are going to answer 4 questions about this work:

1_ Have you had any problem ilustrating the concepts?
2_ How it is easier to know what is the concept, with a drawing?Or with a picture?
3_ Messages in ilustrations help to clarify the concept?
4_ Why do you think the other group have had problems to guess the Word?



1_Have you had any problem illustrating the concepts?

It was complicated to express these concepts with drawings because it is difficult to find a drawing that expresses perfectly a concept.
In addition there were concepts that were a bit ambiguous and were leading to mistakes. There were concepts that were a bit difficult to draw for being a bit abstract.
We had problems to illustrate concepts such ace 'makes concrete' or 'dismissively' because illustrating these concepts we showed that the illustration was ambiguous.


2_ How it is easier to know what is the concept, with a drawing? Or with a picture?

I think it's much easier to learn the concept through an image, because a picture is generally less precise to be drawn by hand, while an image to be captured by a camera is far more accurate and can give us more understanding of the concept you want to guess.
However, if you draw you can focus on what you want to teach, but if you're not good at drawing this can be a problem.

3_ Messages in illustrations help to clarify the concept?

Yes, because they are drawn in order to facilitate understanding of the concept. If the concept is not clear, we use the image or picture to understand. I think it’s the best way to clarify many concepts.

4_ Why do you think the other group have had problems to guess the Word?

The main reason why the other group may have had difficulties to guess has been the ambiguity and difficulty of some of the concepts that we had to draw. Because a picture to reference to multiple words.