The boss but not bossy.

Hello bloggers!

I’m Ana Góngora and this week I have one of the most challenging and difficult roles: THE FACILITATOR.

Here I am going to show the roles of the rest of my partners:

1.      Facilitator: Ana Góngora

2.      Analyst: Lucia Grau

3.      Translator: Julia Egea

4.      Helper: María García

5.      Curator-farmer: Inma Álvarez

6.      Journalist: Mª Carmen Molina

7.      Star: Carmen Carpena

As the name confirms my work this week was to facilitate the work of all the members of my group. I’ve tried to improve in every way the processes made by the previous facilitator (if that could be done) so on Monday I’ve decided to distribute randomly the information and with that we could start working on Wednesday and so we did. Now I’m going to show you who was in charge of look for what:

Carmen was in charge of looking for an example of Disney films that could determine or distort the vision of the student. We link Disney princess with the vocabulary primary school children learn.

Inma was tol to find a treasure hunt related to primary education. She also searched information about Google Maps and the projections they use.

Julia had search information about what is a treasure hunt and choosen one that she likes most.

Mª Carmen found two countries that differ from one projection to another (one from Europe and other from outside)

Lucia had to search information about Robinson Projection.

María was in charge of looking for information about Azimuthal Projection.

Ana (me) had to look for Mercator projection and answered the questions of the small table.

But the worst part was yet to come…when we thought we had finished the hole work and ready to show to Linda (our teacher), she explained again the activity and we realized that we had misunderstand almost everything so it was time to start from the beginning AND IT WAS THURSDAY! Do you know what’s that mean? We had to spend almost the entire weekend redoing a Power Point and organizing everything but thanks to our helper that could be done and everything were ready on Monday.

This Monday we have been surprised with a new way of showing the activity. We have been joined with other two groups and the three facilitators have joined and shared our ways of organize our own groups. My big group of three groups was composed by 7up group and ItSchool group.

The 7up group was led by Isa Angosto and she had told us that her strategy was to distribute the information in the whole group (no matter what the role was) and then joined two times at the university. There were problems with the meetings because not all the members of the group were able to go and some of them weren’t sure about what they have to do (so they hardly did it). They decided to make a Prezi and some posters to explain the projections.

Teresa was the leader of Itschool and she as Isa and me divided randomly the information even that not everybody follow the instructions. They also were told to make some slides of the Power Point to finish it on Friday so the star could practice the whole weekend but that couldn’t be possible. They were only able to meet once.

Even thought this role is very hard and stressful I have good feeling about my job, nevertheless I am conscious that we have a lot to improve as a group and me personally.

Fingers crossed for the next week!!