Thursday, April 8, 2010

Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers


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Friday, March 5, 2010

Academic paper anlayzer on line


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Friday, January 29, 2010

Re: Thanks

>I would like to ask all of you to continue to be ambassadors of that plan in all your ELP work and interactions. Thanks again for all your contributions.

Thanks for your leadership of the group over the years, Bill. I enjoyed working together with you and everyone on C3 and learned a tremendous amount. Google tools have definitely taken off in the ELP and that is leading to increased ease of collaboration. Encouraging people to do Delicious tagging for the archive is the next step, and I want to keep helping department members with that.

Mark

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bill Harshbarger <wcharshbarger@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear C3 members,

As we near the end of the academic year, and the end (at least for now) of C3 as a distinct NTD group, I wanted to thank you all for your hard work, good will and great ideas.

I think we have accomplished a lot, although we may not see the full extent of those accomplishments for some time.  I do expect that the ELP will continue to become more comfortable using - and will increasingly benefit from - the tools, processes and values that we have introduced through the work of C3 in the past two years.

The curriculum reform projects we will undertake next year will provide good opportunities for us to  further apply and model the C3 plan, and I would like to ask all of you to continue to be ambassadors of that plan in all your ELP work and interactions. Thanks again for all your contributions.

Best wishes,

Bill



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International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
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billh@icu.ac.jp
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Posted by Bill Harshbarger at 11:36 AM 0 comments

Thanks

Dear C3 members,

As we near the end of the academic year, and the end (at least for now) of C3 as a distinct NTD group, I wanted to thank you all for your hard work, good will and great ideas.

I think we have accomplished a lot, although we may not see the full extent of those accomplishments for some time.  I do expect that the ELP will continue to become more comfortable using - and will increasingly benefit from - the tools, processes and values that we have introduced through the work of C3 in the past two years.

The curriculum reform projects we will undertake next year will provide good opportunities for us to  further apply and model the C3 plan, and I would like to ask all of you to continue to be ambassadors of that plan in all your ELP work and interactions. Thanks again for all your contributions.

Best wishes,

Bill



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Director, English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
+ (81) 422-33-3219
billh@icu.ac.jp
http://indirector.blogspot.com

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Posted by Bill Harshbarger at 11:23 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Re: C3 Newsletter draft: Using Google Reader

Thanks Hiroshi. Nice addition. I'll put that in and send the article off today. -Mark

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Hiroshi Takahashi <hirot711@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mark,

This looks great. Many good tips for my own use of Reader, too!

The only thing that I might want to see added is how to organize Reader by using folders.
http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70550

But this is perhaps one of those details that can be visited later.

Thanks for the great post!

Hiroshi

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mark Christianson <markc0908@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bill, Dave, Ged and Hiroshi,
I was feeling like I hadn't done much for C3 recently, so I drafted a possible newsletter blurb on Reader. Hope you'll let me know what you think.
-------------------------------------

Have you looked at your Google Reader recently? It can take a little practice to get familiar with it, but you will find it useful as more and more ELP documents go online.

When you are in Gmail, one of the links at the top of the page along with Calendar and Documents is Reader. Try clicking on that if you haven't recently.

A Reader is a tool that helps you get automatic updates from web resources such as news sites or blogs or other services like Delicious.

Here's a 1-minute video that explains the Reader.

In your Reader in the lower left side under Subscriptions, you probably already have a list of ELP folders such as ARW or RCA which you installed during a C3 training session. If you click on these, you are seeing a database of online ELP resources that is constantly being updated.

For example, if you want to look for TW ideas in general, you can click on the TW folder and feed named "elptw". You'll see a bunch of links and Google Docs for TW. Since there are many resources, the best way to filter through them is to use the Search box at the top. You can search through all items, or just one folder by using the pull-down menu next to the box. Try searching for "syllabus" in the TW folder to see a variety of syllabus docs other teachers have shared.

Of course you can also subscribe to other useful sites such as Academic Commons or your friend's blogs. Here's info on how to subscribe.

Also, if you want to upgrade your Google Reader, we recommend installing the Better Google Reader add-on for your Firefox browser. Just click here and install. You'll like it.

Of course, if you have questions, just ask a C3 person like Bill, Dave, Ged, Mark or Hiroshi or others  like Rab who use their Reader.
-------------------

Any ideas for adding or simplifying? Please let me know.
Mark


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English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka
Tokyo, Japan 181-8585
Tel: 0422-33-3497
Fax: 0422-33-3500

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Fax: 0422-33-3500

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Posted by Bill Harshbarger at 3:24 PM 0 comments

Re: C3 Newsletter draft: Using Google Reader

Hi Mark,

This looks great. Many good tips for my own use of Reader, too!

The only thing that I might want to see added is how to organize Reader by using folders.
http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70550

But this is perhaps one of those details that can be visited later.

Thanks for the great post!

Hiroshi

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mark Christianson <markc0908@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bill, Dave, Ged and Hiroshi,
I was feeling like I hadn't done much for C3 recently, so I drafted a possible newsletter blurb on Reader. Hope you'll let me know what you think.
-------------------------------------

Have you looked at your Google Reader recently? It can take a little practice to get familiar with it, but you will find it useful as more and more ELP documents go online.

When you are in Gmail, one of the links at the top of the page along with Calendar and Documents is Reader. Try clicking on that if you haven't recently.

A Reader is a tool that helps you get automatic updates from web resources such as news sites or blogs or other services like Delicious.

Here's a 1-minute video that explains the Reader.

In your Reader in the lower left side under Subscriptions, you probably already have a list of ELP folders such as ARW or RCA which you installed during a C3 training session. If you click on these, you are seeing a database of online ELP resources that is constantly being updated.

For example, if you want to look for TW ideas in general, you can click on the TW folder and feed named "elptw". You'll see a bunch of links and Google Docs for TW. Since there are many resources, the best way to filter through them is to use the Search box at the top. You can search through all items, or just one folder by using the pull-down menu next to the box. Try searching for "syllabus" in the TW folder to see a variety of syllabus docs other teachers have shared.

Of course you can also subscribe to other useful sites such as Academic Commons or your friend's blogs. Here's info on how to subscribe.

Also, if you want to upgrade your Google Reader, we recommend installing the Better Google Reader add-on for your Firefox browser. Just click here and install. You'll like it.

Of course, if you have questions, just ask a C3 person like Bill, Dave, Ged, Mark or Hiroshi or others  like Rab who use their Reader.
-------------------

Any ideas for adding or simplifying? Please let me know.
Mark


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English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka
Tokyo, Japan 181-8585
Tel: 0422-33-3497
Fax: 0422-33-3500

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Posted by Bill Harshbarger at 8:40 AM 0 comments

Re: C3 Newsletter draft: Using Google Reader

Hi Mark,

This looks very good to me.  My only comment is whether we should remind everyone about how to tag sites and googledocs in Delicious so that they can contribute to the Reader.  Maybe that can be a follow-up newsletter article?

Can you post your article when you are ready?

Cheers,

Bill

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Director, English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
+ (81) 422-33-3219
billh@icu.ac.jp
http://indirector.blogspot.com


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mark Christianson <markc0908@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bill, Dave, Ged and Hiroshi,
I was feeling like I hadn't done much for C3 recently, so I drafted a possible newsletter blurb on Reader. Hope you'll let me know what you think.
-------------------------------------

Have you looked at your Google Reader recently? It can take a little practice to get familiar with it, but you will find it useful as more and more ELP documents go online.

When you are in Gmail, one of the links at the top of the page along with Calendar and Documents is Reader. Try clicking on that if you haven't recently.

A Reader is a tool that helps you get automatic updates from web resources such as news sites or blogs or other services like Delicious.

Here's a 1-minute video that explains the Reader.

In your Reader in the lower left side under Subscriptions, you probably already have a list of ELP folders such as ARW or RCA which you installed during a C3 training session. If you click on these, you are seeing a database of online ELP resources that is constantly being updated.

For example, if you want to look for TW ideas in general, you can click on the TW folder and feed named "elptw". You'll see a bunch of links and Google Docs for TW. Since there are many resources, the best way to filter through them is to use the Search box at the top. You can search through all items, or just one folder by using the pull-down menu next to the box. Try searching for "syllabus" in the TW folder to see a variety of syllabus docs other teachers have shared.

Of course you can also subscribe to other useful sites such as Academic Commons or your friend's blogs. Here's info on how to subscribe.

Also, if you want to upgrade your Google Reader, we recommend installing the Better Google Reader add-on for your Firefox browser. Just click here and install. You'll like it.

Of course, if you have questions, just ask a C3 person like Bill, Dave, Ged, Mark or Hiroshi or others  like Rab who use their Reader.
-------------------

Any ideas for adding or simplifying? Please let me know.
Mark


-----------------------------------------
Mark Christianson
English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka
Tokyo, Japan 181-8585
Tel: 0422-33-3497
Fax: 0422-33-3500

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