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I can not describe my feelings as I am writing my last blog in this course. I can say that I am happy as I was able to continue with the course, at the same time I can say that I am sorry to loose or have less contact with such a lovely instructor and colleagues. Frankly speaking though I spent much time in working in this course, but I feel that my efforts were fruitful. I got benefit from most of the reading articles, and I was amazed by the steps of writing the projects. Yet I was delighted greatly by the technological tools studied throughout the course especially Padlet, blog and the interactive Power Point. I will try to use such tools as soon as possible. I suggest other developing technological courses with the same group to build upon what have we learned in this course.


khadeeja 

Hello Everyone

It is interesting and wonderful to prepare the final report plan. I feel as if we are newly working as teachers because of the eagerness we feel for using the new technological tools we are introduced to. the articles about learning styles/ multiple intelligence and learning strategies are really amazing as they made us to think about our students' wishes and abilities and try to make teaching an interesting process for us and our students.

Khadeeja 

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Though I feel a bit exhausted because of the activities of this week, I find the activities interesting. I say interesting because of the benefit I got in this week. I feel as if I am approaching the practical side of the course as we apply what we have learned  in the previous weeks in our classes. The Nicenet discussion I created is encouraging me and pushing me to do more and more to develop myself. Partnership and exchanging plans or projects is also entertaining. I am looking forward to learn more and more in the coming to weeks.

Thank you

Khadeeja

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My blog for this week is a reflection of the activities of the seventh week in which I can say that I learned many significant and interesting things, but I confess that the most interesting thing  I learned is Padlet tool, which I think that students will love . However most of the ideas offered via the articles are beneficial and important and the course's discussions prove that. I should admit also that working in the final project and finding a partner is a wonderful yet not an easy task and will make us busy in the coming days.Thus I find that the coming weeks will be more engaging. This is because I have a partner now and I will try to prepare the draft of the final plan.

Khadeeja 

It is exciting that we post for our sixth week’s blog. As was the case with the previous weeks, this week was very productive. We have learned many wonderful ideas about the use of technology in our classes. The most remarkable technological tool was learning elements of interactivity in using Power Point presentations. However, I like to focus on the plan of the project task and elaborate the technological techniques I suggested last week. The problem I stopped at was students’ neglect of literature and regarding it not to be substantial in their learning courses. I think that exposing movies about the literary subjects is a good technique. I say good because I had such an experience before which was very successful, and most of my movies were taken from you-tube. What I have in mind is to develop this technique and ask the students share the you-tube site along with the other video sites as Veoh, flicker, viddler, metacafe, and blib.tv.

When they share such sites they will be able to search privately and I may ask them to imitate the voice which recites a poem for instance, or analyze a character in a play they see. Consequently they can penetrate through the literary materials more and more and they will be able to see how interesting literature is. My aim is to make students familiar with literature, because I think that they dislike literature because they have not enough knowledge about it.

   Moreover I create a class blog and ask the students to post their comments there, and the best three comments will be discussed in the class.

Thanks

Khadeeja

iraq    

This is my fifth post in blog. I really confess that the activities of this week made me very busy but they were very interesting at the same time. In addition to the discussion part which made me to be involved with the others and read their ideas, the process of creating a rubric was interesting. moreover, the project task made me to think about the problems of my classes and how to solve them. Finally, I found ou that the creation of a webquest is both easy and benefiial for teachers.

Khadeeja

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This is my fourth post in blog in which I can say I performed many things and learned a lot through the activities of this week. Nicenet discussion makes me feel happy when I read the group's comments. The lesson plan achieved through technology really makes a great change, but the greatest is task 3 as it makes the teacher to be aware of the problems of his class and think about solutions through technology.

Thanks

Khadeeja
Iraq-Arbil