Business Core 09

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This WIKI is the on-line home of our Boston University's CELOP Advanced

Business Intensive English Core class. Here you will find news, homework assignments, links to help you with homework assignments, events and happenings around Boston, business resources and fun stuff.

Craig's List Jobs

Entrepreneurship Project

Pre-Thanksgiving due dates on assignments

Friday: First draft of CV
Monday: Entrepreneurship Project worksheet 1
Tuesday: Business letter 1 (Lost flash drive)
Tuesday: Business letter 2 (job application)

Acronym Dictionary

Financial/Business Glossary

Stock Selection Strategy 3

Our New Portfolio

The World Factbook Home

Bloomberg market report

Paper weights and grades explained

Google Video search

Dogpile Video search

You Tube

Buying Stocks Page

Wall Street Script

Internet Movie Database

LINKS from students

New England (song lyrics) by Jonathan Richman

Twilight in Boston (song lyrics) by Jonathan Richman

Reading Project: Here are 80 Business Books

Here are some resources for our Stock Unit

This one is Yahoo Finance

And this one is Boston Globe Top Mass Companies

Also interesting is the Forbes list of the richest Americans

OWL Resume Workshop

New England Foliage Page

Head of the Charles Regatta

Charles river course map

During the semester I will be showing you lots of different things you can do with WIKIs.

If you want to get started on your own, PBWorks has an excellent Support Center, with

many videos showing you how to do stuff. They are VERY easy to understand. If you

are a registered user of this WIKI you can create your own pages, or even get your very

own WIKI, for free!

Note: Fall 2008 Business Core Students can see their WIKI pages HERE
Note: Hosei IT students can see their WIKI pages HERE
Note: 055 Summer Business students can find their WIKI page at SuM06
Note: Fall 2007 Business Core Students can see their WIKI pages HERE
Note: Business English for Professionals students can find their WIKI page at BizPro
Note: Fall 06 050 Students can find their page at FaLl06

CELOP Map

View CELOP in a larger map

NEXT STOP - Videos of things to do and see near T Stations

Core Class Calendar

E-Book Reader Matrix

Job Sites

the model of the cover letter is in the Pages and Files section (Generic Cover Letter.doc)

OUR NEW TRAVEL PAGE

BLACK FRIDAY 2008

END-OF-SEMESTER Schedule

Wind Chill Chart - Adopted from National Weather Service (NWS) Chart

Embedded video from CNN Video

See what WIKIPedia has to say about the Arboretum

Serial Commas

National Debate Series: Boston (debate)

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http://nationaldebateseries.com

(800) 834-9711

tickets@turnitonprod.com

Boston University Center for the Study of Asia is pleased to present, in cooperation with the Geddes Language Center and the Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature, the Fall 2009 Japanese Film Series. Films will be screened at the Geddes Center on the fifth floor of CAS starting at 6:30 p.m. All films will be subtitled in English. The 1997 Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, follows the journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse. Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime. Leading the forest animals in the battle is a human raised by wolves, Princess Mononoke.
When	Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:30pm
Where	Geddes Language Center, 725 Commonwealth Avenue (CAS 537C)
Who	Open to General Public Admission is free

Forio Business Simulations

Supply Chain article

Process Essay Worksheet (with links)

Excellent Recipes Site

How to do Just about Anything

Mr. Feldman's News Bookmarks

Zipcar!

This week we will explore search engines. Lets start by considering what you look for in a search engine. What makes one better than another? Here are some interesting and varied search engines. After we try them out in the lab, we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Below find some sample searches we can use to compare the different searches:

Google	Dogpile	Ask.com
SearchMe	Mnomomap	Cuil

Suppose you are looking for information on the following topics. First, think about how you would formulate your search. Try several possibilities. Compare the results from these different searches across the six sites. Which are the most useful? Imagine you are looking for:

1) links to the top three most popular blogs in your country

2) information on how to build a computer from scratch

3) a downloadable pdf of the preparation book for the Mass driver's exam

4) information on mark to market accounting

5) information on why Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving

6) a pizzaria near CELOP

7) graduate business programs in the Boston area

8) video of Sarah Palin in a bathing suit

9) a page about lemons (fruit) and a nice picture of a lemon

10) a page about another kind of lemon (law)

Travel Links

Niagra Falls

Fall Folliage page

Shopping Links

CheapToday.com

Here is the video about how to install and use Hyperwords

One interesting measure being blamed for this crisis is called mark-to-market accounting, a change in accounting practice that went into effect last year. Here is how Wikipedia defines it, here is an article from the Wall St. Journal, and a rant from a blog.

Wikipedia idea cloud

on Web 2.0