Week Ten: Wrap-up

Week Ten: Wrap-up

This week marks the last moments in our course and I cannot believe how the time has flown by so fast. I remember like it was yesterday when we were assigned to write our first reflections about the course. I was very enthusiastic about everything in this class and by the time I started   believing that it was not going like any ordinary class I had before.  In this course, I have learned a lot of beautiful things.  I still can’t forget how happy I was when I managed to successfully complete many assignments including the  creation of my own reflective blog,  Delicious page, technology-enhanced lesson plan, my own WebQuests, Interactive Power Point slides, online survey, to name but a few. Another great achievement of this course was the class project which all the participants were supposed to submit by the end of week nine as the fruit of this interesting class. The course also has provided access to a selection of unique online resources.  In many cases, we were recommended to explore in depth various online teaching materials most of which were very interesting and seemed to be carefully chosen. I am sure; participants would not be able to find these valuable tools if they searched them by their own. Although much of the workload was sometime intense, it was motivating and manageable which helped me keep enjoying the course. The course also has offered me an only one of its kind opportunity to meet with colleagues from different parts of our lovely earth, I consider them now as members of my big family. . Let’s not forget Jodie and Sherie, the most wonderful, helpful, lovely, and enthusiastic professor I've ever had. Overall, this was a great course and I feel lucky to have taken it.

Week Nine: Very Busy Week

Week Nine: Very Busy Week

Another week has passed and it was one the busiest weeks I had ever had this year and I don’t know how I could have managed to balance between the assignments of our course and other commitments.  This week,  I was recommended by the administration of my school to take responsibility of managing a three-day cultural event which was held at our school on March 08th through 10th. The Festival provided a great opportunity for both teachers and students to revive old traditions and customs that highlight local cultures and their historical roots. Although it was a hard responsibility but an exceptional and interesting experience. Through all this hard time, I have managed to read some articles about learning styles and pop in NiceNet to post my contribution. I have to express my gratitude this week to my nice project partners Ruki and Nihmat for their insightful remarks and great efforts to have  my project draft reviewed.

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A three-day cultural event was held by Sakia Al-Hamra high school on March 08th through 10th under the theme of “Students' Creations in the Service of Human Values”. The Festival offered a rich program of seminars, exhibitions and musical and cultural events. The purpose of this event is to promote a greater understanding of the value of local traditions and customs and construct an atmosphere of cooperation and competition among students

Week Eight: Very Rewarding Week

Week Eight: Very Rewarding Week

I can say that this week is one the most rewarding weeks in this interesting course. We have been exposed to a lot of online materials and we were assigned to choose some those tools and DISCOVER them in depth. We were supposed to build a course site or create some exercises.  Some of the online resources that I found useful for  were toolsforeducators.com and eolf.univ-fcomte.fr   which include various interesting teaching tools such as crossword puzzles, matching exercises  ,bingo games, flash cards and multiple choice activities. I really liked all the tools but I couldn’t work on them all because of time constrains. This week, we were expected to post our project drafts on the wiki class, conduct a peer review of and to exchange ideas about them. Next, we all of us are supposed to submit the final drafts as a fruit of this fun and interesting course

Week eight: Very Rewarding Week