Week 10; A farewel or a New Perspective?

Coming to the last week of the most amazing,beneficial experiences of my life I think I am speechless.To describe how I feel is beyond words.What I'm most thankful and grateful to is the new perspective I have now for myself and my classes as well and the chance I'm given to see,hear and understand in a novel way.The weeks I've gone through is very limited compared to what I've learnt and I hope I will always have this thirst and power for knowledge.I consider my self lucky to have met so wonderful people,tutors and classmates,whom have made a wonderful world for me.I'm going to miss you all .Here Is a video I created using goanimate I hope you like it;
GoAnimate.com: Webskills Course2012 by dadda2012

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

I find blogs one of the most interesting tools that can be used with my students.Thier potentials of uploading image,videos..etc make it adherent to different styles.PBl is a great way of enforcing and enhancing our students critical thinking and collaborative skills.Webquests seem to be the ever-lasting friend of mine and I intend to use it frequently.learning how to use PPT Interactively has made my day.

Week 9:I hear and foret,I see and I remember,I do and I understand)

Through this week we have gone through one of the significant contributing factors to the learning process which is learning styles.We have been introduced to the multi-intellegencies theories (Gardner's)and the role technology can have in enforcing and enhancing these learning styles.e have also shared ideas and experience in how could we adapt technology to accommodate our learners' different learning styles.

Completing my final draft for the project I feel somehow relived,as I couldn't stop reading,re-reading and modifying it,to reach its final structure.Thanks to my partners(Yuliya-Nur)while helping in the first draft,with their comments and feedback.Thanks tutors(Jodi-Sheri) for your help and guidance.

approaching the end of this magnificent,wonderful journey I feel a little bit sad.Missing the long hours in front of my laptop,awaiting the start of a new week with both challenging and hard ,yet fun and amazing discussions and tasks.Realizing how useful and precious this course is I think i've gained a lot.Meeting so wonderful people(virtually) is a among the most rewarding factors of this course.Therefoer Iam thankful and grateful for this great opportunity.

Week 8: The Grief and Joy

During this week we have been exposed to different online teaching tools.Among these is Hot Potatoes,which has amazing features to enable teachers create various types of exercises.The cross puzzle games is also a great site,which I intend to use with my students.I've successfully created a match exercise in easy testmaker and I will be using it with my ICT students for the project.

We are also introduced to ANVILL,Language lab and the initiator of the project,Jeff Magonto.He enlightened us about the different,overwhelming features of the lab.Unfortunately I wasn't that luck to join the Friday webinar to see and listen to the participants(tutors and classmates),but I hope there will be a recording of the event.


One of the most painful moments for me when I realized the contradiction between my project plan time line( assumingly at the beginning of the semester,the 10th of March),and the due date for the final project( the 9th of March).So,the first thing I did early this morning was to meet the dean of the college(ICT) and explained to him that due to time constraints I may need to start few days earlier(4th of March ;Today)than the set schedule for my plan.He,again was cooperative to let me use the internet lab for the initial steps of the project,if the students won't mind coming despite thier vaccation.Being successful to contact some of them on their mobile phones,they show their pleasure and readiness to start a little bit earlier.Showing up on the lab few hours later,we were successful to create the class blog and the wiki as well.In spite of the sadness I felt at first the dean's understanding and the students' eagerness and interest to help initiate this project gave me all the joy.So thank you dean,students and lab technician(M.Siddiq) for making it possible.