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I am so excited to start with my blog to share with the word my passion for technology. 

I will be sharing with you the journey in implementing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education through the PYP school I am currently working in. 

It is my first year in an IB PYP School, and the IB system have their own terminologies, the first few weeks were hard, learning to many new concepts, starting with the IB system. IB stands for International Baccalaureate, and in this program there are 3 different stages, PYP, MYP, and DP. PYP stand for Primary Years Programme, mainly preschool to grade 5. MYP stand for Middle Years Programme, Gades 6,7,8 & 9 and finally, DP for diploma programme. 

let me tell you a bit about myself, I had my BA in Graphic design from AUST, I was an honor student then after working as a freelance for two years. then I applied for a masters program. Now, I am Holding a Master's degree in Educational technology - defended my thesis in July 2014. My thesis topic was about The Effect of Flipped Classroom in junior level students in Lebanon and was interested to apply my experiences in my new programme that I know basic things abut it. 

I am continuing my dream and i am enrolling in a PhD program, at the lebanese university, why because ... I recommend you to read this article

I deeply appreciate any help you can support me with because we grow up by sharing and learning from our expertise

iPad Announcement

Today, during our risk taker Wednesday morning spiral (to those who was never been in IB school, there is a spiral that we do, it is like a morning meeting for all the PYP students including the EY students. Every Wednesday a student/teacher decide to share with everyone how they are acting like risktaker and share it with everyone. So, today I was the risk-taker (yaaa me). 

No in fact, we decided to introduce the ipad in a way to promote reading e-books. So it came up from here, you can be a risk taker by reading e-books on the iPad, and in another way it was a promotion for the school follettshelf. We also made a competition between students who will be reading the most e-books. ohhh one more thing whenever they read a book, the librarian will give them a bookmark that was designed for e-reading that are very interesting.

This event made me the most popular person at school, students were excited to learn and "play" using the iPads.