Session 5: Individual Project

Course Content Characteristics:

The course that I design is teaching Arabic language by using online tools. the aim of this course to make non Arabic student well known how to read ,write, and speak like Arab people and learn how to use the internet tools at the same time and create their own blog .This course is design and build up for university freshmen and adult student who has experience of use internet tools .
This course is consider as an elective course to those student who try to have more than one language. It is basic course. That mean this course is an introduction to the Arabic language. The student will learn some vocabulary ,how to do short sentence and learn how to pronounce the liters, word and sentence. The student will learn how to use some of technology tools like using blog, e mail and Skype that offer as a free tools on the internet .This is a hyper course that led by instructor that require many interaction and activates such as home work ,quiz, text, pronunciation, reading ,writing, speaking ,singing, and power point. The task of this course is combining between convergent and divergent. But it is mostly divergent content that each student has to develop their speaking and reading and writing in Arabic along with the instructor material that they have to fallow for example like syllabus, schedule and text. The student will provide with lecture in deferent style like story , description and explanation trough dim dim. The course all depend on each lesson material of the course .In this course the student should explore the content of the course by using some links that I will provide for them and doing research on the internet .Moreover, The content should be a convergent content so the student can answer the course material that related to the Arabic grammar there is just one write answer in this kind of question .In this course the teacher will provide student with a direct instruction and model that make that led them to the correct answer and make my student e mail me if they don’t understand the home work or the licture. I will try to make quick respond and give feedback and I will help each student to make student discover the correct answer by asking them a several question before begin my class . Also , provide student with clear schedules so they can know what to do in each week and syllabus make the student led them self to the success in this class. The student who take this course must finish the Arab 101in order to take this hyper class. This is totally online class. The course will be given in deferent way first of all through dim dim and skype when the content is complicated and need more information to be clear to the student and has some pronunciation activity. Teaching this level is not complicate because the adult university first year student are more conduct with their work and they fell more responsibility with develop their skills .The content that provide to the university student will match there need in their career . The student may face problem with pronunciation part and word order because it is deferent from English .
The course material can be use many time during the week. This is a 5 week intensive. this course will save energy so the student can found syllabus, schedule, good links and power point they want to learn and expense so the student don’t have to buy CD learning Arabic program in order to develop there skills and come at university campus . This course does not require from my student to buy any web side all they need is to access through every lecture every thing that I give to my student will be recorded in dim dim ,Skype, podcast so the student can return to the lecture and see and listen to it may time. This course is flexible, interesting and motivate student to know more a bout this new language that they are study.
The most salient characteristics of the content that that I believe will impact my design is the course content and my student reflection on the material.
the design choices that i think my content characteristics lead me to.
Give my student story that led them to critical thinking .
do power point.
Give text and hand out.
Reading and writing material.
Give good video links.
try to Do mp3 podcast.

Instructor Characteristics:

This course is to easy for any instructor that has good technology and teaching skills and know how to motivate student to learn in this class. This course can be use by any expert instructor because this material has been created by a good instructor who has fairly good teaching skills in this field. The instructor who teach this course must know about student need and make sure how should use online tools like blog ,dim dim and record his voice and use pod cast. The instructor should be expert in teaching language and have long time experience more than 5 years. The instructor should be expert of using computer so if the instructor faces any problem with course can fix it. The structure should be fixable with content and change it upon on student need. The instructor must test the content that the instructor provides for his student many times to make sure everything is good. The instructor should look over his e mail all the time and check student blog to see their student progress and how do they communicate with each other before represented to his student. The instructor who teach this kind of course are highly motivated and well known how to use the constant in creative way.
The course that I provide for my student will develop their language step by step in this class and provide them with deferent skills and topic.
The thing that will impact my design is all the instructor must be export of using online tool and have long time of experience to teach this kind of online course and have faith with their student ability.

Choices that I think the instructor characteristics lead me to.

Be more careful about choosing my content
Try to test my content many time
Try to give this course to other expert people in Arabic field so I can do any changes with my content if there is any and get good feedback.

Student Characteristics:

The student will be university freshmen student and adult from deferent ages that want to learn Arabic and I expected to have not to many student less than 15 because I believe the less student I have the more energy and things and information I can provide them . moreover, this is a Synchronous content online class that require online meeting and student commitment to do their best in this course .the student are motivated to learn new language Before I begin my class I will provide them with a survey to know the level of technology they have but I think I will have student who has good technology skills and have background of how to use computer and they have take online class before because if not they will have some difficulty with this course. The student will communicate with the instructor ,contend and each other in this course in this course the student will have the feeling that they are take face to face class. Also, the student will try to do their best in this class because learning more than one language is good for their career in their future
The most salient characteristics of the students that I believe that will impact my design is my student need and there background of using technology ,how they are welling and interesting to study this course and student inter act with each other in their blog .
the design choices i think the student characteristics lead me to.
Chang my course that match their need
Do quiz and give them a lot of reading ,writing and pronunciation home work.
Try to provide them with good links that may interest them.

Course Goals:

make student know how to talking,writing and reading Arabic languageby using online tools

Course Objectives:

1-students will learn about Arabic basic like speaking and reading tools in online class.
1-Students will be a bole to discover a good way to pronounce the Arabic alphabet.
2-Students will be a bole to learn new Arabic vocabulary that matches their need.
3-Students will be a bole to modify more words that related to the subject.

2-Student will learn about how to write in Arabic.
1- Student will be a bole to write the Arabic alphabet.
2- Student will be a bole to use the Arabic scribed and numbers.
3- Student will be a bole to write some comment Arabic phrase.

3-Student will learn how to explore and deal with internet tools,
1- -Student will able to create an account in Skype and blog.
2- Student will be a bole to do research on the internet.
3- Student will be a bole to know how to use Arabic dictionary.

4-student will learn how to communicate in this online course .
1- The student will be a bole to communicate with the content of the course by using black board
2- The student will be a bole to communicate with the instructor by using e mail, blog, Skype and discussion board
3- The student will be a bole to communicate with other student by comment in each other blog .
4-the student will learn how to evaluate each other work and do survey.

5 Student will learn how to evaluate the online course:

1-Student will be able to evaluate the course content and design

2-Student will be able to evaluate the online tools that had been use in this course

3-The student will evaluate the home work and the quiz

4-The student will evaluate the instructor ,them self and the way of communication

Interactions:

There are several type of interaction through this course will be: I will take three first objective wich are :
1-students will learn about Arabic basic like speaking and reading tools in online class.
2-Student will learn about how to write in Arabic.
3-Student will learn how to explore and deal with internet tools,

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1-students will learn about Arabic basic like speaking and reading tools in online class.


Student-Content Interaction

1-The student will log into the blackboard to go over the schedule and the syllabus.
2-The student will read the text and try to pronounce the Arabic alphabet .
3-The student will try to practice on some Arabic vocabulary,
4The student will access the link that related to the topic.

Student-Instructor Interaction
The student will take home work after each class and they have to post it in their blog and send it to their instructor as e mail.
The student will send any question to their instructor by e mail or post it in the discussion board.
the student has to participate in the dim dim and answer any question that may arise by instructor .

Student-Student Interaction:
Student has to comment on other student blog
Student can shat with other during the lecture if they have question,

2-Student will learn about how to write in Arabic

Student-Content Interaction
Student will go over the schedule and the syllabus in the blackboard
Student will practice to write the Arabic alphabet
Student will downloaded the text and try to write Arabic scribed and numbers.
Student will try to exercises some Arabic phrase.
Student-Instructor Interaction:
The student will send all their question to the instructor by using e mail.
The student will comment on the content on Skype during the lecture time.
The student will send their home work to the instructor by using e mail
Student-Student Interaction
The student will comment on each other blog.

3-Student will learn how to explore and deal with internet tools,

Student-Content Interaction;
Student have to review the syllabus and the schedule.
The students has to review the links that I provide for them in order to create blog and account on Skype
The student will practice on how to use the Arabic dictionary
The student can download the lecture after they had been taking it with the instructor
Student-Instructor Interaction:
The student will send their assignment by e mail
The student will send their question on their blog so the instructor will answer them
The student can ask question during the lecture that will be on Skype
Student-Student Interaction ;
Student should write positive comment in each other blog

Course Level Design and Lesson Level Design
The class that I create include the schedule that show what each student should do during the course the objective is the topic of my course I provide my student with their assignments and what should they do and what is the last day I will accept their work and what type of interaction will be in each session