THE STARS.
The stars of this week have done a good job! To present our work they
have created a great PowerPoint and they have worked really hard. Due to they
are not living in the same area, they have used skype to comunicate to each
other and get a better presentation.
THE JOURNALIST
He uploded all the posts and cared about the twitter account. He managed to
organize all the information in a really good way to the clear understanding of
this task. As usual, we coment in one of the blogs of our teammate, take a look!
http://thejunchareesmurcia.blogspot.com.es
http://thejunchareesmurcia.blogspot.com.es
THE MEDIATOR
He also made a really good job organizing the work and giving us different tasks.
He was always looking after us, making sure we all did the work on time and
well.
ANALYST REFLECTION.
First, I would like to say that I do not think we have worked harder
this week, but It is true that we have organised better our group. It is probably
due to the fact that last week was the first task and we did not have totally
clear what we had to do in our role, but we hope we will improve in that aspect
as we work more and more. In that sense, we made various posters when we had to
do only one, if we had concentrated to work as a team and had done one poster
perfect It would have been better. Nevertheless, this week we have worked on
this matter and the sensations we have about the results are much better, we
had just one good presentation in the relation to the content, with the only
problem that the letters were a bit dark, but our work is also available in the
blog If anyone is interested. In addition I consider that one of the most tough
things to do is taking decitions, it is difficult that 9 people agree in every
aspect of the task, you may think you have a great idea while the others think
it is not. In particular, we have discussed if we should do crafts, a poster to
show the differences between the countries through the different maps, ones
agreed and others thought it was better to show it in the presentation.
Finally, we managed to reach an agreement and decided to do it. It is normal to
have this kind of situations, in fact, it is vital telling if anyone is not
happy with something because as a group decitions are made all
toguether.
On the other hand, going straight to the activity of this week, I
think the best part of this week has been discovering that we had a mistaken
vision about how are countries, their location, and differences between them,
and how this differences are conected to power and the imperialism conception,
because untill now we only knew Marcator's map, which is in fact the most
imprecise one, and I wonder why nobody tought us that at school. Investigating
about that has been very interesting and concerning ourselves about how media
can distort reality, seeing it through the different examples of our classmates
and ours has made us reflect that we should be aware about what we see and
being critic with information on the media. That is why is very important what
we teach to children, because education is not neutral and we should try to let
children interpret the world themselves. Also, we have discovered what is
exactly a treasure hunt, because we associated it the typical game of the
pirate and clues to find a treasure, but as we looked up for further
information we realised it is actually a resource for the teacher to make
the students investigate by using the internet. Its use is wispread,
increasingly among little children, so it is crucial to teach them to use it in
the right way.
The worst moment has probably been on the moment of the presentation
because we did not expected that the letters could not be seen. For next time,
we will try to think and work in a more analitic way in order to prevent
unexpected situations.
In conclusion, for the following weeks we should try to maintain a
good organization, and work as a united team because we are not used to work
with such a big group, though I think we are on the way to reach it. Finally, I
would like to remark that the contents that we have learnt are very useful for
our degree and work as teachers, because they are interesting resources that we
can use in a classroom.
I would like to finish with this phrase I have ridden and cheer my
team mates because it is not just important to have good marks from the
beggining, we have to learn from mistakes, grow and improve as a team “Effort
is the mother of all the achievements”
THE CURATOR WORK.
This is the mindmap (Spider type) that shows the resourse we have use to
complete the second tas about cartographic proyections. After the image there
is a list of importat links we've used.
Carlos A. Furuti (March 30, 2015). Progonos. Retrieved January 22 of 2016
from:
Gavin A. Schmidt, Robert B. Schmunk (September 18, 2015). NASSA Giss.
Retrieved January 22 of 2016 from:
(Febraury 13, 2016). Wikipedia, proyección acimutal. Retrieved January 22
of 2016 from:
(November
24, 2014) Wikipedia, proyección acimutal equidistante. Retrieved
January 22 of 2016 from:
Peter H. Dana (September 20, 1994). Arquímedes. Retrieved January 23 of
2016 from:
(April 15, 2013). Cartounam.blogspot. Retrieved January 23 of 2016 from:
(May 25, 2013 Ingeniería de mapas. Retrieved January 22 of 2016 from:
THE TRANSLATOR:
1.TREASURE HUNT
A treasure hunt is one of the most popular and simple activities used by
teacher involving the internet. It consist of a paper or a web page with a
series of questions and also a list of webpages in wich students look for
answers. Finally, we should include the "Great question", wich answer
does not appear directly in the web pages, and should assess what students have
learned during the process of searching. thet are useful strategies to adquire
information about an specific subject, and also to practice abilities related
to technology and internet.
Here is an example of a treasure hunt about the rainforest in our
planet. It is for students of the third cycle of primary education. In this
case the teacher wants the student to acquire knowledge about rainforest, we
guess It could be for the subject of natural sciences. We have chosen this
example because it has a good presentation and it is well organised. First, it
explains the task that the students should do, which is answering the questions
below by searching information on the different links. Then they have to answer
the final questions by making a reflection about what they have learned about
rainforest. Finally, they have an extra task which is about drawing their
favourite tropical animal including a message about the important of
rainforest. We think this final task is for aware students in a funny way.
2.MAP PROJECTION
A map projection is a
mathematically described technique of how to represent the Earth’s curved
surface on a flat map. To represent parts of the surface of the Earth on a flat
paper map or on a computer screen. It has to be represented using a grid of
lines of latitude and longitude. In the entire world there are differents ways
of projecting maps...
3. ROBINSON
PROJECTION
The Robinson
projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at
once. He didn't use mathematical formulas for his projection, but tabular
coordinates to make the world look good. The map divides lines of latitude and
longitude throughout the projection. All lines appear curves, except for the
straight line lenght in the middle of the map that passes through the central
meridian.
4.MERCATOR PROJECTION
It is often described
as a cylindrical projection, this projection is created based on mathematical
operations... This projection is usually used for navigation charts, because
any straight line on a Mercator projection map is a line of constant true
bearing that enables a navigator to plot a straight-line course. It is less
practical for world maps because the scale is distorted.
5.AZIMUTHAL
PROJECTION
The azimuthal
projection consists in projecting a portion of the Earth on a plane tangent to
the sphere at a selected point, obtaining the vision that would be achieved
either from the center of the Earth or from a poing in space outer. The
azimuthal projection is a projection geographical characterized by radial
symmetry around the center point. In this kind of projection we can find
different types such as: orthographic, stereographic, gnomonic, equidistant...
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