Translator post

My name is Julia and this week I am the Translator. But not only that, as four representatives were requested, I was part of them, I was the Transactional Leader.

Now I am going to describe the most important terms of this week.

- Authoritarian: this type of leadership directs the center on their own way. They also want everything going how they say, so they are going to do anything. They are egoists, and they do not use motivation on their workers. It could similitate with dictator.

- Participative: this one is more close to their workers. They hear everything they have to say, and do whatever so they are happy. They want their workers to share and participate in every project.

- Transactional: in order to have a good environment and the work well done, they focused on the supervision so they know exactly what they have to improve, also they want everything very organized. They use the reward/punishment style so they work harder and better.

- Transformational: this leader is the creative one. They want to identify all the problems that have to change. They use motivation and morale to make out of their employees, better workers.

- Leadership team: this team is the one that is in charge of the school. They have to guide in any circumstance, and also they have the power of instruction so they can manage the knowledges of their workers. And, of course, they direct the center.


Thank you very much for reading!

THE TRANSLATOR IS HERE AGAIN!

Hello everybody!

My name is Carmen Carpena, a member of the group 'The PowerPuff Teachers', and this week I am the... TRANSLATOR!

This week the work has been funnier than other weeks because we have had to do a video in which we had to show a problem in a school proposed by other group. In our case, is the group 'Power Teachers' who have proposed our conflict.

The words I have chosen to explain in this week are:

COEXISTENCE PLAN: Is a document related to the education field. Each centre have one and it consist in:

- Obtain a good atmosphere in the school.
- How to act in situation in which students do not behave in the way they have to.
- How to act if we are noticing a case of bullying.

http://ifpsmislata.edu.gva.es/joomla_EN/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=35

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: It is a way to explain a problem or to tell a story in a funny way using images, music and technologies. It can be said this is a way of enterteinment due to the animation and the movement of the video.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Video+documentary

SEXUAL ABUSE: It is a non-consensual sexual contact. This can happen to women and to men, depending on the case in which we are. To do this abuse, the offender can use objects, toys, pills, drugs, etc to cause pain or humillation to the victim.

http://www.pandys.org/whatissexualabuse.html

PROTOCOL: It is a document which contains a group of rules and procedures to follow in all the situations that can happen in public or private centres, in this case in schools.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/protocol

OUTTAKE: It is a scene which is not planned to be showed in the video or film. They are the scenes in which the actors commit mistakes and they are not validate to show in the screen.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outtake

I hope you enjoy the post and the blog and find them useful! Thank you!

THE TRANSLATOR IS HERE!

Hello everybody!

My name is Carmen Carpena and this week I am the helper of the group 'The PowerPuff Teachers'. The role of the helper is, as its name indicates, help the other members of the group in whatever they need. 
This week the translator is Ana Góngora but she is star the next week and she had to study to do the best in the contest so it is me who is going to search the words to translate. Here is the helper to help!

This week the work has been a bit strange because we have had to prepare the questions and study for the contest, so, we had not done any new or special work.
Here are the five words I have chosen for this week, I hope you enjoy them.

CONTEST: A competition where one person or more people compete each other to win, usually an economic prize but it can be whatever the director of the contest want. 

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/britanico/contest

CARD:  It is, usually, a rectangular piece of stiff paper or plastic which can be used in games, contests, restaurants... 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/card

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: This term is refers to public schooling. It is the group of laws that make up the actual education. Depending on the country this laws are in one way or another.

http://edglossary.org/education-system/

TRAINING: It is an organized and continue activity whose purpose is improve the level of effort with the goal of achieve the aims proposed by the person who is doing this type of training. It can be related to sports, games, studies...

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/training.html

CURRICULUM: It is related to education. Is often defined as the courses offered by a school. It includes the learning standards or learning objectives the students are expected to meet.

http://edglossary.org/curriculum/

I hope you enjoy the blog and have a good week!

Let´s go to translate with the TRANSLATOR

Hello everybody again! 

 I am Inma, the translator and this role is in charge of choosing the five most important words that can reflect and explain the activity of this week. In this case, the activity is a continuation of the previous one in which we did the two conceptual maps related to a part of the educational system and we put our conceptual maps together our colleagues´ maps. Then we had to do twenty four question related to every part of the educational system, which are already revised by our colleagues in the class.

I have decided to translate these words because we did an overview of Spanish Educational System in a conceptual map in order to know the basics and moreover the changes between the LOE and LOMCE and in order to understand and learn this information we are going to do the Oca´s game a little bit different.

1.The Spanish educational system: The educational system is a concept create by humans which represent how is organize the education in a country, in this case Spain, in order to achieve that, at least, the majority of the society have the same education.

2. Conceptual map: it is a kind of graphical tool in which you can represent many concepts which are related each other. In order to establish this relation between those concepts you can use connecting lines .Beside you can put in circles or square the most meaningful words in order to stand out them and use linking words which explain the relation between two concepts.

3. LOE: is the organic law of education of the Spanish educational system. It was published on the BOE the fourth of May in 2006 until November in 2013. Its main objective is adapt in a legal way the regulation the non-university education.

 

4. LOMCE: is the Organic Law for the Improvement of Education Quality which is a modification of the previous law the LOE and of six articles in the LODE which regulate the right to education.

5. Oca´s game: is a board game as of two players. Each player toss a die and he has to move his pieces over the board. It has 63 squares and you can progress or go back depend on the square you are.

 

REFERENCES:

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

 

I hope you enjoy the blog, see you soon!                                                      
                                                                                                                                                      INMA

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!

Translator Post

Hi guys, I am Lucía, it is a pleasure to be back with you. This week my role is translator, so I will explain using my own words some concepts that have been important in our work of this week, "What have we Learnt During the course in School Organization". For this I need to say that we have made a video with a tool called Moovly. Our video takes as its main point the TPACK model and in a creative way we have organized all content from this model. After seeing all the videos in class we have evaluated it through the Eurovision format.

Here you have the explanations I have seen appropriate to perform as translator of this week:

Moovly:  is an original 2.0 tool with which anyone can do  free of charge your presentations or videos of most lively and dynamic way. It is a good tool to use in class and outside of class, because it is an easy tool to use and the results are great. We can include our own photos and music, with creative commons obviously. The creations that are made by this tool can be exported easily, in our case we have downloaded it and then uploaded to youtube. It is a good tool whose main limit is our imagination.

TPACK: is a model that identifies the different types of knowledge that the teacher must master to integrate technology into education. This model consists of technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge. The integration of these three types of knowledge will lead us to the ideal teacher. In our video we focused on this model, because we consider it is the most important thing we've seen so far on the subject, therefore, from each of the components of TPACK we have  explained the rest of contents of the subject.

Organization:  is the act of coordinating or divide several resources or information correctly. In our video we had to organize all the knowledge we have learned in the course so that anyone who saw the video would capture the idea of each content covered. In this case, it had to be something dynamic in a visual way.

Creativity:  is to generate new original ideas from existing ideas. In our video we had the information and content, and we had the idea to organize these contents in the form of a story, particularly in a job interview to be a teacher. With this creative way is easy that when someone sees it remember our video content.

Eurovision Format:  is a way to evaluate several candidates, comes from famous European singing contest. It is about give point to the candidates, in our case, the maximum twelve points, and a minimum of three. Using this way we can know evaluation tastes and preferences of different participants, because voters are the same groups that also participate in our contest.

I hope I have clarified your mind, and I have been helpful.

REFERENCES:

- Laboratorio Educacontic. Moovly, presentaciones y animaciones en vídeo.Sitio web: http://www.educacontic.es/blog/moovly-presentaciones-y-animaciones-en-video.

- Aduviri Velasco, R. (23rd August 2011). Que el TPACK? Sitio web: http://cursoabierto.blogspot.com.es/2011/08/que-el-tpack.HTML

-   Sitio Web: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatividad

Thank you very much for your attention bloggers.

Many kisses. Lucía.

TRANSLATING WORDS

Hello everybody!
My name is Carmen Carpena and I am the ''translator'' this week.
I hope you enjoy this post and learn new things.

Comic: Is a story explained by speech balloons in which the author can add any text to specify the real meaning of the story. It is a funny way to express the tale and it is useful to avoid the people get bored and to stress the feelings.

Info-graphic: It is a way to shown some information or data that uses a single sheet of paper so that the readers can have a complete view of all the information easier than if it was in a lot of sheets. It is an original and easy way to explain and show data.

Twitter timeline: It is a list of messages or tweets that are classified according to the date of publication (the most recent are in the top). We can see only the messages of the people we follow in this social network. It is a very useful way to know about people we follow or to know interesting information.

Textbook: It is a type of book that teachers use to teach children in the school. It contains a lot of information about things that the pupil has to know according to his/her age. Depending on the subject, the textbook includes one or other information.

Publisher: It is refered to books. It is a company that is dedicated to publish articles or books. There are many publishers like 'Anaya' or 'Santillana' that are related to textbooks.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/publisher

REFERENCES:

Wikipedia (2015). Comics. Retrieved on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics. Comics-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia

Wikipedia (2015). Inphographic. Retrieved on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic. Inphographic-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia

Walker, L. (2015). 'What are twitter timelines?'. 'About tech'. Retrieved on http://personalweb.about.com/od/twitterterms/a/Twitter-Timelines-Defined.htm

Wikipedia (2015). Textbook. Retrieved on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook. Textbook-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia

Wikipedia (2015). Publisher. Retrieved on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing. Publishing-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia

I hope you enjoy the blog, see you soon!!

Translator Post

Hello everybody!! I am María García and this week my role is "Translator".

I hope my post could clarify any misconception!!

Energy: Energy is the ability of make change as you need a change on energy in order to cook. There are two types depending on from where it comes. So it can be renewable (sun, wind or water) or non-renewable (coal, oil, gas).

Oral presentation: An oral presentation is an exposition  for some people who are your public which are going to listen to what you are saying. It usually has three parts, introduction, main body and conclusion. In addition, it is important for doing a good oral presentation, to take away your nervousness by practicing it once and again.

Visual presentation: a visual presentation is the perfect way to help your audience follow your explanations or a better understanding of them by visual images, graphics, etc. It must emphasize in the most relevant data. For doing  a good one, you can read some tips to do that as for example: do not use to much words, just necessary.

 " For presentation purposes, the facts to be presented are fixed a priori, and the choice of the appropriate presentation technique depends largely on the user. The aim is to efficiently and effectively communicate the results of an analysis." [Keim et al., 2006]

Creative Commons: It is a type of license, non-profit. Users can search their website (for example: Flickr, Jamendo, etc ) without making a registration. Content as videos, photographs, images, music etc which can be used legally due to the type of license that it possess

There are six categories of licenses offered: attribution, attribution-noderivs, attribution-noncommercial-sharealike, attribution-sharealike, attribution-noncommercial, attribution-noncommercial-no derives.

Storyboard: It is a visual graphic which consist on show what you are going to put in your presentation, it can be done by images, drawings, illustrations, etc. It is very useful to organize your ideas and keep it clear.

REFERENCES:

Aigner, W. (2011). Visual Presentation. Retrieved from  http://www.infovis-   wiki.net/index.php?title=Visual_Presentation. Visual Presentation - InfoVis:Wiki.       Wolfgang Aigner.

C. G. M.Garcia Sebastian, (2006). Tierra 4 (págs. 78-85). El Avión de papel.

Kamrul, I. M. (2013). What is Oral Presentation/ Oral Presentation Definition. Retrieved from   http://dailyenglish24.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/what-is-oral-presentation-definition.html         Effective Bussiness Comunication. Mohammad Kamrul Islam

Rouse, M. (2013). Creative Commons. Retrieved from           http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Creative-Commons-copyright. What is Creative     Commons license? - A Word Definition... Margaret Rouse

Wikipedia (2014). StoryBoard. Retrieved on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard. StoryBoard- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia

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Translator Post

This week I’m going to be the translator. That means that I have to choose 5 concepts about this week’s topic. This week is about Treasure Hunt, but we also talk about cartographic projections, media and its distortion. Here there are the five terms I have chosen:

• Map projection: is a representation of the globe sphere on a flat map, using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude.
• Cartography:  is the discipline dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of maps in all forms.
• Media: is the collective communication tool that is used to store and deliver. It is either associated with communication media or communication businesses such as: print media and the press, photography, advertising, etc.
• Distortion: is the alteration of the original form of a signal representing an image, a sound, a waveform, or other information.
• Treasure Hunt: is a non-complex activity in which the participants have to answer some short questions with given information, and then one big question without the information.

REFERENCES:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=720

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_%28communication%29

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/distortion

http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/taller/treasure.htm

Julia.

It is time to be a translator

Hello everybody! 

I am Ana Góngora and this first week it is my turn to be the translator. I had the opportunity to investigate more about the 5 most important terms we have studied. It is important to know that the task of this week was about TPACK and when we first listen to that concept no one of our group know what the teacher was talking about. The five terms we have choose as more important are: TPACK, CK, TK; PK and effective teaching.

• TPACK: conceptual model that gives the teacher capacity to acquire the knowledge needed in terms of the realisation of an effective integration of technology, pedagogy and the contents. This concept is very important in our technological world. At the same time it is composed by Technological knowledge (TK), Pedagogical knowledge (PK) and Content knowledge (CK).
• Technological knowledge (TK): it refers to the understanding and the ability to use technical tools in a productive way in our daily life but also in education. It is important to underline that these tools can improve or deteriorate the realization of a specific task.
• Pedagogical knowledge (PK): knowledge related with the processes of teaching and learning. We could include as pedagogical knowledge the behaviour of the teacher with the students or the planning of the syllabus
• Content knowledge (CK): it focuses on the specific knowledge that the teacher of the subject needs to have in terms to teach their students. For a better acquisition of the content the teacher could use outlines or conceptual maps
• Effective teaching: type of professionals TPACK try to create. These professionals need to have the knowledge related with the specific content they are going to teach but also it is important to take into account that the presentation of these contents can influence.

REFERENCES:

1. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. (2014, August 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:13, February 15, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technological_Pedagogical_Content_Knowledge&oldid=619923358
2. BlogCanalTIC.com, Uso educativo de las TIC’s http://canaltic.com/blog/?p=1677
3. Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge? Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1), 60-70.