Week 10: A SONG Addressed to YOU

Dear Jodi, Sherie and all friends, 


Listen and enjoy! 

Best wishes, 
Nihmat from Lebanon

Week 10: An EXTRA Task

Hello Jodi, Sherie and all friends, 


Read the following quote and reflect on it! This is an EXTRA task for you! 


Come on; don't worry since it isn't mandatory at all!

Best regards, 
Nihmat

Week 10: Reflections: Smiles Mingle with Tears

Dear Jodi, Sherie and all dear friends, 


I could barely imagine that it's time to bid everybody farewell. After a thrilling and challenging journey that lasted for ten weeks, I become speechless! I am torn between expressing the joy of this wonderful experience that is considered a golden opportunity in my career and social life and the sorrowful feeling I carry deep inside for having to say goodbye to the whole people I am proud to interact with. My cheerfulness is very obvious due to the fact that we have already finished our challenging tasks and learned a lot during this course. However, it's sad because you have to end this course and give this experience a halt! 


Since I become speechless during these moments, I'll post this Farewell poem along with some images and hope they are more effective than the words I desire to jot down! 

Goodbye, Farewell

Farewell is beautiful
A glimpse into the future
Farewell is wonderful
It sets for Adventure

Goodbye is sad
A dive into the past
Goodbye is hard
It memories cast 

For old faces must go
Yet new places to go

A chapter opened
And a chapter closed

O Farewell O farewell
How nice if I could tomorrow tell

O Goodbye O goodbye
In thou sweet memories lie

And today
Yes verily day
With feelings set at bay
These very words I say

Farewell and goodbye
Goodbye and farewell

I say with pleasure and pain
Yes with tears
With grief and joy
Tears of grief and joy 

Kolabomi Adeko

   

SMILE SMILE SMILE; IT IS LIFE! 

Best Regards, 
Nihmat

Week 9: WHAT I LEARNED

Dear Jodi, Sherie, and all friends,

As Week 9 is coming to a closure, I reminisce the great deal of information that was enhanced throughout the week. To start with, I come upon more information concerning learning styles and have got to believe in the importance of this issue. Teachers have to be fully aware of the different learning styles of their students in order to accomplish a variety of teaching instructions that would cater to these styles, thus creating a convenient medium for learning. According to Howard, for instance, learners are classified into 8 categories according to their intelligences or learning styles, which are the following:

      1)  Verbal/Linguistic

2)      Logical/Mathematical

3)      Visual/Spatial

4)      Bodily/Kinesthetic

5)      Musical/Rhythmic

6)      Intrapersonal

7)      Interpersonal

8)      Naturalist

Learners of each category use technology in a different way according to their styles. Thanks to Hassan and Vijay, who designed tables including the whole ideas on how learners in each category may best use technology to learn in a more effective way and posted them on the wiki to be downloaded by us. Moreover, one of the important things about this week assignments was getting to know more about major educators like Howard and Fedler through watching some of their interviews and learning from their experiences. This link http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-howard-gardner-video allowed me to meet Howard talking on multiple intelligences. Besides, working on the styles makes the teachers’ jobs more challenging as they have to quiz the students, make sure of their dominant learning style, and modify the lesson plan to fit the styles of people through different ways.

Week 9, just like all the other weeks, was “crammed” with knowledge and experiences that are worth of recognition. 

I'll miss this course company a lot. 

Regards, 

Nihmat

Week 9: Greetings on Teacher's Day

     Dear Jodi, Sherie and all friends, 


     In Lebanon, we celebrate Teacher's Day on the 9th of March, so I'm sending this video wishing all of you 
                                       A HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY 
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                                                               from the bottom of my heart!


             Just watch and enjoy: 

         
              
   P.S.:Those few weeks were the most precious in my life. 


   Wishing all of you the best of luck.


   Nihmat from Lebanon

My Insights on Week 8

   Hi Jodi, Sherie and all friends, 


            At the beginning of the week, I felt very eager when I thoroughly read about the tasks! ANVILL, teaching with online tools articles, creating an online or offline task, and the project draft, all captured my attention and filled me with thrill to explore them.

Out of the blue, my inspiration and enthusiasm fade
leading me nowhere! The due date of the project draft was about to take place, without any further progress!
Unfortunately, I was STUCK! 


At that moment, I couldn't help expressing my misery on the wiki, where I received much of the support from Jodi and other friends, the fact that filled me with persistence and with an overnight, I was able to submit the draft just in the nick of time. 

  

That was the most torturing experience I've ever had during this course and that I like to share with you. 
Nihmat   

Week 7: A Final Comment

Hello Jodi, Sherie and all friends,
Since we were discussing the one-computer classroom, I decided closing this week with some photos of my class during a PowerPoint presentation on the organization of an argumentative essay. The PPT was interactive as I added a Blank Slide for reflections on the title and thesis statement, QuickWrite Quiz on the topic sentences of the body paragraphs on an essay and a Group Task. I like to create interaction in this course as well by getting to know more about each other's strategies of teaching. 
Finally, I have to wish all the class members good luck on their projects.
Have a very nice week.
Regards,
Nihmat