The analysts of this week present...

Hello everyoneee :))

We’re Alba and Marina and we have adopted the role of the Analyst for this week. 

We supose you know, but we're going to remind the purpose of an analyst. An Analyst has to evaluate the work of the group. Besides, every week the Analyst has to respond some questions. And this is what we are going to do right now. 

But before starting, We have to say that we have never adopted this role, and we are so excited about it! 

What was the best part of the activity?

The task of this week was so complete, because we had to make a summary about what we have learnt since the beginning of the subject. We must know how to capture all this in an animation in video format (max 1.30 long) with the tool Moovly or Powtoons.

When we started working in the task, firstly we were a bit confused and stressed, I mean it was a new tool for us and this task was the last activity of this part of the subject. The video will do the review of the semester until now. Because of this, we wanted to do a great and fantastic video to impress the entire group.

But the stress was extended only during four or five minutes. Then we relaxed and all members of the group began to give their ideas until coming to an agreement. And we have to say that the best part of the activity was when we really realized and were conscious of all what we had learnt. In our opinion, the way we have acquired the knowledge of this subject is different from the other subjects’ methodologies and we have learnt a lot of contents without realizing. 

What was the worse part of the activity?

First, to make the video we had to decide between two tools: moovly or Powtoons. We chose Moovly, because it seemed easier and we had seen lots of Moovly's videos and we really liked them.

At the beggining, we were confused the same as every moment we start a new task. That is because we don't know how to use this new tool, we are use to having explanations about all the new things, but in contrast we are not use to investigating by ourselves. Maybe, this is the reason why we sometimes get stressed easily when Linda give us a new task.

We also had troubles when we realize that we had to summary all the subject in only 1:30 seconds. We had many ideas and we had to select some of them and then, summarized then. It was difficult for us, because we are not very good at sumarizing things. The reason if this in our opinion is that in other courses teachers use to gave us all the contents summed up so we had only to study it directly.

What was the best moment of the activity?

As we said before, the beginning of the task was a little oppressing, but once we had a structure in mind, we started configuring the video step by step. We decided to center our video on TPACK model, and we classified the contents we have learnt in Technology, Pedagogy and Contents, to make understood some that is so important: the combination of these three aspects to be a good teacher.

And the moment that we remember like the best was the moment in which we had finished the video and we saw it complete. We were so excited and proud of our work, because we had never worked with these tools, in our case, Moovly.

Then, we presented the video to the rest of the class in the entire group session.  All groups had to grade each groups’ videos and we think that almost all of them liked our work. In fact, our group (C’mon Tutankamon) and other group of the class called Hide and Seek were the winners. We also felt so happy in this moment, because it is always gratifying if a work is recognized. Thank you very much!!!!!

What have you learnt?

First, of course we have learnt to use a new tool, and for us, a very useful tool: moovly. It's a very interesting and funny way to show things, ideas, that is, to present something to any people. We are future teachers, and we are in a society that is developing more every day, so we have to learn how to use technological tools, and moovly is one example.

We have also learn how to sum up a lot of things in a short period of time. That is a very important aspect in learning because we have to know how to express things in a easy and funny way, for our future students and also for ourselves.

Finally, we think that we have learnt how to learn, we mean, now we know how to investigate  and we don't need that teachers tell us all the things we have to do. We have learnt how discover things alone, that is LEARNING BY DOING, and not only listen to the explanations of a teacher.

What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?

And what do you need to improve –as a group- for the next week?

We think that in our group all members work together and we always trait to organize and share out the work in the better way. We also trait to keep in mind all the ideas and opinions of each member, because we can help each other. But it is important to keep calm and conserve our patient to get a good work. We do not need to overwhelm or get stressed. Get nervous will not fix anything. And this is a thing that we would like to change to improve as a group. 

Even so, we think each member of the group is implicated and involved as much as they can and all of us trait to show interest in every week task.

It is clear that we always can improve, but personally I think that the entire group feels good and integrated when we work together.

On the other hand, we have never worked in a large group and it was not so bad for being the first time. But we are going to do everything we can to grow as a group. 

How this content is related to other contents?

Well, the task of this week is related with most of the subjects of the degree of Primary Education, because summarizing is very important and we have to do it almost all time.

During all the course and also the degree we are going to receive lots of contents, practices, presentations... and one of the most important things is to know how to sum up them in a good way. We have to know also what tools use for it, and tis week we have learnt to use an example: Moovly, but there are many more.

Thanks of this activity we have also discovered that we can learn many things in a differrent way, not only with textbooks and all the tradicional tools we are use to see.

This is so related with our future profession, because we can apply allthe knowledge we have acquired to our future way of teaching.

There is any social connection of this content (news, politics) ?

This task has a social connection because our society is sourrounded by lots of technologies, every day there are more and more new tools and we have to adapt to our environment and learn about all these tools.

It's important to know our society and all the media that manage it, we have go keep in mind all of this for making a good use of technological tools.