Search Results

Issues that relate to teachers' skills are most important for changing the practice of information technology education in Japan. At the stage of pre-service teacher education, college students who wish to teach in elementary schools need to improve ...

Paper-based Daifuku-cho is an A4 sized shuttle card used in the classroom. On the card there are 14 comment fields in which the student writes and 14 comment fields in which the teacher replies to them. We have used Daifuku-cho in classes for future ...

College students in Japan produced video "close-up picture" stories in their preservice education program. Using a Video Close-up System developed by Oda, each group of 3-5 persons created a narrative for a picture story show. The students wrote a...

In Japan more and more young people have a mobile phone with a QR code scanner. The QR code makes it easier for users to view Web pages instead of typing long web address (URL). Moreover using the QR code and mobile phones also allows the teacher to ...

About 25 years ago we developed "Gakushu(Learning) Kami-shibai(storytelling performance with picture cards) Method " and " Video Close-up System (ViCS)" for the students to create stories. In Susono's two "Educational Technology 2006" classes each...

The term "Kyoiku-Kogaku" in Japanese means "Educational Technology" or "Instructional Technology" in English. In our "Kyoiku-Kogaku" classes for college students we have used both analog and digital ed-media. We have focused especially on utilizing...

Our college students have begun using their mobile phones recently to send some comments in our classes. In Japan more and more young people have a mobile phone with a QR code scanner. The QR code makes it easier for the students to access a web...

We have focused on creating 90-second multimedia stories on the theme "Motttainai" in Susono's Educational Technology classes for future teachers. More and more people in Japan are interested in this Japanese word "Mottainai" (which captures the...

At Mie University and Kogakkan University in Mie, the college students have created their digital stories in Project Based Learning for a few years. We have focused on creating a story on the theme "Motttainai" (That's a waste. or Wastefulness)...

After reading books at elementary school, it is important that students share what they read and their impression about the book. Our research focused on that elementary students in Japan create a digital story with 4-6 pictures and their voices....

Our recent research has focused on college students creating digital stories after reading books. In Japanese, the word for reading books is "dokusho", so we named this project "Dokusho Digital Storytelling". The future teachers produced 107 ...

Students at Mie University, Japan, had a digital storytelling project in their Educational Technology 2009 class. The theme was “Tegami (A Letter to Myself)”. Each student created a digital story called “A letter to the past”or “A letter to the...

More than 10 online videos that teach digital storytelling (DST) techniques were produced for college students, elementary students, in-service teachers, and life-long learners. People who want to create a digital story in Japan can see each of the...

Students at Tokan Junior High School, Japan, had a digital storytelling “Tegami” project in their 2010 domestic science class. Each student created a digital story on the theme “A Letter to My Future Self (Mirai no Jibun eno Tegami)” in this digital ...