212. Meeting with Junior High School Students

We have many visitors in our institute.
Those visitors are guided to have a tour.
Sometimes they are invited to the class to make a brief exchange with our participants. Basically, MTEC welcomes the visitors in our classes.

Yesterday (May 29), the students of Yamada Junior High School visited here.
Uramoto san invited them into the MM Lab, so that they could have a chance to meet MTEC participants.

First, the students made self introduction in English, followed by MTEC participants.

211. Media Literacy

Do you know what "Media Literacy" is?
Though the topic might have been referred to in some subject, it is the first time to provide it as one subject.

MTEC, as you know, has condutced trainings on "use of media (including multimedia)" for various activities such as school education, adult education, public health and environmental conservation. It can be said as a trend to use multimedia in these activities, therefore we have so many media around us.
Are these information from media all correct? Are they all trustworthy? What should we select from them?

Media literacy is the ability to select, read, understand, analyze, evaluate and utilize messages in various media.
We consider it necessary ability before we produce media material.

For 08dvp course, Tokumura san gave a lecture on this topic on May 21.

Media Literacy in Wikipedia... do you trust it??

210. Will the Typhoon 5 (Nakri) approach here??

It has not rained much in this month, though we have set in the rainy season.
But now, we may be able to expect rain... because of this. Typhoon 5, or Nakri.

Well, you may remember the climate in typhoon if you were here from May to December.
If not, you have no experience of it.
Typhoon is a tropical cyclone with strong winds and much rain in general.

209. Video Exercise

208. Dear Everyone...

Here is a small request from MTEC-HQ, the administrator of this blog.

At the end of your comment, please add your country, course name, and participation year, if you remember them :)

Here are some samples:

sample 1
Lazynana
(Japan, dvp99)

sample 2
Lazynana
(Application of Multimedia 2099, Japan)

207. Hi, Mr. Oshiro!!

Mr. Oshiro...how we miss him...especially after returning home...but not during our stay...no more Mr. Oshiro...


In the current subject of "Shooting and Editing of Digital Video", Mr. Oshiro, one of the most beloved man is back in the exercise.

To the ex-participants: Have you missed him?

206. Welcome to the very first participant from Botswana!

Here is Mr. Mokoto Godfrey Shime, the very first participant from Botswana, the southern Africa. He says "I am the ambassador of Botswana", so you can ask any question about Botswana... right?
We want Godfrey san to introduce his country to us, and Japan and Okinawa to your folks.

Well, I am sure you should know the location of Botswana before you ask questions.

Other new countries in MTEC, after the launch of this blog:
-Cuba and Bahrain in #84
-Eritorea in #40

205. Course Orientation of 08dvp

The Course Orientation of 08dvp was held today at MTEC Studio.

As everyone that knows MTEC can tell, the introductory sppeech by our Big Bro. Maekawa san (or Miguel) was funny and warm.

After the staffs, each participant made his/her self introduction.

All photos on this post were taken by Fumiyo san.

204. Be friendly to your PC, OK?

One of the renewal (or change) in the course is to have that there are many things to work on our intranet system such as course enrollment and pretest.
Kiyuna san, the course leader, explains the system first.


Here is the seating arrangement of the course. Who has taken your place, the ex-participant?
Corridor side: Front-> El Salvador, Botswana, Middle-> (Uramoto san), Samoa, Panama, Back-> Thai, Thai (hidden), (Nishimura san)

Swimming Pool side: Front-> (Kiyuna san), Bhutan, Bhutan, Middle->Myanmar (not arrived yet), Kenya, Back-> (Nhishimura san), Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands

I hope these new partipants and the new equipments become good friends :)

203. Two-Year Anniversary

May 15 is the anniversary of MTEC blog!
This is the second anniversary. Congratulations to us all!

Since last year, the number of articles did not increase much. Sorry for my laziness.

Well, I've been fully back to MTEC now, I hope I can post many.

202. Renewal of everything

MTEC has renewed everything such as hardware, software, curriculum, and learning management system. Well, even the staffs are renewe... kidding :P

-MMLab (do you miss there somehow?) waiting for the new group-

-Our new machines-

Today, the first training course after the renewal started. The course is "Digital Video Production for Dissemination and Enlightenment".

The order of the training courses in JFY (Japan's Fiscal Year) 2008 is as follows:
-Digital Video Production for Dissemination and Enlightenment (May-Aug)
-Media Strategy for Community Enlightenment (Sep - Dec)
-Information, Education and Communication (IEC) in Health Sector A (Sep - Dec)
-Information, Education and Communication (IEC) in Health Sector B (Jan - Apr, 2009)

201. Welcome to MTEC, 08dvp!

The first training group of Digital Video Production for Dissemination and Enlightenment, "08dvp", started.
They had Briefing Session in the morning. As you all (maybe) experienced, their first visit to MTEC staff room was like this.



This group photo includes four participants in Thermal Treatment for Disinfestation of Fruit Flies Course.
We hope everyone will have a wonderful stay and training in Okinawa!