Week Four: Interesting Week

 Week Four: Interesting Week

Another week ends today.  At this moment, I am on holiday for a week. I took the opportunity to visit my family who are going to celebrate Eid al-Mawlid an-Nabawī. This event commemorates the birthday of Muhammad, the founder of Islam.  Mawlid means birthday of a holy figure and al-Nabi means prophet. For me, it is an opportunity to meet with my family members; mother brothers and sisters whom I rarely see during the whole year because they live in another city far from the place where I work.

This week we were introduced to new interesting learning materials aiming at developing the reading and writing skills through the use of computer. When I was reviewing some of the suggested websites, I stumbled upon manythings.com which both I and my little lovely niece found very amusing.  I could make use of a lot of interesting things for my elementary students as extracurricular activities. We were also assigned to design a preliminary technology-enhanced lesson plan using a recommended template and explain how it is similar or different from the usual lesson plans we use in our classes.  This was really an interesting experience through which I could have an earlier idea about the final project needs. 

I am having fun with my family as well as my weekly tasks. Next week, I will attend MATE & IATEFL Marrakech 1st International ICT Conference from 8 to 12 Feb, 2012. I am thinking about how I can mange my time and balance the fulltime conference and the course assignments :-( hope me good luck :-)