Abdulla Masoud H00131565
Date: 23.05.2010. Time: 1025-1040.
Title: Endangered species & how to save them.
Introduction & wrap: clear introduction & statement of problem. Questions painstakingly handled at the end, in spite of some language difficulties.
Body language and eye contact were positive and adequate.
Slides: colourful & clear and well-handled during questions.
Some pronunciation problems with key words e.g. extinction/species, which could have been better practised beforehand.
Response of audience: interested, positive, favourable.
Faisal Saif H00133058
Date: 25.05.2010 Time: 1203-1213
Title: Junk food
Introduction clear; he fielded questions reasonably well.
Body language positive; eye contact OK.
Slides were colourful & informative. He did tend to read from the slides but, to be fair, he added his own observations, including a personal anecdote, for the slides.
Language was fit for purpose.
Audience reaction: quite positive.
Mohamed Saleh H00128186
Date: 25.05.2010 Time: 1225-1235
Title: Hacking
Introduction and question-handling competent.
Enunciation was loud but quite often inaccurate. Not always 100% clear but, overall, quite effective. Some linguistic errors, e.g. he have & he need (on a slide: poor prep.)
Body language positive; eye contact OK.
Slides not colourful and better graphics would have helped.
Ahmed Abdul Rahman H00132633
Date: 25.05.2010 Time: 1239-1248
Title: Traffic congestion problems in the UAE & how to solve them.
Very clear introduction. Delivery loud, clear & confident.
Body language & eye contact good.
Good bar charts to show parking problems & journey times to work for the UAE & neighbouring countries. Dubai worst with 1h 45mins. Surprisingly parking bigger problem in Dubai than AD.
A confident & assured presentation but, unusually, a little hesitant in fielding some of the questions.
Saood Abdulla H00131022
Date: 25.05.2010 Time: 1249-1306
Title: Growing crime rates in Dubai.
Delivery occasionally a trifle jerky but loud and ver clear.
Types of crime & criminals: clear categories shown on the slides but descriptions contained minor inaccuracies, e.g. distinction between murder & manslaughter.
Well received by the audience.
Mohamed Rashed H00132635
Date: 25.05.2010 Time: 1325-1343
Title: Obesity
Introduction & general delivery clear & quietly confident.
Body language could do with being a little more positive. At times, rather diffident.
Slides: wording often obscured by images. Tended to be rather repetitive & non-specific.
Fahad Abdrabboh H00130970
Date: 25.05.2010 Time: 1345-1355
Title: Tyre recycling
Introduction & delivery quite clear and confident.
1 or 2 factual errors marred presentation, e.g. the information that tyres were made from 20 different chemicals was accompanied by a slide showing 6 component parts of a tyre.
Some grammatical errors on slides. Could & should have been better prepped.
Mohamed Hasan H00132994
Date: 26.05.2010 Time: 0830-0840
Title: Population problems in Dubai
Delivery quite good. Could have spelled out the problem more clearly in introduction.
Tended to read from slides.
What boosted his mark was his body language, eye contact & pertinacity when fielding questions at the end.
Munther Taj Aldeen H00128002
Title: Divorce in the UAE
Introduction very clear; questions effectively fielded.
Attitude & body language excellent. Delivery confident & assured. Good articulation.
Slides very colourful & informative.
Ahmeed Ali H00130910
Date: 26.05.2010 Time: 0910-1920
Title: Soft drinks
No real problem was spelled out clearly at the outset.
The presentation consisted of the presenter reading out, not very well, large chunks of text from the slides. All students had been warned of the folly of this appr0ach.
An inadequately prepared and delivered presentation.
Abdulla Khaled H00137908
Date: 26.05.2010 Time: 0922-0931
Title: Bankable dreams
Abdyulla presents competently with adequate eye contact & positivity of body language.
But it was not clear from his introduction what problem he was trying to describe, nor at the end what his solutions were.
The slides, however, were colourful & informative and the presentation entertained the audience.
Rashed Mohamed H00132879
Date: 26.05.2010 Time: 0935-0940
Delivery was reasonably clear, if somewhat perfunctory.
Introduction did not satisfactorily highlight a specific problem.
Read from slides as if presenting a travelogue. No real analysis.
Overall, superficial & short. Barely adequate.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Logbook
Date: 30.03.2010
Time: 1223-1243 p.m.
Location: F52
Presenters: Ahmed Ali H00130910 & Hedley
Subject: Polluted cities worldwide.
Slides:
Ahmed showed 10 slides to illustrate the worldwide nature of urban pollution: Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Cairo, London, L.A., New Mexico, Paris, Santiago, Texas and one entitled World War Two.
Hedley then followed up with 10 slides of the most polluted cities today. The problem is acute in several Chinese, Russian & Indian cities.
The slides were colourful, informative and interesting. Apart from population figures, the slides had no written content.
Body language: Ahmed & Hedley talked directly to the audience. They did not read from notes. They established eye contact and appeared to enjoy giving their presentation.
There was plenty of comment from the class during the course of the presentation. Questions & observations were confidently handled.
The English was accurate & clear throughout.
Date: 11.04.2010
Time: 1015
Location: F52
Presenters: Abdulla Khalid H00137908 & Al Munther H00128002
Subject: Toyota
Slides: colourful, relevant & informative. The founder's family name was Toyoda. One or two grammatical errors, e.g. conclution.
Generally both had good eye contact and body language was positive.
English clear and, for the most part, accurate.
Questions in general were answered competently.
Date: 11.04.2010
Time: 1030
Location: F52
Presenters: Abdulla Masoud H 00131565 & Ahmed AbdulRahman H 00132533
Subject: Water Consumption
Slides: 12 colourful and informative slides, with an emphasis on statistics from Canada.
Eye contact from both was good, delivery confident and body language positive. Both unfortunately tended to read points word for word from the slides, which were a tad wordy.
English was very clear and accurate.
Questions were answered most confidently.
Date: 11.04.2010
Time: 1045
Location: F52
Presenters: Abdulrahman H00128332 & Mohsin H00132268
Subject: The UAE 1960-70
Slides: Mostly black & white, but relevant, informative & interesting.
Good eye contact and positive body language.
English clear and questions dealt with adequately.
Questions competently dealt with.
Date; 11.04.2010
Time: 1100
Location: F52
Presenters: Fahad H00130970 & Mohd Hassan H00132994
Subject: Recycling
Slides: colourful & informative. Mohd Hassan had a tendency to read the wording on the slides.
English & eye contact adequate; body language quite positive, in spite of some nerves from both.
Questions handled quite competently.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1215
Location: F52
Presenters: Saif H00132862 & Faisal H00133058
Subject: The UAE, past & present
Slides: interesting & informative.
Attitude & body language positive. Saif's delivery particularly confident & fluent.
English very clear & accurate.
Questions answered most confidently & clearly.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1245
Location: F52
Presenters: Mohd Rashid H00132635 & Sultan H00134237
Subject: Starting a business
Slides: clear but perhaps a little wordy. The subject doesn't easily lend itself to pictorial representation.
Both made reasonably good eye contact but perhaps referred to the screen too often.
English and question answering were satisfactorily clear.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1300
Location: F52
Presenters: Saood H00131022 & Mohd Saleh H00128186
Subject: The UAE in the past
Slides: black & white but interesting, informative and relevant.
The body language of both was very positive and they both made excellent eye contact. Their spoken English contained some errors but they both spole loudly & confidently. They both answered questions readily & cheerfully.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1315
Location: F52
Presenters: Rashid H00132879 & Salem H00133895
Subject: Giving up smoking
Slides: only 8 but reasonably informative/relevant.
Eye contact from both was adequate overall but Salem, in particular, could work on ths aspect of his prentation style. Body language of Rashid OK but Salem rather diffident.Both answered questions but Salem often needed a lot of prodding & encouragent to become more than monosyllabic in his responses.
Time: 1223-1243 p.m.
Location: F52
Presenters: Ahmed Ali H00130910 & Hedley
Subject: Polluted cities worldwide.
Slides:
Ahmed showed 10 slides to illustrate the worldwide nature of urban pollution: Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Cairo, London, L.A., New Mexico, Paris, Santiago, Texas and one entitled World War Two.
Hedley then followed up with 10 slides of the most polluted cities today. The problem is acute in several Chinese, Russian & Indian cities.
The slides were colourful, informative and interesting. Apart from population figures, the slides had no written content.
Body language: Ahmed & Hedley talked directly to the audience. They did not read from notes. They established eye contact and appeared to enjoy giving their presentation.
There was plenty of comment from the class during the course of the presentation. Questions & observations were confidently handled.
The English was accurate & clear throughout.
Date: 11.04.2010
Time: 1015
Location: F52
Presenters: Abdulla Khalid H00137908 & Al Munther H00128002
Subject: Toyota
Slides: colourful, relevant & informative. The founder's family name was Toyoda. One or two grammatical errors, e.g. conclution.
Generally both had good eye contact and body language was positive.
English clear and, for the most part, accurate.
Questions in general were answered competently.
Date: 11.04.2010
Time: 1030
Location: F52
Presenters: Abdulla Masoud H 00131565 & Ahmed AbdulRahman H 00132533
Subject: Water Consumption
Slides: 12 colourful and informative slides, with an emphasis on statistics from Canada.
Eye contact from both was good, delivery confident and body language positive. Both unfortunately tended to read points word for word from the slides, which were a tad wordy.
English was very clear and accurate.
Questions were answered most confidently.
Date: 11.04.2010
Time: 1045
Location: F52
Presenters: Abdulrahman H00128332 & Mohsin H00132268
Subject: The UAE 1960-70
Slides: Mostly black & white, but relevant, informative & interesting.
Good eye contact and positive body language.
English clear and questions dealt with adequately.
Questions competently dealt with.
Date; 11.04.2010
Time: 1100
Location: F52
Presenters: Fahad H00130970 & Mohd Hassan H00132994
Subject: Recycling
Slides: colourful & informative. Mohd Hassan had a tendency to read the wording on the slides.
English & eye contact adequate; body language quite positive, in spite of some nerves from both.
Questions handled quite competently.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1215
Location: F52
Presenters: Saif H00132862 & Faisal H00133058
Subject: The UAE, past & present
Slides: interesting & informative.
Attitude & body language positive. Saif's delivery particularly confident & fluent.
English very clear & accurate.
Questions answered most confidently & clearly.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1245
Location: F52
Presenters: Mohd Rashid H00132635 & Sultan H00134237
Subject: Starting a business
Slides: clear but perhaps a little wordy. The subject doesn't easily lend itself to pictorial representation.
Both made reasonably good eye contact but perhaps referred to the screen too often.
English and question answering were satisfactorily clear.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1300
Location: F52
Presenters: Saood H00131022 & Mohd Saleh H00128186
Subject: The UAE in the past
Slides: black & white but interesting, informative and relevant.
The body language of both was very positive and they both made excellent eye contact. Their spoken English contained some errors but they both spole loudly & confidently. They both answered questions readily & cheerfully.
Date: 13.04.2010
Time: 1315
Location: F52
Presenters: Rashid H00132879 & Salem H00133895
Subject: Giving up smoking
Slides: only 8 but reasonably informative/relevant.
Eye contact from both was adequate overall but Salem, in particular, could work on ths aspect of his prentation style. Body language of Rashid OK but Salem rather diffident.Both answered questions but Salem often needed a lot of prodding & encouragent to become more than monosyllabic in his responses.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Semi-formal presentation
a) Saif & Faisal: The UAE in the past
b) Rashid & Salem: Smoking
c) Abdulrahman & Mohsin: Yas Island
d) Abdulla Khaled & Munther: Toyota
e) Mohd Rashis & Sultan: Economic depression
f) Saoud & Mohd Saleh: Preserving our culture
g) Fahad & Mohd Hassan: Recycling
h) Ahmed Abdulrahman & Abdulla Masoud: Wasting water
i) Ahmed Ali & Hedley: Air pollution
b) Rashid & Salem: Smoking
c) Abdulrahman & Mohsin: Yas Island
d) Abdulla Khaled & Munther: Toyota
e) Mohd Rashis & Sultan: Economic depression
f) Saoud & Mohd Saleh: Preserving our culture
g) Fahad & Mohd Hassan: Recycling
h) Ahmed Abdulrahman & Abdulla Masoud: Wasting water
i) Ahmed Ali & Hedley: Air pollution
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Group A:
Mohd Saleh (H00128186) Chairman
Ahmed Abdulrahman (H00132633) Secretary
Abdulla Masood (H00131565) Participant
Saood (H00131022) Participant
Mohd led the meeting effectively. There was good use of language when discussing the issue of gender integration, e.g. Ahmed mentioned the possible problem of flirting. He also put forward the ides of having some segregated/ some mixed classes in the same college. Abdulla raised the possibility of having CCTV and Mohd suggested that one benefit of mixed classes would be helping students to overcome shyness & gain confidence.
Group B:
Rashid (H00132879) Chairman
Abdulla Khalid (H00137908) Secretary
Sultan (H00134237) Participant
The meeting was to discuss how students in HCT could maximize their learning opportunities through use of technology, educational resources, educational visits, etc.
Group C:
Saif (H00132862) Chairman
Faisal (H00133058) Secretary
Salem (H00133895) Participant
The meeting discussed the problem of student parking at ADMC. The meeting was quite effectively led and reached a conclusion speedily but discussion was rather perfunctory, with no wide-ranging examination of alternative solutions. On the other hand the group did some research to find out student nos., no. of parking speces etc.
Group D:
Mohd Rashid (H00132635) Chairman
Fahad (H00130970) Secretary
Munther (H00128002) Participant
The meeting discussed ways of maximizing HCT students’ chances of success & how to deal with problems caused by lack of success & underachievement.
Group E:
AbdulRahman (H00128332) Chairman
Mohsin (H00132268) Secretary
Mohd Hassan (H00132994) Participant
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the possibility of gender integration at HCT. All 3 group members actively participated in a lively discussion, which AbdulRahman chaired effectively.
Mohd Saleh (H00128186) Chairman
Ahmed Abdulrahman (H00132633) Secretary
Abdulla Masood (H00131565) Participant
Saood (H00131022) Participant
Mohd led the meeting effectively. There was good use of language when discussing the issue of gender integration, e.g. Ahmed mentioned the possible problem of flirting. He also put forward the ides of having some segregated/ some mixed classes in the same college. Abdulla raised the possibility of having CCTV and Mohd suggested that one benefit of mixed classes would be helping students to overcome shyness & gain confidence.
Group B:
Rashid (H00132879) Chairman
Abdulla Khalid (H00137908) Secretary
Sultan (H00134237) Participant
The meeting was to discuss how students in HCT could maximize their learning opportunities through use of technology, educational resources, educational visits, etc.
Group C:
Saif (H00132862) Chairman
Faisal (H00133058) Secretary
Salem (H00133895) Participant
The meeting discussed the problem of student parking at ADMC. The meeting was quite effectively led and reached a conclusion speedily but discussion was rather perfunctory, with no wide-ranging examination of alternative solutions. On the other hand the group did some research to find out student nos., no. of parking speces etc.
Group D:
Mohd Rashid (H00132635) Chairman
Fahad (H00130970) Secretary
Munther (H00128002) Participant
The meeting discussed ways of maximizing HCT students’ chances of success & how to deal with problems caused by lack of success & underachievement.
Group E:
AbdulRahman (H00128332) Chairman
Mohsin (H00132268) Secretary
Mohd Hassan (H00132994) Participant
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the possibility of gender integration at HCT. All 3 group members actively participated in a lively discussion, which AbdulRahman chaired effectively.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Mohamed Saleh
I’d like to introduce Mohamed Saleh.
He was born on 21st July 1990 and so he is now 19 years old. He was born in Sharjah but now lives in Abu Dhabi. He has six brothers and seven sisters. His father used to be a soldier but is now retired. In his free time, Mohamed likes computer games and watching movies. He has visited two other countries, Oman and China. He went to Beijing last year with his classmate, Abdulla Khaled. They went to see a martial arts demonstration. They stayed about five days and also visited museums and the Great Wall of China.
His ambition is to be a successful businessman, perhaps in the building trade.
His best holiday was when he went to Muscat, Oman, last year with his family. He has been to Oman several times and he likes it because he has so many friends there.
He thinks the best thing about ADMC is the teaching which is so much better than in secondary school. His English teachers, for example, speak English all the time and so he has to do the same in his English classes.
And the worst thing is the attendance policy: 5%, 10%, etc. He thinks this is too tough.
His motto is: failure is just one step on the road to success. I told him we have an English expression which ties in with this: we learn more from our failures than from our successes.
Now you know a little bit about Mohamed Saleh, his family and leisure activities.
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He was born on 21st July 1990 and so he is now 19 years old. He was born in Sharjah but now lives in Abu Dhabi. He has six brothers and seven sisters. His father used to be a soldier but is now retired. In his free time, Mohamed likes computer games and watching movies. He has visited two other countries, Oman and China. He went to Beijing last year with his classmate, Abdulla Khaled. They went to see a martial arts demonstration. They stayed about five days and also visited museums and the Great Wall of China.
His ambition is to be a successful businessman, perhaps in the building trade.
His best holiday was when he went to Muscat, Oman, last year with his family. He has been to Oman several times and he likes it because he has so many friends there.
He thinks the best thing about ADMC is the teaching which is so much better than in secondary school. His English teachers, for example, speak English all the time and so he has to do the same in his English classes.
And the worst thing is the attendance policy: 5%, 10%, etc. He thinks this is too tough.
His motto is: failure is just one step on the road to success. I told him we have an English expression which ties in with this: we learn more from our failures than from our successes.
Now you know a little bit about Mohamed Saleh, his family and leisure activities.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Flow
flowthefilm.com
This is a movie by Irina Salina.
The human body is 70% water & takes in impure water not just by drinking but also by washing & showering.
India:
Getting clean water to the poor is difficult using traditional methods because it's too expensive. 10 litres of water per day costs US$2 per person per year. Suez is the company that is damming the Ganges in order to sell back water to Indian citizens at 10 times the price it had been. There are 7,600 community-built water harvesting projects in India. The women in the movie are sitting in protest against Coca-Cola. The result of the protest against Coca-Cola was that the company was forced to close the plant. The BBC found that the free fertilizer given to the people was actually waste, full of toxins like cadmium.
The organisation which has legal immunity, and so can't be sued for breaking promises, is the World Bank.
The USA:
Atrazin is a weedkiller. Some of its side-effects are that it makes men more feminine & also causes prostae & breast cancer.
The state of California has 27 years of water left, Arizona 4.5.
3 out of 4 Americans drink bottled water. Nestle markets 70 brands of bottled water. It does not pay for the water it takes from the community. It receives a tax break of US$10M over 10 years. During a time of drought the company continued to pump water. The judge in the court case found 'diminishing the integrity of the flow of water.' Nestle appealed and, during the appeal, continued to pump water.
Bolivia:
The blood in the drinking water comes from a slaughterhouse. The companies supplying water to poor people for profit are Suez & Vivendi. The country privatised water because the World Bank demanded it.
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This is a movie by Irina Salina.
The human body is 70% water & takes in impure water not just by drinking but also by washing & showering.
India:
Getting clean water to the poor is difficult using traditional methods because it's too expensive. 10 litres of water per day costs US$2 per person per year. Suez is the company that is damming the Ganges in order to sell back water to Indian citizens at 10 times the price it had been. There are 7,600 community-built water harvesting projects in India. The women in the movie are sitting in protest against Coca-Cola. The result of the protest against Coca-Cola was that the company was forced to close the plant. The BBC found that the free fertilizer given to the people was actually waste, full of toxins like cadmium.
The organisation which has legal immunity, and so can't be sued for breaking promises, is the World Bank.
The USA:
Atrazin is a weedkiller. Some of its side-effects are that it makes men more feminine & also causes prostae & breast cancer.
The state of California has 27 years of water left, Arizona 4.5.
3 out of 4 Americans drink bottled water. Nestle markets 70 brands of bottled water. It does not pay for the water it takes from the community. It receives a tax break of US$10M over 10 years. During a time of drought the company continued to pump water. The judge in the court case found 'diminishing the integrity of the flow of water.' Nestle appealed and, during the appeal, continued to pump water.
Bolivia:
The blood in the drinking water comes from a slaughterhouse. The companies supplying water to poor people for profit are Suez & Vivendi. The country privatised water because the World Bank demanded it.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Vocabulary log
10 words:
1. accommodation, noun, a residence, a place where you live.
My accommodation in Doha was a villa, but here in Abu Dhabi it is a flat.
2. achievement, noun, something difficult you succeed in doing.
Putting a man on the moon in 1969 was a great achievement for NASA.
3. ambulance, noun, a vehicle used to take a sick or injured person to hospital.
There was a major crash involving several vehicles on the Sheikh Zayed Road and several ambulances were called to the scene.
4. attract, verb, to draw by appealing to the emotions or senses, by stimulating interest, or by exciting admiration; allure; invite: to attract attention; to attract admirers by one's charm.
The first F1 race in Abu Dhabi attracted a huge crowd of spectators to Yas Island.
5. Australia, proper noun, a large country in the southern hemisphere.
I have visited Australia twice and seen some very large crocodiles in Northern Territory.
6. available, adjective, accessible, usable, handy, buyable.
Many 4-WD vehicles are available in the U.A.E.
7. beautiful, adjective, lovely, pretty, gorgeous, attractive, fine.
She's wearing a beautiful gown.
8. because, conjunction, for the reason that; due to the fact that.
He was absent from class because he was sick.
9. before, preposition, previous to; earlier or sooner than, ahead of; in the future of; awaiting.
Phone me before noon.
10. believe, verb, to think that something is true;to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
I didn't believe her story.
1. accommodation, noun, a residence, a place where you live.
My accommodation in Doha was a villa, but here in Abu Dhabi it is a flat.
2. achievement, noun, something difficult you succeed in doing.
Putting a man on the moon in 1969 was a great achievement for NASA.
3. ambulance, noun, a vehicle used to take a sick or injured person to hospital.
There was a major crash involving several vehicles on the Sheikh Zayed Road and several ambulances were called to the scene.
4. attract, verb, to draw by appealing to the emotions or senses, by stimulating interest, or by exciting admiration; allure; invite: to attract attention; to attract admirers by one's charm.
The first F1 race in Abu Dhabi attracted a huge crowd of spectators to Yas Island.
5. Australia, proper noun, a large country in the southern hemisphere.
I have visited Australia twice and seen some very large crocodiles in Northern Territory.
6. available, adjective, accessible, usable, handy, buyable.
Many 4-WD vehicles are available in the U.A.E.
7. beautiful, adjective, lovely, pretty, gorgeous, attractive, fine.
She's wearing a beautiful gown.
8. because, conjunction, for the reason that; due to the fact that.
He was absent from class because he was sick.
9. before, preposition, previous to; earlier or sooner than, ahead of; in the future of; awaiting.
Phone me before noon.
10. believe, verb, to think that something is true;to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.
I didn't believe her story.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Project
The innovation which has transformed my professional life in recent years is the e-mail. At ADMC we faculty live and die by electronic mail. We send, every day, e-mails to people who are only a few desks away. In the past we would have gone to see these people in person or written hard copy notes to leave on their desks.
Electronic mail predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating the Internet.
MIT first demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) in 1961. It allowed multiple users to log into the IBM 7094 from remote dial-up terminals, and to store files online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to share information in new ways. E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail).
The contrast with the situation here today in ADMC is striking. Every classroom has a/c, projectors, smartboards, whiteboards. http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/internet/. I can communicate with all my students by e-mail; getting them to check and read their e-mails is a different matter.
E-mails have transformed not just my professional life but all aspects of life in general. Workers at the Royal Mail in the U.K. are currently (November 2009) involved in a series of strikes that seems doomed to failure. Increasingly people in their everyday lives, as well as their professional ones, are switching from old-fashioned letter writing to e-mail. It would appear to be an inexorable progression from hard to soft copy. When, in 1986, I was studying for my Licentiate Diploma in TESOL with Trinity College, London, ( http://www.trinitycollege.co.uk/), I received work modules by airmail, and returned the completed work likewise. It would take weeks for work to arrive, be completed, returned to London, get marked and sent back. The same tasks could be completed today by e-mail in a fraction of the time. The world has been transformed by electronic mail.
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Bibliography:
"E-mail." En.wikipedia.org. http://www.google.com/. Web. 15 Nov. 2009.
"E-learning." www.admc.hct.ac.ae/internet. Web. 15 Nov. 2009.
Electronic mail predates the inception of the Internet, and was in fact a crucial tool in creating the Internet.
MIT first demonstrated the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) in 1961. It allowed multiple users to log into the IBM 7094 from remote dial-up terminals, and to store files online on disk. This new ability encouraged users to share information in new ways. E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail).
So e-mail has been around a long time but it is only in the last 10-15 years that it has played a part in my professional development.
In fact, all aspects of life have been changed by e-mail. When I first went to Brunei (we landed in Bandar Seri Begawan, or BSB, the capital, on 1st January, 1980) there was no widely available worldwide web. No-one had a computer. E-mails were unheard of. There were no projectors in classrooms. There weren't even whiteboards or airconditioning units in classrooms. I used chalk on a blackboard. And this was in the Pusat Tingkatan Enam (Sixth Form Centre), at that time the leading academic institution in the whole country. We didn't even have air-conditioning in our staff room, and papers had to be weighted down on desks to prevent them being blown away by the fans.The contrast with the situation here today in ADMC is striking. Every classroom has a/c, projectors, smartboards, whiteboards. http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/internet/. I can communicate with all my students by e-mail; getting them to check and read their e-mails is a different matter.
E-mails have transformed not just my professional life but all aspects of life in general. Workers at the Royal Mail in the U.K. are currently (November 2009) involved in a series of strikes that seems doomed to failure. Increasingly people in their everyday lives, as well as their professional ones, are switching from old-fashioned letter writing to e-mail. It would appear to be an inexorable progression from hard to soft copy. When, in 1986, I was studying for my Licentiate Diploma in TESOL with Trinity College, London, ( http://www.trinitycollege.co.uk/), I received work modules by airmail, and returned the completed work likewise. It would take weeks for work to arrive, be completed, returned to London, get marked and sent back. The same tasks could be completed today by e-mail in a fraction of the time. The world has been transformed by electronic mail.
503 words
Bibliography:
"E-mail." En.wikipedia.org. http://www.google.com/. Web. 15 Nov. 2009.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Research skills 2
MLA referencing podcast summary
1-What is plagiarism?
Using someone else’s words or ideas and representing them as your own.
2-What must you do avoid plagiarizing?
Take careful and accurate notes as you research.
3-What style of referencing is accepted at HCT? MLA Modern Language Association & APA American Psychological Association
4-What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
Author’s name – Title of book - Date – Pages - Publisher - magazine/web address.
5-When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
Author's name
6-What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?
Article title
7-What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?
Page numbers
8-What is the third item of information when referencing a website?
The title of the website
9-What is last item of information when referencing a website?
Date visited.
11-What comes before the URL in a database reference?
http://
12-Where is the bibliography?
At the end
13-What is in the bibliography?
References
14-When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?
Surname/Family name e.g. Butterfield, Hedley
15-How do you order items in the bibliography?
Alphabetical
16-Besides quotations, where do you use an online citation?
Paraphrasing
17-What information goes in an online citation?
Name – Date
18-Name one citation machine that can help you?
Easybib.com
19-Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
Easybib.com
20-In Google, type, HCT plagiarism. Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.
If you cheat, you will be kicked out of the college.
1-What is plagiarism?
Using someone else’s words or ideas and representing them as your own.
2-What must you do avoid plagiarizing?
Take careful and accurate notes as you research.
3-What style of referencing is accepted at HCT? MLA Modern Language Association & APA American Psychological Association
4-What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
Author’s name – Title of book - Date – Pages - Publisher - magazine/web address.
5-When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
Author's name
6-What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?
Article title
7-What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?
Page numbers
8-What is the third item of information when referencing a website?
The title of the website
9-What is last item of information when referencing a website?
Date visited.
11-What comes before the URL in a database reference?
http://
12-Where is the bibliography?
At the end
13-What is in the bibliography?
References
14-When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?
Surname/Family name e.g. Butterfield, Hedley
15-How do you order items in the bibliography?
Alphabetical
16-Besides quotations, where do you use an online citation?
Paraphrasing
17-What information goes in an online citation?
Name – Date
18-Name one citation machine that can help you?
Easybib.com
19-Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
Easybib.com
20-In Google, type, HCT plagiarism. Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.
If you cheat, you will be kicked out of the college.
Natural paradise gets protection: summary
The Hajar Mountains
Reading Summary
Natural paradise gets protection
Task 1
A lot of effort is being made to see to Wadi Wurayah’s preservation of its wildlife and nature. For starters, a management plan was drawn up by the Emirates Wildlife Society in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature and given to the Fujairah Municipality. The writer also mentions this plan includes a provision for engaging people from the area to work as rangers to keep poachers from killing rare animals and also these locals can help minimize littering. In addition, tribal communities will be consulted whose support is seen as vital. Another important factor regarding this preservation plan had to with sponsorship to finance the project.
There are several examples of wildlife and nature unique to the area. First of all, the endangered Arabian tahr can be found there. Other species of concern to conservationists are the Arabian Leopard and caracal lynx. Todorava further points out that the wadi is also the habitat of type of fish called the garra barreimiae which is only found in the Hajar Mountains. Aside from the wildlife, there is also a unique plant species particular to the UAE called the Epipactis veratrifolia.
Task 2
In the article “Natural paradise gets protection” the National writer Vesala Todorava speaks on the subject of the preservation of wildlife and nature. She informs the reader of the hard work of preserving them in the Wadi Wurayah protected area that is planned. Todorava also gives some specific examples of wildlife and nature in this area.
Task 3
I think this topic was very interesting because the writer looks at efforts the UAE is making to preserve some of their national wildlife and natural treasures. I wasn’t even aware that the there were such animals here in the UAE as the leopard and the lynx.
In my opinion, the organization of the article is such that it is very easy to access the essential information in the text. The writer mentions several measures that are being taken with some support as to just what is going to done to preserve the Wadi Wurayah protected area. She also mentions some examples of both plant and animal species that are of concern to the Emirates Wildlife Society.
When I read this article, I wondered if perhaps there may be even more areas here in the UAE considered by conservationists as protected areas. The idea in the article makes me think of what was involved in the development of protected areas of the world that we now know as tourist attractions such as wildlife reserves and national parks.
Reading Summary
Natural paradise gets protection
Task 1
A lot of effort is being made to see to Wadi Wurayah’s preservation of its wildlife and nature. For starters, a management plan was drawn up by the Emirates Wildlife Society in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature and given to the Fujairah Municipality. The writer also mentions this plan includes a provision for engaging people from the area to work as rangers to keep poachers from killing rare animals and also these locals can help minimize littering. In addition, tribal communities will be consulted whose support is seen as vital. Another important factor regarding this preservation plan had to with sponsorship to finance the project.
There are several examples of wildlife and nature unique to the area. First of all, the endangered Arabian tahr can be found there. Other species of concern to conservationists are the Arabian Leopard and caracal lynx. Todorava further points out that the wadi is also the habitat of type of fish called the garra barreimiae which is only found in the Hajar Mountains. Aside from the wildlife, there is also a unique plant species particular to the UAE called the Epipactis veratrifolia.
Task 2
In the article “Natural paradise gets protection” the National writer Vesala Todorava speaks on the subject of the preservation of wildlife and nature. She informs the reader of the hard work of preserving them in the Wadi Wurayah protected area that is planned. Todorava also gives some specific examples of wildlife and nature in this area.
Task 3
I think this topic was very interesting because the writer looks at efforts the UAE is making to preserve some of their national wildlife and natural treasures. I wasn’t even aware that the there were such animals here in the UAE as the leopard and the lynx.
In my opinion, the organization of the article is such that it is very easy to access the essential information in the text. The writer mentions several measures that are being taken with some support as to just what is going to done to preserve the Wadi Wurayah protected area. She also mentions some examples of both plant and animal species that are of concern to the Emirates Wildlife Society.
When I read this article, I wondered if perhaps there may be even more areas here in the UAE considered by conservationists as protected areas. The idea in the article makes me think of what was involved in the development of protected areas of the world that we now know as tourist attractions such as wildlife reserves and national parks.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Dyslexia
This article is about dyslexia. This is a problem some people have with processing specific visual information. The latest research suggests that dyslexia is not a disease but is a problem caused by eye wobble. New technology has produced special spectacles. Dyslexics do not have enough magnocells and the new high-tech spectacles might solve this problem, along with special reading exercises. It is hoped the new glasses and exercises will improve reading skills and so help solve the problem of dyslexia.
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