TREASURE HUNT: JOURNALIST

Hello everybody!!!! I’m Ana and this week I have had the opportunity to be the Journalist of my awesome group Meerkats.

In this second task, named as: “Treasure hunt: cartographic projections”, we had to do a very hard work. First of all, as each week, we changed our roles using a simple method in a way that all the members of the group can have the chance of enjoying the experience of each role.

Being the journalist makes me feel cheerful because I think that is nice to recollect all the effort of my group and let you know how we have worked on the Treasure hunt!

In this task, we had to analyse three Map Projections (Robinson, Mercator and Azimuthal) in order to find the projection which is the most realistic, comparing them and synthesizing their properties. 
Then, we had to choose two countries and look for the differences of their representation in the three different Map projections. Finally, we had to resolve the Big question and choose some examples of media distortions and Treasure Hunt to answer the reflection proposed for the teacher consisting of the neutrality of media.

On Wednesday the whole group discussed about the organization of the activity and we agreed that all of us would search for information to better understand the general context of the Treasure Hunt and the cartographic projections. So, we all met through Skype and shared our perceptions of the activity.

On Friday, we met and completed the table with the content of the different cartographic projections as well as the other theoretical questions of the activity. Also, we did the sketch of our poster and the rest of the group, who could not come to Murcia, was the responsible of its construction. We decided to make a handcraft poster because in our first activity we received a lot of critics for doing the mind map by computer. So, we thought a lot of ideas and decided that it will be enormous, in that way; people would see it very good and wouldn’t complain about neither the size nor originality.

Finally, on Monday, the day of the exposition when we arrive to the class, we found a “surprise”. The exposition about Treasure Hunt would be carried out with other two groups. In our case, they were: Fran from Platypus and Marina from Power Teachers. Fortunately, the three groups worked very well and we could make a quite good improvised exposition. For the presentation we decided to use our poster and a mix of the power points done by our peers. As I have said, the result was good.

Here, you can see the three groups planning the exposition and then, our stars doing their best!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR6HIQiIfvw&feature=youtu.be

Simultaneously, the Journalists, Analysts and the Facilitators of each group had to share their reflections and perceptions about the work in their own groups, that is to say, the techniques they use, what is their methodology, problems, and so on.

We agreed that the main problem of the work in so big groups is that is very difficult to meet because each member of the groups has their personal occupations and when the majority of the team can, there are other ones that cannot. On the other hand, we used the same method, a previous look for information and one day, all together complete and finish the whole work. In short, the second experience has been good and we are working bit by bit for improving our strategies.

Now, I would like to recommend you some blogs. First of all, I have chosen the blog: http://www.generaciondigital.es/. Its author, a pedagogue and designer of educational interactive products, talks about infancy, entertainment and education in a digital world. I have chosen this blog because I find it really interesting and what is more, it is much related to our subject because links education, technology and school! You can find there, innovative strategies created to introduce children in new technologies and facilitate their learning offering such different alternatives. I really recommend you to visit it, you won’t

regret it!!!

Also I like the blog http://7upgroup.blogspot.com.es/ because until now they are doing a good work and I like the design of their blog since the posts are simple and their content is good. I expect they continue working in this way!

See you soon. :-*