Stars' Post.

Hello! We’re Raquel and Rosana, and this week we have the role of stars. During the last week, we had the video of the presentation: Raquel is the voice of it, and Rosana did the sections of the video.

When we arrived to the classroom, all the stars went to the teacher’s table and put their videos on the computer in order to be ready at time. We thought that the presentation was similar to the others, but we surprised when Linda told us that she had put all the videos and each group had to evaluate to the others one, like Eurovision. Then, Linda put the videos in order to we can evaluate in the best way, being critical, although some scores wasn’t critical. When all the videos had been seeing, Linda asked us to say a summary of our video, and Rosana said: 

“We had a video telling a story about the content that we had acquired during the course, and to sum up, we did a summary of the competences.” 

After that, the stars of each group had to be the representatives of their group to say the scores of each video. When Linda chose the group that had to talk, the stars got up and say, for example in our case: 

“Hello Linda! We are Raquel and Rosana from the group The Little Ants; and our scores are... Three points for Step by Step! Four points for T8T! Five points for Education Rush Hour! Six points for C’mon Tutankamon! Seven points for Hide & Sick! Eight points for Brainstorming! Ten points for Teachleaders! And... Twelve points for... Give me 7!” 

And each group said the same, but each one with their scores, of course.

Stars: Rosana Sánchez Robles y Raquel Lorenzo Franco.

Journalist Post

Hello!! I am Raquel and this week I am the journalist of my group, ‘’The LittleAnts’’. I am going to tell you the story about our work during this week.

On the first day, we didn’t know very well what we had to do, because Linda explains the task every week, and with this explanation we can have an idea about it. However, we have to decide how we can do our work in the best way and once we have chosen it, we should decide the tools that we can use. So, first of all, we were discussing about it, and finally we decided to make a comic to show our work, because we think that it is a good way to send this message about textbooks.

In addition, we decided about what the message of our comic would be, and we wrote the dialogues between the characters of the comic. We were also looking for some photos with creative common licenses on flickr to make our comic, although we found some photos, we really thought that it would be better if we took our own photos, or in this case to make our own drawings and then digitize and upload them to flickr to achieve exactly what we wanted.

On the second day, as I have just said, we thought about the possibility of making our own drawings and digitizing and uploading them to flickr, so on the second day we made all drawings that we needed and upload it to flickr. We were exploring about the tools that we could use to make our comic online, we tried different ways; however, we didn’t know how to do it. So we didn’t do it online, we carried out both comics, the first one in English and the second one in Spanish. We knew that probably we would have to change it, but we couldn’t do anything.

One the third day, the first thing that we did was to show our work to Linda, because we knew that we should do it online, and as we imagined Linda told us that we couldn’t show our work in this way because we had to do it online. Because of that, we had to change our hole work, the first time in English and the second time in Spanish.

On the fourth day our starts showed our work.

Although we had worked twice, now we are very happy, because we have done our work in the correct way, and as far as I’m concerned it has been a nice and interesting experience, because we know these things about textbooks, however, we ignore it in our daily life and when we reflect on it, as we have done with this task. We really realize that there are more resources, that teachers are doing a bad use of textbooks and that they base their classes on them, and we have to change it. We have to fight against this power of editorials and the politicals ideas which are represented on textbooks, we have to achieve an education based on the power of the teacher’s methodology, on their ideas to use different resources to interact with their students and also to get that they learn on their own.

I have also commented in our twiter about the task and finally, I have commented in a blog of my classmates, in the Brain Storming's blog,

http://7brainstorming.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/feli-as-journalist.html#gpluscomments

and in another blog that I have found, which is really interesting, and also it talks exactly about the same aspects of our task of this week.

Journalist Post

Hello everyone! I’m Alba, the journalist of the first week of work for the course of #SoyER1314. I enjoyed too much with this role because apart from help the girls with their tasks, I was taking photos, recording videos of anything we did, it was very interesting. Also, I discovered a lot of new things watching in the other teams’ blogs and other blogs from the Internet. I liked too much Give me 7 blog (http://giveme7blog.blogspot.com.es/), in my opinion, It is very professional and looks really nice, also they’ve got interesting things from their point of view, but I decided to comment Teachleaders’ Blog (http://theteachleaderssoyer.blogspot.com.es/), I liked it because in my opinion they worked really well and have got a very good organization for me, they’ve got feeling between them and it is demonstrated in the blog. Also I found very interesting a blog which I found on Twitter about TPACK and the way of integrate its different concepts in order improve the education of our schools nowadays.

How did the Little Ants work during the week?

Day 1: We felt really confused with the links we have, we didn’t know how to work, what our teacher wanted, the way of divide the Task… so we read all the links together and started to surf the Internet for more information and examples. We divided our work and started helping each others. Our dynamic is simple, although everyone have their role, we work in pairs or threesome with all the task, in this way, we know what is doing all the team and have clear the objective of the task. So, with many websites read we started. 

At first, we decided to do a complete Mind Map, with so many things in order to explain what is TPACK, all its influences, its history…

The curator- farmer started to investigate what it’s a Pearl Tree and compiling all the references, I was taking photos all the time and I decided to upload some videos of the girls working to youtube…

Day 2: We meet again and continue working in the same way as the day before. We just have some problems with the Mind Map because we want to write on it so many things and the space was very limited. Our stars, Rosana and María Dolores started to prepare the exposition, and we worked in the blog. It was our first time doing a blog and we found it very interesting and useful to communicate our work to the rest of the world.

Day 3:  We meet to finish our work, all the team was concentrated in the task and the stars were ready to the exposition. We just have to finished our work by ourselves at home…

Monday: And the big day came… the day of the exposition was here!

Rosana and María Dolores were very nervous and also the rest of the team. We present our findings about TPACK to the rest of the class. And while they were talking it to the other teams, we were listening to the other teams’ exposition. All of them did a very good job. It is not easy to speak in English to the whole class and we take in account it a lot. The day had finished and our stars could relax a bit after the exposition. We were given a new task from our teacher and start to the think in the work of next week.

You can see some photos and videos here…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSZ8sNo3cI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_o4462ZoLQ

I hope you have enjoyed our work, see you next week!