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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?

Ashban’s Geology Field Trip

Dot MacKenzie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:51:42 +0000

Here are some pictures from Ashban’s last field trip to Kraa Almroo, an oilfield in the west of Kuwait.

Bombs found in the field

Ashban in the DC-80 truck (it cost $1.2 million)

DC-80 truck

Round the World with 3 Kuwaitis

Dot MacKenzie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:13:43 +0000

Our Shared Planet Motorcycle Adventure

Join three Kuwaitis on their trip around the world.

Photos from Lifelong Learning Day

Dot MacKenzie — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:59:28 +0000

You can see my photos of the event if you click here.

Technorati Tags: Lifelong Learning Day,Kuwait University Language Centre

Interesting Videos and Photos

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:29:18 +0000

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

Mr. Zed Al Refai

Dot MacKenzie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:59 +0000

Mr. Zed Al Refai is our guest speaker on the 7th May 2009 at 11am. We are very pleased that he is coming to the English for Lifelong Learning Exhibition.

Geology Field Trip

Dot MacKenzie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:48:53 +0000

Ashban Mazeal supplied these photos of a geology field trip to Falaikha Island, off the coast of Kuwait.

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.

Mohamed’s Website

Dot MacKenzie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:55:21 +0000

Mohamed Al Marei has interesting pictures in his website. It is in Arabic, so you will be able to understand it.