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Teacher Effectiveness: Personal Reflections

May 14th 2011 in Uncategorized

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This week I attended a presentation for Christine Coombe from the Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai as an invited speaker in our FPDE department in Doha. Her session was about “What the Research Tells Us About Teaching Effectiveness”. I would like to share [...]

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Moving Beyond Web 2.0

March 14th 2011

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After many years of using technology in education and working with websites of all types, I thought of this topic. I summarizes my current experience with several educational websites and portals. The ideas is to help manage your online presence rather than being [...]

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Egypt 2.0

March 13th 2011

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Few weeks ago no body would have ever believed the amazing political changes that happened so far. It was and still looks like a big dream all Egyptians along with many other Arab countries still experience against oppressive regimes.
The question that arose to my [...]

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TESOL Arabia 2011: A Community Service for Teachers

December 29th 2010

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It is time of the year again to prepare for TEOSL Arabia conference. I can’t deny the enormous amount of skills I have learned in the last year while helping this non-profit organization.
TESOL Arabia is one of the [...]

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Collaborative Learning vs. Group Work!

December 29th 2010

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I have been enjoying this workshop organized at Qatar University OFID office. It is one of their regular PD events for our faculty. Since I have joined QU, I have seen how hard working and committed to providing all sorts of PD [...]

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Multitasking & Web 2.0

April 19th 2010

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I came across an interesting review of a recent study on multitasking. The study highlights the impact of multitasking on each individual using the internet, particularly web 2.0 and social web users. The review is in Arabic, but you still can watch the [...]

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TESOL Arabia Conference Online (TACON 2010)

March 16th 2010

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This year I had the pleasure of chairing TESOL Arabia’s new initiative TACON online http://taconference.org. As a dream I had for the last two years, it was finally there for the ELT community in the ME and around the world.
Initiating [...]

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MA Graduation

January 2nd 2010

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It might be a bit late in posting about my graduation, but I was overwhelmed with many things since I completed my MA program. It was a wonderful but challenging program that took me three years to complete from the University of Manchester. Taking the [...]

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How to implement technology in the Web 2.0 era?

November 4th 2009

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This post is a suggested topic to include in the edtech chat series. I just would like to move a bit from discussing or debating the advantages/ disadvantages of technology to the actual implementation of it in the [...]

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