THE ANALYST OF KEEP CALM AND KO 

(TREASURE HUNT)

Hi mates, another week more, I am Noelia Hernández, the analyst of my group during this week.

Firstly, I’m going to write about the new activity of this week, it called “Treasure Hunt”.

       1. What was the best part of the activity and the worse?

On the one hand, the best moment of this activity was when we gathered for working, we had fun. Although, all moments that we worked were really amusing, maybe I would stress when we talk about how we do the activity. And we thought to do it about Indiana Jones. So, directly, we had a barrage of idea about that. One of them was, the analyst could custom of Indiana Jones. We were speculating how we can dress up the star (Clara). The star seemed enthusiastic with the fabulous idea. The truth is that we everytime.

On the other hand, the worst moment, perhaps it would be when we started to work (Treasure Hunt).

       2. What have you learnt?

At the beginning, I think that we have learnt to increase our knowledge. A way for that maybe could be to discover that there was more than one way in order to understand the world map. Likewise we have found different projections as Mercantor, Azimuthal and Robinson.

o       The fist of them, Mercantor projections is a cylindrical map projection.

o       The second, Azimuthal projections have the property that directions from a central point are preserved and therefore great circles through the central point are represented by straight lines on the map.

o       And finally, the third is the Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once and the problem of showing the whole globe as a flat image.

*What’s more, we have learnt to connect several ideas, for instance we gathered a video game “Los Sims” and a board game “the Monopoly” to compare the dichotomy HOW we get money in a virtual life is different from real life.

*Moreover, we have had a treasure box, where you can choose an only one paper and then answer the question. The questions will be appearing in other paper inside the box.

The treasure box is related with things at home.

        3. What do you need to conserve as a group for the next weeks?

Maybe, we could say in one word the HARMONY. Although it is very easy, sometimes it is hard to find it, we always archive find it. To us, the harmony is got very fast, because when one girl of group had a mental block, we said…”mate, keep calm and keep organised”. You shouldn’t press the panic bottom, it is only and activity and we must do as group…”Group work does work”.

        4. What do you need to improve as a group for next weeks?

Although I think that every weeks we try to improve, a way for getting, could be asking questions before start working. Because this week, we started to work with the new activity and when we went to class, we realised that we were wrong about the activity. So, briefly we should have more clear the activity before to start to work.

          5. How this content is related to other contents in your course and in your degree?

This content is difficult to relate with other contents in our course, because we did not learn the different projections and the relation of media influence in virtual life from real life. But, I can say one subject in order to know to explain a exposition oral with children. For instance “Planificación de la acción educativa”, I choose that, because the star has to choose one of the world map projections and KNOW EXPLAIN FOR WHAT.

Another example, it could be when we can compare the virtual life from real life with an easy explain in order to the children can understand easily. All of that, we have learnt in “Planificación”.

      6. There is any evident social connection of this content?

Yes, the society always tries to manipulate the reality in order to beneficiate for one cause. And we realised in this activity the three points of views the word maps, according to different projects where try to extend countries according to the importance that they are. But, that don’t impress us, because we used to see that day by day. In economy, customs, politics….etc.

The world always has moved for one caused, due to maybe we can not advance.

 Monday, 23^th February

*Briefly, when we went to class this Monday, we had to gather the analysts of other groups. And, our point of view was that the work was hard and difficult to understand, finally we comprehend the activity and we learnt with this activity, for example, we try to mix different activities like treasure hunt with different projection of world. So, the goal was HOW you explain that to your students?