my website

hi .. this is my website.

The cell unit's concept map

This concept map is for a cell unit for high-school students (biology class.) This present the plan for the cell unit. I, as a teacher, can create a full lesson plan using this concept map. That because I organized what the lessons I will consider in this unit. When I show this concept map to my students, they, also, can use this concept map as a guide (before and while we take the unit) or even as a review for the unit (after we finish the unit.) this also, show the classification for the cell types. By mapping such this details, teachers will help the students memorize and remember the cell types.

week 10 Screencasting

what I would like to explain is a good free website "Pinterest" that is similar to the Instagram, but it is ,in my opinion, more helpful and organized. when you register to this website you will find many categories so you can follow your favorites such as education, make up , fashion, and so on. "Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos and images) through collections known as pinboards." here I show you how to use pinterest for educational purpose. the video deleted

A Lesson using Google Maps

I will assume that I am a microbiology teacher for high-school student in Kalamazoo.
my lesson is about the Microbial Diversity in Water.As an example, we will examine the South Haven Beach water. so, my students have to go to the beach and take a water sample from the same area and then, in school lab next day, they will discover how many kinds of microbes they will find in their samples.

I will use Google Map to help the students to do this homework. Because not all my students are familiar with the area, I put the best route they can use to go to South Haven Beach and also I determined the specific area I want them to test in this map: please zoom in until you can see the targeted area in black boundary

Lakes map

Creating a Podcast Using Audacity

 

Hi this is what I did: I have chosen two files and I Created a Podcast Using Audacity..

  the first file is a very short story , while the second is a sound by a man playing with his mouth

I did some effects.

this is the file

Riyadh

my beautiful city

cute cat

cat sweet cat

fruits

fruits is healthy food

beautiful day

Hi,, it is sunny today

history of the field- week 6

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If I assigned as one of the evaluators for the project, and my finding clearly indicate that the innovation had very little effect on the manner in which instruction was presented in the teachers’ classroom, I can describe some possible reasons for that. The first possible reason that may let the project had very little effect on the instructional practices employed by the teacher is “the teachers resistance to change.” For example, let’s think how difficulties can occur for the math teacher in this project. As we all know, mathematics is one of the most difficult course to explain. Teachers need to use colorful pens in order to explain some mathematical problems. Also, they need to write many kinds of mathematical symptoms, draw curves and so on. Those teachers will not found it easy to use the laptops instead of pens or chalk and boards to explain in class. Or even to evaluate their students work. Moreover, “the failure to provide teachers with adequate guidance as to how to integrate the new media into their instructional practices” can be a reason lets the project had very little effect on the teacher’s instructional practices. For instance, for the science teacher, using the computer is very helpful. There are a lot of pictures, videos, and another helpful features of using the computer in science education. However, if the teacher do not know how to address all these features and integrate them into his or her instructional practices, there will not be an effective role of using these computers. In addition, the last reason I would like to add here is “the cost associated with purchasing and maintaining the necessary media hardware”. For example, when the language art teacher wanted to use a microphone to record the students’ sounds, in order to improve their pronunciation, the quality was very poor. Or, even if the teacher wanted to use the headphones, for phonetics practices, the headphones were poor quality. So, the teacher cannot use these features, and using the laptops was not too helpful in this case.

In my opinion, there are two strategies that may help to solve the problems above. First, is to provide a required course in using instructional technology for the teachers. So, they can address using the computers, and integrate them into their instructional practices perfectly. The second strategy is to test all the laptops by an expert and devote a budget for the maintenance work of these laptops to solve any problems such as the poor quality.

photo sharing

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Here is my Instagram account.

I like this Spring pic ..

using delicious.com

Hi everyone

here is my delicious account.

thank you.

My Wiki Site

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Click Manal's wiki to visit my wiki site ..

also, those are my First page & my Second page

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week 4 reflection- wiki space

After I have experienced setting up and using a wiki space, the first thing comes to my mind is that wiki is a perfect technology for creating lesson plans. That because I, as a new teacher, will need some help and some editing for my lesson plans from my sisters and friends who are teachers. So, I can create my lesson plan and then share it with them to avoid mistakes as possible as I can. For example, they may tell me it will be better if you divide that lesson into two days instead of one day. Or, they may ask me to add something interesting to the lesson to keep students engaged. Moreover, I can use wiki for a whole class project. For instance, this week the project will be to write about a certain scientist. So, each group or student will post something about that scientist. Or even if many scientist developed the same topic or domain, I will let each group to pick a scientist and write what he did or what are his achievements in that domain. Also, I can use wiki with my students as a performance list. For example, I can post every week the names of the excellent students for that week, and give them a space to comment. I think that will encourage the students to do their best to be in this list. Also, I can use wiki at the end of the semester to create a review plan page, so the students will have a space to list their questions for the review. In this way, I can organize the review lesson to be able to answer all their questions and add other day for the review if needed. In addition, the principle of the school or any other group’s leader can use wiki to organize their meeting. For instance, if the principle of the school want to do a convention, he can use wiki to give a chance to the teachers to list what points they want to discuss. All those are some ideas to use wiki for educational purposes.

Not only in my career life wiki will help me, but also in my normal life as well. I think wiki will be a great and helpful technology to organize my events. For example, if I and my family plan to do a surprise for my brother, who will graduate soon, wiki will be the best tool to help us organize this party. We can share our ideas about the place we will celebrate in, the best time for all of us, and the other things we will need for the celebration. Finally, the ideas above were some of my thoughts about wikis, and there are multiple uses for wiki to our different needs.

My reflection on week 3

I was thinking few years ago that someday I have to create a blog. That because I know this technology, and I was following some blogs. However, because I decided to read carefully and learn about the blog before I create it, I feel lazy each time I think about it. So, I am happy that I did it for this class, and I surprised that creating a blog is so easier than I thought. On the other hand, RSS was something I have never hear about it. I surprised when I learned how it can bring the newest from my favorite websites. I liked the idea of RSS reader, and I liked how it can save my time. I feel sad that I did not know about it before. I am very excited to learn more and more valuable technologies.

If I would like to put the blog and the RSS reader in the Dale’s Cone, I think they can be under two parts depending on what we post on them. First they can be in the “verbal symbols” part because we use them to write and read. Also, we may post videos or a pictures, so, they can be under the visual symbols.

Considering Siegel’s concept of “computer imagination”, I think the blog and the RSS can be used in different imaginative ways. For example, as a teacher, I can post in my blog more creative and interesting information related to the topic I have taught that day. So, I can keep the students engaged to the lesson. I, also, can put some suggested links that they can put in their RSS reader to keep the students updated with their interest. Also, by using the educational blog, I can give the students a space to post their questions about the lesson any time they want. I am sure that the creative teachers can do more valuable and amazing ideas using the blog and RSS reader.

My reflections on Postman's Of Luddites, Learning, and Life & Beyond Technology Integration by Reigeluth and Joseph

firs of all, I would like to say " thank you" to my classmate Luis Medina because I copied her long title from her reflection in the e-learning.

Here is my own reflection:

I was interested reading the two articles that are about technology and education. For Joseph’s article, he discussed whether technology will support the teaching methods to improve the learning process. He also was asking what they will need to success for the ‘technology transformation”. I found myself agree with his points. I like when he said “to meet these new educational needs, our educational system must switch its focus from sorting to learning…”  I also was remembering some experiences or situation that support and incarnate some of his points. “For example, when he mentioned how technology “can be used to create methods that were previously not feasible”, the first thing comes into my mind was: how the internet improves the education. People in the past were not able to be updated with the new global changes and additions in the different learning fields. They were traveling over the seas to learn and research, but today, they can research and participate in classes while they are sitting in their houses. He also emphasizes the roles that people paly beside the technology in the education and how teachers can help in the technology transformation. This point reminds me many years ago when my big sister’s school provided by a computer lab, the problem was, at that time, that not all the teachers were familiar with using the computer. So, for the first months there were no big benefit from that lab, but after the teachers had training courses in using computer, the benefit realized.

When I start reading the second article by Neil postman, I was about to be sure that the author is an old man. I did a quick research about the author and I found that I am right and he wrote that article when he was around 62 years old. To tell the truth, in the beginning I felt that this man do not like the changes that technology did in the life. He was caring about the economy and the bad things that he thinks the technology cause. However, in the very last paragraph I felt that his words implied something else that I did not understand. In short, I don’t think that technology is really bad and that is normal that people cannot read everything written.

Welcome Everyone ^_^

Hello,,
This is my first blog ever..
I am happy that I did it,, I hope you will interest my little blog..
Manal