English Listening and Speaking Fall 2012, Daily Routines

30 Boxes Easy To Use Online Calendar

What is 30 Boxes?

30 Boxes is an easy to use online calendar.

Go to www.30boxes.com

1. Create account
2. Add your email
3. Add a password
4. Add your name
5.Check your e-mail for confirmation e-mail
6. There are 4 steps, but you can just click next until you get to
7. Click just get started

You can add events using one box entry, or you can use the detailed entry option

Create Your Poster using Glogster

What is Glogster?

Glogster is an interactive, multimedia poster creation tool which is very user friendly.

1. Click register
2. Fill in a nickname
3. Create a password and retype it
4. Enter birth date, e-mail address, gender and full name
5. Type verification code
6. Check I accept the terms of service
7. Click Sign up
8. Check your e-mail and click on the authorization e-mail

Use the tools on the left to add graphics, images, text, video, background or sound
Select the items from the site's gallery click- USE IT
You can upload, link or pick items
Choose a category
Click SAVE and PUBLISH

ESL Student Journal at Michigan State University

Write or not to write! says a 21 year old Arabic student studying at Michigan State University. We write, but why? Do we write for ourselves? Do we write for our teachers? or Do we write for puplic?

The latter is found to be the best motivation source by the intermediate level reading and writing students at MSU. Guided by their instructor Baburhan Uzum, these 13 students are preparing their work to get published, and to be read somewhere. "I feel like I am doing something valuable and people will care about me" says a Korean girl studying in this class.

These students are working in groups of 2 or 3, they find ideas, create outlines, write about them, review and edit them and finally publish them on their blog page. "This started as a blog page but can be something bigger, and involve everyone studying at the English language center" says their instructor-Baburhan Uzum.

Visit this journal at : http://msuelc.blogspot.com/

Google as the Accomplice!!!

Latest claims show google as the accomplice for spreading the illegal copies of software and media. On lifehacker website the moderator states "Forbes calls Google the New Pirate Bay because it's great at finding torrents—acting as a sort of meta-aggregator. With this custom Google search engine, it's even easier to find and download torrents via Google."

As getting licensed copy of media and software is becoming no longer a natural but respected, virtuous and rightous behavior, the easy access to such illegal copies makes it even a harder struggle.

"As the Forbes article linked above points out, doing a simple search for wolverine torrent turns up several popular BitTorrent trackers, meaning you're just two clicks away from downloading the leaked movie via BitTorrent. The custom search engine in question just streamlines the process slightly by explicitly defining which popular torrent trackers Google should search.

This isn't the first time we've seen Google used for quick and easy file sharing. Previously mentioned G2P uses some custom Google-fu to find publicly hosted media files in a quick and easy search." (retrieved from: http://lifehacker.com/5220108/custom-bittorrent-search-engine-demonstrates-googles-proximity-to-the-pirate-bay)

XLingo-LAnguage Exchange Partners

Xlingo is an amazing website which provides the users the chance to be the learner of a language they choose, and tutor their own language. To be a member to this website is completely free. Users can enter their information and which language they want to learn and the website brings the best matches that are in line with the user's preferences.

Contact Help- Directory of Phone Numbers

Are you one of those who spend hours on the phone to get your message through to a customer service in India. It might even get worse when you look for the number and can't find it. It's like they don't want to be bugged, and hide their contact information professionally. Here is a website, that you can find the customer service of any company. This is not directly related to learning with computers, but is a good example of living with them and how they make things easier.

http://contacthelp.com/