Hello everyone,
I am glad to have you in my class. I am looking forward to reading your writing in your blogs. I am positive that this course will be a great advantage for all. We will learn from each other. Keep up with the good work.

Hello Everybody

I am glad to have you in my class this term for Business English Pr-Intermediate. I believe we will learn from each other this term and we will keep communicating using different ways of communication. I am positive that we can do different activities so that we can improve our skills in Business English. Thank you for your time. Wish you all the best.

The Final Post in this Course ( Week 10 )

Hello Sheire, Jodi and everyone,

I am proud to talk about the course and its benefits. I am positive that everybody learns a lot. I learn a lot starting from the ground rules till the survey. I got what I miss during my teaching experience! I get a lot of feedback, communication with my classmates, communication with my instructors, searching different engines, searching different websites, using my critical thinking skills, exchanging ideas with my classmates, getting to know different experts, reading a lot of materials regarding teaching techniques, applying what I learn, experiencing different techniques, and learning from my classmates in the course. To tell you the truth this course is rich, effective, supportive and creative. I try my best to get everything from the course. I believe that the materials introduced in this course are huge and much more time should be given to grasp the materials given. I suggest that this course will last for 15 weeks to give the participants and the instructors time to deal the materials and assignments given.

The tools are superior I like all of them very much. I used most of them in my class. I used blogs, nicenet, surveys, interactive ppt, interactive exercises, and websites. My students like the idea of communication even though their time is limited especially out of the class.

I am planning to spend sometimes going over the materials and websites I got from the course. I will do my best planning a workshop for the teachers in my institution to introduce to them this course and concentrate on some tools. I will encourage some teachers to apply for this course.

I would like to thank Jodi, Sherie, Jeff, participants and everyone who support me in this course.

Wish you all the best!

Thank you!

A Message To All ( Week 10 )

What I like about you is you!! What I like about you is your way of enlightening and strengthening the different tools in the course, especially the nicenet discussion. Your way of presenting and replying to each others' posts makes me realize the importance of your presence in this course. You have this hidden power in your souls that force people to bow when they see you passing by like a white cloud in the sky flying here and there. I am astonished by the amount of knowledge that you have. Your power of critical thinking style is amazingly pictured by your highly respected approach of communicating with each other. I do feel sorry that this course is about to finish and I didn't use every minute to participate. I feel after this course I will lose the opportunity of learning and getting new ideas, values and insights regarding my career and my daily life. I learn a lot from everybody in this course. I learn care, knowledge, critical thinking, organization, power, modesty, perseverance and cooperation. I have this feeling that your great and valuable contribution to the course. This course is unique and outstanding. I wish that this course would last longer. 

Now it is time to talk about the main source of this program the respectable, rich, knowledgeable, bright, super, and marvelous instructors. Their great help makes us all become one team and work to support each other. One major role in making this course superior is the wonderful instructors, Jodi, Sherie, Sean, and Jeff.

I won't forget the University of Oregon and its staff. I would love to delicate these words to all of you and I hope you will enjoy reading them. This is a simple try expressing how I feel:

Interactive, super and applicable

Superior, fruitful, and understandable

Great, marvelous and reliable

Magnificent, perseverance, and lovable

Perfect, competitive, and adorable

Curious, charming, and agreeable

Encouraging, energetic, and flexible

Awesome, great, and incredible

Thankful, innocent and sensible

Grateful, helpful, and predictable

Stunning, trustworthy, and sociable

Courageous, generous and hospitable

Attractive, bashful, and visible

Cautious, delighted and workable

During this course I experience pleasant characters and personalities. I know different abilities; brilliant minds super, powerful people. This helps me understand the different techniques you use in all your work and writing. I believe that every single participant will end up with a noble work. No one will forget the different activities we did during the course. If I had the chance, I would write a sonnet about the course and its participants. Allow me dear instructors and participants to tell you that words can’t really convey my deepest feeling towards you all. I am sorry that I keep you reading my vanishing words. Saying goodbye is something sad and painful to all. Saying see you again or communicating with you again are other hopeful and may be painful words. This is life and no one can control it, none can change its direction or its plan. When there is an end to a movie, there is an end to our course. I think that we can keep in touch by using our blogs, nicenet, ANVILL or emails. It's a good idea that we keep in touch talking about some technical problems regarding teaching and other classroom interactions. This will be a great opportunity to keep in touch and have a follow up for the course. I know people are busy with their own business. I am sure that if people plan themselves they can do it. They can spend some time communicating with each other. 

Thank you Sherie, Thank you Jodi, Thank you Sean and Thank you Jeff , Thank you participants and thank you to all who help making this course a success. 

Yours

Abdulsalam Al-Mukardi

Yemen

Date: 4/3/2012

Week 9: The End of The Pleasant Journey!

Hello Jodi & Sheire and everyone,

I am writing these words and I am mesmerized, paralyzed and breathless because this course is going to end. I love the moment I communicate with everyone in this course. I love the moment I understand and learn from everyone. This week is the 9^th and I collect a lot of information and learn the power of thinking and discussion. Allow me dear to start speaking about this golden, super, bright and outstanding course. We started with getting to know each other and then introduced to the ground rules for the discussion. Which are the basic and main strategies that we all follow during the course. I learnt to create my own blog and I tried my best to learn more about the blog and its features. I got the idea of writing something and commenting on my classmates work. I am obliged to be introduced to the ABCD learning objectives. I read more about the ABCD from different materials. I used these techniques when I did my lesson plan and I  used it a lot during this course. I had a pleasant tour and discover the most effective web search. I add to my bookmark a lot of websites and I feel great that I have these rich websites. Then I worked on Oral/aural skill-building websites and bookmarks with Delicious. I read different materials about Oral and aural. The bookmarks I got familiar with are a great help for me and my students. I moved to reading and writing websites which gave me huge benefit about the techniques of reading and writing. I spent some times searching some websites and read, analyze, and summarize some ideas about reading and writing. Then I learn more about lesson plans using technology and tools that help in teaching. Then I move to Webquests, Rubrics and PBL. I struggle in making my own Webquest but finally I ended up with my successful webquest. I read a lot of materials about PBL which needs much time concentrating on the materials given because there was a huge benefit. I learn about large classes and interactive powerpoint. These two points are very interesting to me and I learn a lot in term of application. A big number of websites give a lot of information about the large classes and the interactive powerpoint. Then I was introduced to Learner autonomy and the one-computer classroom and which another excellent subject. I spent a wonderful time discussing, forming, and preparing the project. I experience the best practices in the webinar I learn about its features. I tried my best to apply what I learnt in my classes at the institutes and I will do my best to use the materials, websites and ideas soon. I will try my best to go through the materials again and learn more and discover other beneficial ideas.   I am very happy that I communicate with the course participants during the course. I felt great when I share the discussion through the nicenet. I add a lot to my experience and my filed of teaching. I apply till now most of the technological tools that I learn from this course.  I am proud that I attend this course and I met the great instructors, the bright guests and the wonderful participants.  

Thank you very much indeed for your time.

Salam

Week 8 My Dream Comes True

Dear Shiere, Jodi, Jeff and friends,

I have the privilege to write about week 8! To tell you the truth I suffer and face difficulties in finding the information I want and I face a problem in opening some websites in ANVILL! I am lucky that I experience different tools this week. It is very busy week because of the different tasks that the instructors assign. I do admit that this week is one of the strongest, hardest, and most beneficial weeks I've ever had during the term. I am this kind of person who feels disappointed when I don't get what I want. I am astonished by the amount of reading and searching that we have to do. I sometimes spend hours thinking and arranging my thoughts and trying to understand the various tasks assigned. I honestly believe that lots of hard work makes people learn indirectly and become more than qualified in their field. What makes me happy this course is the amount of materials I received and I read. I don't want really to lose a minute this course but it is out of hand. I want to promote for his course everywhere. I hope that this course will be taught to all instructors in the world. The joy comes through learning a new idea or a new method  and I adore learning, my teachers, and those who spend their time and effort helping me and clarifying every single matter. In week 8 I am impressed, thrilled, terrified and petrified by the amount of materials I got.

I won't forget to welcome and thank Mr Jeff who helps and introduce ANVILL and other valuable tools to us. I would like to offer my warm regards to his great contribution in this week. I really like all the materials he introduced to us. Another wonderful idea is the webinar that was held on Friday! I spend a great time listening to Jeff, Sherie, Jodi and my classmates. It was awesome. 

In this week lots of activities are done by all the participants. I read lots of materials and design some lessons, surveys, a lesson plan,  we communicate through the nicenet and we shared comments and thoughts. We enjoyed the nicenet discussion and the partner activities. I realized a positive attitude towards the project peer work. I thank my partners, Vijay  and Ludmila for their support during this week. I thank Sherie and Jodi. 

Thank you very much for you all and I hope that you will do well in your final projects.

Suprise!!!

Hello everybody,

This week I have this wonderful and super bookmark. It is called "Pearltrees". You can do a lot with this bookmark.

-You can share files and websites.
- You can get thousands of websites easily.
- You can have friends.
- You can share other interests.
- You can manage your pearl easily
- You can search for any title you want.

Finally thanks Russell Stranard for this wonderful bookmark. I am really glad that I am using this bookmark. You need only to have an account and it's for free. You can have your own pearltrees.
Just visit www.pearltrees.com

Thank you

Week Seven

Dear instructors, Sean and participants,

I would like to welcome and thank Sean for his contribution to this week. In this week I would like to talk about the learning and teaching processes. I really feel worried and anxious about coping with such processes. What makes me worried is the way that we should manage these processes. I do concentrate on the learning process much more than the teaching process. We need to pay much attention on the learning process because it is our main goal. Our goal is to improve and enhance the skills in our students. This is why the teachers keep searching and finding the suitable technique to use while teaching. In this week all the participants and myself try our best to come up with a well organized lesson plans and we did other activities regarding planning. I learn a lot this week from my dear instructors and my friends. I won't forget the" Learner Autonomy" which is a great subject that we read about. I read several articles about this subject and I found them interesting and useful to me. They help me a lot to realize the importance of the learning process. In this week we are trying to prepare for the final project and we chose partners so that we can work together. This is an excellent idea that comes from the instructors. Pair work is a means of collaborative learning and it gives the chance for all to learn from each other. This is a brilliant technique to use in order to encourage the participants to share their thoughts and ideas. I thank the instructors, Sean and the participants for making this week great.

Outstanding Websites For All ( Week Six )

Hello everyone,

While I was surfing the net, I came across the following websites. I hope you will enjoy them.

Useful Websites

Note: for more interesting websites you can go to ICTmagic.com

No	Websites name	Function
1	www.wikispaces.com	A superb wiki/web hosting site with lets you create web pages for your class.
2	www.wix.com	This is my website builder of choice. This easy to use, drag and drop tool allows you to build beautiful flash websites.
3	www.justpaste.it	A really simple way to post text and pictures online, Great for setting homework.
4	www.issuu.com	A great online publishing site. Upload pdf files and read them online like a professional magazine.
5	www.simplebooklet.com	An impressive online booklet maker which is really easy to use, yet has so many options& can be embedded in to websites.
6	www.wallwisher.com	Leave online messages for colleagues and students with WallWisher.
7	www.empressr.com	Empressr is online PowerPoint-link presenter with great visual effects.
8	www.prezentit.com	Present It is a great online presentation creator and publisher, similar to Power Point
9	www.ahead.com	Don't have boring PowerPoints. Ahead is a powerful and impressive zooming presentation creator, similar to Prezi.
10	www.yudu.com	Yudu is a good site to find interesting educational publications and to upload your own.
11	www.jux.com	Jux is a beautiful site that allows users to make great looking websites and blogs quickly and easily by click and dragging media and text where you want it.
12	www.slidesix.com	Sleek looking presentation maker. Embed photos, videos and documents. Students/colleagues can view by a link or embed on your site.
13	www.myplick.com	Upload PowerPoint, PDF, MS Office or image files to myplick to publish them online as slideshows. Add audio to your presentation.
14	www.present.me.com	A superb presentation site. See a split screen of the presentation and the speaker. Basic account is free.
15	www.notaland.com	Make a collaborative whiteboard and add images, photos, video, audio, and documents. Great for project work.

Thank you

Salam

Week Six Tough and Sweet

Hello everybody,

This is is great and tiring. Although we don't have many materials to read, we have some tiring tasks. I read about Power Point Presentation. This tool offers a lot to teachers and students regarding teaching and learning. I went through different techniques about the use of the tool. PPT is an excellent too that a teacher uses to develop a certain skill in a student. I want to emphasize on the idea of learning or I could say self learning by the students. Personally I spent much time surfing and trying to locate some ideas and have some other facts and information about large classes, small classes and PPT. I spent some time talking to my coworkers, asking some questions about the use of PPT in the classroom. Once we have the discussion started we try to manage a short discussion one the issue raised in week six. The biggest and the most useful talk is the Nicenet. This tool helps a lot in enhancing my knowledge on the use of ppt and some ideas about large classes and small classes. I am positive that teaching and learning are tow words to be one. I appreciate all the participants effort and bright ideas presented on the Nicenet every week. I would like to add something about the use of ppt. Teachers can use the ppt to teach the following:

- Grammar points

- Phonetics

- Listening through songs

- Listening through programs or movies

- Vocabulary through newspapers

- Writing through pictures

- Speaking through pictures

There are other uses I might not mention because ppt is a tool with different uses. Teachers can come up with several ideas regarding ppt usages. 

Thank you very much for everybody participating in the course and making it goes smooth and beneficial to all.

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