I grew up in a little town called Sagamiko, a border town of Tokyo, Yamanashi, and Kanagawa. After having a MA at the University of Oregon, I worked at four universities and two US based school districts as a language instructor and specialist. After obtaining a doctoral degree at State University of New York at Buffalo, I have been teaching at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). My journey of using technology began in the Spring of 2002 at CSUS, when I had very little knowledge and skills in computer technology. So I participated in a number of university-sponsored training workshops and began to work with Ms. Andrea Shea, online specialist at CSUS. I converted all my courses (elementary to advanced courses) into web-enhanced Japanese language courses using a course management system called WebCT. This attempt has been actually working very well especially for the first year Japanese language classes where I usually have an average of thirty students in each session. We also developed "Usagi-chan's page" to enhance WebCT courses. For more info, please visit the technology section in my faculty webpage (http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/masuyama/)
In this benkyookai, I would like to share some thoughts on online
pedagogy. I am a new explorer of online pedagogy and my report is a work in
progress. For those who know a lot of online pedagogy, please join this
benkyookai. The title of the working report is: "Constructivism or
instructivism: which online pedagogy?" Any comments and suggestions are all
welcome. At SenseiOnline 44th Benkyookai (Study forum), Harrison sensei
presented social constructivist approach in detail in his presentation
"Online Communities for Teaching Japanese". I highly recommend you go back
to his well-written article and discussion script.
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/44thbenkyoukai.html
These days, the terms such as "constructivism" and "Instructivism" are commonly used when people discuss the teaching and learning of various fields of study. This benkyookai shares my constructive and instructive instructional approaches that I have implemented in my first year web-enhanced Japanese language courses.
Masuyama sensei's paper at http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/masuyama/Technology/sensei_online/00_intro.htm.
So read the paper above and go to TAPPED IN. There, you will be able to discuss this topic with Masuyama sensei and others from around the world. TAPPED IN is open to everybody and the presentation will be done in English.
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