Robinson:

Hi, I am Miriam! This week I have been the role of the analyst. I really thought it was going to be easy because give a note to calificate  my group-mates, from my point of view, it can’t be so many difficult. But I was totally wrong, I had to be objective, and althought they are my friends I had to give the note that they really must have. I hope that I have did it right because I have tried to be a righteous and objective person.
 At first, I have to say, that this task it wasn’t easy but we did it the best that we could and we did our best. Also, it was not easy work with 9 people, but we always try to be patient with all and help ourselves because not always can meet all of us, or stay all the time that we must.
 I would like to say that we have learned a lot of map projections, of  Robinson Mercator and Azimuthal and of geography in general. Also, we have learned that exist something called media distortion that show how the media distort reality.
At last, I think that we can improve and be better in our works, because althought we know that get a 10 is going to be a really hard work, we want to have a good mark, so we are going to conserve hope and our team spirit. We are a team of nine people, but we are going to work as only one.

Hi, we are Jamal and Sara, and we have been the stars this week. We did the entire work together, but in the exposition day, we explained different parts of the task and we answered different questions. We think that this role is problably the most difficult because you have to be self confident. The star has to explain the work   the group has done during the week to the rest of the class, so you have to be able to control yourself to not be nervious. This role can be your worst nightmare if you are afraid of talking to a lot of people, so you have to get rid of the fear to perform your role properly.

Now we are going talk about our personal experiences during the exposition day, and about the content that we explained the last day.

Sara: Hi, I decided to be one of the stars this week because i prefered to show our work to the rest of the class with someone else instead of alone.This time  there were two stars per group and not only one, so it was a golden opportunity for me. I regretted my decision when I realised that I had to speak for  8 long minutes... This is the first time that I've done  something like that, so it has been challenging. Im also a bit shy, so it has been a bit stressful.
I introduced the topic and explained the different map projections and the differences between them. In every projection, I explained:
- If there is more than one version
- The different types of distorsion.
- The pros and cons
- The purpose
- And the sociocultural implications of using it as a learning resource.

To make the comparison in the different projections between France and Bolivia, I dressed up like a Bolivian girl, to make it more enjoable to watch, I had fun doing that. I also answered to the question of what a treasure hunt is , and explained the treasure hunt that we had created.

Jamal: Hi, it's me again. This week I had a lot of fun being the star, I really enjoyed it. Its a hard role, but if you are not nervious when you have to explain the task, you would like to do it again because it's amusing. I didnt want to be the star in the first place, but i realised that i would have to do it sooner or later, so I wasn't very concerned about it. I did a comparison between France and Bolivia, a comparison of how are those countries represented in the different projections. To do that, I was dressed like a french man (that's probably what I enjoyed the most). I  explain that there is not a perfect projection, that all of them are distorted in some way, and that there are different preferences (in choosing the best one) depending on the different interest that we might have. I said that a french man would probably prefer the Mercator projection because France looks bigger there, and size is associated with power. The bigger a country is, the more powerful it looks. What I was trying, was to explain the relationship between the slogan: Media are not neutral and our work.
I also explained how media distorts the reality. I showed a picture from a peruvian book that was created to explain the origin of the races, but the picture was very racist and far away from the truth.

We hope you enjoyed our work.
                                                     

SECOND TASK!! Curator-Farmer

• ·         Map projections: Robinson projection. 

• ·         Map projections: Mercator projection.

• ·         Map projections: Azimuthal projection.

• ·         Differences between two countries: France and Bolivia (Wikipedia).

• ·         Examples that distort the vision of the students.

• ·         Treasure Hunt.

• ·         Youtube  videos.

Hello everyone! My name is Paula from the Prickles group, and I'm the curator-farmer this week.
My main mission as a curator is to reference all the web pages that we have used to develop the task in APA style, which is more formal. I have to distinguish two important different references which have made our project possible.

A) References advised by the teacher

As the journalist, my job this week was to tell the story and evolution of our TPACK task. I decided to explain this process to you all through a comic. The link belonging to the comic can be found below.
http://bitstrips.com/r/SG6CK

Here are some photos that we took during the creation of our TPACK poster and the presentation of our work.

Hi, I'm Jamal, and this week I've been the analyst. It has been more difficult than I thought. To play this role you have to be sure that the marks that you give to your group-mates are fair, so the analyst has to be a very objetive person. This is the first time that we "analyze" our proyect, so I dont have another reflection to use as a guide, anyway I'll do my best. First of all I would like to say that I pretty much enjoyed working with my group-mates, this is the first time we work together, and I think that we did it properly. We are all aware that "getting a 10" is not easy an job, so we will keep working hard. The best part of the activity is that wasn't a boring theoretical task, so we could use our creativy to create a mindmap that was very useful to explain to the rest of the classmates the different questions about the TPACK. I really liked the "Star" role, I consider that explaining to the other groups our work is like a real practice for being a teacher. We also liked when some of our classmates told us that they had enjoyed our work, that was very rewarding. The worst part of the activity was the time limitation in the exposition. Trying to answer the different questions when you know that the time is running out, can be a bit stressful, but we think that we will get used to it, and that we won't have any problem with it in the future. We have learnt what a TPACK is, some of us, didnt have heard of it before. We've also learnt, how a TPACK is useful for a teacher, and how it can be used in the entire learning and working process. If we want to be good teachers, we will have to be able to manage the technological and pedagogical content. We are going to conserve for the next weeks the team spirit and our will to get the best mark possible. Something that we have to improve is meeting more often. It can be a bit hard, because we are group of 9 people, and not everyone is always able to do it.