UDCDMM: PREPARATION

Second week: 

Journalist:

This second week working on "Un día en el cole de mi maestro" was more successful than the first one. After being a bit lost in the first one, we reorganiced our labour on the task.

Augmented Reality: The task is finish developed. Some of us were the ones in charge of prepearing the presentation of the Water Circle for the kids. The idea that we had of prepearing a cardboar representing the different cycle stages was completely successfully developed. Moreover, this team was also in charge of testing the application of Augmented Reality, downloading the templates and bringing the materials to colour them for Tuesday 3rd and Thursday 12th. We work in a good way to have this finished. Great job!

Storytelling: Other little group of us were in charge of developing this activity. They develop the story that will be told to the children in Thursday 5th and Tuesday 17th. They prepeared the different materials that we need to carry out the activity (such as images). Even so, they tryied the application that will be used to make the stopmotion in order to have a previous knowledge of that app. It was definitelly a totally success!

Codey Rocky: The rest of us were the people in charge of thinking what kind of activity can be developed with Codey Rockey. We only have the idea of what we really want to do. But sincerely, we have to work more on the following weeks in this task for being prepeared for Tuesday 10th.

Apart from that, we are working together on learning for example how Codey Rockey works. Another task that we develop together was creating our identification cards, the cards for the kids and the masks that they will be wearing during the development of the activities. We just need to print them!

To sum up, is important to highlight that we are better comunicated than in the first week. We are supporting each other and helping us in whatever we need. We are confident that we will be able to finish the task of Codey Rockey before the final day and that the other two activities will be reviewed.

Curator:  what we used last week to develope this task is;

• We have been working with the app "Chrome Ville Science" as last week, we have printed the templates and have been trying to understand how it completely works in order to explain it to the children.
• Also a part from the website that we mentioned in last week's post this one we have used the following video, also to help us know how to explain to children the Water Circle. The video is: "El ciclo del agua para niños-¿Qué es el ciclo del agua?-¿Por qué llueve?- Ciencia para niños." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbTMCdSSAo
• For the activity of  Storytelling and stopmotion we have been using the app "Stop motion" and we have done some ton test it and one to teach the children how they will have to do it.

Translator:

The key terms we consider essential for this task are:

Augmented reality: : a version of reality created with technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a technological device.

Programming: a way to “instruct the computer to perform various tasks”.

Pollution: pollution is the contamination of the environment, usually as a result of human activities. For example, releasing inadequately treated wastewater into natural water bodies can lead to degradation of aquatic ecosystems.

Stop motion: a filming technique in which successive photos of positions of objects produce the appearance of movement

Storytelling:  telling a story with words and images, often by improvisation or embellishment.

Water cycle: describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, condenses in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation.

Analyst:

a. What was the best part of the activity?
The best part of the activity was when we began to see how both projects were progressing. And also, when everything was well finished and prepared for the arrival of the children.

b. What was the worse?
The worst part of the activity was agreeing on how we were going to carry out the different parts of both projects. We also realized that the work we were doing at the beginning was not enough while we thought it was well done; so, after realizing that, it was difficult to start over again.

c. What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?
As I just said, one of the best things about the week has been watching our progress on the projects. Planning everything has been very special and this activity with the children makes us very excited. So feeling this way while doing everything has been the best part of the week.

d. What was the worse? 
The worst part of the week was when our teacher Linda, seeing the work we had already done, warned us that we were not doing things right and that our projects lacked very important parts that could not be missed. At this point we felt very overwhelmed and stressed, but thanks to her warning we were able to complete both projects and finish them well.

e. What have you learnt?
We have learned how to plan real activities for children and we have also learned to use our devices in a way that we did not know before, especially with the Augmented Reality and Codey Rocky activities.

f. What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?
As a group, we have to maintain our capacity for resolution, that is to say, despite the situation we experienced this week of not knowing very well what to do, we were able to move the projects forward in a short time and, in my opinion, with good results.

g. What do you need to improve –as a group- for the next weeks?
We need to improve quite a few things, such as paying more attention to the content and purpose of projects so that we do not lack anything. Also, we need to plan things with more time to avoid situations like the previous one and finally, we need to work harder, because we work very well but there is always room for improvement.

h. There is any evident social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)?.
I believe that the social connection of the activity's content can be in the use of technologies as the main tool for its development. In addition, we have added in the Storytelling project the current topic of the pollution in the Earths' seas and oceans.

Reflexion:  During this week we try to leave everything planned without any error so we work faster and in a more organized way. We divided up the missing work and reviewed the last details. Above all we verified that everything was in order to carry out the augmented reality activity the following week.