CESL goes to the city museum

more pictures here!

cesl photos

YES you can use photos from the CESL photo space:

http://cesl07.spaces.live.com

to put on your blogs. To do it, read the instructions below. But
please remember the following:

-If you do not want your picture on the web, or in the CESL photo place (where everyone can use it) please tell us (tell Ms. Bird) and we will keep it off.....

Want to put one on your blog? On our LMC & CESL lab macs the process is like this.

1. Open up the picture you like by clicking on it. Move the window to one side of your screen, then
DRAG the photo over onto your desktop.

2. Now open the CREATE POST window. On the top, to the left of the main box, you'll see two icons; the right one is a tjat square that is half blue. Click on this square. Where it asks you to Choose file, choose the one on your desktop, whatever you choose to call it. Once it's uploaded, you can put it wherever you want in your post, or even on your template.

By the way, PICTURES FROM OTHER SOURCES are not as good, because someone might own them and not want you to borrow them. At least with the CESL site, you already have permission.

Happy New Year!

The NEW BLOGGER

Starting now, all of CESL's weblogs are on the NEW BLOGGER.



I'm not sure exactly what it means, but one of the biggest changes is:
We have to use an E-MAIL ADDRESS AS A LOG ON.
Our new log-on is ceslstudents@yahoo.com
Our password is the same as ever. If you don't know it, ask the teacher.

You'll see a few other minor changes. Do you like it? Let me know. I'm always curious about what people think of Blogger and its changes, good or bad.

-Tom Leverett

Here's an essay contest you might win. Warning: you might want to pay attention to the prize.

Carbondale's mayor, Brad Cole, announced that his New Year's resolution was to get married, but, he doesn't have anybody in mind. So some friends of his decided to find somebody. Interested?

One good thing about Mayor Cole is that he's a worldly guy. He got a friendship plaza built as an international gesture to our sister cities, and he's been abroad. Furthermore, he always talks to our students when we send them to him for information or an interview.

So, good luck in the essay contest!

Congratulations to Dec. 2005 graduates!

The following formal CESL students have just graduated from SIUC with their degrees listed. We hope we have all of you listed- if not, let us know! Congratulations and good luck in the next step in your careers!

Daekyung Kim, PhD., Mass Communication and Media Arts
Yi-Fang Lin, MBA, Business Administration
DaeHwan Cho, MFA, Art
Achille Ghislain do Santos, MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Shuwen Olivia Yang, MS Education, Workforce Ed. and Development
Haruka Sugimura, BA, Liberal Arts (cum laude)
Satoshi Watanabe, BA, Liberal Arts
Makiko Kaneda, BFA (magna cum laude)
JaeHyun Shin, BFA
Chih-Chueh Yeh, BS, Mass Communication and Media Arts
SookJa Lee, BS, College of Agricultural Science
Viviane Asoh, BS, College of Applied Sciences and Arts
Awad Al-Qahtani, BS, College of Engineering
Ashraf Albeedh, BS, College of Engineering
Abed Salem Alkurashi, BS, College of Engineering

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!

Words to Auld Lang Syne (Happy New Year song from eot exhibit) are here. This is done by Charles Kelly. You can sing and repeat; it's a video.

Picture above from:

Kolk, Melinda. candles.png. 1-Aug. Pics4Learning. 17 Dec 2006

trip to kentucky

November, 2006- CESL goes to Kentucky!

Halloween party, 066

Welcome to CESL!

All CESL students, former students, teachers and former teachers are invited and encouraged to post on the CESL active weblog system, which includes all the classes (EAP2, EAP1, AE2, AE1, GE2, GE1, GSE, AC, Newstalk), the poetry websites (GE & AE Poetry, EAP Poetry), the special groups (Tokushima, SeJong, NCKU, and Chung Buk), the CESL students page, the Activity Calender, and CESL Alumni.

To post, go to www.blogger.com, and use our e-mail address as logon:
ceslstudents@yahoo.com

Password is a well-known building that we call home, all one word.

Go Salukis!

Farewell to Tokushima students! We'll miss you...

GE bubblegum bubble contest

More pictures here

CESL Activity Calendar, check for updates

Check out the CESL Activity Calendar for updates about fun stuff to do with CESL students and teachers. The next CESL activity is coming up in a few days. This Saturday, September 2nd is the trip to the DuQuoin State Fair. Visit the Activity Calendar for more details.

Jessica Montgomerie
Office: Faner 3327
CESL Activities Coordinator

T-shirt day!

Welcome to Chloe Marie!

Mandie has shared pictures of her new baby- Chloe Marie Colon, born this summer. CESL welcomes the newest member of its family! For more pictures, go here.

Hello from Suree

Suree, former CESL student, got an MBA this spring...she says,
"Hope you're having a nice summer!"

Congratulations, Suree!

karaoke night- Friday!

image from http://japanesecentral.com.

Welcome to 064!

Emu picture from Exzooberance; deer picture from mynaturephotos.

Activity Calendar

Where else but on a weblog! You will also be able to access it from the template (to the side). We hope you use it!

Parents suffering with their children by Khalid Doubi

Khalid Doubi
O6/05/06
AE2
Parents suffering with their children
Video games are one of the biggest problems that parents face with their children; they become the best friend for the child. They affect his health in general. Most of these video games have a lot of violence. The child who's sitting in his chair and playing video games will spend a lot of time playing them. The parents must control it because it's become more and more difficult to control than in the past; at the end of the day you can see that the child spent all his time on these games, and because of that the parents should make strict rules to control it.
I did research on video games and how it affected children, and I found that there is publicity about those children who spend all day playing it and default on all their day work. It's not good at all for their health, especially their eyes, because these games work on electricity and the others work on lasers; the child falls under the effect of the radiation of those dangerous games. It will hurt their eye, brain and body. These children are sitting in an unhealthy way, without any moving; that’s why they become fatter than they were. If they play these video games, they will not contact with the society. They will not be a productive for the country, they can not improve their skills while they are spending all the day playing these video games. The development which happens in the world will stop if the parents did not stop their children and control them, because the children are the generation of the future.
There are a lot of things that children can spend their time on instead of wasting their time with video games. They can read a story, contact with the society, visit his reality and read the newspaper. The scholastic level for the early childhood will go down; there are a lot of people in the world who leave the school and become useless. I find this situation a lot in my country, Saudi Arabia. The society oppresses the child who is banished from school. In my experience I had a hypomania on these video games, especially Grand Theft Auto, but my parents stopped me and punished me. I started to read stories and some magazine, What my parents did to me was good for me; I started to show my skills and improve them.
Most of these video games have alot of violence; this is the biggest problem that has an effect on children and sometimes adults. When the children kill each other on the video games, they will think that it's normal to kill; the murder rate will go up. Indiana state faced a problem; it was about a child who was playing violent games called Grand Theft Auto; he was killing people in the game every day, then he thought that it's normal to kill people, so he went to the street and killed two policemen and he became a murderer. These children could practice violence with their family first, then their friends; because of that, we can say that it changes the behavior and the thinking of the child, it changes the personality of the child, and when he grows up he would grow as a murderer and a killer. In Saudi Arabia we face a lot of these situations on the video games; when murderers kill people, they are hng or he commits suicide by himself. Last month, I read in the newspaper that there is a child from Saudi Arabia who killed his brother with his father's gun; these was a hullabaloo, and all the people were talking about it; the government is trying to stop these video games and also the parents have the biggest role to stop it or control it to stop all these problems.
In conclusion, if the parents control the situation they can make the video games funny, interesting and more safe. If they neglect this situation, the problem will get bigger and it will be the worst. If we use a thing that we have in a good way, it will make us succeed, even the video games, and if we use it in a bad way it will give us a bad effect. There are a lot of things that can develop the children and let them improve themselves, for example educational material.

Happy Birthday CESL!

Picture from giftsforgeezers

Saori and Miho

Saori and Miho say: We miss CESL already! We will come back to visit as soon as possible!

CESL chat

CESL chat will return in the fall- and will be renamed as international chat. See you then!

Dance Party

See you there!

picture from http://www.ftw-design.com

CESL Today

CESL Today, CESL's student newspaper, has just published volume 65 (term 062) in both online versions and paper version (available at the CESL office). Please help yourself to as many as you can use...send some home! We are proud of our work- we have worked hard to make articles that are interesting to everyone- and, at all levels, from GSE to GE. We use what you put on the class weblogs- please keep it up! - and, we use your name, unless you ask us not to. Thank you for contributing to CESL Today!

Welcome to CESL 063!

photo by Eric Jang

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

To former CESL students completing graduate degrees this spring.


Bader H.K. Alotaibi, Ph.D., Economics

Hui-Tzu Wang, MA-TESOL

Ryuji Ito, MBA

Sureeporn Lertpittayapoom, MBA

Poonthip Sirikulchayanon, MS (Geography & Environmental Resources)

Eun Jin Hwang, MS, Ed. (Curriculum & Instruction)

AND TO MANY UNDERGRADUATES AS WELL -

Friendship Plaza

The City of Carbondale recently unveiled its new sculpture, shown here (picture by Dave More), at the busiest intersection in town, Mill Street and South University Avenue. The statue commemorates international friendship and global awareness, and will have special plaques for each of our sister cities, Nakajo, Japan, Shimla, India, and Tainan City, Taiwan.

I'm proud to live in a city that puts its international awareness right up front!

Congratulations

to Eric Jang - for winning the prize, and providing us with some new logos!

Essay Contest

$500 prize....any takers?

boat regatta- no takers?

SIU has a cardboard boat regatta every year about this time.
Usually CESL students are too busy studying English to make
a boat. You have to have some cardboard and some time.

These pictures are from the last time they did it.

A new world is created!

Set sail, all aboard!

Everyone gets wet- it's tradition!

CESL activities this term - JOIN US!

1. March 29, Wednesday 5-8pm. Bowling/Food night at the SIU Student Center Bowling Alley. All CESL students are invited and encouraged to compete in a friendly inter-level competition. The top 3 scores from each level will be averaged and the highest average will win a SUR-PRIZE given out at the end of term gathering in May. The food will be from Subway. There will be unlimited soft drinks. So, bring your camera and your fun spirit to have a good time with your CESL classmates and teachers. Good luck to everyone! Did I mention it’s FREE?!

2. April 15, Saturday 2-4:30pm. SIU Baseball game vs. Creighton University at SIU baseball fields, south of the Arena. Snacks are available but not included. Come one, come all to see this most important of all American pastimes. It’s free and exciting. Enjoy the springtime outdoors in Southern Illinois. Bring your friends!

3. April 29, Saturday 2-5pm. CESL’s Picnic in the Park. All CESL students are encouraged to come out to Evergreen Park, just south of the university to enjoy an afternoon with their classmates and teachers doing a number of fun activities such as soccer, volleyball, horseshoes, baseball, croquet, egg toss, and more! Snacks and drinks will be provided. Bring your cameras and be ready to have fun while practicing English!

CESL TODAY volume 64

Volume 64 of CESL Today is now on the web, and also available in paper form in the CESL office. It is made by students and for students. Good job! Enjoy!

T-shirt contest!

lst prize: $75.00 tuition waiver + 3 t shirts
2nd prize: $50.00 tuition waiver + 2 t shirts
3rd prize: $25.00 tuition waiver + 2 t shirts

Welcome to the new spring term! Here are the
rules for the new T-shirt contest:

1. Participants must incorporate the words:
Center for English as a Second Language or CESL
AND
SIUC

2. Design may be no larger than 12” x 12.”

3. Student must sign agreement entitling CESL to use and modify their design at will (see reverse).

4. No more than three colors may be used.

5. Any medium (charcoal, colored pencils, etc.) may be used.

6. Submit t-shirt designs any CESL teacher by Friday, April 7th @ 4:00.


Good luck!

Join us for CESL CHAT!

...Online Conversation Hour...

CESL CHAT WILL RETURN IN THE FALL (AUG.)
JOIN US!

Learn to use English in a new medium!
(one you probably know better than the teachers)
Read, write & EMOTE ^^

Directions:
on the web, go to http://tappedin.org
Log in as either guest or member (member takes longer)
Once in (make sure "enable chat" is checked),
you'll be in the Reception Area. Look up to the right under
"Featured Passageways" and find the "Comfy Conference Room"
and click on it. You're here! If no one greets you, wait a minute!

EAP2 has been chat pioneers this term. Any questions? Ask them! They're good at it. We teachers are kind of slow to pick up on it, but we're learning...be patient!

Here are some things to remember:
1. It's fast. There may be several conversations at once.
2. It all goes on a transcript which is available to members.
3. Grammar & spelling problems are common & permitted.
4. There's a world of emoticons; you may not understand them all!
5. American students, teachers, alumni, others - all welcome. It's a social experience! Tell your friends.
6. I believe it's good for your reading-writing fluency...write and tell me what you think...it's an open question.
7. ALL WELCOME...ALUMNI...AMERICANS...FRIENDS...PARENTS...^^


-Tom Leverett, CES: teacher

Help CESL get a new home page!

Take a short survey and tell us what you think about four different home pages. Which do you like the best?

Remember that you probably know what would work better than we would! We appreciate your input!

Go Salukis!

This is an Egyptian dog! It's the symbol of the SIU teams, like the basketball team, which just won its 42nd game in a row at home...Go Salukis!

Happy New Year...Welcome 061 new students!

Have a good holiday!

Have a nice break!

Picture from:
Kolk, Melinda. deer35550.jpg. Jun-00. Pics4Learning. 16 Dec 2005

remodeling

In an attempt to give the CESL webpages a makeover, there was an unfortunate accident in which many pages were lost, links were broken and pictures lost. Sorry! Please be patient while we reorganize!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are 80 things to do with your weblog, if you have time!

picture from:
DeSandies, ManYee. pumpkinturban.jpg . . Pics4Learning. 18 Nov 2005

Congratulations, Soo Jin! Welcome, Dr. Jang!

Our own Soo Jin Jang (EAP1) is a very talented computer graphic designer...and her work, which includes this picture:





will be a part of an exhibit at the Vergette Gallery, 107 Allyn Building, SIUC, Oct. 31-Nov. 4.

But BEFORE THAT, her father, Professor Wan Young Jang, will have an exhibit in the same place, this week! I hope you can attend both!

CESL Today V. 62

The new bright orange CESL Today is now uploaded onto the web. I always like it if people read it but I especially want you to tell me if I have misspelled your name, misrepresented your country, or got the wrong author to an article....it happens! And if we don't catch it now, we never will! I hope you enjoy it...you did a good job on it! -Tom Leverett

055 students WELCOME new students!

New TOEFL

With the coming of the new TOEFL, called the iBT (internet-based test), many people are wondering: when will it come to SIUC? How should we study? What should we do?

SIUC has been identified as a place where the new iBT will be given, but this will not happen until the Spring (or maybe later), and it will be given by the SIUC testing center, not CESL. In general we at CESL see the iBT as probably good; testing speaking is good for CESL students, because CESL students speak more than their friends back home, or even friends in other programs. About the rest of the test, we're not sure; it's pretty new. We understand that Sylvan, where students have been taking international TOEFLs, is now giving the iBT instead of the CBT. But we don't know how the iBT and CBT are different, aside from the speaking section.

The test CESL students will take in October (Oct. 12, 3:00, Parkinson 124), however, will be the paper-based test that CESL students have been taking for many years.

What materials should you use to study?

Materials that are specifically for the paper-based test have largely been out of print for a while. We have been using old materials. You may be able to buy used copies of such books as Cliff's, Longman, or Barron's from friends or on the web.

Materials that are for the CBT may be closer to the format of the iBT, but may not be exactly the same, and these will soon be outdated. Most of what you can buy today at the bookstore is for the CBT. There is no speaking section on the CBT.

Materials for the iBT are just coming out, and one of them is a book by Michigan that we are now using in the TOEFL class. It is still difficult to judge these materials as many of us have not seen an iBT. However we have picked our favorite providers and are getting more materials as soon as possible. ETS (the company that makes the TOEFL) says that you can get a practice test here. Notice that you have to "join"...we don't know if that means that they will fill up your e-mail box with advertisements for years or what. We would like to hear about it if someone has taken one of these tests: is it good? What's it like?

Everyone wants to know. Thanks for your input.

-Tom L., CESL teacher

Is Carbondale a Good Place to Study English?

Since everyone who reads this weblog has a connection to Carbondale and to studying English, you may be interested in what the GE and AE1 students have posted to their class weblogs. The got together in groups and wrote opinion paragraphs to answer the question "Is Carbondale a Good Place to Study English?" Check out their answers and see if you agree. Please leave comments to share your opinion.

Written by Jessica Montgomerie

cesl goes to the fair!

CESL students and teachers went to the DuQuoin State Fair recently.



All aboard!

Congratulations, Miho!

Welcome to Carbondale!

Goodbye Marie!

We understand that Marie is moving back up to Charleston, IL soon.

Goodbye! Good luck in your new life! Stay in touch! We'll miss you!



Love, CESL!

Conversation opportunity

Conversation hour will be held in Faner 1122 every Monday at 3:50.

Welcome to CESL!

Afraid of weblogs? Afraid of posting?

Can't blame you! It's in English, and lots of people might read it!

But that's why it's good for you! Let me remind you of several things:

1) CESL Today is a student newspaper, created from what everyone makes and does in the term. We would like everyone to contribute something...whether that is to tell us about your favorite music, tell us about your hometown, or just put your class assignment on the web...

Do your best. Give us a picture of your life now, as it is. Make your own weblog; connect to your friends. If you're worried about privacy, we'll accommodate you; we don't want your ex-girlfriends/boyfriends finding you either!!! Family names are not required....but participation is...

-Tom Leverett, AE2 & Newstalk teacher

Poetry Contest winner!

Congratulations to Young, winner of the CESL Poetry Contest. His poem, You, appears on the EAP Poetry page.

Most of his competition came from the teachers, but the teachers' poetry, rather than inspiring his classmates, may have had the opposite effect. In any case, congratulations!

grammartalk

CESL has a weblog, grammartalk, whose purpose is the discussion of grammar issues. Interested? It's intended for people who are studying TOEFL, who are stuck on certain issues, or who just want to know why things are the way they are. If that's you, come visit! It may take a while to get your answer, but you will. You can read about grammar issues, at your leisure...

opportunity

Know any html? I've been getting bogged down in producing CESL Today, which is the student newsletter, and I strongly feel that since it's the students' production, the students' journal, the students' record of life here at CESL, students should be able to put it together themselves.

Now putting html together is a laborious task, I'll admit. It isn't easy. But when you're done, you'll have something to show people. Interested? contact me...

-Tom Leverett

Privacy

Although it's been said before, it never hurts to say it again!

CESL teachers will ask you to contribute to the class weblogs (this contributes to CESL Today.
CESL teachers will ask you to have your own weblog and have it connected from the class page.
CESL wants full and rich weblogs that show what we do and have good English on them.
CESL teachers will want you to sign your work and be proud of it.
CESL Today will publish your work and may use your full name unless you tell us not to.

BUT

You do not have to have your full name on everything, or anything.
You do not have to allow your picture to be published.
You may tell us not to use your full name or even not to use a correct name.
You do not always have to have your portfolio visible to the whole world including GOOGLE.
You can ask us not to use your full name or picture.
You can "DELETE" your weblog after the term.

We understand that people have old boyfriends/girlfriends
or other reasons to "stay out of Google..."

We want to respect your privacy.
Please LET US KNOW if we need to do this!

Thank you for contributing to CESL Today!

CESL Poetry Contest!

Prizes will be awarded to the poetry contest winners at the end of the term. All styles of poetry are welcome and all CESL students are encouraged to enter.

If you would like to submit a poem for the contest you may post it on the poetry contest weblogs or give it to Marie. Deadline for poems is Tuesday, June 28.


GE & AE Poetry

EAP1 & EAP2 Poetry

CESL Teacher Poetry

*The poetry weblogs can be found on the ceslstudents dashboard.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new term. I look forward to working with all of you this term. Please feel free to ask me for help with your writing or using the weblogs.
Marie Poteete
Writing Assistant

MUSIC PICKS

Before everyone goes their way this spring (some of you are going to SIU, some going home, some wherever)....please tell us about YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC....we want to know who to listen to...PLEASE LINK US UP so we can hear a song of your favorite band, your favorite singer, your favorite song!

We'll collect them and put them in CESL TODAY...thanks!!!
I'll put mine up too...

Don't forget

Don't forget
the ART PARAGRAPH CHALLENGE



Heath, R.. blueparrotl.jpg. 03/03. Pics4Learning. 29 Apr 2005

Interview with Sophi

Former CESL student, Sophi, received the Rickert-Ziebold Award on Monday, April 4th. We had the opportunity to speak with her about the award and schoolwork.

We began by asking Sophi how she felt about winning the Rickert-Ziebold Award. She told us that she really didn't expect it and she was surprised. She explained that in order to be considered for the prize, she had to submit an application along with an artist statement and several slides of her work. She plans to use some of the money she won to help pay for graduate school. She is also thinking about donating a portion of the Award money to an ISS scholarship fund since ISS helped her as a student.

To create the piece of work that won the prize, Sophi used a combination of metal and fabric. The metal was used to represent men while the fabric represents women. The combination is used to show harmony and balance between men and women. Sophi's work will be displayed in the University Museum until May 1st. The museum is located at the north end of Faner Hall.


Sophi studied at CESL before becoming an Art and Design student at SIUC. She told us that when she first arrived in the United States, she was afraid to speak to people because she felt as if she didn't have enough language abilities. After one year in CESL and another two at SIUC Sophi is very comfortable with her English skills. She told us that CESL was very helpful in improving her English and she really appreciated the patience and understanding of her CESL teachers. She also wants to let current students know that even though EAP 2 writing class is very difficult, "it is very important."

Congratulations Sophi! We wish you the best of luck in your future.

Weblog Workshops

If you'd like to post your pictures on your weblogs ask how in a weblog workshop or see the writing assistants during office hours.

Weblog workshops are every Tuesday at 3 and Wednesday at 4 in the CESL computer lab.

Have your pictures taken.

Dear Students,

In the past, we have had many great essays and weblog postings posted on CESL's weblogs. But, most of the works are only regonized by name. We wish our students to be regonize for their accomplishments. So, come and have your picture taken and be known for who you are along with your work ! Let people see who you are too ! If you do not wish to have your pictures posted on weblog, that is okay too. If you would like to have your pictures taken (so we can put it on our website) please contact John or Marie to schedule an appointment.

thanks and have a great day,

CESL writing assistants~

Art Links

Here are some art links to help you get started on the art paragraph challange. Scroll down to see more information on the Art Paragraph and feel free to contact the writing assistants if you have any questions about it.

Momoko Okada

Limelight Art

Painting by Han Gan and other Chinese art

Islamic Art

Art and Art History Links

World Civilizations image repository

Free Art Site

You can use pictures from this site, as long as it's an educational purpose, and you include the bibliography. We have an educational purpose; we're learning about art and we're learning about writing English. So here goes...

http://www.pics4learning.com/?search=cat&query=Art_Paintings
pics4learning
art and painting
(you can also find sculpture, etc.)

For example, I found this one:



Source: Humphreys, Steve. japanartist.jpg . August 1982. Pics4Learning. 13 Apr 2005

Former CESL Student awarded Rickert-Ziebold prize.

Former CESL student Jung-Am Park (Sophia) of South Korea was one of three SIUC senior art majors to win the Rickert-Ziebold Award on Monday, April 4th. A reception to honor the winners will be held Friday, April 15th at 5:30 p.m. in the University Museum of Faner Hall. The work of these three artists will be displayed in the University Museum until May 1st.

For more information on this story check out the article in the Daily Egyptian and check this website in the future for updates.

Need help using weblogs?

Come to a Weblog Workshop in the CESL Computer Lab (3206)
Tuesdays 3:00-4:00
Wednesdays 4:00-5:00

Conversation

Practice English conversation in room 1122
Monday 3:00-3:30
Thursday 3:00-3:30 Beginning
Thursday 4:00-4:30 Advanced

If you prefer to meet with a conversation partner rather than with a small group, please notify writing assistants to make arrangements.

Students !!

If you are interested in our new "Art Paragraph" or in writing one and need some help.

We are here to help you ! Please contact Marie or I, we can set a time to help you out!

First thing you need to do is to contact CESL's writing assistants.

E-mail or come by our office and we can get started.

Have a wonderful day!!

ART PARAGRAPH CHALLENGE 052

Stay tuned for some examples of the Art Paragraph Challenge. The idea is to
1) Link us to some interesting art. This can be defined widely: photography, quilts, web design, sculpture. But it should be something we can SEE on the web. Link us to it so we can SEE it.
2) Write a paragraph about it. You don't have to like it; you can write a paragraph about why you DON'T. But tell us what is special about it. What is interesting? Why did you pick it?
3) Put your paragraph on your class weblog and on your own.

Show us some art from your country, if you can.

There will be some examples in this space soon, and some links where you can find some if you really don't know where art is kept on the web.

Thank you for contributing to making these weblogs interesting!

Best weblog 051

Congratulations to Danny for a very nice weblog: good personal picture, good posts, original wisdom brought in, a nice model for the rest of us. Keep up the good work!

Best LOGO

Congratulations to Awni Najim, for the BEST LOGO (see top right). Thanks, Awni! Look for it on CESL pages on the web, and elsewhere.

For Everyone

During the off peak period at CESL, I would like to offer my services for any student at CESL in regards to help with weblogs, conversation, or any help related to writing or computer related questions. Please e-mail me at Whitaker@siu.edu if you need any help.

thanks,

John

Best weblog awards

There is no eot exhibit this term, so we will not have the ceremonial occasion like the Oscars, where one makes thank-you speeches, wears special dresses, is filmed briefly while getting in or out of a limo, etc.

We will, however, have Best Weblog Awards. These will be announced in the new print and web versions of CESL Today, the student newspaper.

We will have prizes too, though these always depend somewhat on the generosity of local merchants!

There are a lot of nice ones out there this term!

Privacy

At this time of year, we begin to pull together the next volume of CESL Today, the program newsletter. To do this, we use the class weblogs, and if we see something in your personal weblog, we might ask you if we can use it. But it's good for us to remember that some of you prefer not to have your name, picture, etc. in the public eye.

If you are one of those people, this is to remind you: If you DON'T want your name, picture, or even your writing on the public web, OR in the print version of <CESL Today, let us know! We will by all means respect your wishes! You really have three possibilities, or ways to complete the assignments without having your name on the web.
1. Ask us to remove your full name.
2. Ask us to remove ANY NAME.
3. Ask us to just not include your writing; then, after next WED, remove it from the weblogs yourself.

We think you should be proud of your work, and of doing the best you could. However, privacy concerns are sometimes more important than that. If so, let us know!

-Tom Leverett

Grammartalk weblog

Questions about TOEFL? Questions about grammar? A new weblog has been started for you. It's for anyone who wants to get to the bottom of questions about grammar that are very difficult for learners.

It's called grammar talk. Come visit! Bring your questions! Pass the TOEFL!

CESL LOGO Contest

Hello everyone,

I am the new writing assistant for CESL. I would like to let you know that I am available to help anyone with this contest. I can not make it for you, but I can show you how to make it by using various tools on the computer or through the arts and crafts shop.


Lets find the artist among us!!
Even if you are not the best at it, that is okay.
If you need help with ideas or creating a logo. Please, let me know.
Contact me or Marie, and we will help you.


Thank you everyone,

John Whitaker

Wednesday Weblog Workshop

Marie will be staying in the CESL lab this Wednesday from 3:00-4:00 to work on weblogs with those who are interested. Those who still want to start one may move to the LMC if she gets help with this workshop. We would like you to be able to fix them up, work on them, upload pictures, etc. if you like. In TOEFL class? Take heart, someone will still be around when TOEFL class is over...

Best weblog contest: every term we offer Best weblog prizes. These depend on the generosity of local merchants, but we're hoping to do it again. Also, we'd like to reward those who laboriously put good content (i.e. good papers, reports, etc.) on their weblogs, as well as those who fix them up with flashing and dancing things (also good). This shows the world what we do...and what we learn...and that's good!

CESL LOGO CONTEST---Artists among us, see the message below!

Logo Contest!

CESL needs logos! We need logos for various reasons: for stationary, for the web, for the "best weblog" contest, and.........for t-shirts! That's right....the details are still being worked out, but we are thinking about making t-shirts for all our students, faculty, friends, etc., available at cost. This is often done by groups on campus, but we haven't done it in years. Why not? BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD LOGO. That's where you come in! Are you artistically inclined? Make a good logo BY MONDAY MARCH 1 to win. You may enter any or all of these as many times as you want:

1. General logo (color)- for t-shirts, pictures, brochures, web

2. General logo (black & white)- generally easier for t-shirts, and cheaper too.

3. General logo for web (this could also be one of the above)

4. "Best weblog" logo

All logos should say CESL on them somewhere.

Give logos to Marie Poteete, Undergraduate Assistant.
Good luck!

Help a charity, have fun, show off trivia knowledge!

The International Trivia Contest is being sponsored by SIU Rotaract (a civic organization) to help the fight against polio. Entry fee is $5 per person, which will go to the fight against polio. Prizes are: 1st place, $250, 2nd place, $175, 3rd place, $100, Best Decorated Table, $25. Teams must have a minimum of 3 countries represented, maximum of 8 people per team. The LSA (Linguistics Students Association) has already organized two teams which CESL students can join, or, CESL students can have our own team.

What do you think? If you're interested, contact Marie Poteete (undergraduate assistant); go to CESL Conversation Hour (TH 3:30-5, south end of the International Lounge, second floor, Student Center...See you there!

English Conversation Table

Practice English with casual conversation.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30-5:00,
International Lounge, second floor of the Student Center.

Hope to see you there!

Contact writing assistant for more conversation opportunities.

Welcome, John!

Our new Undergraduate Writing Assistant is John Whitaker. Some of you already know him from the Conversation Hour. He's a nice guy. He'll be hanging around the LMC, CESL lab, and certain classes trying to find out a little about CESL in the next few days. He'll have his office hours posted soon.

He knows a lot about computers, but maybe you can teach him a little about Macs and about weblogs!

An Apple For the Teacher!