Facilitator - María Mula Pérez

Hi everyone! I´m María and this week I have the Facilitator role. As we know, the last week our task was to investigate about permanencies and differences between LOE and LOMCE and all related with educational system according to this. Linda, our teacher, gave us six topics with the most information we needed. We had to realize a “mind-map” to remark the main ideas and the most important aspects. Finally, in class everybody worked together to elaborate a complex map with the ideas each group had extracted.

This week the activity is the second step of the last week. Now, we had to develop some questions basing on these mind-maps. The condition was these questions wasn´t very obvious or easy, because the next activity will be to realize a “game”, in which the stars of each group are going to participate. The winner will be who was able to answer every question, and the reward will be a white letter for the exam!

To elaborate our questions, we divided ourselves in pairs or three persons group:

-          - Esmeralda and Blanca have been the responsible to develop the two and three topics questions.

-          - On the second hand, Raquel and Rosana have taken of four and five topics questions.

-         -  And finally, Alba, María Dolores and me have elaborated the first and the last (six) topics questions.

This morning we have collected the questions of every group in the following way: we have put all our questions in order piling up in six groups, which correspond with the six paragraphs our teacher gave us the last week. Then, each pile or topic has been delivered to each group, and the three remaining groups have been the supervisors. We have chosen eight question of everyone, and these will be the representatives of the topic one.

After holidays we will have the game! Good luck everyone!

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Hello, I am María Dolores, the facilitator this week, with this role I have to be on charge of the blog, for example answering the comment of people, also I have to organize the dynamic of the group, each member was on charge of one aspect of the activity. The activity this week was about the laws, LOE is the past education law and LOMCE is the current, our mission was to note the changes between them.

The roles of this week are the following:

·         Alba and María: they are the stars, but they didn´t have to present because, on Monday, we joined with other groups to complete one of the topic of the conceptual maps which each group had to do for the activity.

·         Esmeralda: journalist she took photos and she had to do a diary to show our work, also she had to comment to other blogs.

·         Blanca: she is the Analyst, she will show some aspects of the work of this week, good and bad experience, the problems in the group…

·         Rosana: curator-farmer she is on charge to do the pearl-tree and to note the references which we used to search information.  

·         Raquel: translator, she had to extract the five most important aspects of this task and definite them.

·         María Dolores: I am the facilitator, I show here my work.

This week we had to read the links which Linda put and then we had to explain the changes in LOE which is the past law in education and the current which is LOMCE. According to this when we read the topics which Linda sent us we divided our work, María and I had to extract the main aspects in the 6 topic, Administration and Governance at Local and/or Institutional level II, whereas Esmeralda, Blanca and Alba extract 3 topic, Organization on Primary School. Rosana and Raquel were looking some web 2.0 to make our conceptual maps and with the main aspects in the laws they were on charge to do the conceptual maps.

With this activity we have known better the laws about education and we can make our own opinions about what is more adequate and if the changes are correct for students.

In short, the work was essay to do because we work very well together. However, I have to recognize that at first we didn´t know exactly what we had to do and we fell overwhelmed but finally we read the links which Linda send us and we understood better. Once do the work we realized that was easier to do than we thought at first.

But this task hasn´t finished yet, this is one of the parts of the game, with the rest we are going to continue during the following weeks.

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Hello, I am Esmeralda, the facilitator of The Little Ants during this week. My experience in this role has been good, maybe because the members of the group get on well and it was easy to work (and to be a bit bossy) with them. This week, we have been working on the dark side of textbooks. As I have to be in charge of the Web 2.0 group's life, we have been using the HT #librodetesto on our Twitter so here you can see some of our Tweets: 

Also we put some tweets during the task that Mercedes Ruiz proposed to us: 

As well, after the presentation we received some interesting comments from our classmates that help us to improve our works. 

Also you can see that Mercedes Ruiz (@Londones) wrote us some very interesting tips and comments with some reflections to think about that really motivate us to improve and continue learning: 

The role of each person of my group during this week was:

Journalist: Raquel. She had taken some photos and videos during the week and she has commented on blogs of other groups.

Analyst: Rosana. She had to evaluate the work of each member of the group. She also had to make the reflection of the task of this week answering some questions related with the topic.

Translator: Alba. She had to find the five key concepts of the task and she had to define them looking for extra information.

Curator-farmer: Maria. She had to organize a mind map and she had to put these ideas in a PearlTrees. She also has to compile the references of the resources that we have used.

Stars: Blanca and Maria Dolores. They had to explain to the whole class the reason of why we have choose the format of comic for doing the task and they had to present the comic.

Facilitator: Esmeralda.


This week the format that we decided to use for this task was the comic. We had different tasks to do so I decided to organize the group in order to do not waste the time. Maria and Raquel thought how to create and do the drawings of the comic. Rosana and Blanca started to look for one tool of Web 2.0 that allows us to update our own images to do the comic. Alba, Maria Dolores and me started to look for some resources to catch the main ideas of the disadvantages of text books and we started to do the outline of the comic. When we finished our individual tasks, each person of the group explain the others the conclusion that she had arrived, so all of us know the main ideas. Moreover, we decided together the ideas that we will put on the comic.

I am very happy with the development of the task because all the members of the group had their activities on time.

Also, I had to solve some problems. For example, we started to work with one tool for doing the comic but we were not really sure about if this tool will be the correct tool, so we talked with the teacher the next day and she told us that we must find an online tool to upload our comic. We continue looking for other tools and finally we found the adequate one.

I have to mention that we had a special visit the last Monday on our class, which was Mercedes Ruiz' visit. During that session we also talked about the disadvantages of text book and she proposed us some alternatives: we not only have to pay for text book as the unique tool to teach, we can invest our money in buying different books with colors, forms, papers with different forms and textures, etc. After her visit, we decided to include some of her ideas in our comic so we tried to improve it.

I hope you had enjoyed the final result of our comic and the post! See you!