Hands across the Oceans

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.

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?

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 21^st Century. 2002 Http://www.thethirdway. (June 2003).

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.

You will find interesting courses in this website.  You can register using your student number and the password “welcome”.  You can work through the courses at your own speed, either in the university or at home.

The students in 162 have to produce and present a presentation on a scientific topic as part of their course requirements. A selection will be published in the slideshare website.

162 Presentation Checklist – Ms. Dot (revised 4th December 2008)

Tick the boxes when you complete each part of your presentation assignment. The presentations will be given in the last 2 weeks of semester. Don’t procrastinate (put off doing the assignment)!

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Outline

Written Presentation (outline to essay)

PowerPoint Presentation

Reflections (paragraph you wrote in class)

Appendix 1 (article 1 heading)

Appendix 2 (article 2 heading

Appendix 3 (article 3 heading)

Blog

You can make a blog, 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.  This will be an online portfolio.

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.

The 141 students studying English in the Faculty of Social Sciences had to prepare and present PowerPoint presentations in the computer lab classes.  You can see a selection of them by clicking on this link.

When you make up your presentations, you must include a slide with your sources when you complete your PowerPoint presentation.

If you use more than one source, you must write them in alphabetical order.

1  Encyclopedia

“Title of article”. Name of encyclopedia. Date of publication.

“Animal Ecology.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 1990 ed.

2  Book

Author (last name, first name). Title. Place of publication: Publisher, Date.

Commoner, Bernard. Science and Survival. New York: Viking Press, 1966.

3  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.

4  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 21^st Century. 2002

Http://www.thethirdway. (June 2003).