Trabajo colaborativo en la asignatura Documentación Informativa: una propuesta didáctica para conocer el proceso documental en los medios

Abstract

Intending to make the students of the subject Informative Documentation to acquire a first-hand knowledge about how to manage the different tasks of the Documentary Process (acquisition, analysis, storage, search, and recall) in mass media-related documentation centres, an exercise based in a selection of texts from specialist journals was designed. In this journals, the people in charge of some media companies file services, spell out their department's management. The exercise basically consisted in extract and present, using those texts as a basis, a series of records about every one of the previous phases, after dividing the class in small, interdependents groups. This exchange of information led to improve the individual learning as well as the group one. This text describes this didactic tool of cooperative learning experience in Universidad de Málaga students of the subject Informative Documentation, main subject in the second year of Journalism Degree in the Faculty of Communication Science. In the research results, the polls fulfilled by the students at the end of the exercise are evaluated.