East Shikoku Officer Profiles
February 22, 2011
The Third Moodle Teachers & Developers Conference February 22-23, 2011
Event: MoodleMoot Japan 2011 includes presentations and workshops to learn about Moodle, the very popular open-source course management system.
Venue: Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan
Details: Anyone interested in sharing and/or learning about Moodle is welcome to participate. Attendees vary in expertise from newbies to developers and administrators, and represent various academic disciplines and non-academic areas. Presentations will cover a wide range of topics including Moodle course development, Moodle module and plugin development, system administration, and teaching techniques, testing and evaluation using Moodle. Details of the conference are here. (You will need to create an account to submit a presentation or register.)
Keynote Speaker: Martin Dougiamas, founder and lead developer of Moodle, will be giving the Keynote at MoodleMoot Japan. Moodle is one of the most popular open source course management systems and is used by thousands of institutions around the world.
Submit a presentation and find out more information about this event.
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July 24, 2010
Intercultural Communication in Practice: Insights from the (Foleshill) Field
Speaker: Minoru Yoshioka
Title: Intercultural Communication in Practice: Insights from the (Foleshill)Field
Date/Time/Place: Saturday, July 24th, Kochi University, Building 3, Room 310 (1:00-2:30 p.m)
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June 13, 2010
ESJALT in Kagawa with Shirley Leane
Presentation: Making our Teaching More Effective Speaker: Shirley Leane Time: *June 13 (Sun), 1:00-2:30 *Place: Kagawa University, Educational Faculty Campus, Room 411
Abstract: Many people who come to Japan to teach English have had no formal teacher training, and others of us may have forgotten many of the things we learnt. In this workshop we will discuss ways to make our teaching more effective, and how we can better support language learners in our classrooms.
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June 12, 2010
Speaker: Linda Ohama, Award-winning Japanese-Canadian film director
Linda Ohama is currently residing in Onomichi, Hiroshima, where she is filming for a future project.
Film screening: Fusions of the Heart, Ishizue
New short documentary by Linda Ohama (36 min., filmed on location in Onomichi, Japan [Engl./Jpn.]). It is a story about one's roots and branches and why it is important to develop and maintain one's roots to understand one's place in our world. Thirteen young Nikkei Canadian youth known as Chibi Taiko (6-23 years old) travel to Japan to discover their roots and learn to play taiko - traditional drum - with an Onomichi taiko group, Betchar Daiko. Ishizue follows their journey with surprising results for both the Canadians and the Japanese.
Time: June 12 (Sat) 3:00-5:00 pm
Place: KWU Eikokuji Campus (Nansha) Room 137
Sponsored by East Shikoku JALT and Kochi Women's University
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May 29, 2010
1st Annual Shikoku JALT Regional Conference
Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010 (1:00-‐5:30)
Venue: Kochi University, Media Library, 6th Floor
Sponsors: East Shikoku JALT & Matsuyama JALT
Website: http://eng.core.kochi-‐tech.ac.jp/eastshikoku/
JALT Members and students: free
One-‐Day Member Fee: 1000 yen
Program:
1:00-1:10 Welcome
1:10-2:00 Keynote Lecture (6F) Ian Isemonger (Kumamoto University, JALT Journal Editor) In this keynote lecture, Ian Isemonger, JALT Journal Editor, discusses the state of the research trajectory in applied linguistics and the rapidly changing publishing environment in which this trajectory finds public expression. The lecture is primarily concerned with issues which pose a threat to the integrity of research in the area.
2:00-2:30 Featured Speakers (concurrent)
(6F) Masahiro Nagasaki (Kochi University of Technology) Title: Changing EFL reading classrooms into "Reading Workshops" Reading workshops can change students to effective and lifelong readers (Rountas and Pinnell, 2001). In reading workshops, students read because they find it fun and meaningful. However, in EFL classrooms, students read because they are required to read. Research on integrating reading workshops into EFL is being implemented and results are positive. The students read more, for joy and with purpose.
(2F) Harry Carley (Matsuyama University) Title: Team Teaching: The Total Team Team teaching is most commonly understood as two instructors sharing a class. The presenter will explain how TT actually stands for the 'total team'. Who the members are on this total team will be examined and explained. Hopefully upon completion the listener will come away with a broader understanding of their position in the classroom and how they fit on the 'total team'.
Concurrent presentation sessions: 2:30-3:00 (6F) Ian Willey Checking Native Checking (2F) Rudolf Reinelt Using Media in Rating 2nd FL Oral Examinations
3:00-3:30 (6F) Marcus Otlowski Establishing an Instructor-Learner Dialogue (2F) David Patterson "How Sweet the Sound? Pronunciation in Performance"
3:30-4:00 BREAK
4:00-4:30 (6F) Brett Milliner Effective Listening Assessment (2F) Daniel Ribble & Joanna Hare Techniques for Using Film in the Classroom
4:30-5:00 (6F) Jennie Milliner Learner Perceptions of Computer-assisted vs. Face-to-face Peer Feedback on Writing (2F) Paul Batten & Gerardine McCrohan Testing Communicative Compensatory Strategies
5:00-5:30 (6F) Jeremiah Mock The Insight Playshop™ Approach to Adult Learning
5:30-6:00 Steering committee meeting: 2nd Shikoku JALT Conference (Matsuyama 2011)
6:30~ Party - Dandan Gikyo (段々桔梗) Myanmar/Japanese fusion, 4500 yen (drinks and food included)
Additional information and map can be downloaded here: 1stShikokuJALTProgram.pdf
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March 16, 2010
Professional development opportunities within JALT Publications
Speaker: Jerry Talandis Jr.
Title: Professional Development Opportunities Within JALT Publications
Date/Time/Place: Tuesday, March 16th, Kochi Women's University (Meeting Room 2) 7:00-8:00 p.m
Abstract:
This presentation will focus on professional development opportunities within JALT Publications. Advice for getting published (Including submissions guidelines and editorial processes) will be provided, and benefits from becoming a volunteer staff member will be outlined.
Speaker profile:
Jerry Talandis Jr. teaches English at the Chiba campus of Toyo Gakuen University. He is currently a coeditor of JALT's The Language Teacher. His research interests include professional development and exploring online tools for language learning.
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February 20, 2010
Anatomy of a Native Check
Date and time: Saturday, Feb 20 (1:00-2:30)
Place: Kagawa University Education Faculty, Room 411
Presentation title:Anatomy of a Native Check
Abstract
Many academic journals in Japan require "native checks" for English abstracts accompanying submissions in Japanese. However, the efficacy of such native checks has not been confirmed empirically. It has even been suggested that native checks done by English teachers on texts produced by scientists may be superficial at best, and harmful at worst, particularly in terms of lexical cohsion. The presenters, an English teacher and a Nursing instructor, will describe an ongoing study that centers on the nature and efficacy of native checks. Ten native English speakers were asked to edit an abstract produced by a Japanese nursing researcher, and the changes made were identified and categorized from a socio-cognitive perspective. Follow-up interviews were then conducted. Results reveal a variety of approaches and attitudes towards editing, suggesting that a simple native check is in fact a complicated phenomenon yielding diverse results.
Presenters
Ian Willey, Center for Research and Educational Development in Higher Education, Kagawa University
Willey teaches English as an assistant professor at Kagawa University and is a doctoral candidate at Hiroshima City University, focusing on second language writing.
Kimie Tanimoto, School of Nursing, Kagawa University
Tanimoto is an associate professor and pediatrics nursing instructor at Kagawa University. She is also a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Medicine at Kagawa University.
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January 24, 2010
East Shikoku JALT event on technologies in education
Event Date: Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Location: Kochi University of Technology, Tosayamada, Kochi, Japan
(3rd floor of K-building, located on the east side of campus, near the student cafeteria)
Map: http://learn.core.kochi-tech.ac.jp/eastshikoku/archives/2010/01/east_shikoku_ja_4.html#more
Event Description This event will feature a number of educational technology professionals from the Shikoku region and will include both hands-on workshops and digital poster sessions.
Workshop titles and poster sessions
1:00-1:40: Workshop 1: Multimedia content creation tools for language teaching
Presenter: Paul Daniels
Abstract: An important component of language learning is visual and audio input, particularly at limited language proficiency levels. Multimedia can greatly enhance learner understanding of the language content. This practical workshop will introduce basic tools that can be used to create and deliver images, audio and video for language instruction. The following topics will be covered in this workshop. Depending on the number and level of computer proficiency of the participants, this workshop may be divided into two groups.
• Recording and embedding media into online content.
• Adding multimedia to online quizzes and language practice activities
• Using PowerPoint as an content creation tool rather than a presentation tool
• Creating instructional content with Camtasia Studio
• Web-based multimedia media creation & delivery tools
1:40-2:20 Workshop 2: Introducing Low Intermediate Students to Collocations using Google Search
Presenter: Professor Trudie Heiman, Tokushima Bunri University
Abstract: This workshop will demonstrate how to use Google Search to introduce Low Intermediate Level learners to Collocations. Understanding and using collocations can significantly improve students writing and help move the L2 learner toward more native- like fluency. A brief introduction to collocations and detailed demonstrations on how to introduce collocations will be given. Before and after samples of student work will be provided to illustrate how understanding collocations improve their ability to use words correctly and appropriately.
2:20-3:00 Poster sessions
Poster 1: The Lexical Portfolio
Presenter: Professor Trudie Heiman, Tokushima Bunri University
Poster 2: Applying Moodle's Survey and Quiz Functions to the Classroom
Presenter: Andrew Oberg
Poster 3: Can the listening experience be enhanced through use of visual referencing?
Presenter: Michael Sharpe
Poster 4: Designing iPhone or iTouch apps for language instruction
Presenter: Paul Daniels
Poster 5: Ideas and Resources for English Teachers Using iPod Touch
Presenter: David Grant
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November 14, 2009
Presentation: The Insight Playshop TM Approach to Learning
Speaker: Jeremiah Mock
Date/time/place: Saturday November 14th, Kochi University, Building 3, Room 310 (2:00 - 4:00 p.m.)
Abstract:
Intuitively, most people appreciate the close kinship that play and learning share. The process of play can lead to deep insights about everyday life, culture, language, values, relationships, nature, physics, metaphysics and so on. Fun-filled learning experiences lead to the enrichment and flourishing of all involved. Research and experience show that adult learners, like the children they once were, learn best when learning-facilitators stimulate their curiosity, imagination and creativity. Unfortunately, the modern Fordist model of education that has proliferated around the world emphasizes arduous "work" and test taking as the way to be educated. Such didactic authoritarian education conditions students to be deferential, passive and "switched off," thus making it difficult for them to find their voice to express themselves in classroom settings. Even the metaphorical notion of a "workshop" (i.e., an informal, "hands-on" group learning setting) focuses on "work" (as in production manufacturing) rather than emphasizing curiosity, imagination and creativity.
The Insight PlayshopTM approach to learning, including language learning, emphasizes creating a fun environment that sparks the curiosity, imagination and creativity of learners (i.e., course participants and learning-facilitators alike) for the purposes of generating insights about a topic and stimulating greater ability to communicate. This participatory seminar will invite participants to dialogue about "traditional" education, understand the rationale for the Insight Playshop approach and methods, and engage in some experiential playshop learning experiences. Come ready to have fun!
Speaker profile:
Jeremiah Mock, MSc, PhD, is a health anthropologist and education enthusiast. Currently, he is a Fulbright Scholar conducting comparative research on the culture of alternative living in Kochi Prefecture and Central Thailand. He is Clinical Professor at Kochi Women's University Faculty of Nursing, and Visiting Associate Professor at Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication-Design. While faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, he led many intensive training courses and seminars on participatory learning in San Francisco and across Asia.
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October 3, 2009
Practical Classroom Applications for Authentic Listening Materials
Speaker: Darren Lingley
Venue: Kagawa University (Takamatsu) Faculty of Education, Room 411
Date & Time: October 3, 2009, 1:00-2:30 pm.
Recent work on listening has attempted to shift the emphasis to alternative approaches which place more focus on the learner perspective, with instructional procedures focused on what goes on during the process of listening. We can then diagnose a specific area in need of more explicit teaching attention. This presentation will suggest practical ways to use authentic spoken texts for teaching listening. A range of visually supported authentic materials will be presented including brief streams of natural English provided by well-known actors in response to interview questions and selected dialogues from television sitcoms. After providing a brief rationale for using authentic materials, the presentation will highlight the need for increased focus on the bottom-up processing of language required for effective listening. The presentation will describe how the listening materials are used to help learners deal with the many problematic features of natural spoken language. Participants will be asked to do short transcriptions as a way of highlighting particularly difficult features of spoken language.
Speaker profile:
Darren Lingley teaches Intercultural Communication, Comparative Culture and ELT in the Department of International Studies at Kochi University. He is presently involved in developing methods/materials for using authentic mediated spoken texts in the EFL classroom. Darren is Associate Editor of JALT Journal and President of East Shikoku JALT. He is an active presenter and contributor to various academic organizations in Japan and abroad.
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September 19, 2009
Presentation: A Screening of the Documentary Film 'Obachan's Garden'
Speaker: Linda Ohama, Japanese-Canadian film director
Date/Time/Place: 19th September, 7:00, LL room Women's University
Linda Ohama will screen and lead a discussion about her highly regarded documentary film, Obachan's Garden. The film is a very moving and personal reflection, recounting the life of Murakami-san (Obaachan) who was one of more than 6,000 Japanese women who arrived on Canada's shores between 1908 and 1924 as picture brides. Ohama personalizes the film experience to the fullest by opening the floor to a Q&A following the screening.
Speaker profile:
Linda resides in Vancouver, Canada and continues to produce films, write, paint, design gardens, enjoy her family and explore her deep connection to Japan. She currently sits as a board member with Chibi Taiko Society, Vancouver and the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund in Ottawa, after recently sitting on the British Columbia Arts Council Board.
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