The USA Science & Engineering Festival...

        I have volunteered at the 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival in D.C on April 27, 2012, and it was really a wonderful opportunity for me to organize an important event like this. My job was to organize the crowd and delivered to its proper place.  I've really amazed me the cultural diversity, which I found at the festival I met people from different ages and states and countries. I LOVED to be there and see all the wonderful things. It is a great place with access to all of these spectacular organizations together in one place. My favorite one was NASA's corner. 

I had a great time there and I can't wait for the next one!!

 The USA Science & Engineering Festival logo by: here

Class Reflection...

          I am delighted to have the opportunity to take ED 554: Computers & Technology in the Classroom course. I love technology and want to merge it into my career as an ESL teacher. I think it's one of the most important factors that can help teachers today, when it is used properly.  Before the beginning of this semester, I had little knowledge about how to integrate technology into the classroom.

        This course provided me with the technological resources that I will need as a teacher. Through various assignments, I have mastered the use of technology like never before. Interaction and experience with tools such as blogs and web pages that allow me to share my ideas and projects with other people are wonderful. I think that this is very useful in conveying your message, especially in education.  In covering the create wikis groups, Google websites, blogs, digital storyboards, and Photoshop, creating SMART board activity and so on, I feel so lucky to have experienced with them. Additionally, I was also very pleased to know how to create a strong site portfolio teacher, I believe that surly will help me when will be looking for a job in the future.

         As with other classes at the university, this class has shown me how a lot of planning is required to create interesting lesson plans. Technology makes life easier in some ways, but integrating technology into the lesson plans still takes a lot of work, planning, and creativity from the teacher. Truly ED 554 class is relevant and useful because it provides a large practical experience that can be applied in the classrooms to keep the lessons dynamic and interesting—two key components to success for students.

Responding on: "PowerPoint is Evil” by E. Tufte,and NPR story

After reading  Edward Tufte's article on PowerPoint and listening NPR story, I agreed about the same issues that may occur in misusing of PowerPoint and dealing with in visual communication in general. Personally, I believe that technology is a helpful tools in may ways, and it is provide many options to how to use it effectively, furthermore, I strongly believe that the main problem is on poor presenters. A lot of people know how to use PP, but a very few people don't know how to use it . So to avoid PP's looming problems, educators or presenters should need to learn how to use PP as well as learn how to presented it in a  proper way.

This is a funny video talking about the common mistakes that people make in PowerPoint presentations.