124. Here are the promoting posters for "Gender Free Society"

Again in this year, the participants of tpm course got a request from JICA to make a poster for "Gender Free Society". The target is "Japanese students from an elementary school to a high school".
They spent 4 days for research, design, production and revision.

123. Enjoy the Summer of Okinawa!! Rainy season is over.

Japan meteorological agency made an annoucement of the end of rainy season in Okinawa area yesterday.
Yes, the real summer has come to Okinawa.
Learn hard, and enjoy the summer of Okinawa, everyone!

122. Training goes on...

Well, there have been NO article on our training since article 110.
Let me summarize it.

1. Introduction to Multimedia (Uramoto)
2. Evaluation of Learning Material-case study (Tokumura)
3. Instructional Design (Tokumura)
4. Multimedia Material Development (All)
5. Evaluation Method of Learning Material (Prof. Suzuki)
The photo above is the shot with Prof. Suzuki, as you may know.

6. Internet and HTML Basics (Nakama)
7. Authoring Basics (1) (Nishimura)
8. Digital Photography (Nishimura)

The photos here were from the session on "Digital Photography".

The participants enjoyed phototaking with NIKON D70, the first SLR digital camera for most of them.



9. Printed Media Production (Uramoto)
10. Digital Video Basics (Kiyuna)
The last photos was from the presentation of the Printed Media Production.
I will make a detailed report on the subject in the next article.

Yes, the participants are tuckling with their 10th topic.

121. Good bye. See you again in Tokyo. Adieu. Vous revoir à Tokyo.

The area focused training for French-speaking African nations finished on June 15.

During their training, they sometimes shot in our lab.

The whole MTEC participants in two group made good friends.

120. Country presentation part 2

Well, the country presentations by our participants have become one of our favorite activities in the morning.

Mostafa (Egypt)
A lot of tourism information of Egypt were given.

Alex (Kenya)
Taking an advantage to have two persons from a country, they had two sessions. One for counrty information, and the other for personal and job information.

George (Kenya)
Both Alex and George showed their family photos.

Rosli (Malaysia)
He introduced the diversity of Malaysia.

119. This person is back!

After about a year's silence, Mr. Video of MTEC is back.

Actually, Chinen san has been with us temporalily for the group from Africa.

But anyway, we are all happy to meet him and work together.

118. County presentation started.

Upon request from the participants, MTEC started country presentation.
It is programmed to be held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Starting from Anita (Argentina), we so far had three presentations.

Anita from Argentina.
She demonstrated how to make Mate (tea).

Leni from Brazil.
She showed Sakura (cherry tree and blossoms) has been rooted to Brazil as their culture as well as in Japan.

Fede from Costa Rica.
Taking MTEC's instructional style, the audience had to go through Pre test and Post test about Costa Rica.

117. Now I have my own blog!

07tpm (Theory adn Practice on Public Enlightenment Using Multimedia FY2007) members have made a blog in Blogger. It was done in one of the subject "Internet and HTML basics" on June 1 (Fri.).

-Ms. Anita (Argentina)
-Ms. Leni (Brazil)
-Mr. Fede (Costa Rica)
-Mr. Mostafa (Egypt)
-Mr. George (Kenya)
-Mr. Alex (Kenya)
-Mr. Rosli (Malaysia)
-Mr. Greyne (Nigeria)
-Ms. Helen (Papua New Guinea)
-Mr. Erapae (Papua New Guinea)
-Mr. Paul (Samoa)
-Mr. Abdul (Saudi Arabia)

116. Test article

This is a test in my lecture.
Hello, world!

We will make one for each in this afternoon.

The participants of the current MTEC course will try to put comment.
This is just for their exercise.
"Trial and error" will make their skills perfect!

115. Samoa day

June 1 is the Independence Day of Independent State of Samoa.
Because the nation's head, Malietoa Tanumafili II, passed away on May 11, 2007, the nation did not celebrate the day in festive mood, according to the current MTEC participant from Samoa.

This is Paul Amerika from Samoa.

But anyway, let us remind of the day as Samoan Day!