Hello, I am Carmela Navarro Artés, the "Curator-farmer" of this week.
This week we have been working on the topic of Cartographic projections studying the different types of making a map.
Along this week, I have been working with the same programe used by my partner last week, the one called "Pearl tree" but this week the way of using it, has been easier than last week because I have had the help of our curator-farmer of last week, Elena Rivera, so I had to recolect all the information used by my partners about the topic of this week and put it in the pearl tree.
This time my role has been very different rather than the one of last week, the "Star" because, in that one I had to look for the information, do the poster, learn a lot about the topic (TPACK), and prepare the exposition which was a surprise because we didn´t really know how it was going to be, and this week I have been working hard as last week but the way of working has been very different.
According to the exposition, I think that all of us thought that it was going to be like last week, but the teacher suprised us changing everything.
First of all the stars had to explain all the contents together, I mean, there was just one exposition. They did it very well and as in everything there was different points of view about what was the best type. Each star talked a few seconds using their posters and differents tools, for example one group used an orange and in our case we used our power point.
After that the rest of roles had to explain concepts related to the work made along this week.
In my case I had to explain how each one can understand something depending of their experiences, cultures, education... And we explain it with an example, first of all we drew in the blackbourd a body with something in the hand, and then the people had to say what they saw, maybe it was a boy with a towel, a mother cleaning, the gardener picking cauliflowers...
So it is everything for this week, I hope that you don´t find it boring and enjoy with us!
Now we are ready to have another wonderful week of work, we will keep in contact by our account of twitter and instagram.
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martes, 18 de febrero de 2014
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.
lunes, 17 de febrero de 2014
Elena Rivera, Translator of the week
Hello! I'm
Elena Rivera and I've been working as a translator. My job is to select five
key words that help to explain map projections better. I've selected the
following words:
I've selected them because they're easy words to understand and very useful when we have to explain something related to map projections. I have learnt a lot as a translator because I didn´t know a lot about map projections. I hope I will learn more in the role of next week.
- Cartography: It's an ancient science and discipline that is able to represent areas of our planet on a map or chart. It can also represent political and cultural divisions of a geographical area, among other things.
- Map projection: It's a transformation of a 3. Dimensional surface (The Earth) on to a 2.Dimensional map. Many maps differ in the exactitude of the representation of an area.
- Distortion: It's an alteration of the original shape of an area of the planet when it's represented in a map.
- Parallel: It's a line that is imaginary and it's around the Earth parallel to the equator.
- Meridian: It's the half of a imaginary circle that is represented on a map. Its ends are North Pole and South Pole.
I've selected them because they're easy words to understand and very useful when we have to explain something related to map projections. I have learnt a lot as a translator because I didn´t know a lot about map projections. I hope I will learn more in the role of next week.
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.
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.
The Analyst work of the week, by Alba Yelo
Hello! My name is Alba and I am the Analyst this week. During the week we are working on the different theories about cartographic projections. Now, I am going to answer some questions, and at the end of the week I will grade the effort of my partners.
a. What was the best part of the activity?
The best part of this work has been realize that the size of the countries is not what we thought it was, and the subsuquent research and exposition. We learnt how to reach out to the children with the different media to explain any content on a class.
b. What was the worse?
The worst thing was to organize the work at the beginning, when we tried to understand exactly what we had to do and how to expose it at class.
c. What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?
The best moment of the week has been when we worked toghether trying to understand the different theories about the cartographic projections and how to explain it on Monday. It was the best moment because each member of the group was contributing with their own ideas, and it was easy to reach out the final conclusion.
d. What was the worse?
The worse part (like the first week) was to understand the whole work. When Linda (our teacher) exposed what we had to do we panicked because we didn't know how to start the activity, but finally bit by bit we understood what she wanted and how to do it.
e. What have you learnt?
We have learnt that real size of the countries is different from that we have studied so far, and that depends on the cartographer who did the map (his ideology, his origin...)
f. What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?
I think that we have to keep helping each other and continue providing and accepting the ideas of others members of the group. It is a good thing to work faster and clarify the ideas about the activity.
g. What do you need to improve –as a group- for the next weeks?
I think we should improve the speed of work at class because it take so long to reach a conclusion about what we have to do.
h. How THIS content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?
In my opinion, this is related in the course with the way teachers teach. I mean, as we saw with the different theories about cartography, the Mercator's proyection is the less accurate to the reality but even so, the teachers on schools teach with his map beacuse it is easier to learn with it. That makes me think that the contents of the subjects (as Psychology or Sociology) are being adapted to young people to understand them without any problem.
i. There is any evident social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)?
Of course, the cartographic projects are influenced by the ideologies of each person who did those theories.
a. What was the best part of the activity?
The best part of this work has been realize that the size of the countries is not what we thought it was, and the subsuquent research and exposition. We learnt how to reach out to the children with the different media to explain any content on a class.
b. What was the worse?
The worst thing was to organize the work at the beginning, when we tried to understand exactly what we had to do and how to expose it at class.
c. What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?
The best moment of the week has been when we worked toghether trying to understand the different theories about the cartographic projections and how to explain it on Monday. It was the best moment because each member of the group was contributing with their own ideas, and it was easy to reach out the final conclusion.
d. What was the worse?
The worse part (like the first week) was to understand the whole work. When Linda (our teacher) exposed what we had to do we panicked because we didn't know how to start the activity, but finally bit by bit we understood what she wanted and how to do it.
e. What have you learnt?
We have learnt that real size of the countries is different from that we have studied so far, and that depends on the cartographer who did the map (his ideology, his origin...)
f. What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?
I think that we have to keep helping each other and continue providing and accepting the ideas of others members of the group. It is a good thing to work faster and clarify the ideas about the activity.
g. What do you need to improve –as a group- for the next weeks?
I think we should improve the speed of work at class because it take so long to reach a conclusion about what we have to do.
h. How THIS content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?
In my opinion, this is related in the course with the way teachers teach. I mean, as we saw with the different theories about cartography, the Mercator's proyection is the less accurate to the reality but even so, the teachers on schools teach with his map beacuse it is easier to learn with it. That makes me think that the contents of the subjects (as Psychology or Sociology) are being adapted to young people to understand them without any problem.
i. There is any evident social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)?
Of course, the cartographic projects are influenced by the ideologies of each person who did those theories.
Hi, this week I have to be the journalist, so my work is about writting what my mates do at classroom and more things. We met at
the classroom to decide how the presentation would be. Firstly, we tried to solve
the doubts we had about the task of the subject. After that, we thought of the
countries that we should choose to include them in the presentation that the
star will perform next Monday. While the facilitator was talking, the rest of us were paying attention her and taking note of what she was telling us. We suggested some things that could be proper to the work and discussed it because not all the
members of the group agreed with that. We were remaining the instructions that
the teacher gave us in the last lesson, for example: we are aware that we can
not include words in the powerpoint, just pictures.
Then, we searched pictures on the Internet. The suggestions that were given by each
member of the group were being taken in account by all. We also clarified the individual doubts when
someone of the group had them, the opinion of every member of the group is very
important, so we try to do our best sharing our experience with the Internet
doing our tasks easier and more comfortable.
There is a comment that I have written in a blog to improve my task of the week
Language Teaching Tips
Language Teaching Tips
Being the facilitator, by Miriam Riquelme Gil.
This second week has been (in some aspects) easier than last week.
The main reason is that this week we knew what to expect and what we were doing better than the first. We started the week with a lot of enthusiasm and, as we asigned the rols, I tried to organize more or less the work for this week.
The first thing I did as the facilitator was to put a deadline. Every post by every single one of the roles had to be in a draft by Saturday night to avoid the last hour updates and go a little more relaxed. After that, I tried to help my group mates as much as I could, asking questions to the teachers, observing that everything was going correctly...
I think we honestly did a good job this week and that now we are getting used to work together and we are more comfortable than last week.
Personally I think I did my job well this week, but it can always be better, so I'm sure that with effort and hard work we will be a great group very soon.
Also I have uploaded some videos this week in order to document our work and to share it in the social networks.
Today it was the day of the presentations and we were nervous because we didn't know what to expect. When Linda explained how the presentations would be done, we all started working in our groups (Facilitators with facilitators and journalists, analysts with analysts...) I think this was very intesting beacuse we are learning how to coperate and work in groups.
It's been an interesting activity and I have really enjoyed it.
Finally just a reminder that you can follow us on twitter and instagram
The main reason is that this week we knew what to expect and what we were doing better than the first. We started the week with a lot of enthusiasm and, as we asigned the rols, I tried to organize more or less the work for this week.
The first thing I did as the facilitator was to put a deadline. Every post by every single one of the roles had to be in a draft by Saturday night to avoid the last hour updates and go a little more relaxed. After that, I tried to help my group mates as much as I could, asking questions to the teachers, observing that everything was going correctly...
I think we honestly did a good job this week and that now we are getting used to work together and we are more comfortable than last week.
Personally I think I did my job well this week, but it can always be better, so I'm sure that with effort and hard work we will be a great group very soon.
Also I have uploaded some videos this week in order to document our work and to share it in the social networks.
Today it was the day of the presentations and we were nervous because we didn't know what to expect. When Linda explained how the presentations would be done, we all started working in our groups (Facilitators with facilitators and journalists, analysts with analysts...) I think this was very intesting beacuse we are learning how to coperate and work in groups.
It's been an interesting activity and I have really enjoyed it.
Finally just a reminder that you can follow us on twitter and instagram
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2014
Treasure Hunt: Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
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Why
Egyptian society was so important and large along the history?
·
A
Pharaoh was the king of Egyptian society, who were the most important or who
were the most known?
· The
ancient Egypt was a very important society with and interesting culture, do you
know some aspect of his culture?
·
The
pyramids are huge structures which were used to keep treasures and to entomb pharaohs
and their queens; do you know something about their sizes and how many years it
was built?
·
What
does the word ‘pyramid’ mean?
jueves, 13 de febrero de 2014
Week 2. Roles.
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