AATJ Schneider Workshop: Internet/WWW for teachers of Japanese
January 23^rd, 2000 at Arizona State University

Short Description of the workshop

This all-day hands-on workshop is designed for teachers of Japanese. The focus of the workshop is to explore WWW/internet resources for professional and classroom use. It will involve discussion of the use of technology, of e-mail, and of listserv for both professional development and class use; exploration and evaluation of materials available on WWW; creation of a short, on-line exercise; and creation of a one-page Web page.

Please note that the content of this handouts and the accompanying Web page is copyrighted to Keiko Schneider.

The content of this handout and workshop information can be seen at:
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/conference/AATJ2000/
Also Web site is more updated. Please note red comments.
(Links verified on Jan. 15^th, 2000)

1.Why should Japanese teachers use technology?
Is it worth going through the technical problems and high cost? Is it going to take our job away?

2.Japanese-capable questions
Windows 2000
Windows 95/98
Mac OS 9
Mac OS 8.x

My article on winter issue of AATJ newsletter: MS Global IME and Word 2000
http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/jpn/aatj/articles/schneider9910.html

Links to useful pages on this type of discussion
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/bookmarks/computing.html

3.Checking e-mail from the lab
Configure your Netscape Messenger or use
MailStart http://www.mailstart.com/

When you are successful in accessing your account, please send me an e-mail stating your name at kschnei@sabotenweb.com

If you don't have an e-mail account, please let me know. I will show you how to create an on-line free account.

4.My Bookmarks
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/bookmarks/

Type I: Good old paper materials went on-line to share with you!

Professor Ujie from Washington Lee University in Virginia
http://liberty.wlu.edu/~kujie/1.jpn.html

Teaching Materials Archive by Center for Applied Japanese Language Studies of University of Oregon
http://babel.uoregon.edu/CAJLS/Materials/

Type II: On-line materials made by teachers to share with you!

MIT Japanese Language Program Web-based Materials
http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/mit/index.html

Purdue University Japanese Project
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/

Professor Omoto from University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~yomoto/

Japanese Master Greg A. Dabelstein from Brisbane Grammar School, Australia
http://www.bgs.qld.edu.au/edlinks/languages/japanese/japanese.htm

Professor Kikuchi from Georgia Tech
http://www.iac.gatech.edu/modlangs/Japanese/

Type III: Use of WWW as authentic materials

Travel-Kyoto
Professor Morioka from University of California, Irvine
http://www.folwell.umn.edu/ACTFL_IALL/Activities/Japanese/Travel-KyotoA.html

Selecting omiyage before returning home
Professor Yotsukura from University of Maryland
http://www.folwell.umn.edu/ACTFL_IALL/Activities/Japanese/Selectingomiyagebeforeret.html
Takashimaya Virtual Mall has moved to
http://www.takashimaya.ne.jp/opening.asp

Sports and Leisure
Professor Levin from University of Minnesota
http://www.folwell.umn.edu/ACTFL_IALL/Activities/Japanese/SportsandLeisure.html

Kyoto/Giving Directions to a Sightseeing Spot of Your Choice
Professor Levin from University of Minnesota
http://www.folwell.umn.edu/ACTFL_IALL/Activities/Japanese/Kyoto.GivingDirectionstoaSight

Visiting Tokyo Disneyland
Professor Saito-Abott from California State University, Monterey Bay

http://members.aol.com/classweb/activities98/disney.html

About Japan
Professor Saito-Abott from California State University, Monterey Bay
http://members.aol.com/classweb/japan/index.html

Type IV: Cyber Textbook

Cyber Map Exercise
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/mapex/

Type V: On-line delivered class

Professor Kikuchi via Web CT
http://www.iac.gatech.edu/modlangs/Japanese/AccessWebCT.html

Professor Shinagawa from University of Hawaii, Kapiolani Community College
http://titan.ie.akita-u.ac.jp/~webclass/
His paper on TOHE conference
http://as1.ipfw.edu/99tohe/presentations/shinagawa/index.html

In my knowledge, Professor Shibata from University of California at Fullerton has also taught via Web CT. If I am not mistaken, Professor Kano from University of North Carolina said she teaches on-line, too (not quite sure if she does full-time)

6.Evaluation of materials on WWW

Please take a few minutes to evaluate one (more if you have time) specific site. Think about your students and curriculum you currently have.

Make sure to include:
Lesson name
Intended language level
Web address
Your comments

If you like, please use Lewis Johnson’s Evaluation of Web Lessons as a guideline.
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/evalform.html

Then send to me via e-mail to kschnei@sabotenweb.com Your evaluation will be complied and will be available at:
Please note the URL has changed!
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/conference/AATJ2000/evaluation.html

Nikoniko Net
http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/nikoniko/index.html

Japanese Teachers and Instructional Technology
Write to LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU and, in the text of your message (not the subject line), write: SUBSCRIBE JTIT-L

Japan Teach
To subscribe to Japan Teach, send a message to jpnteach@ssd1.cas.pacificu.edu and put "subscribe" (WITHOUT the quotes!) in the SUBJECT field.

Japan Teach-J
To subscribe to Japan Teach-J, send a message to jpnteach-j@ssd1.cas.pacificu.edu and put "subscribe" (WITHOUT the quotes!) in the SUBJECT field.

Nihongo (not totally sure what is going on with this list)
To subscribe, send a message to Listserv@utkvm1.utk.edu with no subject and the line: SUB Nihongo <your real name>

Yamada Language Center at University of Oregon has a list of listserv that might be of your interest
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/japanese.html

If you are brave, try FLTEACH, Foreign Language Teaching Forum (about 100 messages a day)
Send a message to: LISTSERV@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
In the message put only the following: SUBSCRIBE FLTEACH firstname lastname
Example: SUBSCRIBE FLTEACH Snow White

8.Listserv as a teaching tool
Class Management and Assignment

Contact your Computer department and set it up (Peter, do you wanna comment?)

Do it yourself:
http://www.eGroups.com
http://www.onelist.com
http://www.topica.com/

I will demonstrate how to start a group by making a new group called AATJ on eGroups.com

9.Create quick on-line materials (sometimes only Romaji is possible)

Funbrain

Hot Potatoes (officially no support for Japanese)
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

Quia (only non-Java flashcard is Japanese capable)
http://www.quia.com/
Dablestein sensei’s Japanese font test
http://www.quia.com/custom/18818main.html

Makers (Haven’t tried, but heard good things)
http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/

The Game-O-Matic (Probably Japanese OK, DHTML is used.)
http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/

Knowledge Design by a Russian Professor Mitrevski. (A lot of JavaScript examples)
http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/knowledge/

Professor Kikuchi from Georgia Tech (a little old)
http://www.iac.gatech.edu/modlangs/Japanese/Workshop/index.html

Web-Based Activities for Foreign Languages (French professor, but good ideas)
http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/lessons.htm

Developing Web Materials
http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/teacher/webTraining.html

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes
http://members.aol.com/maestro12/web/wadir.html

10.Why make a homepage?
Is this another "making a photocopy" skill?
Program promotion

My reference books today
Untangling the Web: Nonce’s guide to Language and Culture on the Internet
By Carl Blyth http://www.onlang.com
ISBN 1-893022-50-1

HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Elizabeth Castro
ISBN: 0201354934

Web Design in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
By Jennifer Niederst
ISBN: 1565925157

Making a Web page: the Hardest way
Let's go to my Easy Homepage.
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/conference/AATJ2000/template.html

You can pick your faces at
http://www.iwaves.net/~kschnei/conference/AATJ2000/faces.html

Where do you usually find free graphics?

Mange kyou
http://www.media.ne.jp/web/kaleido/index-e2.html

Icon Bazaar
http://www.iconbazaar.com/

All Free CLipart
http://www.allfree-clipart.com/

Making a Web page: an Easier way (WYSIWYG)
Let's use Netscape Composer. FrontPage Express (free), FrontPage, Adobe PageMill, Micromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, Claris Home Page, Visual Page fit in this category.

Today we will try making with Netscape Composer. With Kanji Kit running, we should be able to insert Japanese just fine.

Making a Web page: the Easiest way
Save as HTML, Export to HTML function from your favorite wordprocessor

12.Upload (WSFTP, Fetch)

Once you are done with making an html page, you still have to upload it to show the world. Ask your computer guy or Internet Service Provider how you can do it. You are going to need FTP tools if your editor doesn’t have it built-in.

For Windows, I will recommend WSFTP. (We have here in the lab today.) You can download from
ftp://ftp.ipswitch.com/Ipswitch/Product_Downloads/ws_ftple.zip

For Mac, I use Fetch. You can download from
ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/mac/Fetch_3.0.3.hqx

Today you are going to have to put your file into AATJ2000 folder into my iWaves FTP site. Here is your info:
Please note instruction has changed!
You have to connect to: www.iwaves.net
user name: aatj
password: youremail@yourschool.edu
e.g.password:kschnei@sabotenweb.com

I can demonstrate with WSFTP in the lab, but screen shot from Fetch is below.

Now you are connected to the server. Press Put File to upload.

Thank you for your participation in my Technology Workshop. I hope to provide such a workshop to groups of Japanese people. Arizona is the very first one! Please fill out the following and teat the page up to give me the feedback. I will appreciate both negative and positive comments about this workshop. どうかよろしくお願いします。

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4. Please comment on how I can improve this workshop?