Mar
25
2008
1 Displaying work
http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org
Our blog with pictures, words and videos from our students. Subscribe by email and you will get information about new posts.
http://esleflstudents.edublogs.org/
Student showcase for work by students in Kuwait, Hungary, Argentina, Brazil and the USA. You can post comments and questions there. Subscribe by email.
http://ritamz.ning.com/
Argentina
http://finally5b.21classes.com/
Brazil
2 Mind-mapping
www.mind-mapping.co.uk/assets/examples
http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/mind-maps-examples.htm
Examples
3 Blogging
https://www.blogger.com
Learn to blog. To get the English blog, change the language box in the top left hand side, and then the box in the top right hand side. Once you set up your blog, you can add your favourite links, photos, videos, your movies, and your paragraphs, at the end of semester.
http://coolkuwaitdaysandnights.blogspot.com
Blog in Arabic
Http://confashions.blogspot.com
Fashion in Kuwait
4 Interesting links
www.6billionothers.com
Great site
www.freerice.com
Build your vocabulary and donate rice.
5 Blackboard
Check out Blackboard to see if there is anything new.
Mar
10
2008
Week 2 - Introduction to Useful Websites
The 090 CALL Project can be accessed by clicking on the link. It is designed for remedial students studying in the ELUs in the Faculties of Arts, Education, Science, Engineering, Law and Science in Kuwait University. It introduces the students to basic computing skills and researching, using the Internet.
http://bb.kuniv.edu
Up to date information about Kuwait University courses
http://elu090.tripod.com
090 information
http://kuniv.edu.kw
Kuwait University website
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~elu_sci
ELU Science website
http://kuwaituniversity.blogspot.com
Virtual library
http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org
Information for KU students
Web surfing
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/
www.wowusa.com/Internet101
www.eslcafe.com/search/Internet_Basics
www.geocities.com/vance_stephens/papers/cyprus2001/workshop/
Week 3 - Emailing
http://bb.kuniv.edu
http://yahoo.com
http://hotmail.com
Week 4 - Online Dictionaries
www.encyclopedia.com
www.yourdictionary.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Week 5 - Why?
http://whyfiles.org/
www.askjeeves.com
www.howstuffworks.com
www.sciencegems.com/
Week 6 - Jobs and Careers
Week 7 - Genetic Engineering
www.fi.edu/explore.html
www.awesomegrades.com/schools.html
Weeks 8/9
NO LAB SESSIONS
REVIEW/MID TERM EXAMS
Week 10 - Aid Organisations
www.oxfam.org.uk
Week 11 - Traditional Medicine and Folk Healing
http://kidshealth.com/
Week 12 - Crimes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.history.com/
Weeks 13/14 - The News
www.cnn.com
www.bbc.com
www.weather.com
www.spaceweather.com
http://blogger.com
www.crayon.net
Nobel Prize
www.nobel.no
Just for fun
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/
Examples of final CALL project
http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~callproj.htm
Weeks 15/16
NO LAB SESSIONS
REVIEW/FINALS
Feb
24
2008
1 Introduction:
When you are surfing the web, you will find many interesting sites, and ones that are not so interesting, inaccurate, or useless for other reasons. Complete the following table to evaluate 2 websites that you have visited. You can save them as favorites in your home computer. If you go to the back of this book, you will find space to write down the urls of sites that you find interesting and/or useful. Write a brief note beside them to remind yourself of their contents. You can also save them as favorites in your home computer. Give this paper and a print out of the first page of the two websites and give them to your teacher.
2 URlS
http://www.yahooligans.com
http://enchantedlearning.com
- Date visited
- Brief summary of site’s contents
- Is the site correct, reliable and accurate?
- Is the site up to date?
- Is the content interesting, funny, relevant, useful or entertaining?
- Is it easy to find your way around it?
- Does it use a lot of graphics, sound or multimedia files?
- Do all the links work?
- Is it fast or slow?
- Notes
Based on CUP worksheet, 2000
