WEEK 5: JOURNALIST ROLE #soyer1718

Welcome dear readers one time more in this new week in our blog. I am Maravillas Álvarez Sánchez, and this week I am the journalist, so I am going to tell you that we are doing, and we are learning in this lovely week. This week we have the next roles:

-Yassín: Facilitator.

-María José: Star and Translator.

-Diego: Star and Translator.

-Lola: Curator-Former.

-Roberto: Analyst.

-Maravillas: Journalist.

This fifth week seems to be so hard, because we have to do several tasks and expositions, but I know that Universal teachers and the rest of the groups can successfully overcome it.

After the explanation of out teacher, our group started to work with the new roles of the week. First of all, Yassín the facilitator divided the work in pairs in order to make the task easier. Diego and María José were working in the comparison of the countries and the exposition, because this week they are the stars of the group. Yassín and Roberto were doing the table of the different map projections. Finally Lola and I were looking for a Treasure Hunt on Internet.

On Monday, a new task called: “Treasure Hunt: Cartographic projections”, was explained by our teacher in class. She started introducing us some concepts, like Treasure Hunt and Webquest. To understand better the meaning of these concepts, we have to find a Treasure Hunt on Internet, and explain why we have chosen it. In a Treasure Hunt students have to look for answers to some questions in the content of the links selected before by the teacher, and sometimes it includes a global question.

Furthermore we have to explain and compare with a table the different map projections (Robinson, Mercator and Azimuthal), and finally once finished this analysis, we have to choose two countries (one from Europe and one from a different continent) and compare them.

The objective of this task is to understand the importance of the media and the impact that has in the society. Children cannot separate the reality what they imagine, an example of this is maps, where all the continents in a limited space and this area are not a representation of the reality. Therefore this effect can have a big impact in the mind of children.

Our group has put the example of how advertising can change our perception. Our advertising is about a brand of detergent, and in the advertisement a message can be perceived machist towards the woman.

The work in group has been very good, because all of them had the tasks so clear and we don’t have any argument. I only have to emphasize that we had a difficulty with the Treasure Hunt because initially we did not understand completely the task, but our facilitator Yassín solved the small problem. We have to read better the instructions!! (We have learned the lection).

Every day in class all my classmates and I learn better how to do a good presentation and how to do an effective work in groups. This was seen on Wednesday, because the stars of the groups did an excellent work, doing creative expositions, well done!

I hope you enjoy reading it. Write in the comments any doubt or question that you have, we will very grateful of answers all your comments. Thank you so much, and continue with this excellent work that you show us every week.

Maravillas Álvarez Sánchez