Utilizing the Internet to integrate National Standards

San Diego Japanese Teachers Benkyoukai, March 30, 2002
California State University San Marcos, presented from New Mexico via online
at TAPPED IN (http://www.tappedin.org

Keiko Schneider, Saboten Web Design/Albuquerque TVI kschnei@sabotenweb.com
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/

This handout is available at http://www.sabotenweb.com/conference/sd2002.html

I. About National Standards

Please refer to Standards for Foreign Language Learning
page 4 of Executive summary at
http://www.actfl.org/public/articles/execsumm.pdf

II. Role of the Internet in Education

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

III. What it means to our language classes

Please refer to National Standards and Technology (Kataoka and Tohsaku 1999, 2000)

IV. Authentic materials and real communication

Newspaper for native Japanese children
1. Asagaku (news)
http://www.asagaku.com/
2. 週刊子どもニュース
http://www.kumanichi.co.jp/kodomo/kidsnews-f.html
3. NHK Syukan Kodomo News (Weekly Kids' News)
http://www.nhk.or.jp/kdns/
4. Mainichi Kids
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/edu/school/
(Partly taken from Christine Ladner's post to senseiOnline on 3/8/02)

Search engines that are meant for Japanese children
1. Kids Goo
http://kids.goo.ne.jp/
2. Yahoo Kids
http://kids.yahoo.co.jp/

Teaching Materials for teachers who teach subject matters in Japan
小・中学校の先生と子どものためのすぐに使えるURL集.
http://www.jttk.zaq.ne.jp/baagx805/
おこちゃま教室
http://ocochama.tripod.co.jp/
LYCOS教育:科目別 小学校
http://edu.lycos.co.jp/dir/elementary/
LYCOS教育:科目別 中学校
http://edu.lycos.co.jp/dir/junior_high/
はなまるスクール
http://www.hanasuku.com/

V. Assessment and other questions on Internet projects

Questions:
Q1)
Our department is really emphasizing the use of the target language for Culture, but to be honest if I use an authentic Japanese site to learn Japanese culture-- for example, Kabuki or sumie―the students will not gain much information even if they use Reading Tutor, Rikai or other on-line dictionaries. (I teach beginning and Intermediate levels.) Also if we want them to read materials related to other disciplines, often they are too difficult, and I sense real frustration from the students and often these tasks achieve nothing more than gathering bits and pieces of vocabulary. Could you suggest some web sites related to Japanese culture, geography, history and other disciplines, which are written in simple enough Japanese for the students to handle?

Q2)
About using e-mail pals, my question is how do you assess the achievement? Do you suggest giving the students some topics to discuss with native speakers? Do you suggest turning in the print out of their e-mail correspondence to verify that they are actually engaging in the conversation? Do you know of any paper written about how to handle this kind of the task and its assessment?

Ask yourself questions:

What is the purpose of the activity?
What are the objectives of the activity?

Targeting pedagogy
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/methods/obj3/intro3.html

Basic questions

Assessment of Proficiency for Written Japanese (APWJ) Benchmark Level VI Assessment Sample
Part II: Scan for General Meaning
http://babel.uoregon.edu/CAJLS/assessment/sample.html

Rubrics
Fairfax County Public Schools - PALS: Performance Assessment for Language Students
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/PALS/rubrics/

Rubric, Rubrics Makers Generators
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

RUBISTAR
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Performance Assessments by Deb Blaz
2001/12/11 Benkyoukai transcript
http://www.tappedin.org/pipermail/fl/2001q4/000116.html



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copyright 2002 Keiko Schneider

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