Good Times Come to an End!

Team members getting their certificates of participation in the NHS club activities

We started our activities in the mid October 2014 with 21 brilliant students. The key mission of our club is to learn, hands-on, different web skills like blogging, using mails,  social media in learning and effective communication skills. So far, I can say that we did our best to accomplish our goals and we succeeded in that. 

I want to thank all the club members for their participation and patience with me, sometimes I could be too demanding! Three of you, however, were more involved than the others namely Aymen Felhi, Baha Mhadhbi, and Rahma Belarbi. You'll get your digital badges soon. I'm proud of all of you and I consider myself the luckiest teacher to have students like you.

Proud of you Khawla!

Khawla Mohsni is a talented 2nd year student and a member of N.H.S. club 2.0 . She has recently taken part in a contest organized by the regional board of education. Khawla was awarded  the first prize.

The jury were amazed by the performance and the maturity of her ideas. They predict she will be a distinguished writer.

The following is her piece of writing in which she praises working women, the unskilled category in particular, and describes their daily hardships to earn a living. She was inspired by the woman in the picture in her train journey back home.

   

سلام على الكادحات .. الصامدات الباقيات ... هناك نساء بلدي يقاومن الحر والذل . من أجل لقمة العيش يعشن للعمل ، في ارض العباد التي لم تحمل احلام الضعفاء .. هي (وكل هن) يقفن على ناصية الحلم ويقاتلن ، لا اعرف ان كان لي الحق ان التقط لها صوره لكن عجزت امام وساخة القدر مقهى بالجوا يعج بالرجال ، وهي تعمل بدل الف رجل تحمل ونقطع الاشواك والشجر .. فلو كان المدى لقطعت جذور قذارة البشر ، سلام عليك والسلام فيك قله يا من تنعمين بالشقاء والمذله .. لكن الله لا ينسى من يعمل ولا ينسى من في سبيل الحياة يجتهد . سلام على نساء بلادي العاملات في الحر او البرد او الحرب او القصف . انتن نساء ونصف بل كل الحق لكن ؛ # بدلا من حملات الميني وغيرها قفن ودعكن من الطرهات يا حراير تونس فمن لا تلبس الحرير مكانها هنا .. بين زقاق الحياة المزدحمة ..  كل الاحترام لك

ولهن..

وليس لاشباه النساء

What we are Doing

Our activities on PhotoPeach

Scratch

Nabheni Scratchers have been busy for the last two sessions of the club playing around scratch to learn the basics of coding and to create an educational game.

                                                Playing around Scratch on PhotoPeach
     

                      Here are some projects the students made... way to go, but it's a good start.

Session Six: Creating a website from the idea to the realization...

Creating websites a school website shouldn't be trivial, that's why we have to do some research on what to include in a school website, how to build it and so on.

                                                          Click to view the source

After explaining this to the pupils, the tasks were  devided among the different groups.

The photos group
The about our school group
The about Hammam-lif group
A group about the vision, the philosophy of the school.
The website creation group, Aymen Felhi and me. Aymen was of great help and displayed advanced skills and I awarded him the Coding and Blogging Hero Badge, which I created.

                                                     Visit Aymen's Blog to see his other badges

Suggestions ...  he wrote his suggestions in a blog post. Most of his ideas were accurate.

Session Five is about Creating blogs on Blogger

Most of the students have previously created their gmail accounts. During this session they'll learn how to create a blog on blogger. I used a slide showing each step to follow. After creating their blogs, they create an about me page where they write a paragraph to introduce themselves. The links to the students blogs are on the widget side bar.

Session Four

Session 4 video editing and storytelling on PhotoPeach

The moments of rehearsal and recording for the 3 groups

A video published in You Tube showcasing one of the groups work:


The Lion's Cage's the N.H.S. Club

Session Three

web search, advanced search 

Session Two in Pics on PhotoPeach

Our Club Poster

Our club poster includes our  mission and the learning outcomes for the members. The key mission of our club is to learn, hands-on, different web skills like blogging, using mails, and social media in learning and the effective communication skills. The club was launched in October, 2014. And activities are still carried out...

A sample badge

     Session one of the club was for introdctions, setting the goals, and ice-breaker games.