Monday, February 11, 2019

Millennials: Communication in the Workplace

Millennials, also known as Generation Y or the Net Generation, are the demographic cohort that directly follows Generation X. The term Millennials is usually considered to apply to individuals who reached adulthood around the turn of the 21st century.

 Watch the following videos and prepare to discuss them with your partners:

 A Millennial Job Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odKLuw4HUg


Thursday, June 28, 2018

Improve Your Research Skills

How to Find Website Traffic Statistics

It is easy to get lost in the ocean of information online, especially when we need to find out which websites are valuable and popular, and which ones are not. 
The good news is that there is a useful tool created by Amazon company. It helps us to find out how popular a website is.


 Go to:

 https://www.alexa.com

 On top of the page open Features

 Click on Website Traffic Statistics

 Type in your website (the website that you want to check) at Find Website Traffic Statistics:

 Click Find




Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Improve Your Study Skills

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Fifteen Jobs Will Disappear in the Future


Which 15 jobs will disappear in the next 20 years due to automation and artificial intelligence?

 Click HERE to get the answer.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

HOW TO TAKE NOTES


Each method of note-taking has its own advantages and disadvantages. 

 Watch a short video How to Take Notes in Class: The 5 Best Methods.

 Click HERE to start.




Saturday, June 9, 2018

Research and Plagiarism


How to Do Research

 The main aim of the research is to find out the truth which is hidden and which has not been discovered as yet. 

 Research project writing process: 

 1.  Begin Research: what is your research topic, your main idea?

 2.  Locate resources you will use: go to the library, use databases, identify other sources.

 3.  Select the sources you will use from the journal articles, online resources, texts.

 4.  Collect the data, information, and statistics.

 5.  Analyse your research and data, information and statistics.

 6.  Write the research project: complete the writing of a formal essay or presentation.
Plagiarism

 What is Plagiarism

 Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote. Note: Similar theft in music or other arts is also called plagiarism. 
(The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, (2005) Third Edition, Published by Houghton Mifflin Company). 

 Plagiarism is the failure to properly cite the sources of your research and writing is a serious offense in academic research. Copying someone else's work, copying text from an online journal and merely pasting it into your essay without placing it in quotations, and providing an APA in-text citation and references is stealing and is called plagiarism. You suffer a loss of an honest reputation and will face academic discipline.
Causes of Plagiarism

 The most common causes of plagiarism:

 1. Not enough time to accomplish an assignment.

 2. No or poor language skills. 

 3. Not understanding plagiarism and copyright issues.

 4. No citation skills. 

 5. No anti-plagiarism policy and no punishment rules in secondary schools. 
Some free online plagiarism checkers:

 DustBall
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker

 DupliChecker
https://www.duplichecker.com

 Plagium
http://www.plagium.com



Self-management material



Thursday, June 7, 2018

Self-Management Material


Personality, Multiple Intelligences, Stress, and Learning Styles
Efficient Time Management
www.Lynda.com

 Free Personality Test
www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test 

 Multiple Intelligences
http://lifeandstudyskills.blogspot.com/2018/02/multiple-intelligences.html

Multiple Intelligence Test
http://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html 

 Cohen Stress Test
http://www.test-stress.com/en/perceived-stress-test.php

Documentary on Stress and its Effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRzKongcLU

 Learning Styles Test
https://www.how-to-study.com/learning-style-assessment 


A Story

 The Grass Eating Tiger (an interesting story)
http://lifeandstudyskills.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-grass-eating-tiger.html


How to Take Notes

Cornell System of Note Taking and Mindmapping


Life and Study Skills Blog
http://LifeandStudySkills.blogspot.ae


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