108. Course orientation

The training of "Theory and Practice on Public Enlightenment Using Multimedia 2007" started today. As all MTEC courses had it, we had Course Orientation today. MTEC staffs, the participants made introduction.

Believe it or not (?), Maekawa san made his introductory speech for 5 minutes only. Was there anything wrong with you, sir?


Tokumura san explained the development cycle of the maeterial development, which we started to call "Tokumura cycle".

Lastly, the specially made video letter from the previous course participants was shown. Here, Helen from the Philippines welcomes the new participants (or unseen siblings) and gives her
serious advices to fulfill the training. Hmmmm, very significant! :D

Well, just feel at home (MTEC is your home away from home), and have a good time together!

107. Welcome to the new MTEC family members!

Time never stops for anyone. While MTEC staffs are missing and talking about the previous participants, the new group "07tpm" course arrived. They had a briefing session. Of course, they made a tour in OIC building. The photo above was taken when they first visited MTEC staff room. From right, Nishimura san, Tokumura san, Greyne san(Nigeria), Rosli san(Malaysia), Fumiyo san, Anita san(Argentina), Erapae san(Papua New Guinea), Fede san(Costa Rica), Abudulelah(Saudi Arabia), George san(Kenya), Alex san(Kenya), Helen san(Papua New Guinea), Uramoto san, Mostafa san(Egypt) and Naomi san.


Two participants arrived one day after. They are Paulo san(Samoa) and Leni san(Brazil).

Wish them the good time with us!

106. Information from your brother in China

Here is a new information from one of our MTEC family members in China.

He is Guo Jun (right) in 06tpm course.


He has several blogs or links.
-Guo Jun's recent blog from China
-Guo Jun's days in Okinawa

The first one is posted in Chinese, but is worth visiting!

105. Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony for the training course "atm 2006" was held on April 27.

Musambai (Kenya) made a speech, assuring us that all the participants will bring back the training results with confidence in order to contribute to his/her nations.

Right after the ceremony, the paritcipants left OIC for their mother countries. I am sure everyon has already arrived home by now.
Dear participants, you are finally back to your ordinary life, aren't you? After the days like party, you are back to your family and organization. Now you are on your feet. No more Uratmoto san, no more Kiyuna san, no more Abel, no more Zhu :D

Tokumura san may say: Follow your Action Plan.
Lazynana says: Consider what you have to do, and go just for it. Heaven knows those who help themselves.

104. Farell parties

As a recent tradition (maybe... because it seems to have started just last year), there are two farewell parties when a training course finishes.
One planned/offerred by the participants in other courses, and the other by the finishing participants.

The first one was on April 20 (Fri.) at OIC recreation room.
No staffs attended...except for two, Fumiyo and nana, to make a performance.

The second one was on April 25 (Wed.) at a restaurant nearby. Just after the final presentation, everyone (even instructors!) seemed relaxed.

103. Final presentation, finally!

The final presentation of the e-learning material was offerred on April 25.
Avei (Samoa) played the role of the MC, the presentation was conducted smoothly.

Each participant proudly and confidently presented their material.
Congratulations!

102. Posters on "Human Secutiry"

The participants of the 06atm course were requested to create a promotion poster on "Human Security". Because it has been an important issue in JICA, they requested out participants to produce a promotional poster on that topic.

Abbas (Bahrain)

Zhu (china)

Abel (Cuba)

Damaris (Honduras)

Musambai (Kenya)

Bassam (Palestine)

Agusto (Paraguay)

Helen (Philippines)

Avei (Samoa)

Oak (Thailand)


Reference:
Clieck here to see "Human security" in Wikipedia

101. Blog infromation from your sister in Peru

This topic is related to #90 and#96.

Today I remember I have other blog info. from one of our former participants from Peru, yes one of your sisters in Peru.

I put the link to her blog here so that everyone can visit her whenever you have time.

Sol @2005atm

Dear ex-paricipants of MTEC,
Please let us know your blog URL, if you have one.

Now I am thinking to have another blog just containing link information...
What do you think about it?

100. Three more weeks to go...

It is April 6 today.
Only (?) three more weeks to go until the closing ceremony.

Deep in Flash, the participants (and the instructors too?) look very serious and a bit exhausted these days.

If you are a senior pariticipant of MTEC, especially you developed your learning material with Flash, I would like you to post your comment for the current participants.

98. Away for the Observation Tour

At Naha Airport on departure.

Kaneshiro san, our big daddy kept counting our number and checking time.

Breakfast Wagon at our accomodation in Osaka, Osaka International Center (OSIC). Many of us like this system, Breakfast Buffet.

At the entrance of National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.

Lecture given by Prof. Dr. Murayama at the museum.

Avei(Samoa) looks happy to find artifacts from his country.

At the entrance of Osaka International Center.

With Mr. and Mrs. Adachi, Director at Kyoto International Culture Foundation. Not only the impressive leture on digital archive, we were also treated by traditional Japanese green tea and beautiful sweets.

Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto.

The entrance of our accomodation in Tokyo, Tokyo International Center. We were lucky to be welcomed by Sakura, cherry blossoms.

In front of National Institute of Multimedia Education, NIME.

Studio in NIME.

Damaris, Helen and Punjabi selecting icecream at Baskin Robbins, Chiba.

A globe model at Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation).

NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), public broadcasting station of Japan.

In Studio Park at NHK, Fatima(Pakistan) volunteered to be a news caster.

On a loooong escalarot in Tokyo. Mainly in stations, we took many of those.

97. One more birthday in Osaka!

Though there is only two birthdays with the current training group, this one is a bit different from the ordinary ones: Birthday party during the observation tour!

This is the birthday girl, Helen Villaver, from the Philippines.

March 25 was the first day of the tour, and we moved from Okinawa to Osaka.
After the long journey, we checked in our accomodation, OSIC (Osaka International Center). At dinner, we offerred a birthday party to Helen.

Thanks to the Internet, I could search a very good patisserie or Konditrei near the station. Aren't they beautiful?

From the left, Oak (Thailand), Punjabi (Saudi Arabia) and Abbas (Bahrain) helped me select and buy those beautiful and delicious cakes. Thanks.

96. Blog information from your brother in Mexico

This is Fernando Cortina Cardea, one of ex-participants of MTEC, from Mexico. He was here at this time of last year, just as same as Shima in the article #90.

He wrote me an e-mail to invite me to his blog.
Fortunately :D he wrote it in English, so I think I should announce this on this blog.

His blog is:
the digital space of fernando http://fernandocortina.blogspot.com

Please visit him, and leave some comments.
He has been practicing his action plan, indeed.

And I also look forward to the info from you.

95. Here is Dr. Tokumura! ...sooner

In the struggle of mountainous daily routine works, you may feel that you never be rewarded. But the news like this lighten up such worry of us.

Tokumura san, one of your MTEC instructors, will be soon entitled as Dr. Tokumura.
His long efforts will have a wonderful fruit soon.


I am very happy with the news, and proud of having such colleague like him.
I want you to join us in celebrating him and his family.

94. No birthdays?? Yes, here is a birthday boy!

Unlike the other MTEC courses, we have not had any birthday parties since we started the present course in January. But finally(?), we are goint to celebrate one on this weekend.
This is for Abbas from Bahrain.
According to him, the birthday celebration is different from what we usually have here in Okinawa.

In Bahrain, the birthday is very quiet. They read the holly book of Koran, and the birthday person states his/her future plan in the age.
When I heard of it, the very famiar word in MTEC came into my mind: Action Plan. The birthday person states his/her action plan of the age, doesn't he/she?
If it is like that, we need Tokumura san as the evaluator :D

We offerred Abbas our type of gathering after the class today. I hope he liked our way of celebration.

Coincidently, it was International Women's Day. We do not have this day to celebrate, but sometimes the participants give us e-mails for the day. Abbas brought us flower. How nice the birthday person today! Thanks.

93. Blog recovered. Hoo!

Dear everyone,
Sorry for inconvenience, but the blog is under control now.

There was some mistake or misoperation while I, mtec-hq, was upgrading from Blogger beta to Blogger.
It took several hours for me to before recover and updreage.

So, now, we are in the new version of Blogger!

92. Notice from MTEC-HQ

Dear viewer of MTEC Blog,
We cannot access MTEC Blog due to the unknown error.
We are trying to fix the problem, so please wait for a while.

MTEC-HQ

91. With Flash. Are you having fun? or struggling?

Flash!
Do you like it?

The subject has been provided by Uramoto san, MTEC's James Bond (according to him).
There are two Flash specialists in MTEC, namely, Uramoto san and Kiyuna san.
How long will it take for me to be like them???

Oh, anyway, the participants have been enjoying (or struggling?) with Flash to make animation. But their goal is NOT to create animation, but to product a learning material..... still long way to go!

90. Blog information from your sister in Malaysia

We got a comment from one of our former participants in Malaysia, one of your sisters in MTEC Family, to the article on the blog.

I put her URL here, so please feel free to visit it as well as others by the current ones.



Shima @2005atm (Malaysia) http://wfshima.blogspot.com

Dear ex-participants of MTEC, please let us know if you have yours!
(Hopefully in English, he, he, he...)

89. One of MTEC traditions

Tokumura san (his parents, actually) invites participants to his patents' place.
This has been one of MTEC traditions when he is the course leader. Of course, there are few exception such as the one in last December.

On February 3 (Saturday) was the day.
All participants, almost all staffs (some with their family) gathered there.
We had a good time together.

Big thanks to Tokumura family!
(I will post photos later.)

88. Let's blog together!

All participants are using the Internet everyday.
They search information, or exchange e-mails through it. But only few of them have experience to transmit their information for sharing.
In my lecture of "Web Basics", which started today, I decided to include blogs. Because the participants are expected to develop, I want them to know and experience to transmit something. Fortunately we have "blogger", where we can launch our blog for free of charge. (Well, it it not the only site, though...)
The following is just some of them. Please have a look!

>To the current participant of 06atm: You need to update regularly :D

Zhu(China) http://zkf2008.blogspot.com/
Abel(Cuba) http://abelcuba.blogspot.com/
Damaris(Honduras) http://mayamuri.blogspot.com/

Musambai(Kenya) http://musambai.blogspot.com/
Fatima(Pakistan) http://urooj-fatima.blogspot.com/

Bassam(Palestine) http://samgoodday.blogspot.com

Agusto(Paraguay) http://paraguay2007.blogspot.com/
Helen(Philippines) http://techhelencnu.blogspot.com/
Avei(Samoa) http://irae2007.blogspot.com/

Punjabi(Saudi Arabia) http://punjabi4all.blogspot.com/

Oak(Thailand) http://big-oaktree.blogspot.com

Enjoy blogging!