WEEK 10: JOURNALISTS

Hello everybody, were we are again and this post is our last one as journalists😔. We are Lorena and Marina and we can say without doubt that the creation of this blog has been amazing. Also, we are amazed of the great quantity of visualizations we have. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!💔 Now, let's talk about the task because we are getting emotional 😢. If you see us crying it's because we are peeling onions 😁

This week's task has been a sweet comeback to UDCMM 😻. This activity, that we did with the kids was fabulous and this time we had to create NEW ACTIVITIES ON OUR OWN!😬 Yes, it sounds insane because we have to do it in a week but we managed it perfectly and now we are going to tell you our evolution.

First of all, on Thursday 30th we had the explanation lesson with our teacher and inmediately after the class finished, we made a videoconference to share our ideas about how the activity should be done and we did brainstorming as usual 💭💬.We also subdivide the activities between us in order to be more efficient, so Lucía, David and Patricia were in charge of the robot activity; Fátima, Álvaro and Lorena were in charge of the stop motion and Vero, Marina and Megan were in charge of the augmented reality. YES, I have said Megan 😄. She is with us in this last task, because 8plushalf cannot say goodbye without the special half 💞 . Despite having to split the activities, it doesn't mean that we forget about the rest of activities, but that we are more specialists in certain activities. On Sunday we had an important meeting, first all together and later the subgroups. In the global meeting, we talked about the development of our activities, the demos, the diagrams and all the stuff that is involved, discussing also how to do it everything in similar manners. Here you can observe a picture of us, HOT AF as always 🔥:

During the week we were very busy preparing our activities 😓. We decided that our activities should have a shared theme, Aladdin's world. In augmented reality, we created a virtual trip that will give you goosebumps; in stop motion 📷 we created two scientific experiments related to Aladdin's cave of wonders and also this coronavirus situation 🦠  and finally in the robot activity, we'll get our student to understand math and music in the Codey Rocky context. But no more SPOILERS, if you want to see them, check our Instagram account 8plushalf.

On Friday we had our last meeting to check if everything was fine and the development was correct. I know, you are thinking, this group is always together and having meetings, but we cannot deny that WE LOVE EACH OTHER 😍. We examined the title, the topics, the standards, the diagrams or the demos  among other things because the things requiered for this task were endless.

Finally, the presentation day arrived and our stars were brilliant 💁. They presented the activity like if they did everyday the same, with fluency and comfort and here you can watch them. Also we want to show you how our presentation was:

Regarding the blogs of our classmates, we want to consider the great job of "The Pickles" 👌(https://picklerict.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-tour-through-dark-side-of-moon-robots.html).
What really loved us was the deep descriptions of the robots activity, as well as we loved the idea of programing so easily to make a vehicle!🙊

Surfing on the internet, we've found a website where explains which are the best apps of AR to include in a classroom: https://www.realinfluencers.es/2016/11/29/10-mejores-aplicaciones-realidad-aumentada-eduacion/ . We find this very useful since is perfect to inspirate yourself in order to program activities with augmented reality.😎


Finally, we want to say that working as journalists this week has been very enjoyable. In fact, this is our last role in this course😔 but we are sure that it has been THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING BIG!!

Marina and Lorena