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