Mar 29 2008
Reflections from Kuwait
Dot, Kuwait
In the short time that we have been running the project, it has been interesting to notice differences in the students.
1 In Kuwait, most of the classes are segregated. I have two boys in one class that mainly consists of girls.
2 Some of my students are veiled, so that you will never see them in photos or videos.
3 It is also unlikely that any of them will produce a Voicethread using their own voices. If I have male classes again, perhaps they will produce videos.
4 The knowledge of computing is quite low for some of the students. They are not used to sending emails in Arabic, let alone English.
5 They love seeing their own names on the Internet, even if it is only when photos they give me are published.
6 It is very gratifying to see them mastering even a low level skill using a computer.
7 We cannot devote too much time to the project, unless we continue with work that is connected to their syllabus. Towards the end of semester, we will produce more paragraphs that the students in the other countries might find interesting.
8 At the moment, they are working on PowerPoint presentations, but I cannot upload them onto the Internet as they usually just cut and paste someone else’s work. I am trying to tell them about the horrors of plagiarism!
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