Hello everybody, I missed you so much Dr Joy and all my colleagues as well. I feel that long time passed without meeting you. Sending you a blog is the best means to express worry  about the agitated atmosphere  in Egypt these days and I would like you to tell me about your thoughts and opinions of the new constitution. Thanks to Dr Joyanne , Now we are able to exchange  different opinions, information and  thoughts about every thing,not only the educational matters through our blogs. We also shared watching videos from which we benefited a lot and had a good idea about each others exciting passions and different interests. At first when  Dr Joyanne directed us to set our own blogs and then use them to send our comments on each session, I faced many obstacles  in writing because I didn't know how to get the dashboard page and how to download a video on my blog, all these things and others were new. Also I was confused about the real importance of using these blogs in this diploma, but now  I overcame this and  realized its valuable impacts on learning and connecting people. We can  learn from each others experiences and acquire more information and knowledge about different cultural backgrounds.We  can affect people and be affected by them. These blogs create some kind of integration, collaboration and exchanging different thoughts among people even if they don't know each other. 

Dear all my colleagues ,it was of a great pleasure to see ourselves struggling to achieve our final goals in this race of using technology in teaching. It was beneficial to see different ways of presentation that is totally different from ours  even if we don't appeal some of them, we should appreciate that these ways as they  have their implication and educational effects on their students. We spent about three months listening, trying new tools, doing mistakes and asking each  other, sending emails and expressing opinions ,sharing information and ideas through blogs. All this was under the wise supervision of Dr Joy. She followed a very good method of guiding her students to work together in an integrated and indirect way  without giving direct instructions,  in a very delicate and smooth way.She is considerable,gracious and thoughtful when she excused any of us who has a difficult circumstance. She was generous to hear all of us doing our presentation without interrupting our performance although we  exceeded the limited time. We should thank her for all her efforts and wish her a wonderful life

Dear all my colleagues, I think we all spent much time thinking and asking ourselves about the best means to be well-qualified teachers and how to accomplish our targets in education, what is education? what is our real role in graduating independent, informed, and connected students? how can we get variety of information and what are the reliable sources for that? I think this video has answered all our questions and paved us the way for using  technology in education. It gives us basic meaning of education and the difference between entertainment and engagement in education. I hope you will benefit from it.
 

              

 This my colleague Osama is talking about the challenges of using technology in our schools. think that Osama was right when he says that some teachers don't have the desire to use technology in teaching but I think this is because they didn't see effective outcomes of using technology in teaching, may be because they aren't efficient enough for using technology and due to the lack of training that the ministry of education and other organizations introduce for the teachers in public or governmental schools, or it maybe because the schools aren't well equipped with enough computers or the internet connections or provided  with data shows screens, because these schools are in poor districts and don't have the same privileges as experimental or private schools. Although these are major factors in reducing the use of technology in classrooms we have other alternatives like mobile phones, our own laptops and i pads through  which we can achieve our targets.

Last week we discussed a vital and important element in the teaching process which is the management of the classroom. This  reminds me with what we studied in methodology. It includes different aspects like ;warming the students up for the new lesson, timing of the tasks, distributing tasks among students, collaboration between students and their colleagues concerning certain activities and defining a good assessment for the students understanding and a good  evaluation for both the student and the teacher work. And this will  take place through a good monitoring of the students behavior. In this respect I can say that monitoring  students depends greatly on the way teachers follow to involve SS and attract their attention to what he or she introduces. Here comes the old sayings that the teacher is an actor who plays different roles on the stage every day and also comes the effective role of using technology to attract students attention to the lesson and to the teacher. It also ingrates them in the work in the way that accelerates the learning acquisition and introduces a good outcome of well-educated citizens.

My passion is cooking. I'm really fascinated by new recipes and new tastes.but I think there is another passion on its way  to my heart. It began to steal my time and never let me  think of my former passion, it is technology. I tried several times to get this video successful  without being bored,  then finally, it became true and  I found myself talking on a video on the internet. I think it is a  very good way to make students express their opinions and thoughts without feeling shy because their friends or relatives are who video them . these cams can be used by students to video each others wok or they  can  be used as  a  tool for  keeping order in shambles classes  as Ominya mentioned.  Also video cams can be used by teachers and administrators  who want to address their students on a certain theme.

This session was great.  It reminded us with our early years of learning. Although I love Arabic language and Arabic poetry, I found it wasn't easy to teach it. But there was a great difference between the two ways of teaching . In the past we learnt Arabic by repeating , elicitation, dictating  words but now We use  modern technology to teach Arabic Alphabet and words. We tried with much effort to design the best outline for  teaching . We were integrated in the work to the extent that we forget we are English teachers not Arabic. We collaborated to find the easiest and effective way to teach   However, what made laughed and feel ashamed at the same time that we find it perplexing to teach our own native language.  

Last session before Eid was a practical and fruitful lesson. I learnt how to write an academic reference sheet following APA reference and that wast  what I needed from the beginning because it is the basis for academic writing . I think we should have learnt  this kind of writing during our university studies. Instructors should have taught us these kinds to be qualified for post graduate studies. It would have been something useful to learn before teaching our students something we have no idea about. I think that Dr Joy helped us a lot with this practice because the usage become clear now than before.

I'm really fascinated by  this session presentation. I liked these ways of integrating  technology in teaching and eager to know more but i ask myself and you as well.''Are we all keen on using technology in our classrooms without withdrawing to our old methods or longing to follow the monotony steps of teaching. I think if we actually followed these ways in presenting our lessons  enhanced by using different tools of technology , the outcome would be something valuable and precious. Also I should appreciate Dr.Joy guidance and helping for us

Using Technology in the Classroom: Glogster is Better Than a Poster

Dear all, I think after some sessions it becomes clear now that technology can play an important role in increasing communication and interaction among people. It provides us with the needed means to share others opinions and thoughts. Also we can exchange our ideas , knowledge and information through different technological tools. Today I'm introducing this video as a new tool to produce your own work through this glogster which is better than any poster.I hope to enjoy seeing this film

Can you imagine to live in a such wonderful world? Technology promises you and your family with a new cozy life. It will facilitate doing everything from the moment you wake up until you go to  at night. you won't exert much  effort in doing the usual daily jobs because there are great thinkers who spent much time to think how your life would be more comfortable and easier in the future. Life would be different if you open your eyes to find technology helps you on doing everything at home and at your work and even guides on your road. You would feel that you aren't living on earth ,of course you will be living in paradise.  I'd like you to  watch new day in 2020 technology and imagine how your life would be different on this day. 

Dear all, no words can describe my feelings. I really feel excited with my new learning phase.Every session adds to my knowledge, activate and refresh my mind by academic reading and writing.  I hope that our curriculum would apply all these tools  in our teaching and  classify them in units so that all teachers would apply them without withdrawing to older methods .‏

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             A  reflection on the first session of our diploma


 Hello every body  I'm so pleased to tell you that I finally made my blog page.  It was a great chance for me to join this diploma and meet this wonderful group. I think it was a successful and fruitful session although I think it was better if we make this session as an orientation only instead of being responsible for a lot of assignment  half an hour before ending the session. Generally I admire our new instructor Dr Joyanne , she is  helpful,and did all her best to clarify every thing wanted from us.   She is a civilized  and well understanding person, tolerant to accept any comment from her students.