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! 

Being the analyst by Elena Rivera.

Hello everybody, I have been working as the analyst this week and it was so difficult to me because the fact that grade the work of my mates isn´t  a well job.

I have been working at home because I was so sick but I´m doing the work that I had to do. In other hand it has been a good experience for me cause I could learnt more about how grade the individual work of me team and to see what we can improve to be a better team.

To do this sumarizing video about what we have learnt has been one of the most useful works that I have done in my academic career because I have was all that I have learnt in this four-monthly.
I´m so pleased, I have learnt a lot and I want to continue learning.

• What was the best part of the activity?

         It was to creat the video about we have learnt in this subject, that is, what is TPACK, to know 

         disadvantaje to use the textbooks, to use a lot of programs on Internet like Powtoons or Pearl              tree, and more things. We have learnt to value the things that we have learnt.

•   What was the worse?

         It was to know to use Powtoons and to download the music for it in Creative Commons.

• What was  the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?

        It was when we got to use well Powtoons and we finished the video and I got to upload the                 music to the video.

• What was the worse?

         It was when we had to create and organizated the video with all the work because we didn´t                know how sumarize it in that few time. There were a lot of works that we have done in this                curse and we wanted to included all of them in the video.

• What have you learnt?                                                                                                        I have learnt a lot of things this week, it has been a very useful work because I have see all the thing that we have learnt in weeks and  also I continue learning everyday in class. I didn´t know much things about technology but now I can control many programs and their tools. I´m glad for all I have learnt.

• What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?

        I want to conserve our creativity because we are doing better things than the beginning of the             curse, we have improved it a lot.

• What do you need to improve -as a group- for the next weeks?

         We have to improve our organization and our coordination, but we are going to got this soon.

• How this content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?

        First, it´s very related with our own learning because if we use this kind of works we can see all           the things that we are learning. For example, doing a sumarizing we can have all the topics and             contents that we have learnt. In the future, it will be the class in which the teacher and the                   students review the previous lesson with a dynamic work.

Elena Sánchez and Carmela Navarro as the Jornalist

Hello everybody, we are Elena Sanchez and Carmela Navarro, the journalist of this week.
As I said before, we have been working together and it make easier our work.

This week we had to made a video which had to include all the contents that we have been studing during these weeks. This video had to be made throught different tools suggested by our teacher, for example the one used by my group "Powtoon". With this program you can do such a funny, interactive, easy and understandable presentation served with a song which make it  more dynamic.
When we started to do it we didn´t know how to start becase as our teacher said we wanted to be original, and make something different, so we wanted to include in it some pictures or records of ourselves but it was not possible so, we had to change our schemes.
Our parter Mari Luz the star of this week, suggested a great idea about the video, she recomend the idea of a video in which the main protagonist was a guy introducing the contents with pictures of our own works and also some pictures of us working together, because we have been studing what the TPACK is, how to do a good presentation, or the freedom to explain everything in a diferent way but we have also been learning how to work in a big group with many people and it is a very important aspect.

As every single weeks, on Monday we had to show and explain our work of the week. As always we did not know how it was going to be, and it was in an "Eurovision" style, first of all we watched each record and then each group had to evaluate the rest of the groups with a mark ( 12, 11, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 3).
From my point of view, it was a great lesson, we enjoied with that and we had a very good time.

Now according to other blogs we want to say that we have commented in some blogs of our class mate and other blogs, here we put the links in order to see the differents comments:


http://www.tocamates.com/los-arboles-de-mi-jardin/#comment-2983

https://plus.google.com/108174953666418768204/posts

http://elcolordelaescuela.blogspot.com.es/2011/08/cuento-de-cartas_17.html

Some pictures about this week

Miriam Riquelme, farmer.

This week I've been the farmer. I wanted to do this role because I was curious about the pearl tree thing, and I wanted to make one, like the rest of my group mates. I didn't have much to do, so I can't say I've worked a lot this week, but I've tried to put up with some things we had behind. I've liked my role, not because I have worked less (I feel bad for it) but because it's something I hadn't done before and I like doing new things.
This week I've learnt how to make an animated video, which is very cool because it's a tool to improve your creativity and to enjoy yourself while doing your homework. I also think the activity we did today in class was necesary, because in that way, we've seen what our classmates think about our job and about our way of working. We got 55 points! Which is very nice, if I'm honest.
I can't wait for next week and next rol, in the second part of the course!

Translator of the week, by Alba Yelo

Hi! My name is Alba Yelo and I was the translator during the last weekend. The topic of the week was about what we have learnt in the subject of Scholar Organization and Educational Resources. We had to make a video summarizing the concepts of all the topics we have worked about.

In order to understand better the video we did, here you have five keywords and its definition:

Learning: It is the act of gaining knowledge, just as we have done with this subject and others, and throughout our lives. We never stop learning.

Future: It is the time yet to come. Through learning that we are acquiring in this race we will be prepared in the future to teach and prepare children to be individuals.

Technology: Our future work as teachers will be strongly influenced by technology as we saw on the #TPACK's work. We also saw on #Librosdetesto that the learning shouldn't be related just with books, but on technologies. In this topic we have used technology because we had to use powtoon in order to make the video.

Cooperation:  beneficial but inessential interaction between two or more people. We have learnt how to work in a group (where there are people who has different thinking) and help each other. That will be usefull in our future, where we will be working with other teachers.

Teacher: educator and developer of minds. The video we have done summarizes all the contents we have learnt and we must have in the future in order to be a good teacher.