TPACK PRESENTATION: STAR'S POV

Hi, my name is Noelia and I'm from Meerkats.

This first week I've represented the role of "star". Specifically, I've had to present our investigation about what TPACK is and how we can developed it through all the subject our degree contains.

The whole group worked to look for information that, once it was in my hands, I needed to read and re-read for preparing my exposition of exactly 5 minutes.

The part of the organizing the exposition was the easiest one as all the information given to me was very clear and it exactly contained what I required.

The structure I followed for such exposition was very easy as well. I must say that my objective was to transmit my message in the best and clearest way so, because of that, I organized in this way:

1. What is TPACK?
2. Three main types of knowledge (CK, TK and PK).
3. The interaction of these three types of knowledge (TPACK) and the intersections, result of the interaction in pairs of two of such knowledges (TCK, TPK, PCK).
4. How we can develop TPACK through our degree.
• Presentations, Projects.
• Transversal Competence 3.
• Some specific subject such as School Organization and Educational Resources, Maths and its Didactics I, Experimental Sciences in Education, Extracurricular Practices, etc.

The day of the exposition, being focused on my presentation I got surprised by the reason that I was going to present not one or two times but TEN  times in an hour and a half, more or less.

I must admit that the first thing I thought of was just the typical "Oh God, what did I just do to you for such a horrible gift like these?". I was really scared.

However, when I finished my presentations I understood the reason for such gift and, also, that it actually was a gift because, thanks to those ten presentations, I had the chance to avoid the mistakes, to develop my self-confident and be more comfortable while presenting. Also, I was capable for creating different styles of presenting depending the audience (doing a more active and funny exposition or, on the other hand, doing a more serious and "professional" exposition).

I had mistakes, lots of mistakes, especially in the first two expositions (in which the teacher was in the audicence) as I didn't trust me as a communicator, The next ones were so much better as I realized that it was in me being a good communicator and the only thing I had to put on practice was the same thing I am going to do being a teacher, ACT.

And I acted. I acted showing me trusting in myself in the best way I could. I also did it in different ways as I said (depending on the audiences) and it was really good fun.

The last ones weren't very bad but I got overconfident as everything was nearly over and I failed because of that. This helped me to know that being overconfident is not able presenting. I must always have everything under control, being comfortable presenting but never considering things done when they're definetely not.

Finally, as a summary of all of this, I want to say that this has been a really good activity, from my poing of view. It has taught a lot for me, and such "a lot" is going to be useful for my life in a future (not very far away).

Thank you for reading.

Meerkat star