69. Warm welcome to new MTEC members!

A short term country-focusedtraining course for Lao PDR started today.

The training is titled "IEC (Information Education Communication) Management for Health Activities". The two participants are from Center for Information and Education for Health (CIEH) under the Ministry of Health of Lao PDR.

68. These outstanding jackets...oops...instructors!

Today, maybe just by chance, Kiyuna san, Tokumura san, and Maekawa san (from left to right) were wearing the photographer's jackets. MTEC instructors bought it together several years ago. There are many pockets as you can see.
When they showed up in Multimedia Lab, most participants looked envious. Alright, shall we buy one for each, just like out T-shirt?



Today in the afternoon, it got stormy weather like above. According to American Fareast Network, there was "tornado alert" over Okinawa Island.
As to our Final Production, we had a presentation of Proposal. Each group presented their plan to the fellow participants and MTEC staffs, followed by hot & hot Q/A session.

67. Observation tour to mainland Japan

Already back from, though, we made our Observation tour to mainland Japan from Nov. 12 - 17.

66. Final Production.....Here we go!

Though I think the current participants arrived in Okinawa just yesterday, we already started the final production today! (Can you believe it?)
This time, the theme of production is fixed: Actions in OIC for environment conservation.

Here are our teams and instructors for each group.

Group 1: Simon(Eritrea), Gul(Pakistan), Bryan(Philippines), Kellys(Zambia), and Uramoro.

Group 2: Foncho(El Salvador), Vinesh(Fiji), Mud(Jamaica), Nid(Thailand), and Nakama.

Group 3: Nestor(Colombia), Mark(Kenya), Emma(Peru), Desil(Sri Lanka), and Tokumura.

65. DVD Authoring

Two days were spent on DVD Authoing.
The lecture and exercises were presented by Kiyuna san. Because the participants made their menu screens with Adobe Photoshop, they fortunately (maybe...) had an opportunity to learn it.

After exporting video data to DVD, each of them had to check if DVD was successfully made with DPD player. Densil san, looks nervous when checking his, but he did it!!
By the way, they learned to use Adobe Encore to produce their DVDs.

64. Presentation of Production 2

Finally we are here today.
The main skill that we planned for our participants was "Validation skill".
Based on the comments given to the video produced in Production 1, the participants made validation.

63. Dinner out, again!

During Production Exercise 2, most of the class and the instructors had a dinner out for change.
The venue was a Turkish restaurant nearby, named "Kerebek" meaning "butterfly" in Turkish language.

Brandy(Japan), Mark(Kenya), and Nid(Thailand) from the left.

Nestor(Colombia), Foncho(El Salvador), Fumiyo(Japan) and Uramoto(Japan).

Simon(Eritrea), Emma(Peru), Ichiro(Son of MTEC chief instructor Maekawa:Japan).

Bryan(Philippines), Simon(Eritrea), Emma(Peru).