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Scenes dreaded virtual tutor

  If you are a virtual tutor or if you are preparing to play that role ... surely you will be identified with any of the following paragraphs were obtained through a query to both our students in the courses for the training of mentors and tutors in exercise the role.

"What they learn will be useful"

"I am very concerned that participants do not take anything they can assess for your task ..."

  "... The most frightening scene should be the fact that I publish content or material prepared not have the impact I'm looking for ..."

"Will succeed in motivating"

"... They get bored and have no interest in participating."

  "... The hardest part is keeping the interest of the participants during the course ... if there is not much interactivity and a good atmosphere, is that people become unmotivated and leave ..."

"Learn"

"... The appropriate design of a course and maintenance not only of interest but the learning that each of the users get from this course and the usefulness of the work."

"I will be able to"

"... I also scary" not living up "when the group is demanding or highly educated people."

  "I understand students'

"Another was explaining things to think as the word was so easy, but writing them I were complex."

  "... The fear of evil interpreted what I wanted to convey through writing, a situation which is sometimes different in the face to face, which gives you the opportunity to clarify or repair faster. So sometimes, I happened to have to think about what I write, a little more, delete, read, write back and clarify what I meant. "

  "... When I first started writing I was really scared, because" what is written, is written, "had the feeling of being observed constantly."

  "... Write directly what comes out, see the" censor "and correct it. But with practice and considering the time it could take was betting more spontaneity. "

  "The fear of authority"

"... With regard to the relationship coordinator, managers at the beginning was more paranoid about everything is written and read by others ... now I'm relaxed!"

  This selection of ideas allows us to reflect on the scenes feared refer to all aspects of the teaching-learning process in virtual environments. Dreaded scenes can be generated from the use of technology as something outside of the ability to control and therefore causes uncertainty, but also relate to the idea of being evaluated by both the group and by the authorities, this implies a high level of exposure that is written communication, as not can be ignored or forgotten also the ghost of their own vulnerability, of their own deficiencies. Here also is present social imaginary which gives the figure of the traditional teacher a series of requirements that lead to position itself in a powerful and owner of subject knowledge, that you can not go wrong.

Driving away the fears

  Does it go away dreaded scenes? Surely not, virtual reality can be constructed as the ghost that causes blockages and scenes feared, that, as elucidated may be experiencing and will minimize. Express them, share them ... it was with Hernán Kesselman (1977) "the multiplication of conflicts or scenes feared conflict relating them to the scenes of all his companions, mingling their conflict with the conflict of others. Adding to their anxiety and their own defenses, the repertoire of the anxieties and defensive modes of others face the same issue "

Basic fears and defensive forms appear throughout the work, pass through and affect him, so there could be blocks ... there are perceptive, personal / historical, emotional, chronic or situational, cultural, professional ... are putting the brakes on creativity in the performance the role and determining a link type that transcends the guardian and is installed in the group.

The role is to process it, produce it and give it an internal place, ie, the guardian must build internally to develop abroad. This means that you worked on while working with others. Develop an attitude of continence to himself and to others, to establish the necessary distance to the task and the group ... build your role while holding the virtual group construction.

When we are guardians we emphasize key aspects that allow to overcome basic fears:

* Focus on the task-goal of the course

* Depth knowledge of course content and technological environment in which it develops

* An emphasis on building and sustaining the network link

* Develop a fluid communication style, horizontal and honest with both the group and with their peers.

Training is a key to develop, strengthen and sustain a creative state, "... a synthesis of consciousness and unconsciousness, feeling and reason, wakefulness and sleep"

Fidel Moccio characterizes a creative person as follows: "... that shows great intellectual curiosity, adapting, and combining in a very particular information are independent figures who are flexible about means and goals. They are very perceptive, they realize things get much more what is the context in which they move and can discover the needs that you have a particular context, what would it take to make things work better "

Good description for a virtual tutor, right?

"What if instead of planning so we could fly a little higher?"

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Material and Sites Consulted

Kesselman, H.: The mystery of the group dynamics in "Clinical and Analysis Group" N ° 5, Madrid, 1977

Moccio, Fidel: Towards creativity, Place editorial, Buenos Aires, 1991, Page 16

Moccio, Fidel: Towards creativity, Place editorial, Buenos Aires, 1991, page 94

By Beatriz Aquino (Tutor Net-learning)

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