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.

Facilitator post.

Hello! I'm Rosana and this week I'm the facilitator. This role, as Raquel explained the last week, consists on organize the work of my group. I must divide, organize and coordinate the work of each member, encourage the dynamic of the group and help to the members with their problems. And finally I also have to conserve and secure the blog's quality, answer the comments, correct the spelling, etc. Like the past week, the star role have been divided between two people. The role of each person is:

~The facilitator: Rosana Sánchez
~The journalist: Blanca Puche, she must comment in the blogs of the others groups and, furthermore, she must to take photos and videos of our group while we work.
~The analyst: María Dolores Muñoz, she has to evaluate the work of the group, that is, have to answer to questions as: what was the best and the worse part of the activity, what we have learnt and so on.
~The translator: María Mula, she has to choose five important words about the activity and explain them with her own words but also with scientific resources.
~The curator-farmer: Esmeralda Martínez, her role consists on do a compilation of the references used in the activity, and has to do a Pearl-tree.
~The stars: Alba Velasco and Raquel Lorenzo, who have the most important role. They have to represent in class the activity done during the week, with a poster.

This week all the group has been working hard and I'm very glad with my classmates because they demonstrate their effort and their responsibility.

As facilitator, I said to each member of the group when they had to have the work done, because we needed that the activity was done in time for the stars prepared their presentation. In this way, we had done the poster and the whole activity on Thursday, leaving to the stars all weekend for prepare well the presentation. Furthermore, I helped to my classmates when they had any problem or they didn't understand something.

And, finally, this week I have been monitoring the twitter and the blog. This afternoon I published the post about the activity of this morning in class, about cartographic maps.  Besides, and for last, I worked with my mates in the mindmap used in the exposition.

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!

Practice on Tuesday, 4th February.

We did a practice on Tuesday, in which we have to choose five words and we drew the five words and then the teacher took our pictures and gave them to another group. In addition, we received the drawings of another group. The goal was to write in each drawing the word that corresponded to a list of words.

The word list was as follows:

1. Future

2. Belligerent

3. Tactics

4. Fixantly

5. Learning

6. Indignantly

7. Admission

8. Teaching

9. Concrete

10. Deep

11. Blatant

12. Wide

13. Dismissively

14. Stangnant

15. Success

Then, we have to choose five words, and we chose the following:

1. Future

2. Learning

3. Admission

4. Teaching

5. Success

Now, we show our drawings, with their corresponding numbers.

And finally, we have learnt with this practice that children can learn through a lot of ways and not always through large and boring texts. Although, children’s memory and imagination develops. With this practice, the children become more participative and they can interact more with the theacher and classmates.