Great things to be tried

Some technology tools I have tried and they were very effective , I want to share them with you all
Hoping it would be useful for you and help you investing more in your teaching skills.

First

Links for sites that can help you in collecting some materials & data 

• Khan academy 
• Educreations
• Funbrain

• Animoto 

They are all useful and some of them also engages fun & activities for your students.

Second

For preparing your lessons in the most creative effective way you can use 

• Prezi
• Wordle
• Glogster
• Planboard

Third

To keep in touch with your students and reach them more after school time , passing your experiences and lesson plans too , let them join you on

• open study
• crockit
• Edmodo

Hope you like them , and enjoy your experience using them  

Social Media in Education - Teaching Digital Natives

Think different Teach different !!

Social Media in Education - Teaching Digital Natives

Think different Teach different !!

The effect of the last class

Our last class was my favorite. YES! it was , among the past ones.
I guess I learned some new things on both the professional and personal aspects


It was my very first time enjoying my mistakes. When I didn't do my first assignment the way I want to do it, I learned to try new way while I'm doing article reflections.So next time I will be using Bassant's way of taking notes " the two colors writing", so that I want take much time reading then reading again to take notes then reading again to take reflections. That won't be learned , if I didn't do this mistake !

I really liked the activity we played in order to remember the order while writing the bibliography. I enjoyed it very much & also I learned through it. Being a person who learn the most by trying himself , play and do active actions. It was the best time I have received knowledge about something.
I will tell you what it was for me:
1) I enjoyed my time
2) it motivated me to go read more articles and try to practice writing the references
3) it taught me a new way to teach my student by. It wasn't something difficult it was very easy yet to the point

I also learned that , showing students' work to their peers really does a lot. For them , they would be proud of themselves, they will feel appreciated about their work and also motivated to do more. Also for their peers to learn from their work, get motivated to excel and compete .

Seriously I have enjoyed the last class to infinity and beyond

Classical Vs. Modern

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Oh! first , I would like to invite you all to my Facebook album called "What Captures Me " it is full of reflections on what I'm passionate for , what I like , what I believe in , what I want to do ...etc.
You would like it.

Second , I would like to let you join me thinking about when we were young , the old model of our teachers , how much effective their work was. I remember when I was young , my teacher used to lead us by example.
She never told us do this or don't do that , she was the model to follow. Back then there wasn't any mean of technology inside classrooms , yet she used to make a verity of ways. Story telling was my favorite among all.All her stories held amazing values and meanings.
I guess she inspired me to become a teacher like her.

I believe that nowadays teachers focus on being good teacher who deliver the information in a direct way to be understood not on being a role model who touches students' lives and changes it to a better version.
So I guess technology would help teachers to communicate with students outside their classes so that would be easier for students to see the human part of their teacher so that they could be affected on a personal level.

As for me, I consider Blog is like "story telling" that my teacher used to use to pass her values , believes, morals ..etc.