Hi! I am Samuel and this week I was the Analyst of Ladies and Gentlemen's group. I have to do a reflection of our work done this week; so, let's go!
This week the work was splitted in 6 parts because we couldn't meet any day and each member of the group did his job clearly.
The best part of this task was the way of organize the work because we finnaly focused on doing whatever the task was about.
The worst part? I was ill this week so it was too difficult to do many things because I had a lot of headaches and my paceful time was a bit limited.
Finally, in my opinion, we must conserve the way of organise the work because it's a nice way of doing all the tasks in the minimum time possible, and we should improve our way of work: this week we have started to use google docs to join all our summaries; and we should improve in this way, I mean that we should use software like this to progress in our way of using technologies and wasting less time.
That's all folks! See you next week :-)
Samuel
Friday, March 31, 2017
Week 9, post by the Curator, Ebru
Hello everyone!! I am Ebru. This week I was the curator of the Ladies&Gentlemen group. Every week we have to choose a different role in the group so the role 'curator' was the one that I had not done before. The curator of the group is in charge of compiling and organizing the academic references (APA style) that the group is using (effectively) on each activity. However, this week we just used the article that teacher send us. Also, it was not necessary to use other sources like internet. This week we formed new groups again like last week and we made a video about the content we took that was the peer to peer connection. I think we made good job this week with friends from different groups. We made a good video and we wish you like it.
SEE YOU IN NEXT TASK!
#Ebru#
Here is our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYNfjhuRfUQ
Week 9, post by the Facilitator, Mitchell
Hey there everyone! I'm Mitchell from Ladies & Gentlemen and this week I am the facilitator.
It is not the first time I'm the facilitator, normally I quite enjoy this role because who doesn't´t like telling people what to do? But this week I must admit, my group has worked very well so they have made my role really easy. Though it is true that the last couple weeks I have felt like I had to be on top of people telling them what to do and I felt a bit stressed, but gladly this week where it actually was my role everyone has worked very well and been helpful.
So in conclusion, my group is back on track I am very happy with their work, and I have had an easy week thanks to them. Not much to say as a facilitator when your group works so well.
It is not the first time I'm the facilitator, normally I quite enjoy this role because who doesn't´t like telling people what to do? But this week I must admit, my group has worked very well so they have made my role really easy. Though it is true that the last couple weeks I have felt like I had to be on top of people telling them what to do and I felt a bit stressed, but gladly this week where it actually was my role everyone has worked very well and been helpful.
So in conclusion, my group is back on track I am very happy with their work, and I have had an easy week thanks to them. Not much to say as a facilitator when your group works so well.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Week 9, blogpost by the star, Stina
Hello everyone!
This week I was the star of our group Ladies & Gentlemen and the task was about expressing the different relationsships complexities by recording them.
First of, we started by telling what relationship we thought was the most complex. I chose the relationship between teacher and student but I ended up recording the relationship between peers. When my group were complete we went to an empty classroom and started to record. Well, I told them what I had in mind and let my group have opinions about it and tell me if they wanted to do something els. But everyone seemed pleased with the idea. So we ended up making a silent movie by showing the complex relationship by peers.
My group was a very ambitious group. At first very quiet but later they had many great ideas and I think the movie ended up really well. I'm glad that the members of the group are really easy to work with and really supportive of each other. I had a blast.
Now to my reflections...
I still think that the teacher - student relationship is the most complex. Just because relationships between humans overall is complex. And also because this relationship is what all the other complexities are based on. If the teacher - student relationship is a good one the connections within learning will be easier and also connections within learning will be more effective if the peers are surrounded with positivitsm and a safe environment of learning. I believe that every connection or relationships has some kind of foundation. I mean, we can say that, for example, if I want to start a new political partie I need a foundation of how my political partie will grow and what ideological ground I am going to have. Therefore everything needs a foundation to grow. And in my case by choosing the teacher-student relationship as the mose complex, I will say that it is the most complex just because we need, as teachers, to know how we should make this relationship or connection the best to make everything els work. If I have a problem with a relationship with one of my peers, we will have a hard time cooporating in class and make learning fun and interesting.
And to link this with the movie we made, showing the complexity between peers, it is important for a teacher to be a rolemodel and have good relationships with all the students, to show the students that it is possible to have good relationships no matter how different you are. And if you can show that, as a teacher, the peers will hopefully copy your way of engaging with all the peers, to eachother.
And I want to finish this reflection by saying that, the moste amazing thing with the profession as a teacher is that you can refer to anything to explain the complexity of the school organization. For example, make up. You need a good foundation to make the eyeshadow stay through the whole day. You do not begin with the eyeshadow and then using the foundation. Because then the eyeshadow will not show. Did I make my point clear? I hope I did.
Thank you guys for this week it has been really fun!
Hasta luego!
P.S
HERE is our video (without music, because there came some other important things in the way, but the music will be there on mondays presentation).
This week I was the star of our group Ladies & Gentlemen and the task was about expressing the different relationsships complexities by recording them.
First of, we started by telling what relationship we thought was the most complex. I chose the relationship between teacher and student but I ended up recording the relationship between peers. When my group were complete we went to an empty classroom and started to record. Well, I told them what I had in mind and let my group have opinions about it and tell me if they wanted to do something els. But everyone seemed pleased with the idea. So we ended up making a silent movie by showing the complex relationship by peers.
My group was a very ambitious group. At first very quiet but later they had many great ideas and I think the movie ended up really well. I'm glad that the members of the group are really easy to work with and really supportive of each other. I had a blast.
Now to my reflections...
I still think that the teacher - student relationship is the most complex. Just because relationships between humans overall is complex. And also because this relationship is what all the other complexities are based on. If the teacher - student relationship is a good one the connections within learning will be easier and also connections within learning will be more effective if the peers are surrounded with positivitsm and a safe environment of learning. I believe that every connection or relationships has some kind of foundation. I mean, we can say that, for example, if I want to start a new political partie I need a foundation of how my political partie will grow and what ideological ground I am going to have. Therefore everything needs a foundation to grow. And in my case by choosing the teacher-student relationship as the mose complex, I will say that it is the most complex just because we need, as teachers, to know how we should make this relationship or connection the best to make everything els work. If I have a problem with a relationship with one of my peers, we will have a hard time cooporating in class and make learning fun and interesting.
And to link this with the movie we made, showing the complexity between peers, it is important for a teacher to be a rolemodel and have good relationships with all the students, to show the students that it is possible to have good relationships no matter how different you are. And if you can show that, as a teacher, the peers will hopefully copy your way of engaging with all the peers, to eachother.
And I want to finish this reflection by saying that, the moste amazing thing with the profession as a teacher is that you can refer to anything to explain the complexity of the school organization. For example, make up. You need a good foundation to make the eyeshadow stay through the whole day. You do not begin with the eyeshadow and then using the foundation. Because then the eyeshadow will not show. Did I make my point clear? I hope I did.
Thank you guys for this week it has been really fun!
Hasta luego!
P.S
HERE is our video (without music, because there came some other important things in the way, but the music will be there on mondays presentation).
Week 9, Post by the Journalist, Pedro
Hi everyone, I'm Pedro and this week I am the journalist of my group, Ladies&Gentlemen.
This week we distributed our roles on Monday, and we haven't had to meet many days. We separated our work so it has been easy for us. We only met on Monday to start the task. In the end we put every part together to complete the task.
This week we distributed our roles on Monday, and we haven't had to meet many days. We separated our work so it has been easy for us. We only met on Monday to start the task. In the end we put every part together to complete the task.
See ya next week!
Friday, March 24, 2017
Week 8, blogpost by the Translator, Samuel
Hi there!! My name is Samuel and this week I am the translator of Ladies and Gentlemen's group. This week we were taught about complexity in the school environment. So here are the most important terms that we learned:
1.-Complexity theory: a theory that emerged from physical sciences. It explores how communities changes is focused in the complexity of the systems rather than in individual cases.
2.-Diversity and redundancy: it is linked with the way of put in some new methodologies. If these ones are not redundant to the context, they are removed.
3.-The balance of randomness: it's the relationship between the newer changes in the world that has to be balanced with the systematic pressure.
4.-Edge of chaos: it is the place between chaos and openness. It is located in schools with diverse population.
5.-Digital age: it is our age, the age of technology (computers, smart phones, etc).
That ones were the terms that, in my opinion, have to be explained. It was a pleasure clarify them for you, see you next week!
Samuel :-)
1.-Complexity theory: a theory that emerged from physical sciences. It explores how communities changes is focused in the complexity of the systems rather than in individual cases.
2.-Diversity and redundancy: it is linked with the way of put in some new methodologies. If these ones are not redundant to the context, they are removed.
3.-The balance of randomness: it's the relationship between the newer changes in the world that has to be balanced with the systematic pressure.
4.-Edge of chaos: it is the place between chaos and openness. It is located in schools with diverse population.
5.-Digital age: it is our age, the age of technology (computers, smart phones, etc).
That ones were the terms that, in my opinion, have to be explained. It was a pleasure clarify them for you, see you next week!
Samuel :-)
Week 8, post by the Journalist,Mitchell
Hi there everyone!
Im Mitchell from Ladies & Gentlemen and this week I am the journalist. And Im very excited about this I must say! Having studied Film and Media last year, and knowing about video making and editing, I thought I'd take advantage of this knowledge and try to stand out in what was going to be my future profession last year. I have tried to do something completely different, instead of taking photos on my phone and doing an easy task I have decided to do a video with a small follow up of every day we have met. It has been a big effort, it isn't hard to take videos instead of photos, but the editing process takes a lot of time, so after all my effort I hope it was worth it and that you enjoy. One last thing, Id also like to encourage my classmates to try do different things and excede in their task, it only takes doing what you do best to be original.
As always, here a provide you what I consider an interesting link. This week was about the complexities in teaching, but it wasn't complexities that happen inside the classroom at an instant moment. Here I have a text on the difficulties of teaching inside the actual classroom, so like that you will have the information from two different focuses.
Have a nice weekend!
Im Mitchell from Ladies & Gentlemen and this week I am the journalist. And Im very excited about this I must say! Having studied Film and Media last year, and knowing about video making and editing, I thought I'd take advantage of this knowledge and try to stand out in what was going to be my future profession last year. I have tried to do something completely different, instead of taking photos on my phone and doing an easy task I have decided to do a video with a small follow up of every day we have met. It has been a big effort, it isn't hard to take videos instead of photos, but the editing process takes a lot of time, so after all my effort I hope it was worth it and that you enjoy. One last thing, Id also like to encourage my classmates to try do different things and excede in their task, it only takes doing what you do best to be original.
As always, here a provide you what I consider an interesting link. This week was about the complexities in teaching, but it wasn't complexities that happen inside the classroom at an instant moment. Here I have a text on the difficulties of teaching inside the actual classroom, so like that you will have the information from two different focuses.
Have a nice weekend!
Week 8, post by the Star, Ebru
Hi everyone! I am Ebru and I was the star this week.
This weeks subject was the Complexity Theory and we read the article the teacher gave us, we had some ideas about this theory and the task was to search for news from 2016-2017 about 6 topics in the article.
Actually, this week all groups confused a little bit about the task. Some groups had the same news or news that weren't related to their topic so they had to make less than 7 news. Each group gave one of their news to other groups so all new groups had one news from each group. By these news, we created a newspaper by ourselves as a group and we used web 2.0.Our group task was to prepare news just about complexity and we gathered news about complexity.
This week, star's role was to be the Editor of the newspaper. That's why the stars had many responbilities in this task. When we started to work on the news, each of us took their role and did their work. Some of us translated Spanish news into English, some of us wrote the news on the web page so we worked collaboratively. When we faced a problem, we discussed and solved it together.
The big problem of this week was not being able to finish our task on time so we couldn't present our newspaper. Therefore, teacher said that we had no time and we will do it on monday.
Finally, to be honest, I am very proud of these every weeks tasks because we don't follow a traditional system and we don't study to just theories of courses. Every week, we use a different kind of presentation by using technological tools. As a teacher candidate, we will see all benefits of these works in the future.
I am proud of these works and group working but we should always think about how we can develop ourselves more not just staying at the same point.
These are things that I can say for this week, see you in next educatory tasks!!
#Ebru#
Let's look for the newspapers!
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