Google Site

During our study at Dubai Women's College we have to study Management Information system and one of the related project to this course is Google Practical.As we previously learned about Google Tools we illustrated what we learned learned from the tools into a Google Site and Google Blogs; both of them are tools in Google.

In Google Site I chose ten tools to explain about them and add what I I learned.I created different page for each of the ten tools with screen shots and brief explanations under each image.The easiest tool for me was Google Docs; because I already didn't for the Google Project so I didn't take much time in creating the page.In Gmail I found it all the way easy; but the Gspace feature took a longer time from me.Otherwise,creating such site was fairly easy.I spend a longer time in taking and saving the screen shots where I have to decide which screen shot I should upload on the site.

In Google Blog where I am writing now, we have to enter ten blogs each week starting from the 21st of OCT till the end of this blog.I tried my best to do them at time and I found it much easier than creating the site; because most of the things are already done but you have to personalize your own blog.In the one blog I added a video from TED website and I found about this website from Mr.Tridib Chatterji Our MIS instructor; and from the day that I knew about I am visiting the website regularly to look at the videos where I discovered new knowledge and things about life.

I learned and I had fun while working on these two projects.This project will help me out in my career and my daily life; because it bring the technology to your hand where many people knew about it and try to develop themselves.From my point of view, I can only say that I did a great job.

Role Play

In Business Management Financial Services we have a financial marketing course in this course our class students should pair up and does a role play according a study case which is in the book. Today, Shirin and I did our role play where an angry mood customers enter the bank and went directly to the manager and complained that 125000 dirhams was withdrawn from her account and when the manger checked the system she founded that the money was paid against a check deposited by other client ; however she was refusing that she signed anything and she said that the other client forged her signature while the other client insist that the cheque was signed against purchasing a diamond necklace we solved this problem by checking the signature of the check by the signature on the system and we told both of them will come with the updates as soon as possible. This role play helped should us and example of the real world problems which we might face in our career.

Bazaar

Dubai Women's has an annual event the Bazaar where students from all departments come up with a business idea and implement it during the three days of the event.This year the Bazaar was held on the 8th, 9th and 10th of December.The final year students are not participating in this event except the Business Management Financial Services students who volunteered to run the bank where students, staff visitors exchange their Dirham's to Dhows (college's currency).I was working in the main bank where the most important workis done.Everyday, we should disterbute the money to each students in the six bank branches located in different areas in the college.Each branch has two shifts and each shift has two students; so that anyone who wants to exchange the money they can go to the nearest bank branch.

In the main branch we also should convert the Dhows to Dirham's as we are the only branch who has the permission to do this transaction.At the end of each shift bankers from all branches comes to us to balance their cash boxes and we should be careful in calculating the amounts.The mean branch also deals with any problems which faces other branches.On the last day, the main branch should convert the business's incomes from Dhows to Dirham's and the bank should take 5% from the income and this percentage goes for charity.

I believe the the Bazaar gave me an opportunity to implement what I studied at college in real life and I really enjoyed working with my colleagues where all of us were co-operated.

The Holiday

We had an Eid & National Day holiday which was for 10 days from 26th Nov to 5th of Dec. During this holiday I spent the time with my family and worked on my projects.

On the first day of the Eid all the family gathered in our house and celebrated the Eid which we really enjoyed.On the second day, we went to visit my husbands aunt in Sharjah and had lunch with all of my husband relatives.On the third day, we went to the Address Hotel I really liked and enjoyed this day because I came out from the study environment and had fun; we stayed at the hotel for two nights and this we returned home. On the 3rd of Dec we went to Shangrilla Hotel; and we only stayed for the day because my sister in law suddenly gave birth of her new baby boy so we returned to Dubai.

The holiday came at a time that we need to have a short break and to manage our projects time.In my point of view the holiday was entertaining and I was excited.

School Personal Finance Awarness Campain

On Tuesday, 10th of November 2009 we run the School Personal Finance Awareness Campaign as we welcomed 2 groups of students from 2 different schools, 27 students from Sukaina Bint Al Hussain Government School and 18 students from New World Private School. During that day, we decorated our class in a way that gives the school students an idea that they are in a Financial Services. At 10:00 am we assured Sukina Bint Al Hussain School students and then the New World School to our class when they reached our corridor and let them sit comfortably. First, we introduced the campaign to the students and its objectives. Then we started the actual presentation and involved the students to participate in it. Finally, after the presentation we asked them a question as an activity to make sure that they understood the campaign and we distributed giveaways to them to keep a print of the campaign on the students’ minds whenever they use their giveaways (Flash memory).
This campaign was an essential campaign that we run as we live in a spending based culture community who does not think about their future, so it was a great opportunity for us as a group to be able to do such a small thing that will have a great return to our society and to help the new generation build up themselves from young ages to manage their personal finance which will let them live in a stable financial environment.

Dubai Airshow 2009

People from different nationalities and ages attended Dubai Airshow 2009 from companies to interested people all of them were at this show. This year I attended the airshow with my teacher and colleagues from Dubai Women's College.

As soon as we arrived to the airshow area couple of ladies from EADS organization welcomed as and guide us to the workshop room where we enjoyed their workshop and get benefited from them and how they are handling their company from the business view.

After we finished the workshop we had a tour in the Central Hall ;then we went to Emirates Hall where we visited the Emirates Airline booth and I bought a notepad from them. After having a tour in the halls we enjoyed walking on the fresh air and taking pictures with airplanes background there were many attracting airplanes that we saw them for the first time.the Airshow started at 2 pm and this was the best part of our trip where we was attracted to what the pilots are showing.

The Airshow is one of the great shows that I visited through out my life and I really enjoyed the time that I spent with my friends.I advice all the people who could visit it next year to go and have a look at what Dubai can handle.

Emirates Islamic Bank Campain

Starting from the 8th of November we ran the Emirates Islamic Bank Campaign until the 12th of November. We started preparing for the campaign three weeks earlier. On the first day of the campaign we distributed the poster around the college and sat up the booth as well as the decoration. Moreover, we started to talk to DWC students and staff about our campaign and distributed few number giveaways. On the second day, we distributed the treasure hunt flags around the college and this was a good way to attract many visitors to our booth as we talked with them about the products and services available at EIB, then we gave them their gift which was a USB card and they were satisfied about the idea and the way of delivering the information. On the third, we had the school awareness campaign and so we had a shorter time to run our EIB campaign as we did it after the presentation; but we managed to talk to few people. On the fourth day, we distributed the flags again and we also were surprised because the students and the staff found all the flags and that means that the treasure hunt idea was successful; In addition, at that day we stayed longer time as we didn’t study in the last two classes so we went to our booth directly and continued our campaign and to cover the time that we missed on the previous day. On the last day, we kept our best effort in running the campaign, and at that day many teachers came to ask about the products and they were interested to have the skywards credit card.
Running such campaign was a great experience where we gained a lot of knowledge in customer service and about EIB. There were many things that made our campaign successful as we found that the location that we chose was the right place to run the campaign where many people passed by our booth and stopped to ask questions and they were also interested in the EIB products and services. Secondly, the treasure hunt competition was a reason for attracting many people to our booth. Last but not least, it was a great opportunity for us to run this campaign as we contributed in marketing for one of the local financial institutions in Dubai and it was a fun experience.

8 Secrets of success

I relay like this Video and it worthwhile that I watched it. Analyst Richard St. John spent more than 7years and 500 interviews researching the lessons of success. The eight lessons are really good.First passion like do your work because you love and not for money.Second, keep working this because nothing comes easily. Third, being good at what you are doing and lead it to success and practice what ever you are doing and this how you will become expert.Fourth, focus on one thing till you will success it. Fifth, push yourself and be confident to reach to and don't be shy.Sixth, serve others something value .Seventh , bring up new ideas and creations.Last but not least, Persist failure and continue what your are doing without stopping.

I believe that success has different ways to reach to it; but I also agree with the analyst and I who wants to success will reach to it no matter what happens.

My Son

Two days ago my son was really sick because he got a strong asthma attack.Since morning I noticed that he is not breathing well; but I didn't realized that it was too strong.Suddenly his condition get worse and I decided to take him to the hospital ;because he needed the oxygen and at home I only have the nebulizer where I only can add the normal saline. On the way to the hospital, I opened all the car windows and my son went quickly to set near the window to have some fresh air so it will help him to take in air; his face turned red and his chest started to wheeze; at that moment I was really disappointed and worried. We reached the hospital and the doctor checked him immediately and we stayed for two hours and the doctor advised me if it happened again I should take him to the nearest hospital.

I really learned from this lesson to be more careful regarding asthma and to be sure that he takes all his medications on time.

Google Project Reflection

During our studies at the college we have a Management Information System course where we did a project about Google.Each student had a topic where she trained others how to use her topic efficiently.

From this project I gained a lot of knowledge about Google. There were many topics that are interesting and useful.On other hand, there were topics that we already used before and we felt a bit boring doing it again; but this doesn't mean that the trainee was boring it is all about repeating things over. I really enjoyed working on this project and I learned the training basics including how we should attract others to our training secessions.