About Website

Our website is meant to enhance the positive impacts of music on us.  We do not preach anything; we want simply to raise youngsters' awareness of the huge benefits we can have through positive music and to draw the attention of adults and mainly parents to certain disastrous types of music their kids listen to. The researches we made concerning this topic are of great help and have a highly educational value. The different rubrics provide important information that can be used both by students and educators as well and can be a starting point for discussions and problem-solving debates. Hence, our target audience is is 16 and over.
Technically speaking, we used FrontPage editor to develop our site, some software like Macromedia Flash, Swish, Adobe Photoshop, HotPot and just one sound file. Most pictures have been hand-drawn and have a direct relationship with the content. We did our best to reconcile  content and technique.

Team Members

   Souha

I’m Souha. I was born in Tebourba on 04-06-1986. I have three brothers and one sister. I’m studying in Hannabal Secondary School which is one of the biggest schools in Tunisia. That's why I make many friends so easily. I love my school  as well as my math and English teachers. Therefore, I’m interested in math and English subjects.I usually like reading novels and listening to classical music in my free time; it helps me to forget my problems. I like listening to Mozart symphonies and I wish I'll be a very good and famous pianist.
 

Farah

Hi! I'm a "joyful" girl, aged 18. My name is Farah and it means joy. I love music and it's vital for me to listen to my favourite singers like Coldplay, Oasis, Placebo, Jeff Beckley, Travis,and Enrique Eglesias.
 In my family, we are 6 members : my parents, my brother and my 2 sisters. No one can imagine how much I love them.
My best friends are Fairouz, Senda and Zeineb. I thank them to bear me despite my strong character.
I'm very active when I'm motivated, when I'm convinced of what I'm doing.
  I'am brillant in my studies and I'am in a special school (the pioneer school) which accepts only brilliant and hard working students. It is a good experience for me which has allowed me to meet hundreds of student like me and to learn to accept others and work more and more to be one of the best students. I will take my Baccalaureate exam this year (2004-2005) and I wish to have a very good mark that will allow me to study medicin.
  I love arts, all types of arts. Since 2 years, I have taken lessons of painting. I'm not fond of  Vangogh but I admire him very much and try to learn his techniques. I believe that Vincent Vangogh is the best painter; he painted  the reality as he saw it, he inderstood it, he imagined it.
 

Raja

I’am Raja, I was born in Tunis, in 03/04/1987. I love my two brothers because they pamper me. I study in Mornag Secondary School. I’am very kind and pleasant with others that’s why I make many friends. I love my school like English, Itlalian and mathematical teachers.   
  Also, I’am interested by natural scienceand physic science. I like to listen to all types of music, in anytime and anywhere, because it helps me to equilibrate between my soul, my brain and my body.
 

 Primary Coach

I'm Gamra ZENAIDI, married and a mother of two children, Ala and Ichrak. I've been teaching English at secondary schools in Tunisia for 19 years. Now, I'm an ICT teacher trainer in CREFOC of Rades, Tuinsia after a 2-year-course I had in the integration of ICT in education. I think it helps a lot to be updated in the information technology field and to use its positive sides into our everyday teaching. That's why I'm thinking right now of going back to teaching to have the opportunity to practise what I've learnt and to work with my students on lots of projects.
  I'm very interested in collaborative projects mainly those which enhance global dialogue and understanding. I'm personally engaged in different projects via internet through e-mail, forum and teleconferencing.
  Apart from this, I write poetry and short stories both in English and in French. I wish I could find more time to manage all the projects I have.
 

Assistant Coach

I'm Mohamed Mohsen Jeliti, a Tunisian painter and sculptor. Married and father of 2 kids. I organized many exhibitions. I'm also a writer and an art critic. I published some books and I write newspaper articles regularly.
My vision of life has always been simple since my childhood and it continues to guide me when I create : Love, Beauty, Kindness, Peace.

Teamwork

 Teamwork Seen by the Students

Hi! We are Together team members. We want to tell you about our experience with Thinkquest contest.
 Indeed, it's our first participation in an inernational competition, and we can affirm that is a strange and an exciting experience : We have to create our  website. It is a lot of work and different emotions. And no one can imagine our hapiness and anxiety when the work is "supposed" finished.
   Let us show you how we have lived this experience.
  In fact, in May, we were contacted by Mrs.Gamra Zenaidi who talked to us about the Thinkquest competition and invited us to participate. We were motivated and excited .
  Our first meeting took place at our coach's home, on the 15^th  of May.  We chose together the theme of our website which was "Music".
  We were four members. Unfortunately, Mohammed, left the group because he was not patient. We didn't have any technical knowledge to create the website. Fortunately, our coach  was ready to help us.
  The work was fascinating despite the stress and fatigue. We really enjoyed  the two first months (June-July) which were devoted to Internet search and getting information from  some books like "Le flamenco" of "Maurice Bois". We contacted also the secretary general of the Higher Institute of Music in Tunis who let us  visit their library and consult books, studies, and memoirs of some students.
   During this period, we learnt how to use Internet, how to manage with ICT tools which will help us in our studies at school. August was very tiring period because we had to revise all the content, translate it to French or English,  scan photos and pictures, make hyperlinks...etc
  Through this experience we have learned to overcome some problems like the work space; in fact we worked at our coach's home on her computer, at Raja's home, in CREFOC for search on the Internet and we had somrtimes to go  public Internet centers.
 This taught us to be patient and accept others' opinions. We have enlarged our knowledge and vocabluary and now we pay more attention to what we write and to our style.
  After long hours of hard work, we were ready to edit our website but we always  had  new ideas to add or change. These changes were an opportunity for long and exciting debates which allowed us to understand the full  meaning of collaboration. Each one of us had to do a task like searching information on Internert or preparing our interviews or correcting our articles and all this was done in group with our coach who was also our friend.
 In addition, this experience allowed us to discover one another and to learn how to be more open-minded and  more understanding. Indeed, before this work we didn't have any relationship. Now, we are friends and we spend time together on laughing and playing since we met nearly everyday .
  Now, the work is finished and we are happy, tired, excited, and anxious. We want really to thank our coach who was also a team member. She was with us in all steps of work; she adds ideas, helps us to understand some information, advises us to perform, encourages us, teaches us how to use ICT tools like Front Page, Photoshop...She was always ready to sacrifice her time and also her responsibilities towards  her family to help and motivate us. All this work is a success for us : Having our website.

Teamwork Seen by the Coach

It's my first experience as a primary coach in TQ competition  although I've been coordinating the program in Tunisia for 3 years now. TQ is really an extraordinary opportunity to learn collaboratively and to use  different ICT tools despite the technical difficulties we meet, mainly due to the absence of internet connection and a regular work space.

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