JOURNALIST WEEK 1

JOURNALIST (WEEK 1):

This week I am going to comment two different blogs. The first one is  http://canaltic.com/blog/?p=1677 . I have chosen this blog because it has helped us to understand the concep TPACK due to the fact that explains everything: the concept and elements in an easy way. The worst thing of the blog is that it was written in Spanish so we had to translate it into english. The second blog I am going to speak about is  from one group of the class: http://www.friskyhedgehogs.blogspot.com.es . This blog is from the Frisky Hedgehogs, it is well organized, every topic is in different sections and it is clear to see it everything. About their first task, they have an excellent star this week, he talked fluency and well. I think their blog and also their tasks will be one of the best ones in our class because  the people who composed the group are hard-worker. Good luck boys because you have a strong competence: The Chalkies !

TITLE: SEVEN DIFFERENT GIRLSFIRST CHAPTER: A NEW ADVENTURE

¡Once upon a time, seven different girls from different places come to meet up at the ''Facultad de Educación'' in Murcia. All of them were alone and scared about this new adventure called ''university''. Quickly they knew each other and made a strong friendship.They were afraid about one specific subject that was called School Organization and Educational Resources. They had listened that the teacher was very hard and that they would have to do one group work per week.It was Monday in the morning when they started the day with Linda, her teacher in the subject that they were afraid of. She explained the task for the week and when she finished, the whole group started to work. The seven different girls made a group and were called ''The Chalkies''. At the beginning they didn't know how to start doing the task, they were confused and disorganized, but suddenly, the facilitator talked. She said: -Let's divide the work. She ordered each one of us one question related to the work: Marina and Alicia would have to look for information maps, the other Marina and the other Alicia, Elena, Sole and Isabel would do the questions related to ''What is TPACK? Elements and relationships and how is it useful for us and for our degree. It was curious that in the group, there were two Alicia's and two Marina's, and it was funny and at the same time confusing for them because when you said one of those names, both answered.After the classes, all of them went home and started doing their individual task that the facilitator had ordered them. There were many doubts, many problems such as ''Girls, I don't understand anything, help me'', but all of them were solved via whatsapp.On Tuesday morning, they decided to meet in the afternoon due to the fact that they had to put in common all the information that they had in order to make a poster with an information map which explains TPACK.

      

Our scheme for the poster. Alicia De Prado is explaining it to us TPACK.

SECOND CHAPTER: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

It was Tuesday afternoon, Murcia was quiet and cold, the temperatures had decreased and people were at home without going anywhere. However, not everyone was that lucky, our seven different girls had to meet if they wanted to end their task on time. They agreed to meet from half past five to half past eight in a room of the Library ''Antonio Nebrija'' in La Merced, which was in center town.The room in which they would have to work was small, cold, with one table and ten chairs and a whiteboard in front of them in which they would be able to write everything they want. At first, it was a mess, they didn't know how to start making the poster but they suddenly organized themselves.Marina and Alicia would be in charge of making the image of the poster, meanwhile the other summarized the information in order to write it in the poster. One of our seven different girls was very nervous due to the fact that she was our star of the week and she had to explain everything in the poster alone, but we were sure that she would do it excellent and in fact, she did.It was eight o'clock and they were running out of time, so they quickly sticked the information and wrote it down. That night all of them went to bed calm because they had finished their task for the next day on time, and they were prepared for new challenges.Finally, the day of the exposition (Wednesday morning) every star of the different groups in the class had to explain their work to every group. After, we had a feedback, knowing our mistakes and our best successes. From this first adventure, the seven different girls got a conclusion: they would have to work really hard in order to get a high mark in this subject. And that is what happened… 

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Our first star ! She did it excellent!