JOURNALIST

Good evening dear readers!

We are Paz and Isa, the journalist of last week. Today our post is going to be shorter, but as interesting as always.

It is shorter because we didn’t have to do any task. We had to complete the big one we were preparing during the lasts few weeks before going on holiday. This was: THE GAME! 

Do you remember the cards we were making the weeks before and all the mind maps about the spanish educational system? well… these were for playing at class with all our mates to a “ladders and snakes” game.

We were very, very nervous, but we completely trust in our stars (Ana Ruiz and Ana Sanchez) and they didn’t let us down. They answered correctly all the questions and finally… WE WON THE GAME!

It was incredible! We were very happy and very proud of all of the members of our group, because all of them had done a very good job. But we were specially proud of our stars.

It has been a very nice experience for all of us (even when we were very nervous during the game).

As I have told you, this post has been the shortest one we have maked but, at the same time, is the one that remember us one of the best moments of this course.

See you soon!

Paz and Isa.

JOURNALISTS

Hi Everyone!!! We are Laura and Sandra and this week we have been journalist :)

We have thought about a different and interesting way of presenting T8T Team work during this week, so as to make it more visual and dynamic. We hope you like it!

Moreover, we have commented in an interesting blog what we recommend you about the different between LOE and LOMCE........... http://blog.fernandotrujillo.es/el-curriculo-basico-de-la-lomce-analisis-de-aspectos-generales/#comment-2236 

We want to congratulate the group Education Rush Hour about their videos that they have published in their blog. We think that it´s a good idea to explain their work of this week! =)
Well, that is all about this week. We see you after the holidays as analyst, we hope that you will spend a good weeks of holidays :) :)

The journalist 
t8t

THE JOURNALIST

“The Spanish Educational System and its recent changes”.  How has T8T work developed?

By Ana Mª Sánchez Clares.

This week #SOyER1314 has started a new term in their course, and the tasks are becoming harsher… Yes, it is never pleasant to analyse a law. The vocabulary, the structure and bureaucracy factors around it make the study really rough for students. 

On Monday, March 24, the T8T team was given the task of analyzing two issues from a given list of six topics:
    Topic 2. Primary school role, general aims and objectives, education policies and legislative references. 
    Topic 5. Administration of non-university institutions; running on three aspects: Pedagogical, organisational and resources management.

These 8 teachers-in-training read the general information on Monday afternoon and, on Tuesday, the team was split into two groups and an innocent hand was asked to extract a paper… And the adventure started! “What a horrible task!”, “Oh gosh, what do we have to do then?” Yes, those were some of the more popular comments between T8T, but it was time to get down to work… And so did they.

The topics were being analyzed while they were searching for a useful tool for creating a proper concept map; not an easy job, none of them seemed to be appropriate!

On Thursday, well, maybe that day could be omitted from the work table… Some kind of a very important event kept the team busy for almost the whole day.

So let´s past to Friday morning, when one of the small groups met at 8:30 in “La Merced” campus…

and the other one at 10:30 in “Espinardo”…(Maybe was it due to that Thursday vital event? No… just a medical appointment).

 

The team members had their part almost ready and it was time to put it all together and deepen into the  LOE-LOMCE differences by helping each other to analyse them. Well, maybe that was not the most successful part of the job… It all seemed to be so similar… Maybe the lack of time and the unattractiveness of such a task played against. 

The “8:30 group” finished their work sooner and when they shared the task, the other group realized that some particles were missed on the maps to be proper “conceptual maps”. Therefore, each one rearranged their work, and both groups tried to make their best. Finally, after exploring and commenting lots of options, they decided to introduce the data in the tool “Inspiration 9” (thanks Ana Ruíz for volunteering to introduce data for "10:30-group").

Last but not least, the group members came on Monday 31 to share their works and they found out that they had to evaluate others topics different from their own ones, what caused them frustration. Half group was “supervising” Education Rush Hour...

...and the other one “supervised” C´mon Tutankamon. (Let´s say for “helping them to be impartial when evaluating their own work in comparison with the others’). 

It was an unexpected job and any of them were too happy with the role they had to play. T8T did enjoyed analyzing the different ways of representing information, but they just think that knowledge improve so much when it is known properly what is being analyzed… Well, don´t worry too much T8T and the rest of the members that were in the same situation! You all have the synthesis of the maps in a forum. Enjoy yourself!

The next step on this journey through School Organization is making questions on the synthesized maps, but this is another story…

Acknowledgements:

After an overview to the #SOyER1314 posts of this weekly task, T8T had congratulated “Education Rush Hour” for innovating the format when presenting their post. Refreshing, guys. Well done. Readers, have a look to it!

 

Personal opinion on the general task:

From the point of view of this journalist this task has had some kind of political bias from the very beginning, what have made her feel upset and have some rejection to it. In the first place, we could compare the LOE and the LOMCE from the BOE, but it was specially recommended to us a document that belongs to CCOO, well, maybe because of the fact that it has an index and it contains not only the LOMCE modifications but the whole text, it´s worth having a look to it, but, what are we learning? Letting others (from a very specific ideology) filter the information we should look up in the original sources? Well, sometimes I don´t know what to think. I have to recognise that I need guide, some kind of light to go through the law, it is harsh, and I´m not prepared enough to understand the real scope of some changes. In spite of that, I do know the results from LOGSE and LOE...  So, which is the purpose of this task? To know what have changed... or  what has got “worse”? Maybe it´s just me, that I´m fed up of this kind of boring play between PP-PSOE in which they are working on the same wrong pattern... What about if we look to others countries like Finland? Have a look to what Oscar Ray (2013) explains in his blog unadocenade... in this sense.

Maybe the reform we need is much deeper than we think, and we need each other for doing so. Do you have an opinion on it? Let me know, thank you.

Ana Mª Sánchez, T8T journalist.

THE JOURNALIST II: SYNTHESISED C-MAPS

Report on #SOyER1314 synthesised C-maps

T8T has decided to gather here the six synthesised C-maps that were assigned to the whole bilingual group:

• Topic 1:An overview on the Educational system.  

By: Education Rush Hour. 

Supervisors: T8T (Isa, Laura, Paz & Sandra).

             (It will be uploaded when E.R.H. mends the link...)

 

• Topic 2. The Primary school: aims, its role, education policy and legislative references.

By: GiveMe7.

Supervisors: Little Ants (half group).

• Topic 3. Organistation of Primary education: geografical accessibility; admission requirements & choise of school; age levels & grouping of pupils; organization of the school year.

By: Hide & Seek.

Supervisors: Little Ants (half group).

• Topic 4. Organisational variations & alternative structures in Primary education: rural schools; itinerancy & non-regular schooling; bilingual teaching; distance education.

By: The teachleaders.

Supervisors: Step by step (half group).

• Topic 5. Administration at institutional level of non-university institutions: pepadogical, organizational and resources management.

By: Brainstorming

Supervisors: Step by step (half group).

• Topic 6. Governance at institutional level of non-university institutions: the leadership team; collegial, teaching and participation bodies.

By: C’mon Tutankamon.

Supervisors: T8T (Alba, Ana Ruíz, Ana Sánchez & Raquel).

We  would specially like to mention "C´mon Tutankamon", who did a conscientious work from the beginning, but whose work is now much more concise & clear than before: they considered all the supervisors suggestions, took the strong points of the others groups and kept the best of their own C-map.  GiveMe7 one seems to be really complete and clear aswell. We need more time for analysing the rest of the C-maps, but they look really well. Well done guys.

It´s time now for personalizing the C-maps after our personal study!

Thanks #SOyER1314,

Ana Mª Sánchez, T8T journalist.

JOURNALIST

HELLO READERS!!

We are already here again, sharing with all of you our experiences and emotions. 

I'm Raquel Ramón and this week I'm a JOURNALIST! It's incredible and amazing, isn't it? :P

This week, we have been doing a new and creative project with different tools, which are very interesting to do original works in order to be a good teacher in the future and enrich our knowledge. 

FIRST, I'm going to describe what we all the group have been doing during this week.The project consist on making a video where appear everything that we have learnt during this part of the subject school organization and educational resources, summarizing all the adquired content in just 1 minute and 30 seconds. 

Well, when Linda ordered us this project,we thought that it could be a chance to get familiar with all the contents, maybe if you had some doubts about one of the projects, you could sort out now.

In class during all the week, we have been seeing what were the programs that Linda recommended us to do the video. So, all the members were looking into how to use both programs (moovly and powtoon) and then we had to decide what is the best and work in it as soon as possible. 

18 Tuesday!! 

When we was explained the new activity, we started to think about it. Before this day, at the weekend, Sandra tried to do a video with some photos taken by us during the course. But, the problem was that this video was incorrect, because the video had to be made in one of the two programs that Linda said to us. So, Tuesday, we started to look into the programs on your own.

20 Thrusday! 

In class, we all was watching what were the ideas that we had to do the video. And at the end of the class, we decided that we was going to do the video with moovly. So, the facilitator share the contents of the subjects in pairs. In this way, we and my partner ana chose the dark side of textbooks, because we thought that it was interesting.So, we worked in the program thrusday evening. 

                                                                               

21 Friday!

We all met on the library to join all the videos, to put the same style and the same things and change the incorrect thing and so on, because we didn't have time in the weekend, so we met Friday morning to finish the work. Surprinsingly, after looking up some songs through Creative Commons Search, we finally found the perfect song and the video was a success. Of course, the video could have been better and more creative, but we did it as we felt it and as we knew it. I think that if we were more time to do the activities, maybe we would do it better, I think. But, anyway, I'm very proud of all of us. 

To continue my post, I want to tell you some things and impressions about my classmates's blogs.

I have seen all the blogs and in general they have beautiful titles and creative styles and so on. But, what I have to stand out are they blog which have all the blog in a original way respect to the rest of the blogs. This blog is GIVE ME 7. All my group think that this blog is like an example or a role model for us, because they have the things very strutured. So, I think that the best on could be Give me 7. Also, I like so much hide & seek and brainstorming because they work very hard in their post as well as being organized as I like. 

I have also reading some posts of my classmates and I think that in general all of them are good. But, also all of them can improve so much. I think that  we are learning many things and get familiar with them ( the blogs, the roles etc) and gradually we are improving and working hard to get a good grade.

I have also commented in some post like The analyst by Feli of Brainstorming and Journalist of Amelia of Teachleaders =)

http://7brainstorming.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/analyst-by-feli-travieso.html

http://theteachleaderssoyer.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/journalist-role-by-amelia-aviles.html

All the groups have presented their videos summarizing what content they have adquired and their emotions and experiences during these months in the subject and I'm to comment some aspects about them.

EDUCATION RUSH HOUR:

the video has been made with a lot of work behind, because to be honest, all my group agreed the video was very interesting with the story.

HIDE & SEEK:

We evaluated his video in the 1º place in Eurovision, because they show us in a funny and interesting way all the content that we have adquired and also all the impressions about the subject with a story.So, they deserved the prize and the first position. Thank you hide & seek for being ORIGINAL =)=)

THE LITTLE ANTS.

In spite of the video was of those that receive the worst punctuations, I know that they worked very hard in it and also that they know to do lots of things originally as the other activities. Maybe, they didn't put all the effort as they can in the video. But, I Know that they can improve so much. In fact, they have done original activities and creative and effective presentations. So, don't worry Little Ants. =)=) you can!!

BRAINSTORMING

Well, Brainstorming also did a good work because they reflected very clear the things that they have learnt. Iliked so much how they show us the different visions of explaining the reality. They took some photos and edited them with a program in order to show us who reality can be distorted. I think that they have very good ideas and also that they can improve even more. So, thanks for your video. =)

STEP BY STEP

Very clear videos and I like so much the way that the show us all the contents that they have learnt during the last 2 months. 

GIVE ME 7:

I enjoy the video, but personally, I didn't like so much the voice in this kind of videos because I think that the video and the photos and animated things have to express and say all the things and maybe it's not necessary the voice at all. 

But, anyway. They did a good work !!=)=)

C'MON TUTANKAMON:

They did a really really good work. That was the reason why they win the first position. CONGRATULATIONS.!!

TEACHLEADERS:

they did a good video in a enjoyable way and we evaluate his video as one of the best of the class. So, you are good workers =)

Well, on the next week Monday, all the groups presented us their wonderful videos and finally we did BNILINGUAL EUROVISION SHOW, in which stars had to transmit the impression of all the group about the other videos and evaluate them with points. ( 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 points). Here I leave you the final punctuations. Our stars LAURA AND SANDRA did a good work =)

The first place was for Hide and Seek and C'mon Tutankamon. CONGRATULATIONS. Surprinsingly, the second one was T8T, our group. We was very proud and exciting when we counted the point that ourclassmates gave us. THANKS!! :P :P

Our punctuations were:

3 for Little Ants

4 Step by step

5 Giveme 7

6 Teachleaders

7 Brainstorming

8C'mon Tutankamon

10  Education Rush Hour

12 Hide & Seek

Here I leave some link intereseting about moovly and powtoon. This is guide in order to explore and do creative works with your kids in the class.=) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP4rkRixRF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgZzaTQpYg

We have found a blog where they explain how to use this programs and it's very interesenting. I have also commented in the post about my impressions about it. 

Have a look!! =)=)

http://blog.princippia.com/2013/10/moovly-nunca-una-presentacion-fue-tan.html

Well, finally I have to say that doing this post as Journalist has been very hard. I hope you like it =). I have tried to do my role as better as posssible. =)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

SEE YOU SOON AS ANALYST :O