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philosophy_cafe Philosophy Café is a blog operated by Mrs. Lobat Asadi, an English teacher at the Women's Division of the Saudi INTERLINK Language Center (SILC) at Al Yamamah College, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia. It aims to give an internet voice to Saudi female students, whose own blogs are linked to the page on the left hand side. Since its inception in 2006, Philosophy Café and its connected blogs have developed into bridge building tools that link Saudi students to individuals from around the world to discuss topics related to the development of Saudi Arabia. Mrs. Asadi, who is an American of Middle Eastern heritage with a background in Journalism, Middle Eastern Studies and ESL, has worked and lived in Saudi Arabia for about 4 years. She also comments on relevant issues from the perspective of an interconnected expatriate, and welcomes any suggestions and proposed topics for discussion and the blogging project.

 

Carl's Web Quizzes & Quests is a site created by Carl W. Hart, an ESL instructor at the Interlink Language Center at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana USA. Each Flash-based reading and listening quiz is linked to another site in which students are able to read a few pages from a book, listen to an excerpt from a song, listen to a National Public Radio (NPR) story or read a Wikipedia article. Within the linked site, the students read or listen for the answers to the quiz questions and then return to the quiz to submit their answers. Carl's hope is that the site will be novel and enjoyable as well as useful. In addition to the quizzes, quests are designed to provide a diversion for ESL teachers-something to do while students are taking the quizzes. The site is still in development, and Carl welcomes comments and suggestions. He began his career in Chicago and has 20 years of experience in Mexico, Equatorial Guinea, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He is the author of Breaking the Language Barrier (North Light Press), The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book (Barron's), a graded reader biography of Nelson Mandela (Macmillan, forthcoming) and is currently developing a reading series for University of Michigan Press titled Amazing Stories from History.