SUMMARIZING RESOURCES, TASK 6

TASK:

ROLES:

STAR:

 Hi! My name is Paula Martínez García the star of this week. My work this week was to explain in three minutes what and how have we did the task of this week. 

On Monday I volunteered to be the star of this week because only two of us still had not been stars so I preferred to do it already. While we were doing the “cave art” I was writing what I was going to expose on Wednesday. 

On Tuesday we finished our work so I started to study my speech.   

On Wednesday I began to get a bit nervous because I´m shy and also afraid to speak in public. When Linda said that our group was going to be the first one I get even more nervous but finally everything went very well.

With this experience such as the star of my group I have learned some things for example that I´m able to speak in public without any problem. 

ANALYST:

Hello FlowerPowers! I’m Berta Tornel the analyst of this week and as good analyst I have had to evaluate the work of my group.

The task was Summarizing Resources (cartoons) and we had to summarise the ten KEY concepts or moments that we have explored during these six weeks. To do it we use as comic panel the cave art.

We worked very well together, the ideas that we proposed were fantastic and in my opinion we did a very original comic panel.

I have to say that we are a very hard-working group and also lot of us are very creative so that’s why we have original ideas.

Finally in the survey you can see the effort of the whole group highlighting two partners because they involved more than the rest in this task. 


TRANSLATOR:

Hello Flowers! I’m Paula Martínez Plaza and this week I’ve been the translator of my group, so I consider that this 5 terms have been the most important of the task:

-Cave Art: Technique used in the prehistory by human beings that consisted in painting its own reality in the walls of a cave.

-Summary: General and brief compilation of previous concepts / ideas / moments.

-Transition: Movement, passage or change from one concept to another.

-Concept: A general notion or idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristic.

-Comic panel: Individual frame, or single drawing, in the multiple-panel sequence. 

FACILITATOR:

Hi everybody! I am Elena Torres Soto and I am the facilitator of this week.

 My role this week consisted of organize and coordinate every member of my gorup during the task. Ienjoyed a lot this role since I have to encourage my group, and personally I love to help people. The first day we started working I brought my colleagues some sweets and snacks so that they can feel more motivated.

I loved the task of this week since it was very creative and I love creative paintings. Moreover I think this week we have worked in a very organised way and as a good facilitator I helped them a lot. I hope we carry on working so good until the moment. Let´s go Flower Power!!!

JOURNALIST:

Hello people! I am Rocio. In the sixth week I am the journalist so I have to tell us what we have had in this activity. 

First of all, on Monday Linda explained us the task. Then we started talking to prepare how we did it since we had to represent a cave of prehistory and we did not know how to start. It was a craft and we needed enough material to do it and a good organization to finish it on time. 
That afternoon, the Flower Powers met in the "Student Residence" located in front of our faculty and each flower brought their respective material and we divided the work. On the one hand, Naomi and me prepared cola mixed with water, Berta and Paula went to a shop to ask for paperboard while two of us went out into the Street to collect mud as it seemed more realistic for our craft than the painting itself and there was enough thanks to the rain previous. At the same time the rest of Flowerr Power started preparing the mural, the size, etc. 
Once we had all returned to collect everything we needed to begin, we set to work. As you can see in the photo, we mix different colours of mud and then with our hands paint the mural which had been previously prepared by the rest. It was very disgusting! And that day we left the mural to dry. 

On Tuesday as our mural was very dry, we began to draw the different ideas that we had learned throughout the course. We did with red, black and brown colours to seem more realistic. That afternoon we get soiled because of the waxes. Later we went to print it on photo paper for each group in our class. 

Finally, on Wednesday our star, Paula, with a bone in her head, explained to the rest of our colleagues and Linda how we had managed to make a mural so realistic and prehistoric. In addition she tell them what ideas have learned during the course. 

I going to show you several photos so you can see these enjoyable days and amused moments in which we have done the task.

CURATOR - FARMER:

Hi everyone! I’m Aintzane Martín, the curator-farmer of this week. In this project we have done a cave art, and we did everything with our imagination. Well, actually we searched ‘what is a cave art’ in google, and the rest of things went out our mind.

The references are in the following list:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cave-art

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/chauvet_cave_art.php

THE DARK SIDE OF TEXTBOOKS, TASK 5

TASK:

REFLECTION

The goal of this task was to demonstrate through 8 reasons why we were against TextBooks.

We had to explore some documents about the main topic and then, we had to make an infographic which are visual representations, about data, knowledge or information in general.

The reasons were the following:

1.   Information is limited and selected in textbooks: Knowledge is not neutral because everything explained in books is focused on one direction where students do not express their opinion.

2.   Information is not updated in textbooks, for example, textbooks still consider Pluto as a planet. However on the Internet the information is updated in real time.

3.   Textbooks are more monotonous and less interactive: It is not the same as students see a powerpoint or a video on youtube that is more entertaining. Technology is part of the daily life of children, so why deny them a learning in which they can use technology?

4.   Textbooks do not make students think and develop the answer for themself, that is, they give the the final solution without giving them tools to get it.

5.   The information provided by textbooks is often determined by cultural and political issues of dominant groups. The information is subjective, that is, it influences by the cultural and political ideology of the author.

6.   Textbooks are made for profit: Writers have the power to impose a price on their books taking advantage of the school's obligation to buy them. Books should not be used as a resource for money, that is, they should not be a trade.

7.   The books are a support for the teacher, they do not serve by themselves but still the textbook that governs the life of the class. This is known as deprofessionalization.

8.   Children carry too much weight on their back because of the amount of books they carry in their backpacks.

     From our point of view, this task has been useful to understand better the innovations that surrounded us nowadays.In addition, we have to adapt ourselves to the current society, especially to the technologies. They are emerging faster and faster and we need them not only to our daily life but for our primary classroom because if we want to make a difference, we have to improve our teaching methods. Children are born in a world full of technology, which is fun, attractive and very visual for learning, so we should realize what is happening around us.

ROLES:

STAR:

Hello Flowers! I’m Paula Martínez Plaza and this week I’ve been the star of my group! My role has consisted of explore what is the dark side of TextBooks, so my group and I had to read some documents and then, we had to make an info-graphic explaining the main ideas of the topic.

My experience as star have been really, really good because the class was organized in 8 tables with one component from the different groups. First, I had to explain the info-graphic with my own words.  Then, I had to assume the Facilitator’s role for helping them to extract the main ideas from what they had understood and they had to write it on a cardboard. The second part of the work was that they had to share their ideas about what they think of TextBooks and they had to write it on the cardboard too. Later, our teacher Linda gave us some topics like gender, sex, identity and how TextBooks could affect people depending on which part of the world they are in. Finally, they had to write some tips about how we could improve our info-graphic and also, something that we had in our work and they would like to have on their work.

I have enjoyed the task a lot and I have felt really happy due to the help of my classmates.

FACILITATOR: 

Hello everyone! Im Berta Tornel and this week I have been the facilitator of my group.

The task of this week was very interesting, we loved it. The task was called “The dark side of textbooks” and we had to discuss about bad things that books have. We found a lot of good ideas and we thought that the best way to represent them was doing an infographic. We had some problems with the infographic due to the fact none of us had done before an infographic and we didn’t know how to create it. We searched on the internet pages for doing infographics and we finally found Picktochart that was easy to understand. Also, we had problems with the pictures that we wanted to put on the infographic because we had to search ones with no copyright.  

We work very well together, we have never had a problem between us and the atmosphere is perfect, although some of us get stressed easily I’m here to motivate! Come on Flower Powers! 

CURATOR-FARMER:

Hi everyone! I´m Paula Martínez Garcia and this week I´m the curator-farmer. My responsibility was to collect all the links and webs we have used for doing our work.

This week we had to investigate why textbooks have “a dark side” and here are the links we have used:

GOOGLE IMAGES; Retrieved 6 March, 2017:

http://www.iuvalladolid.org/spip.php?article1176

https://pixabay.com/es/profesor-silueta-negro-aislados-309533/

https://pixabay.com/es/banco-ni%C3%B1o-dibujos-animados-1300407/

https://pixabay.com/es/hatena-pensar-pregunta-el-problema-1184896/

https://pixabay.com/es/mano-marioneta-mu%C3%B1eco-de-nieve-784077/

https://pixabay.com/es/alcanc%C3%ADa-cerdito-monedas-ahorro-1022852/

https://pixabay.com/es/profesor-silueta-negro-aislados-309533/

https://pixabay.com/es/ni%C3%B1o-senderismo-infeliz-boy-scout-152250/

LINKS:

 -Wikipedia

Retrieved 6 March, 2017, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook

-Michael W Apple. (2000) Cultural politics and the text.

Retrieved 6 March, 2017, from: file:///C:/Users/Usuario/Downloads/apple_cultural_politics_and_the_text(2).pdf

-Crawford, K. (2000) Researching the Ideological and Political Role of the History Textbook Issues and Methods.

Retrieved 6 March, 2017, from: file:///C:/Users/Usuario/Downloads/Crawforded-kw(1).PDF

-Jordi Adell. (18 June, 2011) Lecturas sobre libros de texto.

Retrieved 6 March, 2017, from: file:///C:/Users/Usuario/Downloads/elbonia.cent.uji.es-Carta_a_los_editores_de_libros_de_texto(1).pdf

-Jordi Adell. (6 June, 2010) Carta a los editores de libros. 

Retrieved 6 March, 2017, from: file:///C:/Users/Usuario/Downloads/elbonia.cent.uji.es-Lecturas_sobre_libros_de_texto(1).pdf

Now I´ll show you a mind map with all the references used in this task:

JOURNALIST:

I´m Vero and It´s my turn to be the journalist. Let´s start with the summary of how we have worked this week!!

As every Monday Linda explain us what´s the task about, in the practice class we start working on reading the different documents, and then, in the afternoon we met at Nebrija´s Library, there, once we have finish reading all we divide the rest of the work (brainstorming session, how to design the info graphic, searching for cc pictures, translating the information…)

We almost finish all.

Finally, on Tuesday morning, in a free hour we had between class we print it. This time we have organized really well so we didn’t need to meet more time.

Our star this week was Paula and her big day was on Wednesday. First she felt a bit nervous due to the fact that she didn´t know what she had to do exactly, but she explained all perfectly.

I also have commented in the blog of Ladies and gentlemen: 

ANALYST:

Hi everybody!!! I am Elena Torres Soto and I am the analyst of this week. My role is to observe and to evaluate the work that my group have done during this task. The task of this week consisted of search information about “the dark side of textbooks”, that is, we have to investigate and look for the reasons why some people is against textbooks. 

On Monday, Linda explained us the task and we had two options in the way of making our Project, which could be an infographic or a twiter time line. We finally chose the infographic option since we thougth we could represent it in a more creative and funny way than in twitter. At first we were a bit worry because we did not exactly how to do an infographic, but we finally found out how to do it and actually I have to recognise it turned to be very cute.

From our point of view, we think we have learned a lot with this task, since it has served to us to realize that books is not something essential for learning, but only an instrumen that a teacher can or cannot use, it depends on its election and opinion. However, without the teacher students wil not understand anything, the techer plays the main role in education!!! 

TRANSLATOR:

Hello everyone I am Naomi Méndez and in the task of this week I am the translator. Here are some keywords of this task.

- Textbook: a book used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study.

- Book: a handwritten, printed or digital  work of fiction or nonfiction, usually onsheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.

- Information: knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance or knowledge gained through study, communication, research,instruction.

- Financial gain: the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating.

- Monotonous: When something goes on and on and on and on and on, the same way, for a long time. Monotonous things are boring and repetitive, like that long story you've heard your brother tell a hundred times before.

Our creative common license slideshow, TASK 4

TELLING STORIES: FREE RESOURCES AND VISUAL PRESENTATIONS, TASK 4

ROLES:

STAR:

Hello everyone, my name is Rocío and this fourth week I am the Star of the task that consisted on performing and exposing your own instructional class to your own students. 
First I think I have been very lucky because I have been exposed in the most exciting, fun, and most necessary task for my future since this is what I am going to do. 

I am also very happy for the experience as a star. At the beginning I was very nervous because there is a lot of level in my class and I was afraid of not knowing how to be nice with my "students", so someone recommended me to imagine teaching in a real elementary students lesson, because of that I think " I got into the role of a teacher "and from my point of view when I explained I achieve the goal: students interested in learning. 

Of course, thanks to this task I have been able to take note of several errors that I had in the exhibition which were, among others, relaxing , moving and being faster in a exposure. 
The theme that we chose was the senses in a group of primary education, therefore we did not extend much on the subject, and I was lucky because several weeks ago this same topic I had to explain it to a familiar of the same age so I loved repeating the moment. 
Finally thanks to this work I look forward to working as a professional teacher.

REFLECTION:

In this task we have learned two types of important content. On the one hand we have learned what the creative commons licenses are. On the other hand how to make an effective presentation.

 The first one that we have learned is the Creative Commons Licenses (licenses are a suite of copyright-based licenses defining terms for the distribution and re-use of creative works) also we already know what kind of pictures and pages we must use and what types of pictures are private and therefore should not be copied, so it is called creative commons licenses. As we can observe, most of pages are "copy right" (©) that is the exclusive right of an author, publisher or licensee. Copyright is a kind of license in which all rights are reserved and you can´t use images without asking permission to its author.

Another type of license is “copy left” which allows the free distribution of modified copies and versions of a work or other work, demanding that the same rights be preserved. Unlike this one also exists CC, with them the author allows the public to use their information but with limits. This means that we can let everyone use it but the author imposes his/her rules. CCO is completely free, so they are photos, images and pages that are forbiden without asking permission their authors.

The second one, thanks to this activity we already know how to expose correctly and has served for the rest of tasks establishing a better connection with our audience so that they understood the content exposed. Therefore, during the rest of the tasks, we have exposed as close as possible to the public, asking them questions, making them participate in the content by asking them what they know about it. With respect to the exercises, exhibition and activities (for example, power points, brochures, ...) now we know they should be with a  large and clear lyric, if possible with a great diversity of photos to attract more viewers. Moreover a good exhibition should be done without nervous, that means, the person or people who are representing must be calm and show good emotions towards his or her public.

ANALYST:

Hello Flowers! I’m Paula Martínez Plaza and this week my role has been “Analyst”, so as good Analyst, I have had to observe and evaluate the work of my group. The task of this week has consisted of making two presentations. One based on Creative Commons, that is, a non-profit license and the other one had to be based on any content on Primary School. In our case, we choose the topic of “the 5 senses”.

At the beginning we felt a bit lost because it was something really new for us but finally we have enjoyed doing this task since we have found it not difficult at all and also it has been interested because we didn’t know that the majority of the photos, music, movies and so on that we use are normally illegal.

Also, the topic that we choose seemed to us very funny for kids and we introduced a box for making more dynamic the task.

We think that this task is strongly related with our degree because nowadays many teachers use the technology in their classes to make less bored the learning and more visual the contents too. For that reason, we have found useful this work due to in a future we will be teachers and we will have to renovate our methods for improving the teaching-learning processes.

TRANSLATOR:

Hi everyone! I’m Berta Tornel and this week I have been the translator. I considered important these words:

Presentation: A presentation is an activity or process to share the contents of a topic to an audience.

Creative commons: Non-profitable organization which make possible to set free copyright licences.  They are based on the legal rules of intellectual property and depending on your preferences, you can choose among six different licenses to mark your material, if someone breaks your permission.

Copyright: it’s the exclusive right that has a creator on each and every of his works and that allows him to decide what conditions are necessary to be reproduced and distributed.

Slideshare: Slide Share is a web page in which people can register and upload their presentations. Finally they would have their presentation online for free.

Senses:any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by whichhumans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or insidethe body.

JOURNALIST:

Hi!!! I am Elena Torres Soto and this week I am the journalist of my group. My duty in this role is to tell you what we have done to obtain the results of this task.

First of all, on Monday Linda explained and gave us instructions about what we have to do in the task 4. We tought it was very interesting since it was what we actually are going to do in our future job. However, the task about copyright, copyleft and so on was quite difficult to us and we did not have much clear what we had to do.

We started to work on it on classroom and we had lots of ideas about the topic we have to choose, but finally we took the option of “The senses”, since we thought it was very interesting and it was something we could explain in a creative way. We carry on our project during the afternoon and I have to say we were more relaxed than the last week beacause we had all we have to do much more clear, and we worked really good together. We finished the Project during the evening of Tuesday and we were very happy with our results.  Moreover, thanks to our facilitator, who was Aintzane this time, we could stay focused since she brought us a delicious cake.

On Wednesday, finally arrive the presenation day, and although our star, who was Rocío, was very nervous she did it in a very enternaining way and very fast-moving. I think all the other groups made an excellent work and they made it in an enjoyable way. I think this was the funniest task we have made!!!!

FACILITATOR:

Hi everyone! I’m Aintzane, and this week I am the facilitator of my group, FLOWER POWER!!. 

The task of this week has been about Creative Common Resources, but also we have created a visual presentation about ‘5 senses’. 

Firstly, we met on Monday and we divided the task. But I have to say that the part of the visual presentation  was easier than the other one, because we have never worked looking for the free resources, so, it was very stressful. 

On Tuesday, we met again, we were very overwhelmed because of   the 30 slides of the second presentation, we didn’t know how to do it, and when we finish it, we weren’t sure if we got it right. Like I am the facilitator this week, I brought a sponge cake in order to motivate my group.

On Wednesday, our Star Rocio presented the visual presentation, she was very nervous, since she’s a shy person but she did GREAT!! At the end of the presentation we had done a box of 5 senses. In this game, Carmelo y Jose took part with her, it was nice and we had fun.

This is all for this week!! 

CURATOR-FARMER:

Hello everyone, I am Naomi Méndez García, the curator-farmer of the 4th task. I am going to show you the links we have used:

- Garr Reynolds. (2016). Organization & Preparation Tips. 

Retrieved from: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/prepare/

- Nancy Duarte. (October 31, 2012). Structure Your Presentation Like a Story. Harvard Business    Review. 

Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2012/10/structure-your-presentation-li

- Garr Reynolds. (2016). Top Ten Slide Tips.

Retrieved from: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/

- Garr Reynolds. (2016). Top Ten Delivery Tips.

Retrieved from: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/deliver/

- Nancy Duarte. (October 22, 2012). Do Your Slides Pass the Glance Test?

Retrieved from: https://hbr.org/2012/10/do-your-slides-pass-the-glance-test

This task consisted in making two different slideshows in order to explain firstly, what means to use Creative Commons Licence resource and how to make a good presentation and secondly, in choosing a topic (in our case it was "The five senses") and making a good oral presentation pretending it is a class.

Now I will show you a mind map I have done in order to show you all the references used in this task:

https://es.slideshare.net/VernicaMolinaTbar/slideshare-72727713