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I'm honored that the Japanese government is about to publish my chapter introducing "Japanese People and Society." With permission of the Japan International Cooperation Agency it's posted on the Web at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aac_-D0_oEt4ZGpzemRobV8xMjZmZGg0Y3FmZA&hl=en

It seems so basic to make a video to introduce a class that you teach. But then collaborate with students to make it their semester presentation. In a content-based English as a Foreign Language curriculum, students do this in a foreign language, so you can watch how the performance affects their English speaking and motivation. Then take it online with YouTube and it is an authentic project with a potentially global audience. These were not particularly fluent speakers to begin with, so I was v… Continue

After publishing on podcasting and experimenting with coursecasting at an early stage, I've tended to treat podcasting as one tool in a repertoire. For instance, after my presentation at the National University of Singapore using a Web page and live Internet instead of PowerPoint, I embedded the podcast for the presentation in the Web page:

Motivating Language Learners from before admission to after graduation through Social Media
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By way of self-introduction, in 1998 after an opening keynote address at the TCC Online Conference, I founded the World Association for Online Education from an outer island of Japan. The Net leveled the playing field toward a meritocracy to a great extent, but in non-English speaking countries there is not the same access to university libraries (read: literature searches) and technology funding. To become literate in Japanese to read computer manuals has slowed my pace compared to a monolingua… Continue