179. Greetings from MTEC

Today is the last working day in MTEC.
From tomorrow until January 3rd, we will have year-end holiday.

How was this year for you?
I hope you had a successful one.

In MTEC, additionally to the regular courses, we hosted
-Short term training for a university in Indonesia,
-Training for French-speaking African nations and
-IEC Training for HIV/AIDS prevention pfoject in China.

Other big and happy news was that Tomoaki Tokumura (Toku san) got a Ph. D. in spring.

Now in our mail box, many greetings are arriving. Thank you for your communication and warm hearts.

We all wish each of you the peaceful and prosperous new year.

MTEC

178. Digital Photography

After Web Basics, the participants are having the session of "Digital Photography" with their course leader, Nishimura san.

I hope this lecture be the trigger to start taking photos with considering purpose, composition, lighting, and other elements.

177. New Bloggers of 07amt

As usual in my lecture, the participants created their own blog.
Here is the list, I hope you enjoy viewing them.

Please leave your commnets, if you don't mind :D

Ale (Argentine)
Ariel (Argentine)
Claudia (Bolivia)
Yousef (Iran)
Tebao (Kiribati)
Dima (Kyrgyzstan)
Kanikey (Kyrgyzstan)
Iyad (Palestine)
Javier (Panama)
Lito (Philippines)

176. Happy Birthday, Fumiyo!

We did not have any participants in MTEC at this time last year.
So there was no class celebration for Fumiyo, our lovely assistant.
This year, fortunately, we have 10 people to celebrate.
We passed the birthday card for her secretly, so it was a good surprise for her.

175. Discussion on the Internet

The participants of 07amt had a discussion on the topic "How the Internet chaged our job activities?"


I wil put pix from the session.
Choto matte ne!

174. Busy instructor... out of MTEC

The MTEC instructors are almost always busy. In and out MTEC, they provide lectures and trainings.
This time, the trainees from BAPPENAS (Badan Perencanaan dan Pembangunan Nasional or National Development Agency of Indonesia) came to our institute for 1.5 days sesssion with Uramoto san. Specialist of project magagement (I believe...), he provided them with the session.

173. First birthday party for 07amt

Here is Kanyky Alipova from Kyrgyzstan. She is the first birthday person in 07amt course.

Our father (coordinator), Kaneshiro san prepared everything, thanks!
We had the birthday party after the session. You can see the birthday card for her.

Scene from the party. Who ate the biggest piece, Lito san?? :D

Once again, "Happy Birthday, Kanykey!" We all hope this birthday you have away from home would be another special one for you. Though you are away from home, we want to be your other family!

172. Wedding news from MTEC family in Pakistan

News from MTEC family in the world are always appreciated. If it is a happy annoucement such as promotion or family expansion, you will notice you happiness would be multiplied by your MTEC family members. Here is the annoucement of Izzat Gul that he got married to Anwal.

We remember that Gul was searching Ms. Right, but it was quite natural to find her near himself. They had known each other since their childhood!
Happy wedding for you two!





sorry Gul for my belated upload of your happiest news...

171. "Kiribati" and "Kyrgyztan" - First countries to host

In more than 20 years history, MTEC (or ex-AVT) has hosted 767 participants from 76 countries. I think this is many enough, but still there are unknown countries where we have never met anybody from yet.

This time, in 07amt course, there are two countries that we host for the first time.
Kiribati and Kyrgyztan.

From Kiribati, we have Temarawa Tebao. Kiribati is an island nation on the Pacific. Click on this if you want to know more about Kiribati.

And from Kyrgyztan, we have Sundeev Dmitri and Alipova Kanykey (left to right). Click on this if you want to know more about Kyrgyztan.

170. Room layout in MMLab for 07amt

In 07amt course, there are 10 participants from 8 different countries.
Their home room is Multimedia Laboratory, or MMLab, as many of you remember.
This time, tha participants obtain their seats as shown here.
The photos are the view from instructor.

Left view: Yousef(Iran), Javier(Panama), Kanykey and Dima(both from Kyrgyztan)
Right view: Ariel and Ale(both from Argentine), Iyad(Palestine), Claudia(Bolivia) and Tebao(Kiribati)

Can you find who of which country is taking your place? > ex-participant

169. Lecture on multimedia

The first lecture in the course is "Introduction to Multimedia", given by Uramoto san.
The participants are expected to take part in discussion during the session.

168. Course Orientation of 07AMT Course

The trainingof 07amt course started. Firstly, we had Course Orientation. 07amt course stands for "Application of Multimedia Technology for E-Education Course 2007".

The course will be conducted by Nishimura san as the course leader and Uramoto san as the sub course leader.

This time, we had Kazuhide Kimura (left) and Satoshi Kuramochi (right) from JICE Okinawa Branch. Since we MTEC is a team under JICE, we appreciate their attending, though the participants have few chances to meet them.

All attendance made self introduction. "Last, but not least" was the first word from our Daddy Kaneshiro san, the training coordiator, who always makes tricky jokes.

167. And....Award goes to.......

The institute gave an award to one group as the best product.
This year, it went to Group 2!!

Of course, the efforts shown by the other groups were to be admired, we all know.


I hope the new participants in our institute to be more motivated in environment conservation.

166. Closing Ceremony of 07DVP!

The training of 07dvp (Digital Video Production for Education and Dissemination) finished today.
Look at the proud faces! We also feel proud of sending you to your mother nations.
We always wish all the best for you, your family and your countries.
See you again!

165. Here comes the new ones!

While the participants of 07dvp are so busy with the final production and farewell parties (maybe), the next MTEC course participants arrived in Okinawa.
On November 28, they had the briefing session to be guided with the life here.
There are 10 participants from 8 different nations, namely, Argentina(2), Bolivia, Iran, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan(2), Palestine, Panama, and Philippines.

Big welcome, everyone!

164. Presentation of the Products by 07DVP

The day has come!
The presentation of the final version of the video products...
We had a special MC, Jay from Zambia (OOPS!!! not from Tanzania, sorry).

Group 1
Members: Kap(Samoa), Jay(Zambia), Daysa(Samoa), and Gilbert(Kenya)
Title: Do it for our Earth


Group 2
Members: Soe Moe(Myanmar), Gonzalo(Uruguay), Erik(Philippines), and George(Papua New Guinea)
Title: Every little bit counts.


Group 3
Members: Ha(Viet Nam), David(Ecuador), Stanley(Papua New Guinea), and Amilcar(El Salvador)
Title: The Mission

163. Days of Final Production

The final production of 07dvp has been going on, with the topic of ISO14001.
We hope every group is doing fine, enjoying production...just everything!

162. Special Lecture by a Giant

A special lecture was given by Prof. Dr. Robert Reiser of Florida State University.

161. Bon Voyage! 再見！

The participants of IEC Training Course completed, and left here today.
The evaluation meeting was almost smooth, thanks to the participants.


When I got to their dormitory to see them off, I was pleasantly surprised to meet two participants from 07dvp, namely Erik and Dayza. I appreciate their way to show "Ichariba Chode" spirit.
We all know the difficulty the participants will face in China, but nothing can be improved without effort.
Good luck on everything you will do!

160. Missing you, 07DVP!

While I, mtec-hq, was busy with Chinese people, you were gone.
Where are you now?
Though I have been missing you, I bet you are not missing me.
Instead, I bet you have been having fun in Mainland Japan with Uramoto san and Kumiko san.

The observation tour is a such occasion.

159. Independence Day of Zambia

Republic of Zambia celebrated her independence day today.

MTEC feels honored to have Ms. Mwape Mwila Joyce to say "Congratulations!"

Congratulations to Joyce, ex-(senior)-participants from Zambia, and all people in Zambia!

158. New Bloggers of 07IEC Course

New bloggers announcement!

The participants in IEC2007 course lauched their blogs.
Please click on the name of the participant to visit there.

Dr. Ma

Dr. Yang

Dr. Liu

Dr. Li

Last but not least, I should mention that Mr. Guo Jun, one of our ex-Chinese participants, helped them via his own blog and e-mail. Thanks, Guo san!

157. Collaborating in MTEC

Video shooting for Production exercise II (Digital video course) and Digital video production (IEC course) was couducted on October 11 and 12.

October 11
Hill of Shuri, Senagajima Island, Naha Airport and Kokusai Dori area








October 12
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium and Kadena Airbase (of U.S.)


No one might believe it is training... :)