BASICS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: FACILITATOR

Hello everyone!!! This is Ana and this is the BOSS! Yes, this week I have been the facilitator and I have had to organize my group for the sixth activity of the course and the first of “school organisation”.

Being the boss is a hard experience because you have to organize all the members and control a lot of things at the same time to make sure that our work is going to be good. But it is not bad, my partners are obedient and they contribute as well. The best part of this role is that even if it does not look that way, I do not like to command my peers because sometimes I feel like I am being tiring.

We have changed our roles this week, as we have done the weeks before, and the results were these ones:
Javi: Star
Fran: Curator-Farmer
María: Analyst
Paloma: No role
Pilar: Translator
Noelia: Journalist
Ana: Facilitator

My organisation was not difficult and I think that almost all the member of the group worked equally. First of all, we all read the documents that Linda assigned to us in order to understand both of them and work with the same knowledge about it because is not only the star who has to be an expert of the topic.

Once we read it, on Tuesday, we divided the two documents, 2 and 5, and then, during the week we summarized them. The summary was a bit complex because the documents had a lot of important information and we had to remark the most important one in order to do the Conceptual map the clearest possible. So, on Friday I asked my peers for the summary, and after reading the documents carefully and do what I asked them (the same I did), I looked for some web 2.0 tools to create Conceptual maps. I also have to say that to facilitate the overview of the document I divided it in its 3 parts with different colours.

Then, as I have already said, I proposed to my partners three different webs: coggle.it, creately.com and www.gliffy.com. Finally, we decided to use creately.com because the size of the letters is good and there are many colours, types of diagrams and so on to do a great conceptual map. Its only disadvantage is that the template has got a predefined size that cannot be expanded.

We did not understand a part of the activity, so we did it wrong… On Monday we realised that we were not the only ones that did not understand that very well but it was too much late. We learn from our mistakes.

The last activity os the week was that we had to create other conceptual map completing the "best one" of the three that we have evaluated with other two groups. So, in class, we chose the best one and decided which will be the information that we was going to include from the one of Umpalumpas. Then, we organized to complete it again but this time, with "mindmeinster" due to the problem of the size.

Finally, as facilitator I am checking my partner’s posts, looking for spelling mistakes and justifying the margins. This is not a problem because I “enjoy” doing these kind of things, so let’s write and let’s command! ;)

See you next week! Bye !!!