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Hi everyone!  My name is Ana, and as a curator-farmer, I have had to collect all the resources we have used in Task 5: The dark side of textbooks. As the previous curator-farmers, I have also included the references used in the preceding tasks. With regard to such task, I have added those links our teacher gave us in order to better understand the activity. Here you have two screenshots in which you can see it.  I also put the general link to have a clearer sight:  https://www.mindomo.com/es/mindmap/1e3ede16f2289119e22ebad184cdd72c  If you have any doubt, please ask us!!! Have a nice week! Lovely Teachers ❤️

Hi everyone! My name is Bea and I am this week’s analyst. So, on behalf of my teammates and me, I will reflect on task 5:  the dark side of textbooks . First and foremost, we want to outstand that one of the best parts of carrying this activity out has been exploring the world of textbooks, especially their drawbacks. Moreover, some members consider artistic works appealing and have an entertaining time while creating them! Something that could sound obvious, but most of us think, is that we enjoy doing these activities in English. They allow us to have a wider vocabulary in our second language, increasing the variety of concepts we are familiar with, so as to be more fluent in our speaking and writing. Regarding the least interesting parts of doing activities like this one is the fact of having to stay at the university on Mondays in order to work. They require a lot of time and we end up actually tired in the end of the day. However, we ought to look on the bright side a...

Hey! On Wednesday, before doing our presentation, Linda asked us for taking notes about the rest of our classmates' presentations. Then, she told us to create a presentation, using "Genially", based on quotes and photos for explaining 'the dark side of textbooks' according to our mates' opinions. Here I let you our final presentation, where we explained the main concepts we have learnt by listening our classmates: https://view.genial.ly/5a9fc5c4b13ff079ed431658/the-dark-side-of-textbooks Thanks!!

Apart from writing the story of the group, as a journalist, I had to comment other blogs as usually. We decided to comment Teach Perfect’s blog since we think it is full of amazing ideas and posts. Furthermore, they reflect their original ideas and use wonderful colours to show their works. That is why we love their blog. http://teachperfectum.blogspot.com.es/ We have also commented in a blog which has inspired us a lot to develop successfully this week’s task. Its author has included different images and even videos to illustrate his ideas, something we find really interesting and we will try to put into practice as soon as possible. Moreover, his way of expressing his own opinion, using rhetoric questions or dividing the information in different sections has incredibly inspired us! On the other hand, we loved that he included different perspectives of other people in his exposition which definitely made us enrich our task.  http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/primar...

Hey there! I'm Natalia and today, in the Translator part of this task, I would like to highlight several key  concepts that in my opinion are crucial for this theme. First of all, we need to know what a   textbook is. We could consider it a book used for the study of a particular subject, that can be  also used to learn some contents and methods that can be useful for the specific subject (as I have previously said). It causes lots of discrepancies related to how useful and important they are. We could also stand out the term comfort , due to the fact that teachers feel really comfortable  and secure with textbooks. They don’t have to do a really hard work when they use them and  only guide the classes with the contents that are treated in them, without using a critical view of the contents. Related to some characteristics of textbooks, we could stand out the concept of publishers .  These publishers have a great relationship with textbooks...

Hii!!  I am Ángela, the journalist of this week. So, let's start... As all the previous weeks, on Monday Linda explained us what we had to do in this new task called ''The dark side of textbooks''. First of all, we had to read some documents to obtain different information. Some examples of these documents are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook http://elbonia.cent.uji.es/jordi/2012/03/04/libros-de-texto-electronicos-peras-al-olmo/ The task's objective was to do a campaign against the use of textbooks as basic resources in classrooms. For doing that, we had to decide which format we were going to use. There were three options: An  info-graphic  is the display of information in such a way that it can be easily understood at a glance. A  Twitter timeline  is a list of tweets or messages from people you follow or people in a  Twitter  list. A  fable  is a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with ani...