The facilitator this week presents.... our work

Hi followers, how is it going? This week I am the Facilitator of C'Mon Tutankamon, this week our group has been working very hard as you are going to see in the blog. Let's see our roles.

Working in groups

Working in groups can be a really good experience or a nightmare. Since I started the high school I have always been working in groups but not in an effective way, every time there were two or one member of the group that did everything. 

But these course is very different, we (as a group) have to do lot of activities so we must work in an effective way just not to overwhelmed some members of the group. I look for some information on the web and I found that:

Tips for working effectively in groups.

We met three times in a group study room in the Faculty of Philosophy, in the first session we establish the objectives, what tasks we were going to do and in what order. So we divided the tasks into small groups and create a timeline.

- Trini and Carol investigated about different types of proyections.
- Lola and Eva looked for an interesting treasure hunt.
- María and Marina searched for a good example to demostrate that media distort the vision of the students.

In the second session Trini and Carol explained their task to the rest of the group and specially to Miriam and Alba to continue with the examples of different projections, Lola, Eva, María and Marina explained what they had done. 

- Miriam and Alba compared two different countries.

Finally, in the last session we put everything in common and did the poster and we prepared the presentation of the stars.

In the sessions if some couple had a problem they said and everyone tried to help them, exchange information is crucial so we create a group with our emails.

Summarizing the week

This week we have worked with a treasure hunt an activity to explore the impact of the resources in our students like a discovering game. At the begining we talked about cartography projections and completed a table analysing and comparing different types of projections.

After that we chose two countries: Germany and Kenia and we compared its situation in the different projections answering questions like: how is it big? Where is it in the whole world? And how important it seems on the representation?

Then as we are going to be primary teachers we debated about what could be the best projection for being used in a classroom, we had different opinions but finally we concluded that Robinson projection is the best for teaching purpose, it gives you a visión of the entire world.

Thanks to this activity we have learned that we as teachers can distort the vision of students so we have to take care about what resources we are going to us. It also can happen that media distort the vision of the students and we have to mitigate the effects of that. As an example we have chosen a video from youtube, in it you can see how photoshop can change the body of a girl.

Finally we found another good example of a treasure hunt to use in our classes with primary children to learn about healthy habits discovering, thanks to different links and activities, the parts of the body and kinds of fruits and vegetables good for being healthy.