Week 7. Roles distribution

Hi! This is the distribution of the roles of this week!:

• FACILITATOR: María Hernández
•  JOURNALIST: Miriam Peña
•   ANALYST: Mª José Peñalver
•  TRANSLATOR:Yolanda Tudela
•   CURATOR-FARMER: Gracia Rueda
•   STAR:Bernabé Jiménez
•   STAR 2: Ana López
•   RESPONSIBLE: Ainhoa López

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Work with my classmates

HI! I´m Ana, the star!
Here you have the entire and complete Mind map created by the three groups (Busy Bees, POWER TEACHERS, Keep calm and Keep Organized) about the topic 1, I hope you like it.

Here you have the MindMap of the topic 4, realized by the native group, that is, POWER TEACHERS. You can see it in their blog too.

Here,I attach you the link for seeing the conceptual map: http://goo.gl/KEfdys

About how we have worked with our partners, I was the star this week and I have worked with POWER TEACHERS and KEEP CALM AND KEEP ORGANIZED.
It was a good experience, like I explained in my post (star post). I have to admit, that finally, when we started to do the complete map of the topic 4 we realized about some information that one group have and another not, in other words, we thought at the beggining of the class that our mindmap were complete, and we realized that it wasn´t true. It was a good experience complete with you the map. THANKS GIRLS!

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Analyst

Hello guys!!!! I'm Yolanda, the analyst of this week.

During this week we have worked in the task 6, Changes in The Spanish Educational System Overview: The game. We had to read and search some information about this topic and to summarize it in two conceptual maps.

I think it is very interesting this topic. From my point of view, the best part of this activity is to know better the new law of education. However, I think that the worst part of this activity is that it is an activity less dynamic and funny compared with the previous activity.

As far as I am concerned, the best moment of this week is the coordination among us into the work. The only problem that I observed it was agree in the days that we met, but finally we agree.

The contents that we have learnt this week are obviously, we have learnt more about the new law of our country, the Lomce. In my opinion it is very important to preserve the coordinarion of this week for the next weeks. But, on the other hand, I think that we can improve some things like to listen more that our partners say.

To sum up, I want to say that this activity was very interesting and I think it is important to know about it, because this law is the trigger birth to all the contents of the schools and universities, and it is very important in our degree specially.

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Journalist

Hi everyone!!!
I’m María José and this week I have been the journalist, oh yeah ;) My role consists on tell the history of the group, tell the dynamic of the weekly work and recover evidences about our work.I have to recognize that I have really liked being the journalist because I have learnt a lot to describe how my group work in a faster way.

Today's article is an explanation of the process that we followed in order to do the activity called “Changes in The Spanish Educational System Overview: The game”.

First of all, I am going to explain the time spent in the these activity: last Monday our School Organization and Educational Resources teacher proposed us a task  in which we had to investigate about different topics related to the Spanish Educational System. The topics that we had to investigate were the following:

• An overview of the Educational System
• Organisational Variations and Alternative Structures in Primary Education

              Rural schools

              Itinerancy and non-regular schooling

              Bilingual teaching

              Distance Education

With these topics we had to do a conceptual map in which we had to explain the principle ideas about this two topics. The best conceptual map would obtain a prize (1.5 or 1 extra points in the portfolio mark)

So this day, in class, the facilitator (Miriam) divided the work that each person had to do for meeting other day with  all of the information summarized and clear ideas about the topics.

We met on Wednesday 18th. This day all the members of the group have the information summarized so each one have to explain the principal ideas that had found. It was like a brainstorming,each one had many ideas about the topics.All the members of the group wanted to speak at the same time and we had some problems with it but the facilitator(Miriam) control that the group was working properly together and tried to avoid this situations with the goal of working in a good way and organized, always with the objective of improving as a group for doing the task as well as possible.
The next step was to think about how we had to organize the information in a clear way to put it on the conceptual map, so we were talking and discussing about it .We had also to do schemas for representing it in a good way.

We spent a long time doing it so we had to do Skype next day (Thursday 19th) in the afternoon in order to do the conceptual map with an useful tool that our teacher, Linda, recommended us called Mindmeister.

The last day was on Friday 20th, we finished all the details that we wanted to include on the conceptual map and after that, we revised it with the goal of avoid any mistake.

This was the result of our work:

An overview of the Educational System

Organizational  Variations and alternative structures in Primary Education

...and the expected day came :)  How was the dynamic this week with the sixth task?

On Monday 23th, our teacher Linda explained how we had to carry out this task:

Keep Calm group (who were the visitors) and the star of Power teachers (who was the alien) had to mix with our group.

At the same time our star Ana (who was the alien) had to mixed with the rest of Power Teachers group(who were the natives) and Keep calm group (who were the visitors)

The first one, had to work on the topic one and the second one, had to work on the fourth topic.

Linda divided the lesson in order to do two things:

On the one hand, in the first lesson we had to evaluate the Conceptual maps of Keep Calm and keep Organized with the help of the star of the group Power teachers (Rebecca).So first of all, the three group established a criteria that we were to follow in order to evaluate the conceptual maps. After that, we evaluated them and fill in a survey in order to observe if the conceptual map followed some criteria, such as if it was legible, their sizes, their contents,their designs,among others. In addition we had to do the same thing (to evaluate and fill a survey with a criteria) with the conceptual maps of Power teachers group.

After that, we were talking about the mistakes that we commited on the conceptual map in order to improve and we talked also about the marks that we had put on the conceptual maps.

At the same time our star, Ana, was with the other part of the group Keep calm and Keep organized and Power teachers doing the same but with the topic four.She was the star so she helped to the group Power Teachers in order to evaluate the conceptual map of the group Keep Calm and Keep organized.

On the other hand, in the second lesson we had to chose one conceptual map (the best conceptual map) in order to add some contents or aspects for completing it as well as possible.

Here I attach a video working hard in the task with the star(Rebeca)of the the group Power teachers and the visitors(the group Keep Calm and Keep Organized)

                                                         Picture belongs to the Power teachers Group

It has been a pleasure working with you!!!:)

Finally, the second part of my role consist on explore and comment a blog from inside the class and other from outside the class. 

From inside the class I selected the Power Teachers Group.I chose this group because I like how the map was done. It was very clear and with the principal content. Furthermore it was very easy for understanding the basic concepts of the topic.

I commented on the star post, which is this: http://goo.gl/XIFRKv

From outside the class I decided to comment a post that resulted me very interesting. It is about the introduction of ITC(for example,the use of Ipads applications in the classroom).

As I have put on the comment new technologies(such as iPads) are a good option for introducing in the classroom because it is a new way to teach in which students can visualize the things that they learn and understand the contents more easily. In addition they can improve their creativity and imagination. For that reason this blog,especially this post ,from my point of view, is very interesting because as future teachers, to learn more things about how introduce technologies in the classroom and use them, is a very important point.

The post comment is this: http://goo.gl/fbSZLV

I hope you enjoy reading my post! 

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Facilitator

Hello bees!! I'm Miriam and this week I have been the facilitator of the BusyBees group!

Regarding to my work, this week I have coordinated my group in order to accomplish the Task about ''The Changes in the Spanish Educational System 1º'' (next week we will carry out the second part of the task).

As the facilitator (or the ''Boss'') this week I have to say that we have had several problems according to the meetings because, as we are coming closer to the Easter holidays, we have to do lots of works so we were pretty busy, however we manage to organize our work very well.

Being the facilitator has been an interesting role, I have never had the opportunity of giving orders and organize the group, and so as I am concerned, finally we have done a good work. It can be done if we all play our part!.

Each week we worked harder and harder and the results can be seen in the quality of the work, my classmates did a good work because I think we are a good group and we worked very well together and I am very happy with their involvement on this week's task.

To begging with the Task, on Monday I started to divide the work, first of all we did not know so well what we had to do, but when we asked Linda about it and we read the resources published in ''El Aula Virtual'' we knew how to divide the information. Our group had to do two conceptual maps in with we had to explain the ideas about the changes between this 2 topics (related to the Spanish Educational System):

-An Overview of the Educational System:

-Organisational Variations and Alternative Structures in Primary Education.

To start putting the work together, we met on Wednesday, when we all had the information that I divided on Monday summarized. We putted it together, although we had several problems at the begining because everyone wanted to speak at the same time, we finally did a good work, better than we could have imagined.

On Thursday, we had to do Skype because the work of clarifying the information in order to put it easier. This task was not as easy as we thought so we had to speak and to start with the conceptual map with the tool Mindmeister.

Finally, the last day that we met was on Friday (at first we thought coming over Thusday, but when we realized that it was the father's day, we decided to meet on Friday), when we finished all the work that we include in the conceptual map and we went to print it in the stationary.

To sum up, we have had problems at the beginning with the organization, but at the end, we did a good work and we totally power-bonded!

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Star

Hi bloggers! I´m Ana, the star of Busy Bees.

Today, I have been a gossip alien with the purpose of know how some of my classmates evaluate each others. In other words, I was designed to go to the POWER TEACHERS´ world, where there were some visitors who belong to KEEP CALM &KEEP ORGANIZED´s world.

My mission was investigate if my colleagues of both worlds evaluated correctly (obviously, from my point of view), and comment in this post if I´m agree with their evaluations, so let´s go.

First of all, I´m going to start with KC&KO, who evaluated the Mind map of POWER TEACHERS, I think that they were fair in their decisions, and evaluated them in a good way.

Then, POWER TEACHERS evaluated the KC&CO Mind map and my group´s Mind map, and, like with KC&KO, I´m agree with their evaluation, all of the members read both maps, and had into account the opinion of KC&CO to evaluate my group´s Mindmap, like a good team.

In conclusion, I´m very pleasant of work with these groups, they evaluate like a group, not like one person over the other members (like a kind of leader), also they have had into account the opinion of the other group, always with respect. There was a good atmosphere among them, something very important to evaluate fairly.

THANKS FOR ALL:

KC&KO: Ángela, Noelia and Elena.

POWER TEACHERS: María, Alba, Anthea, Silvia.

I hope work with you again guys.

XO XO, Busy Bees

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Translator

Hello people!!! I am Gracia and this week I have been the traslator of Busy Bees!!! My role consists on chose five important terms that we have learnt this week. In the task 6, we have been working on LOE and LOMCE, and I have decided which definitions are the most important. Here you can read the definitions and you can see the URL of the pages that I have used to define the words….

LOE- known as “Educational Law”. This law organizes structures and delimits all the functions of the Educational System in Spain, and it has influence in the organization of the education, including the teachers, the economic resources and it has a special emphasis in the diversity of the students.

LOMCE- is the law after the LOE. The majority of the aspects are the same, but LOMCE includes some new aspects and try to improve the educational system in Spain. One goal of this educational low is reduce the school dropout, improve the results of the students, the multilingualism and the inclusion of the new technologies in the classrooms.

BOE- is the official diary of the Spanish Government in which are published the laws, the provisions and the acts of compulsory insertion. It contains also the lows approved by the General Courts.

Law- It is a set of points that try to organize and improve the environment of the country. In relation with the education, we have studied LOE, which is the past law, and LOMCE, the current law

Educational System- is the general structure that organizes the education of a country. Normally, the education system that directs a nation is reflected in a general law that develops all the elements involved in the academic environment.

References:

-. (2008). Ley Orgánica de Educación. 2008, de Asociación de Titulados Universitarios Oficiales en Informática 
Website: http://www.ali.es/modules/miprofesion/item.php?itemid=34

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

-. (2015). Boletín Oficial del Estado. 2015, de Wikipedia 
Website:http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolet%C3%ADn_Oficial_del_Estado

-. (2015). ¿Qué es una ley?. 2015, de Congreso de la República de Colombia 
Website: http://www.senado.gov.co/legales/item/11164-que-es-una-ley

-. (-). Definición de Sistema Educativo. -, de Definición, miles de términos explicados 
Website: http://definicion.mx/sistema-educativo/

                                                                      

I have considered that these words are the most relevant; also we have learnt words such as mindmeister or conceptual map really hope that these words are useful to you!! 

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Curator-Farmer

Hello everybody!!!
I´m Bernabe the curator farmer, and it was very interesting, because I learned how to do a concept map, and to distingish concept map to conceptual map. I think it will be very userfull in my life, because they are two good study´s methods. This is the mind map of the week 6, I hope you like it!


Mapa Mental creado con ExamTime por busybeespretty


REFERENCES:

- Eurypedia. (2014). Organisational Vari ations and Alternative Structures in Primary Education. 2014 from:https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Organisational_Variations_and_Alternative_Structures_in_Primary_Education

- Juan Carlos R. (2013). recopilación del texto completo LOE-LOMCE. 2013, de Presidente del Gobierno From: http://www.anpe.es/wpcontent/uploads/2013/01/LOMCE_LOE.pdf

- SANTAMARÍA LUNA, R.. (2014). LA ESCUELA RURAL EN LA LOMCE: OPORTUNIDADES Y AMENAZAS. 2014, de Inspector de Educación.

From: http://www.usie.es/SUPERVISION21/2014_33/SP%2021%2033%20ART_ESC_RURAL.pdf

- Ministerio de Educación. (2013). REFORMA DEL SISTEMA EDUCATIVO ESPAÑOL: NOVEDADES Y CALENDARIO DE IMPLANTACIÓN. 10/12/2013, de Ministerio de Educación de la Región de Murcia From: http://www.mecd.gob.es/educacion-mecd/dms/mecd/servicios-al-

- Eurydice. (2015). The Spanish education system. 23 February 2015, de Eurypedia From: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Overview

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Mind maps

Here you can see our mindmaps!! We hope you like them!!

Week 6.Roles distribution

Hi! This is the distribution of the roles of this week!:

• FACILITATOR: Miriam Peña
•  JOURNALIST: Mª José Peñalver
•   ANALYST: Yolanda Tudela
•  TRANSLATOR: Gracia Rueda
•   CURATOR-FARMER: Bernabé Jiménez
•   STAR: Ana López
•   STAR 2: Ainhoa López
•   RESPONSIBLE: María Hernández

Task 5.(Summary Video). Grades of my classmates

Here you have the grades of our classmates. We have to admitd that we enjoyed a lot watching all the videos, so congratulations for all the groups!!

The order of the groups is according to the point that we gave to them:

1-THE POWERPUFF TEACHER (3 points)

Their video could have been better because,although they put all the content that we have learnt the video was very fast and we were not able to catch the ideas to understand it(something very important when we are explaining what we have learnt).Because of these reasons, the video lowered their quality .However we know they are a good group and they worked very hard in this project, so I am sure that the next time they will do better! But instead of this, well done Powerpuff teachers!!

2-UMPALUMPAS (4 points)

Their video was good but they did not put credits and the music did not have Creative Commons Licences, instead of these mistakes that they can correct, well done too!!

3-PLATYPUS (5 points)

Their video was a bit simple and we know that they could do better, and the star was a bit nervous but instead of this she did it really good, so congratulations to this group!!

4-POWER TEACHERS (6 points)

Their video was good, because  they had organized the contents with the structure of T-PACK and explained it in a good way. We recommend this group for the next time that increases the volume of the voices at the beginning and try to avoid put a lot of letter because there isn't enough time to read them.

5-MEERKATS (7 points)

We enjoyed a lot watching their video; it was fantastic because they have represented very well the contents and the star gave us a lot of sweets and he presented their video in a very original way!!

6-7UP (8 points)

I enjoyed a lot watching their video because it was very dynamic and the music helped us to concentrate more and to put all of our attention watching it; and the star was really good too!! Good work.

7-KEEP CALM & KEEP ORGANIZED (10 points)

Their video was so good because they do a good division: resources and contents, so we could see the information in a clear way. They put photos of all the groups and this was a good detail. Good work!!

8-ITSCHOOL (12 points)

Their video was really good!! It was so interesting and it was very well made and the star did so well. Congratulations for your 12 points!!

Well done everybody!!!:) You did a good job so congratulations all the groups

Task 5.(Summary Video). Analyst

Hi people!! I am Gracia, the analyst of Busy Bees this week.

This week in School Organization and Educational Resources we have worked in the task 5, Summary Video, in which we had to make a video with moovly or powtoon including all the contents that we have studied during the course.

From my point of view, this task has been very interesting and funny, because it has been a bit different of the rest of the tasks and we have leant how to do animated videos using some useful tools online, being this the best part of the activity.

One of the worst things of this task was when we realized that the computer in which we had the video were broken, we had to repeat all the video again and recorded the audios because they had been deleted.

On Monday, when we had to put the video in class, we had some problems because the video did not reproduced well, but finally, the best moment of the week was when we could show our video correctly on time, we were very nervous because we thought that we were going to failed the task if we were not able to put the video. It was a mixture of feelings, because of on one hand we felt worried but finally we fell relaxed and relieved.

With this task, we have learnt a lot of things because most of us did not know how to do an animated video so we have learnt with the help of the members of the group that really know how to use this kind of program, so it has been very useful. Also we have remembered the entire contents of the course such as what is T-PACK, the dark side of text books, that media are not neutral…

Busy Bees, as a group has to improve in some things because many times we do not listen our partners or we want to control all the things and we do not think that this is the role of the facilitator; but instead of this, I think that one of the best things that we have is that we are friends, we help everybody and we finish the task on time, so we want to conserve this aspects.

This activity is related with the same subjects of the rest of the tasks, and all together shows us the best way to be a good teacher and to teach to the students in a correct way, and unfortunately a lot of teachers do not know them, for example the necessity of looking for the best way to teach (T-PACK), know which contents are better, or know that textbooks are not good as we usually think…

To sum up, even if not all the video is related, the majority of the contents have a relation with some aspects of the society in which we live, such us the dark side of the textbooks, because of there are a lot of political and economical interests, that media are not neutral, because they show us a distorted reality, as we can see in our video, when the teacher explains it…

I hope you enjoy reading this post!!! See you soon :) 

Task 5. (Summary Video). Journalist

Hello guys!! 

I'm Yolanda, the journalist of this week. First of all I have to recognise that it was a role more interesting that I expected. Furthermore, I love taking photos, so it was a good experience.

This week, we have had to do a moovly. Our moovly is called: "A day with Tommy", and it is a little story about the content that we have learnt until now. For this task, we met in Luis Vives on Monday (from the end of the classes until 5 pm) to do the narration and dialogue of our story. Also, we met in Luis Vives on Wednesday (from the end of the classes until 7 pm), to do the story with moovly, and to record the audios. Finally, on Thursday we met in a classroom of the "Aulario Giner de los Rios", to make the final changes.

I think the task of this week is very dynamic and interesting. Furthermore, I want to give my congratulations to all the other groups.

Here you are some of the best moments of this week!!

Here you are some of the photos of the day of the exposition:

THE STARS:

1. ANA GIMÉNEZ- 7UP

2. MARÍA GARCÍA ZAMORA- POWER TEACHERS

3. CRISTINA- PLATYPUS

4.MARÍA GARCÍA- POWER PUFF TEACHERS

5.NOELIA- KEEP CALM & KEEP ORGANIZED

6.MIRIAM- BUSY BEES (OUR STAR)

7.FRAN -MEERKATS

8.SOFÍA- IT'SCHOOL

9. YOLANDA- UMPALUMPAS

THE HELPERS (REBECA AND NOELIA) AND TRANSLATORS (PILAR Y JAVIER):

AND FINALLY, THIS WAS THE RESULT OF THE "COMPETITION":

I have commented two blogs, one of our class and other from outside the class.

This is the blog that I have choosen outside the class:

http://goo.gl/w7rzMa

I have found out some blogs about Moovly, and this week I decided to recommend this blog because I think that it is very interesting. This blog explain the moovly, but in a different way, as a tool to teach children.

I have writen a comment, here you can see: 

This is the blog that I chosen from the class:

http://goo.gl/wWcTUs

From my class, I have choosen ItsChOOL's Blog, because I really like their work of this week. I think that it is very creative. Furthermore, from my point of view, it has been one of the best works of the class of this week. Congratulations to them!!

I have writen  a comment, to congratulate them:

I hope you like it. See you the next week!!!

Task 5. (Summary Video). Facilitator

THE BOSS IS HERE...

Hi everyone, my name is María José and this week I have worked as facilitator.

During this week I have had to coordinate and control the group. I had to direct and control that the group was working properly together. The boss of the group has the task of being the key person in the solution of personal affairs between members, guaranteeing the quality of our blog and also tries to improve the weaknesses of the group changing the strategy if it is necessary, for doing works better and improve as well as possible.

In addition I have had to distribute the roles as well. So these are the roles of this week:

FACILITATOR: María José Peñalver

JOURNALIST: Yolanda Tudela

ANALYST: Gracia Rueda

TRANSLATOR: Bernabé Jiménez

CURATOR-FARMER: Ainhoa López

STAR: Miriam Peña

STAR 2: María Hernández

RESPONSIBLE: Ana Lopez

Summarizing the week, we started when Linda explained in class the fifth task called Summarizing the subject until now, and the exposition of this work. It was very interesting due to as we can see in the title of the task we had to summarize in an animation video what we had learnt with the tasks that we had done during this weeks (TPACK, Treasure hunt, Oral exposition and the dark side of the textbooks)

First of all, we didn’t know how to use moovly so this day; Linda explained the task and after that my group and me watched a tutorial video and read in the webpage of moovly how to do a good animated presentation for having clear ideas to do it.

After that, I established three days for doing this task:

We met three days:

MONDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

The first day was on Monday and I divided the work in this way:

Four members of the group summarized the most important things, each one of each task.

So the rest of the group would continue design a way for doing the presentation in a creative way. The way in which we thought that it was very easy for doing it was to explain each task and the content so we have the idea of explaining it through a boy who goes to the school and learn a lot of things with his teacher. So this day we did the dialogue of characters and decided that Gracia, Maria and Ainhoa were perfect to interpret the characters on the video.

We met other day (Wednesday) to do the scenes that we wanted so four members of the group designed some scenes and the others members the rest of scenes. When we did it we started using moovly.Each member of the group had to do in moovly the scenes established.We also started recording the audios. We spent a long time doing it so we decided to meet other day for finishing the project.

The last day was on Thursday; we recorded the audios again and finished the task (in spite of some problems with the computer).

I would like to say that working in group is always something very important but difficult at the same time due to the different opinions and the different ways of doing things.

I have tried to coordinate the group in a good way but I have to recognize that sometimes it was very difficult to do it because, as I have said before, all the members have speak at the same time with different ideas for the project and it is hard to control this kind of things. In spite of it, I think that I did it as well as possible and always trying to improve as a group that is an important point.

To sum up, we're proud of our work because we were working very hard and we hope you enjoy with us. I would like to congratulate my group due to the work and of the good experience we have lived.