Partner search - elevator pitch

This is the next step of my clil project!!

According to my lasts posts I am going to continue enriching my clil project: Set up your company. In the previous post I was talking about the importance of collaborative learning within the classroom, but also with online projects that we would like to join. This is going to be our aim today, looking for a project to join!
I was reviewing projects in order to find the most suitable option for us to join. This project should be focused on children´s creativity and collaborative learning, it means, a project whose target has to be
creating a final product. On the other hand, the project should be related to our subject (social science) and at the same time with english language.

I came across some awesome porjects like ESL times, Piratas y libelulas or The other Kids EDU and honestly, all of them made me think about creating new projects to join them but I should be focused on my current project and finally I decided to join infoedugrafias. This online project has been created to make children develop through teacher´s guide. The role of the teacher is seen like a facilitator who will provide them with the strategies to select the correct information, how to organise it, transmitting and communicating information and so on.

So first of all, the methodology proposed from this project was the same as the teacher´s methodology I included in my project prototype. Moreover infoedugrafias is open to any project, it means that any subject your project is related to can take part in the project. Therefore, these are the two reasons that made me join infoedugrafias: methodology and freedom.

If you want to know more about infoedugrafias you can follow them on blogger, facebook, twitter and pinterest.

The way that I have chosen to persuade them is creating an elevator pitch video. The idea of this presentation is to explain those potential partners how can I contribute to their projects but only in 20 seconds. That is why I have been designing it very hard. In the video you will see the points that I wanted to highlight. Basically the presentation was focused on getting their attention and explaining them the ideas we have in common and how grateful collaborating could be for us and for the children.




The process of the video creation was a bit hard but enjoyable. First of all I started to write the speech that I would present in a document using google docs. After 4 written paragraphs I stopped writing and I decided to create a mind map divided into:

Introduction including a short presentation and something to catch their attention

Showing an educational problem or weakness

Saying that with my project we will solve the problem

Inviting them to visit my blog

Once I finished my mind map I was ready to record the video. 20 second video could take much more than 20 minutes to record it, even more than 30minutes. The best idea and as a kind of advice I would say that if you are going to make an elevator pitch do not prepare it too much. just let thinks happen. You have all this information in your brain and it doesn´t matter if you change some words, the main idea is going to appear anyway. Take risks!

About tools that I have chosen to record the video, as I did before I uploaded it in my Youtube channel click to visit it. It is a good way to keep all my videos in the same place and to allow people to watch them one after another.

On this ocassion and as the video is very short, I did not need to change anything but if you want to add some effects, add music or anything you can imagine to your videos I would recommend you Adobe Premiere Pro. You can buy it here click!

As a self reflection, I would like to say that each challenge I am facing is making me work harder. On this occasion, creating the visual methapor has been a difficult task, but a very rewarding one as well. In relation to the elevator pitch the most difficult task was trying to summarize all this information in twenty seconds. Moreover and as I said before from my point of view is crucial not only what you are saying but also how you are doing it: your voice, your face, your body, etc. All these things are taken into account from companies and sometimes we do not notice them.
To sum up I truly think that the effort was paid off, I wish you like the presentation and how the prototype is improving.


Thank you very much, see you soon.