TRANSLATOR by Verónica Cost

Hello guys !

I´m Verónica and  this week I´ve been the translator .So I had to define 5 items that I think ,it was very interesting.

The words are: Bilingual teaching, Home teaching ,LOMCE,Rural School, diversity.

Bilingual teaching: Education in an English-language school system in which students with little fluency in English are taught in both their native language and English.

Home teaching:Is a teacher who go to the house of the student to teach her /him ,because  he or she cannot take teaching through the ordinary in-class education.So ,in that case is developed the modality distance education.

LOMCE: It is a law of the Spanish legal system as a matter of Law amending the Organic Law 2/2006.This law make a changes from the last law.

Rural School:This kind of schools are provided for small towns ,to pupils of pre-primary and basic education. The school development plan and the Yearly General Programme are similar in every gathered schools.

Diversity: In the Spanish Educational System you can see that the school has to attend to all the students , regardless of the possibilities which each student has. In order to guarantee that everyone access to education

So I hope that those words can help you for doing a good exam.

Greetings from Germany, München.

ANALYST ROLE by Amelia Avilés

Hey dear bloggers!

Here we are one more week and I'm glad to tell you that it has been our first week working in the second part of the subject: "School Organization". This week it is my turn to be the analyst of my group. From my point of view this is not an easy role because as the analyst I have to be fair and completely honest, marking my mates with the grade that they deserve according to their work during the week.

This week we have had to make two different conceptual maps, in our case we made the conceptual maps from topics one and four. The best part of the week has been discovering a new web 2.0 to make the conceptual maps, it is very useful because is a simple way to organize different ideas and it is a good way to use to study. Also, another good part of the week has been learning the differences between LOE and LOMCE because as future primary teacher we must try to be up-to-date with the changes in the educational system. On the other hand, the worst part of the week has been agreeing they way in which we were going to make the conceptual maps and also deciding the web 2.0 to use. Besides, this week has been a little bit more difficult because two members of the groups were missing for a few days because they went on a trip but when they came back they did their part of the work. The best moment of the week was they day that we all met in order to make the work because we always have fun together while we are working and the worst part was the day before of the delivery of the conceptual map because some problems with the desing came up.With this first part of this activity we mainly have learnt how the educational system works and how it it organized. As far as I’m concerned, as a group we need to conserve the amount of ideas that all the members of the group have, and on the other hand, we need to work harder when we meet each other because we haven't got much time. We have to improve so many things but it is hard to coordinate each other since we are seven.

That's all for this week guys!

Translator

Hello people! My name is Laura, and this week I have been the translator .I’ve chosen the five definitions which I think were the most important.

The task of this week was doing a video with things that we have learnt in the subject.

Therefore, the words that I chose are:

TPACK; Presentation; Creative Common Licences; Moovly; Jamendo.

First of all, this week we have done a video trough the program Moovly ,where we have summarized all the things that we have learnt

Then, we can define Moovly :

Moovly is an online tool that allows teachers to create animations and videos, with photos, transitions, info graphics etc. Moovly lets you create original designs, it is free and easy to use.

In addition, we learnt how we make a good presentation.

Presentation: The presentation by programs such as Microsoft Power Point, allows particularly in the field of education the entrance of information in both auditory and visual channels, which allow the student to better capture the information.

The presentation must be based on clarity, attraction to the receiver etc .And the presentation that we expose in public we have to use resources with creative common licenses.

Creative Common licenses: It is an organization that allows authors of images, video, text or other resources which are on internet can be shared by other users.

Other thing, that as teachers we can use for doing a presentation  ,is the music , we can find webpages ,where have music with creative common licences.For example Jamendo.

Jamendo: It is a open community where the authors of songs can share their music for free.

 TPACK : The TPACK are acronyms that belong to the meaning of technological pedagogical knowledge. It is a conceptual model that provides teachers, a mental framework for thinking about the different areas of knowledge relating to education, integrating Technology, Pedagogy and Content in teaching

FARMER by Verónica Costa

Hi everyone!

This last week of resources I've been the costumer-farmer again. So for doing the video of the summary of the classes, we have been using the next web pages:

-Editor Moovly, Moovly http://www.moovly.com/

-Moovly, (30/06/2013). Getting started with Moovly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVZFjoMWr40

-Moovly, (30/06/2013). How to use the Move animation in Moovly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORAxIG4sM8

-Royalty free music, Jamendo http://www.jamendo.com/en/

ANALYST ROLE by Andrea Bermúdez

Hello everybody!

I'm Andrea Bermúdez and this week I have worked like the "Analyst" of my group. My role consists in evaluate the work of my partners and answer some question about our work of this week:

What was the best part of the activity? 

The best part of the activity of this week has been to do the video, because has been very interesting use moovly and make a summary of all the content that we have learnt. Another good part has been the exhibition of the videos and after that the ratings of "Eurovision".

What was the worse? 

The worse part of the activity has been the distance among the group, because we have done practically all the work each one at home and we have had problems with this.  

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

The best moment of the week has been the exposition this monday, because all my classmates and I have had the opportunity of see all the videos and score them afterwards. This moment has been very fun and entertaining.

What was the worse? 

This week there hasen't been any worse moment, only the lack of time has been a worse moment because we have had a lot of works to do.

What have you learnt? 

We have learnt to do a moovly project and summarize better all the contents that we have learnt during this previous weeks. 

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

We need to conserve the comunication among the components of the group, because it's very important to do a good work. Also we need to conserve the good relations among ourselves because a work is more bearable if we have good feelings.

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

We need to improve the way to do the work because we don't have much time to work together and we aren't conscious of the time that we need to do it and when we are together we should take advantage of that time for not going with hurry way on the weekend. 

How THIS content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?
This content is related to all the contents that we have learnt in this subject because it's a summary of all that we have been doing and learning during this previous weeks. Also this content is related to another subject of our degree, Research and ICT, because is a subject in which we have had to manage the new technologies and we have learnt other kind of things differents to the subject School Organization and Educational Resources. 

There is any evident social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)? 

No, because this activity has been a reflexion about our previous work in the subject and in the final results we haven't seen any evident social connection, because it hasn't been one content, it has been a mix of contents. 

These are all the things that I can say about our work of this week, because it has been a work in which all the components of the group and I have participated doing each one a part of the video and reflexing together about what should appear in the video and how.

Doing this roles and this works have been a good experience and I know that we have learnt a lot of things with this activities.

I hope that you like all the things that we have been doing until now!

Greetings!

STARS

Hi everybody!

 This week Noelia and me have been the stars of the group and as you know we have to do the presentation of the work of our group during this week.

This week we have done a recopilation of all what we have learnt during the seven weeks of the part of Resources( TPACK framework, how to do a good presentation, cartographic projections, treasure hunt, the dark side of textbooks, how to use different tools like flickr, slideshare, moovly..). Today we have shown it to our partners and each group have had a punctuation from the others groups, we get 55 point but finally, Hide & seek and C’mon tutankamon had the highest scores (77 points) and won the game and our teacher, Linda is going to invite them to a snack!!  ( a good motivator in my opinion )

Here, there’s a picture with the final scores:

Nerea and Noelia

Journalist role by Amelia Avilés

Hey dear bloggers, here we are one more week!

This past week has been an important week; it has been the final week of one part of the subject, named Educational Resources and from now on we are going to work in the part which is dedicated to School Organization. We are very excited about it and we are sure that we are going to enjoy it as much as we did the previous weeks.

Coming back to what concerns us, this week, in order to reflect what we have learnt during all this semester, Linda asked us to make a video presenting the things that we have learnt thanks to her in this time, and for that we had to use an online tool. We, The Teachleaders, chose "Moovly". I have to say that I didn't know about the existence of this tool and it's amazing! you can do a lot of different videos easily and the final end is excellent. So if you have to make a video soon don't hesitate to use it, it's very useful.

Once Linda gave us the instructions to follow we met each other in order to discuss how we were going to make the video. We had a lot of different ideas so as to agree all of us we made a storyboard, pretty similar to the one that we made a few weeks ago to prepare our "Human Evolution" presentation. After puting all our ideas in common, we finally decided how to make the video, but before starting we divided the work in order to work all of us. Each one will do a different part of the video so we started working. Some problems came up, for example we made the videos separately and when we finished them we realized that they couldn't be put together, so we had to make it again. At the end we solved them! :)

This week has been a little bit hard for us due to we had to make a lot of works for other subjects, we couldn't meet each other the same days and other things, but we managed to make the video. During the week some differences between us came up but as a group we solved them, it's very difficult to work in team and much more difficult if we are seven people. Nevermind we've managed well as a group.

Now I'm going to explain what is in our video, although below you can see the hole video.

We made a summary about what we learnt each week. First of all the TPACK model. This is a framework that all teachers must use and as we say in the video, with it we can be the perfect teachers.

Secondly, the cartographic projections. As future teachers we have learnt that we have to use the best tools to teach our students, tools that show the reality in the way it is and not in a different one.

Thirdly, we learnt that creative commons licence exists, that we shouldn't use pictures,  songs, slideshows among other things with copyright and also, we learnt how to make a good presentation, that it must be simple, with not many text, color, well structured and so on.

Also, we explored the dark side of text books and we made into account that for being a teacher is not necessary to use textbooks, there are more interesting things!

Finally but not less important, we discovered that there are a lot of tools waiting for being used, we need to explore all our options, DISCOVER!

Here you can see the complete video, I hope you enjoy it ;)

Today, on Monday, we have presented our videos as the rest of the groups of #SOyER1314 class. I have to say that all of them were pretty cool and my group and I enjoyed them as I supossed the rest of the class did due to the effort that we put so as to make them.

Once all the videos were seeing, Linda asked all the groups to mark each video by doing it as we were Eurovision presenters, it has been very fun. The scores were 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12. After voting the ranking was the following one:

1st: Hide and seek.

1st:C'mon Tutankamon.

3rd:T8T.

4th: Give me 7.

5th: The Teachleaders.

5th: Education Rush Hour.

7th: Brain Storming.

8th: Step by step.

9th: The little ants.

And that's all for this weeks dear bloggers, until next week!

Regards, Amelia.

STAR II (The dark side of textbooks) by Gloria Garcia.

Hi bloggers!

I'm Gloria and as you probably already know this week I have been the star of my group with Amelia.
This week has been so funny because we have done a lot of different things.
Our activity of this week was to give reasons of why we are against textbooks and we had to chose different ways to do it and among those ways we chose a serie of three advertisements of 30 or 40 seconds.
We chose that option because we thought that it is the clearest way to show our intention and as we expected the advertisements talked by themselves.

You can check the three videos clicking in the links below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooFSeDy3nY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8gH1L-pB_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxdhczivB34

I hope you enjoy them!

See you soon!!!

Mercedes Ruiz's class

Hey bloggers!

As I said on my previous post last Monday was a bit special. We were so lucky because Merdeces Ruiz, as known as, Londones came to visit us to our #SOyER1314 class. 

I have to say that it was a great experience meeting her because she is a really professional person and what is more important, she loves what she does and is capable of showing her enthusiasm. We all enjoyed seeing her performance in class, how she, in a moment, turned into a character, putting all her love and dedication.

With her visit we have learnt that there are a lot of ways to learn, different ones as the usual things. And she made us think about the kind of teachers that we want to be in the future.

Thank you so much Mercedes for coming to our class and showing us the correct way to be good teachers, we hope that you enjoyed the class as much as we did, you are welcome in our class whenever you want.

If you want to know more about Mercedes Ruiz star checking out her twitter: 

http://goo.gl/AyqVGW

Regards.

STAR I ROLE by Amelia Avilés

Hello everyone!

I'm Amelia and this week I have been the start of the group with my mate Gloria García. It's been a long week since the presentation should have been last week on Monday but, fortunately, we had an amazing visit to class, Mercedes Ruiz (Londones), so Linda had to postpone the presentations until Thursday last week. We are nine groups in class so we couldn't finish and we continued this Monday. 

The presentation of this week consisted on explaining why do we have to hate textbooks "The dark side of textbooks". Linda exposed us different tools that we were allowed to use and at the end, my group and I chose to do three advertisments. It has been really fun being the star since I had to appear in all the videos, I had such a good time recording with my mates. But the best part of all was the day of the presentation of the advertisments due to the fact that it seemed that all the students liked and enjoyed the advertisments, it meant that we have had a good job this week.

To sum up I want to say that it has been a good experience being the star of the group and I hope to continue enjoying the rest of the work that is left of this part of the subject.

Regards, 

Amelia.

TRANSLATOR ROLE by Verónica Costa

Good morning! 

I'm Vero, and this week I've been the translator. This week has been difficult because I don't know with words define, because of the lesson about "the dark side of textbook". So thinking in the words, I've choosen thoses five words that I've most listenning in the performances. The meaning of those words are from Cambridges Dictionary and Wikipedia:

-Textbook: a book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying that subject. 

-Infographics: are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly.

-Tablets: tablet, or tablet PC, is a portable computer that uses a touchscreen as its primary input device.

-Imagination: the ability to think of new ideas.

-Goverment: the group of people who officially control a country.

Like I have said, I've choosen this five words because both have relation with the books, and their dark side. 

See you the next week as the star!

CURATOR-FARMER ROLE by Nerea

Hi everybody!
This week I'm the curator-farmer of my group and I have to compile and organize the

theoretical references of the work of this week: The dark side of text books.

Here you have the pearltrees where you can see the webs we have been using  during this week:

 
http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-s=1_11012426&N-fa=10649955&N-u=1_1814219&N-p=107350292&N-play=0&N-f=1_11012426

Although they're in the pearltrees, here you have the references:

Linda Castañeda. (2014) The dark side of textbooks. Recuperado de http://lindacastaneda.com/mushware/darksidetextbooks/

Wikipedia. (2014). Textbook. Recuperado de http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook

Josh Borras. (2013). De los libros de texto a los contenidos digitales: ¿Cambio pedagógico o cambio del modelo de negocio? Recuperado de http://edullab.webs.ull.es/wordpress/?p=321

Leandro Gomez de Molina. (2013). Un cambio de actitud. Recuperado de http://nomedaigual.com/un-cambio-de-actitud/

Jordi Marti. (2013). Punto neutro, la última cesión a las editoriales de libros de texto. Recuperado de http://www.xarxatic.com/punto-neutro-la-ultima-cesion-a-las-editoriales-de-libros-de-texto/

Inma Moscardó. (2014). El libro de texto en papel deberá aprovechar las nuevas tecnologías y soportes digitales para reinventarse. Recuperado de http://www.federacioneditores.org/0_Resources/Documentos/NP_TIC_ense%C3%B1anza.pdf

Nerea.

ANALYST ROLE by Noelia Clemente

Hello bloggers!

This week I’m the analyst of the group and I have to evaluate the work of my mates and answer some questions:

What was the best part of the activity?

This week the task that we had to do has been very interesting and funny. We decided to make three advertisements in against of the textbooks and the best part of this activity has been record the advertisements.

What was the worse?

I think that the worse part has been when we had to do make the advertisements with the computer, because the program that we used didn’t work very well and we had some problems with the videos but, finally, we could do the advertisements well.

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

The best moment has been when we finished the videos and we saw it, it was very funny.

What was the worse?

The worse was when we had to start making the videos because anybody of the group knew it very well how use the program.

What have you learnt?

This week we have learnt more about the textbooks, that they aren’t as good as we though before and that we, as future teachers, can make a good and useful class where children learn without textbooks.

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

I think that we have to continue as we have been doing until now. We are a big group and sometimes we have different opinions but we have known how we come to an agreement.

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

I think that we have to do more useful the time that we spent when we met for do the work because each member of the group is from a different place and it’s a bit difficult meet.

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

This content is very related with our degree because we are studying for be teachers and a textbook is something that we have in almost all our subjects. And it has been interesting work in this topic of the textbooks this week.

There is any evident social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)?

Yes, because nowadays in schools the main thing that is used in a class are textbooks. There isn’t any class in which it doesn’t use textbooks.

FACILITATOR ROLE by Andrea Bermúdez

Hello bloggers!

I’m Andrea Bermúdez and this week my role has been “facilitator”. My group and I have done three advertisements about the dark side of textbooks illustrating the troubles that we have found on them. Like facilitator, I have helped to my mates to do their roles. The journalist has been recollecting information about what we have been doing during this task. The analyst has been helping to search information on the net to do the advertisements and noting what we did. The translator has searched information about the five concepts that she has chosen. The curator-farmer has searched information on the net, she has kept the references, and she has done the work on Pearltrees. And the stars have done the video montage. I have liked to do this role because I have felt well with my group and they have done all the things that I have said them in a good way, although it’s a difficult task because of we are a group and sometimes it’s difficult coordinate us. It has been a good experience for me and I have learnt many things about how coordinate, how speak with the group and how put order among the components of the group.

I have liked this topic a lot, and I hope that you like our work!

See you soon!

JOURNALIST ROLE by Laura Clemente

Hello everyone!
I´m Laura and this week I´m going to be the journalist.
So, first of all I have to say that the task of this week has left good moments like for example, the moments that after that, you could see.
The task of this week was doing a advestisement about why we haven´t to use textbooks
So we decided to do an publishment advertise for do the task.
The idea of the advertisments are to say NO to the textbooks,and we present 3 files with diferent reasons about it.
For example ,the textbooks limit your knowledge or the lost of the enviorement to do the paper, the high prices of the textbooks etc.

You can see the advertisement doing a click here:

Video Nº1
Video Nº2
.Video Nº3

And ,well here I have left  many photos of this week:
I hope you would love it :)

As we can see ,in addition to learn about the ítem of this week ,we learnt about  the importance to use other resources instead of textbook for education, and even more important thing, the learning can be funny if you want ,you have to see the positive side, to realize that you can learn while having fun.

In conclusión,I have to say …open you mind,experiment your own limits ,because It´s better to discover the knowledge by yourself.

THE BEST KNOWLEDGE  IS WHAT YOU LEARN FROM YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE .THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE CAN LEARN.

SLIDESHOWS

Hi guys!

I'm posting the presentations that we made last week, the first one is about Creative Commons and 20 tips about how to do a good presentation, and the second one is the presentation that we used in class in order to present our taks, it is called Human Evolution.

1. Creative Commons and 20 tips about how to do a good presentation:

Creative Commons License and 20 tips about how to do a good presentation from teachleaders

2. Human Evolution:

The human evolution from TeachleadersSOYER

Next week we'll come up with something new! ;)

ANALYST by Gloria Garcia.

Hi guys, I'm Gloria and this week I've been the analyst of the group.

As you already know we have been working on the Creative Commons Licence. For applying them and to understanding how to use them, we had to do a presentation for the rest of the class as if they were our primary students. At first we choose the topic of the universe and the planets of the solar system, and we finished it, but then we realized that another group had chosen the same topic so we had to change it. That was a little bit anoying, but we are always supposed to work our best. As the second and final topic we choose the human evolution and I have to recognize that the stars of the group made a very good job explaining it.

Summarazing the work of this week I have to say that this topic of Creative Commons Licence is very interesting and useful because all the time we use pictures, music, draws and so on in our class presentations or even outside the classroom, but we don't know that we are using them illegally and that's why is so important that we start doing our projects using Creative Common Licence.

About the team work I have to say that we have been very coordinated in the distributing and development of the project. As I've mentioned before, we were upset in the sense that we have done two different projects with the difficulties that it brings as meeting all the members of the group two or more days a week for one project but we have done it twice.

Appart from that I think that we can do better each time and all the members of the group are motivated and ready to do their best.

I hope that you have learnt a little bit more and see you next week with a new topic!

STAR II ROLE by Laura Clemente

Hello everyone!

I´m Laura and this week I have been the star with Andrea Bermudez.

We had to do a presentation for primary school children, so we decided to work in the human evolution.

Our presentation, that we uploaded in slideshare, told us a little bit about how the humans have changed over time, and finally we proposed a question for the class to meditate the importance of the human evolution

Although we had a problem with the topic of our presentation ,we think that we made a good work .

After the presentations, I must say, that I learned a lot. We learned that as teachers, we have to be imaginative, creative to attract the students and motívate them.So, I think this work has helped us to improve as future teachers