connecting with other language teachers is extremely beneficial for educating myself and others. I always strive and search to be up-to-date with practical ways of handling teaching /learning issues. I like listening to other educators and learn from their experiences and findings. Currently, depending on the classes I teach, I'm using many different tools with my colleagues and students: Delicious, Facebook (Talk12 Teachers of Arabic Language), LinkedIn, Edmodo, Voicethread, Pintrest, many of Google apps, PhotoPeach, Wordle, Animoto and many more. I also follow websites and on list-serves: Discovery education, Edutopia, the international Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), ASCD SmartBrief on EdTech... I'm in a constant search for usable authentic material, cultural events, songs, drama, movies.... I'm a member of: ACTFL, Ohio Foreign Language Association, Central States Conference Advisory board, a presenter at language conferences, lead teacher at Startalk teacher program.

Take a look at this website: http://www.new-educ.com/what-is-pln#.U1soIvldWSp

meeting w/group for online discussion

Connecting with new colleagues in the online environment was a hard thing to do because of time. Finding the right time that will suit all of the group members was the toughest. When a contact was made and a time was set, I couldn't make it because I was driving on the highway and traffic was slow because of an accident! Naturally, it wasn't the best feeling that I had. I was thinking that it would have been better if there was an exchange of phone numbers to avoid such situation.

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رحلات ابن بطوطة

Ibn Battuta plan

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المغرب... بلد الرحالة ابن بطوطة

المغرب on PhotoPeach




المغرب on PhotoPeach

a valuable blog about teaching Arabic by Jeremy Palmer

http://arabicacquisition.blogspot.com/

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