Alaa Sadik's Blog

ورشة عمل توظيف استخدام تكنولوجيا الاتصال في تعليم اللغة العربية

2008-03-26T06:07:00.002-02:00

تحديات تواجه تعليم اللغة العربية
التهميش المتعمد و الغير متعمد للغة، لقصور البعض عن استخدامها كلغة بحث و عمل وتواصل على مختلف الأصعدة.
التقدم العلمي و التقني و ما نتج عنه عن من ظهور قنوات معلومات و اتصال و مجتمعات تعلم تخطت الحدود الجغرافية و الثقافية.
عدم الاهتمام باستخدامات اللغة العربية في سياقاتها الوظيفية والمعاصرة في القراءة والكتابة والاستماع والتحدث.

Happy New Academic Year

2007-09-10T02:34:00.000-02:00

Welcome back and happy new year at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. I wish to my students a good and successfull year. Do your best...

Cyclone Gonu hits Oman

2007-06-11T05:03:00.000-02:00

A powerful cyclone hit Oman's central coast with strong winds and rain early Wednesday, after thousands of residents fled to higher ground. People were told to stay indoors, while schools and public buildings were emptied to make room for the evacuees. For more photos of the cyclone please visit my gallery at www.alaasadik.net/gonu

SQU Cultural Center

2007-05-24T07:57:00.000-02:00

Yestrday I visited the Cultural Center at Sultan Qaboos University in a visit arranged by my Department. Really amazing building with the state-of-the art technology and facilities. The completion of SQU’s Cultural Centre, the biggest in the Middle East, is scheduled for mid 2008. The Centre has a multi-purpose hall with acapacity of around 5,000, a huge library, a reception room and accommodation for students attending the Centre for Omani Studies

Dale, Maths and Pictures

2007-04-04T04:49:00.000-02:00

Today I have been talking with my students regarding Dales' Cone of Experience, and the importance of using pictures in communicating our messages. A student told me: "I found no maths pictures to be integrated in my teaching". I asked her: "What is the topic and what is the message you need to deliver to your students?", she said "Geometrical shapes are found everywhere in daily life". My answer was: "just go to Google Images and type sphere, for example'.

Playing with Images

2007-03-27T09:54:00.000-02:00

I have been playing with my son, 5 years old, and taking some photos for his digital album, when my wife asked me whether the above photo is real or artificial, edited by Photoshop, for example. What do you think?

Heavy Rains Batter Sultanate of Oman

2007-03-25T05:43:00.000-02:00

Muscat received its first major downpour of the winter when heavy rains lashed the city and many other places of Oman yesterday

Andy Goodwin's dash, showing how to use camera

2006-10-15T08:45:00.000-02:00


Andy Goodwin, Floyd, Ashley Barker, Jamie Kahalley, John Mixon, Matt Maverette, Bo Bo, his sister and cousin at the power lines, mud riding

Summer Trip

2006-10-02T03:55:00.000-02:00

My son Abdlrahman, 4.5 years old, in atrip to Nizwa, at which many natural and mineral water channels.

Attending IODL2006 Symposium in Turkey

2006-09-18T04:40:00.000-02:00

I visited Turkey last week to present and attend the 2nd International Open & Distance Learning Symposium 2006, Anadolu University. It was a wonderful trip.

2006-09-17T06:53:00.000-02:00

Just arrived to Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. The Public Relations Department arranged to us a nice trip to Nizwa, an old and historical city with wondrful castles and houses. As you see, colleagues and their children from around the world enjoyed that day.

We will miss you Prof. Mousa

2006-07-14T20:27:00.000-02:00

Tens of faculty members and their families at South Valley University gathered last Monday to say good-bye to the president of the University who spent around seven years working hard since establishing the University. Prof. Mousa will leave the campus by the end of this month going back to the Faculty of Medicine at Sohag University. Really will miss you but will never forget you. The president's successor is Prof. Abbas Mansour.

Educational Technology Lab

2006-05-22T09:32:00.000-02:00

Student teachers at Educational Technology Lab, Faculty of Education, South Valley University are in a practical test this week. Many models of optical projectors are used to train future teachers how to use technology in classroom teaching.

Sleeping Train

2006-05-02T08:48:00.000-02:00

I was with my family in our trip from Qena to Cairo last week. Using the night-sleeper train the journey takes nine hours in a comfortable beds, particularly for tourists and those who have children.

At Alsindibad amusement park

2006-04-28T19:44:00.000-02:00

At the first day in Cairo I took my kids to a famous amusement park called Alsinddibad. Too many shows and games are available for boths children and their parents. It was a very nice day.

Abdelrahman in Cairo

2006-04-28T19:35:00.000-02:00

I and my family have been in an open trip in Cairo. As shown in the photo, my son, Abdelrahman, in the City Centre explore shops and other places.

Graded houses

2006-04-11T19:10:00.000-02:00

I have been on my way to Edfu when I took this photo. Look at these graded hosues over the mountain, looks very amazing in three levels.

Happy Birthday Gran

2006-04-10T09:10:00.000-02:00

My kids and their cousins are grouped to take this photo with their grandmother, my mother-in-low, and to tell her Happy Birthday Gran.

Good tourism

2006-04-05T20:45:00.000-02:00

At my village Waborat Elmataana during the last weekend. As you see in the background too many tourists cruising on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, which is normal at this spring time of the year. This photo was taken by my son Abdelrahman (4 years old), who appers in yestrday's blog.

At the Nile in Elmataana

2006-04-03T12:12:00.000-02:00

I and my son Abdelrahman (4 years old) spent two days at our village Elmataana, Esna City, last weekend. The weather was very nice and Nile was full of tourists from around the world crossing the Nile in a tour between Lyxor and Aswan.

Quality Assurance and Accreditation Team Meeting

2006-03-08T17:57:00.000-02:00

Yesterday Tuesday I have been in a meeting in Sohag with Prof. Mousa, the president of South Valley University, and the quality assurance and accreditation team. Many important issues have been discussed and highlighted to develop the University QA plan and encourage faculty members to meet the university standards and develop their own plans. For more info, please visit the University web site at www.svu.edu.eg.

Bad day

2006-02-02T13:38:00.000-02:00

I was in Sohag City (450 km to the south of Cairo) yesterday and as you see they reconstructing their station and main roads. I and my family went there because my daughter Menna (one year old) has a minor problem in her eye (Lacrimal system). Believe or not we went to the doctor according to an appointment from the beginning of the week and took the train for 3 hours but he left his surgery without seeing her to catch the train. We returned back to our city Qena by the train. This journey took more than 8 hours. My children suffered too much.

Internet Explorer 7 released

2006-01-31T20:07:00.000-02:00

Microsoft took the wraps off Internet Explorer 7 Tuesday, releasing the new "preview" version of its Web browser to the general public for testing. The program, still a work in progress, is available for download from the Internet Explorer section of Microsoft's corporate Web site, the company said. The company, which began limited testing in July, had promised to deliver a public beta by the end of March. [From ZDNet]

Muhammad: Peace be upon him

2006-01-30T21:56:00.000-02:00

A Danish newspaper today issued an apology to the world's Muslims for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked a furor in the Islamic world. The drawings "were not in violation of Danish law but have undoubtedly offended many Muslims, which we would like to apologize for," the Jyllands-Posten's editor-in-chief Carsten Juste said in a statement posted on the paper's Web site.

Over the clouds فوق السحاب

2006-01-30T08:27:00.000-02:00

I took this photo in December 2005 on my way from Oman to Egypt via Kuwait Airport. It looks as an ocean of clouds. Sobhan Allah.