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

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