Hey everyone! What's up? I'm Ana Isabel and this week I have been assigned the translator's role.
To make it a little easier and more enjoyable, I put you a video that contains the 5 key terms for this task and some more things that, as the translator, I have taken into account.
I hope you like it. Thanks for everything! Enjoy the weekend!
Hey there! I’m Elena and this week I’ve been the analyst of the group. I’m in charge of conducting the final reflection of Task 4, so here it is!
This activity consisted of 2 parts. We really liked doing this activity in a group as we found it to be quite an entertaining and fun activity. The first part consisted of choosing an activity and doing it as if we were the students. In the second part, we had to create a Pecha Kucha presentation, which consisted of making 20 slides and each lasting 20 seconds.
On the other hand, the worst part was the choice of the activity itself. Since we did not know which one was going to meet all our requirements 100%. Finally, we opted for "The Music Maker", making use of the JamStudio application. 馃幍馃幍
Without a doubt, the best part of the week was the moment of creating the song. It was very funny as well as curious.
On the contrary, I think the worst was the presentation part itself. Since we were all expecting that everything was fine and that there would be no problem with time. 馃暃
On the learning side, we have learned more than I thought we were going to learn. Because in addition to learning what the "Pecha Kucha" presentation technique was, we have learned, in a way, some music. Since in order to create the song we had to know more or less how to use the chords.
This week, I have to say that I am very proud of how we have worked. That is why I believe that what we must preserve is the cooperation and support between us. In addition to the fact that, with respect to previous weeks, we have started this activity the same day it was sent, which is why we have been more relaxed when carrying out the activity. 馃榾
With this activity we have learned a lot of information, which we can easily put into practice in our future as teachers. From the technological part, to a minimum of the musical part. This is directly related to the degree, since it is quite recurrent when it comes to doing it with children. It involves a lot of collaboration between them and a minimal knowledge of technology.
I hope you are enjoying our posts and learning with us!! 馃槉馃槉
See u next week!馃憢
Hey everyone! This is Daniela and this week I'm playing the role of the facilitator馃憦 so I'm going to explain you how I have made easier the group running.
Hey there! It's Ana Mar铆a and Paula, the stars of this task. As this week we needed two stars for the task and we are only six Happy Flowers, we are sorry to announce that this week there won't be a curator post 馃様. But don't worry, because this week has been really interesting and you will enjoy all of our posts!! 馃槣馃槣
Task 4 consisted of choosing an activity for Primary Education students from a book given by our teacher Linda and then carrying it out as if we were a group of students. After considering different activities, we picked "The Music Maker". Its objective was to create a song that recalled a certain subject with an application called JamStudio. We went for the subject "Feelings", and as the activity was meant for groups of three, we divided ourselves into two subgroups. Here you can see us working on our songs 馃槃馃幎:
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| This group formed by Ana Mar铆a, Ana Isabel and Daniela was working on a scary song 馃懟 |
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| This other group formed by Paula, Alicia and Elena was working on a happy song 馃榿 |
However, the task didn't end here. After doing the activity, we had to answer some questions about it:
This task is about the subject of Music, as it is about composing a song.
The most appropriate level for this task is the fourth grade, as it is prepared for nine years old children or even older.
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Knowledge: The children will be able to name the musical notes they have previously learned.
Comprehension: The teacher will play examples of compositions with a subject matter or theme, allowing students to guess what the songs are about. The teacher asks them why they think as they do.
Application: They have to compose a song with an app called “JamStudio”, in which they have to put into practice the chords they have learned. They are able to manage the app. Moreover, this song has to be related to the subject of “feelings”.
Analysis: The students are able to identify each musical note and arrange them in chords that sound well.
Synthesis: Given a list of musical notes and a stave, the students are able to create a composition.
Evaluation: The songs need to have a strong beginning and ending, trying to avoid being so sudden.
The technology used on this task is an app called Jam Studio. It is focused on the creation of instrumental music.
This app enables everyone (kids and adults) to create songs in a very intuitive way, as it is not necessary to have any musical knowledge to use it. In order to make a song, kids have to try different combinations of chords and listen to the different styles available that each instrument has so it ends up sounding nice. In this task, they work on their creativity, on their musical ear and on their technological skills.
The main ethical problem with this activity is that it is not suitable for completely deaf students. If this activity was adapted by using another application in which it was possible to choose the beat, with the help of their classmates these students would be able to participate. Sadly, in JamStudio, the beat is chosen by default.
This task is quite easy to adapt to a telematic format, as the main element to perform it is Jam Studio. It would be necessary to explain how the app works very clear to make sure everyone understands it. In terms of grouping, we see two options: make it individual or stick to the “group of three” format. In that last case, only one student would be able to use the app, but if they are using zoom, the student who is working on Jam Studio could share his or her screen so the others participate as well. However, if the students don’t have access to the Internet or to a computer from home, the task would have to change. Alternatively, the teacher could ask them to create a song by making sounds with everyday objects and recording it.
Hi everybody again!! 馃グ I'm Ana Isabel and this week I'm playing the role of the journalist, so, let's see what we have done during this week and how task 3 has been developed.
This task started on Thursday 11th of March, when our teacher Linda explained us what do we had to do on Task 3, and guess... It was a comic!!
Linda showed us some differents types of comic and, then, we had to decide which one we wanted to do. At the time of choosing, we thought that the "cave art" comic was one of the best options to elaborate our own comic. Then, I have to say that it was not like we have imagined it.
First, we created the story and we tried to not to do it very long, because in the instructions of the task that Linda provided us it was specified that the comic has to be of minimum 6 and maximum 9 comic strips. Once we had the story, we started creating a kind of sketch on Canva. Canva is a free graphic design platform that allows you to easily create designed templates; it is really good and we have worked with it yet well. The sketch we did was not very clear, so we thought about asking to our teacher to ensure that it was correct. Before asking Linda, the group was a little bit "divided". Some of the group thought that what we had done with Canva did not really resemble the "cave art" form, and the others thought it did and that it was fine and could be understood as cave art (a cave art of the 21st century). Since we weren't sure and couldn't agree, we finally decided to ask Linda. She said that the main problem of our creation was that there were speech bubbles, and in cave art design there are not any speech bubbles!!
But... wait a minute... I think it will be better if I give you a more visual summary of the week; I'll do it with a video!
Here you have it.馃
Enjoy it! 馃槝
Hi! I’m Paula and this week I’ve been the analyst of the group. I’m in charge of conducting the final reflection of Task 3, so here it is!
This assignment has certainly been a challenge for our group. We chose to do our comic with cave art thinking that coming up with a good result wouldn’t be very difficult. But let me tell you, doing a cave art comic is really complicated. 馃槗
I think getting to understand how we were supposed to elaborate our comic with cave art was the worst part of the week. At first, we tried to make the comic with Storyboardthat, but we weren’t confident or happy with the result. Then we asked Linda for feedback on what we had at that moment, but since we had spent so much time doing the comic, it was already Saturday and the answer to our doubts had to wait until Monday. The weekend in general was bad for the group because we were disappointed with the comic we had designed and, at the same time, we were a bit afraid that we were running out of time. 馃槙馃槙
Regarding the worst part of the task in particular, I consider it was having to remake the poster using a different format and eliminating the speech bubbles we had introduced in the first sketch, as they weren’t characteristic of cave art. Even though we had our storyline, we had to produce it without relying on any text. In addition to that, we didn’t have a clue how to represent cave art so the result would be appropriate.
On the contrary, the best part of the week and of the activity was coming up with the main narrative thread of the story we wanted to tell.馃挕 What we were elaborating recalled our groupmate Ana Isabel somehow of the famous myth of the cave by Plato. Once we found our main inspiration to develop our own story, it was very easy to work and we were really motivated to portray our thoughts on the comic.
As a group, we have created a very nice atmosphere where we can share our opinions freely and it is very pleasant to work in. Although there were some moments of stress, we always help each other and team up to hand over the assignment successfully. We should improve our time management, but apart from that, I feel that we make a good team. 馃槃
With this task, we have learned a great deal of information about how technologies can enhance children’s learning process and our labor as teachers. This is directly related to our degree and our future career since we will be in charge of teaching in a way that we meet the needs of our students, which include giving them the appropriate skills to get on well in a society that advances faster every day.
I hope you are enjoying our posts and learning with us!! 馃槉馃槉
See u next week!馃憢
Hey there! This is Elena and in today's task I have been assigned with the facilitator role.
Hello guys! I'm Ana and my role this week is the curator.
I am going to show you all the documents, webs, apps and material that we have used to perform this third task, which was about a cave art comic, named "Outside the cavern".
To make the comic, we used the following resources: Storyboard That, some school material, Simple Scanner, Pics Art, the Lemke text and Flickr.
To carry out the exposition itself, we used Zoom and Google Drive.
In the mind map below, you can see what are the utilities of all of these resources, as well as finding out the links to use them.
I hope this post has been helpful for you... and see u next week. Bye!馃槈
Hi everyone! Welcome one week more to our blog! I am Daniela and this week I'm the translator of this task. So here you have the 5 main ideas we can get from this week:
Comic: a visual medium that tells a story by vignettes or boxes using pictorial and other images. The vignettes may contain speech bubbles.
Participatory learning: It is important that students participate and collaborate in the learning process in order to achieve a dynamic learning process. Technologies have allowed us to interact with each other and also engages students in learning. There are a lot of apps that help students to learn through participation.
Cave art comic: a comic format in which the story is told through Paleolithic humans represented by drawings and paintings on the walls of caves.
Visualization: a strength of comics in education that combines visuals with text. This innovation increases learning and it can also be a tool for critical and creative thinking. Using visuals will motivate students in their learning process.
Innovation: the combination of human ingenuity and digital tools leds to this creative idea that goes viral and produces a change.
We have found some information from this documents and websites:
Lemke, C. (2010) Innovation through technology, in Bellanca, J. A. & Brandt, R. (eds.) 21st century skills: Rethinking how students learn. Bloomington, Solution Tree Press, 243-274.
http://www.graphicclassroom.org/
http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/index.html
The weaknesses of this week and task 3 have been maybe reading and understanding the text, as it was quite long, and choosing the 4 main potentialities of the ICT in the classroom. We also found it difficult to understand what cave art was, but the hardest part was to find a way to represent those potentialities in a cave art comic, with no words or facial expressions.
SEE YOUU NEXT WEEK !!馃槏
Hi guys! Welcome another week to our blog! I am Ana and this week I have the role of the facilitator.馃槆
In theory, I had to distribute the different roles among the members of our group, but as Paula told you last week, we decided to raffle the roles because we think it is fairer.
Last week it was a bit confusing. Our classmates and us had not understood so well what the task was about, and Linda decided to give us another week to prepare it better. Nevertheless, we had finished the task just the night before this announcement. As we all were a bit stressed, I tried to encourage my teammates in the best way possible. Finally, Ana Isabel, our star this week, performed so well during the presentation and we did it! We reached to conclude our task.
I have to say I am very proud and grateful for the peers I have. They are all lovely girls, you can talk to them or ask for help without any problem. It doesn't matter if we have had a difficult week; because you know they are going to be there by your side. With them, everything is easier. Thank u for all my dear Happy Flowers!!! 馃挄 And see you next week, guys馃槉
Hey y'all! It's Alicia and this week I'm the analyst of the group馃槉
I'm in charge of the analysis and final reflection of the task 2. Let's get into it:
In order to develop this task we had some problems... but fortunately we managed to complete it successfully馃挭馃挭
Starting with the worst part of the week... At first, we were confused with the deadline and thought the task was due to a week earlier than it was!! You can imagine how stressed we were at that time, but the best moment of the week was knowing we had more time left to finish it in a more relaxed way.
Another difficulty we found with this task was creating the information map since we didn't have a clear idea on how to organize the information. On the other hand, the best part was that we were really happy with how the task went out. I would like to thank our Star, Ana Isabel, who did an amazing presentation to the rest of the group.
Something we should conserve as a group is the respectful environment we have created in which everyone feels safe to share their ideas. Each of us opinion matters in the same way and I think that's an important characteristic of an effective work group. Maybe we could improve our organization, specially in the online class where we have an schueled period of time to develop the activities.
We have learned a lot of things about TPACK and ACAD framework, which is content directly related with this degree.
I hope you have liked this post! See ya next week in another role馃槝
Hi everyone!馃檵馃徎♀️馃 I'm Ana Isabel and this week I'm playing the role of the "star". I presented last Tuesday our final product of this task and now I'm going to explain briefly what did we have to do.
This week we have worked and researched on the TPACK and ACAD, which are two frameworks that are looking for improving learning and teaching. Besides, they are interested in the role of technology nowadays and in how it would be beneficial for education.
The task consisted in read, first of all, some documents and watch videos to extract information and know what were exactly TPACK and ACAD about. Once this was done, with the information extracted we had to answer some questions about these two frameworks and, finally, make a concept or mind map about these two elements, in order to make a poster.
The last step was presenting our poster to our teacher and classmates and, like this, explain our work, see other perspectives (those of our classmates) on the contents studied and learn more about the TPACK and ACAD.
This was the result of the poster:
The questions we had to answer were the following:
1. What is TPACK and What is ACAD exactly? (e.g. is it a technology tool, a theory, a model, an animal, a poem, an author? All these? About what?)
2. Which are the essential TPACK elements and how do they interact with each other?
3. Which are the essential ACAD elements and how do they interact with each other?
4. How would TPACK be useful for you?
5. How is TPACK related to ACAD?
We tried to give the better answers to them as possible, and we did it creating a circle map or bubble graphic organizer. In bubble graphic organizers, we normally can see the middle bubble used to write the topic to brainstorm and the outside bubbles used to write ideas that relate to the given topic. We decided to use this kind of graphic organizer to help students brainstorm ideas and because it is something different, with no lines and usual things of schemas or mind maps. In this way, you can see that the green circle is the context, and it involves everything because it is really important and determining. Then, you can see the two central circles showing the elements of each of the frameworks and, to finish, the two lateral and smaller bubbles, which try to answer the two last questions. Our goal was not to put much text and try to make it as simple and swift as posible in order to make the viewers understand it quickly and at a glance.
I hope you like it as much as we like doing and organizing it. If you have any question or doubt, please, comment and we will answer you gladly.
Thank u all!! Take care! See u next week 馃馃徏馃グ馃槝
Hi, everyone!!! I'm Paula and I've been performing the curator role during the development of task 2.
This week the theme of the task was TPACK and ACAD frameworks. We have used some sites and tools that have allowed us to make the poster and collect the information to do it.
First of all, we visited the sites Linda had attached in the document of the task to answer the five questions.
After that, we considered different apps and websites to make our poster, and finally, we opted for Prezi. This website is frequently used to make presentations but as some of us had already used it before, we thought that it would best capture our original idea.
Finally, since the presentation's day was on Tuesday and that day's sessions are on Zoom, our star Ana Isabel presented the poster to our classmates employing the speed learning dynamic.
In addition, the mind map below has been made with Genially and Creately.
To conclude, this role has taught me many things I will certainly use in the future. For example, I've discovered a new site to make mind maps or schemes in general, which is Creately. Also, I've had to spend some time and patience in order to learn to use it 馃槄. On top of that, to make this post I've learned some functions of Blogger that I didn't know before, as introducing links to a certain word or introducing interactive images. I'm sure this will come in handy for other tasks or for my future career as a teacher!
Hope you are enjoying our posts and following us during our learning process 馃槃馃槃.
See you next week!!
Hey there! This is Elena and in today’s
task I have been assigned with the translator role.
We are going to start this section by presenting the 5 key terms that we have used to develop this activity. Finally we will reflect on what has been the most difficult of the task, as well as the tool we have used to carry it out. In addition to reflecting on how the implementation of these configurations in education could be improved.
Framework: These are the basis or structure of all information and work. Thanks to them, we can reduce extensive information into a scheme in which the basic concepts can be clarified. In all of them you have to comply with rules which are standardized. They form the basis of a software. These undoubtedly make the job easier.
TPACK: This term corresponds to the abbreviations Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, although it is also known as TPCK. This model is a theoretical framework whose purpose is that the teacher can correctly implement ICTs in education, and more specifically, in the classroom.
This is based on 3 key domains of knowledge to
carry out its purpose. These insights are:
In turn, these have 4 new knowledge which are:
Finally, the last factor that surrounds the entire TPACK, is the context.
ACAD: is the acronym for Activity-Centred Analysis and
Design Framework.
This model is a theoretical framework that was carried out to support activities in difficult situations. In addition to that it was created in order to create connections between the proposed activity and its design tasks. ACAD aims to achieve productive production and with this model it is argued that all learning must be situated.
This is developed by organizing 3 design components:
Concept Map: they are maps in which information is represented so that it is visually easier to acquire it. There are different types of concept maps; some of them are organization charts, hierarchical, spider maps ...
Networked Learning: They are online social networks in which participants, regardless of the country, share information so that little by little knowledge is created and thus be able to enrich their knowledge in a simple and practical way. It is an open organization for learning.
