Role Plays in the Classroom

An activity From Lesson 2, Unit One , 4th Year English Students'book SKILLS FOR LIFE

Objective: Developing students effective communication skills i.e. debating and interrupting.
Skills: Speaking
Aids; Handout1 , Handout2

Group work

Insructions: Are you for or against space travel?

Prepare a talk show with your group ( 5 classmates; a Presenter, two guests who are for and two guests who are against space travel.) and present it to the class. For this, you need to study handout 1 and choose your arguments, then, choose from handout 2, the expressions you'll use for debating and discussing. 

When Criss-crossed Lovers inspire students... a comic made by Firas Bjeoui

Firas Bjeoui, a second year arts students, summerized the text Criss-crossed Lovers in an original way. He made a comic out of the written story, thus helping his classmates remember that lesson, and giving evidence of his critical thinking skills and creativity.

Criss crossed lovers (storytelling) from Hayfa Mejdoub

 Powtoon 4 edu

Piktochart

audacity

Gimp

Movie maker

PhotoPeach

Freesound.org

SoundBible.com

You tube

Blogger

Soundcloud

Google maps

Slideshare

The team who contributed to creating the school website

Special thanks to all the club members who have put a lot of energy and effort in this project.
Special thanks as well to Lina, Dhia, Khaled and Islem.

Session 2&3 I used two google lessons
understanding search engines presentation
Google landing ; How search works on the Web presentation
https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/lessonplans


Session 4:
I used this video The Lion Cage of Charlie Chaplin in session4.
Sounds from freesound.org
https://www.freesound.org/search/?q=178174__robinhood76__04088-big-cartoon-tremolo-jump
https://www.freesound.org/search/?q=125093__dr-eel__door-squeak-20-02-11-19-1
https://www.freesound.org/search/?q=155523__planet-leader__doorslam2
https://www.freesound.org/search/?q=180977__suprasummun__barking-dog
https://www.freesound.org/search/?q=194993__soundmary__splashing-footsteps
https://www.freesound.org/search/?q=238224__n1ghthawk__wood-cracktest
Soundbible: Roaring Lion-SoundBible.com-527774719
Soundbible: Walking On Gravel-SoundBible.com-2023303198

Session Seven

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

Team

Without the collaboration of my dear students I wouldn't be able to  finish the project on time. So many thanks to the N.H.S Club 2.0 members and to Lina, Khaled, Islem, and Dhia from the 4th year math

Act for your Planet!

One of the hottest global issues is enviornment problems. In this episode the N.H.S. radio addressed this topic from their stand point. Spare some time and listen before it's too late!

"Don't Change the World, be the Change you Want to See in it!"

 
 Done in the framework of the campaign to collect plastic caps to help a student with special needs get a wheel chair.  We give the recycler the quantity of plastic caps we collected in exchange of an amount of money (relative to the quantity of collected caps) , Emel Tounes can then get the wheel chair. By such deeds you give hope to people, you act for your community, you change someone's life. The podcast and the campaign aim at raising students and the community awareness of those in need, and that help can be sometimes a random act of kindness. The motto used was "Don't change the world, be the change you want to see in it!"

 

Digital Literacy for all Students

This episode was recorded and brodcast in the school local radio within the frame of last year school project It's Worth Working For. In this podcast students talk about the importance of digital literacy, that is one dimention of the project, and call for a campaign to raise plastic caps to donate to the NGO we are collaborating with.

About a Charity Organisation

Aymen Felhi and Mrs Emna Orbay Lahbib, the responsible of Emel Tounes a Tunisian NGO. The interview was totally realized  online using vocarooas well as audacity to record and mix sounds and shared via soundcloud. Aymen sent the questions, and Mrs Emna replied using vocaroo, then both extracts were mixed and the IWWF ( It's Worth Working For project ) team added the school radio jingle with Abir Ben Mabrouk's voice.

Nabheni in a Nutshell

This video is about our school, special thanks to the N.H.S. Club members and to Lina, Khaled, Dhia, and Islem for their collaboration.

About my School, Sarra Ksibi

     Part of the work in N.H.S. Club2.0 students were asked to make presentations about their city (Hammam-lif) and  their school. Click to read  the google shared slides of Sarra Ksibi.

The link to Sarra's slides

Students using VOKI

Both Rahma Belarbi and Kawla Mohsni created a voki talking about child labour, which is a topic dealt with in  one of their lessons. What is wonderful is that they did it when no teacher asked them to do; and that's how technology impacts students motivation to learn. So I just invite you to Click the links and listen to what the voki characters have to say.

Rahma's blog

I Want to Become a Lawyer

I'am Sarah. I'm a Tunisian-Rwandan girl. I live in Tunisia. I'am studying in BACHIR NABHENI secondary school in the 2nd year arts. Before that, I  studied in BOU SOFARA school ...my favourite language is French, my best sport is basketball . I was palying in Hammam-lif's bascket-ball team. These are some of my photos (memories):

I have a dream...  I want  to be rich it ; I want to become a lawyer to defend black people and innocents ...

From Sarra's Blog

Aymen Suggestions to Make the School Website

Reposted from AF blog

Greetings, As we're currently working on the establishment of our school website, I wanted to make sure that I put my suggestions on the table. First of all, on the first page (the home page) only a welcome message should be displayed. This welcome message with information about the website and/or the school as whole such as: Historical information about the high school (when was it established, past directors etc.) Ways to contact the administration (phone numbers and so on) Hosters of the website and its administrators Purpose of the creation of the website etc The home page should be well designed along with using a sophisticated linguistic style. Now moving to the web pages-- I've been thinking about creating those web pages as they seemed, in my opinion, important: STAFF: This web page will be divided in two: "School Administration Staff" and "Website Staff" or "Website Administrators". School Administration Staff will contain the headmaster, administration officials that deals with access cards, nursing officer, school director. The roster of Website Administrators will, as the title says, contain the list of website administrators and hosters. INFORMATION CENTER: Any announcement, whether issued by the school director or any other entity, should be posted on the web page. An example of this announcements is the CSS week and before-CSS week. CONTACT US: A web page where all the ways on how to contact any school official entity will be posted in there. FAQ: "FAQ" is an abbreviation of the word frequently asked questions. Surely, you or your parent will have questions on mind but they can't find answers. Well this section will solve it all. If anyone has any questions, he will almost find the answers in there. CLUBS: This web page diverges into X amount of sections depending on the number of clubs we have. For example if we have a Handball Club and a Radio Club then it will be diverged into two sections. Each club section will contain informations on how to join this club, and news related to it so that the public gets updated with anything that occurs. STUDENT LIFE: Students will get the chance to write anything they want there, or write anything that they faced on a certain day or period. This web page can have a post verification option so that any post in there will need to be approved by an Administrator to avoid the use of a offensive language(s). ALBUMS: Album of photos reated to the school PARENT ZONE: A section designed for parents who have any questions or inquiries of if they want to share something. NEWS & EVENTS: Title says it all. Any event or any news will need to be published in here. SCHOOL PRESS: I guess we should have a school press so why not having Press Releases section? it'd be wonderful! Oh and yeah, we should make sure that NO COPYRIGHTS are being violated. The common violations are the use of other entity(ies) Graphics without the owner(s) approval(s). Those are just few ideas. I will update this post when I have more! Thank-you.

Today's session

hyba.kedimi: Today's meeting was one of the best meetings t...: Today's meeting was  one of the best meetings till  now, we all worked hard and had fun at the same time , it's true that we are ...

La Retraite c'est le Pied!

May your retirement be such that every day seems like Sunday!

"La retraite c'est le pied monsieur !", said Mrs Bouarada. Mr H'wass... now you can relax, no more stress of exam-paper correction, no more lesson plans to prepare. You've devoted long years of your life teaching students French literature and arts, but you've mainly taught them  life lessons, that they would be grateful for. You can relax because you know you've left your footprint in shaping a genarations education, combatting people ignorance, and building the nations fuuture. Here in Nabheni, we'll always remember you .

Our gift for you is a symbolic act, your best gift is knowing how well you served your nation!

We celebrate Writing Day

 One special event in our school was the writing day. Teachers and students  worked hard to organize, prepare, and celebrate what the pupils pens had poured. Students, motivated, amazed their teachers and displayed an unexpected creativity and imagination, both needed for writing.

 By organizing such an event we aimed at boosting the students talents by knowing that  what they write is for a real public. Students writings were displayed in pinboards and a comittee of teachers selected the outstanding students papers for a prize. Without the devotion of our teachers,especially Mrs Wertateni, the event wouldn't have been such a success!

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.

Our Vision of the Future

1st Year formers made this video in the frame of a school project, with which they intend to participat in a national competition. It illustrates their vision of their country in the future, including their school.

Blogging Tutorial Slides in French

Blogging Tutorial Presentation (French version) from Hayfa Mejdoub

World AIDS Day

 Like every year, Bashir  Nabheni  High  School  celebrates World AIDS Day. This day is very important for the people affected to feel that the world cares about them even if it is one day avery year. During the event,  we will have the opportunity to raise pupils awareness about AIDS, dig into this disease, as we will discuss several topics such as its causes, how to protect ourselves, and more importantly, how to deal with people who have this disease. A lot of people affected with AIDS prefer the choice of isolation from the outside world because they fear the reaction of the community that is sometimes harsh and because they feel they are segregated against. Also note that theTunisian Red Crescent will be present.  

Be there tomorrow, Monday, the first of December 2014, at ten o'clock in the morning at the school yard.

By Aymen Felhi, 2nd Arts Student

Our School Brochure

Read our brochure, we've included our school motto, our vision, and goals. We've also included different ways to contact us.

The face 

the back

We've included a 3D filpping copy in the widget sidebar. So place the cursor over the brochure and it will turn to show you the other face.

About our School

   

Bashir Nabheni Secondary School, also known as "Al Nabheni", is located in Hammam-Lif, Ben Arous, Tunisia.

The school was founded in 2003. We are a small School. We've started out with only 10 rooms, but the number has grown, and today we have 17 rooms. With 3 computer science labs, one equipped technology room, and a science lab. 

About a Charity Organisation

  Aymen Felhi and Mrs Emna Orbay Lahbib, the responsible of Emel Tounes a Tunisian NGO. The interview was totally realized  online using vocarooas well as audacity to record and mix sounds and shared via soundcloud. Aymen sent the questions, and Mrs Emna replied using vocaroo, then both extracts were mixed and the IWWF ( It's Worth Working For project ) team added the school radio jingle with Abir Ben Mabrouk's voice.