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In the last week I had been at the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO at the University City in Sharjah for my work placement. I was really happy and I was really interesting in going here for my work placement because I really believe that the UNESCO is stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture. Moreover, I feel  it is a great opportunity for me to work with any of the UNESCO branch which was my dream because I believe that the propose of this center suit our society and community my college staff.  Furthermore, I think that this work placement allows me to apply what I have studied at my college. Also, I think that this work placement helps me to know how to deal with adults which is a new thing for me to work learn about. I have studied different information about that in my Work Placement Course and from some other articles that I read of how to deal and motivate adults, but now I have chance to practice it firsthand.  Moreover, I believe that this course helps us a lot to connect our studying with the real environment.  In my view point, I believe that this work placement helped me a lots to share my improve my skills in creating website using Dreamweaver and to learn more about Networking security and video capturing.

While working with the staff in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO, I learnt different skills and knowledge about different types of technology used in education such as Video Capture. I noticed form Mr. Taha about this new technology for keeping video records for all of the training and workshops that were presented in the centre. The equipment that they used is very easy to use. They just used Dom camera, video recording,  Advanced Multi Media servers and network server. Because Mr. Taha is the ICT engineer, he has a screen connected to all of the Training rooms to records all of the workshops placed in. Moreover, he can monitor the rooms and swap between the corners to take different views for the workshop.

We learnt different information about the servers that the RCEP used for their folders and files. I was really amazed when I enter the room. I noticed from Mr. Taha that there are two brands used for the servers devises which is Dell and Hp. Moreover, he gave us a clear description for all of the devises and their cables. It pleased me to know more about the three kinds of wireless connection companies such as SSICO, Trapez and Arooba. Moreover, I learnt different information about the  two types WAN and LAN in the Communication Room (MDF). Moreover, I saw the Etisalate battery. Furthermore, I was amazed from the different devises that they are using and the function of all of the cables and devises. Furthermore,  we learnt the different Advanced Multi Media servers. In addition, Mr. Taha showed us the Sound System and how it is connected to the Video Capture in all of the training rooms. It pleased me to try it by myself when I connected to Training Room 1.

When Mr. Taha show us how they do the video capture, he showed us a new interactive tools that I like it which called the Interactive Learning Screen were the users can capture three types like the full screen, practical and windows. I noticed from Mr. Taha that they used Interwriter work software which allows the users to

In developing the website we sometimes faced some problem especially in the Arabic part because Dreamweaver do not sport the Arabic language, so we do different appointment with some of the colleges Educational Technology staff. Who I want to thank them: Dr. John Raven, Miss Karen O’Donnell, Mr. Mohammed Hassan and Mr. Peter Campbell  Who really helped us a lot to finish the website.  

During my working placement at the RCEP, I recognized the differences between working in an organization than working in a school. First of all, I learnt how to deal with adults which force me to deal with them in a professional way. Also, I learnt how to plan for creating effective website and the main point in evaluating websites. Moreover, I learnt different information about the servers and Network Security.

By the end of that week we finished the website and we submitted it to Mr. Taha and he liked it. 

Today was my last day at the working placement in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah. It was an excited day for me because I submit the website and because at the college we celebrated for the National Day. 

At the morning, at  8:00 I copied the website file and I gave it to Mr. Taha. I was shocked because he said for us come and make presentation about the website. I was disappointed because he did not tell us before so we can be ready to present the website for the staff there. About 10:00 Mr. Taha taught us how to use the interactive slides to make the training interactive by using Interwriter work software. I noticed that to connect the slides to the main computer you will need Bluetooth Flash. It pleased me to use it and to learn more about who we can use it. 

At 11:00 we left the RCEP building to go to the college and to celebrate the National Day. Because I noticed that the college gate will be closed at 11:00. I was really happy there were lots of activities that I enjoyed them all of them.

Today was my ninth day at the third week in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah. It was an excited day for me because I did assembly about our program which is Educational Technology and Miss  Maryanne visit the RCEP center.

At the morning, from 8:00 I was preparing and practicing for the assembly. Then at 9:00 we did the presentation in front of Mr. Tony, Miss Glenda, Miss Maryanne, Miss Fiya and Miss Ola. It pleased me that I did the practice well. But I had a problem in pronunciation of  the word innovative so all of the teachers were trying to help me to memorize it.

At 10:00 the presentation started I was really nervous, but I did well expect that I forget how to pronounce the word. I was really proud of myself all of the teachers told me that I did well at the end. At 12:30 we went to the RCEP with Miss Maryanne to give the feedback for us. The meeting was amazing we share our learning and knowledge. Also, I like it because we share our experiences with them.    

At 02:15 Miss Maryanne took us by her car to the college instead of walking down to the college in the hot and dry weather. We were very thankful for her.

I was really happy today because I met Miss Maryanne and because tomorrow is the National Day celebration.    

Today was my eighth day at the second week in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah. It was a very hard day for us because we were learning new technologies and we learnt more about servers and network. 

At the morning, from 9:00 – 10-00  Mr. Taha taught us about the servers. I was really amazed when I enter the room. I noticed from Mr. Taha that there are two brands used for the servers devises which is Dell and Hp. Moreover, he gave us a clear description for all of the devises and their cables. It pleased me to know more about the three kinds of wireless connection companies such as SSICO, Trapez and Arooba.

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Then we moved to the Communication Room (MDF) where we found the two types WAN and LAN. Moreover, I saw the Etisalate batter. Furthermore, I was amazed from the different devises that they are using and the function of all of the cables and devises.

Moreover, we saw the Advanced Multi Media servers. In addition, Mr. Taha showed us the Sound System and how it is connected to the Video Capture in all of the training rooms. It pleased me to try it by myself when I connected to Training Room 1. Furthermore, It like Interactive Learning Screen were the users can capture three types like the full screen, practical and windows. I saw a useful software which is Interwriter work software. I noticed that you can download it in your laptop if your screen is press touch. 

Finally, today I left early because I have a meeting with Mr. Tony about the Assembly that I will do tomorrow. So Please DON’T FORGET TO PRAY FOR ME.I was really happy today because I learnt new information about Technology. 

Today was my seventh day at the second week in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah. It was a very successful day for us because we finished working in the website which make us crazy like talking to the screen and slapping the computer. 

At the morning, from 8:00 – 11-00  we were working on the website. Finally we finished about 100% of the website. Salha faced some problems so she decided to go to Mr. John to help us and scaffold us. We tried our best to rewrite the code to helps us to solve the problems that er faced them in coding.  

Today also were some visitors who are from Human Resources from Sharjah were they had a workshops and trainer in Training Room Number 5. From that I recognized that the second purpose of this centre it is a placement where some of the instruction make their workshops in.  I was hoping to attended the workshop but I have many work to do so I have to complete my work. 

When I was asking Mr. Taha I saw new technology in his office which was the lecture capture which is to capture all of the videos which are connected to the Dom camera to record all of the workshop training. I saw that display on a TV in Mr. Taha.

It was really an amazing technology that can helps to leave a records for all of the workshops and training.  

 I was really happy today because finally we finished the website.     

Today was my sixth day at the first week in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah. It was a hard day for us because we still working in the website which make us crazy like talking to the screen and slapping the computer.  

At the morning, from 8:00 – 1-30 we were working on the website. Finally we finished about 70% of the website. We used Dynamic website to add to the website some element and animation to make it attractive. We were facing some problem such as the Head and the Body are closed and we have to change the template. Sometime, I started to write the HTML codes by myself to know where is the problem.

There were some visitors who are from Human Resources from Sharjah were they had a workshops and trainer in Training Room Number 5. From that I recognized that the second purpose of this centre it is a placement where some of the instruction make their workshops in.  I was hoping to attended the workshop but I have many work to do so I have to complete my work. 

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  I was really happy today because finally I finished my site section and just I am going to add some advertisements.    

Reflective

In the last week I had been at the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO at the University City in Sharjah for my work placement. I was really happy and I am really interesting in going here for my work placement because I really believe that the UNESCO is stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture. Moreover, I feel  it is a great opportunity for me to work with any of the UNESCO branch which was my dream because I believe that the propose of this center suit our society and community my college staff.  Furthermore, I think that this work placement allows me to apply what I have studied at my college. Also, I think that this work placement helps me to know how to deal with adults which is a new thing for me to work learn about. I have studied different information about that in my Work Placement Course and from some other articles that I read of how to deal and motivate adults, but now I have chance to practice it firsthand.  Moreover, I believe that this course helps us a lot to connect our studying with the real environment.  In my view point, I believe that this work placement helped me a lots to share my improve my skills in creating website using Dreamweaver and how to deal with adults trainers.

While working with the staff in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO, I learnt about the main propose for this center. After we had our first meeting with Mr. Taha, I noticed that this center helps the Ministry of Education for planning new strategies in teaching and creating different workshops for teachers, administrators and the ministry staff.  Moreover, I found that Mr. Taha has a good experiences in different places. Although he is an IT Engineering in Network Security but he is familiar with different  technology. I noticed that he is like an encyclopedia in Information Technology, because he is knew different information about the Technology age I knew different information about the newest technology about the solar energy system on using personal Computer.  In addition, he spoke with us about the budget of the Ministry of Education and how did the use the money for improving the Technology use in schools which I found it interesting because I was thinking about the budget of the Ministry of Education and how they spent them.

Moreover, Mr. Taha  discussed with us about our work that we are going to work in the two last weeks in our working placement.  The first task that we are going to work in is to develop their website. And the other task he is going to show us some new technology about video captures for the conferences. He gave us his business card to open the website of the centre to write down some suggestion.

When we open the website we wrote some suggestion because we have to show Mr. Taha our planning for developing the website. I noticed from sharing our ideas that this helped us a lot to scaffold each other and it helped me to recognized the meaning of groups work were we share ideas and thoughts to complete task or to produce materials or products. Moreover, we went to have a meeting with Dr. John Raven and Mr. Peter Campbell who gave us some suggestions to help us to improved the website effectively . I believe that Dr. John and Mr. Peter  suggestions was very  effective and useful for developing the website.

We find that we have to:

·        Centered all of the pages.

·        Changed the Main Menu font color.

·        Change the scroll down menu by adding some submenu

·        Justify the text.

·        Create style sheet.

·        Small navigation bar

·        Check the hyperlinks to work effectively.

·        Make some paragraphs

·        Add some advertisements about the workshops.

When we brainstormed  we tough that this will make the website attractive more than it is now. Mr. Taha liked our plan for developing website but although we would like to improve it more but the administers refused to make the changes that we would like to do.

We started to develop the website using Dreamweaver it is ongoing and we hope that we will finish it soon.  First, we created the template for all of the pages this will to save time because we can apply this template for different pages instead of creating the pages for the beginning. Then we decided to divide the website between us to help us to develop the website. I took the English site and Salha took the Arabic site. After that each one of us started to developed the pages following our plan. Moreover, we used Dynamic website to help us to make the website more attractive and interactive. Mr. Taha had with us a regularly meeting to know how far we are in. Furthermore,  I learnt from showing Mr. Taha our work day-by-day helped us to get different feedback which scaffold our learning and brainstorming helped to improve the website step by step. 

While we were creating the website we faced some problem in developing the RCEP website. The first problem that we faced was the button. After we created the buttons we did not preview the site so we create all of the pages and then we recognize that the buttons did not appear in the website. We really become crazy because we spent all of our time in creating the buttons and page. After that when we solved the first problems, we faced the second problems. The second problem was the button we cannot link them to the pages. So we decided that instead of wasting our time in trying to solve the problem, we created our own buttons using Adobe Photoshop and Paint.

 During my working placement at the RCEP, I recognized the differences between working in an organization than working in a school. First of all, I learnt how to deal with adults which force me to deal with them in a professional way. Also, I learnt how to plan for creating effective website and the main point in evaluating websites.

By the end of that week we finished about 70% of the website which I worked on them from Sunday until Thursday. 

Today was my last day at the first week in the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah. It was an excited day for me because Miss  Maryanne.

At the morning, from 8:00 – 11-30 we were working on the website. Finally we finished about 70% of the website. We used Dynamic website to add to the website some element and animation to make it attractive. We were facing some problem but we solve it and figure it out. I like Google Talk because I used it a lot to contact my classmate.  

I was happy because Miss Maryanne is coming to visit us today.  Miss Maryanne arrived at 11:30 and she called me to come and booked her from the car parking. I took her to my Supervisor Mr. Taha and we had a nice conversation. After that Mr. Taha took us to see Miss Mahrah who is the director of the center. It pleased me to have a meeting in the meeting room in with Miss Mahrah, Miss Maryanne, Mr. Taha, Mr. Moktar, Salha and I. we had a kind of formal meeting but it was very friendly. At 2:00 Miss Maryanne left the centre and she was happy.  

At 02:15 Miss Mahrah took us by her car to the college instead of walking down to the college in the hot and dry weather. We were very thankful for her.

I was really happy today because I met Miss Maryanne and because tomorrow is my brothers’ wedding so please wish for my a good luck and also for my brothers.   

Today was my forth day at the Regional Center for Educational Planning of UNESCO in University City in Sharjah.

At the morning, from 8:00 – 1-00 we completed the working on developing the website. Finally we finished about 50% of the website. It pleased me to developed the website because I believe that this project will help me to develop my skills in Dreamweaver.  

Unfortunately, Salha faced a problem in the Arabic because of align to the right. But I hope that Salha will figure how to solve the problem. Furthermore,  we noticed that there is a meeting for Al Gaad School to create a new planning for the next year.  

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At 12:45 we had a meeting with Mr. Taha. It pleased me to see that he like our work and he gave us an effective feedback.

I was really happy today because we Finished about 50% of the developing stages although it made us crazy. But that’s WHY  I LIKE DREAMWAVER because it helps me to think critically to solve the problems that I faced them.