Searching WWW for teachers of Japanese

Keiko Schneider, Saboten Web Design/Albuquerque TVI
kschnei@sabotenweb.com
17th Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese, College of Charleston,
SC Session A Technology, 9:00-9:30, March 16, 2002

The content of this handout and workshop information can be seen at:
http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/SEATJ2002/search.html

This handout in print and on-line is copyrighted to Keiko Schneider 2002.

Searching WWW for teachers of Japanese

1. Browsing Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks

http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/
One-stop site for those who study and teach Japanese and Japan.

Pico search will identify the page. From there, use Control-F, Apple-F to search within the page.

2. Searching from senseiOnline archives

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senseionline/
SenseiOnline is an online community for those who are concerned about Japanese language and culture education. It will help networking, sharing ideas and supporting each other. Members include Japanese teachers of various levels from all over the world as well as English teachers in Japan, CALL specialists, Language Lab Technicians, Engineers, Web Designers, Graduate Students and eager learners of Japanese from various parts of the globe.

Members can access to previous messages (4278 as of 3/6). You need to register with YahooGroups if you want to access the group site.

Pattern One: You read senseiOnline from yahoo account (NOT yahoo.co.jp)
1. Go to senseiOnline page at YahooGroups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senseionline/
2. You should be able to use YahooID and password for your mail account to access the group web interface

Pattern Two: You already have YahooID (i.e. Yahoo email account, geocities account and so forth), but you use non-Yahoo account for senseiOnline
1. Go to senseiOnline page at YahooGroups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senseionline/
2. Assuming you are already receiving messages (meaning you are a member), click on "Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo! "
3. If you already have YahooID (i.e. Yahoo email account, geocities account and so forth) type in your userID and password in "Existing Yahoo! users" box.
4. If you don't have alternate email address, you should jump to senseiOnline group page.
5. If you have multiple email address assigned to YahooID, it will ask you some questions to go through membership wizard (including email verification; check your email address for verification code, which email address to use with senseiOnline.)
6. Finally you will come to the page that says, "Congratulations! You can now access the groups with your Yahoo! ID ****" and click Go to the My Groups page.
7. Click on senseiOnline and you are now accessing web interface. Phew!

Pattern Three: You don't have YahooID
1. Go to senseiOnline page at YahooGroups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senseionline/
2. Assuming you are already receiving messages (meaning you are a member), click on "Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo! "
3. Look to the left that says New to Yahoo!? and click on "Sign up now to enjoy Yahoo! Groups"
4. Sign up for your Yahoo! ID
5. Once you have Yahoo ID, click Continue to Yahoo!
6. It will take you to senseiOnline Group page and you will follow Pattern Two above.

More info on senseiOnline, including sign up is at
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html

Member Handbook
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/handbook.html

3. Using Search Engines

3-1. Using Search Engines from Japan

Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks: Great Links page
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/links.html

3-2. Making Google Japanese capable

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.

おまけ:Google Toolbar: Highlight the text you want to search and click on the toolbar!
IE users on a PC http://www.google.com/options/winexplorer.html
Netscape users on a PC http://www.google.com/options/winnetscape.html
IE users on a Mac http://www.google.com/options/macexplorer.html
Netscape users on a Mac http://www.google.com/options/macnetscape.html

日本語ツールバー http://toolbar.google.com/intl/ja/

3-3. Specialized Japanese Search

3-3-1. Japan Reference http://www.japanreference.com/
Only Japanese related 4094 sites (as of 3/6)

3-3-2. いいじゃない http://www.iijanai.com

4. More on Search Engines

4-1. Natural Language Search Engines

Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com
You enter a question in a real sentence.

4-2. Advanced/Power Search Techniques

Seven Steps Toward Better Searching
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/WebQuest/searching/sevensteps2001.html
Four NETS for Better Searching
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

Each search engine uses different syntax. Please follow links such as "Advanced Search", "Search Help" or "More Search options"

4-3 My favorite Meta Search (Check multiple search engines at once)

http://www.ixquick.com/

copyright 2002 Keiko Schneider



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