Saturday, October 6, 2012


How would I use blogs, wikis and delicious with their students?


Technology is becoming a necessity in the field of teaching. The use of technology allows teachers to diversify their lectures, display more information, and enhance learner’s learning. Using different technologies in the learning center can help teachers save time and energy and allow for more attention for the other component of the program. There are many different learning materials available to teachers in order to help them with their teaching.

when I become a teacher , I will use these websites during my lectures for the purpose of making learning useful and extends our abilities to present materials that encourage student interaction with the subject matter.


blogger is very good and useful tools for students.There are many reasons to use blogs with students. 
1- To provide a real audience for student writing. Usually, the teacher is the only person who reads student writing, and the focus of this reading is usually on form, not content. With weblogs, students can find themselves writing for a real audience that, apart from the teacher, may include their peers, students from other classes, or even other countries, their parents, and potentially anyone with access to the Internet. 
2- To provide extra reading practice for students.
3- To encourage shy students to participate.
4- To increase the sense of community in a class.
5- To help build a closer relationship between students in large classes.
6- To encourage a process-writing approach.




A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media — and anything else you can think of. Using this website will give Each student cultivates a unique online space to showcase their best work, and teachers assess performance as it progresses.Also, Students and teachers share a flexible educational space that’s accessible anytime from anywhere and Teachers can post Student Assignments (homework, group work, and classroom goals) and update them throughout the year in real time. Will give Student groups collaborate on projects that address real-world questions, and share their findings with a real-world audience.




Delicious a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. It is a great tool in teaching and learning, because it's about sharing. It will help to ask to record their web research using del.icio.us. Also encourage students to set up networks to pool research and to subscribe to tags to broaden their knowledge of a subject.





Wednesday, October 3, 2012



The Possiblity of Reaching Bax’s  Normilasation in our national context: Why is it possible? When is it possible/reached/achieved? How will it be reached?

In the article of Stephan Bax we found that he discussed the Normalisation. This concept is relevant to any kind of technological innovation and refers to the stage when technology becomes invisible, embedded in everyday practice and hence “normalized”.
Normalisation is therefore the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognized as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. CALL will reach this state when computers are used every day by language students and teachers as an integral part of every lesson, like a pen or a book. They will be completely integrated into all other aspects of classroom life, alongside coursebooks, teachers and notepads.
Most importantly, CALL will be normalized when computers are treated as always secondary to learning itself, when the needs of learners will be carefully analysed first of all, and then the computer used to serve those needs.
Normalisation is therefore the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognized as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. CALL will reach this state when computers are used every day by language students and teachers as an integral part of every lesson, like a pen or a book. They will be completely integrated into all other aspects of classroom life, alongside coursebooks, teachers and notepads.Most importantly, CALL will be normalized when computers are treated as always secondary to learning itself, when the needs of learners will be carefully analysed first of all, and then the computer used to serve those needs.




Diffusion of innovations
How can normalization occur? We can summarize the probable progress of CALL towards normalization as follows:

1. Early adopters. A few teachers and schools adopt the technology out of curiosity.               2. Ignorance/skepticism. However, most people are skeptical, or ignorant of its existence.         3. Try once. People try it out but reject it because of early problems.                                         4. Try again. Someone tells them it really works. Then try again. They see it does in fact have relative advantage.                                                                                                                   5. Fear/awe. More people start to use it, but still there is (a) fear, alternating with (b) exaggerated expectations.                                                                                                        6. Normalising. Gradually it is seen as something normal.                                                           7. Normalisation. The technology is so integrated into our lives that it becomes invisible-‘normalized’.


     In Saudi Arabia most of the schools and universities follow the traditional way of teaching, but nowadays with all these development, many schools and universities improved their educational system, they started to use computers, smart boards and projectors in the classroom.

     We have identified a possible future agenda for CALL. Our aim can be the normalisation in which CALL finally becomes invisible, serving the needs of learners and integrated into every teachers’ everyday practice. It will require changes in technology, in attitudes, in approach and practice among teachers and learners.

     To achieve normalization in Saudi Arabia, we need to action research in individual environments to identify barriers to normalisation and ways of overcoming them.

      This will not be an easy process. However, if we take our aim to be normalisation, and then work for ways of achieving it efficiently, computers can finally achieve their proper place and true potential in the classroom.