Hi Mengia,
This is a very well-thought-out assignment and the idea of creating a podcast series is brilliant. I like the fact that students’ creativity is highlighted in this learning process. I myself would […]
Hi everyone,
Thank you all for excellent discussions and interesting ideas. I enjoyed reading your posts and talking to you over Zoom. For my course, JPN101 Elementary Japanese I, students will produce […]
Hi Guido, thank you for educating me about Argentine, which is located on the other side of the earth (from the Japanese point of view. ) I must confess that I do not know much about the country, and the Wiki […]
Hi everyone,
I think the assignment discussed in the readings, i.e., creating and editing Wiki entries, is a great exercise for ‘open’ learning that ties what students learn in class to the real world. Also, I f […]
I am planning two types of OER components to use in the first part of my beginning Japanese course. One of them is to replace Workbook and to supplement the main textbook currently used. Since the textbook alone […]
Hi Michael, Thank you for your comment. Flipgrid has just changed its name to Flip, and it is a Microsoft owned platform that was used in K-12 initially, I believe, but it has expanded as a platform for […]
Hi Mengia,
I share your questions about how students actually co-design the course. I did not find the syllabus on the course site for DeRosa’s textbook. I am an adjunct now and the syllabus should be […]
Hi Guido,
About the textbook cost, students really are struggling and often times as you must be aware official college bookstores sell books at higher prices than they are sold on Amazon or elsewhere. Students […]
‘My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice’ by DeRosa has answered many questions about OER course I had, and it was thought provoking in many ways. One thing I was surprised to read is that DeRosa’s students were v […]
1) The course I teach at JJ this fall is the very first introductory course in Japanese, JPN101. As the teaching standard specifies, all 5 skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening, culture) are taught from […]
1) The course I teach at JJ this fall is the very first introductory course in Japanese, JPN101. As the teaching standard specifies, all 5 skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening, culture) are taught from […]
My name is Noriko, and I have been teaching Japanese language courses for a few years as an adjunct at John Jay and Queens College. I am a broadly trained sociolinguist who has been teaching […]
