Speech

Delivering the opening speech for the 4th Annual Brunch, May 2016

That was a one of a kind experience!! It was very empowering for me to stand in front of such a huge audience with confidence in an educational ceremony, and it made me realize that I can do anything I want. It all needs a bit of courage and self confidence. We can do whatever we want😃

Everything is possible with knowledge and preparation. To talk more about the brunch, it is an annual ceremony at the Lebanese International University, where students and instructors organize and work together to buy delicious food ( salty and sweet), with games and face painting and serve university students as long as students from nearby schools in order to collect money for social causes. It  requires a lot of hard work, but the result is always amazing, and the hard work pays off. The best times of my life indeed was during these brunches with the best people!!

Webinar

Since the internet connection was very slow, I wasn't able to catch up with everything said by the Dr. and I ended up only watching a small part of the webinar. I signed up for another webinar, but I faced the same problem and the picture kept turning black. I communicated with the team responsible and they said they will send it to me after it finishes but the connection didn't help me to watch it again even though they've sent me a certificate for watching it. The topic was interesting about using rugs in the classrooms for KGS'.
Moving back to the first webinar, Encourage Physical Activity in Preschoolers, it was by Steve Standers, a Professor at the University of South California. After he introduced himself, he said a quote about playing as a warm up for his topic about the importance of play for children. He focused on the loco motor skills which he divided into 2 categories: the uneven rhythm loco motor skills like skip, gallop, and and slide, and the even rhythm loco motor skills like run, jump, hop, bounce...
He also talked about the different stages a child passes through uses his motion, since at the beginning he flips from moving his hands and legs to crawling then taking their first steps. He focused on the nature of moving through children, how it develops, and how important is our job as teachers to protect this movement in schools and invest it in fun activities. I wish that I was able to know more about the topic since I wanted to know about fun physical activities to make for children because I'm a KG 2 teacher but I wasn't lucky enough to hear the full session...

EDU560

So far, this is the second period I attend in this course. I liked this it since I'm very interested in technology and I like to know more about how I can benefit from it.
This course is giving me answers to questions I always had related to technology. It is directing my interests in a positive way and I think it will develop and empower my skills with technology.
I love attending courses where I can apply what I'm learning immediately and I think it will make things easier for me.