WEEK 9: CURATOR FARMER.

Hello everyone!!

We're almost at the end of the course and this was our penultimate task, we had to create an infographic, and I have to say that I am quite proud of how everyone worked in this project, we hope that you liked and learnt through it! It wasn't easy and we paid a lot of attention to every detail and it was the most similar thing to a craftsmanship. 

These sources have been organised alphabetically, we made a research to obtain data about how significant the impact of technology is in Spanish education to make our conclusion more enriching, adding data and figures which were a very important tool to make our infographic more appealing to our readers. 

Along this article we found the ideal information to put the icing on the cake:

Blinklearning. (2018, November 13). IV Estudio sobre el uso de la tecnología en la educación. Retrieved April 24, 2020, from https://www.realinfluencers.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ivestudio-tic-2018-españa.pdf . 

Moreover, we use Canva application to portray in the most efficient manner our design and ideas:

Canva (Versión canva design) [Software]. (2020). Retrieved from https://www.canva.com.

And here you can see the result:

Eight plus half. (2020, April 28). Is that Steve Jobs or a teacher?. Retrieved April 29, 2020, from  https://www.canva.com/design/DAD6kvQrG8g/JWCx7FR5GVAAb-en-Jphcw/view?utm_content=DAD6kvQrG8g&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton. 

As for the information and theoretical tenets shown throughout the body of our infographic, we made use of this article:

Esteve, F., Castañeda, L., & Adell, J. (2018). A Holistic Model of Teaching Competence for the Digital World. REVISTA INTERUNIVERSITARIA DE FORMACIÓN DEL PROFESORADO-REIFOP, (91), 105-116. 

However, to start doing an infographic as such we read several guides, this is one of them where creativity is fostered:

García Espínola, M. (2019, June 14). Infografía, 8 habilidades creativas debes aprender. Retrieved April 25, 2020, from https://www.paredro.com/infografia-8-habilidades-creativas-debes-aprender/ .

These are the two photographs that we used in our infographic and the rest of them are from the own application, from Canva:

Moreno, F. (n.d.).  Steve Jobs avatar  [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/551691023086974799/ .  

New York Skyline silhouette. (n.d.). [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.clipart.email/download/12011136.html . 

And finally, these are a website and a video where we got inspiration from and I created a checklist to follow based on these two sources:

Visme. (2017, October 17). How to Create an Infographic - Part4: How to Design Your Infographic [Video file]. YouTube. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/4EwDNokZvCE .

Pavlova, I. (2019, April 29). How to Make an Engaging Infographic: The Full Guide. Retrieved April 25, 2019, from https://graphicmama.com/blog/how-to-make-an-engaging-infographic/ .

This is our checklist to make an infographic:

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Checking list:

1. Catchy title.
2. Header, body and footer.
3. Header: title, subtitles and your introduction.
4. Body: different steps, rough sketches or illustrations or symbols, then a different block with graphs, then figures, data...
5. Visual metaphors and symbols.
6. Deciding on a visual theme. Bees, orange. COLOURS ARE IMPORTANT. Adobe color cc coolers, palatine. No more than 3 colours. 60% of one colour then 30% of the second colour and just a 10% of the third colour (accent)
7. KEEP IT SIMPLE. BE CONCISE.
8. Choosing font combinations. Serif font - Sans serif fonts
9. Script - Sans serif fonts, Lobster - lato, Rokkit-ubuntu, . Distinct fonts with neutral ones.
10. Achieve contrast and visual hierarchy.
11. ICONS are really important, replace names and titles with icons.
12. Stick with one icon style!
13. Pair icons with fonts and colour palette.

I hope you find these sources useful and we will see you in our last week's task,

Verónica.

REFFERENCES DIAGRAM:
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WEEK 9 FACILITATORS

Heeeyy guys👋. We are Patricia and Fátima and we hope you are all going well and staying at home🏡.



This week we have been working on doing an INFOGRAPHIC!!!🗺 It was something new for us. At the beggining we expected that, apparently, it was going to be like a visual representation and, in fact was it. But we didn't know all the meanings and elements that characterized it .

First, as facilitators, just the day after the explanation of the task, we decided to organize a video call📹 at 10:30 a.m through Zoom Meeting (as it went perfectly the previous weeks) so that this day we had the roles distributed. For having a general idea in our Wednesday´s discussion, we asked our partners to read the document that concerns "Teaching Competence in the Digital World". It was fundamental that ALL OF US read it to facilitate the selection of information for the infographic model and to put in common how they were going to present the content knowledge.

So....the day of the video call came and we began creating a group  understanding of the components of this teaching digital competence and make sure that all of us have understood the same.
Moreover, after watching the videos about how to create an infographic and by investigating the App for infographics recommended in that video (Visme), we decided to use it. And what is more important.....we assigned the roles!

As we are 8 members in the group, 6 of us got into sum up the information of each component in a way that could be clearly presented in the inorgraphic :
Fátima: component 1
Álvaro: component 2
Lorena: component 3
David: component 4
Marina: component 5
Patricia: component 6

Then, Lucía and Verónica were selected to design the infographic, since all of us couldn't edit it at the same time. For it we created a common Gmail📧 account and we set up another video call for Saturday at 1Although all the group was involved on the design of the infographic, Verónica, Lucía and Álvaro were the ones that came out with most of the ideas for its pattern and they performed their work perfectly as we all ended super proud of our design.💪2:00 a.m to choose the model of infographic, the icons, forms, colors, titles, fonts.... Finally, the infographic was done with Canva's App due to the broader options of edition.

At the end, and despite of some problems of roles' organization due to aspects that we had to add and modify in our blogs after Linda's feedback, everything flowed very well and, of course, our stars✴ Marina and Lorena did it perfectly.....So perfect that I really didn't know if they were a teacher o Steve Jobs....👀 THEY WERE THE SUPERHEROES OF THE SPEECH!!

                     

WEEK 9 ROLES

Hey there! I am Lucía, this week's journalist📸🙋

The roles for this week are:

Facilitators: Patricia and Fátima👭
Stars: Marina and Lorena⭐
Analyst: Álvaro🔍
Journalist: Lucía📸
Curator farmer: Vero👩‍🌾
Translator: David📃

Stay tuned to what's coming next: our infographic! We can't wait to show it to you😁

See you around👋🏼

MY PERSONAL PLE: David Romero Crespo

Hey, there dear readers!!

How have your holidays been? I hope that you have enjoyed them as much as possible under the circumstances.

Today I am here to show you and explain you my personal learning environment or PLE, so here it is!

I found it quite funny to use an original format and display my PLE as Homer Simpson's thoughts.

Starting up with the upper left corner, we have the collecting section, featuring those sources of information that I use when I have to gather data for my projects. I decided to include those donuts because they are Homer's favorite ones and he is constantly resorting to them, just like me with Wikipedia, UMU's webpage, Youtube, Google, or Urban Dictionary when I have to find something out.

Going on with the reflecting part, we have those apps or websites I use to get my work done when I've collected the information, being these either TikTok or Splice video for video creation, or Dibujos de Google to do diagrams like this. There are also some useful tools just like Word to write texts, Excel to elaborate Calculation Sheets and PowerPoint or Prezi to make presentations. This time, we have the duff beer starring in the middle, because when working, homer likes to consume it. In my case, I'm not really into mixing alcoholics with homework, so I use the apps explained before to complete my assignments.

Moving on to the next section. we have the sharing in the lower-left corner. This includes those tools I use to share my work with others, a very important part of the work, as it is an easy way to obtain feedback and improve. I usually use Google Drive and Gmail to do this and share my work in a more serious and formal way, as well as Blogger to share this with you guys. I also use Instagram and Whatsapp sometimes because they are an easier and faster way to get in touch with people. The Simpson family is now our main character in this part, as homer is always sharing everything with his beloved ones.

To finish with this project, we have the Inspiring part. I've added here those tools that inspire me the most when I need fresh content for my work. I really enjoy diving into these ones to find a crazy and enjoyable way to express my ideas. This time, I used a picture of the monkey with cymbals, because in the series, when someone asks what it's going through Homer's mind, this is the image that is showing off in this head, and where his stupid and crazy ideas come from.

And that's all for tonight!!
I hope you understood and enjoyed my PLE.
See y'all next time!

MY PERSONAL PLE: Verónica Cano Egea.

Concerning to my Personal Learning Environment, I have chosen five categories
to divide the elements (resources, activities, sources of information) used for the
management of my personal learning; the ones that I put into practice to create new
projects, the ones that I make use to reflect and get information, the ones that
I use to communicate with others as well as to share information, the ones that I
employ to save all this information and my source of inspiration. 

Moreover, as for the design, it has a symbolic hidden meaning. In the middle
of it, several things are displayed, an avatar of myself between books and next to my
self a chameleon as a symbol that one of the characteristics of my PLE is the
flexibility or the capacity of adapting to the circumstances surrounding me.
Adding to this, the two circles have been merged as in a Venn’s diagram, as to form
an infinity symbol to portray that my PLE is something which is constantly
changing. Furthermore, in the background there is a picture which can be familiar
to most of us, the Main Street of America or the U.S. Route 66, as a metaphor of the
fact that a PLE is something which is endless. 

Create:(seekpng.com)

- Baamboozle: this is a website where you can create your own “quiz”,
this is a very resourceful tool for learning, I use it in my workspace, to make students
learn while having fun playing cooperatively split up in teams. Moreover, I consider
that it is easier to use at class than Kahoot, since you as teacher, are the one who
decides if the answer that they give you is right or not, you don’t have to deal with
connection problems and speed is not important because sometimes faster is not
better.

- Kahoot : I use this application in a similar way to baamboozle, students

are usually more motivated when they are competing between them and this is the

perfect tool to achieve that adding to the disguised element of noticing weaknesses

and strengths in students concerning to the theoretical elements. 

- Miro : this is a genuine application that I have recently discovered where

you can organize your information creating different kinds of diagrams. 

- Prezi : this is a very useful tool to make presentations in a more dynamic

way than powerpoint. 

- Ilovepdf: with this tool you will be able to change, convert and adapt files

in the format that you desire as well as combining different files into just one and

it’s totally free!. 

- Powtoon: this is another application that I usually use to make presentations,

in this case you can use avatars to make it more realistic and it gives you the option
to make videos and upload them to youtube.

- Movavi: as I have had to make many videos and we have a lot more to do, this

programme is the ideal tool to create your videos in the most efficient manner, with

a handful of settings that you can control without difficulty.

- Microsoft word document, excel, ppt: the most common ones are

documents in any format depending on the utility that you want that document for.

- Google docs : this is the perfect tool that you use to create the same types of

documents that you could do with Microsoft Office but it gives you the advantage of

being able to work online in group and save it in real time. 

Read:(pinterest.com)
- Wordreference: this is a tool to broaden our vocabulary bank and it even

has a forum to solve our linguistic queries.

- Linguee: in comparison with Wordreference, this tool puts the word in

context and you can detect the connotation that you want to express with the word

that you have the intention to use in your native language. 

- Google scholar : here you can find plenty of articles to research and

reflect about theoretical tenets. 

- Wikipedia : this website is the most comfortable one to answer your

problems but it is not the most reliable one. 

- Teachers/students/friends/family (shutterstock.com): this is one of the

greatest and most enriching source of the information that I get in my day to day life.

Communicate and share:(getdrawings.com)
- Zoom: this is the videoconference tool that I use in my job, it is very advantageous

since you can share your own screen, share a whiteboard and different tricks which are ideal

to make this situation easier.

- BB Collaborate (academic purposes), Skype(social purposes).

- Whatsapp: I use it not only with a social interest but also to keep up to date with

university notices and announcements.

- Facebook: most of my classmates don’t use this social network, however, in my case

it is the one which I most employ due to the fact that I am in several pages where you can get

information about relevant issues as well as sharing posts of different tasks that I am developing

or tasks which have been carried out in my English academy. 

- Instagram : this is an application that I am not quite fond of making use of it, but it’s

very useful to find resources about teaching methodologies or activities to implement them and

I share the activities that I have carried out as well. 

- AV, Gmail and Outlook(sending emails, tasks and reports with academic,

work and social purposes as well as obtaining information).

- Blogger: thanks to this website I can develop my work in this subject and show you our
weekly progress.

Collect: (dreamstime.com)
-My mind(pngitem) and Google drive: these are the two sources of storage of
my PLE.

Inspire: (clipart-library.com).
- Youtube: with all the videos that I have to create, this is ideal to broaden my creativity.
- Pixabay: this is great to acquire very good quality pictures.
- Spotify: music is always a wellspring of inspiration, I love discovering new songs and
playlists and it makes me feel better working while listening to music, I recommend to you
the playlist called "fuera estrés".
- Pinterest: this is a inexhaustible source of resources.
- Kindle: one of my greatest passions is reading, kindle is also great to use nowadays
to show stories to your children by zoom and get inspiration from educational handbooks.
- Friends(dreamstime.com): this is the most inmediate source of new ideas, learning by sharing!

I hope that you enjoy reading this post and learn throughout it!

See you next week,

Verónica