How would I use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?”

Using technology can be powerful , useful , and effective tool to the learners and the teachers. To ensure the students will not get bored we have to change the strategy of learning process by the time and keep up with the development. These technologies can also be beneficial tool for communicating among the students   

Websites such as Blogs, Wikis, and delicious will help me as a teacher and as a student, When I become a teacher I will help them to get used to use these websites and enjoying working by them.

I would use the Blogs to let them feel free for writing and expressing what they want to write, and at the same time to improve their writing skills and the typing on computers. We can together choose a topic and start writing about it and then we read the blogs of each other comment, and sharing the information.

For Wiki, it is used as a way to introduce student's works and assignments and give them a chance to collaborative with each other to make their final project. For example, I will let them to divide themselves into groups and I give them topics so they can choose one and then start working on it and post it in their group wiki and then discuss it with other students. This will teach them how to work in groups and how to be collaborative learner.

Delicious is a social bookmarking tool that we can use it to store and share the bookmarks with each other. Each student will have her account in delicious and she has to bookmark any websites or links which is useful for our class and the others get benefit from these bookmarks  

The Possiblity of Reaching Bax’s Normilasation in our national context: Why is it possible?When is it possible/reached/achieved?How will it be reached?

 

 

 

Bax suggested that we can achieve normalization when we use it everyday and when we take it as a normal thing in ourlives and as integral part as he said. We must change our thinking  and attitudes towards computers and get rid of all fears and badly thinking of it. We have see it from all sides not only the negative that we put it in our minds. We must change the idea that it can do everything ans stop seeing it as unfounded fascination, we have take into account other factors such as software, technology, and teacher and learner attitudes to change the idea that computers alone are sufficient

As we know that we don't use computers a lot in schools and as I see the books are too much to carry especially for the elementary students, so I see how it is important the presence of technology and using computers in the educational side.

Normalization can be reached to Saudi educational institutions in the future by following possible things:

  Computers and devices must be available for all students and also must taking it seriously and check them from time to time to fix any problem they may face and hinder their work

 Provide specialized , trained, and enough  teachers who are going to deal with it

 I think it should be with small sizes to be more comfortable of using it like ipads nowadays

The schools have to provide big classes sutiable for this situation

Teacher should be facilitator and manager, and encouraging the students to be more creative, useful and accustomed

Using it during the everyday lecture, and for doing the tasks and homeworks

 

Students must get used to use it in the field of education and not taking it only as entertainment tool

 

It's me....

Hi every one

This is me again Bothaina Al-zalabani, it is my first time to use the blogger and I am a little bit confusing about it

So I hope by the time I'll enjoy this site and we all benefit from each other

Regards