..AND THE WINNERS ARE.... POWERPUFFTEACHERS !!!

We are the winners of the best video about "What have we learnt until now?" in # SOYER1415. Thanks to the votes of our colleagues, Linda and other teachers. We will enjoy our aperitivo at the canteen on Thursday.

Facilitator post

Hello everyone! I am Julia and this week I have been the facilitator. This role is so much difficult that what it seems. To be the facilitator means that you have to organize the group, divide the work, and also choose the days that you are going to meet to do the work.

I am not an organized person so it was very difficult to me and I had to do my best to organize the others in order to do a good job. Even though the work could have been done in one day, we had to meet two days, but thanks to that the work was better than if we had done it in just one day.

This week’s roles are:

• Inmaculada Álvarez Donaire: Journalist

• Carmen Carpena Soriano: Translator

• Julia Egea Leal: Facilitator

• María García Alcaraz: Star

• Ana Caridad Góngora Rodríguez: Analyst

• Lucía Grau Martínez: Curator-Farmer

• MariCarmen Molina-Niñirola Ballester: Helper

In my opinion this week everyone has done their role very good, and they have done what they had to.

Sincerely, the facilitator.  

CARMEN AS A CURATOR-FARMER

Hello everybody!
My name is Carmen, I am a member of the PowerPuffTeachers' group and this week my role is the curator-farmer.
This week we had to do a funny video explaining all the things we have learnt in this subject until now (TPACK, Treasure Hunt, Maps Proyections, all the resources we have used...).
It has been a great experience because this activity has been more entertaining than the others and we have learnt how to do this type of videos.
Also, in class it has been very funny because we have voted the videos of our classmates in the Eurovision format, with translators too.
In relation to my role, it has not been very difficult because in this activity we had not a lot of references but in contrast to this, I have helped to do the video, expose ideas... but all of us have helped each others when we needed.
Here are the references of this week. There are not so many because all the others references we have used to do the video, have already exposed in previous post written by my classmates.

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

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

- Creatividad. (n.d.). En Wikipedia. Recuperado el 5 Marzo 2015 desde http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatividad

I hope you enjoy the blog! Thank you

Carmen.

Helper post

Hi bloggers!

I am Mari Carmen Molina and for this time I have been the helper of my group. This role was the idea of one of my colleagues who thought that every week one of us could be the person who help the other roles so that is why we create helper.

This week we have gone over the first part of this subject doing a video with Moovly about what we had learn until now. Moreover, monday at class we did the competition in a different way, using the Eurovision format.

Now that we have already passed throught the fisrt part of the cuatrimestre and the end of academic year is closer, some events made me stop and think. I've realized how things really are. You can come across really hard situations. This subject is not just a project, it is a first approach to adults' world. The world where we belong to now.

I've been reflecting about the degree I'm taking, about how I am and what I aspire to. And I feel that I won't be a good teacher unless  I learn how to discuss my point and my future students' needs in from of their parents, teachers and classmates.


We must make our best in every single thing we do in our lifes, no matter whether it is at home, walking on the street or at university.

GO AHEAD!

Shine as a Star

Hi everybody!!

I am María and this week my role is the "star" of my group.

First of all, as a star, I am the principal character of the group, you will be the principal voice of the group in the activity and has the representation of it.

 I think that it is important to take in account that it was the first time I talk in front of almost sixty people, so I felt not a bit but very nervous unless my speech lasted thirty seconds. It consisted on explain the reason due to my group has to be the winner of the contest. I was a bit upset as all my colleges said to me: Maria that is a nonsense, come on! only thirty seconds... But I thought my goodness...

Once I was in class, my stress increased directly proportionate to the time of the exposition. Nevertheless, when our teacher, Linda said: " stars come on! Time is up! Now is your turn..."; and it was my moment I  forgot all I prepared the day before and I presented our work the better I could. After the presentation I felt so good and proud of me and of our group's work.

I really like the way Linda prepared the expositions, I mean, once more, as every week she prepared our expositions in a different way. For that reason, her classes, at least for me, are very interesting and funny.

I love the idea of making innovate classes may be because is the first time I have a teacher like she. And I would like to share with you bloggers, something Linda said to us that day: "I am not her to make you happy; I am here to make you better". It impressed me and I am sure that it would a phrase that I will use it in the future, may be when I will be an old person who says to her pupils:" When I was on the first year of my degree one of my teachers said to us...".

It could be a nonsense for someone who can't feel what a person who loves this degree feels, but at least for my; it is not a nonsense.

Thanks you for reading me, I hope you like.

See you soon! : )

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.

You know that I'll be your PAPARAZZI!!!

Hello everybody! I am Inma and this week I am the journalist of the PowerPuffTeachers.

This week we had to make a video about what we have learnt on this part of this subject. It has been as a review of everything we have learnt. We used the program Moovly because we think it is more complete, there are more effects and we liked it more than Powtoon.

In the video we have wanted to share with us in a funny and creative way the things we have learnt so, we represented this as a story, that is I thought in a job interview in order to find the perfect teacher in which three people who represented the three main parts of TPACK tell to the interviewer what kind of things can offer to the school. Therefore, the man who represented technology tell all the things that we have learnt about it (YouTube, Blog, ComicLife, Mindmap...). The second man represented pedagogy and he tell all the things related to pedagogy (Work in groups, listen, roles, share ideas, organize...). The last man represented content and he tell the things related to it (TPACK,Treasure Hunt, The dark side of the books...). At the end, the three men put on top of themselves and the result is the perfect teacher related to the combination of the three main components ( Technology, Pedagogy and Content) ant it gives room to TPACK.

In order to make this video we have had to meet twice because Moovly is a complicated program that we had never used before and it is a bit tiresome because of the time. For example, if you want to change something at the beginning of the video we have to move the whole video. Moreover, you can not copy any part of the video so we had to make it one by one.

We were nervous because we have been working so hard in this video and we also wanted to win the competition.

Then, the day arrived... I loved the class we did on Monday, it was really funny and it serve to review all the things we have learnt. Every star explained what were the reasons why they had to win an we saw all the videos, some were really creative, for others were not so creative and original anymore.

Now, I want to share to us some funny and importants moments of this week and this activity:

The Boss in action: This is Julia, the facilitator of this week, who was in charge to organise the activity and the things we had to do.

       

        Here, we can see how the PowerPuff are working so hard (Well, we had some breaks too).

                              Our star playing with the cat after an intense sesión of working.

 

They are the facilitators of each group and they are also representatives in charge of telling the marks of every video. Julia who is in the middle of this collage represented the PowerPuffTeachers from Townsville.

They are our collaborators and transalators of the competition. Two of them had to put the marks on the blackboard and the other two had to translate into Spanish and French the marks which each group gave to the videos.

                                    The final marks of our class judge and our teacher Linda.

    

                                     

The PowerPuff choosing the song for our video in Jamendo with Creative Commons License!

The facilitators of It´school and Seven Up following the Eurovisión format in order to tell the marks of our videos. They had to point the videos from 3 to 12, giving 12 points to the video they liked the most.

 When we have received 12 points and the funny reaction of Lucía, one of the members of the PowerPuff.

We are closer to know the mark of the rest of the judge, in other words the marks that Linda, three teachers who are at the university and three teachers who are not teaching at the university give us the marks of our videos. We are impatient!!!!

Regarding some blogs I have been looking into, I have found a really interesting one. It´s about children with special needs so we can find information about how to teach children with special needs, different ways for they to learn in a funny and in a better way, investigations about whether children with this kind of needs learn better playing than in other way or not...

I think we must not forgive these children because they need to have the same opportunity to learn than the others and therefore, achive the integration of this kind of children in society. That is why I have chosen this blog.

http://specialneedsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/10/how-teaching-students-emotional-brains-causes-long-lasting-learning.html/

About the blogs of our classmates: There are some of them that I really like but one of them has caught my attention due to the cartoons and the colours. This is Platypus. They are also doing a good job with this blog, it´s so lovely. I recommend you to visit it .

http://platypusoyer.blogspot.com.es/

We hope you like this post and the blog in general because we have done the best as possible. See you next week with new News.

                                                                                                                                              INMA

Analysis of our week

Hello everybody I am Ana Góngora (yes, I know, again…)

We are near to Holy week and so on this time I had to be the analyst of my group. Personally as weeks past I have realized that EVERY role has a difficult part and so this one has it. I have to evaluate the work of my group so I had to observed carefully and now think about what I am going to say.

As you know, this week we had to do a video summarizing all the content we have learn during these hard weeks. If I have to remark a moment of this activity for me was to realize and be proud of all the work we have done. I can perfectly remember the first day of this subject when we didn’t know our teacher and we were frightened about what we had to do! After these moments, we had to look for a lot of information we had never heard about: TPACK, map projections, blogger, good presentations... And now, we are perfectly able to explain all these knowledge to almost everyone! Now we don’t want to stop learning anymore.

The problem is that not everything is like in a fairytale... we had bad moments this week too, because it was SO DIFFICULT to found how to show everything in a short video. We spend lots of hours doing a type of “brainstorming” trying to look for the best one when finally our colleague Inma did it!

Apart from that the BIG problem was nearly to appear when we were at Maria’s house (the place where we met this week) and it was 10 o’clock at night so we had to stop working and try to continue in another moment, but almost half of our are not from Murcia (even myself) and we couldn’t stay here during the weekend because it is our only time to see our family. So our facilitator told us to be in Skype in order to help those components who stay during the Saturday doing the work. Finally we realised that Moovly can only be used in one computer, so nothing could be done... Next week (as always) we have to be conscious of the time needed in terms to finish the activity properly... IT IS THE MOMENT FOR THE CHANGE!

But not everything is bad... c’mon we have to be realist, we have a good cohesion in our group, and most of the times we get on really well...obviously we have some problems like everybody but we talk and solve them with no problems. Every time we have to do a new activity is an afternoon (or more) with lot of laughs (LOL)

If you think that this content has no relation with reality you are really mistaken, during this weekend while I was having dinner I heard a new that was talking about Flicker. I opened my eyes and ears as much as I could because I had never use this social network before working in the 20 tips of doing a good presentation and learning about Creative Common and this fact had surprised me.

I have really enjoy doing this post because I had to remember everything and apart from the bad things, good things came to my mind and make me laugh.

See you bloggers, XOXO.

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