Hands across the Oceans » Presentations

Links for CALL

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:09:44 +0000

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.

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?

Sources

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:38:29 +0000

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).

Art Gallery and Museum Presentations

Dot MacKenzie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:46:05 +0000

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.

Kuwait University On-line Learning System

Dot MacKenzie — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:24:26 +0000

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.

162 PowerPoint Presentations

Dot MacKenzie — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:52:09 +0000

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.

Edited Bird Flu

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: presentation 162)

162 Presentation Checklist

Dot MacKenzie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:11:19 +0000

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)!

#	To Do List	Style	Page of W/P	Week
1	Choose your topic			Week 2
2	Give topic to teacher			Week 2
3	Find 3 sources: 1 from book 2 from Internet			Week 3
4	Print out your articles			Week 3
5	Save Internet articles on flash drive			Week 3
6	Write down your sources in the correct format			Week 3
7	Make 1 outline synthesizing information from 3 articles	I Introduction II Body III Conclusion IV References	3	Week 3 – When you type it, make sure the numbers are correct and that it is aligned. Add your sources here.
8	Cover page	Kuwait University Name: Student #: Subject: English Section: 162/ Title of Topic: Date:	1	Week 3 or 4
9	Prepare PowerPoint presentation	Must last for at least 8 minutes (speaking)	4+	Week 4 in lab.
10	Prepare any handouts for students		Appendix
11	Prepare other things for presentation, e.g. scuba diving gear
12	Write paragraph describing how you proceeded with presentation and benefited from completing it – Title: Reflections on the Presentation		Appendix	Done in class. Corrected. Now you have to type it to add to the presentation book.
13	Prepare written presentation	Times New Roman Font 12 Double spaced Bold headings and subheadings At least 3 pages, maximum 7 pages	After W/P	You have to change the outline to an essay. Add to presentation book. You must have it ready by the end of Eid if you want me to correct it.
14	Put everything into booklet	Cover page Table of contents Outline Written presentation PowerPoint Reflections Appendix	1 2 3 4+ at end	By week 12
15	Bind everything in plastic			Week 12
16	Give to teacher			By 30^th December Week 13
17	Put presentation on flash drive			Week 13
18	Make sure flash drive and data show work in classroom			Week 13
19	Give presentation			Week 14 4^th Jan 2009 onwards

Cover Page

Kuwait University

Name:

Student #:

Subject: English

Section: 162/

Topic:

Date:

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)

First Slide:

Name:

Section:

Teacher:

Title:

Date:

Second Slide:
Introduction:

Definition

Thesis statement

Body Slides:

Include some English text and pictures, photos and/or a video.

Talk must last for about 8 minutes.

Third last slide:

Conclusion:

Second last slide:

Thank you for listening.

Do you have any questions?

Last slide:

Sources: (cut and paste from the outline)

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.

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

141 Presentations from Kuwait

Dot MacKenzie — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:55 +0000

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.

Bibliographies or Sources

Dot MacKenzie — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:58:57 +0000

Introduction:

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).