Keep tunned if you want to know how our week has been!

Hi bloggers! I'm Alba García and I've been the journalist for this activity. 

We have been very lucky this week, as we had to use the tool Fakebook, which some of us had already used previously for another subject. 1 UP!

We met on Wednesday and divided the work among us. I looked for other resources where the different Leadership teams where explained, while my other collegues analyzed the document provided by our teacher. Finally, as we liked how things where explained in both documents, we decided to combine them to create a more complete profile for each Leadership style.

As we had run out time and hadn't finished the profiles completely, we decided that each one of us would be in charge of finishing at home one of the profiles. Then, on Thursday in class we put together what we had found about each Leadership style and what we thought of each one.

On Monday in class, we were in charge of designing some questions to ask the other groups about each of the Leadership styles, and Rebeca was in charge of controlling the time so any group excedeed the time set to answer the questions.

Meanwhile, the other groups' stars had to get together two by two and defend one of the leadership styles. To do so, they and their groups had to look for information about the leadership styles in each of the Fakebook profiles in order to collect as much information as possible. Then, all the stars had to go to the front of the class and defend their leadership style.

Once more, in this activity we have had to cooperate with groups we haven't usually worked with. We will find ourselves in this situation many other times when we begin to work at a new school, or when new teachers arrive to the school we are working at. We have to learn to adapt ourselves to working with people we aren't used to work with.

To finish with, I would like to recommend you two blogs.

The first blog I would like to recommend is Platypus' blog. Apart from the design of the blog (which I absolutely love and find very funny), I really like how it is structured and the fact that one of the first things you see in the blog is the group's photo at the left side of the page. Besides, the section "Best Post!" at the right side of the page has made a very good impression on me, as it's been the first time I've come through something like this in one of our blogs. The content of their posts also deserves a special mention. Good work guys!

The second blog I would like to recommend is El Rincón del Maestro. There, you can find a collection of activities and resources for many different subjects both in English and in Spanish. This is a very useful blog where you can find many interesting activities for our future students and you can also send them the activities you have done to share them with the educative community.

Here is the analyst!!!! :D

Hello everybody, I’m going to analyse a bit!!

How you can see from previous weeks I’m in charge of  analysing how we have worked as a group and as a individuals and also what we have learnt during this week doing the activity.

I think that when we doing an activity always have some positive things, and other less positive things. In this case I think that the positive o the best part of the activity of this week has been to have to do a webpage in a new website that we didn’t know called “Fakebook”. In this webpage some of us, Silvia, Rebeca, María and me who had a type of leader, had to create a profile, in where we had to write why people had to choose our leader, and why not they didn’t have to chose the others. I think that, how in the real life each one thinks in her/his own benefit, and something like that have occurred in this activity, since when we had to write why not people didn’t have to choose our partners I think that there was a bit of bad idea, but it’s normally because if not the activity wasn’t totally real. How we would say in Spanish, “sacamos trapos sucios”.

I have to say that when we have done the activity we were melancholic, because this activity was the last one of the course, and on the one hand we were happy because we have worked so hard and now we want to study for our exams, but on the other hand we were sad because, really, we had a lot of fun doing all the activities and we have learnt from the others and also we have learnt to be more respect with the opinions from the other and somethings like that. The thruth is that there was a special thing that we thought that it was the best moment of our last activity and it was to see some of our professors of the university which ones encouraged us. I could say some bad moments but this week, allthings have been good, I thought that it means that we have learnt many things during the course, which ones we have applied to do a good group. I would like to say that I’m so proud of my partner’s work, and of my group in general since they are good people, and better students.

The content of this activity is related to the real life in many aspects. For example, in a future we will work at a school, and the director of the school will be like our leader, and we have to be prepared to work with different types of people and doing our work the better that we can. I think that this activity has allowed us to know how type of leader we would like to be in a future.

Finally I would to say that how I said before, I am a bit bad because I am going to miss a lot our meeting to do the different activites, and the moment that we have passed together which ones are in my mind forever and how I also have said before I am so proud of my group, and I hope that finally all our work have a good reward.

Boys and girls, I see you soon!!! I hope that you don’t miss us a lot!!!

Good luck!!

The boss is here!

Hi everyone! I'm Anthea, and this week I have been the facilitator of my group. As you know, my role consists on seeing what the activity is about, telling the other members of the group how to work, what thay have to do, and seeing if they do their task and upload their posts.

Well, this week we have had to work on leadership, for which we have created four profiles on Fakebook. As its name shows, they are fake, not real. Also, more information about the kinds of leaders has been searched in order to understand them better and know more about them.

Then, we had problems with the time, as we couldn't finish the activity the day we met, so we decided to complete it at home and put everything in common another day.

Finally, the last day in class, the stars had to be in pairs and look for the information about the leadership styles in the other profiles, so they would be able to make and answer questions. This day each group had to work with the others, who were people we hadn't worked with before, so we (and also the other ones) have had to adapt as fast as we could to work properly with them.

Have you got some doubt? Don't worry! I am here for solving them!

Hi bloggers, I am Silvia! This is our last week and we have to say goodbye since the role of the TRANSLATOR.

This week we have worked with the different types of LEADERSHIP, more specifically with the AUTHORITARIAN, the PARTICIPATIVE, the TRANSACTIONAL and the TRANSFORMATIONAL. Are you a bit confused? Don’t worry! We felt the same when we started the activity, so here you can find the principal definitions that are going to help you for understanding the different roles of this activity.

LEADERSHIP:

The leadership is based in the guide that someone gives to some people for doing something. There are different perceptions of leaders, since a political to a religious. The leader stablishes the steps to follow and he or she must be secure that these steps are achieved. In addition a leader must have a good vision for developing good ideas and to know how he or she can motivate to the rest of people that are following him or her.

What is Leadership?. (n.d.). In Mind Tools. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_41.htm

AUTHORITARIAN:

One of the four types of leaders who is characterized for having a big control over all the aspects of the work, including the workers, who usually have not got the opportunity for giving their opinions or ideas because, as we have said the boss is who control everything and the rest of the people have a limit liberty.

Authoritarian. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles/authoritarian

Authoritarian. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved May 8, 2015, from Dictionary.com website:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authoritarian 

PARTICIPATIVE:

It is other of the types of leadership that, as its own name indicates, is based in the participation of all the members of the work. I mean, the participative leader allows that the people give their own ideas, above all in decisions that affect themselves. In addition, this type of leadership also allows a higher work in group.

Participative. (n.d.). In Macmillan Dictionary. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/participative

Participative. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/participative

TRANSACTIONAL:

This third type is based in the motivation of their workers using rewards and punishments. This leader is very organized and uses more the rewards than the punishments, although these last can be present too. He or she gives all the responsibility to the worker when gives an order, and the worker is the responsible in all the moment about this tasks.

Transactional Leadership. (n.d.). In Changing Minds. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/transactional_leadership.htm

TRANSFORMATIONAL:

The last type is characterized by the passion and the energy. He or she worries about the workers and thinks that with the appropriate motivation they can do great things. This type of leader is confident and charismatic, a thing that if they do not know control can give them problems in the suture for developing the activities or tasks that they want.

Transformational Leadership. (n.d.). In Changing Minds. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/transactional_leadership.htm