Category: Event

  • Emergency Remote Teaching: What have we learned? – My Share ERT – August 23 2020 – Online Event

    Zoom link is : https://umuc.zoom.us/j/94702499538  

    The Iwate-Aomori chapter would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming ERT My Share event taking place on Sunday, August 23rd via Zoom.

    After a very challenging few months navigating through our local contexts in the rise of COVID, there is no better time than now for us teachers to share what all we have gained that we will take with us in the fall. It is our hope that this My Share event will offer a chance to engage with teachers from various contexts to exchange the ideas, tips and tricks we’ve gained as we’ve adjusted and adapted to this pandemic.

    We have a wonderful group of presenters, three from our local chapter, and two guest speakers from Osaka and Tokyo, who have lots to share with you about Nearpod, Moodle, Edmodo, Google apps, and so much more! These presenters will share how these tools can be used by anyone, regardless of how techy you may or may not be, and how they can be applied to the F2F classroom as well. We hope you will join us! Keep checking back for the presenter bios and summaries, as well as the Zoom meeting info that should be posted within the next week! 

  • Upcoming – February 23 – Teacher’s Research Workshop

    Event Speaker: Michael Stout
    Fee for non-JALT members: 1000 yen
    Contact or Queries: iwatejalt@hotmail.com
    Date and Time: Sunday, February 23, 2020 – 1:30pm to 4:30pm
    Location: AIINA 6th Floor Rm 602

    In this workshop, participants will learn how to do classroom research. The workshop leader will share first hand accounts of classroom research projects he has participated in, and share insights he has gained from doing classroom research. Throughout the workshop, participants will be led through a series of reflection tasks that will help them design their own classroom research projects.

    Bio

    Michael Stout is a lecturer at Hakuoh University in Tochigi. He has been teaching in Japan since 1997. He has published and presented in Japan and internationally on a wide variety of topics including: Narrow Reading, Reading Circles, teaching with Web 2.0 applications, and action research. His academia.edu profile can be viewed here: https://hakuoh.academia.edu/MichaelStout

  • Upcoming: Double Presentation: Global English Seminar and What can be done with Corpora – Barry Grossman

    Event Speaker: Barry GrossmanFee for JALT 

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    members: freeFee for non-JALT members: 1000 yen (500 yen for students)
    Contact or Queries: iwatejalt@hotmail.com

    Date and TIme: Sunday, January 28, 2018 – 1:30pm to 4:30pm

    Location: AIINA in Morioka Rm 605 – View Map

    Presentation #1: (45 minutes)

    Title: “Global English Seminar Project: A navigation app for foreign tourists and residents”

    The need for English information in a local community is being met by a university’s ‘Global English Seminar’ class. In order to make visiting the area more convenient for foreign tourists and residents, the seminar class has made a free iPhone app that provides information in English on local tourist spots, businesses and services. The educational and societal goals, methods, results, and challenges of this three-year project will be presented.

    Hands-on Workshop: (90 minutes)

    Title: “What can you do with a corpus?”

    Online corpora have become very user-friendly in the past few years. In this hands-on workshop, we will learn to use the corpus engine at Brigham Young University. The corpus can be beneficial as a language resource for teachers and students, but we will also discuss its use for classroom activities. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the confidence to use a corpus on their own and be able to explore the various functions an online corpus can offer.

    Bio

    Born 1965: Brooklyn, NY

    Academics

    1988: University of Colorado, BA in English Literature

    1991: University of Colorado, MA in Linguistics / TEFL

    2017: University of Birmingham (UK), PhD. in English & Applied Linguistics

    (Thesis in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics)

     

    Employment

    1991: Tokyo, English Language School

    1992: Hirosaki, English Language School

    1993: Hachinohe National Institute of Technology

    1996: Hachinohe University, Lecturer

    2013: Hachinohe Gakuin University, Professor

     

    Besides having published numerous articles on EFL and Linguistics, he has given research presentations in Japan, Canada, Korea, Italy, & The Netherlands.