English for Electricity

Friday, November 13, 2015

Electricity shortages an affront to quality education - The Zimbabwean

Modern education requires the use of ICTs which are powered by electricity. The shortages of electricity blighting our country has made computers and other ICT gadgets useless and inoperable tools.

Research for assignments and teaching material for teachers has been compromised
grossly thus negatively impacting on the quality of the teaching and
learning process.

Pupils are currently sitting for examinations including practical
subjects like chemistry, metal work, and food science among others.

The power shortages have become a headache for teachers to effectively
teach these subjects, let alone run the exams. Pupils on the other hand
can no longer read during night time as there is no lighting.

Those who dare are now using candle light which result in long-term eye sight complications.

Households and schools are now using generators as a mitigation
strategy. This comes with serious environmental consequences and it is
at variance with the global drive of sustainable development. Noise from
generators is unbearable for learners and fumes from the same can cause
health problems.

read more......

Electricity shortages an affront to quality education - The Zimbabwean

Lineman program accepts first woman - News - Dodge City, KS - Dodge City, KS

By Gloria Tucker / Dodge City Daily Globe

Posted Nov. 13, 2015 at 1:01 AM
Dodge City, Kan.

For the first time the Dodge City Community College Electrical and Power Transmission program welcomes a female student.

"I've
been teaching this program five years," instructor Dan Hopkins said.
"This is the first time I've had a female student because this
occupation is 98 percent male. There are not very many women who even
think about getting into this. I've seen female linemen as far back as
the late '80s and early '90s, but they are few and far between."

In
the program students learn the basics of electricity, climbing and
building power lines. In the first semester, they learn how to climb 40-
and 80-foot poles with a fall arrest belt and how to set those poles in
the ground. Certificates are earned in one year and an associate's
degree in two years.

"They can spend two to three
hours at a time up a pole, so they have to be broke into that," Hopkins
said. "The female body is built pretty well for climbing. What females
sometimes lack is upper body strength. You use a lot of upper body
strength once you get up the pole and start working. I know some women
who got into line work and then as years went by went into other fields
like metering and substation work. That pays very well. It really is an
occupation females should look into because they can branch out."

Dodge City native Vanessa Ybarra, 19, said she chose to enter the program because she saw an opportunity to be challenged.

Teachers, students take the Eco-Schools Challenge | VailDaily.com

It’s Thursday after school, and a group of fourth- and fifth-grade students huddle around a “Kill-A-Watt” meter diligently recording how much energy a classroom fan
consumes when it’s running. At Brush Creek Elementary, fourth-grade science teacher Drew Musser goes above and beyond his regular teaching responsibilities to help this

special bunch of students make a difference at their school. They call
themselves B.E.S.T., the Bobcat Energy Saving Team.

They are part of a growing company of teachers and student leaders in
the Eagle Valley collaborating with Walking Mountains Science Center to
take the Eco-Schools challenge and problem-solve ways to save energy and
reduce waste in their schools. These task forces or Eco-Teams work
tirelessly to make their schools and our community more sustainable.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Group blog project for teaching English for elecrticity TVTC students

Hi all !

If your major is in electricity and you want to participate in an educational group blog on ESP English for students studying Electricity at our TVTC technical colleges, this blog is for you.

If you are an English teacher who is teaching students in the electricity department and wants to participate in a blog experiment, this blog is for you.

If you are students studying electricity and want to improve your technical English, this blog is for you.

the project is about sharing, peering and crowd-sourcing to create a blog to help students studying technical English for electricity.

Ways everybody can help:

1- visit the blog

2- join the blog
become a member in the blog

3- invite your students to join the blog.
Find topics in the blog which you find suitable for your students. Encourage them to comment in English using their real names and college names.

4- Share with us your feedback
5- You can become an author on the blog and you can add material directly on the blog.

we can show you how to do that. It is a very simple process.

This is part of our experimental teaching. We are trying to collaborate online to create something meaningful.

Help us built it.

Sincerely
Samir Fatani

Interesting facts about electricity

Only 10% of energy in a light bulb is used to create light. Ninety percent of a light bulb’s energy creates heat. Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), on the other hand, use about 80% less electricity than conventional bulbs and last up to 12 times as long.

If a person yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, he or she would produce enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you had a light bulb on the moon connected to a switch in your bedroom, it would take only 1.26 seconds for that bulb to light up, 238,857 miles away.

If you travel as fast as electricity, (about 300,000 kilometers = 186,411.358 miles per second the speed of light), you could go around the world 8 times in the time it takes to turn on a light switch.

Who discovered electricity?

Electricity is a form of energy and it occurs in nature, so it was not “invented.” As to who discovered it, many misconceptions abound. Some give credit to Benjamin Franklin for discovering electricity, but his experiments only helped establish the connection between lightning and electricity, nothing more.
The truth about the discovery of electricity is a bit more complex than a man flying his kite. It actually goes back more than two thousand years.

read more........

http://www.universetoday.com/82402/who-discovered-electricity/

The Great Energy Challenge blog

Link:
http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/tag/electricity/