Week 7: Reflection

Hello Everyone,

We are reaching to the end of the course.

As usual, it’s been a wonderful and exciting week. The best part of this week was exploring what we can do in a one-computer classroom and how we can implement activities with the minimum availability of technological devices.

I benefited a lot from my course-mates and the activities they have described in the thread as well as creating a lesson plan which we can implement in our classes.

I would like to take the opportunity and ask to see whether you feel the same way as I did when I replied to Hakim’s blog post. Although we are all instructors in our daily lives, we are students in this course and as students we need to create something of our own and by creating lesson plans and activities and sharing them on nicenet.org, we will remember what we have learned from each other. All in all, I believe cooperative learning will lead to better results rather than applying activities which are given to us. Do you agree?

Sylvia, Lebanon

Week 6: Reflection

Hello Everyone,

This week has been very interesting on so many levels.

The first part was the alternative choices which were given replacing the PowerPoint. I have been using Prezi before but the other remaining 4 are quite fantastic too. Personally, I am not very fond of PowerPoint unless I use it through the interactive white boards. Its utilization would interest me more as I can write on the PowerPoint additional comments for my students and save it afterwards.

The second part was Mobile Learning: will I use this new way of teaching? Ummm, based on the readings this week (http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1020), I might consider practicing it in my classes in the future. However I think I have to master it before bringing it into my classes.

The third part is related to the project which I will be implementing in my class. It is Skype Education! As I have mentioned previously I have found my guest speaker already, but guess what? I have met him personally this week. He was on a very short mission to Lebanon and I had the pleasure to meet him before he travelled back home.  Indeed it was exciting and I have no regrets of choosing him as the guest speaker for my students…
I hope the whole project will be a fruitful one 

Sylvia, Lebanon

Week 5: Reflection

Hello to all,

We have already reached to the end of the 5^th week which is half way to the end of this wonderful course.

Before I write what I have learned this week, I want to raise few things which I was thinking about…

This course has been so far very inspiring and interactive but what I’m mostly concerned about is keeping in touch at a later stage. I’m not sure if anyone had raised this question to our dear instructors and if so, apologies for not paying attention the reply. After the course reaches to its end, will the username and password on nicenet expires and therefore we wouldn’t be able to go back to the wonderful posts of our fellow virtual classmates? How can we continue to stay in touch? Perhaps creating a small closed group on facebook would be helpful?

As for the reflection of week 5, http://rubistar.4teachers.org/is is indeed useful to create rubric in a very short time and less time consuming.  However, what I couldn’t figure out is how we can delete or create new columns and I would really appreciate if anyone could guide me on this…

Sylvia, Lebanon

Week 4 Reflection

Hello everyone,
Here is my week 4 reflection.

Although my internet connection wasn't stable during the week and I was super busy with the fall semester final exam corrections for some of the faculties, I enjoyed the tasks requested to be done. I wish I had more time to surf each and everyone of them.

One of the things I enjoyed this week was writing the lesson plan. I have learned a lot form the lesson plans of my colleagues and I would like to take the opportunity to advise you all to "create, relate and donate" your lesson plans with millions of teachers worldwide.
I have sent my lesson plan to Voki.com to be posted on their websites and I will be glad to see something I have created to be used by other teachers, of course if it requires modification to suite their classes, then why not.
What I understood is that after they post your lesson plan, you receive a link which you can paste it on your e-portfolio (in case you have).
So go for it and lets donate what we have created to other teachers,

Sylvia, Lebanon