JOURNALIST WEEK 2

JOURNALIST WEEK 2

This week, we have took a look to the blog https://goo.gl/eCt2va , which had some interesting points about media bias, and also our friends'  http://loonatics.blogspot.es/ , which we think they made a very clear explanation and fluently presentation (although some parts of the slides were difficult to read).

Now, I'm going to tell you how has it gone this week with us, The Chalkies!.

We all knew that we had to focus more in the content than in the presentation this time in order to success. And that’s what we did.

In our previous work of TPACK, a part of being our very first task, we focused more in the presentation of it and that’s why we later misunderstood some concepts. However, in this work of Treasure Hunt, we did a good presentation as well as a bigger effort in understanding every concept.

Nontheless, every rose has its thornes! Our main thorn,  once again, was the time. Although we did a better organization  in order to get information about the topic, we were anxious and frustrated when time was against us. We wanted to do many things, but not everything was possible in such few time. Besides, we also wasted a lot of time discussing about how we were going to do things, that's a something we have to reduce in future tasks.

I mean, it is good to discuss in order to make a decision we all like, and that's what we actually do, but sometimes we just get pissed and too stubborn, The day we met to finish the task, we were all very concentrated on doing everything and all of us explained each other the information we had looked for.

There were some debates about which was the best map option to teach to our future students (Robinson, Merkator or Azimuthal), but we finally agree with Merkator’s one. That was because we thought that Merkator was the clearest at the time of learning countries and geographical concepts.

Nevertheless, we pointed that it would be also necessary to teach the other ones in order to make children understand the pointedly distortion that some countries had.  

During the meeting, our dear facilitator motivated us in the best way someone can be motivated: she brought us candies! that was good for us for sure, we focused more on our work (although maybe it wasn’t for our bodies!).

The stars were also doing a big effort, organizing  themselves for their oral exposition and having everything on point.

Wednesday came, and this time not only the Stars were nervous, the rest of us were too! We trusted our girls, and we  were definitely proud of how well they did it.

Another task completed, keep going Chalkies! A lot to learn and improve yet!

TO BE CONTINUED