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What a day! I have never heard about so many exciting tech developments that are totally usable and available for free!  Augmented reality, 3D cameras, recording pens and alliens from outer space!

The class today was beyond any expectations. Even though I have enjoyed exploring  my blog on my own yesterday I couldn’t have imagined how many thing can be done with it. I am sure I only know a fraction of possibilities but I am excited to be able to apply the new knowledge and tools.  I am especially excited about the embedded translator. What a great way to keep the parents who don’t speak English involved in their kids educational process! I am also super excited to discover the whole embedding process. Adding videos, surveys, links can really break the monotony of text and provide useful tools for learning. ESL or any language learning, I am afraid, is still very much a paper and pen activity. I really hope to learn more about how to make language art teaching more interactive, how to help students create things online to be shared with each other and for collaborative activities. Oh, the possibilities! I am looking forward to going back and working with my private students using these tools. I am very interested in learning about the use of the smart phones. Every high school student has got one. Now that I have one too I can try it out and then pass my experience on and get more experience interacting with students. Bring it on, Craig!

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Wow, my own blog!  Thanks, Craig. I have been dreaming about this for a long time. 

I have arrived in Cairo today for the last time to do yet another class. Not that I don’t like taking classes or that I don’t really like Cairo but I was so surptised to actually feel excited driving from the airport into the city. It felt like coming to home away from home. May be the fact that I have finally found my driver and that he finally found his car at the enormous parking lot had something to do with the feeling of finally being comfortable. Or may be the fact that I have run into of one of may be 20 Egyptions I actually know as I have arrived. It was great to see a friendly face and to get a great hug and a feeling of being welcome after travelling all day.

My appartment is a bit cold but I am a trained Norwegian so I have my woolies with me to help me through the night.  But overall of course it is on average 25 degrees warmer here. A taxi driver who picked me up this morning in Prague was complaining that he couldn’t get out of the road in front of our house because of the ice  The driver here in Cairo was also complaining… about how cold it was today at 20C.

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