Yasuhiro Omoto teaches Japanese at the University of California, Berkeley and maintains NihongoWeb site that supports teachers and learners of Japanese. It has about 100 visual aids and 2000 photos of Japan. You don't have to worry about copyright as long as you use it for educational purposes and please recommend to other teachers. Please take a look at Web Ring project that collects useful materials site such as NihongoWeb, Professor Ishida's site at Dartmouth College and Keiko Schenider's Bookmarks page.
In this presentation, Omoto will talk about how we can utilize the Internet effectively in classroom activities. As a classroom project, students are asked to make a student oriented Japanese language newspaper. Through this classroom project, students will improve their four skills and also deepen the understanding of Japanese culture. Omoto will talk about how to motivate students and how to integrate this classroom project into regular classroom teaching.
Omoto sensei's paper is at
http://www.nihongoweb.com/SenseiOnline/
So read the paper above and go to TAPPED IN. There will be Omoto sensei and other participants. TAPPED IN is open to everybody and the presentation will be done in English.
This event is open to anybody who is interested in the topic. It will be at After School Online Room at http://www.tappedin.org
Instructions to log in as a guest and get to the After School Online Room:
1. Go to http://www.tappedin.org
2. Click the "Guest Login" Button on the TAPPED IN home page
3. Be patient while loading
4. When prompted in the bottom window, erase the text next to the word SAY, and type your name and hit return.
5. When loading is done, you will be in the Reception area.
6. To talk, type in the message in the window next to the word SAY. Then press the SEND button or the ENTER key
7. In order to get to After School Online room, you can click on After School Online in the map.
Download and print this document. It will explain the interface really well. http://www.tappedin.sri.com/info/docs/TAPestry3.pdf
If you have problems connecting from a school computer, you may be behind firewall. Please read Firewall explanation in FAQ..
If you still need help, please mail TAPPED IN staff at contactus@tappedin.org
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Manager of SenseiOnline, Keiko Schneider at kschnei@sabotenweb.com
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