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.