Win Exciting Prizes

david aireyDavid Airey is an Irish designer and plans to celebrate the 1st anniversary of his graphic design blog. He is launching this bumper giveaway to thank everyone for contributing and it makes his site what it is today. This is truly one of the best blog contests ever found.

There’s more than $4,000 in free prizes!
You can find more information on his logo designer website. You can also add more entries by subscribing via RSS and linking to his sponsors. Some of the prizes you can win are:

Anyway, there are tons of prizes you can win so make sure you check out. I’m hoping after I win to make this website better for all of us.

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CASH for COMMENTS

cash for commentsCash for Comments is a site where you get paid for adding in comments. This site gives creative ways to gain exposure, how to market yourself, and grow together. We love comments and are looking out for people who can post comments about our website. Comments are the backbone of this blog site. Without your comments, the readers, there would be no point in blogging.

Cash for comments wants you to get paid and get this 24 inch LCD monitor. You can also learn about baseball training from their sponsor.

Best of luck and as always if we win we’ll be giving it away!

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They are giving away $500!

John CowIn an effort to bring in more quality content. We are going to be joining contests to see if we can win and then give it away here on Teaching Kimchi dot Com.

I have done the following for John Cow’s making money online and Micfo’s web hosting.

For John Cow’s Contest we have done the following:
1. Created an account in Trails and made 3 trails
2. Added a trail to Fivelimes
3. Created an account in Daytippers and submitted the URL
4. Created an account in tipstrs and added a tip and the URL
5. Created an account in rateitall and submitted some info on http://www.johncow.com/make-moooney/
6. Created an account in only wire and submitted the URL
Under Onlywire; I have created also submitted to Backflip, Bibsonomy, Blinklist, Blogmems, Bluedot, de.lirio.us and del.icio.us.
7. Created an account in Digg but found this link was submitted by Goobinc
8. Created an account in Netscape but the link was submitted by someone else.
9. Created an account in shoutwire.com, submitted the link and also posted a comment.
10. Created an account in newsine.com for the link, submitted the link and also posted a comment
11. Created an account in clip marks for the link and clipped it too.
And created an account in the following web sites and submitted the URL
http://www.bmaccess.net/
http://www.clipclip.org/
http://www.clipmarks.com/
http://www.connectedy.com/
http://www.connotea.org/
http://www.contentpop.com/
http://fark.com/
http://www.gibeo.net/
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/
http://www.hypediss.com/
That’s quite a lot isn’t it? Well, I’m going to use the money I win to pay for advertising and hiring more content writers for the www.teachingkimchi.com website.

Cheers!

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The Terrible Customer Service from Xanadu travel

Call up Xanadu Travel on Saturdays to inquire about tickets for your summer vacation and whoever answers the phone call will request you to call them back on Monday as they are very busy on Saturdays. Now that’s great customer service. This is why people recommend Soho Travel. Even if they are busy they should at least take down your information and call you back later.

The place does get packed on weekends, but they should have some extra service to manage phone calls. Most of them don’t complain about Xanadu travel because they are usually good for the ticket as well as visa. Some of the customers complain that their prices where always higher than other travel agents plus a lot of hidden fees- their customer service is annoying and they no longer use them for purchases. The cancellation fee of only 40,000 Won is imposed by most of the airlines, but they have a 100,000 Won cancellation fee.

Some customers were satisfied with Xanadu travel. There were a couple of problems and their prices were pretty higher than expected, but they covered it for a few of them. May be it just depends on who you talk to and what day it is.

Source: Dave’s ESL Cafe Forums

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A Website Review on University of Hawaii’s Teaching Tips Index

university of hawaiiThis website considers faculty to be one of its greatest assets. The website provides training forums, connections and other support services and activities, which improves the quality of instruction and professional growth of all faculties.

First option is of faculty development index of teaching tips where it gives more information about the separate tasks such as assessment based on classroom quiz, tests reviews. This also includes communication, core abilities, critical thinking, teaching organization, teaching techniques, professional ethics for teachers, how people learn, human development, motivating students, course design, dealing with stress, tools for students, etc., which provides an accurate way for the faculties to lead a peaceful teaching to the students.

The next option given is the tips for the first day of the week which provides information on ways to create the best learning environment, inviting comments, discussion checklist, things to make the semester successful, getting into techniques, several tested, icebreakers, games, team building activities, how to learn names and faces quickly, research based on factors influencing student attitudes, etc., which brings the training classes more active and successful.

This website provides the faculty guidebook which gives information on attempts to present selected rules, regulations, teaching tips, policies, procedures, and other information of use to the HCC faculty. It is not meant to be all inclusive. It should be used as a ready reference.

This website also has the faculty homepage which provide information for other topics of interest to the faculty, including a link to a calendar of campus activities, newsletters, a link to a faculty and staff directory, contact information for conferences and grants, information on the Faculty Development Committee, and more.

Intranet homepage is also a part of this website which provides information on latest updates on upcoming events and also about voicemail instructions, HCC events calendar instructions, HCC web mail, UH web mail, UH portal and resources. It strives to reach the highest levels of quality in its academic, student and administrative programs and services through on-going analysis, assessment and improvement.

As per overall information provided in this website we can come to conclusion that “The most colorful, comprehensive, exciting, and award winning, faculty development site on the internet.” We’ll be bringing inspiration and providing summaries and tips from this site.

Source: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

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