• University at Albany, SUNY, December 2000

•  Kuwait University, May 1982

• Insync Training, March 2006

Certificate of Synchronous Facilitation

2001-Present   Language Center, Kuwait University

Kuwait,Kuwait

EFL Instructor

• Taught Remedial General English course # 090 in the English Language Units of Science, and Engineering & Petroleum: < http://www5.kuniv.edu.kw/elus/090.htm>/<http://alothman-b.com/content-eng_090.htm>, (Spring 2001 - Fall 2006)
• Taught (ESP), English for Science course # 162 (Advanced) in the English Language Unit of Science:
  < http://www5.kuniv.edu.kw/elus/162.htm >/<http://alothman-b.com/content-efs_162.htm> , (Fall 2003 - Spring 2005)
• Taught (ESP), English for Science course # 161 (Intermediate) in the English Language of Science:
  < http://www5.kuniv.edu.kw/elus/161.htm >/<http://alothman-b.com/content-efs161.html> , (Spring 2001 - Spring 2003)
• Taught and Trained students in the English Language Unit of Science to create websites, blogs, and power point slides to present online : <http://alothman-b.com/wia_162finalproj.htm >

• Taught advanced ESL adult evening classes.
• Designed and developed 8-week course syllabus.
• Scheduled teachers and created lesson plans.
• Created CALL lessons to teach English at a computer-lab.(View my first CALL lesson: < http://alothman-b.com/culture_activity.htm )
• Monitored and observed graduate students.

• Taught intermediate ESL adult evening classes.
• Created Internet lessons, using authentic audio and video materials. (View my first Internet lesson: < http://alothman-b.com/culture_vinny.htm >).
• Observed master and student teachers and provided feedback.

• Worked at the local bureau as a columnist and feature writer.
• Wrote a major feature story on the problem of drugs in Kuwait, investigating the situation inside a Rehabilitation Center; interviewed addicts, parents and interior security officials.
• Wrote columns on current social problems in Kuwait.

• Worked at the local bureau International news desk, as a reproter, and feature writer.
• Wrote news stories on the environmental pollution catastrophe caused by oil fires in Kuwait.

• Managed and in charge of 29 employees.
•    Organized teamwork policy in the four departments of the institution.
• Required daily report from each department.
• Encouraged daily casual meetings with staff members
• Submitted daily report to the chairman.
• Convened weekly meetings with head of departments and monthly general meetings.
•   Created family and friendly atmosphere with and among employees.
• Rewarded outstanding employees.

Sub-Editor (English desk)

• Wrote political news items.
• Wrote a major feature story on the situation of Kuwaiti women in the local working market.
• Assigned to cover International Women Convention, held in Nairobi, Kenya, 1985.
• Assigned to cover a press conference held by PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, at Dasman Palace, in Kuwait, in 1984.
• Interviewed Namibia Leader Sam Nujoma during his visit to Kuwait, in 1986.

• Language skills:
  • Arabic-Fluent
  • English-Fluent
• Computer Skills:
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
  • Knowledge of Dreamweaver and PageBuilder.
  • Built Educational Websites using Dreamweaver 4 and PageBuilder, http://alothman-b.com and http://www.geocities.com/esl_efl_ku/
    
  • Knowledge of Computer Mediated Communication, (CMC), Tools to learn and teach EFL/ESP

• Designed and Facilitated a Blended (ESP), Face-to-Face and Online, Business English Program for Gulf Bank of Kuwait, April 16 - May 25, 2006. The six-week blended program for branch Managers can be viewed at the URL: http://alothman-b.com/content-gb.htm
• The Culture Project, a collaborative student-teacher interactive session, in Elluminate Live! Webheads virtual Office, at LearningTimes.org, by Wendy Bakes-Seale & Buthaina Al-Othman, - Aug 5, 2005 - 3:00 - 5:00 GMT - The link to the recording of this session can be found at http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=923303
• Designed and created EFL & ESP CALL programs and Blended, online and face-to-face, online Extensions integrated in courses taught in the English Language Unit of the College of Science at Kuwait University. These programs are based on the required syllabus of each course:
  • Remedial English 090, 6-week CALL program: http://alothman-b.com/090_previousclasses.htm
  • ESP, English for Science, 162 Blended courses & Online Extensions: http://alothman-b.com/content-efs162.htm
  • ESP, English for Science 161 CALL program: http://alothman-b.com/content-efs_161.htm
    
  • English for Academic Purposes, (EAP), 5-week Online Writing Course: http://alothman-b.com/online_writingcourse_efi.htm , taught at, David Winet's Virtual English School, "EFI-StudyCom" http://www.study.com, August 15 - September 16, 2004
    
    

• Tools for Online Collaboration. A paper presented by Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith & Buthaina Al-Othman, at the First International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, sponsored by Reading Matrix, September 25-26, 2004 - Power point presentation with audio narration can be found at: < http://alothman-b.com/econference-rm-wia.html

• Co-presenter online at the 37^th Annual TESOL  Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Wednesday, March 26, 2003) < http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2003/pp/program/iss/call_1.html >

Event number #4101- Colloquium: "Case Study of a Community of Practice: How Participation in a CoP Informs and Influences Personal Teaching <http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/papers/tesol/baltimore2003/copractice.html#colloquium>, and < http://www.geocities.com/esl_efl_ku/ > . And a Participant at the Webheads’ Demo session, by Vance Stevens: <http://alothman-b.com/tesol_wia-03.htm>, Friday, March 28, 2003

• "Using Free Hi-Tech Online Communication Tools to Train EFL in ESP Students to Think Critically and Independently" in TESOL ESP-IS Newsletter March 2005 Vol 12 Issue 1, at: http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/article.asp?vid=200&DID=3541&sid=1&cid=847&iid=3536&nid=3534
• "TOOLS FOR ONLINE COLLABORATION" Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, California State University, Sacramento and Buthaina Al Othman, Kuwait University- http://writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej32/int.html - Adapted from a paper presented at the First International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research, sponsored by the Reading Matrix online journal, September 25-26, 2004: http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html
• A Review / Summary Report on Michael Coghlan's Presentation: "Cutting Edge" - The report can be viewed at < http://alothman-b.com/wia_mc_cuttingedge_050120.htm >
  

• A volunteer Guest and Contributor at LearningTimes.org: < http://www.learningtimes.org/leadership.html > since 2003.
• Member of the London-based Information Committee of Association for Free Kuwait,
  (AFK), formed during Iraqi Invasion, in 1990.
• Co-author and co-designer of "A devastating Blow to Islam", a booklet in English on the Iraqi invasion to Kuwait - with AFK fellows Adel Al-Ali, and Sameer K. - published, November 1990.

• Member of TESOL, (since 1999)
• Member of the TESOL Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) since April 2007
• Member of the Steering Committee of TESOL's CALL IS in 2005: http://www.uoregon.edu/~call/committee.html
• Member of the TESOL Electronic Village Online Coordination Team since 2005
• Member of the Executive Board Representatives of TESOL's ESP IS since 2004: http://www2.tesol.org/communities/espis/contacts.html
• Member of "Webheads in Action", (WiA), (since January 2002)
  
• Member of Writing for Webheads , (W4W), (since 2003)
  
• Member of LearningTimes.org, (since 2003)
  
• Member of the Kuwaiti Journalists Association , (since 1997)
  
• Member of the International Press Association, (since 1997)
• Member of Women without Frontiers,(WwF), (since 2004)