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.

Plagiarism is theft or stealing someone else’s work. Plagiarists can lose their jobs, fail their courses, or be kicked out of universities. The person who is being plagiarized may sue the plagiarist in a civil court. If you answer “yes” to some or all of the questions, then you are guilty of academic dishonesty, cheating, theft, plagiarism, and copying without the other person’s permission.

1  Do you submit a piece of writing and pretend that it is your own work?

2  Do you submit photos and pretend they are yours?

3  Do you cut and paste articles from another website into your website?

4  Do you present someone else’s ideas and pretend that they are yours?

5  Do you write ”copyright” at the end of your work when it is someone else’s work?

6  Does your work follow the arrangement or organization of someone else’s work?

7  Do you fail to add sources at the end of your work when you have taken the ideas from someone else?

8  Do you make a PowerPoint presentation by cutting and pasting work from someone else’s website?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

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.

http://www.inalbum.com/gallery_ip.html

http://www.slidestory.com/

http://creativecommons.org/image/

http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.htm

http://jingproject.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://www.planetestream.co.uk/

http://www.shutterstock.com/

http://www.slide.com

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/guides/photoalbum/

http://www.masternewmedia.org/where_to_find_free_images_and_visuals/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources