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.

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.

The dark side of the textbooks

This week I was the analyst, Elena Sánchez Valverde.

What was the best part of the activity
In my opinion the best part of this type of activiy (make some videos)  is how to organize the caracters who are going to present the content and the way we imagine the differents results of these videos.

What was the worse?
The difficulties we have to elaborate the videos, because when you have to record, you need a camera and sometimes is very difficult to found a good camera which make goods videos, for example the mobiles cameras are really bad for this type of activity.

What was the best moment of the week?
I'm remembering the day we have to record, it was really funny seeing Miriam and Elena Rivera in the middle of the mountain acting their roles. I also remember we were laughed a lot because one group of guys walked near of us and they saw how they were acting, obviusly they laughted about this situation.

What was the worse moment?
The fist day we had to organize the different roles and the way we were going to work that week, this day we've got some differences beetwen us, but we could solve them.

What have you learnt?
We have learnt how record, how to put in common some information and ideas about making a video. We also have learnt that teachers are actors and their acting in the clasroom are esential for pupils and the way they understand the concept.

What do you need to conserve as a group for the next weeks?
In my opinion I think is very important to conserve the respect with our other mates and their ideas.
It is also fundamental we improve our organization that in my opinion this week has been a bit bad in comparaison with others weeks.

The conclusion of this week: I would like to say the group work very hard to do it the best as possible, althoug sometimes we cannot get the best results but we go on trying it and it is essential for a strong and united group. Of course we have to continue getting better some aspects, but we have not got any problem with this, because my group are considere like a group which love getting better each week

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.

Hi!
Here you are a video where you can see many disadvantages about textbooks!
We hope you enjoy with it and learn a lot

Happy Sunday :)

Being a teacher from a different point of view.

Today, we had a special class. Mercedes Ruiz, a preschool teacher, came to our classroom to talk about how we should teach in a future and she did a performance to explain it. After that we went to the street to find some picture to catch children's atention. We had to invent a dinamic and enthusiastic slogan which motivate children to study.

When we were thinking about what to do, we saw a little squirrel climbing a tree. We all decided to take some photos and after that we would think of a creative slogan. The result of our brainstorming was:

And here is the slogan: "Be natural, be educational"

Then, when all the groups had finished the activity, we went back to class and we had to present our slogan in a dinamic way. It was so funny and interesting and we all had such a good time.

Mercedes taught us how to be different teachers, how to catch children's attention and how to teach and get fun at the same time.

We are very grateful to have known her because she had such some interesting ideas about how to be a good teacher and a good performer, and we think that we can learn a lot of things from her.

Starting the work...

We are having doubts about what we must take: “Comic? Or TV publishment? In one hand, comic is creative, but in the other hand it is too short and we can’t find any page on the internet to do it free. So  finally we choose the TV publisment which is easier to do. Tomorrow we are going to meet before classes in order to record the videos. I will bring the camera and the Stars (Miriam y Elena R.) and the rest of the group will be performing. We all going to colaborate!