Gaby’s Morning Meeting? And Sharing – D50

Gaby was supposed to have facilitated today’s morning meeting, but she has been absent so far. Instead we decided to make the roster rubric so we are on the same page when a group is in charge of the chores of the week. What we came up with was the following,

Every assigned group must:

• Bring goodies, snacks, 2 pounds of coffee, 1 pound of sugar, 1 box of tea. All due on Monday.
• Clean all the common spaces.
• Open and close the windows.
• Have coffee ready at 7:45 a.m. 
• Take out the trashcan and empty it. 
• Pick up the water (garrafones) at Atención al Estudiante. 
• Check that the projector and lights are shut down before leaving.
• Charge the iPad. 

For the Agora time, we followed the sharing activities by telling everyone our linkage. Yesterday, or should I say today, at 12:00 a.m. made a Prezi presentation of my genealogical tree. It took me about an hour and a half, but I was very pleased with the result. I found a lot of fun facts, and the most interesting one for the MPC is that somehow somewhere, I’m related to Amable Sánchez, although not by blood you may say. He was married with a sister of the wife of the brother of my grandfather (of my father’s family). Cool, ha?!

Prezi is guilty for our frustration! – D6

So far, this has been the worst day at MPC. You could breathe frustration in the air. It was a very exhaustive day, full of emotions and almost fighting discussions. It all started because of an apparently simple task Bert gave us. “Get into your groups, find connections with the texts we will be reading, and then, with everyone, divide the work to organize those texts with the table of contents in a Prezi presentation.” Apparently simple. We got into our groups and within a few minutes everybody started to work by their own, on Prezi! It was a total mess that led us nowhere. After all being frustrated, we discussed what happened. We decided to do it all over again with a more organized group work. Did we save the day? Freaking no!!! After lunch, there was more discussion, everyone was tired, and it didn’t helped that much. It was just a really bad day. I had to remember once again, Goosfraba…