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Integrating Technology in the Arabic Classrooms

Instructor

Rima Chamout

Educational Technology Specialist

Walden University

Phone: +961 70950995

Email: rima@chammout.me

 

Course Description

This course is aimed at K-12 Arabic language arts teachers who want ideas on how to integrate technology in their classrooms. This course will show teachers how to integrate two technologies in their teaching practices: Google Slides to create "Choose your own adventure" stories and interactive quizzes, in addition to shooting short videos via mobile devices and editing them using YouTube video editor. 

 

Credit Hours

This course will require five hours every week for each module.

 

Course Outcomes 

After taking this course, learners will be able to:  

  1. Design technology-enhanced lesson plans.
  2. Design activities that require students to use technology in the classroom. 
  3. Identify resources that will help in further professional development. 

 

Course Materials

This is an overview of the modules. Please click on the "Modules" link to see more details about each module. 

Module One:

 

 Module Two:

 

 Module Three:

 

 

Technology Access

The required technologies for this course are: 

    Hardware: 

  1. Desktop or Laptop computer with Internet access
  2. Tablet or mobile phone that has camera, microphone, and sound

    Software: 

  1. A current operating system such as Microsoft or Apple
  2. Web browser such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox
  3. Google Account/Gmail Account 
  4. Standard plug-ins such as Java, Flash, QuickTime

 

Technical Support

If you face any technical problems, then please email me at

rima@chammout.me

Please be sure that your email includes the course module and a description of the received error.

 

Course Outline

Date Topic

Discussions and Assignments 
Week 1                          Using Google Slides to create a "Choose your own adventure" short story             

Discussion: Do you think that creating a "Choose your own adventure" story using Google Slides can enhance your teaching skills and your students' learning experiences?  Can you elaborate on that? What do you know about fair use and copyright material and resources that you might find on the internet? How would you reference a resource taken from the internet? Why is it important to do so? How could Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia help you improve your presentation? 

 

Assignment: Create a "Choose your own adventure" short story using Google Slides
Week 2 Using Google Slides to create an interactive quiz              

Discussion: Do you feel that your students get intimidated by quizzes and so they do not perform as well as they should have? Do you have an alternative to paper-and-pencil quizzes that allow you to check on your students' learning? Have you created an interactive quiz before? Would an interactive quiz work well in your classroom? Can your students access the quiz from a technological device in your classroom? If they cannot, then can you think of how you might conduct this quiz with your students? Why is it important to teach your students about their use of copyright resources they copy from the internet? How will you introduce this topic to your students? How will you encourage them to reference the resources they copy from the internet? How can you use Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia to create your quiz? 

 

 Assignment: Create an interactive quiz using Google Slides
Week 3 Using a mobile device to create a short video and edit it using YouTube

Discussion: In what ways do you check on student learning now? Have you ever had them show what they learned on a large cardboard as a project? Would you consider trying a new approach for checking on their learning? How about having them create a video and edit it to comply with the specific topic? Do you think that this would be feasible to implement in your classroom? How would you implement it? How would you encourage your students to try a new approach to learning? 

 

Assignment: Create a short video and edit it using YouTube video editor.

 

 

Course Expectations

The expectations for this course is that you will participate in the discussions in an active manner that is polite and non-judgmental. You are also expected to create your projects and submit them on Sunday (the last day of the week). If you need an extension, please send me an email letting me know the reasons for the extension before the submission date by 24 hours (Saturday). In addition, you will be expected to collaborate with team members on enhancing your projects by giving and receiving peer reviews. 

 Assessments

Since this is an elective course, the assessments will be composed of the discussions and the assignments submitted to the instructor, which follows the authentic, performance-based assessment. The discussions and collaboration between groups will be graded based on the checklists that accompany each module, and the assignments will be marked as 'Complete/Incomplete' based on whether or not you submit your final project. 

 

 

 

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