week 4

One of the biggest reasons why I want to share my experience in this week is the new things that I have learned so far. Each week, I feel that I am getting better and better. Each course mate is friendly, supportive, patient, and hard working. This made it incredibly easy for me to look forward to working and learning every day. To be honest, this week was the first time for me to write a technology- enhanced lesson plan and knew about Goggle drive. I shared it with my colleagues and they really liked it very much.  Reading about the three articles on the course website with learning different activities was relatively amazing and helpful. They made me to have new activities and new ideas which my students really enjoyed it. Sharing the problems that you face in your class such as student’s attitude, their laziness, lack of motivation…etc. On the other hand, reading the other course mate’s students problems made me feel more relief that I am not the one who has problems. I am very thankful for Mr. Sean who really helps me a lot to look forward.

Week 3

 I have been involved in teaching over the last six years and that has drawn my attention to the notion of practice. Put very roughly, practice is the way we go about things. Within this course there are shared practices that are negotiated with others. This week was a quite experience for me. The task about sample project report was a bit difficult.  Personally, it took from me more than five hours to read and comment on it. I have learned a lot form it and now I’m feeling more confident with the activities that I make for my students. Knowing about https://delicious.com camp up with an idea to make students sharing links to each other. For example, every week one of the students has to post one Educational link on delicious website and in the next day he has to tell us about his experience.  I think my students are really excited about it.  My reflection about this week led me to include many listening activities to my class so it was useful that I examine simultaneously the tools and the practice. In doing so, I could see that certain my course mates’ links offered by some online tools were simply not a part of my practice.  I am looking forward to seeing what am I going to learn for the fourth week.  

Finally, I would love to thank all my course mates  including Mr.Sean for all the help. 

week 2

The two weeks that I spent studying on the web skills course undoubtedly contain the most valuable moments of my time so far. I spent the majority of my time in this week learning the new skills and teaching what I have learned to my students and my colleagues at my school. I have also learned about new teaching skills and new ideas of teaching. The course mates that I discuss with them every day unquestionably the most eager teachers that I have met. It’s incredibly exciting and rewarding being able to learn about many new engines that give me an easy way to search whatever I need. Fortunately, in this week I had the chance to read about different teacher’s method which it shows you those teachers are so enthusiastic about teaching.  Not only are they great what they have written, but they are also unbelievably enjoyable to feel that they are round. One aspect that I like about this week was about the two tasks (Try some of the search engines or portals to see which ones work best for academic searches and for information for your class and ABCD objective). It gave me a lot of support to try new methods for my students.  This week, I did a workshop for my students to teach them more about how to use academic searches. I can tell they were so happy and so optimistic about their future when they knew about http://www.noodletools.com. I realized that I can do great projects for my organization with simple ideas such as the idea I learned from Jorge in his plog.  I’m really looking forward to learning more and more.  Thanks Mr. Sean

Week 1

I started thinking a lot about improving the educational system where I teach in my institute. To be honest, this is the first time to be familiar with using blog. Exploring and Studying the first week of the Web skills course makes me realize the differences in the other educational standard and what you would find in my school. Using technology in education is such a gift not just for me even not-so-well-educated in my school seems they will know how to cope with schooling even in their old age and seem to possess broad knowledge about most things. This encourages me to seek more and continue so I can also be like them in the depth of my mind.

I hope to learn more in this course to play a part in shaping a strong and thriving education not just in my school but in all schools in Yemen.  

Also, from my experiences at Institute where I currently teach, I’ve seen different ideas and cultures and I am interested in knowing more about them. From the first day in the introduction of this course, it offered me the opportunity to see the world from a different set of eyes. Besides that, I met with such amazing people like Mr. Sean and I knew other cultures which will definitely help me to extend the way of education. On the other hand, I will share with other teachers some of my ideas in a good way. I like to study in a new way and fortunately I can find it in this course because of the excellent standard of education.

When I finish this course in ten weeks, I hope to teach what I’ve learned to my colleagues and my students and I believe that I will be more an effective person in the educational environment. I think that to change the entire country, you have to change the way of education and the best way to do that is by influencing them right from their schools days.  I am looking forward to hearing from all of you soon