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Failure Failure and Failure

Talking about failure is somehow hard and easy, competitive and supportive. Once I remember sad and happy memories. I learn from both, when I succeed I learn and when I fail and succeed. Both have positive feeling in terms of curiosity and creativity. One day I prepared a lesson plan and when I tried to go and teach applying and following the steps of my lesson plan, I failed in following the same procedures. The students got confused. I felt sad and disappointed not about my performance but about the students because they don't understand my lesson. After I finished my lesson I asked myself what went wrong. Is it me who ruin the lesson and lesson plan or the students, or the way I used to present my lesson? I kept asking myself lots of questions. Curiosity, creativity and play took place. I planned my lesson again and I tried to put games and used some tools to make the lesson interesting. I integrated technology in my lesson plan so the students got the idea of the lesson and felt interested during the lesson and showed my that they are eager to learn. Thank you failure and success because I got inspired from my act from my failure.

Copy of Children Remix - Video Maker

Week Four Reflection

This week is unique because it has lots of resources and lots of information regarding teaching, curiosity, creativity and tribes. When I started week four, I was impressed by the number of resources I was introduced to. I got confused when I deal with certain websites, they need more concentration and the connection speed should be fast. I faced a problem with the Internet connection. This causes and stops me from more participation. Especially when I tried to download some vides and surfing some websites. I know you might get surprised but it’s my bad luck. The Internet went down for almost two days. I tried my best to keep up with the other participants. I missed an important event which is the twitter chat. In spite of all the difficulties I faced, I tried my best to survive. This week was special to me because I was introduced to some new websites, valuable resources and great ideas. I learned some techniques to use different applications like; Zeega, Tapestory Thinglink, Pinterest, Animoto, Perzi, Weavly, scratch, Sound Cloud, Voice Thread and Padlet. I learn a lot from the moderators and the participants by using the Google+ communication, the canvas communication and the different materials I got during the week. The Idea Cloud was a plus for me because I learn valuable information about teaching and learning. I now believe that we educators and teachers should keep applying from this fruitful week. I felt happy when I struggle using the different websites. Finally I succeeded using the different websites. Thank you moderators and thank you participants and thank you all that support education and learning. I am glad that I am a member in this course.

Salam

Salam

Trijntje Oosterhuis-That's what friends are for (unplugged)

Reflection on Tribe - Week three

I like the article of Marcel because he believes in unity and a group. He sounds that he loves the word tribe. He shows us that tribes can help a lot in terms of life. Activities among the tribe, members of the tribe help each other, come up with ideas, exchange thoughts and start the activity. Each person has an idea to be taken. When they start the activity they can guarantee the activity will be gone smoothly. Another issue that he raises is the word joy. Another point I got form the article is the idea of strengthening a good relationship. Social issues was raised and its importance among tribes. I also enjoy reading “Six Reasons Why it’s Important to find Your Tribe” by Beth Cougher Bloom. She mentions the importance of tribe and how much help do the tribes give to its people. You can go back to your tribe in good times and bad times. Your tribe can understand you and feel you. Being with people whom you love makes you healthy and powerful enough to do whatever you want.

What I like most about this article is when she ends it with “Enjoy the beauty of hopping”.

I went over the Element by Dr. Ken Robinson and I enjoy reading it. He mentioned a lot of points or titles, like the element, thinking difficulty and beyond imagining. I went thoroughly over the element and thinking differently, beyond imagining. He said that we have to create a suitable environment in our schools, in our work places and in our public offices – where every person inspired to grow creatively.

Once you find your element, you can do a lot you can do a lot you can create useful ideas, apply difficult techniques in education and manage to pursue your life happily.

Another interesting video is by Seth Godin “The Tribe We Lead”. He presents Tribes as a group of people who work in different fields, like computer field, leaders, a sheep walker, the Beatles, people in general, athletes, etc. All this community leads and makes change. Communication should be made and we have to lead a group of people. You have to lead a group of people to have an issue or a case to fight for and challenge the status quo and build a culture a secret language. Curiosity and creativity is still remains while playing.

Without tribes we wouldn’t get such fruitful resources and rich communication with the experienced participants. I offer my deep gratitude to the authors of the books I read this week and I thank the moderators.

A Wonderful Tour I had with my Students

   

One Thursday morning, my class and I went walking to Bab Al-Yemen. It is an ancient place where you can buy silver, gold, antiques, traditional clothes, and other traditional stuff. You can also see ancient buildings. We walked around the place and see the old market, had a chat in English. We described the buildings, people, the antiques and the streets. We had fun, had breakfast, which is Kebab, Yogurt, bread and tea. Then we drank grapes juice. Then after the breakfast we walked for an hour then we went to the swimming pool, we swam till the mid day. Finally this English open day ended. We felt great and thankful to each other because we had fun and practiced our English. Finally I asked my students to write a descriptive essay talking about this day and to write their suggestions on having other similar activity next time.