Star of the week

Hello! My name is Alba Yelo and here you have a video where I describe the work of the week. Hope you enjoy and like it!

MªLuz Rodríguez like a "Start"

Hello!

I’m MªLuz, and I have been the “Start” this week in which we are ended the first part of the subject. First of all, I have to say that I had been the start before, but this week has been amazing and we have done a lot of different things that I will explain after.

According with our last task, we had to do a video in which we summarize all the previous task. It is why we have done a video using a program called “Powtoon” although we could choose between this one or “Moovly”.

In our video you can see a story where we tried to explain what we have learnt all these days. First, we see a sleeping boy who dreamt with what he is going to learn in his class, but the mother enter on his own bedroom in order to get up him.  Next, this boy who is the main character, is going to the school but he had forgotten his book bag although his mother was trying bring it to him. It is a example where we can see how the books are not as necessary as some people belive, in this case his mother. After, a teacher expalins “Cartographic projections” using a map instead of a traditional book. After the class, the boy are argueing about what they had learnt. Here we can see that the contents that we learn we can use it in our daily life. Next, there is a summarize about our social network like Twitter, our blog and our PearlTree where we have saved all the links used in order to obtain the necessary information.  We finished our video with photos in which we appear while we was working on this subject.

We showed our video yesterday, Monday 24th. We had a different way in order to evaluate, it was like “Eurovision”. Our videos were scored by the other teams that it had to award with a scoring. I was the person in charge of say the scored that our time believed that they merited. Finally, there was a tie between our classmates C’mon Tutankamon and Hide and Seek, both got 77 points. Education Rush Hour obtained 55 points like Teachleaders. It was a different assessment in which all the people enjoyed and had a good time.

See you soon with a new part of the subject! 

My experience being a Star, by Miriam Riquelme

I don't know exactly how to explain myself, because I'm still very excited and embarrased for this week's proyect.
First of all, I'll say that I've had so much fun doing the videos, I almost forgot that they were class proyects, because we were fooling around, dressing up as children, superheroes and other stuff. It's been a really good experience. Making, editing and uploading the videos has been something fun to do, because it's been different and not something we do in class every day.
When we came up with the ideas for the videos, we were not very sure if the rest of the class would catch the messages, but i think they did.
We had a last minute problem today with our other star, Elena. She came to class very sick and she couldn't do the presentation. Get well soon, Elena!
I did the presentation on my own and I think it went alright, basically because what I had to do was only to introduce the videos and explain why we chose that format.
I also think that the idea of putting the opinions on the page is amazing, because you can see what your classmates think of you and leave your own opinions there.

Work as a Star by Elena Rivera.

Last week I knew that I was going to be one of the stars with mi classmate Miriam. I got the news hopefully because to do a presentation is one of the best ways to demonstrate that I may be a good teacher. When we do a presentation about something, in this case about the disadvantages of the textbooks, we can know if we explain the topic well and if the people who are listening us can understand what are we saying.

Unfaithfully, I couldn't present our work with Miriam and I was disappointed,  but I´m going to demonstrate soon that I can do a excellent presentation, because I love to present and there will be more opportunities to do it. We have worked a lot in this advertisements with enthusiasm . In my view,  this work has been one of the most interesting works that we have done, it has helped us to understand better what are the disadvantages of the textbooks.

This are the three advertisments that we have donde this week:

Finally, I want to do completely this role again because it's one of the roles that I like a lot. To be a star is a method to overcoming ourselves and it's very useful in order to get fluency in order to present, to get creativity and to speak better in English.

Being Star, by Alejandro Orenes Almira

My role of the week was the "star" and I have done a presentation called "Layers of the Earth" with my mate Alba. We were a little nervous, so I think that the presentation wasn't like we hope. However, I think that I have learnt a lot today at classroom and I will try to do it better in the next presentation although it would be in other subject.

Last week, when I noticed my role for the week was the star I thought that I will get very nervous at the time to do the presentation, so I prepared it as soon as possible, but I have been betrayed by my self-steem and my nerves. I think that my topic was easy to study, it was about a topic that it's taught at Primary schools. I really like the universe and all it's stars so I think that the topic was suitable for me.

This week I will have another challenge, me and my mates will prepare all our roles and we will do our best at classroom and home.

This is the presentation I did with one of my mates at classroom last Monday: http://www.slideshare.net/education-rush-hour/layers-of-the-earth-31819809

Alba Yelo, one of the Stars

Hello, my name is Alba Yelo and I was the star of the week as my mate Alejandro. When we had the draft o our work "Layers of the earth" corrected, we met to prepare the presentation and learnt together how to use Google Docs, so we could both work at home.

First of all, I didn't know where I could find information to prepare my presentation, but searching on Google I discovered that best information was on National Geographic's webpage, where I found a special page dedicated to help teachers to teach topics like the one we were working about, so I took most of the information and images from there.

At least, Alejandro and me exposed the presentation today, we were very nervous, so it wasn't very well. Whebn we finnished, Linda told us what was wrong and correct on it. Thanks to her I realized that my part of the presentation could be so much better, so I'm going to do my best on the next work.

Here you have the presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/education-rush-hour/layers-of-the-earth-31819809

Being a Star: Mari Luz Rodriguez Gambín

My role for this week has been the "Star", I had to explain cartographic projection. This week the explanations have been different because all "Star" had to do a brainstorm and then we had to explain it.
First, the Stars have spoken about cartographic projection, and we have distribute what it was necessary to say. Some "Stars" have spoken about the main projections like Mercator, Robinson or Azimuthal. Finally, we have done a conclussion where a classmate has explained which projection he considered the best.
That activity has been very enriching because we have learn about cartographic projection a little bit. The stars have helped each other with their knowledge about this.
I think that the activity has had an added difficulty because we had limited time for do this. However, we have distributed the work and finally we have do it the best as it has been possible. Moreover we have learned how we have to teach to our future students according to the distortion of reality.
 I have enjoyed a lot with this rolen because I have learnt so much about cartographic projection, geography and Treasure Hunt. I hope that this subject is used for learn about a lot of areas of knowledge.

To be the Star, a new experience. Elena Sánchez Valverde

This week my role has been really intense and different if I compare it with the role I did last week. First of all this week I have been sharing the role with my other partner Mari Luz, and we have to looked for a lot information on this topic because we wanted to understand well the authors' different points of view
and also want to communicate the knowledge which we have had acquired to our classmates.
Today Mari Luz and I have presented the explanation of three authors and their three projections with the others stars of the class.
Linda has really surprised us due to all stars have prepared an usual type of exposition by our own or with the partner of our group, but when we have put the different works in common we have found some problems, after comparing and deciding what ideas to explain and how we should present the contents. It was easy to share out the contents so that everyone could speak
Last week I thought being the star was the most important role of the group since he or she has to show to the rest of the class the contents in which the group has been working, but this week I do not think the same. In fact, today all roles have had to explain some part of the work from this week, and I've liked it because then we all have shown his or her best way of work, which in my opinion is a really dinamic way to work.
I also want to share in this post that today I have learned the importance of pronouncing well each word. That's why today  I was wrong when I have said '' a map is a graphic representation of the real world in a piece of shit'", when what I wanted to say was ''a piece of sheet'' and of course, everybody laughted of it. That's normal, but I have to take care with this because someone may feel bad, despite that not being my intention
In brief, everybody has had to work a lot despite his role, and each Monday we will be surprised in any different way.

Elena Sánchez Valverde.

Star, by Carmela Navarro Artés

My role for this week was the "star", and like the others, it has its positive and negative aspects. 

From by point of view the role of the star is the most representative, because you are the one who speacks to the public and you show what you've really learnt and understood about the content, in this case the TPACK mode. 

As for the exposition, any of us expected the way it was, we all had in mind the usual exposition in front of the whole class.

Presenting the same content for each group was easier because you're not exposed to the 100% of the class, but you're doing it step by step and it's more personal because you can appreciate if they are paying attention, their facial expresion...

Working in group but with some specific tasks, helps to get all of us to do something and to be a part of the group work. 

Let's see what we have to do next week!