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Response to Padlet Group Project- Sama Ali

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Response to Padlet Group Project- Sama Ali

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I never thought I will do a presentation without using the traditional slides; I was happy to discover the Padlet, even though it takes time to get used to it.
The two main strength of this platform are:
1- Independent contribution
It is always hard to find a moment when all the members of the team would be free,  and the leader do not need to dedicate time to put everything together, to do the "assemblage" of material. In two words, the Padlet is TIME SAVING.
2- Creativity and new possibilities
This platform is not only fresh because it hasn't been that much used (PowerPoint is outdated), but also fresh for the eyes. We can adjust text and image as we like!

I remember though when the 1st group did their presentation, I was shocked to see so much text on it and people struggling to find their part. We preferred it to be straight forwarded with key words and images for this reason, but we then realized we had to adapt the Padlet and added more content (full sentences).

About the subject, I found it interesting to do a presentation on the only strong female character (too many men!) and within a group. It allowed us to share our different interpretations and to analyze in depth some details of Karina’s personality. I suppose that the presentation wouldn’t have been the same if we weren’t a team of only female students!

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Response to Padlet Group Project - Teresa Ferrer Roy

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Response to Padlet Group Project - Teresa Ferrer Roy

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The most common platform for presentations is Power Point, but it is too linear and at the end all the works seem the same at first sight. Meanwhile, with the padlet we can be more creative, insert images, audio or videos easily, and changing the size of the text windows. In summary, it allows adapting the disposition of the text to the aim of the presentation. I first thought that using the paddle would be confusing, but when we started setting up the presentation I realized that it is simpler than it seems.

The only details I did not like are the low speed of appearance of the text on screen and the limitation editing the text. Maybe we just did not discover how to do it, but I would have liked to be able of using the tab key, different fonts, justified text… And this is not a contra but an observation: if we use the padlet for presenting, I understand that it should work as visual support. I had problems following the presentations in which the padlet was full of text, because first, I could not see it properly even though I was in first line, and second, it was difficult even for the people presenting it to find the information (because of the constant movement I guess).

About the topic we had to work with, it was really interesting to look for information about Karina. ‘Femme fatale’ sounds powerful but it is, in fact, a different way of seeing women as a problem, as the ones who put men in trouble, so I am glad we had the opportunity of showing how Karina is a strong and independent woman.

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Response to Padlet Group Project - Gwenaëlle Basset

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Response to Padlet Group Project - Gwenaëlle Basset

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Once used to it, working on the Padlet was pleasant and easy.

This format allows us to be creative in the page setting and the visual aspect we wanted to give to our presentation. We can do almost whatever we want in terms of organization of pictures and texts. I could spend hours aligning them to please my artistic soul.

It is also practical given that each one can add information and see what others put on it in real time. A good point to remedy to the fact that it was almost impossible to find a single hour to meet, all of us having different schedules.

I found quite difficult to know how much information to put on the Padlet. During the oral presentation, I saw that other groups had a lot of written information. However, we preferred to make it more visual. Actually, for our subject, pictures speak as well as words (which might explain the difference with some other groups).

The main negative aspects are the speed of the website, as it is quite frustrating and a waste of time to wait 30 seconds to see the text appearing or the image moving, and the sharing of the Padlet with other members and the teacher, which I had to do many times before it actually worked.

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Response to Padlet Group Project – Suzanne McMahon

I found that the Padlet format made putting our presentation together very easy as we could all contribute to it independently and it facilitates uploading images and editing text. I was not involved in setting up our Padlet so I still need to master that aspect of it.  There was a certain amount of trial and error initially as it was a while before all four of us could access our Padlet and post work on it.  Some negative aspects that I found were, firstly, the notifications that popped up  every time a member of our group was contributing to it and we couldn’t find where to disable them.  Secondly, I found that the speed at which the text that I was typing was appearing on screen got slower and slower in the latter stages. I’m not sure if this was because we were all adding to it at the same time but it slowed the process of completing my part of the presentation to a snail’s pace. 
Overall I found the task of producing a group presentation on one character from the novel enhanced my understanding of the text as a whole and the conversations that we had regarding the character of Karina opened up different interpretations of her role that I had not considered. It was particularly beneficial to have a native Spanish speaker in our group who revealed many nuances in the text that I had missed due to my level of comprehension of Spanish

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Response to Padlet Group Project – Suzanne McMahon

I found that the Padlet format made putting our presentation together very easy as we could all contribute to it independently and it facilitates uploading images and editing text. I was not involved in setting up our Padlet so I still need to master that aspect of it.  There was a certain amount of trial and error initially as it was a while before all four of us could access our Padlet and post work on it.  Some negative aspects that I found were, firstly, the notifications that popped up  every time a member of our group was contributing to it and we couldn’t find where to disable them.  Secondly, I found that the speed at which the text that I was typing was appearing on screen got slower and slower in the latter stages. I’m not sure if this was because we were all adding to it at the same time but it slowed the process of completing my part of the presentation to a snail’s pace. 
Overall I found the task of producing a group presentation on one character from the novel enhanced my understanding of the text as a whole and the conversations that we had regarding the character of Karina opened up different interpretations of her role that I had not considered. It was particularly beneficial to have a native Spanish speaker in our group who revealed many nuances in the text that I had missed due to my level of comprehension of Spanish

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"...cambian hacia el cuarto y hacen el amor sobre unas sábanas muy limpias, que huelen a sol, a jabón, a vientos de Cuaresma. Mueren, resucitan, vuelven a morir..." (p.155)

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Typical element of the femme fatale,
red is the color of passion

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Porque cambiaba de novio? Piensas así de las mujeres? Eres de los que quisiera casarse con una virgen?....Y si la pelirroja fuera una puta?"  (p.133)

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Porque cambiaba de novio? Piensas así de las mujeres? Eres de los que quisiera casarse con una virgen?....Y si la pelirroja fuera una puta?"  (p.133)

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"Los manos tiemblan mientras ajusta las dos mitades de la cafetera. La proximidad del amor lo alarma con la misma intensidad de los viejos tiempos de la iniciaciones.." (p.132)

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"Los manos tiemblan mientras ajusta las dos mitades de la cafetera. La proximidad del amor lo alarma con la misma intensidad de los viejos tiempos de la iniciaciones.." (p.132)

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Conde writes again after meeting her

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"Estoy enamorado, pero de una mujer a la que no logro conocer. En verdad, ¿quién eres, Karina?" (p. 174)

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"Con la boquilla del saxofón entre sus labios y el cuello del instrumento bailando entre sus piernas" (p. 18)

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"Dulcinea no aparece porque no existe" (p.217)

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"Es como si naciera de la reverberación del sol, caliente y hecha a la medida de unos deseos ancestrales" (p. 15)

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

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Conde in front of Karina's house, leaving her a note

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- Introduction of Karina
--> Book: day / Movie: night --> why the change? Because it reinforces the mystery that surrounds this character
--> Description: Red hair (passion, lust), Ancient art (terminology from Greek architecture), compared to Aphrodite/Venus (goddess of love, beauty, desire and sex)

- Jazz club scene
--> Book: El Quijote and Dulcinea = Mario and Karina
Dulcinea is the dreamed woman in the Spanish novel Don Quijote de la Mancha. El Quijote is a crazy man that is in love with a woman that does not exist, he has made up in his mind an image of her that does not correspond with reality. He does not know her, only her name and the place where she lives. It is the same what happens with Mario; he does not really know Karina but he has made up an idea of her and now he is obsessed with it.
--> Movie: not long conversation although she still avoids personal questions

- Ending: Dulcinea vanishes; Mario realizes that Karina is not the woman he thought
--> Josefina (book): she did investigate Karina and knew about her husband, now she apologizes to Mario for not telling him before. Mario says that it was worth it.
--> Final scene: (movie) crying heartbroken + in the dark --> nightmare
(book) sleeping calmly + sunlight --> good dream

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In Cluedo game

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Jessica in
Who Framed Rogger Rabbit

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                 Role of the femme fatale:                                                                                                          
             Purpose of Karina's character

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                 Role of the femme fatale:                                                                                                          
             Purpose of Karina's character

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- She brings mystery and tension
--> we want to know what she's hiding
--> her absence creates suspense (when Conde waits for her call)

- Karina, as a strong woman figure, serves as a counterpart to the victim's  weakness, who's a woman too.
She manages to enhance her status by herself, she is autonomous (she's an engineer, she decides to start and end the relationship with Conde...)
= good answer to the male-centered universe full of misogynistic elements, even though the femme fatale is portrayed as a negative character, a woman who wants something and gets it without caring about the others.
=We see her as a strong woman, but it’s not really a feminist image.

- She is a medium to reveal some aspects of the detective's personality:
In their moments of intimacy, they are true and real to each other, they are not only naked physically but also spiritually, their souls connect. They are who they really are, before coming back to the reality of life and their social role and jobs and duties.

- She allows Conde to dream again when he listens to jazz and when he’s with her.

He writes again after he met her, which reveals an artistic and sensitive side, something very personal and different from the role he has in the office and when he’s around the other policemen. All of that makes him more human.
The reader has compassion for Conde because he opens up to Karina so much, leaving himself very vulnerable. He’s not this impenetrable and heartless detective and the reader can realize it through his relation with Karina.

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                        Karina in the book and in the movie - Differences

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                        Karina in the book and in the movie - Differences

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- Cars : The first sign that the film will not be as realistic as the text is the different car that Karina drives in the film, ie. the beautiful, vintage, American car as opposed to the Fiat Polako

- Language register - The descriptions of the physical desire that Karina awakens in Conde are more vulgar in the text but they are also more honest - he lays himself bare and trembles with anticipation:
- The film portrays Karina more romantically, where all of the scenes in which she appears are softly lit and the locations are usually beautiful, old colonial style.

- Biblical references: sacrifice, death, resurrection - associated with love-making - the power of Karina to bring him back to life, to 'resurrect' his writing - not evident in film version where the title no longer holds a biblical reference: Vientos de Cuaresma becomes Vientos de Havana

-  Karina challenges Conde in a passage in the book where they discuss the murder case and Conde refers to the victim, Lisette, as a 'putica'. Karina thus raises the issue of attitudes to women in Cuban society which, as it turns out, could be partly to blame for her death. The film does not include this exchange.

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                 What is the femme fatale?

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                 What is the femme fatale?

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Type of character first developed in Hardboiled fiction > detective genre from the US (20s)
Genre mainly features crime stories  including violence, sex, drug, murder...
> the characters have to match this tone
'Femme fatale' = French for "deadly woman"

Main characteristics:
- extremely attractive, male protagonist obsessed with her (investigates her, asks the neighbours where she is...)
- mysterious, out of nowhere, only knows about her from what she says, disappears for days... creates more attraction
- free spirit pursuing her own ambition and manipulative, usually despises married relationship: she is just separated and tells Conde she only wanted someone to sleep with
> not looking for a conventional relationship
- independent woman, she is an engineer and own her life by herself, does not depend o a husband.

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                                     Karina, the Femme Fatale

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                                     Karina, the Femme Fatale