Star post 2

Hello Bloggers,

I am Ana and  this week I had a VERY, VERY important role, I had to be the star in the game Snake and ladders.

We had one entire week to prepare the game and so did Inma (who was the star in that moment). Me and Maria were been prepared what was really demanding because we had lots of works as we are on the end of the semester. When everything was almost ready we had really bad luck when Maria told us that she was not able to come on Monday due to medical problems. Julia was selected to be the star, so she had lot of work for the weekend.

We have to thanks our sponsorship (the rest of the group) all the costumes (they were dressed up as the PowerPuffGirls) and the encouragement, because on the game day we were really nervous.
We had to start the game (in my opinon this was the worst part) we were so nervous that Julia and me got completly in blank that means loose our time.

Everybody knows that in these type of games apart of knowing the correct answer you also have to be lucky, and personally I think we were not lucky at all, because when we started to answering the questions correct we loose our turn (we fall in a snake).

This is the summary of these important weeks, maybe we have not win but we have learned a lot and we had the opportunity to play a new game that could be used with our students.

Last but not least I would like to congratulate (in special) to Power Teachers and Keep Calm & Keep Organised because they performed really good and without nervous. Enjoy your price!!!

Star Post

This week have been different than the others. We didn't have to make an exposition or a slideshow or whatever.

This week we played snakes and ladders. You may think: What is that?
Snakes and ladders is game were several players are on a board, and they have to answer correctly all the questions they are asked, but it is not only that, on the board there are some ladders that help you go up if you get the exactly number, but also there are some snakes that make you go down ans lose your turn. This is how the board looks like:

You can say: why are you doing that in class?
But it is not that simple, what we use as questions were the ones we have done before withe the mindmaps, so we had to study all of them.

As an estrategy, if you can call it that, we chose the stars as soon as posible so they have all the time they need. We made them the mindmas by hand and highlighted were they can find the questions, so it is easier for them. And also our coach Inma, help them to study.

But we had some problems with one of the stars, she had a very important medical date, so she couldn't cancel it, so we chose another star (me: Julia). It was very difficult because it was wednesday, and there was no time so I had to study all the mindmaps as fast as I could. I didn't want that all the pressure off for Ana, so I did as I could.

Monday came, and the game started. We were the first and we were very nervous (at least me), and we answered wrong. The other groups were very well-prepared, and got a lot of answers good, but correct answers is not only what you need, you need luck, and we didn't have any. At the end of the three hours of endless game, we were the last ones, on the 7. But we had a bit of light because, we were going to continue the game on thursday, so we had time to study it again.

On thursday, we were less nervous, and we acepted that we were not going to win, but we wanted to do our best though. When it was our turn, we did it very well, we were around 20, when I threw th dice ande went to 23, where is a snake that take you to 6. Not only we were the last ones again, we were in a worse position. I think it was very awful, but it was funny as well.

Though they were very close, and everybody thought that the winners were going to be Keep Calm & Keep Organized, the winners were Power Teachers.

I am very happy for them. Congratulations Power Teachers!

My best regards, Julia.

(Sorry I didn't put photos, I couldn't find them)

Journalist post

Hello, I am Julia the journalist of this week. This week have been a different week due to there was nothing to do but help the stars of the next week to study.

This is Inma helping Ana to study the mindmaps:

On monday Linda told us which group won the contest of the video we have made with moovly.

And we have won!!!

We are very excited with that, We thanks eveyone that have voted for us!!

Here you have the video:

CURATOR - FARMER POST

Hi there!

I'm Mari Carmen.I'm here once again, but this time as my first role: Curator - farmer

This week was kind of special because we employed time on studying instead of meeting on evenings to make a project to show on monday to our class. Well, somehow it might be similar, on monday we must display the knowledge we have been working on (about lomce's game) during this two last weeks.

Since we keep working on the new law of Education our main reference source has been the LOMCE. Looking for the complete version you can come accross with quite interesting recompositiongs. It was really useful and clear ANPE's picked up pieces text, because the new parts are in red and those part previously setted are in blue.

-España. Ley Orgánica 8/2013, 9 de diciembre, para la mejora de la calidad educativa. Boletín Oficial del Estado, 10 de diciembre de 2013, núm. 295, pp. 97858-97921. Retrieved from http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2013/12/10/pdfs/BOE-A-2013-12886.pdf

-Retrieved from http://www.anpe.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Recopilaci%C3%B3n-LOMCE_LOE-docx-21.pdf

See you next week :)

SHINE BRIGHT AGAIN LIKE A STAR

 

Hello everybody! I am the star again this week because is our´s turn to repeat the same roles as we did before. Well, we have to try to do them better and to improve our mistakes.

Comparing the twice I have been star, they have been really different so I have experimented two different experiences. The first one was a bit stressful because it was the first time we faced this new subject and I had to do a long speech doing it for nine times so it was really exhausting. However, this week has been more relaxing to me because I have been the trainer of the next stars which means that I have to prepare them the best I can in order to do their best in the play which will take place the next week.

For training them, we have written all the mind maps by hand because all the questions are based on them underlining the most important aspects in order to be clear about them. Moreover, we write the questions that are not clear enough or they have a very specific situation apart in order to comment them and to try to understand them in another way.

We are proud of our stars and the effort they are making for the game! We hope we have good luck for next Monday! See you next week!

 By Inma Álvarez.

Analyst!

Hi bloggers! I am María and my role this week is Analyst, as the first week of this subject.

The previous one was more difficult for me personally speaking, due to it was the first time I evaluate others and even more, myself.

Indeed, the work of this week is quite different from the previous weeks due to we are all, preparing questions, answers, and everything to be able next Monday to play the game. In which two of us will play against the other groups, and the winner, will get extra points.

On Thursday our group plus the half of  Itschool, decided which 10 questions of all about topic 6 were the better to play with in the play.

This week every member of the Power Puff Teachers, was active,  taking part on selection of the better questions for the play.  Even I have to say that I am very proud of  us due to we are the winners of the last contest!!! (*.*).

I have to say that is so weird, not having work from SOYER; I mean, not having to meet the whole group to work in a concrete task at home, but as it is said, everybody can get used to good life, and the good things finish soon.

So, have as minimum the same happy week as us and see you soon :)

Helper post

Hello, my name is Julia and this week I am the helper.

This is the last role that I had left. That means that I have already be al the roles of the subject. The aim of this role, as its name says, is to help the others to do the work if they need to.

In this case, once we had all the questions, we had to join them and made the cards, print them, and glue them to the cardboard. But it is so much work to do it only by one person, so we divided it.

I made all the cards, printed them and cut them the shape we have been asked. Inma cut the cardboard. And Maria and Maricarmen glued them all.

It might look like I had worked more than them, but it was very equal, because the questions were already written on the computer, so I only had to copy then in a table. And also I have a guillotine, so it made the cutting work very easy.

I have enjoy this role, because is not one of the biggest ones, and I prefer helping than directing.

I wish you like our cards.

I will write again next week.

Analist post

Hi everyone!

I'm Mari Carmen again!! For seventh week I was analist.

This is our second week working on the legislation of the spainsh education in order to prepare a version of a classic game about this issue.

We divided the 24 questions among seven, and one person did one more question for four topics  so that all of us could did the same amount of questions. Then holidays came. This periods are quite a dissaster for organizing gatherings because each one has her own plans due to vacations.

Days went by. We met on our first sky gathering as working group, but we did two groups because of schedules. It was my first time using it and I really liked the convenience and rapidity on this tool, I just love it! In just one second we were connected with our mates.  We put in common our four questions since when a work is revised by several people there's more possibility to correct something, make more accurate and clear questions,.... than when there's just one head. Then Murcia city's hometown group members take the charge of do the phisical cards for the game: one gathered group questions and shape the cardboard, other printed the questions in the specific measures, and other two cut and stick questions on cardboards -we divided cardboards and question papers in two, and I stick second pack part-.

Then for class returning we had whole class monday session. We had to evaluate, according to a same criteria one topic's cards. As my group was "native" last week we had to split in two, some worked with Itschool on topic 6 while the other half were with Platypus assessing topic 3. I feel like it turn out quite difficult to follow the same criteria for all the group's cards, despite it keep always our intention, but it is just my sensation. It is always hard to arrive to a complete agreement in everything. But somehow this make us learn much more than what we could ever learn on a theorical way with a explation. It much more meaningful if you live it (every week).

Apart from  class mates working -that you couldn't believe how much have make me grow up- the idea of laying out something as bored and tiresome as a new educative legislation -that will surely change by the time we were teachers, but that will be the same in essence-  as a familiar game to us. This make us read the law to reach another objective -win the game- and by the way read, reread and start knowing it in an enjoyable way.

Hope you come around next week!!

Mari Carmen

Curator Farmer

Hi bloggers! I am María and this week my role is "Curator Farmer", so as you know, here you are

LITERATURE

EURYPEDIA. (2015). The Spanish education system. Retrieved from https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Overview (LINDA)

EURYPEDIA. (2015). Administration and Governance at Local and/or Institutional Level. Retrieved from https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Administration_and_Governance_at_Local_and/or_Institutional_Level

Definición abc. Definición de Sistema educativo. Retrieved from http://www.definicionabc.com/social/sistema-educativo.php

V. (2011). Sobre conceptos. Concepto de Sistema Educativo. Retrieved from  http://sobreconceptos.com/sistema-educativo

Cañas, J. A;  Novak, J.D. (2009). What is a Concept Map?. Retrieved from http://cmap.ihmc.us/docs/conceptmap.php

Wikipedia, Enciclopedia Libre. (2015). Ley Orgánica de Educación (España). Retrieved from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Org%C3%A1nica_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_(Espa%C3%B1a)

Wikipedia, Enciclopedia Libre. (2015). Ley Orgánica para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa. Retrieved from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Org%C3%A1nica_para_la_Mejora_de_la_Calidad_Educativa

Wikipedia, Enciclopedia Libre. (2015). Juego de la oca. Retrieved from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juego_de_la_oca

EURYPEDIA. (2015).  Organisational Variations and Alternative Structures in Primary Education. Retrieved from  https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Organisational_Variations_and_Alternative_Structures_in_Primary_Education

Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte.(2015).Ley Orgánica para la mejora de la calidad educativa. Retrieved from http://www.mecd.gob.es/educacion-mecd/areas-educacion/sistema-educativo/lomce.html

BLOGS

Egea. J. (2015). Star post. Retrieved from http://thepowerpuffteachers.blogspot.com.es/                                                                             

Cascales, R. (2015). Complete Conceptual Map of topic 4!. Retrieved from http://powerteachers15.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Task%206                                        

Beltrán, M. (2015). Changes in The Spanish Educational System Overview: The game. Retrieved  from http://keepcalmandkeeporganized.blogspot.com.es/                                                     

Abellán. N. (2015). Basics of the educational system: Journalist. Retrieved from http://meerkatsoyer1415.blogspot.com.es/

This role doesn't like very much due to is a bit difficult but it is necessary so, I have done it. :)

Thanks you for readding us

See youuu

Star post

Hello I'm the star of this week, Julia Egea.

This week we have done some conceptual maps abot the educational laws.

These are our Cmaps:

 

Then on monday we wer divided. I was with It'school and half of Platypus. And my group was with the star of It'school and the other half of Platypus.

Linda told us to evaluate the works that we have done. We did it question by question, answering it and marking each work. We did it very well and finished early

After a little break, we had to mix the works. 

This is the one I made with It'school:

And this is the one that my group made:

I hope you enjoy our blog!

Julia.

 

LET'S GO TO ANALYSE

Hello everybody!
My name is Carmen Carpena and this week I am the... ANALYST!!
I have realized that this role is too complicated because I have to analyse all the members of the group every day, their work, their attitude... everything, and it is very difficult.

As you know, this week we have had to do a mindmap, I mean, a diagram with the information summarize, in this case is about the spanish educational laws: the LOE and the LOMCE.
I have realized that there is the last week before Easter holidays and it seems like yesterday when we were in the first class of SOyER and we were really scared because we did not know what we were going to do. At first, we found it very difficult but the weeks passed and we were more confident with ourselves and the scare started to decrease little by little... In fact, I think this subject not only teaches us in the way of the information, it teaches us also to have more confidence in ourselves and to work in group and have a good organization.

In this activity we have learnt the contents of these educational laws and what are the differences between them. Also, we have learnt how to do a good mindmap and how to summarize well the information. In addition, I think we have learnt how to have a good organization in the group because we have divide the work in a very good way.
The worst moment in the week was when we realized that we had done the work bad and, after all the labour we had done, we had to change it and restructure all the contents we had in the mindmap. It was a very bad new for all of us.

I think the contents we have had to do in this activity are very related with our degree because we are going to be teachers and all good teacher have to know the educational laws because we are going to be subjected by this laws and it is important that we start to know them.

Moving on, in my opinion we have to improve somethings as a group. We have to trust us more, I mean, I think we should be able to talk sincerely with someone. If any member of the group has a problem with other member or if someone has done anything that have had feel bad other member, we have to be able to talk with him/her and explain what is the problem.

I am very sure that in the next week we will solve these problems!

I hope you enjoy the blog, see you next week!!

WHO SAID HELPER?

Hello again everybody!

This week I am the helper, there is only one role left to complete all the roles we have. Being the helper does not mean that I do not have to do anything important, by contrast I have to do all the things I do every week (Come up with ideas, implication…) and moreover, I have to help the other roles. For example, today my mate Maria could not come to class because she has had a problem. So, when Linda has said that she wanted to talk with all the facilitators because we had misunderstood the activity, I did the role as facilitator in that moment because Maria needs my help. This is the main function of this role.

The activity of this week has been to explore the basic legislation about our educational system. In order to learn it as better as possible we are preparing a game that is a mix of the Oca´s game with Trivial and we have to make questions about the topic.

This activity, as a game, has a prize so we are going to try the best as we can.

This week, we have done two conceptual maps about the topics Linda chose for us. On Monday, we compared all the conceptual maps about the same topic as ours that had been done by our colleagues of Platypus and It´school and we did a big one putting the best part of each one together. The next weeks, we are going to make questions and in the final week we are going to do the game.

In my opinion with this activity we are going to learn a lot about our educational system but the most important is that we do it in a funny and enjoyable way.

See you next week as my last role: Translator!                                                         

                                                                                                                                                       Inma

Journalist Post by Lucía Grau.

Hello friends, Lucia is here again, but this week my role is Journalist.

First of all, I'll tell you a little what we have done this week.
The task of this week was about our education system, know well our laws and fundamentals is very important to be good teachers.

We had to make two mind map about two points of the six that were available. Linda's divided so that we had to do point 3. Organization of Primary Education and 6. Administration and Governance at Local and / or Institutional Level (II).

 

We divided into two groups to do the job, we readed all the information and summarize it, and then we organized the work of carrying out the mind map into two groups , the first did the point 3 and the second point 4. As we are seven in our group, we divided into working groups of three, and the star was involved in both groups. The organization of the groups was made taking into account the days that could meet because some of us Thursday we went to our people.

 

We got together Tuesday to point three...

 

... And Wednesday for the sixth point.

 

 

On Monday when we arrived to class, Linda commanded us a new task. We had to come together with other groups. Our group received visitors of Platypus group and star of ItSChool group. Julia, our star worked with the group of ItSChool. We had to evaluate the mindmap we had done. Then we had to choose the one we liked and add or remove items considered necessary to make it great.

The experience of this week to work with other groups has been good because we were able to assess our own mistakes, comparing them with other work of our colleagues. But also it has also been difficult to agree with the assessment.

Here you have some photos of the class of Monday:

 

I hope you liked it and you've found interesting.

 

Thanks for your attention. See you soon bloggers.

Lucía.

Not a typical farmer

Hello bloggers here is Ana Góngora informing,

This is our 6^th week of work and we are so proud about what we have been doing these weeks. This task consisted on reading a lot, but not in different articles, we were focused on the law and its changes. This is the reason why I have chosen Text 2 Mind Map because we can observe better the different documents on which we have found information.

Now I have been in almost every role I can say that this one had a bit of difficulty about references in APA and also about choosing if I should use Pearl Trees or Text 2 Mind Map (both of them have been used before). Apart from that I have been helped by my colleagues in every problem I had.

I hope continues steps of this week would be great!!!

Hope you like it!!

Documents references:

Jefatura del Estado (2013). Ley Organica 2-2006. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/espana/eh14/educacion/Documents/LOE%202.2006.pdf.

Gobierno de Espana. Requisitos de acceso a la educacion primaria. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.mecd.gob.es/educacion-mecd/areas-educacion/sistema-educativo/ensenanzas/educacion-
primaria/requisitos.html.
         
 CCOO ensenanza. Tabla comparativa LOE/LOMCE. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.ugr.es/~fjjrios/pce/media/4-2-lo-LOMCE-LOEcomparitivaCCOO.pdf.
                     
Jefatura del Estado (2013). BOE. Legislacion Consolidada LOMCE. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2013/12/10/pdfs/BOE-A-2013-12886.pdf.

Jefatura del Estado (2006). BOE. Legislacion Consolidada LOE. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2006/05/04/pdfs/A17158-17207.pdf.

Eurypedia. The spanish education system. [ONLINE] Available at: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Overview.

Por otra politica educativa. Desarrollo de la LOMCE. [ONLINE] Available at: http://porotrapoliticaeducativa.org/eldesarrollo- de-la-lomce/.

Here you have the mindmap of this week:

Facilitate everything as my role requires

Hi everybody!!!

I am María and this week my role is "facilitator".

Well, I like this role a lot as I am used to do it. When we have to organize the group for any work not only in this subject, I do not mind to organize and make clear the points of the work, and facilitate the part of the work to each member of the group. And if there are problems or doubts I do not mind solve them if I can.

So,  the work of the facilitator is to be the boss of the group, is in charge of divide, coordinate and organize the work of every member in the group. Also you have to encourage the dynamic of the group and be the key person in the solution of personal affairs between members. In addition, the facilitator is in charge of the conserve and guarantee the blog's quality, as well as answer the comments, correct the spelling and so on.

Last week, after the explanation of the activity by Linda, our teacher, we talk all together and we realize that the week was a bit difficult to meet the day that we usually met for this subject as it was festive and the members from other places wanted to go there to stay with their family what is totally comprehensible, so the solution was to meet in two days, those who are not from Murcia, on Tuesday and the rest of us, the next day as usually. Unless the star that went to both meetings.

The task was divided in two, one point for each subgroup, and then inside each subgroup, divided the point in different parts.

It was a difficult task, for me specially due to my part was very difficult to find out; and it took me at least three days reading the laws, "LOE and LOMCE" and the "BOE".

Finally, today morning was a disaster due to I was going to catch the bus, to get into class at time, and when I  was at the bus station, I have realized that I had lost my target... So I have had to came back to look for it, my goodness!

It was on the middle of my street, 15 minutes from the station..., so I have returned to catch the bus and I have lost it, only for three minutes :,(. Then I caught it at 9.00 and at 9.30 I was at the university, but I am not able to go in after twenty minutes so I decided not to go in due to Linda does not like.

So, I was there since 9.30 doing nothing, my god, there are days which is better not to weak  up. And when Linda called the facilitators due to a misunderstanding, one of my colleges went in my place, Inma. Thanks a lot to her and to all my colleges.

Thanks you too for reading me; I hope you like this :)

The roles this week are...

Ana Góngora: Curator farmer
Inma: Helper
Mari Carmen: Translator
María: Facilitator
Julia: Star
Carmen: Analist
Lucía: Journalist

See you soon!! 

Translator post

Hi! I'm Mari Carmen and this 6th week I have been the ..... TRANSLATOR.

I've tried to do my best choosing the most meaningful words we have learnt this week. There were lots of new terminology, but I think this five are the most important ones:

-Educative System: concept that refers to the overall structure through which education is organized in a country.

Gobierno de España (). Sistema educativo.  Available at: http://www.mecd.gob.es/educacion-mecd/areas-educacion/sistema-educativo.html

- Organic laws: are mainly characterized for being necessary from a constitutional point in order to regulate some current life aspects. They are in charge of organization. These sorts of laws just take place in some countries. Due to the importance of the issues they deal with usually special requirements are established, such as a great majority of legislator voting positively for approves it.

Definicion (2015). Definición de ley orgánica. Available at: http://definicion.de/ley-organica/.

- BOE: is the Spanish State Official Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado) where laws, provisions and acts of mandatory inclusion are published. Council of Minister could exceptionally publish reports, documents or official communications, whose spreading would be consider of general interest. Its content is organized in different sections:

“SECTION I. General provisions

-            -  The organic laws, laws, Royal legislative decrees and the Royal Decree.
       - Treaties and international conventions.
       -The laws of the legislative assemblies of the autonomous communities.
       -Regulations and other provisions of general character.
       -Emanating normative regulations of the Government of the autonomous communities councils.

SECTION II. Authorities and staff. Comprising two subsections:

-           -II.A  nomination, situations and incidents.
             - II.B.  competitions and contests.

SECTION III. Other provisions

-          Integrated by the provisions for compulsory publication that do not have general or correspond to the other sections: aid and grants, scholarships, service letters, collective agreements of general scope, educational plans, etc.

SECTION IV. Administration of Justice

-        -  Edicts, notices, required and announcements of the courts and tribunals.

SECTION V.  Announcements. Grouped in the following way:

-         - V.A. announcements of public tenders and contract awards.

-         - V.B. other official announcements.

-          -V.C. particular announcements.”

Gobierno de España (). Contenido y secciones del BOE. Available at: http://www.boe.es/diario_boe/preguntas_frecuentes/boe_contenido.php.

-LOE: Is the Organic Law of Education (Ley Orgánica de Educación) of Spanish Educative System from 2006 until 2013. With the entry in effect of this law the previous one, LOGSE, was repealed. Among its characteristics highlight the division of Bachelor into five branches, instead of three as in previous laws, and the separation of Primary Education into cycles of two years each.

JUAN CARLOS I, (2006). I. Disposiciones generales. BOE. 106.

-LOMCE: is the Organic Law of Improvement of Education Quality (Ley Orgánica de la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa). It has entry in force this school year 2014/15. LOMCE can be featured by introducing revalidations along the scholar life of students in order to keep moving forward on the educational system, giving one third of the participation on the school board to teachers, included the director, and by giving a more important role to FP education, among others.

JUAN CARLOS I, (2013). I. Disposiciones generales. BOE. 295.

See you next week!