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The importance of reading

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       Hello everyone! I hope this blog finds you well.     As you can guess from the photography above, I have decided to dedicate this post to books, particularly to the importance of reading, as it has been accompanying me during all of my life and especially during these dark days we are all going through. I decided to write about books, because yesterday I came accross one of the books that I read when I was only 9 years old, "The Big Friendly Giant" by Roald Dahl (Maybe you've watched the recent film). I was surprised to see its brown stains or the stains of time as I like to call them, as it made me realize how much the time has passed and it made me meet my 9 year old self. It might sound a little bit odd, but holding this book in my hands reminded me of my dreams, promises of the past. I met my friends of the story and myself there. And I realized, that just like the book that now has the brown spots, but whose characters remain unchanged, I have

Using technology in education

 Hello everyone! As this is my first post, I would like to mention the impact of this new form of communication between us. The very first thought that came into my mind was how would I get used to it and whether I would succeed on opening an account. It turned out that opening this new "door" towards the huge world of technology was not that difficult that it would be, because the key was already given (the instructions given to us). Writing my first post, I can say I'm excited about this way of presenting my work, it seems like it is burden free of the pressure I sometimes have when presenting a topic in the real life.  We all know education is a very complex process and the teacher's roles are endless. One of these roles is to be a facilitator, to make the students understand the subject better. I can make a short comparison between my two teachers of history in my high-school. One of them made us read the text and later we would just reproduce the information,