Working as Journalists by Rosana Yepes & María Moreno

This week, the journalists have been Maria and me. We have searched a lot of information about cartographic projection, treasure hunt, how to teach geography with technology, etc

As we have mentioned before, our group is formed by 7 students of different places, ages, ideologies, etc.  for this reason there is not name that it can describe us better: brainstorming. Because our conclusions are taken by brainstorming strategy.

Here, we show you a video where we are discussing what projection map is the best to teach geography at school.

On the other hand, as journalists we recorded a report how our partners felt with their new role.

Last Monday, everybody had to expose one part of their work.
Firstly, all the stars prepared an exposition to explain the three different kinds of projections. They explained it their best, trying to make it with sense and coherence.

Secondly, every Journalists and Facilitators exposed what is a Treasure Hunt, putting examples of the ones they had chosen.

The group of translators had to expose something that make distorts reality, so they used Call of Duty play, explaining how it influences on children. 

Then, analysts had to present an activity that helps children to make differences between real life and fiction one, so they showed us two videos, one of SpongeBob that was the fiction one, and another of Heidi, that was the real one.

Finally, farmers´ group showed us how we can interpret the media, since depending on our background, age, life style, etc. we can interpret it differently.

How have we felt this week?

This week, we have lived a good experience, we have mooved for many blogs and web. Also, we have investigated more ways to teach geography at children, as we can see to losolmoshistoria4.blogspot. Sometimes, Rosana both to Maria, the work has been a bit overwhelmed due to the amount of information that we can find on internet. It requires criteria, patient, time, etc. to select it well, and in most cases, we cannot it.

On the other hand, we have taken several photos and videos. The thing that Rosana has liked the most was when she recorded how my partners (and her) were working. She felt as professional journalist and… She loved it!

Last Monday we did not expect that everybody had to present one part of their work. However, it was nice, a new experience.

To sum up, with the work of this week, we have understood that all projection maps have distortions and according to cognitive development of each child, children will understand better one or other projection. Also, we all have learnt a funny way to learn with internet called Treasure Hunt. So, even this week has been a bit chaotic in regard to information searching, it has been productive, too. 
We all continue to stive for better results.