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What Makes a Country Unique?

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:27:27 +0000

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?

Sahara Kuwait

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:13:10 +0000

Sahara Kuwait is a golf resort beside the golf club near the Hunting and Equestrian Club. It has tennis courts, squash courts, a spa, and a gymnasium, as well as cafes, restaurants, chalets, a professional golf shop, and conference facilities.

Contact:

info@saharakuwait.com

Tel: 1840084

Arabia

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:49:34 +0000

Lists of places of historical and archaeological interest in the GCC states can be found in My Second Home in the Gulf website. It also has information about what’s on in Kuwait and Qatar.

Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates also has many interesting activities and places to visit.

What’s on in Kuwait and the GCC States

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:31:20 +0000

Lists of places of historical and archaeological interest in the GCC states can be found in My Second Home in the Gulf website. It also has information about what’s on in Kuwait and Qatar.

Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates also has many interesting activities and places to visit.

Our Favourite Links

Dot MacKenzie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:48:47 +0000

This is an ongoing project collecting students’ favourite links. If you have a link that you would like to share with the other students, please send it to Ms. Dot. Your teacher will give you the email address.

Arabia	Mapping Arabia Arabian Wildlife Technorati Tags: Arabia,Kuwait,Science,Computing
Arabian Universities	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Qatar Foundation
Astronomy	Nasa Making photos of space Amazing Universe
Biology	Biology blog
Books
Ashban Mazeal	Find any book
	Secondhand bookshop
Business	Aiden Yeh Business English Macmillan Business English Yallah Shabab
CADIE	CADIE’s blog
Chemistry	Videos about periodic table of elements
Clip Art	Clip art
Comics	Comics
Computing
Mohamed Aied	Programming Learning online about modern programming Languages (e.g. PHP and Java script)
Jaber Al Azmi	Sixth sense ted.com
Khaled	Programming How to learn c/c++ language (programming I), programming II and graphics.
	Latest laptops Shift happens Digital resources, ideas for storytelling and presentations ALICE Posterous Tim Berners-Lee Wolfram Alpha KU site for downloads Cybergeography Atlas of cyberspace
Earth Day	Earth Day
Environment	IEDRO IEDRO wiki Clean up the world Abandoned places in the world
Geography	Geography in higher education Worldmapper. The world as you have never seen it before Maps that matter Cybergeography
Geology
Ashban Mazeal
Grammar	Video clips and grammar exercises
Interesting	Galo Periscol 6 billion others American Stonehenge Our shared planet motorcycle adventure Links for TED Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa The brain Webecoist Our Amazing Universe
International Project	Eslefl sister classes
Jobs	Careers with Kuwait Airways
Kuwait	Old photos from the 60s Proud to be Kuwaiti Islamic superheroes Kuwait Free Photographers Pinoy Digital Photographers in Kuwait Sirdab6 Confashions Classified adverts Sahara Resort Yallah Shabab Caroline Head’s photos of the Middle East Technorati Tags: Kuwait,science,interesting websites
LOST	LOST
Maps of War	Maps of War
Mathematics
Abdulaziz	Convert anything
Movies	Science in films
National Geographic	National Geographic
Photos	Photo editing websites
Physics/Science	Geology forum Geology forum
Mohamed Al Hajji	Physics Science Blackboard Kuwait University
Omar Al Sa’ad	Science and technology
	Science First movie of individual carbon atoms in action NASA
Plagiarism	Plagiarism
Planet Earth and Beyond	News about the Earth and space
PowerPoints	Freedictionary.com
Screen Capture	Screen Capture Programmes
Toastmasters
Ahmed Hamad Johar	Kuwait
Vocabulary	Wordsift Wordle
Volunteering in Kuwait	Desert girl Kuwait Voluntary Work Centre
Webheads	Webheads’ blogs

Photos of Kuwait in the 50s and 60s

Dot MacKenzie — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:55:50 +0000

Click on this link to see some great photos of Kuwait in the 1950s. Link supplied by Eman Marafi.

Kuwait in the 60s.