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 and creation for professional and classroom
use.
1: Online collaboration among Japanese teachers
2: Japanese capability issues
3: Virtual office at TAPPED IN
4. Review of WWW sites and materials
5. Publish (upload) the report
6. Publish your student intro page
7. Discussion of graphics/images
8. Create online exercises and/or upload
9. Evaluation
Please note that the content of this handout and the accompanying Web page is copyrighted to Keiko Schneider.
The content of this handout and workshop information can
be seen at:
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/AATJ2K
Homepage Creation/Upload Experience Site on Yahoo/GeoCities
http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/
1-2 Collaborating through listserv. What is listserv?
Most Japanese teachers use e-mail as a communication
tool. Listserv serves a group of people with similar interest. If you become
a member, you will be reading series of e-mail messages posted by other members.
When you post a message, it will go to a central computer from where your message
is distributed automatically to all members.
1-3 Invitation to senseiOnline
The list hopes to serve as an online community
of those who are concerened with Japanese language/culture education. It will
help networking, sharing ideas and supporting each other. Possible topics would
be software and hardware issues, showing and using Web pages as a material,
using listserv as a class mana gement tool, using chat sessions, e-mail penpal
projects, making Web page as projects and syllabus, creating Web-based materials,
on-line assessments, delivering class partially or totally on-line, related
announcements, "Somebody, help!" and non computer related issues that concern
the members are welcome.
Current members include teachers of Japanese (Elementary, Immersion, Middle/High School, Community College, University/College, Other Education Institutions), English teachers in Japan, CALL specialists, Language Lab Technicians, Engineers, Web Designers, Graduate Students and eager learners of Japanese. Geographic locations are US, Canada, Japan, Australia, UK, Europe, Russia, West Indies, Mexico, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the list is expanding. Those who have non-educational domain will be asked to verify the interest/involvement in Japanese education, but it is soley for the purpose of eliminating the chance of spam activity. People without educational institution shouldn't be discouraged in joining the list.
1-4 Online Forum: Benkyoukai
Also we have a monthly online forum called Benkyoukai.
We invite list members to contribute a short paper and have an online, moderated
chat session through World Without Borders. http://www.worldwithoutborders.com
Previous events:
-"Cultural Liberation: East-West Biculturalism for a New Century" by Steve McCarty, Kagawa Junior College, Japan
- "Making CALL Count (Improving CALL and On-line Activities)" by Greg Dablestein, Brisbane Grammar School, Australia
- "Enhancing language learning through electronic reading" by John Fahey of University of Texas at El Paso
-"Synchronus vs Asynchronus in Education", Cys Bronner, World Without Borders
-"Web-based Japanese Language Assessment" by Carly Born and Joanna Hollis, Monterey Institute of International Studies
- "Internet Videoconferencing and Japanese Learning" by Suzuko Anai of University of Essex, UK
Links to previous sessions' chat transcripts are found at
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html
Future events
Our 7th benkyou kai by Yoko Kano of University
of North Carolina is on December 7-8
" Teaching Japanese using web-site (partially on-line
course)"
Please go to the 7th benkyoukai page for more information
and logging in.
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/7thbenkyoukai.html
Events for the year 2001 will be announced through senseiOnline list.
If you have any questions, please contact Keiko Schneider at kschnei@sabotenweb.com
2-1 Making English system computers Japanese capable
(both PC and Mac)
In order to take the full benefits of the discussion,
please check the operating system (Windows 95 or Mac OS 8.6, etc.) and version
of Microsoft Office (97/98/ME/NT/2000) of your school/home computer and lab
where you can possibly conduct your class. Questions are highly encouraged during
the presentation. Internet and non-internet issues are welcome.
2-2Windows-based:
Windows 2000
Multilingual capability is there. You have to
make sure your computer is upgradable to 2000. Check hardware requirements.
After all, 2000 is an NT upgrade. If you have Office 2000, it should work fine.
Other software might have backward compatibility problems. You may still need
Japanese version of software (e.g. DreamWeaver J) to make fully Japanese capable.
Windows 95/98/ME
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
Global IME works with Netscape Communicator 4.72 or later (Latest is 4.76 just came out 10/24) Greg Dablestein sensei reported MS Messenger (instant messaging tool) is also Global IME compatible.
Third party software that makes it possible. (List provided by Tae Kunisawa of University of Alberta)
Word processor only solutions:
1 JWP 2. JWPce
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html
3.AsianSuite 97
Go to http://www.unionway.com
. and download evaluation version which allows you
to use the software for 60 days free. You can type,
send e-mail and make homepage in Japanese with this.
4.Kanjikit 2000
This is similar to AsianSuite 97 http://www.pspinc.com/lsg/kkit/index.htm
5. NJStar
Although Kunisawa sensei left it out from the list,
NJStart is also very popular. Similar to Kanji Kit and Asian Suite. Real version
is said to be a lot better than demo version.
http://www.njstar.com/
2-3 Apple/MacIntosh
Mac OS 9
Japanese Language Kit (along with other languages)
comes with the system. Catch? You have to have PowerPC processor and huge memory
to run it. That means some Performa is lucky to be able to upgrade but nothing
older. (For OS X, the next system, it is said that you need G3 chip.)
Step-by-step graphical instruction on how to install Language
kit, by Yasuhiro Omoto sensei from UC Berkeley.
http://www.nihongoweb.com/Computing/JLK.html
Mac OS 8.x or earlier
If you don’t have JLK already, you are out
of luck? Apple and other stores do not sell JLK anymore. But wait, if you have
OS8.5 or 8.6, maybe you can view Japanese, but not to write. If you have 68030
based chip or later, you can install old version of Kanji Talk, Japanese system.
http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/reference/kt753.html
Then you can later update to 7.5.5 with this updater.
http://www.apple.co.jp/ftp-info/reference/kt755.html
Our settings today
OS: Win95
Hard drive size: 6 GB
RAM: 32 or 64 MB
Connection speed: 10 Mbps
Software installed: MS Internet Explorer 5 with Global
IME
Kanji Kit 97
I would welcome your comments/experiences on Japanese
capable issues.
Last touch to make you enable Japanese over the internet
For both platforms, you may have to play with
browser setting. Here are examples with Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
My presentation at SEATJ '99.
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/SEATJ99/readj.html
If you can't print Japanese correctly and really desperate,
print your page as graphic.
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/SEATJ99/readsoft.html
Links to useful pages on this type of discussion
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/computing.html
3-1 TAPPED IN Virtual Environment and Support Services
http://www.tappedin.org/info/services.html
TAPPED IN helps professional development projects, education agencies, philanthropic organizations, and for-profit organizations use the Internet to connect with and support teachers via the Web.
The technology that supports the community is a Web-based multi-user virtual environment designed to support large numbers of education professionals in a single virtual place. An integrated set of communication mechanisms (speaking, whispering, paging, nonverbal actions) and support tools (e.g., virtual whiteboards, sharable text documents, Web page projection, transcript recorders) enable users to be more expressive than with other types of online tools.
3-2 What can you do at TAPPED IN?
http://www.tappedin.org/info/whatdo.html
- Plan and conduct projects with colleagues and
students (online uchiawase or virtual office hours)
- Participate in (or lead) topical discussions. See
our After School Online Calendar.
- Conduct and attend courses.
- Find resources, experts, and new colleagues.
3-3 How to visit Keiko at her virtual office
You need a browser that is Java capable.
1 Go to http://www.tappedin.org/
2. log in as guest
3. Be patient while loading
4. Name yourself and press return. (the browser has
to be Java enabled)
5. You will get to the reception then type /join KeikoS
(from slash to S)
6. Otherwise ask Help Desk to page me or something.
My office is S2309
Speaking and showing action
If you want to say something, just type.
If you want to show some movement type semi colon
and starts with a third person singular verb. E.g. :smiles then it shows KeikoS
smiles.
Please also refer to Help page at http://www.tappedin.org/info/help.html
We are going to review some sites and online materials. Since we will upload this later, please write on Netscape Composer file (html editor that comes with Netscape Communicator).
1. Open a blank page in Composer In your report, please write
Your name
Web address (URL) of the page you reviewed
Title of the page you reviewed
Your comments on appropriate level, audience,
for teachers and so forth
And save often!
Suggested sites to look around:
Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/
Omoto sensei's Nihongoweb: http://www.nihongoweb.com/
Cyber Map Exercise http://www.sabotenweb.com/classes/mapex/
Introduction to Japanese Online http://www.sabotenweb.com/classes/ijo/
Asano san's Homepage http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~asano/
Reading Tutor Homepage (aka Chuta) http://language.tiu.ac.jp/
Miyuki Fukai sensei's Materials http://php.indiana.edu/~mfukai/materials/index.html
Japanese Language Education System for Speech
on an On-demand Network (LESSON/J)
http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/index.html
MIT JPNet Homepage http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/index.html
Ujie sensei's Audio visual resource Center http://www.wlu.edu/~kujie/avrcj.html
The Read Lantern (akachochin) Japanese Links http://www.uq.net.au/mltaq/japanese/japanese.htm
Upload to Yahoo/GeoCities free page
Today we are using a free web space from GeoCities
to the account. It does have pop-up ads, but the functionality was the best
I have tried from the free pages.
Other choices:
http://www.homestead.com
will let you create a page and let you have a chatroom (highly doubt it is Japanese
capable).
If you use McGraw Hill textbook, you can probably use http://pageout.net
If you are a Mac OS9 user, you can use iTool at
http://itools.mac.com/itoolsmain.html
If you have lots of sound/video files and need
lots of space, http://www.xoom.com
will give you unlimited space (heard that it is difficult to connect)
How to publish on Yahoo/GeoCities
1.Go to Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com/
2. Click on Connect- GeoCities
3. That will take you to http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
4.At member sign in Yahoo ID: keikoschneider password:aatj2k
(Please spell my name right) Press Sign in
5.Clik on Advanced Tools-> File Manager
6.Click Open File Manager
7.Click on report subdirectory because you want to
put your files to http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/report
Go down to EZ Upload
8.Push Browse button to look for your files from your local
computer.
9.When you find them all (you can do up to five at
a time) push Upload files.
10.Now your page is supposed to be showing on the
WWW!
e.g. http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/report/schneider.html
You can also access from http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/AATJ2K/list.html
http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/schneider/intro.html
Open the page above.
File ->Edit Page to open with Composer.
Edit as you like.
Upload to your directory (I will be making your directory
during the workshop)
Your directory will be
http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/yourname
For example http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/ochiai/
How to "grab" graphics from the page.
http://www.geocities.com/keikoschneider/faces.html
Save locally in your temporal file and make sure
to upload with html file.
Where to get graphics (Always read fine print on
copyright restrictions)
Graphics Gallery http://members.aol.com/Yschneller/graphics/index.html
mangekyou: http://www.media.ne.jp/web/kaleido/index.html
Icon Bazaar http://www.iconbazaar.com/
Generally Java-based applications that let you make exercises instantly without Unicode have problems with non-English, non-ASCII problems
Wonderful Exercise makers that only work in Romaji.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ PuzzleMaker
http://www.quia.com/ Quia!
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ ` HotPotaotes
Online exercise makers that DO work with Japanese.
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html
Quiz Center
http://www.funbrain.com Funbrain
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/JS4ll/templates/
JavaScript Templates for Language Learning
http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/ Game-O-Matic
http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm Makers
Online Resources
How to Build Japanese Homepage (Mac) by Professor
Omoto of UC Berkeley
http://www.nihongoweb.com/How/homepage.html
Creation of Homepage as a class project by Professor Ujie
of Washington Lee University
http://www.wlu.edu/~kujie/jfnewsletter.html
Netscape Composer Class
http://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/Resources/Composer/Composermain.htm
Learn HTML in 3 Hours
http://niftie.org/htmlcourse/Intro.html
Web Based Learning Resources
Library
http://www.outreach.utk.edu/weblearning/
Books
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
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