Hello bloggers! I'm Rebeca Cascales Ribera and this week I am the
JOURNALIST!
First of all, I will tell you what this activity is about:
The activity consists in the Treasure Hunt and the cartographic
projections of maps, according to the different ways of seeing the countries
depending on the maps; for example, why Germany in one map is in the centre of
the Europe and in the others is in another place. And also, how this affects in
media.
Firstly, we should know the different map projections of Robinson,
Mercator and Azimuthal. When we dominate this aspect, we have to choose two
countries of the world and tell what is the best projection of the three to
represent it. Thirdly, we have to find a resource to teach the pupils, where it
happens the same as in the different projections. Moreover, we have to find a
blog with an activity of a Treasure Hunt and the content should be academic.
And finally, we should make a conclusion as a reflexion of "Media are not
neutral" regarding our project.
On Monday 16th, when the expositions of TPACK finished, our teacher
showed us the new project called "Treasures Hunt: cartographic projections" with a
video and explained us the steps that we had to follow.
The facilitator of this week (Silvia García) decided that we had to look
for information about the three authors and the Treasure Hunt at home and we
would meet on Wednesday to gather the whole information together.
We met in a study room in Luis Vives' library on Wednesday 18th and we
put together the information of the three map projections' authors and we did a
guideline with the relevant information. When we had it, we decided the two
countries to investigate. At the beginning, we thought in Italy, Belgium and
Australia, but finally, we decided to do it about Germany and Australia.
To
choose what the best projection for them is, we made a little schema in the
whiteboard and we decided with it, as you can see here:
Then, we used a blog of a Treasure Hunt that is about mathematics, but
the questions weren't appropriate as they asked to look for someone who knew
the answer. So, when Linda said on Tuesday 19th that the Treasure Hunt should
have academic questions for children and they need to guess the answer to keep
on, we had to change the Treasure Hunt, and we found another one with questions
about "Cuentos de autor".
This wasn't the only thing that we changed, on
Wednesday we chose the Resource that like projections also shows distortions, but
we didn't know if it should be about academic or whatever content. Therefore,
we did it about the false profile in chatting where people lie to someone else
saying that he's someone that he really isn't. As we weren't sure of it, we
asked Linda in the last class and she told us that it had to be about school
curricula and how we would teach it to the pupils in a future. We changed it
and we spoke about the different versions of History in textbooks depending on
the editorial's ideology, the place where it's written, etc.
On Thursday, we came to the class and we decided
the way to represent it in class the following Monday. Well, the three map projections about the two
countries would be represented in three different posters, so we bought three
blue cardboards and green, yellow and red EVA foam; and the other parts of the
activity would be represent it in a Power Point.
We divided every part of the project and in the weekend we did it at
home for the exposition. The three maps are different from one another depending
on the shape: the Azimuthal one would be
a circle, the Mercator one a rectangle and finally, the Robinson one with its
own shape. Every map should have marked Australia and Germany in different
colours to highlight them. And the Power Point should be very interesting and
original, specially the part of the
Treasure Hunt.
Finally, on Monday 23th, the star (Marina
Crevillén) exposed our project in class but she didn't do it alone, she shared
the role of star with two stars from other
groups: Platypus Soyer and Meerkats. At the beginning, it was difficult because
each group had different countries, different examples of media, different
treasure hunts, etc. but finally, we decided to take a part from each group and
it had been a good presentation between the three stars.
This week, the journalist had to add another part in the post which is the
perspective of the other group's journalists about their groups. They have
coincided in the same trouble, they had told me that the most difficult thing
for them had been to meet together because they are from different towns or
cities. And for example, in the Platypus Soyer group, the majority of them go
to the conservatory, so they can't all meet together, and finally they decided
to share the task and each member of the group would do something at home. The
other group, Meerkats told me that they couldn't meet together and a person who
couldn't meet with them in the chosen timetable had done the whole poster alone
to contrast the job with their classmates.
Another duty of the journalist is to choose a blog from outside the
class and a blog from our own class. So, first I'm going to show you one from
outside the class I like:
http://www.demoslavueltaaldia.com/?gclid=COej2Pbt-MMCFQTKtAoda30Atw
I have chosen this blog because I really like cooking, knowing news
recipes and eating new flavours. So, I wanted that the blog was of food. Apart
for this, I would like to show the presentation of the blog, which is very
interesting, beautiful and attractive. On the top of the blog, you can find the
option to register yourself or to access into your count. Then, you have
different options as home, recipes, daily live, clues, courses, recipe's videos,
competition and to participate. While you are taking down, you can see last new
perspectives and lots of aspects related with that.
So, eaters make a note of this and try to cook one of their recipes!
As a final point, I recommend the ItsChOOL's blog of our class. I would
like to add that every blogs are very good and very complete but this has
something that has kept my attention. In my opinion, the photography of the
back is very interesting and clear to show the pedagogical part of the
education, what we are learning, I mean how to teach children. Apart from this,
the different parts of the right side are also complete with the Instagram,
Twitter, every archives, etc. I hope you like this blog and you enjoy reading
it, it's very interesting.
The blog's link is:
http://organizeyoureducation.blogspot.com.es/
