In this 5th video of the series, it is time to get your ideas together.
In the last video we gathered ideas
Now we need to give them structure
Can you give your ideas some kind of logic?
Can we turn them into steps (or lessons?)
TASK:
Review your ideas
Put them into a logical order
Improve on what you have
Add anything else that is relevant
Keep it simple
(video length: 3.15 minutes)
All the best!!
In this 4th video of the series, it is time to get your ideas together.
What kind of knowledge do you have?
Are you enthusiatic about it?
Even not?
Does it solve a problem?
What are the steps needed?
TASK:
Write down your ideas
Begin to create an outline
Break it down
Do not try to be perfect.
Just start writing
(video length: 3.18 minutes)
All the best!!
in this 3rd video of the series, I discuss what many fear, the dread of speaking in front of others.
A talent that we all possess, but rarely used. I discuss what you can do to overcome your fears.
TASK:
Stand in front of the mirror
Record your voice
Listen to yourself
Video yourself
(video length: 3.48 minutes)
All the best!!
There’s a teacher in everyone!
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What kinds of work, business & life experiences do you have?
Can others learn from the insights you’ve gained?
TASK:
Think about all of your experiences to date (everything!)
What could you talk about or share?
Write them down
(video length: 7.59 minutes)
All the best!!
There’s a teacher in everyone!
In this video I talk about why teaching may be something to consider. Not necessarily as a full-time career, but more as an additional skill. What do you think you could teach? What knowledge do you have? After you watch the video (video length: 3.48 minutes), think about what you could teach others, or rather, what others could learn from you? Feel free to share your thoughts.
In this intro video I introduce the idea of teaching as an additional and useful skill to have. I briefly go over how I tansitioned to becoming an instructor. This is an intro video, and I will be posting more videos in this micro-series.
Kais Dukes a former PhD student of Leeds University and creator of the Qur’an Corpus ( https://corpus.quran.com/ ) has passed away. His former PhD supervisor Dr. Eric Atwell confirmed this to me.
The Qur’an Corpus was Kais Dukes attempt to capture linguistic aspects of the Qur’an, using ideas from corpus linguistics.
Basically, the corpus is an analysis of the language of the Qur’an.
Source: https://corpus.quran.com/documentation/grammar.jsp
Not wishing to get into too many technicalities, he was able to (with the help of volunteers from around the world) analyse much of the Arabic of the Qur’an
We use language everyday, and take it for granted. In reality though, it is the intricacy with which language is put together, that gives it, it’s beauty.
The figure above provides just an example of how words fit together.
Although Kais produced this brilliant piece of work, in reality, for the last 1400 plus years, Arabic language scholars already achieved an accurate anlaysis. It could be argued that his work introduces the language of the Qur’an to a wider audience, using a more accesible format.
Kais’s work has provided a platform that can act as a take-off point for researchers and educationalists, and society generally. There is a thirst to understand the meaning of life, and perhaps some of us can extend, and realise the potential of this foundational resource. In reality, I would suggest his work is just a beginning, and needs further validation and development.
I never met Kais Dukes, but we had a few communications via email, coincidentally including in the middle of 2023 when he messaged me asking if I could help him set up a charitable entity.
I pray that Kais’s journey into the next life is full of ease and mercy.
If there are any inaccuracies in what I have said above, or if you wish to add anything, please do.
At the time of writing, over 10,000 Palestinians including almost half of them being children have been killed in a month.
Can you imagine over 4,000 children having been killed!! Look at your kids. Could you face this?
Whole families have been wiped out.
Israel is committed to ethnic cleansing – The forced removal of Palestinians from their land.
Settlements – The illegal takeover of land and settlement of non-Palestinians on the land of the Palestinians.
Relentless bombing, clearly designed to kill anyone, be they men, women and children.
What I write here does no justice to the horrors of what the people of Gaza are going through, and frankly even those Palestininans who live in the West Bank.
The US, UK and Europe, powers that hold themselves up as beacons of light or progress have committed fully to Israels goals.
They are silent in the face of the atrocities and allowing them to continue. They talk about a temporay pause (not a ceasefire), despite what the world community wants.
The US is subservient to Israel and has sent battleships to the region, making its presence felt as a warning to those nations or groups who may want to get involved. Perhaps things will spill-over.
The West is damaging itself, and its support for Israel damages Israels long-term future, as all this will do will create more hatred in the hearts of the Palestinians, but also the world as a whole towards Israel and its supporters.
As the poor Palestinians die in front of us – because of social media, we see everything up close – the rules based order is on the verge of collapsing – the West is committing suicide, and with it, it’s influence.
Geopolitics will change – and powers will shift – which way exactly is difficult to tell.
What we can see though, is that the West has exposed itself.
A region that is ready to break international rules when it likes.
Suffering from an arrogance and self-righteousness that was the downfall of nations and empires in the past.
It was the downfall of the Pharoahs. They thought they were Gods, who gave and took life.
In the meanwhile, the Palestinians are showing the world what real courage is.
Courage that the rest of the world lags very far behind in.
“PEACE ON EARTH OR EARTH IN PIECES”
Do not let those who have lost the moral high ground ruin our future.
Step aside USA, UK & Europe –
You have failed.
It’s time for the rest of the world to take control.
Enough is enough….Times are changing….
The rest of humanity – Please step forward…
On the 2nd of Ramadan I was at work. I work part-time at a university.
I try to be quite animated in my teaching style. I will wave my arms around, prefer to stay on my feet, and walk around, as well as vary the tone of my voice.
Of course, I don’t talk all the time, and make sure the students speak more.
I was teaching from 9 am to 3.30 pm and was hoping that everything would be fine.
After midday and half-way through my second class, I started feeling something in my head. Yes, I was beginning to develop a headache.
At the start of Ramadan, many will start feeling withdrawal symptoms of various kinds. I knew what my headache was probably down to; lack of tea!
In these instances, we have nothing else to do but to carry on.
The headache stayed and got worse, but I continued as normal, waving around my arms, and speaking at the top of my voice, and being my enthusiastic self.
In reality though, I probably have it easy. There are people working in more difficult circumstances, and with longer working hours. I can think of construction workers being busy in physical work. I can’t imagine how they must get through the day (but they do!), doctors and nurses working 12 hour shifts, sometimes having to open their fast, or even start it in between the small breaks they have.
And then I remind myself of people who are in suffering as a result of poverty, or even being in war zones. The list could go on.
What unites people, is the sense of purpose Ramadan brings. To worship Allah (the creator of everything), and to place a greater emphasise on spirituality.
I had no headache the following day. I was beginning to settle into Ramadan.
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