129. Meeting youth

Our institute has been hosting high school students. It is one of the school programs to visit offices to see the world.
The students usually make tour in OIC, and they sometimes come to MTEC lab to make exchanges.
The photo above is the students from Nishihara High School. Each of them introduced themselves in English, and MTEC parcitipants did it in Nihonto/English....sure??
Here are the photos of exchange made with Naha High School students. Each student stayed for a while with one participant to be introduced with the project being done then.

The lady is Kaai san, who has been working for the project.

Hey, boy, do you understand what Paul has been developing?

Coincidently, the boy had been intrested in photography, so he was really pleased to meet Rosli(Malaysia) who let him try SLR camera for the first time in his life!!!

128. He, Wan-Yi, really came to Okinawa!

The typhoon Wan-Yi really came, or approached Okinawa area on July 13, Friday.
OIC was closed all day, so the training on that day was cancelled (of course?).
The participants were requested to stay inside of OIC, so they could not go out from Friday morning until now, oops, all day Friday.
The typhoon was nearest to OIC at around noon of 13(Friday), and moved up to north at the speed of 20km/h to 30km/h.
After Okinawa, it moved to Kyushu, crossed there, moved to the Pacific again to northeast.
Together with the clouds of rainy season, it left a lot of rain in mainland Japan.

Appart from it, there was a big earthquake on 16(Monday) in Niigata and Nagano area, north central part of Japan. Now, Japan is full of natural disaster.

127. Will he come to Okinawa?

Summer in Okinawa sometimes hosts typhoon (tropical cyclones). This year's 4th typhoon "Man-Yi" is approaching to Okinawa.
According to the website of Japan Meteorological Agency, it seems to be closest to Okinawa on 13th(Friday). In Japan, we are going to have a 3-day holiday from 14(Saturday) to 16(Monday), so we wish it does not ruin our precious holiday....

126. Congratulations Argentina!

July 9 (Mon) is the Independence Day of Republic of Argentina.

The flag has been hoisted at our reception, and a meal of Argentina was offerred at our dining hall.

In MTEC now, we have Anita freom the counrty now.

Congratulations!!

125. Observation Tour

The group of 07tpm left Okinawa on a beautiful Sunday morning.

At Kansai AP, Osaka.

Dinner at Osaka International Center

With Prof. Kubo at National Museum of Ethnology

On the way to Kyoto International Cultural Foundation. Oh, oh, don't go with the children!

Mostafa trying to make Japanese Green Tea

In Shinkansen to Tokyo

In SCS (Space Collaboration System) room in Chiba

At National Museum of Emerging Science in Tokyo. Can you tell who is sleeping under that big globe?

At NHK. Anita changed her job to news caster.

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!

114. MTEC Party

The first MTEC party was held on May 25, 2007.
It was a joint party of 07tpm (MTEC's regular course) and an area-focused training courses.

Oh, you missed it?
OK, don't miss it next time. Show up at Front B on time. :D

I will post photos later.

113. Aerobics class

One of the ways to stay healthy is enjoying sports.
The participants here are encouraged to enjoy Aerobics on every Wednesday.



These are some shots from the class.
It is really refreshing to be there after the technical training, I believe.

After dancing, the muscle tuning follows.
Why don't you join the class next week?

The photographer here was Fumiyo san, our assistant in MTEC.

112. Bienvenue à MTEC. Welcome to MTEC.

From today until June 8, MTEC assists the participants of "TV Program Production Team Training for French-Speaking African Countries". The course is provided for the TV program production staffs from Benin and Senegal. Uramoto san is in charge of the group.

The participants from Benin.

The participants from Senegal.

Ms. Takahashi, the training coordinator. Someone who fluently speaks foreign language that I do not speak really looks cool, doesn't she? She is rally cool.

111. Rainy season set in

Japan Meteorological Agency announced that Okinawa area has set in rainy season yesterday (May 16, 2007).
On the weather chart of this morning, we can see the white object is extented across Japan.
This is the rain cloud causing the rainy season. Usually it lasts 1.5 months followed by typhoon (cycrone) season.

For the detailed information, visit the website of Japan Meteorological Agency.

110. Then the training started...

What is media literacy?
What is media?







Alright, they are the starting points of "Introduction to Multimedia" by our "007", or Uramoto san.

The starting subject of the training is this.

109. One year anniversary!

Today, May 15, is the anniversary of this MTEC blog.

I do not think anyone else than myself has noticed it in MTEC,
I celebrate myself.

I started this with a hope to post about 100 in a year, so my goal has been achieved.
I am happy that MTEC has been working for people, and I can post our activities.

May the real peace fill the world.

MTEC-HQ