Week 8. Data Collection Techniques

This week we had our data collection techniques presentation. I was so afraid because this was going to be my very first graded presentation in a different language (not Spanish). I'm glad Dr. Marianne gave me the chance to work with Hershy. It was an amazing journey from the planning to the actual presentation. We had such a continuous ideas exchange form the very beginning.

Hershy's background was extremely useful for this assignment. I should say that I learned a lot form her y I'm very happy with the final result. It was an interesting exercise because just a few months ago I was on the other side, grading my students' presentations. At that time I probably wasn't fully aware of how they felt, about their fears and insecurities. It is amazing that being here for around two months have shown me a thousand ways to be a better professor when I come back to Ecuador. I'm more grateful to my Government, to Western and my family for allowing me to live this transformational experience.

My classmates' presentations were impressive. I will especially remember Polin and Carolyn's storytelling. It was a very engaging technique, I would've never thought that the association of a story with an inanimate object could have such an impact. This reminded me of the Indigenous Methodologies class because of the respect a researcher needs to have over artifacts, words, and gestures.