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.

A You can make a blog, e.g. 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.

1  Go to the Blogger website, and follow the instructions on the screen.  Make sure your blog is in English.

2  Click on start now.

3  To create an account, type user name, first name, email address, and new password, and retype password. Remember to write down your password and the name of the blog, otherwise you will never find it again. (If you have an account, sign in).

4  Click on create a new blog in your blogs on the right side of the screen.

5  Type an introduction about yourself into your blog.

6  Save the blog.

7  Exit blogger.com.

8  Type your blogger address http:// (?????.blogspot.com) in the search box to make sure that you can access it again.

9  Give your teacher the address of your blogspot so he/she can print out your blog and correct it.

Examples may be found in

What makes Brazil a unique country?

What makes Toronto special?

Multicultural Uniqueness

You will have to create an account in Animoto.

Maryam Khalid’s video – What makes Hawaii unique?

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).

Translegal Legal English Dictionary

I Introduction

You will find useful information about presentations in the following links:

http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_/browse.html

http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_4/Homework_Starters.html#tcsel

Homework starters

http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_701538500/Science_Experiment_Oral_Presentation.html

Science experiment oral presentation

http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_701509750/Science_Fair_Project.html

Science fair project

II Presentations Based on Answering Questions

1 Is the weather worse than it used to be?

2 Can cars actually run on hydrogen cells

3 Does smell weigh anything?

4 Do we really use only 10% of our brain?

5 Artificial diamonds

6 Creating clouds

7 How do animals know when a storm is approaching?

8 Why is the moon larger when it’s close to the horizon?

9 How does a microwave oven work?

10 Swine flu

11 Lie detectors

12 Food can make us smarter

13 Boomerangs

14 The bends

15 UFOs

16 Aliens

17 The moon and tides

18 Why children have more allergies now than in the past

19 Likelihood of extraterrestrial life

20 Penicillin

21 Why do leaves change color and fall in the autumn?

22 Why do we blush?

23 Why do we have fingernails?

24 Why do we yawn?

III Other Topics

1  The scientific method

2  A history of science

3  UFOs

4  Alien abduction

5  The Bermuda Triangle

6  Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the 17^th century

7  The influence of Moslem scientists and philosophers on the modern world

8  Scientific controversies

9  Web 2.0

10 Space lab

11 Development of space travel

12 Development of World Wide Web

13 CERN

14 Aral Sea

15 Arabian Gulf

16 Endangered species in Arabia

17 Development of Dubai

18 Refugees

19 Water and Middle Eastern countries

20 Ancient monuments in the Middle East

21 The Nazca Lines

22 Strange insects

23 History of mathematics

24 Climate change, energy and transportation

25 Genetic testing

26 Human genome

27 Black holes

28 Gravity

29 Money

30 Coastal and marine ecosystems

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