29-minute presentation at the Wireless Ready 2008 conference at the graduate school of Nagoya University of Commerce and Business. Social Networking opens up a supplementary online dimension to motivate students after the class or semester, even to keep in touch after graduation. How the SNS technology worked with students is explained by Professor Steve McCarty in terms of Japanese socioculture.

Osaka Jogakuin College Fall 2007 Presentation Contest 1st place presentation
by students of Professor Steve McCarty

Osaka Jogakuin College Spring 2007 Peace Dialogue Contest 1st place presentation
by students of Professor Steve McCarty

A dialogue discussing whether to build another atomic power plant in a city in Japan or to conserve energy. Students created this dialogue before there was actually a big earthquake later in the summer that disabled a major atomic power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company in Niigata Prefecture. Students of English as a Foreign Language can read the script while listening to the podcast. First click this link to open the script in MSWord format. Return to this page just to start the podcast below, then go back to read the script while listening.

Japan Association for Language Teaching JALT 2006 International Conference presentation on "Podcasting for the College EFL Curriculum" at the Kitakyushu International Conference Centre, Kokura, Japan (3 November 2006). Download the .ppt presentation if you like and watch the slides while listening to the podcast of the presentation as it was recorded live.

This is a welcoming address of about 25 minutes to the 2006 World Association for Online Education (WAOE) Annual Members' Meeting. After hearing this you can talk back just by plugging a microphone into your computer and using Odeo's voice message function Send me a Message. This talk mainly introduces some of the new generation of free and collaborative sites called Web 2.0. It would be helpful to open the following Podcasting for EFL wiki of the TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) site in a new browser window, then return to this page to play the podcast WAOE_Meeting.MP3: Podcasting, Coursecasting and Web 2.0 Technologies for Research. At my online library you can also see an example of using Flickr to make a moving collage of colorful photos and screen shots of Japan, Australia, and virtual learning environments.

Collegially, Steve McCarty, President (1998-2007), World Association for Online Education;

Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College (in the map below which you can operate, it's just south of Osaka Castle)

A 13-minute speech on July 6, 2006 to school observers visiting here in Osaka under the auspices of North Central College in Illinois. Starts with assumptions underlying democracy that differ from the U.S., resulting in some surprising manifestations in education. Philosophies of multiculturalism vs. assimilation are discussed. My sons have been going through Japanese public schools, and I try to show the system from their viewpoint and that of my Japanese wife. Doing homework, for example, is a struggle against human nature. My wife tells them what they need to do to reach their goals, but, with so many gadgets to enjoy, they have to get into what anthropologists call a mood of willing.

Interview of a student who visited a hospital in Bangladesh, such as what she learned about herself. You can download the script to read while listening here.

Osaka Jogakuin College first year students perform the role play they created for the annual Peace Dialogue Contest. You can download the script to read while listening here.

Dr. Fred Genesee spoke at Osaka City University with support from Kwansei University on June 13, 2006 on “Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Exploring the Capacity of the Language Faculty.” From the Abstract: “Children who grow up learning two, or more, languages simultaneously provide a unique opportunity to explore the capacity of the language faculty. Under some early views, the language faculty was thought to be limited so that children with simultaneous dual language exposure were thought to be at risk for delayed or, worse, higher incidence of impaired language development in comparison to monolingual language learners. As well, it was thought that the early stages of bilingual acquisition were essentially monolingual with a fused or undifferentiated system of languages. Findings from recent research paint a radically different picture,” bilingual and even possibly “multilingual innate competence for language acquisition.”

A renowned bilingual education researcher, Dr. Fred Genesee of McGill University in Montreal, agreed to share two presentations of about 80 minutes each with Japancasting. On June 12 at Kansai University he spoke on “Content-based Foreign Language Instruction: Models and Methods.” From his Abstract: “Content-based approaches to second language instruction were first introduced in immersion programs but have now been adopted as the preferred approach in foreign language education.” This is the approach of Osaka Jogakuin College. One thing he mentioned in passing was that language is for the purposes of “communication, self-expression, and exploring the world.”

Our Osaka Jogakuin College students report on their visit to Chittagong, Bangladesh. Hear about minorities in one of the world’s poorest nations. This is just 18 minutes of a SIETAR Kansai Chapter meeting in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. SIETAR is the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (異文化コミュニケーション学会 関西支部). The students speak bilingually, so it provides a lesson in either Japanese or English as a Foreign Language. In addition, download their bilingual PowerPoint slides to see scenes of Bangladesh while listening to the presentation.

Opening a window into another classroom, this is a 46-minute lecture from an upper division Bilingual Education class. It places Bilingual Education in Applied Linguistics, bilingualism in the individual personality, in society and education. Concepts are expressed in terms of the outcomes for students and their parents according to the status of the ethnic group and their language, government policies and educational approaches, what the teacher models, classroom language use and four scenarios of language shift. These factors result in elite (elective) vs. folk (circumstantial) bilingualism, additive vs. subtractive bilingualism (L2 replacing L1), multiculturalism (encouraging diversity) vs. assimilation policies, maintenance or enrichment vs. transitional (toward the majority language) bilingual education, becoming bilingual and bicultural vs. monolingual and monocultural, valuing non-native language varieties vs. the native speaker model, balanced bilingualism and biliteracy vs. education for immigrants or minorities only in their second language.

The author has started coursecasting, that is, making the lecture parts of an upper division Bilingual Education course available to students for reviewing and listening practice in English as a Foreign Language. To use iTunesU, as we wished to from day one in January, we have to wait for Apple Japan to localize it into a Japanese language interface. Meanwhile there are some alternatives to do it oneself virtually for free. This podcast also discusses how podcasts for education need to get organized to be reuseable, sharable, searchable audio learning objects.

After a regular presentation on “Japanese People and Society” (check out the earlier podcast) for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), participants from India, Vietnam and Guatemala had questions on the role of women and religion in Japan, past and present. The 28-minute discussion was recorded with an MP3 format digital voice recorder (smaller than an iPod Shuffle).

Discusses distance learning as a field, its technologies such as learning management systems, and the communication tools that help to make online courses interactive. 43 minute presentation in Japanese by Steve McCarty, with the Power Point presentation available to download and view while listening.

Outline in Japanese:

「視野を広げる遠隔学習：その分野、技術、コミュニケーション」
NPO国際情報科学協会企画のゲストスピーチ
神戸インキュベーションオフィス、2006年3月16日の夕方

遠隔学習のすすめ (アウトライン)
プリント：「国際社会への扉：上級英語とネット上の遠隔教育」
代表的なサイト： Get Educated, including Diploma Mill Police www.geteducated.com
世界オンライン教育学会 (WAOE) のあゆみ
ー　教育者同士の国際的ネットワーキング (FD)
オンライン学習とインストラクショナルデザイン
ー　文化、ジェンダー、個人の心理に関する配慮
遠隔学習の技術と教授法
ー　学習管理システムの例： WebCT
コンテンツ、コミュニケーションツール、クラス管理
バーチャルユニバーシティ
グローバル化された教室（筑波大学教育学部大学院の例）
ー　e-Learning、遠隔教育、オンライン教育という専門用語の区別
ポッドキャスティング（コンピュータやiPodで聞く講義）

A little about the history, technology and people of the World Association for Online Education (WAOE, pronounced “wow-ee”). For further reference:

Download the WAOE group presentation at the University of Sussex, UK in 2004: "Building a Free Worldwide Community and Support Structure for Faculty involved in Online Education" (PDF file).

Read the abstract of McCarty, "Meeting a Worldwide Need for Community and Faculty Support for Online Education".

See a newsletter article about the UK presentation with a photo.

This is an interview with Donna Fujimoto, a colleague at Osaka Jogakuin College, who has been researching Japanese-Americans in Japan. The Japancasting host is also a University of Hawaii graduate, for whom encounters with Japanese-Americans were a factor in becoming interested in specializing in Japan.

This podcast briefly discusses the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a positive light, but some inequities are uncovered in comparing Japan with Central Asia. Along the way, some of the deepest reasons for the loss of cultural treasures and discrimination against women are revealed.

This is an interview with Professor Eiko Kato, a colleague who initiated the distribution of iPods loaded with English listening materials to all incoming students at Osaka Jogakuin College since April 2004. This was about a half year before Duke University, which is often called the first to do this. She is a Harvard PhD and a Mac user for 15 years. She discusses how the idea originated, before iPods became popular in Japan, and how iPods are being used effectively in the second year here. We also discuss podcasting with iTunes as further steps in providing foreign language listening content, class lectures and special events. For related information and links, see other podcasts at this site.