Week 11, blogpost by the Star, Samuel

Hi everyone!
I'm Samuel and this week I was the Star of Ladies & Gentlemen's group.
This week, our task was doing our presentation but in a special way: it had to be like an electoral speech.
All groups were nice, but we did a little performance simulating an interview. Pedro introduced me as "Little Michi", I really love that nick, then I started to talk. Meanwhile, Mitchell, Stina, Louise and Ebru were my interviewers, so they asked me some questions.
At the end of that scene, Pedro took a paper in which "Next Day" was written. The fake next day I recieved a letter, handed over Mitchell, and after reading it, I simulated a call with my mum. Then, next day, my character, as the new headmaster, was introduced to children.

I hope people had fun with it because, in some way, I love making little performances and to improvise funny things. I think "Dramatic Arts" bachillerato helped me to be like this.
I hope fun too, but it was too hard for me to be serious because, as you know, I'm a very smiling person.

That was all Folks, see you next week.
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Samuel

Week 11, post by the analyst, Pedro

Hello, I'm Pedro from Ladies&Gentlemen and this one was my second week as analyst. As the other time, I have to say that I'm very proud of every member of my group again.
On Monday, as every week, we decided the roles for each member of our group. But it was on Tuesday when we were available to meet and do our work about Leadership.
I have to say that after only two or three hours, we left the work almost finished, at expense for our individual preparation.
This week we have shown that we have done it. The same as we admit that our group started a little lost because of the distance we live and the lack of trust between us, this week we have demonstrated the amazing progress we have made, finishing our work so easily and so effectively. And the satisfaction is even greater when you realize that this moment has arrived on the exams of June's eve. And even more when several peers in other groups give you the congratulations for the work that you have done.
We are finishing, we have the last squeeze to try to overcome a course which says us goodbye. I know that maybe I'm not the right one to tell you this. But as the last role that I exercise as the analyst, I feel compelled to wish the maximum encouragement to each member of my group and to each of my classmates.
See you ;)

Week 11, post by the Curator, Mitchell

Hello everyone!
This week we did an activity where we learned about different types of leadership, which I found very interesting because I myself have worked with many different "bosses" and I have always liked comparing them, and obviously try to be more like the one I have liked best.
Here you can acces the same link we did to learn a little bit more about leadership styles

https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2016_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Tasks/Leadership%20texts/leadership.pdf

If you cannot acces the link here I give you the reference so that you can look for it,
Hoyle, John R. "Leadership Styles." Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006. 595- 98. SAGE Reference Online. Web. 30 Jan. 2012

Have a nice weekend!!

 

Week 11, blogpost by the journalist - Louise

Hi everyone!!

This week I was the journalist and the group dynamic of this week has been really well. We have been understanding and been taking care of our time limits and made the best of the situation. On Monday we just summoned everything up and that was it, Tuesday we worked on really hard to finish as soon is possible because we have a lot of different classes to take care about. And Tuesday night everyone was practicing their parts. So to summon are dynamic for this week, we can say that; it was good! 

I believe that our group have been working hard the times we could, because of our classes we always have to put in much effort in those few hours we have on Tuesdays. Because of our classes. The time table is not really cooporating with us all the time. 

But here is some evidence of the weekly work


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Week 11, blogpost by the Facilitator - Stina

Hi everyone!!

This week I was the facilitator and the task was about showing four different types of leadership. Authoritarian, participative, transactional and transformational leadership.


The began with us, summing up the text that we got from Linda. We read some of the text each and decided to bring some our ideas for how to make a campaign of it. The next day we had the ideas and we decided to make a theatre, and the play was supposed to be about a principal having his final speech as a part of his campaign. We got this idea really quick and it seemed that everyone liked it so we just worked along nicely this week. I think everyone did a good job. And as the Facilitator I tried to share as much of my ideas as possible and then let everyone have a say about it. I think I decided a lot of things this week and I hope my group was okay about it.

My thoughts about the roles is that there are no way that you only can apply only one leadership role when you are a leader, principal, teacher. Every situation will need a different kind of handeling things. And when I was thinking deeply about it I believe that the ground rules, the rules that says "this is the way our schools is running or stands for", can be lead by the authoritarian leadership, because those are rules you must imply without asking or having someone in mind while applying them. And the. You continue to lead with transformational, with a bit more changeable rules , and then participative and later transactional. Every role has it pros and cons so there is no easy way to only use one of the roles. If you do you will get a hard time leading!

Hasta luego!

Week 11, blogpost by the Translator, Ebru

Hello everyone !

I am Ebru. This week I am the translator of the group. As you already know, I will try to mention about five most important topics about this week task.This is our 11th week and we are getting closer to the end. By the way as the Linda said in the class, when we compare beginning part and now, we can clearly see how we are developed. This motivate us and make us work harder and do better. Now, let's look at 5 important concepts of this week.

-Leadership styles:  Leadership style consists of a leader's general personality, demeanor, and communication patterns in guiding others toward reaching organizational or personal goals.

-Authoritarian leaders: Who is on the top and takes decision.It is stated in the text that people must be forced to work, closely supervised, and rewarded or punished based on individual productivity.

-Participative leaders: This kind of leaders work colloboratively with group members, love each other and they are like family. It is stated in the text that  productivity and human relationships were closely linked, and opened inquiry into informal structures and social systems.

-Transactional Leaders: They are like that ' If you give me, I will give you.' That is to say there are rewards and punishment.

- Transformational Leaders: They always pay attention to develop themselves and looking for the future.
That's all for this week. See you in next task !!
#Ebru#

Week 10, Post by the translator, Pedro

Hi everyone. This week I'm the translator of my group, Ladies&Gentlemen.

- Stop motion: a technique in which successive position of objects or people are photographed to produce the appearance of movement.
- Decalogue: basic rules for an activity.
- Inclusive education: A prototype of school in which there are no selection processes of students or any type of discrimination against them with the objective of defending educational rights, equality of opportunities and participation.
- Ratio: the maximum number of students that a teacher can has per classroom.
- Advertisement: It is a notice which attract public attention.

Week 10, blogpost by the curator,Mitchell

Hello everyone! It's Mitchell again but this week I am the curator.
As you have already seen on my colleagues posts this week was about doing a stop motion video. Luckily I already knew what a stop motion was and how to do it so we didnt have to look for any information, which makes my job this week a bit boring.
Here I leave the link to the document where you can read the decalogue of the new education which we were supposed to represent in the video. Have a nice easter!

https://porotrapoliticaeducativa.org/portfolio/decalogo/ 

Week 10, Blogpost by the Star, Samuel

Hi everyone! I'm Samuel and I was the Star of Ladies & Gentlemen's group this week.
First of all, I liked so much the way of presenting our ideas, as a stopmotion. It's very creative in spite of needing a lot of hard work.
We presented the educational decalogue's ideas in a stopmotion video using some play dough and Mitchell's camera. Our tripod was a book and a butterfly knife and our study was a white tablecloth and a white board.
It was very funny the fact of using play dough, I remembered when I was a little child and I couldn't stop playing with it, just making my imagination fly. Cool times, I think.
Last Wednesday, we presented all our videos and we did a competition such as Eurovision, we voted our favourite videos depending on the creativity, the precision and how well done were them.
The winners were "Spacers 2.0" , followed by "Fishers in the River".
This week was so interesting to work, I can't wait what is next week preparing to me.
Thank you very much for all your attention and...
!Vivan los caballos del vino!

I hope you to have a nice week, bye!!
______________________
Samuel

Week 10, blogpost by the facilitator, Louise

Hi everyone!
This week I was the facilitator of our group "Ladies & Gentlemen".

This weeks task was to make a stop-motion movie about education decalogue. I think the method is a fun and creative way to learn. On Monday, we always choose a role, and then we divide the task so we are well prepared for the second group meeting. But this week the text was written in Spanish and we are three students in the group who only understands English, so the guys in our group had to read the text and then share their knowledge with us. At the second meeting was everyone working good, we built different Play-Doh figurines, photographed and produced the stop-motion film, etc.

On performance days, it was fun to show our film and see the other films. I think the message of our film was clear, even if we did not get as many points in class. My role this week went well because my team members took their own initiative.

Here is the link to our stop-motion film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_4C8PqWOQw

I hope you enjoy the movie!
Regards
Louise

Week 10, blogpost by the Journalist, Ebru

Hi everyone! I am Ebru. This week I was the journalist of the our group( Ladies&Gentlemen). This week task was to make a movie by using stop motion and it was about education decalogue.
As in previous weeks, we shared our roles and started to work on our part. This week task was a little more difficult than previous weeks.

First day, we tried to figure out what was content and knowledge that we should know about education decalogue and trying to work on it. Actually in this part we as a three erasmus students couldn't understand and study much because of the text was written in Spanish but our other group friends tried to help us. After we discussed and exchange our ideas , we decided to make our movie by using play dough.

Second day, we decided to meet at one of our friends house because this task required much time to work on it together. We met at the Mitchi's house. When we went there, they had already started to work and they were doing some shapes with play dough. Then, according to ten concepts that we wrote about education decalogue, we tried to make some shapes to give the image of them. Each of us did one of them individually. After each concepts play dough shapes, we took pictures and videos . At the end we combined all.
On wednesday, actually I couldn't go to the school but my friends told me how was it. There was like eurovision contest like Linda said before. Each star presented their movie and then each group scored each video. Our group was the 6th one among all groups. To be honest we expected a better result but the other groups also did theirs very well.

Finally, this was the 10th week of the term. I realized that our group processed a lot from the beginning to until now. Day by day , we get accustomed to each other so we can produce good works together.
Here is our photos during the week.

         

                                                                   



               
     
   

Week 10, Blogpost by the analyst, Stina

Hi everyone! This week I am the analyst and this week our task was to make a movie, using the stop motion method!

Using movies as an educational purpose is a really good way of expressing different things, it is a useful learning method and it is also a good way to vary the lectures. What we might not know when we are seing different types of films we do not think about the hard work behind it. So the best part of this activity was to notice how difficult but also challenging it is to make a good educational film. It takes time, creativity and a lot of effort. Which almost everything does, as the life of a teacher. But the important thing is that we learned that everything takes time and it was a great feeling when the movie was done.

The worst part of the task was realizing that it is really difficult to brainstorm and making the video an educational one. Even though I do think we did it well, the worst part is still hard to do a movie when you really want it to be perfect, but with in a very small time limit. So I believe that the best moment of the week was when we were finished and also when we were in the top 6 after the contest in class. The worst moment was probably then that we were not in the top three ;-) because we had really hoped for a great educational film and we did not really get there, even if our movie was good according to ourselves.

I think the whole group has learned a lot about how hard it is making a movie and sending the right message to the audience. I have learned a lot about that at least but also that making a good movie is about being prepared before you start shooting. Being prepared is everything when you are studying to become a teacher and it will be everything when you are a teacher. I think that is the most important thing and that is what I will bring with me for all the things I will do in the future. Being prepared and communicate.

For next week I think that we will bring our good and creative ideas and I think that we will try to communicate better for next week and try to be more present in the groups work.

What we have does this week I think is linked with everything we done earlier. It is about TPACK, the school organization overall and also the small details about how to present in the best way, what are we using as materials to represent education and so on. I think that primary education you can link with your daily life as much as you can compare it with sience. As we said before the proffesion is so complex that there is almost no wrong answer. It always depends on the situation and what type of people you are dealing with. And by sharing all our ideas by the film we did this week and the last week others can use it in similar situation but we also need to have in mind that others might think the tasks we are doing are wrong because they never been in that kind of situation. Everthing is very complex and we need to have have that in mind while we are studying but also when we become real teachers.

That was all I had to say for this week. Hasta luego!!

Week 9, blogpost by the translator - Louise

Hi everyone! 

This week I (Louise) was the translator of "Ladies & Gentlemen". I have collect the five most important terms we have learnt during this week. 

• Teacher-student connection: The relationships between the pupils and the teacher. The teacher need to have a positive and responsive knowledge. The teacher need to be aware of the student knowledge, experience, expectations and values to make sure the student will feel encourage to learn.

• Connection with Peers: Connectivist learning theory is knowledge develops through relationships and connections. The social aspects with peers have a strong influence on students. 

• Connections within the learning context: The teacher aims are to control and develop the learning environment so that pupils are behaving and learning in the way that they believe to be effective. If pupils believe that their beliefs or efforts are not respected by the teacher, the connection between the teacher and the students will be weakened and this will have a negative impact on the learning environment.

• Connections beyond the classroom: Connections beyond the classroom refers stresses the options new communication  technologies give us to teach from a distance. Today we have many different ways to take contact and even teach without having to be physically present.

• Connection within learning Learning is based on connections and the relation of different concepts you have learned in order to get a new one. All the concepts you have learned over time are all interconnected and form the basis to learn something new. 

Last week we didn't have a good week but this week have been much better so now we are back on the right track again! This week we have not had to met as much as we have done the other weeks but I think we have distributed the work well and everyone did their job very good.

The funniest thing according to me was that we were working together with other groups in the class on presentation day. We filmed a movie that would be 3 minutes long. Each group was given responsibility of one part: The parts is teacher-student connection, Connection with peers, Connections beyound the classroom, connections within the learning and connections within learning. We could`t see everyone's films, so we're going to do that on Monday and I'm looking forward to it!

// Louise