Journalist post

Hi. My name is Mari Carmen. I’m this second week’s journalist.

Comparing my role to my last week’s one, this seems much more involving, since I have being all the time taking care of taking pictures and writing down everything we did. Now I’m going to explain you how was my experience during this long week.

After distribute the roles on Monday 16th February in the morning, once finish TPACK expositions, we did our first gathering. We met in the evening at Lucia’s flat. We finished last week posts and start reading, understanding and investigating a bit the work for second week. That night the facilitator divided the work among all us, so that next meet we could go faster.

So, for our second appointment, on Wednesday 18th February we know what to do more concretely. Once we exactly know which information look for, we worked in a quite organized way and we moved forward more quickly. We thought of doing a puzzle, so some of my mates went out and bought cardboard and colors. But unfortunately, next day we were told it wouldn’t be useful to explain Treasure Hunt. We had to restart, and divide task and redo the whole process. We also did a prezzi, and Lucia work a lot for it, but finally we couldn’t use to explain the different projection thing. That evening we also had another struggle. It take us a long discussion to clear up what “media is not neutral” really means. But, finally, we thought in comparing it to Disney Princess. Using their images for learning vocabulary can be a good idea, due to kids fancy on then. But this images also represent a stereotype reality where girls just should look pretty.


Next day, Thursday 19th, in the morning we made our third gathering at the Aulario’s cafeteria. We keep on doing the puzzle and we’ve nearly got it structured. When we arrived to class, Linda explained us what exactly was a Treasure Hunt. So, we thought our puzzle wouldn’t be representative enough to explain it. That afternoon the half of our group was leaving to their home town.  Time was running!! We took the decision of making power point to best display our work. And between classes, we thought and write on a paper what would contain each slide. So that we just have to type it on the computer and add our previously select images.

Then, on Thursday night, María start jointing and giving it some form. We dicided who was going to be in charge of each slide, so that everybody could do something. And finally, after hours and hours of work, on Friday evening we got our work ready for Monday’s exposition.

Monday 20th  arrived, it was time to display our work to the rest of the classroom. But instead of doing it by groups, Linda, our teacher, tell us to make three big groups made of three groups each. She gave us half an hour to coordinate all three groups’ exposition and star’s explanation in one. That broke our plans. We had to mix in a single exposition. We succeed to gather all our info and coordinate it. But we run out of time. It was a pity, because we had work a lot for things that were not even show. But, we have learnt something for it. For next week the word will be TIME!!!


Our blogs' recommendation for this week are:

Kids Activities blog. I find it really interesting for having lots of hand-craf activities to do with children. http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/


And a blog from our classmates' group itsChOOL. Their out look is really nice and comment what happend along the week in a interesting way. http://organizeyoureducation.blogspot.com.es/


Thanks for reading!!

Hope you come back next week :)