EDUC560

• This course, Integrating Technology into Education, is an easy but creative and very beneficial course. If you pay full attention with Mrs. Amal and follow her instructions with your own inventive touches, you will end up with great fascinating results. I really wanted to learn more about these new technologies and i was eager to apply what's possible in my class because they are effective and I believe that this technology can play a very significant role in promoting the learning process and motivating the learner to love learning and perform better.

• This course was introduced to us in an amazing original way. The instructor designed a whole website for it as we refer to it whenever we want to do a certain project. It is actually full with nice ideas and guiding steps to follow; you would never be lost with this website!   

• We started with some ice-breaking activities that we can implement in our classes at the very beginning of the year so students get to know each other.

• Then, the instructor applied the "pollev" application as she taught us how to use it in our classes. It is a beneficial way to save time when receiving answers from students and checking for understanding for the entire class at the same time.

•  Next, we applied the "form" application as we learned how to do surveys and quizzes and receive responses. We even tried to make charts as a summary of the results. 

• After that, we started working on our blogs. This includes sharing my own thoughts, ideas, writings and pictures with others. It could be used as an inspiring source which is exactly what I'm aiming at. It also involves personal information and information related to my profession. Working on the blog wasn't that simple; it required lots of individual work and practice. 

• Along with the blog, we were assigned to work on a "web-quest". This program is about designing a variety of activities about a certain topic chosen by the teacher. I chose "The Fantasy World" as a topic for mine. This was done with my partner as we met outside class and worked on it. 

• A poster was followed by the web-quest which I am still working on now. I chose "Love is Science" as my topic. This was a research I did in the Communication Skills course and it was really interesting :)