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This marks the second week that Ms. Sonya Wild’s class Grade 3S have been running the 1:1 Laptop Pilot Program with Ms. Christine Usyak (Elementary ICT Facilitator) in collaboration with Apple Japan Education Sales Team. Apple Japan chose Yokohama International School to pilot and evaluate a 1:1 program and Ms. Wild volunteered her and her [...]

Here are some notes I prepared for the PYP Coordinator for a meeting the Grade 5 teachers from YIS and Tokyo International School will have this afternoon about the PYP Exhibition 2010. This is my very first time I will be involved with the PYP Exhibition. I’ve been told to brace myself but also that [...]

I love zoos but I thought twice about telling the Grade 2 students that I went to the zoo after I heard their reflections on the Animoto + Podcast below. I felt a little guilty ‘enjoying’ the zoo since natural habitats are much better for animals but there I was having a great time at [...]

Eiken Spring 2009 is a three night stay ESL camp. Eiken Spring 2009 Students wrote stories and shared them by reading. Other pictures show team-building activities and views from Shonan Village Center, which facility is called 湘南国際村 in Japanese.
Note: All photos taken and voices recorded with an iPhone.
国際英研センターが行うSpring Campで参加した生徒は湘南国際村で３泊４日の合宿を過し、その時の写真と体験が以下のビデオで見れます。

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After weeks and months of testing free web tools so that students, teachers, and I can share Podcasts with ease, I’ve found it.
Try Gcast. I tried the embed option below.
Hear me trying out Gcast and my voice on a Podcast using Garageband 08 and Apple Loops. All for the course I’m taking from Lesley University [...]

This video summarizes what 3-5 year olds experienced during Eiken Winter School 2008, which was a five-day English intensive program in December 2008. Listen to their voices, look at the work they produced, and see who their teachers were.
Dedicated to my students who produced the work and the Eiken Assistants who helped me in the [...]