Reflective learning Journal # 9 : Amazing session

Last Tuesday I took a totally different session. It was my first time to use the skype. I was very anger to use it as I never had a chance before. I had account but I never travel abroad also there is no one from my family members or my friends travel abroad. I spend an hour to organize my place and the laptop and I discovered that there was no need for all this worry.  

After the session I discovered two things.

The 1^st on that during this course we used..

1)Bolgger            2)Turnitin             3)Blackboard               4)AUC Library

5)Skybe               6)Dropbox

And all these programs or sites are new to me. Also we used

1) youtube                   2) word doc.                3) Power point             4)google search                   5) mail     …… and may be more

All these programs in 10 sessions only!!! That is with average a program or site each session. I didn't think ever that I will learn all these in one course. The point is I am ready to learn and use more. Really I enjoyed them all.

The 2^nd thing is how cleaver is our instructor. Her plan “B” for the session wasn't less organized or less useful to us. She achieved all her goals for this session by away or another. Some times when we loss a lesson with our student, we become proud of ourselves if we find a way to overcome half its goals. Really this was amazing and very useful to be a sample to our future lesson plans.

Reflective learning Journal # 8 : CBL Presentations

Last Tuesday I went to my session very happy, just because I finished all my tasks by this day. I thought that I have a poor presentation related to the incredible ideas I heard from my colleagues. Put I knew that it is not related to the idea; it is related to the work in the project.

As my friends said in the course, we have a lot of ideas for different projects that we can use for a good period of time. Also we have different ideas for facing different challenges we can face while we do our projects. Dr.’s idea of distributing some tasks among different students, time manager and technician, I didn't face in other courses. It was a very very very useful day.

Notes:

·        I thought I have to restrict with the power point presentations

·        Sorry Assad I didn't attend your presentation.

 

Reflective learning Journal # 7 : Cheer up

Last Tuesday I went to my session 4:35. J This was my 1^st cheer up as I lost half of the last two sessions.

When I was upset in one of our sessions, Dr. Joy asked me a set of questions I have to ask myself. “What are you gaining by being in this course? What are your two children gaining? What are your students gaining? What are your colleagues in class gaining? What are you work colleagues gaining? What is your school gaining? What is the Egyptian education system gaining? What is the world gaining?” I tried to find out the answer for these questions for a long time but I failed till last session and that is 2nd resign for my cheer up J

Last session for more than one hour we were discuses how we can serve our community. Then while I was returning back to home I heard in the radio a whole program about the resigns for most of the problems that we have in Egypt like traffic jam , steeling , harassment …..etc. They relate all the problems that happen to the lake of ethics especially for youth.

Most of us thoughts of how to serve the community is to give out money, food, closes , pay for something to buy or to make …..etc. All are money takes. That led the poor people to feel with this gap. As will we insure it to ourselves. There is a different between the poor and even the middle class. We never see a guy insult or bather any one of his neighbors or from his carrier. We never hear about harassment in poor areas or from middle class youth. That because they know that is wrong and they can’t accept for their family or class. Put they hate the other class and that appear in their way of dealing.

Yes, I can’t accept my son go there especially when he is 8 or 10 years old. Put I can take the other guy to spend a day in different community.

On Friday there was a robot event in Mall of Arabia. It was for free. I thought if I took the son of the door man with me alone for a place he will never thing to go to what will happen? What will happen when he starts to try to make his own robot and see other education he never hears about? Then I developed the idea. What will happen if each building was responsible for their door man family? If they went to a similar event they took them. In the Eid they collect from each other and one of the resident and his wife take the doorman family to buy the eid clothes (not just give them money or even new clothes). When other family goes outside in a park they took them there and left they do whatever they want. They can collect the money to let the doorman children go to an experimental school in state of the public school. I think that will make them feel as if we are the same. We have to let them live the life we live not once but as much as we can. And when I send my son to them they will deal with him in a way I will never be afraid of.

I know that our government is responsible for this gap but we can do a lot.