An Overview: On-line Technologies for YOU

ACTFL Conference, Boston, MA
November 19 (Sunday) 8:30-9:45
Session Title: Teaching Japanese with On-Line Technologies
Along with Yasuhiro Omoto and Satoru Shinagawa
Keiko Schneider, Saboten Web Design
kschnei@sabotenweb.com
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks

The Role of Web in Curricular Reform by Andy Carvin (EdWeb)
http://edweb.gsn.org/web.effects.html
1. The Web as Tutor
2. The Web as Publishing House
3. The Web as Forum
4. The Web as Navigator

1: The Web as Tutor

Easy to customerize, easy to update
Enhancement (Omoto) vs Delivery tool (Shinagawa)

Good list for existing Foreign Languages Tutoring sites
Language Links http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html by Lauren Rosen

(Free Service to make your own)
Quiz Center: http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html
Quia! http://www.quia.com/
FunBrains http://www.funbrain.com/

More list can be found at: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/teachers.html

Making interactive Pages
1. Using JavaScript (Example: Prof. Omoto's Hot Potatoes exercises) Local, client-side, interaction happens within the browser in the local computer, works without logging into the internet, no tracking function

2. Using CGI (Example: Prof. Shinagawa's Adagio collaboration with Akita U.) Connected to a server, server-side, interaction is logged in the server

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) From AskJeeves (http://www.ask.com) Online computer dictionary

CGI allows the returned HTML (or other document type) to depend in any arbitrary way on the request. The CGI program can, for exaple, access information in a database and format the results as HTML. A CGI program can be any program which can accept command line arguments. Perl is a common choice for writing CGI scripts. Some HTTP servers require CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often"/cgi-bin" but better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI programs so they can be kept in the same directories as the HTML files to which they are related.

2. The Web as Publishing House

As a means of publishing the final product of a project
Hawaiian-Japaense food recipies
http://www.punahou.edu/acad/japanese/index.html

Publish (advertise) your class online
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/CTJLC2000/workshop_hand.html

3. The Web as Forum

FLTEACH http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/flteach.html
SenseiOnline http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html
TAPPED IN http://www/tappedin.org

4. The Web as Navigator

authentic materials, realia at your finger tips

Searches for foreign languages
Multi-lingual search by "Google" (http://www.google.com/)
Click on Language, Display, & Filtering Options
Change Interface Language to Japanese
Search is done and description is in your preferred language

Language Options of "AltaVista" http://doc.altavista.com/help/search/language.shtml

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