Hands across the Oceans

We all buy many products and then throw them away after we have decided not to use them, buy new ones, or they break.  Watch the movie and discover why it is not a good to have so much stuff.

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

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

Blogger

Useful for online portfolios and advertising businesses.

5  Kuwait University

Kwuait University

6  ELU Science

ELU, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University

Kuwait University Online Language Learning

Dot MacKenzie

7  Mind Mapping

Mind mapping

8  KU Online E-learning

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

EFL Students

You may post comments and add data to this site.

11 Voice Threads

Voice Thread

You may transform media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

12 Presentations

Slideshare

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.

16  Faculty of Science Guide

18 ELU Science Wiki

ELU Science Wiki for teachers

19  Animoto

You may use Animoto to turn your photos and videos into unique video pieces.

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.

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?

What makes Toronto special?

Multicultural Uniqueness

You will have to create an account with Animoto.

Maryam Khalid’s video – What makes Hawaii unique?

IEDRO is an organisation that stores information about the weather that is in danger of being lost.  They are always looking for volunteers and would appreciate it if you would encourage your students to volunteer for our programmes.  The IEDRO website can be found by clicking on  and the Facebook link can be found by clicking here.

IEDRO is an organisation that stores information about the weather that is in danger of being lost.  They are always looking for volunteers and would appreciate it if you would encourage your students to volunteer for our programmes.  The IEDRO website can be found by clicking on this link.

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

Interesting photos and videos can be viewed in Lifelong_Learning in the posterous website.

1  Go to a local museum or art gallery.
2  Introduce yourself.
3  Ask if you can take photos or make a video.  You must get permission
from the curator.
4  Take photos and/or make a video.
5  Collect brochures from the place.  Try to get one big poster size one.
for Lifelong Learning Day.
6  Make your PowerPoint, flowgram or video clip.
7  Include:
-Name, student number, section and teacher’s name
-Introduction
-Map
-Photos with description/name in English
8  Copy presentation to CD-Rom.
9  Put CD-Rom, brochures and poster in box in secretaries’ office.
10 Please send me a copy too.
11 I am not allowed to correct them but I will correct them and send them back after the exhibition is over, and display them in the hands’
blog.

12 You will probably be able to use it for your 162 presentation,
although it is much more detailed and needs more English in it.

13  http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/what_on.htm
List of art galleries, museums, and other places of interest.  Choose
one place only for each presentation.

14 161 students – you can make up a table comparing two places, and then write a paragraph or essay comparing them.