Teleclass Conference #41
ASAHIKAWA /VICTORIA
TELECLASS DAY
(Outline, Questionnaire, Summary )
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TELECLASS THE WORLD
The 41st Teleclass Video Conference
Date: May 23rd 1998
TIME: 9:50 - 10:20 Japan
10:50 - 11:20 Aust.
SCHOOLS: Lucknow Primary School F Ms Maralyn Hill
Chikabumi Elementary School : Mr.Hisashima
PLACE: Asahikawa Girl's Commercial High School
ISDN 81-166-59-2215 2B school 81-166-51-3220
Bairnsdale Secondary College
ISDN 61-3-515-00610 2B room 61-3-515-22602
TOPIC: Our school and school life
SPONSURED BY: Foundation for Multi Media Communications
Teleclass International Japan
BACKED BY: Ministry of Education
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
Asahikawa city Board of Education
Kokusai Denshin Dennwa Co.,Ltd.
FUNDED BY: The Telecommunications Advancement Foundatio
TITLE: "Victoria / Asahikawa Teleclass Day"
EQUIPMENT AND SPEED:
Asahikawa - KV6200/128kbps (Teleclass equipment)
Victoria - VTel Smart conference
CONTACT:
KDD Osaka: Mr.Nakahara
NTT Asahikawa: Mr.Kanamori
I*EARN in Australia Management Team
Teleclass International Japan
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[PROGRAM]
The 41st Teleclass Video Conference
[topics]
Our school and school life
[program procedure]
00:00 opening and self introduction
00:05 Chikabumi school presentation
introduce Japan (1 min.)
introduce Hokkaido (1 min.)
introduce Asahikawa (2 min.)
introduce Chikabumi area and our school( 3 min.)
Q&A
00:15 Lucknow school presentation
Q&A
00:25 closing
00:30 end
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From Questionnaire
of Chikabumi Elementary School
How was your today's presentation ?
I tried to speak loudly.
Write freely please.
E Not enough time to tell all our presentation
E Very pleased to communicate with Australian children
E Want to have such a chance again sometime
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TIJ Summary
Presentation done by Elementary school children was lively and vigorous with the help of Kita High School teacher's translation. How about high school students' help to ask next time ? In the case of elementary school children, video conference will be well used when they go with sounds, games, arts(paintings), colors, movements rather than formal verbal presentation.
As video conference was the first experience for both schools, there may have been scenes where they did not work as they had expected. But we are sure participants learned a lot for their better conference next time.
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Comment From Mr.Bob
"That was great....that was fun!" This is what I heard a young boy from Lucknow Primary school say to his friend as the video-conference with Chikabumi finished.
Thank you everyone for participating. I haven't heard yet how the Links 2 & 3 went but here at Bairnsdale the students very pleased and excited by their experience. The laughter shared between Bairnsdale Secondary College students and the students from Asahikawa Girl's Commercial HS and Meisei HS was wonderful to see. The presentations made by the students from Meise and Asahikawa Girl's and by the students from Chikabumi made us feel honoured.
A special "thank you" to those students and their teachers.
Another special "thank you" must go from all of us to Yoko for the tremenous amount of work she devoted to this and for her happy and encouraging manner.
I hope we can see each again soon.
Best regards,
Bob
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I*EARN in Australia Management Team
Bairnsdale Secondary College
Bairnsdale, Australia
email: bairnssec@peg.apc.org
http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec
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[TIJ Total Summary]
May 23rd, Asahikawa/Victoria Teleclass Day, was Teleclass Memorable Day since TIJ landed on Hokkaido for the first time.
We are sure it was very significant event that children of elementary school and students of junior & senior high schools in Asahikawa gathered together at the conference room and had a chance to communicate with Australian children & students.
Despite of short time notice from planning to practice, each school prepared a lot and finished in very pleasant atmosphere.
Our suggestions for next conference are:
Exchange outlines or text of each presentation beforehand and prepare some questions based on the texts. This is particularly helpful for Japanese students to understand partners and their presentation well.
Use more colors, sounds, and movement.
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[Letter From Yoko]
Dear all,
It has been a week since Victoria and Asahikawa four sessions were over last Saturday. First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of you who participated this Teleclass conferences and collaborated each other. It was our first time to make four sessions a day, and they were successful with your hard works even in a short notice. I hope they were not the end of the programs, but the beginning of Victoria/Asahikawa Teleclass Day.
TIJ wants to have it again sometime next year when four schools agree.
There have been started mail exchanges, digital images exchanges, between partner schools. Please keep contact each other. Our suggestions for next conference are:
* exchange outlines or texts of each presentation beforehand and prepare some questions based on the texts. This is particularly helpful for Japanese students to understand partners and their presentations well.
* Use more colors, sounds, and movements.
Special thanks to Bob who coordinated Victoria schools and teachers. Without your efforts, there would not have been this big day.
Also to Atsuko and her computer club students who warmly hosted all Asahikawa participants. Some of them even handled the video camera and the key pat of the system.
When TIJ is ready, we are going to send you some pictures by mail and video tape by postal mail. Please report sometimes what you are doing with your partner school.
<TIJ Yoko>