Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is an area that makes communication and data usage easier and faster. It remedies the problem of losing files or having your data unavailable due to physical means issues (unavailable USB or hard disk...). Cloud computing help you save and use files from any location in the world. You may wish to work and edit certain files using your lap top, tablet, iPad, of cell phone which is possible using a computer cloud. Many times we may suffer from our files being lost due to some virus which is impossible with the cloud since it doesn’t upload files that contain viruses.

You may send a file that contains some error or needs to be edited after you’ve sent it. The cloud provides you the opportunity to fix things on the document without resending it again where the changes will directly occur to the file received by the second party, which saves you time and appears to be more organized.

Cloud computing can make your old fashioned computer a much more updated one through letting it run faster, the fact that you are using the cloud not the computer or device.

Another important feature is that the cloud allows you to use the printer from any device and any location. You can be at home and use the printer found in your office. Google printing can be setup using Google print service and Google Chrome.

There are several types of cloud services including storage only cloud services, SAAS (soft as a service) and PAAS (Platform as a service). Some storage only cloud services include OneDrive, google drive, Icloud, and DropBox.

SAAS is a service that offers software that run on the cloud, which is accessed for free including Google Docs, sheets & Slides and Microsoft office 365.

PAAS is a service that allows users to create SAAS applications and allow the user to build and deploy a web-site on the cloud. Examples of PAAS include Ipage, Engine Yard and byethost.com (free web hosting).         

Cloud antivirus is another special service provided by the cloud. It submits your files to the cloud to be scanned for viruses. Cloud antivirus runs on the cloud and is faster and lighter than traditional antivirus. One of these great antivirus provided by the cloud include the Panda Cloud antivirus which is for free!

To conclude, technology is developing very fast, so that we are sometimes sluggish behind it. Cloud computing is much more than what was mentioned above. It is very effective and efficient for the use of students, teachers, doctors and every single person who have faith in the power of technology!

National day for students with learning difficulties

In the sake for enhancing teacher’s knowledge about students with learning difficulties, ”world vision” conducted a training course at “Al-Makassed” school to increase teacher’s awareness of such issue. 

It’s almost impossible to go through your teaching journey without encountering a student with learning difficulty. It may be your student, your children, your relative or someone you don’t know. It’s obvious that every student is unique, the fact that each student has his own strengths and weaknesses. For that, a teacher can’t compare students to the ideal student in the class; rather she must focus on students’ progress according to their own capabilities. 

Teachers are responsible to guide each student and help in developing the strengths and remedying the weaknesses. 

Many teachers refer to some students as being foolish and lazy, the fact that it’s not their fault sometimes being the way they are. It’s just the way that their brain works.

The teacher’s academic and humantary role is to enrich the teaching process with special techniques to help these  students cope with their learning difficulties through concentrating on the strengths of such individuals (vision, listening, feeling…), and asking about the ultimate way to attract such student and involve him.

Teacher’s main role is to create humans. It only requires some faith that we can deliver our message and we can make out good people out of ordinary ones. 

It’s not about the percentage of students who get the point. It’s about comprehensiveness. If only one student was out of track, then a problem exist. The teacher should think of other ways to involve this student.  You must not be proud only of the good student, be proud of the week one that get your point and get on the way. 

Feedback must be given according to the student situation, not in comparison with the “benchmark”.

Teachers must be aware of some properties to discover if there is any learning difficulty behind.

• Going to the bathroom repeatedly
• Talking out of turn
• getting into trouble around exams activities, or heavy periods of study
• Forgetting stuff related to school
• Cheating frequently and copying others work
• Being the class clown
•  Always having  reason why he have not completed the work
• Always being out of time
• Can’t distinguish between words
• Week analysis
• Memorization difficulty
• Difficulty in the automatic memory(he knows but forget to do..)
• Psycho-motor difficulty
• Lack of participation
• Reading problems
• Miss reading the question
• Do not understand what he read (information processing)
• Bad handwriting
• Undesired learning outcomes
• Writing phobia (hate to write)

All of these signs may indicate a learning difficulty triggered by the way the brains of such individuals work. These signs may be tricky sometimes, where a student having one or couple of these characteristics may be just a normal person affected by some psychological or sociological factors.

The role of teacher here is to diagnose the situation and try to find out a good therapy!

Chemistry or No Chemistry!

Your hearts meet and your eyes speak? You dream for future and live for the moment? You feel sparkles in the eyes and many many feelings that can’t be traded? Too many bonds, special connections, reactants and products?? 

If this is the case, then it’s CHEMISTRY.

Reactants: He + She

Products: love and love and love…

Word equation: He + she --> LOVE

More specifically: Adrenaline + norepinephrine + Dopamine + Serotonin + Phenylethylamine --> euphoric love 

Signs of chemical reaction:

·         Feeling of pleasure

·         Psychological arousal

·         Rapid heart beats

·         Shortness of breath

·         Excitement

·         Lover-sickness

As any spontaneous chemical reaction, love happens instantly. It either happens spontaneously from the first sight or it would never happen. Chemistry would explain why a person having a “full package” may not be the right person unless you find out some chemistry. I actually use this word too often to corroborate why a “full package” person would not fit. But I found out that it’s not just a word, it’s actually the chemistry of love. There are several hormones that interfere with your impressions as you see a person for the first time. These hormones include Adrenaline, norepinephrine, Dopamine, Serotonin and Phenylethylamine, which are responsible for that euphoric feeling that you feel for such one person. This irresistible cocktail of chemicals is induced actually by our brains. The fact that it’s not feasible to say “I love you from the bottom of my heart”, rather it’s more appropriate to say “I love you from the bottom of my brain!” I guess it’s more specific: p