The Terrible Customer Service from Xanadu travel

September 9, 2007 by ·

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

September 7, 2007 by · 8 Comments

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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Website Review of www.1StopKorea.com | 1StopKorea

September 6, 2007 by · Leave a Comment

1stopkorea1StopKorea.com is a website basically for information and help about Korea in general. A fabulous site with unlimited information about Korean stuff. It is user friendly and quite helpful for just about anyone, even an outsider to take a look at the website and arrive at conclusions about the beauty and charm of Korea being a net guide to any thing and every thing about Korea.

People interested in traveling can find links related to traveling taking us ultimately to the place actually we’d love to be in. Every thing a person would like to see and watch in Korea is listed here. The website proves to be a guide to a traveler who wishes to travel a new place without much assistance. The famous museums, parks theaters, palaces etc are all listed on this site which is of great help to foreigners.

By going into the Korean Universities tab on the website, one can get an idea about the different universities, their location, courses offered, admission details and very other essential information on them. This can be very helpful for you to study further or for your children.

Good food is simply irresistible. 1StopKorea.com as it’s name implies is the right place to look for the restaurant that is just right for you. You can even find recipes here.

The entertainment tab is very easy to suit one’s choice. You can even search using the names of your favorite actors and actresses. The site also provides information on music.

There is a lot of information on the various places of worship as well. An idea of the different churches for worship in Korea is mentioned clearly on the website.

Information regarding Business and investment is discussed in detail. There are huge number of links that deal with Real estate and housing. Information about tips on doing business in Korea; information on Stock Market and Security information is also provided.

Information regarding Sports and recreation; Major Leagues, association and councils are mentioned here for reference. People good at it would be happy to discover all this at an instance on this website.

Health is a major factor. It is quite likely that anyone falls ill and is in need of medical attention. For this purpose 1StopKorea.com provides information on the hospitals located near you. There is also other information on Health and Medicines.

The major news as well as the news in general are listed in this website so that a person reading that regularly will get an idea on what is happening in and around Korea.

There are various jobs listed on this website so a person searching a job can easily find the most appropriate job by just going into one of those links and specifying the category of job he/she is looking for.

The website also provides a general overview about Korea, their culture, heritage, food, entertainment etc. You can also find accommodation from the site.

There are links even provided for legal advice.

In short a Wiki to Korea all in one place is 1StopKorea.com.

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Website Review: The Daily Kimchi dot Com

September 5, 2007 by · Leave a Comment

thedailykimchi.jpgThe Daily Kimchi speaks about the lives of a Canadian couple that was previously teaching English in South Korea and living in Seoul and eating food!

The Gwanghwamun area is in Korea which is located near home to museums, palaces, and tonnes of cafes and coffee shops. Whenever they visited the City Hall area, they would always end up in Gwanghwamun to grab a bite to eat.

The waffles which they had the before week from The Place were good. But the waffles at Cafe imA in Gwanghwamun was much tasty enough, which was the best waffles they have ever had.

They dropped by on a Saturday afternoon, and Cafe imA was jam packed. The wait for a table would be 30-40 minutes–this is for the waffles of course! They had lots of time so they decided to bunker down, find a seat and wait. After watching the line grow and grow, they didn’t feel too bad about waiting.

The inside of the dining area, there are two areas for patrons to scarf their faces full of brunch items. They sat down in main area. The menu for Cafe imA is not very extensive, but it does cover the major brunch items. There’s soup, sandwiches, coffee, cakes, waffles…waffles…waffles…err, sorry about that. Anyways, they opted for their waffles with “everything” for 12,000w and the Cafe imA BLT sandwich. After a brief wait, they were presented with the following:

Holy hotcakes! Now these are what you call waffles! A freshly cooked waffle that’s still crispy, topped with two massive scoops of ice cream and two dollops of whipped cream. This plate definitely was meant to be shared, because it would be hard for one person to eat it all by themselves. I hope non-lovers of this waffles would also become crazy on having it if it is from the Cafe imA. Of course, while they were eating waffles they also shared this sandwich. It was a case of popping back and forth between a hot sandwich and waffles.

After this satisfying meal that definitely exceeded the number of daily calories the human body should intake in a day, they took a quick trip over to their open waffle kitchen to investigate. Now they know why the ice cream was so good–it was Haagen Dazs! Two ladies ran this waffle station and they would have to say they were doing an excellent job.

Once going through this website and if you’re looking for an awesome meal, waffles and sandwiches you would like visiting Cafe imA!

Source: http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com/

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JoongAng Ilgo: Website Review

September 4, 2007 by · 1 Comment

Joongang IlboJoongAng Daily – joongangdaily.joins.com is a website which gives information about the JoongAng Daily, a leading newspaper.

The JoongAng Ilbo publishes a high quality English-language newspaper, JoongAng Daily. It provides you with not only the major articles of the JoongAng Ilbo, but also in-depth reports on the foreign community in Korea including business coverage and social activities plus an introduction to Korean culture.

Daily culture and human interest stories add variety to the mix, including articles on social trend, pop culture, movie listings, art and people In addition, the 2-page English language study guide provides a wealth of study material for readers with study purpose.

This website gives information about national political news, social affairs, sports news, health news and about the people if we select the National option in the homepage of the website. We will get to know the daily latest updates through this website.

Business people who are interested in economic policies, finance, industry, IT/Science, stock market details can select this Business option in the homepage and get lots of new updates from this website. Selecting the opinion option in homepage gives information about editorials, columns, fountain, cartoons and letters to editors which provides different opinions based on the latest news.

Culture is one more option which provides information about food, ticket, horoscope, fashion, trips, arts which is useful to know more about certain things in life. Next comes the foreign community which provides information about activities, daily events and people wanted to know about Korea can select this option and get the required details.

The last option in this website is English clinic which provides details about audio news, current issue, editorial reading, feature story, pictionary, writing clinic and also question and answers in general.

In short this website joongangdaily.joins.com lets us to know more about the daily latest updates. In simple term “You lead the world as you read the IHT-JoongAnd Daily”

Link(s):

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/(English) http://www.joins.com/ (Korean)

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