Productivity Tools

Productivity Tools

The importance of technology in education is very important in that it plays the role of productivity to the teacher by directing the correct direction in the presentation of the material and communicating it to students in an easy and clear manner, thus increasing the ability of students to receive information in a simpler and faster way. Compared to the traditional methods used in the field of education, which leads to help them to obtain higher scientific achievement than ever before, in addition to the fun obtained by the student when studying modern means and methods. When students use modern technologies such as computers, the goal of using them is purely scientific by using them as a mentor and an electronic teacher, helping them through various programs and different functions as well as acquiring new talent and developing and strengthening mental abilities in scientific subjects as well as the large role played by the Internet which allows students to participate in many different educational activities through the process of information exchange and search in all ways. Technology is a major source of access to the abundant information needed by both the teacher and the student. At present, the Internet has become one of the most important sources through which diverse information is obtained such as access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, maps and other important and necessary applications in various fields, these applications cannot be obtained through different traditional methods and its importance is that it saves a lot of time and effort when searching for the information it needs. Technology is an important source in the communication process between the student and the teacher through communication through social networking sites and other places dedicated to talk, so that the student can talk to his teacher sitting at his home in front of the computer screen, in addition to their ability to dialogue and discussion with regard to in science, in which case the technology connects students to teachers, and connects teachers with each other.

Cool Tool #5 ThingLink

ThingLink Inc. is a Finnish-American provider of in-image interaction tools. ThingLink, launched in 2010 and led by Ulla Engeström and Janne Jalkanen, develops tools for image interaction that allow content sharing via online images.

This app can provide for many services, for example:

Education

ThingLink’s image interaction technology helps students become fluent in 

using digital media to express themselves and demonstrate their learning. 

With ThingLink, teachers and students can easily create interactive 

infographics, maps, drawings, and engaging 360 documentaries in a 

classroom setting, at home, or on field trips. 

It can help teacher 

watch this video:

Hint on ThingLink

Major Project Proposal #2nd post

 Improving typing in English keyboard-2

               This is my second week ( 18-22 March-2018) of practicing English typing, and to be honest it is not easy to do it very well, I think I need more than 3 months to be good in English typing, but I feel a little bit of improving, I am can hit a few letter without looking to the keyboard, I will keep practicing even through the Spring Break.

Major Project Proposal #1st post

 Improving typing in English keyboard-1

I spent last week through Mar 11-15 about three hours and half for practicing typing in English keyboard, It is very hard for me but I will not give up. I used an application called Typing Master, it is help but need more practicing.

My schdule to follow my project.

         









               For this week the application focused on left hand first and the letters in left side (Q,W,E,A,S,D,Z,X,C), and I trying to memorize it as much as I can to move to next letters. 

Cool Tool #4 Audiotool

Audiotool

                    Audiotool is a powerful online DAW right in your browser with a built-in publishing platform to share your creations.

Build your arrangement by dragging the devices to the desktop and connect them with virtual cables.

All device settings can be saved as a preset and be shared with the community resulting in more than 50.000 presets for the various devices.

Choose from more than 380.000 samples in the ever expanding community fed cloud based sample library.

Use the various routing & mixing tools to build up complex signal chains only limited by your imagination.

What you get:

Synths & Sampler

Pulverisateur - modular polyphonic synthesizer

 - 3 OSC

 - Audio In

 - Filter unit

 - LFO unit

 - Filter & Amp modulators

 - 17000+ user generated presets

Heisenberg - PM synthesizer

 - 4 OSC

 - 49 different Waveforms

 - Modulation Matrix

 - 3 Envelopes

 - Pitch Envelope

 - 2 LFO

 - 19000+ user generated presets

Machiniste - sample player / drum machine

 - 9 sample slots

 - individual Filter for each slot

 - individual Envelopes for each slot

 - Built-In matrix sequenzer

 - 8000+ user generated presets

Vintage Line

Beatbox 8 & 9                

 - vintage Rhythm Composers with the classical sound & controls you would expect

Bassline

 - vintage Bass line player with the classical sound & controls you would expect

Effects

 - Rasselbock - resampling groove shifter

 - 2 band graphical EQ

 - Autofilter

 - Exciter

 - Stereo Enhancer

 - Tube Distortion

 - Stereo Detune

 - Slope

 - Reverb

 - Pitch Delay

 - Phaser

 - Parametric EQ

 - Gate

 - Flanger

 - Delay

 - Crusher

 - Compressor

 - Chorus

Tools

 - Splitter

 - Merger

 - 16 Ch Mixer / 2 AUX channels / 3band EQ

 - 4 Ch Minimixer / 1 AUX channel

 - Crossfader

 - Audiotrack

Sequenzer

 - audio regions

 - note regions

 - automation regions

 - pattern regions

 - selectable region colors

 - inplace audio editing

 - MIDI file import

 - Web MIDI API support

 - global shuffle

You can add as many devices to the desktop as your computer can handle and build up complex arrangements.

Since every parameter on any device can be automated through the use of automation regions in the timeline of the sequenzer, you are free to build up whatever you imagine without being restricted by the tools you use.

watch this Youtube clip:

Digital Learning Spaces

Digital Learning Spaces

In my opinion I think that the good learn space have to have these points to improve the students skills and provide them with all knowledges in school environment, these point are:

·         Effective: Provides many materials that are dealt with in manual work and are explored ..

·         Elasticity: Provides multiple options for: learning experiences, ways to form groups of children, and learning space.

·         Interactive: Adults and children discuss and ask questions and discuss the following among them.

·         Resource-rich: Materials that encourage children to think, solve problems, respond and innovate.

·         Respectful: Accepts different beliefs, perspectives and abilities in a partnership-based relationship.

·         Collaborative: multiple roles for all.

I think University of Akron for example, have provided these factors for their students beside the electronic ways either Brightspace or social networks. In addition, google for example have offered Google apps to help learner such as Google classroom.

I found this clip on YouTube, Watch it :)

Major Project Proposal

 Improving typing in English keyboard

Goals

·         Improve my English typing from 25 words per minutes to 40 words at least.

·         Write without looking to the keyboard.

·         Memories the position of each letter.

·         Study more word spelling.

Resources and Learning Materials

1.    https://www.keybr.com/

2.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axdBQTmHJb8

3.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0DXw2-GZE

4.    http://play.typeracer.com/

5.    I installed an application called Typing Master on my computer, it has many features to monitor my practicing

Documentation of Progress

I will print these letters to memorise it + Planned Timeline

The upper row:

Q

W

E

R

T

Y

U

I

O

P

The middle row:

A

S

D

F

G

H

J

K

L

;   ‘   “

The bottom row:

Z

X

C

V

B

N

M

,

.

/

Planned Timeline

	Sundays	Mondays	Tuesdays	Wednesdays	Thursdays
Week 8 Mar 12	1 hour	30 minutes	1 hour	30 minutes	30 minutes
Week 9 Mar 19	1 hour	30 minutes	1 hour	30 minutes	30 minutes
Week 10 Apr 2	1 hour	30 minutes	1 hour	30 minutes	30 minutes
Week 11 Apr 9	1 hour	30 minutes	1 hour	30 minutes	30 minutes
Week 12 Apr 16	1 hour	30 minutes	1 hour	30 minutes	30 minutes
Week 13 Apr 23	1 hour	30 minutes	1 hour	30 minutes	30 minutes

.

Possible Challenges

The main challenge is the language because I am not a native speaker, so I have to write more and know more words with its spelling. The other challenge is the time, with all the classes I spend too much time translate and correct the mistakes, so it takes a lot of my time.

Cool Tool #3 Pic Maker

picbashpicb

                Picbash is one of the many applecations that can help with make pictures, you can add photos from Facebook, create a custom pic and then share it with friends on Facebook or send. 

This clip will explain more about this applecation:

Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship is a concept that helps teachers, technology leaders and parents understand what students / children / technology users should use appropriately. Where digital citizenship is not just an educational tool, it is much larger than that where it is a way to prepare students using technology for a true technological community. And to address the students 'and adults' abuse of technology.

In my digital life I often do not share content that may cause me a problem despite the many temptations in the internet sea. I used this digital world mostly in education and job, so I did not try to hurt any user on the net. I realize that the Internet is now a real world full of good people and bad people. Therefore, I advise my students and family to exercise caution while using the Internet regardless of the program used.