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.