Website Technical Notes
September 20, 2005 |
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The lesson plans and projects designed
for classroom use and developed by nine teachers who participated
in the AATJ Summer 2004 Language, Culture, and Technology Institute
in Japan are available online on this website.
Requirements for Using these Materials
You must have:
1) an Apple Macintosh or Windows-based PC which is already enabled
to display Japanese characters;
2) Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, and QuickTime for viewing the
projects with videos;
3) enough room on your hard disk for the file(s) you wish to use.
See the next two paragraphs.
Downloading the Projects
Each of the projects contains at least one PowerPoint file plus
one or more of the following: video, unit organizer, lesson plan,
worksheet. The projects have been "packaged" as ZIP files
with the PowerPoint(s) and all related unit organizers, lesson plans,
and/or worksheets zipped together.
The size of the zipped files varies from 623 KB to 85.3 MB. The
files will expand as they are unzipped. Be sure you have
enough room on your hard disk for the file(s) you wish to use.
| Teacher/Project |
No. of Files |
Zipped Size |
Unzipped Size |
| Bencke/EcoLife |
4 |
0.62 MB |
0.85MB |
| Bieker/Jinja For Mac |
5 |
40.86 MB |
43.16 MB |
| Bieker/Jinja For PC |
5 |
85.30 MB |
90.54 MB |
| Bieker/Wendy's For Mac |
5 |
23.76 MB |
24.86 MB |
| Bieker/Wendy's For PC |
5 |
23.91 MB |
25.42 MB |
| Collins/Transportation |
4 |
9.98 MB |
10.60 MB |
| Eubanks/Leisure Activities |
8 |
27.50 MB |
27.93 MB |
| Garcia/Traveling in Tokyo |
6 |
11.75 MB |
12.24 MB |
Miyagawa/Cross-Cultural
Understanding |
3 |
6.26 MB |
6.75 MB |
| Pedersen/Garbage |
3 |
25.25 MB |
25.51 MB |
| Pedersen/Rice |
3 |
8.14 MB |
8.46 MB |
| Shaver/Kabuto For Mac |
5 |
3.48 MB |
3.95 MB |
| Shaver/Kabuto For PC |
5 |
11.38 MB |
15.04 MB |
| Summers/Verb Review |
3 |
5.55 MB |
6.76 MB |
When you click on the project name on the index page, you will be
asked whether you want to open or save the file to your computer.
Choose to save it your computer; the ZIP file will automatically
be downloaded to the folder you chose. When you double click on
the icon for the ZIP file on your computer's desktop, the files
will automatically unzip to a new folder, providing you with all
the files related to the project you have downloaded.
You may move the files to anywhere on your computer, but be
sure that each PowerPoint file and its accompanying files are together
in the same folder/directory.
Compatibility with Windows and Apple
Computers
Microsoft Word files, video files, and PowerPoint files containing
no links to videos are all compatible with both Windows and Apple
computers.
PowerPoint incompatibility between
Windows and Apple Macintosh Computers
There is an incompatibility between Windows-based and Apple Macintosh
computers for PowerPoint files which contain links to videos; they
cannot read each other's links to videos. Separate files have therefore
been made for the three projects containing PowerPoint files with
video links: Anita Bieker's gJinja", Anita Bieker'sgWendy'sh
and Joanne Shaver's "Kabuto". Be sure to download the
appropriate version (Mac or PC). If you download the wrong version,
the videos will not play.
Special Note
In Patrick Bencke'sgEco Life UnithPowerPoint presentation (slide
11), there is a link to a website (http://www.kankyou.pref.saitama.jp/JF/JF0101/JF010100021001.HTM)
which does not automatically display Japanese characters on some
computers. When you link to the site, if correct Japanese characters
are not displayed, you must click and hold on the View menu on the
top menu bar, then move the cursor down and do one of the following:
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Highlight "Character
Set" and from the drop-down menu select "Japanese
(Auto Detect)" first. If that doesn't work, try "Japanese
(EUC)" next. Work down the list. One of the selections
should work for you. |
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Highlight "Encoding" and
from the drop-down menu select "Auto Detect" first.
If that doesn't work, click and hold on "More" and
a drop-down list with additional Japanese choices will appear.
Try "Japanese (EUC)" next. Work down the list. One
of the selections should work for you. |
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Highlight "Text Encoding"
and from the drop-down menu select "Japanese (EUC)."
If that doesn't work, try the other choices on the list. One
of the selections should work for you. |
COPYRIGHT NOTICE. Copyright to these materials
is held jointly by its author and the Alliance of Associations of
Teachers of Japanese (AATJ). Educators are free to use these materials
in their classrooms provided credit is given to the author and to
AATJ. For other uses, prior permission is required; please contact:
Summer Institute Media Project
 Alliance
of Associations of Teachers of Japanese
240 Humanities Bldg., 279 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0279
Tel: (303) 492-5487
Fax: (303) 492-5856
E-mail:
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