Being the star by Elena Rivera.

Here you can find the 36 questions about the topic 4:

1. If a student resides in a rural area and must move to another nearby town to go to school, who will pay the transportation costs, school meals and boarding?

2. What has changed with LOMCE regarding co-education?

3. How canthe academic record of a child be evalued for admission to a school or for the contrary does that academic record interffect for her/hisadmission?

4.Distance education is a modality of Organizational variations and alternatives in primary education, but it is not the only modality that use this model. Which oher types of education use it?

5. For economic reasons, a child decided to leave school. Two years later he has decided to come back again but he cannot attend classes regularly. According to LOE and LOMCE, may he do it by distance  education? Which resources  will he use?

6. What purposes have the Spanish-Moroccan programs? By what way are they trying to get better results?

7. Sara's family has to move to Canada to find work, because in Spain they can't find it and their parents can't pay the mortgage. What kind of distance education should ask your family to Sara?

8. Moanes is a little town in Asturias with small population centers. What type of school has this town?
Of what level are the students who are in this type of school?

9. Hassam and his family have just moved to Spain. Hassam is 10 and does not speak much Spanish.What type of provision parents have to ask the school for your child to be integrated?

10. Imagine that you're going to be a teacher in a rural school in which it develops the Yearly General Programme and in which you'll work with Pre-Primary and Primary students. can you tell us what type of rural school will be it and what will be your purpose in it?

11. How are the activities in this program?

12. If you visit a school which provides pupils non-regularly attending school with education attention to coordinate home teaching programmes and pupils at compulsory schooling age are hospitalised for a long term, upon what type of school are we talking about and how is its organization?

13. The Tomson family, like six other families, has to trevel form one place to another with their own circus troughout the year, which provide some instability int he school year of their two sons. The Tomson want to ensure the continuity of the educational process of their children and clain that scheduling and sequencing of the teaching-learning process will be given in an appropiate way adapted to the particular context in which they live. Where they have to resort to request an itinerant classroom and to educate their children? In what type of education can enroll their children?

14. If a primary education student cannot come to class due to, due to personal, social, geographic or other exceptional circumstances, what kind of measures he could use? And which are their main characteristics?

15. What is the main objetive of the bilingual centers (convenio MECD and british council) and who are they destinated for?

16. Imagine that you work in a school where there are some Moroccan pupils. What type of provision should the school count with and how it works?

17. Do headmistress or a headmaster need to have specific and complementary studies at his or her degree? Or can any teacher be a  headmaster?

18. Regarding the school autonomy, educational administrations have the freedom to create work plans outside of their curriculum. So, could these plans affect students in their titles obtention?

19. Will the headmaster decide about the students admission? How?

20. How is the organization at rural schools?

21. Which type of provision have pupils double enrolled and how is their organization?

22. Which kind of pupils receives and non-regular schooling?

23. Do you think those students from the rural schools will have the same opportunities than the others form the cities in the future?

24. In a primary school, can the students be members of the school heard?

25. According to the organizational variations and alternative structures in primary education, if you go to a bilingual school, in which country are you going to study and under which curriculum?

26. The head teacher of a state school doesn't have enough bilingual teachers this year because two of them have retired. In the interim lists of Board of Education are not enable. What can he do?

27. Which do you need to receive distance education?

28. According to the bilingual teaching: which languages are tauht and why are they taught?

29. If you were a primary student children, What could you do with your studies if you were sick  and your illness couldn't let you leave your house/hospital?

30.During which period of time can the itinerancy and non-regular schooling educative responses be applied?

31.Who has to authorize the pupil for being able to recibe a distance education?

32. What does the CRIE take into account for making the Yearly Action Plans?

33. What should do the student who want to study by distance education?

34. For a centre to be bilingual, which organs of government need to be in agreement?

35. What are the differences between rural schools?

36.If a student at compulsory schooling age who have to move from their habitual residence during the school year because of their families' temporay job. and he/she can't go to class, what kind of provision he/she need? And how is this organized?

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!

Journalist by MªLuz

http://7brainstorming.blogspot.com.es/

http://blogdelareformaeducativa.blogspot.com.es/

Being a Farmer

Here I let you the link of the pearltree.

http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-s=1_10934129&N-f=1_10934129&N-u=1_1875555&N-p=106522986&N-reveal=2&N-fa=10934129&N-pw=1

Miriam Riquelme Gil, Translator.

Being the Facilitator by Elena Rivera

 Finally, I want to say that I have chose this way to express myself because it's something new for our blog. I hope you like it.

Carmela Navarro as the analyst

Hello everybody, I am Carmela Navarro, the analyst of education rush hour of this week.

We have thought that do records is an other way to explain what we have done this week very original and interactive. We hope that you have fun watching the records.

Conceptual maps about Educational Laws

Hello!
Here your are our Mindmeister about the first and fourth article where you can find the differences between the Spanish Educational Laws, LOE and LOMCE.

This conceptual map is about the first topic:

 Next, our conceptual map about the fourth article:

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

Being a Curator Farmer, by: Alejandro Orenes Almira

Well, first of all I would want to say that the assignment of the role of "Curator Farmer" was the least wanted for me at the beginning of the subject because I didn't know how to do a pearl tree and I thought that it will be very difficult and I couldn't do it. Now, I think that doing a pearl tree is very easy, I could do it alone and I had nothing to worry about. I just had to put some links in some pearls, these links were about the three advertisements we did, the twitter account of Mercedes Ruiz: @Londones and the information of the words that were included one of the videos.

The topic of the activity of the week was: The dark side of Text Books. Me and my mates met at the university to do some videos about the topic showing a clear critique of the text books showing the results that the students acquire from the text books and comparing them with the results that students acquire from the teachers. The advertisements were seen at the classroom during the presentation.

Me and my mates compaired ourself with the Text Books learning that we, the teachers, are much more important than the text books because althought they are plenty of information they can't improve the students' culture as teachers do.

My next role is the "Facilitator", this is an important role and I will try to do my best to achieve our objectives.

Here you are the link of Pearltree where you can see our new work!
http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-fa=10693568&N-s=1_11008605&N-u=1_1823996&N-p=107312211&N-reveal=5&N-f=1_11008605

Mª Luz as a translator

Hello everyone!
I'm MªLuz, and I have been the translator this week when we have discuss about textbooks and its desadvantages. It is a interesting content because we know that many teachers want to change their methods in order to teach but, do they choose their own methods?

First of all, we have to know different concepts that will help us to understand the really textbook world.

- Editorials: Type of company in charge of editing and providing books in order to send it.

- Methodology: The system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline. In this case we can define how teachers decide to give lessons.
(Wordreference, 2014)

- Business: Organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers for profit. We can say that editorials believe eduacation like a business, since if they send more books they will make money.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)

- Curriculum: The planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. Teachers have to teach certain concepts that appear in an official curriculum. Moreover, they have to evaluate according to this document.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)

- Textbooks: Manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)

I have chosen this concepts because all of them are member of a educational chain. I mean, we can see TEXTBOOKS in a school, because we need it in order to comply our stage of education. Schools and teachers use a lot of books, for this, they request advice on how to use them. That is why EDITORIALS see in the sale of books a opportunity to obtain more profits,but sometimes editorials would see education like a BUSINESS, no like a right.  Moreover, schools have to follow a CURRICULUM where appear the contents and objectives that they have to get, therefore schools look for "the best" METHODOLOGY in order to teach, but are books really appropiate for teaching? Could we change our traditional way?

I think that Education is more important than a business, so editorials would have think more on children than theirselves. Besides, schools as teachers must improve or innovate the class and the methodology, set aside the books and the enormous amount of contents that we can find in them.

Finally, I want to congratulate to Mercedes Ruiz (you can find her on Twitter @londoness) for her visit. We enjoyed a lot with her and we leart so much about new methodology that we will be able to practice.
Have a nice week!

Carmela Navarro Artés, "The Facilitator"

This week I have been working as the Facilitator.
I think that this week we understood what we had to do since the first moment, so it make easier my job as the "Facilitator" and also the groupal work, so because of that it haven´t been such a difficult work for me.
I started my work as the boss understanding well what we had to do, then I explained it to the rest of the group and I also have been tweetting.

According to the groupal work, we started the week thinking aabout an original way to show to the class the negative points of text books, then we continued recording some videos in different places and finally the star explained each one of the recordings to everybody on Monday.

With this activity we realise that text books are not necessary at all, and there are many different ways to explain the concepts or the contents.

This week we had the visit of Mercedes Ruiz (@londoness) and with her we learnt that we are free to explain and teach what ever we want, she was a great teacher, very funny, friendly and also familiar because she made us fell very confident and ready to do all the activities that she presented to us. With her we did an activity in which we had to explain something in an original way with a slogan and then explained it, we chosen the slogan "Smirrel the Squirrel", with a picture of a squirrel jumping in the University, and we wanted to explain that the nature is everywhere.

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!

Journalist, Alba Yelo.

Last week we were working about the dark side of text books. After the brainstorming we decided to do three TV publishment against the text books. 

I found a blog which talk about this topic and it helped us to understand better the topic, so I wrote a comment in spanish (the blog is written in spanish) on it.

Here it is: http://blog.lamiradapedagogica.net/2007/08/libros-de-texto.html

We meet to record it and after 3 hours we finnished and we were proud about the results of it.

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!

Miriam Riquelme, being the analyst.

What can I say of this week?
So many things have happened that I don't know how to start. I won't say that we had plenty of problems, because my groupmates have already said it. This week has been, in my opinion, a big mess.
The week started in a very weid way, because we didn't actually know how to do the practice for this week. After a lot of thinking and asking our classmates, we started to develop our idea. The first thing was to pick a topic which hadn't been picked by any other group, because we wanted to save ourselves some problems with the rest of the class. We chose "The Layers of the Earth" because we thought it was something easy, practical and useful.
Our main mistake was to work separated. Each of us started making our part of the work and we messed things up. I have to admit myself that I had trouble with the Powerpoint, because I thought I had to do something and I was wrong.
We also had some problems of bonding. We've fought a lot this week, but that doesn't mean that we don't get on well anymore. For the well being of the group, we acted like civilised people and we finally worked things out.
As the analyst, I've had a hard time because I didn't know how to grade my groupmates. It is difficult to decide in this situation because all of them are classmates, some of them even good friends, and I never thought I'd had to grade them. In general, this week all of us could have worked way better than we did, but with effort and  determination we will get better and better.
Now, I'll answer some questions about our work this week.

What was the best part of the activity?

For me, the best part of the activity this week was making it for children, not for our classmates. It was the first time we did something focused on the learning of the pupils and not on University students.

What was the worst?

In my opinion, it was when we were clueless about what we had to do. We were all a bit nervous and we were frustrated.

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

When we realised what we had to do and started working with a lot of enthusiasm and doing our best.

What was the worst?

The worst part this week has been the lack of compenetration and the amount of disagreements between us.

What have you learnt?



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

We need to conserve our enthusiasm and our effort. We really make our best every week, and if we continue, we will get very far.

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

I think we should improve the organization and the way of working. We need to be focused on the work and not on trivial things such as fights or disagreements.

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

I think this content is strongly related to everything we do in the degree because when we make a slideshow, we have to bear in mind that Creative Commons is something very important and we learn to reference our work and to give credit to others for their work.

Is there any social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)?

Of course. Intellectual property has been a very discussed topic in the last few years because of the author's rights and everything in the musical area or in the movies.

Carmela Navarro, the translator.

Hello, I´m Carmela Navarro Artés, the translator of this week.

First of all I want to explain the development of this week.
We started doing a draft about our exposition, in which we had some troubles because we didn´t really understeand what we had to do, but after some hours thinking about the patterns, we did it as well as we could.
We also talked over  between us because we had different points of view but at the end we resolved everything and continue doing our job as if nothing had happended.

After that, on Monday our stars did the expotition and they did their best.

Another work that we had to do, was do two slideshows, but we didn´t understand it well and we thought that we had to do three power points, one explaining the creative commons, another explaining how to do a suitable exposition (incluiding some contents about how to do a good presentation), and the last one the presentation of our topic, "The layers of the earth". When the teacher explained to us what we really had to do, we had to start it all over again.                                                                                                                        
According to my work, I had to explain five concepts which from my point of view have been important to understand what we have done this week. This five concepts are going to be: Creative commons, the Earth, the Layers of the Earth, the concept of volcano and the concept of tectonics plaits.

Creative Commons: it is a board of directors who want to find a balace between the public and private interest according to stablish some limits by the author in the use and exploitation of this resources

(neoteo, 2007)

The Earth:  The earth is the third planet from the sun in the solar system, orbiting between Venus and Mars and has one natural satellite, the moon. It is compound by three parts the crass, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

(Press, 2014) (My school house, 1999-2014)

The layers of the earth: there are fou different parts: the crust is made mostly of rock, below the crust is the mantle, which is made mostly of solid rock, and it is the thickest layer of the hearth, it is also very hot. The center of the hearth is called the core, and it is extremely hot, it is further divided into a outer core and an inner core. The outer core is a liquid layer of melted nickel and iron. The inner core is made of solid nickel and iron.

Volcano: it is an opening in the Earth's crust from which lava, ash, and hot gases flow or are ejected during an eruption.

(The free dictionary, 2009)

Plate tectonics: Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that attempts to explain the movements of the Earth's lithosphere that have formed the landscape features we see across the globe today.

Briney, 2014)

References.

http://www.neoteo.com/que-es.creative.commons (neoteo, 2007)

Briney, A. (2014). About geography.com. Recuperado el 25 de februay de 2014, de http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/Plate-Tectonics.htm

My school house. (1999-2014). Recuperado el 25 de February de 2014, de http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/69.asp

Press, O. U. (2014). Oxford Dictionaries. Obtenido de http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/earth

The free dictionary. (2009). Recuperado el 25 de february de 2014, de http://www.thefreedictionary.com/volcano

A new role for this week. Elena Sánchez Valverde

To describe my role this week I would like to say that to be a Facilitator is a bit more complicated than I thought.

Lasts week I was able to understand perfectly my role, but this week we've had some troubles, for instance to when we organized the work between all of us, I made some mistakes.

First of all, I had to understand what we had to do but I have to say I was wrong. Maybe you're wondering, why. The thing was that I understood we had to make three differents Power Points, when actually we only had to make two. But I have to add that we were able to check it and to fix what was wrong. It is interesting how we can create a lot of difficulties when  the work is  actually easier than we think.

To begiin to describe the work that I have done this week, first of all I met with some other people of my group along last week, and we put in common the things we had to include in the presentation of last Monday. That day we'd got some differences between us, but at the end we made up and we tried to do the best for our group and for our work.
On Saturday I started the day telling one by one the things ( the slides) they had to do for this week. It was so difficult because when you have to decide and to organize a group of many people you've always got some douts about who dit it better, even though my group helped me and all of us did the diffents slides together.

As a Facilitator, I encourage up my group to improve some aspects of our work, for example, improve the design and the contents of the blog, and other things. Yesterday we talked to Linda, the teacher of the course, she gave us some piecees of advice to improve the design of the blog to impress the readers.

To conclude I have to say there are some roles which I haven't done yet but, at the moment I think this is the most difficult of all, the explanation of it is because when you have to guide the work of others and these other people are your classmates and some of them are your friends it is complicated, because you want to do your best, but also you have to understand their different ways of working.

Mª Luz Rodríguez, curator-farmer.

Hi everyone!

I'm MªLuz the "Curator-farmer" of this week. These days, we have worked on Layers of the Earth, because this topic is very common in primary education where children learn about enviroment and nature. 

We have found a lot of problems in order to do our work this week, for example, when we were looking for the pictures. That is because we had to choose  pictures with Creative Commons License and there were very few but we got them finally. Another problem this week has been the Power Point where the font and the basic rules did not follow.

This week I did my work in the following way: First of all, we have done the Power Point in which pictures of the layers of the Earth appear. As I am the "Curator-Farmer" I have put the different links in order to do the PearlTree. After that, I have had to do another power point that it explained how to do a great slideshow. For this, I have read many webpages and I have seen a tutorial. The slides have been done according to this tutorial webpages and we have tried to do them as well as possible.

Moreover, this week like a "Curator-Farmer"  I have problems because the references of the pictures were not very clear, authors and dates were confusing and I have found pictures and webpages where the author did not appear. I think that the role of "Curator- Farmer"  is different rather than my last role because the "Star" has to explain the topic while the "Curator-Farmer" does the PearlTree only, both roles are important but different because the first one does its work in public while the second one works with the computer.

I think that the team work very well, but we should improve our blog and our contents. Education Rush Hour has this blog where you can see what we have done these days. I hope you enjoy reading our blog, and above all, you learning so much with us!

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

To be a journalist, by Elena Rivera.

Hello, I´ve been working as a journalist this week. This has been a very good experience for me.

Firs of all, we distribute the roles of each one in order to start the work soon. I was very interested in how to do this role because I like to do several things, that is, I want to learn with every roles. The work this week was great, we have learnt a lot of different topics. I like Give me seven presentation, was brilliant.

Secondly, we decided what topic will be present by our stars this week, it was about the leyers of the Earth that included the explanation of what is a tsunami and what is a earthquake. Then the stars prepared the presentation for the class with a Power Point presentation.

We had some problems with the letters of the slides because one of them could´t be reading well because of the color of the letter in relation with the color of the background. Despite this, we resolve this problem, and now it´s correct.

Here you can see some images of our presentation.

Presentation's day we can see some brilliant presentations, one of them is from "Give me seven". It was about the food chain and the presenter use an example with glasses in orden to explain better the topic.

Here you can find the link of their blog: http://giveme7blog.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/telling-stories-food-chainwith-dinosaurs_25.html

 I also find a blog about creative commons, it's very interesting and he explain very clear the key concepts about this. The link is: http://www.gabrielmora.com/creative-commons-y-comunicacion-corporativa/comment-page-1#comment-454

In conclusion, we think we´ll continue to improve our blogs and works in order you like more it.

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

Education Rush Hour (cheer up)

Hello everybody.
This morning when Education Rush Hour got up, we have just feel for a moment, we can do anything we propose ourselves, we believe by our own, just take a minute and ask yourselves if you believe in yours.

Have a good day and make the most of your time!

Being Farmer: Carmela Navarro Artes

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.

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.

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:

•  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.

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.

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

I  also have written a comment in one of the student's group blog: Step by Step

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.

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Treasure Hunt: Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

    ·        Why Egyptian society was so important and large along the history?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

                 

                 ·        A Pharaoh was the king of Egyptian society, who were the most important or who were the most known?

http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_egyptian_pharaohs.php

                

            ·         The ancient Egypt was a very important society with and interesting culture, do you know some aspect of his culture?

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/history/egypt/egyptianmap/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgVlXOyU10I

               

                 ·        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?

http://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/khufu-numbers.html

           

·        What does the word ‘pyramid’ mean?

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/home.html