Salha’s blog

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Hi All

I post this picture which descripe that nowadys most children are dedicted to the computers.

Overall, although the technology is very useful, it has many disadvantages in children.

What Do You Think??????

I still have some problems with Dreamweaver. As I mention before that the DreamWeaver do not support Arabic.

So, I am trying to solve these problems and I met Mr. Mohammed from the educational technology section and he helped me with it.

After that, we had a meeting with Mr.Taha and  Ms.Maryaane. it was fantastic meeting because we discuss different things about the technology and the problems that face the IT person.

I believe that Mr. Taha is expert in the technology and IT. He told us different stories about the situations that he face and how he solved them. I learnt a lot from him. I learnt how to be confident and face the problem in the same time. I hope to be in the RCEP next work placement.

Today was a amazing day during my work placement. Mr. Taha took us around the department showing us the different sections that has IT and Technology.

First, he showed us the Server Room which has IDF Cabinet (Power Over Network), Camera to observe the server room, Multimedia devices such as :FM, CD player, Multiplexer for sound and DVR for camera recorder.

Also, the server cabinet which has UBS for network timing and 2 kind of storage which is:

·         NAS network(Network area storage) for file sharing.

·         SAN network(Storage area network) for sharing storage between servers.

Then, we went to the Communication Room. It has Management switch, fire wire, IP phone, Etisalat units and digital telephone. He described for us how it works and the different kinds of cables.

After that, the Translation Rooms. It has advancement multimedia and devices that control the sound and translate it.

He showed us the multimedia projector in one of the training room  and how it is connect with the active screen , active screen has a pen that you can control it using the pen. I noticed that it is similar to the Smart Board. I saw that he used the Interwriter work software.

Mr. Taha asked us to go to the Translation room and switch on the Microphone power as a training.

I like the software that they used and their work.

Finally, I went to the library and I noticed that the book are not organized  on the shelves. I suggested to put an employee for the library.

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This week I was in the Regional Center For Educational Planning Under the auspices of UNESCO.

During this week I had learnt different aspects of the career  life. From my view, the business organizations are completely different from schools and dealing with teachers. I think that, both of them has positive and negative sides. For example, schools have  nearly close environment, but the business organizations have an open environment that you can deal with people from everywhere and got a big different  community. However, in schools you get more care than in the business organizations.

Our project is to develop their website(http://www.rcep-unesco.ae/ ) which is quite simple and passive.

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First of all, I worked on the Arabic section. After I got Mr. John opinions about the website I decided to change the font and the layout. Also, I added a sidebar and some pictures and interactive elements such as JavaScript.

I learnt how to make a JavaScript for an Image that when you rollover mouse on the image it became larger. It was difficult and I found some problems but I solve it with a friend assistance. I believe that, friends’  help is very important to motivate me and instruct my knowledge.

The most problems that I faced is the template of the website. Also, the Dreamweaver doesn’t support Arabic. Although, the problems that I faced, I finished most of the website.

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Furthermore, I noticed the different meetings that hold in this building. They do different activities and training meetings. They have variety of technology to help the trainer. Technology help learners to better understand and motive them. Also, make the learners active not passive. One of the technology that I had look at and interested in is the lecture capture which refers to the use of a set of technologies to capture the audio and visual elements of a presentation to enable remote viewing. Depending on the technology used, viewers can connect live to see the event while in-progress or view a recording on-demand after the event has completed.

Finally, I learnt from my supervisor how to deal with the problems and impolite request from others. As he said” IT person should be very very cool”.

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Today I feel that I did a great job. We finished the website ,but there is some changes I have to do in the website.

Also, today I noticed that there were meetings for the human resources.

I learnt a new thing about the lecture capture which is a video with sound and picture of the hall or the meeting. I found it in the Mr.Taha office and we asked him about it. It is amazing technology that you can share others meeting without attend them.

Finally, I am planning to go to the Mr.John  to help me solve the dream weaver problems.

As every day, I was working on the website and I was trying to fix the JavaScript of the map image. I found the code but it is difficult to include it in the code page because I have to follow specific steps. I asked Reem for help and she tried to help me.

I noticed that there was a meeting in the RCEP building. I recognize that it was a training of the National Human resource Development and Employment Authority.

There were two traning room.

Today we had an tired day because we worked hard in the website. Also, I faced many problems in improving the website.

I have difficulties in including the JavaScript. Also, me and Aisha are trying to find the way to make the calendar and Agenda.

I was happy today because Miss Maryanne in my work placement. We had an exciting meeting discussing very important points with Mr.Taha and Miss Mahra. We talked about the courses that we are studying and the teaching practices that we had.

Also, Ms. Maryanne talked about how is technology applied in education.

Today we were going on our website. I found difficulties with the template. Also, the Dreamweaver doesn’t support Arabic. 

I will try to ask our teacher about how to work with Arabic in the programme.

We had a meeting with Mr.Taha to show him what we have done. He was happy and asked use to complete doing the Calendar and Rss.

I noticed  that there was a meeting with some mangers of the Al Ghad School discussing about a new planning for the curriculum.

We put our ideas together to improve the website. From  the  mooring , Mr.Taha gave us the resources of the website to start working in. Me and Aisha created a template and divide the work  between each other. The website will be in both Arabic and English. Aisha is working in the English one  and I am working in the Arabic.

We faced a problem in doing flash button because they were not working and we decided to do the buttons in Paint ^_^.

I think today we have to work hard to show our supervisor the final formatting.

From the mooring,  we were working in the website and write suggestions for the supervisor to develop the website. After that, we had our breakfast. Then, we had meeting with supervisor and told him about our suggestions for the website and he add some comments that will help us. Also, he interviewed us for the Manager.

We did an interview with Dr.John and Mr. Peter Campbell  to give us some opinion to improve the website.