1 Million Arab Coders Initiatives

Today I have discovered an interesting website that will give each and every one a chance to become a coder: 1 million Arab coders

To access the 1 million Arab coders website click here

See you there!

Magnetic device helps children to write Arabic script

An interesting article about how technology guides the pupil's hand to make the Arabic language easier to write.
To read the article click here.

Digita Capabilities

An interesting article by JISC about Digital capabilities 
Enjoy reading it, watching the video and reflecting! 

Hot Potatoes

Hot Potatoes is a free software, easy to download and easy to use for interactive exercises.
To download Hot Pot click here (If you are using windows then select the Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer for Windows).

If you wish to improve your French language using Hot Pot click here
Enjoy learning through fun activities!

Workshop: Blended Learning for Mosul University Prof.

Picture taken from the website of Mosul University: http://www.uomosul.edu.iq/news/2695/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA

It was a great pleasure to give the Mosul University Professors a workshop for 5 consecutive days along with my colleague Mohamed El Hadi Benelhadj. This workshop enabeled them to teach in a blended way from now on. Great projects were prepared.

To read about this project and see the beautiful pictures:
For the text in the Arabic language on the website of the University of Mosul: click here
For the text in the French language on the facebook page of the AUF: click here

This workshop took place in Beirut, Lebanon from July 1 till July 5, 2019.
All the best for the motivated teachers of the Mosul University.

Pictrue taken from the facebook page of AUF: https://www.facebook.com/AUF.MoyenOrient/photos/a.896841253672092/2394515163904686/?type=3&theater

Screen recorder

Do you want to record your screen while explaining a map, a difficult process, a sequence...
Here is a software that is really interesting: https://www.flashbackrecorder.com/ 
The express version is for free.
You can also make yourself as part of the screen and your students/learner/co-worker will be able to see you while explaining your ideas...
Enjoy this tool that helps teacher to teach in a creative way which leads our students to learn in a deep way. 

Transforming Education in Challenging Environments

Are you a teacher working with children or young people affected by conflict, displacement or other difficult contexts? Sign up for this new FREE online course on Transforming Education in Challenging Environments starting June 24th 2019. Join now: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/transforming-education

Proud to be part of the team who prepared for this MOOC!

معلمون من أجل التغيير
دورة مجانية عبر الإنترنت، مفتوحة للجميع، بدءًا من٢٤ حزيران ٢٠١٩
اكتشفوا الطرق العملية التي تمكن المعلمين والمعلمات من تحويل وتطوير تعليم الأطفال والشباب الذين يعيشون في السياقات المتأثرة بالنزاع.
https://www.edraak.org/course/course-v1:UCL+EFC101+2019_T3/

The ten targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 4…with Elyx!

"This video is available in 25 languages. Find the full list on https://on.unesco.org/SDG4-video Watch this new UNESCO animation explaining the ten targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 4. Together with Elyx, the UN's first digital ambassador, discover how to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning." Unesco,

Go digital ...

 Digital Footprint

-70% of employers are snooping candidates’ social media profiles!  To read this article click here

- Prepping Your Social Media Profiles For a Job Hunt, to read this article click here

Skills

- What are the top 10 skills that'll get you a job when you graduate? to read the article click here

- The 8 Skills Students Must Have For The Future, to read the article click here

Web Summit 2018

Social and emotional learning (SEL)

 Casel's mission is" to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of education from preschool through high school."

Watch this video it tells a lot. Enjoy watching it by clicking here 

Ctreate videos

Do you want to create animated vidéos and presentation?

You can do it in a very creative way through PowToon!

PowToon

Global Education Monitoring Report 2017

"The Education 2030 Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action specifies that the mandate of the Global Education Monitoring Report is to be “the mechanism for monitoring and reporting on SDG 4 and on education in the other SDGs” with the responsibility to “report on the implementation of national and international strategies to help hold all relevant partners to account for their commitments as part of the overall SDG follow-up and review”. It is prepared by an independent team hosted by UNESCO."

 To download the full report click on the link below: 
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002593/259338e.pdf

oTranscribe

oTranscribe is a free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.

Developed by a group from MIT this app is online.
http://otranscribe.com/

Innovate education

Are you an #INNOVATOR?
Are you either #Lebanese or #Syrian studying at #University in #Lebanon?
Do you have an #innovative idea on how #technology can improve access to #Education?
If yes - Apply NOW on www.innovate-education.com

You are the perfect candidate for our upcoming #social_entrepreneurship competition “innovate education” on the 6th to 8th of April at Beirut Digital District!

#innovedu #Lebanon #Syria #technology #education #innovation

For more details visit : www.innovate-education.com

- Social Media: Like & post on facebook: FNF Lebanon and Syria (Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/FNFLebanon/?fref=nf) 

Twitter: @FNFLebanon and the hashtag is #innovedu

May the best win!

Preparing Students for College and Career

Teachers Research

Teachers Research is a free e-book that contains teacher-researcher stories connected to ICT. 

The following link allows you to download it:

http://resig.weebly.com/teachers-research.html

UNESCO Institute of Statistics

UNESCO Institute of Statistics has very interesting website that we can use for our courses and researches. This website can be accessed by clicking here.


All the best!

http://uis.unesco.org/

Infographics

• Do you want to create  interesting  visuals?
• Do you want to share powerful infographics?

Easel.ly  is the answer!!!

It is  a simple web tool that empowers us.
No design experience needed!

Ted Ed Lessons

Ted Ed: a creative way to teach
Try it, your students will love it.

Podcast!

Interesting article about educational podcast prepared by the team of  Fusion Yearbooks. This article could inspire teachers and educators to use podcast as an effective and highly-engaging teaching strategy through the usage of   various resources and podcast.

This article is accessible by clinking here.

http://www.fusionyearbooks.com/blog/educational-podcasts/

Simulateur Photographie

Cadrez-moi est un simulateur très interessan.

A vos appreils de photos .... virtuels !

Pour y accéder cliquez ici. 

http://www.utc.fr/~wlabwlab/francais/connaissances/outilspedagogiques/cadrezmoi/files

Canada's vision of public education

A 21st century vision of public education for Canada published on May 2012. This study is very interesting. 

Enjoy reading it!

To read it click here.

Learn a language

This website will help us to learn a language and to become fluent in any language:
https://www.italki.com/home

Wikiwiki

Creating video

Online tool to create video:

• Pearltrees: http://www.pearltrees.com/
• Thinglink (interactive images & videos): https://www.thinglink.com/
• Glogster (interactive multimedia posters): https://www.glogster.com/

Blogging: An Adventure in Professional Development

Great blog!


http://aslisaglam.edublogs.org/

Trello

Trello is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone.

Trello works in real-time, real fast. When somebody moves a card, it moves on your board instantly, no matter what device you use. You can keep your tab open all day and never have to refresh. Plus, Trello opens and loads so fast you won’t even notice.

EDpuzzle

EDpuzzle is an interesting tool for teaching and learning while engaging student.
You have open access video which you can easily crop. It is also possible to create electronic questionnaire and supervisor the students' activities. 
Don't hesitate to use it!



https://edpuzzle.com/

Internet Governance Forum

Internet Governance : Internet Governance Forum (IGF) established as per the resolution issued in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005, the Arab Internet Governance Forum (Arab IGF) was established in 2012.

• Internet Governance Forum (IGF): http://intgovforum.org/cms/
• Arab Internet Governance Forum (IGF): http://igfarab.org/En/index.jsp 

The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF-IV) was hosted by Ogero Telecom and under the joint patronage of the Lebanese Ministry of
Telecommunications, on December17-18, 2015.

Word Cloud

Toys for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide:

•  TagCrowd

• Wordle

Calaméo

Calaméo - Publishing Platform for Documents and Magazines

www.calameo.com

Publishing platform for digital magazines, interactive publications and online catalogs. Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide.

 Let's publish!

Sites

To create animated videos and presentations: PowToon
To create videos for mobiles that will be seen only once! Snapchat

Unesco Articles

A Review of Education and ICT Indicators in Southeast Asia

New Learning Technologies

Media and Information Literacy 

Global MIL Week 2015

 MIL Curriculum for Teachers

Foliospaces

FolioSpaces is a free ePortfolio platform.

"Students, teachers, career professionals and others find electronic portfolios are the best way to:

• showcase achievement
• provide proof of learning and experience
• give and receive feedback (in private or public)
• reflect on learning and critical incidents
• help get jobs, project funding, promotion, and much more..."

To access to FolioSapces click here.

Engaging Every Learner Everytime

I found the following amazing presentation on Slide share "Engaging Every Learner Every time", LA Congress Workshop 2015, by Charlotte McCorquodale.

Engaging Every Learner Everytime LA Congress Workshop 2015 from Charlotte McCorquodale

I loved watching it and it helped me restructure my teaching.

Memrise

Memrise website 

allows us to 

learn vocabulary, languages, history, science, trivia and just about anything else

Amazing website which I have discovered in Bett Show 2015. 

To use this website click here.

Oxford Owl

Oxford Owl is an award-winning website to help support children’s learning, both at home

and at school. To use this site :Click here 

Educational technology strategic plan

Lebanon has a national educational technology strategic plan. [...]

This strategic plan establishes a vision, set of goals and objectives, and recommendations that government, donors, private- and public-sector implementers, schools, principals, and teachers must address so that every stakeholder is working from and toward the same vision, goals, and outcomes. The strategic plan covers the period of September 2012 to September 2017.

To read the strategic plan click here
Or click here. 

SoundCloud

Searching for a social sound platform? 

Wish to share a sound file?

SoundCloud is there for you!

SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.

To access it click here.

Did You Know 2014

Network

Network in the Arab Countries for ICT integration in education : ARAIEQ-APIQIT

Tracking Online Education in the US

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United States is the eleventh annual

report in this series on tracking online education in the United States. It was

originally known as the Sloan Online Survey, in recognition of our founding

sponsor, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To download this report you have to click here.

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Sisyphus - Journal of Education

Sisyphus – Journal of Education is a place for debate on different aspects of education. 

Enjoy reading and why not publishing!

Wordle

Do you want to remember words easily? Wordle is the answer.
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. 

To use it click here.
Enjoy!

Science simulators

• Phet phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new  

• Virtual Bouyancy www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/buoy_exp/buoyancy.html

• Roller Coaster http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/coaster/

• Windward: Outsmart the Weather in a Race around the World  www.ciconline.org/windward 

• Commercial Fishing www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/anim/toc/index.htm
• SimSci Simulation Software http://software.invensys.com/simsci/  

• Wetland Exploration  net.unl.edu/wonderwise/16urban/kidsactivity/index2.htm

• Virtual Microscope www.udel.edu/Biology/ketcham/microscope/scope.html

• Cost one- Explore Learning www.explorelearning.com

Educational podcasts

Do you want to get smarter?
Who doesn't!
Julie DeNeen presents on the informED blog "50 Educational Podcasts"

Check them out !

Free cultural & educational media

Open Culture suggests a "free cultural & educational media on the web". On the menu :

• Audio Books
• Online Courses
• Certificate Courses/MOOCs
• Movies
• Languages
• K-12 Resources
• eBook

Over a million images!

December 2013 the British Library announced the following:

We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of.

Let's have a look!

ICT tools

Electronic Village Online 2014 gives a list of ICT tools that could be used in education:

Tag cloud generator (wordle): http://www.wordle.net/
Photostory3: http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/
Exelearning: http://www.exelearning.it/mindmapping generator: http://popplet.com/
Timeline generator: http://www.dipity.com/
Poster generator: http://www.glogster.com/
Geolocalisation tool: http://www.communitywalk.com/
Sticky notes generator: http://en.linoit.com/
A  voice-based elearning tool: http://www.voxopop.com/
Slide-show generator: http://slide.ly/?tid=1620

Thanks to EVO 2014 we can be more creative in our classrooms!