Mentor's+comments

 28 May 2009

Hi Guys

Great to see that you are starting to synthesize information and putting it up in pages so that you can each read and come prepared to discuss tomorrow at school.

Time to start thinking about your performance assessment too, right? Any ideas?

Eduard, Mrs Patricia has asked to rename the Key Concept pages with the new questions, can you do that over the weekend? Go to Manage Wiki/Pages/Actions

See you tomorrow!

Mr Ball

Hello Juan Pablo, Juan Jose and Edward I am glad knowing you have invited me to be part of such an important project. Congratulations for the effort you have given to your tasks, anyway I have some suggestions for you to keep in mind for our next meeting o Wednesday. 05-22-09  Hello Eduard and Juan Jose O.K. guys Congatulations for your efforts and ideas in our last meeting, anyways remember that it is really important to be well informed and organized in the information we want to use for our exhibition, what to use it for and where to find it. Thank you for the folder with the information already organized, much better. Some tips for your new post in the wiki and the assigments for this weekend. Eduard About the interview for the Zoo keeper Think about questions that take you from the general to the specific information you want to get to answer any of the 8 KEY QUETIONS and may be the lines of inquiry something like: 1. What is animal traffic? (we need an introduction before starting with the hole interview and a GENERAL question might help), then you can organize your questions like this: 2. your question number two 3. your question number 10 4. Ask a question that help you to find out information about the animal traffic in Colombia or better in Cali. e.g. Is there any proof there is such activity in Colombia/Cali? 5. Your question 4 6. Your question 5 7. Your question 7 8. Your question 8 9. Your question 6 That is my suggestion but remember it is your group decision about the best way to do what you want to do for this project About the video I think that is also a good idea. Whatever you decide think of what you want to show to the people who are going to visit the exhibition and what you want them to feel, think and reflect meanwhile they kisten to the song or watch the video.  Juan Jose before thinking about the poossible questions you can ask Juan Guillermo, you need to find out what kind of expert he is and what kind of information he can help you to get. a. May be what oficial institutions work against this problem? b. programs to protect animal in Colmbia or Cali c. Possible places where he has seen this situation d. Names of other experts you can talk to.
 * About the 8 questions you have thought for the exhibition I suggest you to go through them, making sure you analyse a local situation (in our country) that can be applied to the rest of the world once you find the answers.
 * About visiting CREA and anyother expert you might have, it is important to think the information you can get from them and how useful the are going to be for you to think about the Learning Experiences to propose for the Exhibition.
 * Make sure you writhe down the web sites pages you have visited and will visited. We need to support our reseach
 * About the way to present what you have learned I think you proposed other ideass that can be useful to make of your exhibiton something easy to understand, interactive and participative. Your exhibition is not a "By heart lesson", It is the way to explain the reason you believe why "the animal traffic should worry all of us"
 * You need to go through the lines of inquiry.... Remember a good tip is to think of of this heading to propose the right ones: **//__An inquiry into__//**.... That might help you to think of them and re-write them (check number 3)

 Juan Pablo What about the history of animal traffic. Where did it start, when did it happen, why???? What about the survey you are going to apply in your neighbor??????????:(

 >  <span style="color: rgb(0,0,128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hey guys <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">Hey guys <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">HEY GUYS I NEED TO KNOW YOUR FINAL AGREEMENT ABOUT YOUR ACTION, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE MESSAGE MRS FAYAD SENT US THIS IS THE WEEK FOR ITS APPLICATION, AS I TOLD YOU THIS MORNING THE ONLY THINGS YOU ARE MISSING IS TO DECIDE HOW TO MAKE YOUR "CAMAPAÑA...POSTERS ALL AROUND THE SCOOL, WHAT KIND OF POSTERS, SAYING WHAT, EXPERTS WHO COME AND TALK TO THE SCHOOL, WHEN, WHERE, WHO IS GOING TO GIVE YOU THE PEMISSION. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION...AS WE SAID IT THIS MORNING YOU NEED TO HAVE YOUR "LINES" READY (REME4MBER YOUR PRESENTATION WILL LASYT 20 MINUTES EACH TIME YOU HAVE TO SHOW IT TO SOMEONE)...WHAT IS THE ANIMAL GOING TO SAY, WHAT ABOUT THE ZOO KEEPER, WHAT ABOUT THE TARFFICANT, THE ANIMOTO PRESENTATION MUST BE READY FOR WEDNESDAY FOR ALL OF US TO HAVE A CLEAR IDEA. i WILL LOKK FOR YOU TOMORROW AGAIN TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR FINAL DECISION GOOD LUCK Hey there Let's review the responsibilities we have for this weekend
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,37,0);">Guys wee need to start opening a new page to answer each one of the key questions and each one of the lines of inquiry. The videos you have posted are useful if we know what they are helping us to answer.
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,37,0);">Have you actualized the informatin in the wiki about the new key questions and lines of inquiry????? Remember this information needs to be updated each time something new comes
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">let's work very hard this weekend to catch up the things in which we are behind
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">I need to see your planner posted and up dated with alll the information you already have
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">Get into this link about people against the animal traffic <span style="color: rgb(0,128,0);">**animal**istas.info/index.php?option=com it might help
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255,37,0);">Please keep in mind all the suggetsions Juan Guillermo gave you today about the possible experts to interrviw and who might help you to answer the 4 key questions we are missing as well as the lines of inquiry. Make sure you divide the load to make an even effort. who will contact the CVC, who will be incharge of the expert at the zoo, the Dagma 3 different places to visit what questions can we ask...remember Juan jose copied the suggestions Juan guillermo gave you.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For our next meeting we need to go through the concepts we are missing, the action (How to do it, when, who do you need, dates, contacts or experts to help you) a clear idea about the exhibition ( remember to expalin your understanding of the central idea, not to repeat by heart meanings or definitions
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Please let me know if wee are going to meet on Monday after 3 or if you need my help to interview other people. Rmember I need the survey we are going to apply to the teachers :)
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">I talked to the librarian in preperimary and she said we can have the book cage for pretending it is an animal cage (For the exhibion day)The only thing we need is to look for someone who help us to move it from pre/primary to primary
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">Good morning guys
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">I'm a really proud of you, as well as the attitude you have to face this big challenge. Juan Pablo I am really concern about the way you are working with the rest of your friends as a TEAM. It is very important to remember that for getting great results you need to work as a group that makes decisions together and work at the same rythm. Are you in your 100%???????? :(
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">Guys about Function I think we need to go through the answer you have posted, I think what you have there is a little bit od What is it like?. We need to go through the question again and think of the traffic animal as a **system where lots of people are involved in a negative or bad way,** bring ideas and we can check them on Wednesday
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,128,0);">We won't meet on Monday because the coordinador of the exhibition is going to call all the groups to meet with them so let's keep our weekly meeting on the regular day. I will look for you on Monday :)

hello there We are almost there and so far you have done a great job...let's make the lasst big effort to make this work. Please keep in mind the following tips See you on Thursday and congratulations Hey my animal traffic experts I am so proud to hear the comments the PYP coordinator gave about your group work last Friday. Let's get ready for Tuesday...remember the video beam, the clothes, to speak slowly, to pronounce properly and, the most important thing, to show how much you learned about this topic see you on Tuesday...good job
 * Permissions: I already talked to the PYP coordinator, The mayor and the transportation coordinator and you have the permission to have the activity on Monday
 * Mrs Fayad liked the idea. She thinks the activity should take place three days or more, one day to give the info to the families by car, another day for some buses and another day for the other buses.
 * What about the fabric fro the Banner?????? (Juan Jose)
 * I am still waiting for your parents permission to take you to the school on Monday earlier 6:20 a.m. (all of you)
 * Get the black jeans or pants, the t-shirt, and the masks (all of you)
 * Sticks to place the bunner on the ground (Eduard)
 * Flyers (1000 ?????? Juan Jose)
 * Talk to Patricia Escobar for perrmission to get late to the classes on Monday and the other 2 days and to move the cage from Preprimary to primary the day of the exhibition (Eduard)
 * Meeting on Monday from 11 up to 12:00 to see the exhibition and make changes if necessary. The animoto video (Juan Pablo), scripts, customs, video beam must be ready by then. Remember your presentation should last an average of 20 minutes
 * To finish my short list :) you need to open another page in the wiki called action. on it you have to descibe what you are planning to do, the dates, needs, steps, and hang some pictures you need to take the day of the activities (who will bring the camera on Monday?, who will take the pictures? can any of your parents support us that day at least until 7:00a.m.??????????)
 * Welll that is all for today. Once again I want to conf=gratulate you for the great job you did last Wednesday, it is easy to tell ou work ass a group now, no matter the difficulties the CLUE lies in how to solve them. Congratulations almost thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)
 * 1) Juan Pablo I saw your Animoto presentation and I think it is a good begining, anyway you are missing the little messages that go in the video...talk to Mr. Wallis tro see how you can add those things to your presentation and if you can make it a little longer
 * 2) Besides your poster you should use the banner you have at the entrance of the school as a tool for "decoration" (Eduard take care of this)
 * 3) Who is going to help you to move the cage from Preprimary to your place of presentation????? (Eduard you need to confirm this)
 * 4) Good info the one you have in the ACTION please add the pictures and send some to Mr Wallis for the video he is going to make to start the exhibition (Juan Pablo please do this too)
 * 5) We need to have the paper, pencils, customs and eveything ready for the last presentation you are going to show me on Thursday at 7:30...please be ready for a 20' presentation with no interruptions and remember the matter is not to memorize but to be able to explain what you understood throughout these days of research
 * Guys check and change your action in the planner, does the poster have all the elements you are proposing to talk about the 8 essential questions?????,do you needd more posters or more photos???????????
 * About the action described you need to explain alll the places you visited, the bus number of the buses you covered adn the days it took you to do this