From Monday
20 to Sunday 26 February
Hi, Juan here from Broken Dreams and this week
I have been the journalist of my group. First of all, I have to say this week
have been so quiet compared to TPCK week. Monday 20 was about an explanation
about Curriculum implementation and, in this point, I have to admit that I
thought Linda would entrust some task which would be due by Friday 24. However,
the big “surprise” would come true on Friday when Linda named the Pechakucha
word. Therefore, we could say that the real weekly work about the subject
started on Friday because of the assigned job. However, it seems that people
from my group do not worry about carrying out tasks and (I am always who has to
be remembering works we have to make and wondering about correcting English
from all members, trying to make the best as possible…) I decided not to say
nothing about the work because I was hoping someone would say something like:
Hey, when are we going to meet in order to start the task? But it was
incredible, weekend ended and neither of them said nothing or sent a message
about The Beatles Pechakucha.
I was a bit tired of being “behind people”
saying what we are going to make every week and, consequently, I started to
make Pechakucha in my own way. Next week I was not the star but I had very
clear that if nobody helped me to make the task I would not have any problem
presenting the exposition.
To conclude, as I have said, this week I have
been the journalist of my group and I have no qualms about saying that week from
Monday 20 to Sunday 26 was absolutely holidays for the most part of group’s
members. I like to be truthful and sorry but I had to express some of my
thoughts, despite I have not been analyst this week I was a bit exhausted of
this behaviour and I think this is not the correct way if we want to give of
our best. I hope members of Broken Dreams will be aware of the situation
because this is not a game, we are not in primary school and I really dislike
when you try to make the best as possible in order to improve the group’s level
and you do not receive the same feedback from the rest of members. As far I am
concerned, it is true that I am not perfect, in fact, I admit I have a lot of
mistakes every day, I do not want to say with this words that I am the best of
group or something like that, I only want to say that, sometimes, I feel I am
the only one who wonders about activities and several times, I have finished
making tasks in my own way for the rest of the group because I feel I cannot completely
trust in my work partners’ labour.
I want to think this is only a spell of bad
luck and as soon as possible we will be a cooperative where we will be together
in the same boat and we will take
into account that university is not only a continued party where we go in order
to spend our time.
From Monday 25 February to Sunday 4 March
Hi, Juan again from Broken Dreams and this week
I have been the analyst of my group. Next I am going to reply questions’
analyst but before I want to make an introduction about how the week was. First
of all, I will name this week as Pechakucha’s week. Pechakucha’s week has been
a bit weird. I carried out making the presentation’s draft and finally the rest
of members decided to start worrying about the task. However, there was a point
which amazed me a lot and it was that two members of the group began making
Pechakucha’s labour without saying anything to the rest of people because they
wanted to surprise us. What was the result? They spent their time making the
same part of the topic which I had said it would be made by me. Consequently,
this lack of communication would cause more delay to our project. Pechakucha’s
week went by and definitively it seemed that all people knew about the task and
the shared work. As a result of this late organization work was finished on
Thursday morning and it only lacked to make a good design which would be
created by me and it would take me all-night in order to get an attractive
presentation. At the end, I finished the design so late but it was obvious, the
day before I was still waiting for the assigned task from each group’s member
and, consequently, I had only one afternoon to make design, to correct the
whole work, to revise English… but this is not important to me, what it really
amazes me it is the fact I cannot understand why stars did not defend our
presentation in a correct way. Task (except design) was already made with 24
hours in advance, I absolutely accept that it would be great to have more time
but I think ten slides can be studied and learned in one day and even more if
you cannot spend more than twenty seconds in each slide; why cannot you prepare
a 3’20’’long’s presentation in one day? You only had to say two coherent
phrases per slide.
As I have said in other moments, I am not
perfect; I have a lot of mistakes every day, I am aware of my English is not
enough good and I recognize I am person who is so far from perfection in all
senses but when I involve in an activity I like to make it the best as possible
and I try to give it all one has got in
order to get suitable results. Even I said: “Please, study slides, the
presentation is so cool but without good oral exposition it will be very poor”.
I do not if nerves were responsible for the performance, if it was lack of
study about the topic but from bottom view a little failure was what partners
and I contemplated.
I hope that it is
only a temporary oversight and we will get our daily labour back because this
is not correct work way if we want to obtain good results collectively. Despite
my of view from the group and week I think is enough clear I will be so brief
answering questions because we should remember this is not a colombian novel but a blog’s
post ;)
What was the best part of the activity?
I think the best part of the activity was the
opportunity of extrapolating The Beatles and The Beatlemania to two main
perspectives: TPCK and Curriculum Implementation. In this way, we do not only
learn theoretical concepts but we study how they are put into practice thanks
to the topics application, in the case that we are dealing with, The Beatles
and The Beatlemania. In addition, we have learnt that teaching children may be
more than reading or listening Beatles’ songs; some software tools as Wix,
Blogger and Voki allow us to transmit knowledge to children in a different and
also interactive way.
What was the worse?
We could say the worse part of the activity is
the beginning because it is the point where you do not know how to raise the
matter and, in the current case, how to join The Beatles to TPCK and Curriculum
Implementation’s perspectives. I have to admit it is not easy to make directly
the presentation, before you have to summarize your ideas and being aware of
your limit, in the case in question, temporary and numerical limit; 6’ 40’’ and
20 slides per presentation. Therefore, if I had to choose the worse part of the
activity I think difficulties of Pechakucha’s work are the main drawback
because every moment we do not have to forget we are playing with conditions
which will determine a specific kind of presentation so different compared to
presentations without any maximum time and space.
What was the best moment of the week (in the
work of the group)? And what was the worse?
Obviously, the best moment of the week was on
Thursday when we finished Pechakucha task. However, I could refer to the
elaboration process as another of the best week’s moments because it includes challenging
steps as creating slides, what information we include, designing presentation…
these are some of stages which I personally like and I describe as these ones
which take part of the best week’s moments.
On the other hand, the worse moment of the week
was, with any doubt, first days after Linda entrusted us Pechakucha task
because, as I have explained, people were not worried about work, I was sick of
remember our homework to them so I decided to start the activity in my own
since, as I supposed and finally I noticed, nobody told nothing about the
assignment during the weekend.
What have you learnt?
I do not know what my work partners have learnt
but I am pretty sure I have learnt a lot new concepts, experiences and new TPCK
and C.I. perspective from this activity. First of all, I say I have learnt a
lot of concepts because before Pechakucha task I had a look at TPCK and Curriculum
Implementation notes and yes, I understood them but I had no example about the
most part of concepts so this activity have helped to illustrate these notions
thanks to the topic’s application (The Beatles in the present case). Next, I
have said I have learnt a lot of experiences; again, yes, experiences as being
aware of the work, being responsible, being behind people in order to make
presentation and exposition and then, lot of experiences related to the work,
in example, at the beginning I did not know what Wix was and, therefore, I had
no idea about how using that difficult tool but after getting in touch with the
software program I have discovered a new device which it seems to be so easy to
use and, as a result of its interactivity, children will be able to learn due
to new ways.
What do you need to conserve -as a group- for
the next weeks?
In my opinion Broken Dreams have to change its
way of thinking. We should not behave as procrastinators, we must be aware
these tasks will be assessed and, therefore, we must not leave our fate to the
chance.
What do you need to improve –as a group- for
the next weeks?
First of all, we need organization. We will not
get any purpose without established patterns. Next, we will need responsibility
and initiative, each member of the group should try to contribute ideas and
being aware the group’s system; cooperativity, collaboration and interdependence among us. Finally, grouped
member’s connection appears as an important point since a lack of communication
among partners may propitiate cooperative and collaborated work without any
sense.
Cheers,
Juan ;-)
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