Keiko Schneider, Saboten Web Design kschnei@sabotenweb.com
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/
Abstract
One of the most exciting aspects of World Wide Web for Japanese teachers is that we can access to authentic materials immediately. We no longer have to be so desperate about collecting realia while we are visiting Japan. When we talk about weather, today's weather forecast is available from your computer and when we talk about shopping, a department store catalog is online. But how do you find the exact materials and information you need in this vast information pool? Especially materials from Japan? Are you searching and not finding? Is there anything better than Yahoo? How can you reduce frustration and the time spending in searching? This presentation will introduce useful sites and some tips on WWW search with needs of Japanese teachers in mind.
This handout is available at http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/VA2001
SenseiOnline is a listserv for teachers of Japanese who potenitally and currently use on-line materials in teaching. 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
Members can access to previous messages (3208 as of 5/30). You need to register with YahooGroups if you want to access the group site.
Pattern One: If you use Yahoo account for senseiOnline.
You shouldn't need to register.
Pattern Two: If you are new with non-Yahoo account or if you were with us since eGroups plus forgot the password
1.Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senseionline/
2. Go click on conversion wizard in "Join Now" to the right.
3. Go to "Don't have a password?/Forget your password?
4. Enter your email address and click continue
5. Keep the Enter authorization code page and check your email account
More info on senseiOnline, including sign up is at
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html
3-2-1. Google http://www.google.com/
Click on Preferences
Change Interface Language to Japanese
Save Preferences
You can enter keywords in Japanese and search result will also be in
Japanese when available.
3-2-2. AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/
Click on customerize settings
Choose One or More Languages To Search In: choose Japanese
Choose Encoding For The Following Asian Languages: choose Japanese:
Japanese (SJIS encoding)
Save your settings
(As of 5/20 search result doesn't show in Japaneseﾉ)
AltaVista Images |Video | MP3/Audio
Handy, but please be careful with copyright
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
3-3. Specialized Japanese Search sites
3-3-1. Moshix2 http://www.moshix2.net/
Search Japanese sites in English
3-3-2. Japan Reference http://www.japanreference.com/
Only Japanese related 3797 sites (as of 5/30)
Optimize Your Search at Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/search_help_optimize.html
Boolean logic and more
Each search engine uses different syntax. Please follow links such as "Advanced Search" (Yahoo) or "Power Search" (NBCi.com)
copyright 2001 Keiko Schneider