Archive for November, 2008

Eastern Mediterranean University Publication Award

Friday, November 28th, 2008

According to the University Regulations:

“Support for publication award is awarded for the full time staff members (research assistants and senior instructors) of Eastern Mediterranean University that have articles published in journals covered by AHCI, SSCI, SCI and SCI-Expanded”

“In order to be eligible for support for publication award, if the publisher allows mentioning the title of the place that a writer works for, the writer needs to mention EMU”.

Nilgun Hancioglu and John Eldridge were awarded by the University for their publication in a journal (English for Specific Purposes) covered by SSCI in November, 2008.

The book is finally dead…long live the Plastic Logic Reader!

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

It’s taken a few centuries, but the end of paper as we know for reading is near. Don’t believe me…watch this 5 minute video clip and you’ll find out. And with Oprah Winfrey throwing her weight behind Amazon’s KINDLE, the days of the printed page are indeed numbered…don’t believe me?  Watch this promotional video.

To MOODLE or not to MOODLE

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Are you having little success in trying to convince your line managers that your school should use MOODLE?  Perhaps they would understand what MOODLE is all about in terms of day-to-day teaching if they watch this video from Teacher Tube.  Click this link if the embedded player below doesn’t load.

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