A review for a book I have read recently :)

Hi everyone!

      Hope you guys are doing well .We are going through tough times  because of coronavirus outbreak which brought on such a radical change. I can imagine you’re all in the same boat and I hope we will come safe to shore and this will be just a bad memory for all of us.

While in quarantine ,despite lectures that i have to study  i try to do some other things that help me keep stress away .I cook , sometimes  I exercise and also read books that i wanted to read a long time ago .”The diary of a little girl” by Anna Frank is one of the books i finished two days ago .I am a really big  fan of books or movies based on true story and this is one of them .You maybe have red it too or you might have heard about it but i am going to give you a brief description of it on this post.

 Anne Frank and her family hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years because they were jewish and you know the holocaust and the terrors jewish people went through during that time,  but even in isolation she had the courage to study hard ,to dream ,to fell in love even though in those extraordinary conditions, facing hunger, the ever-present threat of discovery and death.It is somehow similar to the situation we are living in but this virus is attacking all humans the world over.Both are going to remain in history.

I want to share with you a  famous line from Goethe that Anna mentioned in her diary “Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betru'bt" (On top of the world, or in the depths of despair) She mentioned it to tell that she felt on top of the world when she compered herself with other jewish children who were in concentration camps and in the depth of despair when she thinks about people who were not jewish and could do whatever they want. SOMETIMES this  expression applies to me too .I feel on top of the world for being healthy and for every opportunity that has been given to me but sometimes i feel really sad and hopeless for some other things like injustice and other things that are not going well around.

Even though it was not a happy ending story this book made me reexamine some things in my life and take a fresh look of some others that has been blown out of proportion I think everyone must keep trying and see how far he or she  gets.

That’s all for today J feel free to  comment and recommend any book that you think it is worth reading.

My first blog post

Hello everyone!

          This is my first post in  this platform and as a beginning I would like to share with you  my thoughts toward this new way of teaching and the difficulties I have encounter  to set up a blog. 
 I had previously heard about  blog as one the platforms used for various posts about fashion, cooking and or any means of communicating and publishing information on the web.I also know some celebrities or bloggers  that use blog  to   influence others .Nevertheless I didn’t know much at all about blogging and i thought that   starting  my own blog will take  some doing.

At the  beginning  when opening a blog assigned to us I was really happy as i was a bit  stressed about the current situation and dealing with the blog was a good way to keep myself busy. I enjoyed it a lot though I had no idea how we would use it  to learn.  As  days went on I learned new things about blogging  with some help from other members of  the group and of some  researches I did. Now everything is clearer and I really like this new way we are going to cover this course.

I consider the world of blogging creative and fun way to cover learning standards at the same time. .As I have discovered so far, blogging lets you express yourself visually through custom themes, headers, photography, layouts, and designs. There’s an art to that…and it’s fun!

As for  use of technology  in  teaching since technology has advanced (which cannot be undo) and it is present in every part of our lives  we can do nothing but use it in the best way we can.  I think using  technology in teaching is very useful.  Teachers can use technology to publish assignments, resources, and keep students even up to date on class events, due dates and content being covered .Over million of students from around the world are practicing online learning .

I have recently heard about  some states like Florida that  operate  full-time online schools: online or virtual schools enroll students on a full-time basis. Students enrolled in these schools are not attending  school in a building  instead they receive all of their instruction and earn all of their credits through the online school.

I want to end my first new post with a quote.

 -We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

David Warlick

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This was all about my first post. I hope you enjoyed it. :)