Curator's Reflection

Hey there! I’m Elena and this week I’ve been the curator of the group. This week I am in charge of compile and organieze in a schematic way all the information sources that we have used for the development of the activity.

I hope you like it! 💗😁

Star’s reflection

Hello to all of you! I'm Ana and today I am going to show you our Task 9 final product, as I am the star!

This week, we were supposed to work on exploring the concept of Teaching Competence for a Digital World. We had to create an infographic which showed its main elements and characteristics, as well as some relationships with other elements of education and participants in the teaching process.

Here you can see it!

This is our last task in the subject of Educational Resources and ICT. It has been a pleasure to spend this second semester showing to you all the works we have been able to do. As you know, 2020-2021 has been kind of a strange school year, but I think we have found the best way possible to succeed in our studies. Thank u all for being at the other side of the screen; it means a lot for us! 

Happy Flowers will always remember you!

Translator's reflexion

 Hi everyone, it's Alicia and this last week I'm the translator, which is the same role I developed in task 1! This week we have explored the concept of Teaching Competence for a Digital World. Now i'll proceed to define the 5 concepts of this task 9 that I want to highlight:

• Infographic: it consists of an explicatory image which combines text, ilustrations and designs. Its purpose is to summarize complex and relevant information in a quick and direct way.
• Digital era: refers to the historial period marked by a great development of the digital technology
• Pedagogical content knowledge: it is a knowledge that relates pedagogical knowledge with his disciplinary specialization.
• Technological content knowledge: constitutes the relationship between the knowledge of the contents being taught and technology.
• TPACK: is the relationship between technological, pedagogical and content knowledge.

I hope you have enjoyed our posts during this course. We'll miss you :(

Good bye<3

Analyst's reflection

 Hi everyone!! What's up?? Welcome to our last posts of this Resources and ICT course! It's Ana Isabel and this week I'm performing the role of the analyst of the Happy Flowers group 😬💪🏼

So... I could imagine that you should know what the analyst has to do, isn't it? Well, in case you don't, the analyst is in charge of explaining our experience doing this activity and the process we've followed.

Let's start with the reflection of task 9 - Teaching in a Digital World!

The best part of the activity was to create the infographics all together and to learn more about teaching in digital competence. We were all together supporting and informing each other about the concepts for a better understanding and internalization of them, which also made it easier.

As for this activity in particular, I could say that the hardest part was to agree to meet and hold the zoom meetings due to the fact that we are close to our exams period and a lot of work and projects to do.

The best part of the activity was to create the infographics all together and to learn more about teaching in digital competence. We bring out (more or less) our creative side and ideate on how to make infographics with canva

However, the worst issue could be at the time of writing the script, to make the explanations so that they made sense and were brief and concise. In addition, the fact of having to make such a visual type of exhibition, having to reduce the text so much and using objects the more visual the better was also complicated and frustrating, but well, I would say that we finally did it enjoying it.

We have learnt how to make a correct infographic, to select the information we need to do the activity from a extensive text and the way it has to been explained. Besides, we learnt the steps or requirements to be an "effective -technological" teacher. 

As a group I think we work well. Collaboration, comradeship and responsibility (not only for our personal marks, but also for those of the other members of the group) are three values that we have really in mind. If I had to highlight something to improve, it would be the organisation of the zoom meetings, as sometimes we organise ourselves with little time and there are times when we are not all there.

From my point of view, there is some content in this precise task that we had already worked on in another subject in the first four-month period of the year: action planning. It integrated theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge, methodologies and their types when teaching and informed about the need to innovate the different strategies and practices they used with students. All this for one purpose: to be an effective teacher.

I have to say that this is my last post, which makes me nostalgic because we have been publishing in our blog every single week. In addition (as a summary of the course) I have acquired knowledge that I am sure that, in this digital era, I will be able to develop and put into practice in greater depth when I become a teacher.

I have been able to learn to analyze, identify and apply the different existing techniques related to ICT, to have a role to play within a group and to focus beyond sharing and helping each other in the tasks and above all to be more effective.

And, having said that, that's all! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we have enjoyed doing our nine tasks.

Take care and be happy!! See ya! 

Star's reflection

 Hi! It's Alicia and this week I'm performing the role of the star🌟

During the pandemic, we all have realized the crucial role that online communications have developed in education. According to that, in this task our group will imagine we are a teacher's team in the post CoVid19 environment situation who want to create some permanent channels of online education.

For the development of the task we made a PLE about how to create a Youtube Channel, a Twitter account and an online announcement board. 

Here you can see how our PLE turned out, we made it on Canva:

Since I was the star, I was the one in charge on presenting our PLE to the teacher and the peers. At first, we didn't understand very well what the teacher was asking us to do in this task and the presentation was a bit of a mess. But after the teacher explained us how we could correct it, we did some changes and fixed the task. 

We're really happy of how it turned out and hope you like it as much as we. 

Remember to never give up because of the mistakes, effort will pay off💪💪

Translator's reflection

 Hi there! What's up? I'm Ana Isabel, and for task 8 I have performanced the role of the translator! 

Here you have the Prezi presentation I've done to tell you a little bit more about the core terms of our last activity. Hope you like it! :)

https://prezi.com/view/yb8qPDU8Igt93jooDZTx/

Curator's reflection

 Hey there! It's Paula. This week I've been performing the curator role 😄.

Task 8 is about PLE (Personal Learning Environments). We've had to use a lot of tools to develop the task, so here is the mindmap with all of them gathered !! 😊

We hope you liked it!

See you next week 👋👋

Analyst's Reflection

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 8, so here it is!👋😋

This week has been a strange week since at the beginning we were not very clear about the task but between all of us we got it out as best we could.

This week we have really enjoyed dividing the tasks together, as well as zooming together. The best part of the task has been when we had almost everything finished that we already saw the light at the end of the tunnel. We really liked researching what a PLE was because it was totally out of our comfort zone and it was very interesting.

Without a doubt, the worst part was the presentation day, since it did not turn out as we expected. We had the feeling that we had done everything correctly, and it was not like that. But hey, as we have learned in other weeks, you learn from everything and from mistakes, more. Of what we were wrong last Tuesday, in the future we will know how to apply it to our lives. And well, despite not having it 100% well, thanks to the feedback we got, we have been able to modify and improve it. 😓

This week I would undoubtedly keep our problem solving, although it i s true that we have had it for a few tasks ago.And the truth is that I would not know what to improve, because we have given everything of ourselves and we have done it as we thought it was good.

This task has helped us to realize that each person has a completely different PLE. From the beginning of the course, we have had total freedom to use the applications and tools that we have wanted, and without realizing it, we have been updating our PLE week after week, discovering new tools that we will use in our future as teachers.

I hope you are enjoying our posts and learning with us!! 😊😊

Facilitator’s reflection

Hey there! I’m Ana and I’ve performed the role of the facilitator during the last week. As you all know, I am supposed to solve any problem we had to face, motivate my peers and check if all of them are fulfilling their tasks, between other things! So let’s see how has it been.

I have to admit that Task 8 is simpler than we have made it. At first, we were a bit confused as we didn’t know exactly what we needed to do and how to organise the activity. We came to the conclusion that we could talk to our peers from others groups in order to see how were they performing the activity with the objective of placing ourselves a little bit more. It really helped us! -Guys, it is important for you to know that you are able to ask for some help whenever you need it (and it is easier when you have such a good friends-peers in your class😊)-.

Then, we started to think about what tools we were going to use and, so, we must include in the PLE. Sadly, we started to become even more and more complicated at each moment, as since the first moment we hadn’t got a clear idea of what we had to do. We added some tools that can seem like we didn’t really need them to perform the exercise, like extra ones. But we didn’t realise that until Tuesday’s class, when Linda gave us some feedback after correcting our task’s presentation. For example, if we used Google Docs, why we need to use Microsoft Word? In short, it hasn’t been our best task, but it has been useful for us to learn about it! You always have to look for the positive side💪

As we didn’t have performed the task in the better way, we needed to correct some things before uploading it to the blog. Yesterday, some of the Happy Flowers were studying together for the final exams through videoconference in Zoom, doing an Study With Me (a studying method that works so well!); and we decided to stop some time and take a break from studying to correct the task. In our Star’s reflection, you can see our Task 8 final result! We think it is clearly now. 

Now, I have just uploaded a post with Task 8 final product to our Instagram profile. Here you can see it ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/p/COpqTX1MABy/?igshid=1cs69ichgxt6k 

I am so happy that we are too closed to summer holidays😍, hope u are waiting for them as I am doing. TASK 9 IS THE ONLY ONE LEFT! Come on guys, we’re almost there!👋

Translator's reflection

 Hey there! It’s Paula, and this week I have the translator role. 😊😊

Task 7 has been very fun and interesting to develop, as we have discovered a fantastic project focused on teaching children computer sciences, which sometimes go a bit unnoticed in the classroom despite their importance.

Without further delay, here are the five main concepts of this subject! 😄

I hope you liked it!! 

See you next week 👋

Curator's reflection

 Hello everyone! It's Alicia and this week I'm the curator of the group.

I'll share with you all the webs, apps and documents we have used in order to complete this task.

To create the radio program we used the following resources: Voice Recorder App, Common Sense, Hour of Code, Audacity and Filmora.

To carry out the exposition we used Google Drive and Zoom. 

In this mind map I made you can see the utilities of the resources as well as the links to use them.

Hope you learn some useful information and discover new tools too.

Bye!