Journalist role by Amelia Avilés

Hey dear bloggers, here we are one more week!

This past week has been an important week; it has been the final week of one part of the subject, named Educational Resources and from now on we are going to work in the part which is dedicated to School Organization. We are very excited about it and we are sure that we are going to enjoy it as much as we did the previous weeks.

Coming back to what concerns us, this week, in order to reflect what we have learnt during all this semester, Linda asked us to make a video presenting the things that we have learnt thanks to her in this time, and for that we had to use an online tool. We, The Teachleaders, chose "Moovly". I have to say that I didn't know about the existence of this tool and it's amazing! you can do a lot of different videos easily and the final end is excellent. So if you have to make a video soon don't hesitate to use it, it's very useful.

Once Linda gave us the instructions to follow we met each other in order to discuss how we were going to make the video. We had a lot of different ideas so as to agree all of us we made a storyboard, pretty similar to the one that we made a few weeks ago to prepare our "Human Evolution" presentation. After puting all our ideas in common, we finally decided how to make the video, but before starting we divided the work in order to work all of us. Each one will do a different part of the video so we started working. Some problems came up, for example we made the videos separately and when we finished them we realized that they couldn't be put together, so we had to make it again. At the end we solved them! :)

This week has been a little bit hard for us due to we had to make a lot of works for other subjects, we couldn't meet each other the same days and other things, but we managed to make the video. During the week some differences between us came up but as a group we solved them, it's very difficult to work in team and much more difficult if we are seven people. Nevermind we've managed well as a group.

Now I'm going to explain what is in our video, although below you can see the hole video.

We made a summary about what we learnt each week. First of all the TPACK model. This is a framework that all teachers must use and as we say in the video, with it we can be the perfect teachers.

Secondly, the cartographic projections. As future teachers we have learnt that we have to use the best tools to teach our students, tools that show the reality in the way it is and not in a different one.

Thirdly, we learnt that creative commons licence exists, that we shouldn't use pictures,  songs, slideshows among other things with copyright and also, we learnt how to make a good presentation, that it must be simple, with not many text, color, well structured and so on.

Also, we explored the dark side of text books and we made into account that for being a teacher is not necessary to use textbooks, there are more interesting things!

Finally but not less important, we discovered that there are a lot of tools waiting for being used, we need to explore all our options, DISCOVER!

Here you can see the complete video, I hope you enjoy it ;)

Today, on Monday, we have presented our videos as the rest of the groups of #SOyER1314 class. I have to say that all of them were pretty cool and my group and I enjoyed them as I supossed the rest of the class did due to the effort that we put so as to make them.

Once all the videos were seeing, Linda asked all the groups to mark each video by doing it as we were Eurovision presenters, it has been very fun. The scores were 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12. After voting the ranking was the following one:

1st: Hide and seek.

1st:C'mon Tutankamon.

3rd:T8T.

4th: Give me 7.

5th: The Teachleaders.

5th: Education Rush Hour.

7th: Brain Storming.

8th: Step by step.

9th: The little ants.

And that's all for this weeks dear bloggers, until next week!

Regards, Amelia.