Nov 21 2009
Archive for the '090 Remedial CALL Project' Category
Oct 23 2009
Links for CALL
1 Email
The university’s email system, found on KUMAIL. Login with your KU portal user ID & portal password. You must have an email account and check your emails every day. You must also be able to read and send attachments. Please make sure you send your email address, name and section to your teacher.
2 Blackboard
Click on Blackboard.
Log in with your student number and the password ‘test’ or ‘test 123”. You must also enroll for the 162 IELTS course or the 161 IELTS course. Some course documents will be displayed here. Remember to change your password. 2009 – 2010 courses begin with 091 and the course id.
3 Hands across the Oceans
Check out 161 IELTS, 162 IELTS and webquests. Some of your work will be displayed here. You may send essays, photos, videos and art work.
4 Blogging
Useful for online portfolios and advertising businesses.
5 Kuwait University
6 ELU Science
ELU, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University
Kuwait University Online Language Learning
7 Mind Mapping
8 KU Online E-learning
Computer, English and business courses. Others may be added. It is possible to gain certificates if you complete the courses. Login with your student id and the password “welcome”. Remember to change your password.
9 CD-ROM
There is a CD-Rom At the back of your “Objective IELTS” intermediate student’s book You may use the CD-ROM at home for further practice.
10 International Project
You may post comments and add data to this site.
11 Voice Threads
You may transform media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
12 Presentations
Some of my students’ presentations are stored here.
13 Research
You will be asked to carry out research using resources on the Internet.
14 Plagiarism
Make sure that any work or files that you want to display on the Internet are your own work. You must not cut and paste work from other websites and put it in your website, or use photos that are someone else’s work.
15 Help Desk
Extension 4444
The people working there will help you if you have computer problems.
18 ELU Science Wiki
19 Animoto
You may use Animoto to turn your photos and videos into unique video pieces.
Oct 23 2009
Blogging
A You can make a blog, e.g. http://www.blogger.com, with a friend if you want to. You can then display all the work for your presentation in it. Blogs are an easy, fast way to advertise a business.
1 Go to the Blogger website, and follow the instructions on the screen. Make sure your blog is in English.
2 Click on start now.
3 To create an account, type user name, first name, email address, and new password, and retype password. Remember to write down your password and the name of the blog, otherwise you will never find it again. (If you have an account, sign in).
4 Click on create a new blog in your blogs on the right side of the screen.
5 Type an introduction about yourself into your blog.
6 Save the blog.
7 Exit blogger.com.
8 Type your blogger address http:// (?????.blogspot.com) in the search box to make sure that you can access it again.
9 Give your teacher the address of your blogspot so he/she can print out your blog and correct it.
Oct 23 2009
What Makes a Country Unique?
Students around the world are taking part in a project showing videos and photos of what makes their countries unique. Here in Kuwait you can make a video about Kuwait, one of the other Gulf states or cities, or its wildlife.
Examples may be found in
What makes Brazil a unique country?
You will have to create an account with Animoto.
Maryam Khalid’s video – What makes Hawaii unique?
Oct 23 2009
Sources
Bibliography
When you write your bibliography or sources, you must write them in the correct way. Your teacher will tell you which method to use.
A Encyclopedia
"Title of article". Name of encyclopedia. Date of publication.
"Animal Ecology." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1990 ed.
B Book
Author (last name, first name). Title. Place of publication: Publisher, Date.
Commoner, Bernard. Science and Survival. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
C Book with Joint Authors
Authors (last name, first name, and first name, initial, last name. Title. Place: Publisher. Date.
Lewis, Theodore, and Lawrence R. Taylor. Introduction to Experimental Ecology. New York: Academic Press, 1967.
D Sources from Internet
Author’s last name, initials. Year. Full title of work (specific web page). Title of complete work. Full URL. Specify date you accessed the site.
Brown, G. Living in the 21st Century. 2002 Http://www.thethirdway. (June 2003).
May 05 2009
Are You a Plagiarist?
Plagiarism is theft or stealing someone else’s work. Plagiarists can lose their jobs, fail their courses, or be kicked out of universities. The person who is being plagiarized may sue the plagiarist in a civil court. If you answer “yes” to some or all of the questions, then you are guilty of academic dishonesty, cheating, theft, plagiarism, and copying without the other person’s permission.
1 Do you submit a piece of writing and pretend that it is your own work?
2 Do you submit photos and pretend they are yours?
3 Do you cut and paste articles from another website into your website?
4 Do you present someone else’s ideas and pretend that they are yours?
5 Do you write ”copyright” at the end of your work when it is someone else’s work?
6 Does your work follow the arrangement or organization of someone else’s work?
7 Do you fail to add sources at the end of your work when you have taken the ideas from someone else?
8 Do you make a PowerPoint presentation by cutting and pasting work from someone else’s website?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
May 01 2009
Interesting Videos and Photos
Interesting photos and videos can be viewed in Lifelong_Learning in the posterous website.
Apr 23 2009
An Environmental Hero
MakeBeliefsComix offers Earth Day printables for students to write and draw about the environment. If you´re looking for a good activity today to help students think, write and draw about Earth Day and the environment, you will find a useful graphic printable at MakeBeliefsComix.com that asks the question:
Imagine you were an environmental hero. What brave deeds would you do to save the Earth, and what would you call yourself?
For a copy of this Earth Day printable and more go to
Makebeli Comix and click on the PRINTABLES button at the bottom right. The feature also offers comix templates featuring characters from the web site, along with blank talk and thought balloons that students can fill with text to create their own comic strips.
This new MakeBeliefs PRINTABLES feature is the latest addition to the two year-old comic-generator site where educators and students from 180 countries come to build their own comic strips online and practice language, writing and reading skills. These new printable pages are taken from the popular “Make Beliefs and Pocket Doodles for Kids” books by Bill Zimmerman, and drawn by cartoonist Tom Bloom.
