SenseiOnline presents 2nd Benkyoukai (Study Forum)

SenseiOnline's 2nd Benkyou kai is on the April 29th Saturday 7pm Pacific US. By then, US will be doing daylight saving time and I am guessing it will be Sunday 2am GMT (Suzuko sensei suimasen!) 1pm Sydney and 11am Japan. I will get to more correct calculation.

Featured speaker

Greg Dabelstein
B.A., Dip. Ed., Grad. Cert. Japan. (UQ) M.A. App. Ling. (GU) A.A.C.E.

Greg Dabelstein studied at the University of Queensland and has been employed at Brisbane Grammar School (the oldest private secondary boys' school in Queensland, Australia) for the past 10 years. During his time at the school he has been instrumental in the creation of the first computer lab designed solely for language teaching at an Australian school (1995). He presented a paper regarding this at the inaugural WorldCALL conference in 1998.

Greg established The Tower of Babel Language Links (1994) and more recently, The Red Lantern Japanese Links (http://www.bgs.qld.edu.au/edlinks/languagesjapanese/japanese.htm and continues to maintain this as a resource site for students at the school and afar. He is author of the text, Japan Unmasked (Oxford University Press 1999).

Greg has held positions of responsibility on a number of language teaching associations. He is currently President (& Webmaster) of his state's language teachers' body (MLTAQ) (http://www.uq.net.au/mltaq/ ). He is also the Convenor of the Australian language professionals' Technology sub-committee (AFMLTA).

Greg is a guest lecturer and consultant for teacher education courses at a number of tertiary institutions. He has run numerous in-services on CALL, the Internet, and the web applications for language learning.

Greg has been an active member of Seneionline for some time.

What is going to happen?

We will use one of his articles for reference."Making CALL Count (Improving CALL and On-line Activities)"

Registered members are encouraged to go to www.eGroups.com, my groups, click on files to the left and find 2nd benkyoukai folder. You can download Word file or Visit http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/greg.html

So you read that beforehand and go to chat room with World Without Borders. There will be Greg sensei and other participants. Since WWB is open to everybody I would like to invite whoever is interested in this kind of topic.

Where to go

This event is open to anybody who is interested in the topic. Please go to World Without Borders meeting place at the following URL. http://www.worldwithoutborders.com/calendar/meeting.shtml. If you are not already registered, you have to get a screen name and password. Please keep this information for the future record. Then once you get to Conference Room A and you will see a link from there. A Java enabled browser, such as Netscape 3.0 or higher is required to enter the chatroom.

This event is hosted by World Without Borders and sponsored by Apple Computers, Inc. Higher Education. The Meeting Place is the place to come for ideas, product info, to discuss the issues, to air concerns. This weekly educator's roundtable, sponsored by The Apple Learning Community Connection, is the place to find out how Apple products and technologies can help institutions enhance learning opportunities and advance educational innovation. Educators of all platforms are welcome. "If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime."

To participate in Web chat you need Netscape or Internet Explorer versions 3.0 or above with java enabled. The computer itself also needs enough CPU power and available RAM memory. Yet those at institutions behind firewalls may also find that Web chat access is blocked.

This Web chat provider can "push" URLs from within a chat room, automatically opening another browser window when you click on an address starting with http://, so you can chat while viewing Web pages corresponding to the session. Some rooms have options below the chat window such as choosing the color of your words. WWB Chat staff members are always on hand at sessions to help you.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Manager of SenseiOnline, Keiko Schneider at kschnei@sabotenweb.com

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