Invitation to Shinnenkai (New Year's party) (fwd)

From: Nihongo (lacurej_at_UTK.EDU)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:25:31 -0500

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 05:50:47 -0700
From: Keiko Schneider <kschnei@SABOTENWEB.COM>
Subject: Invitation to Shinnenkai (New Year's party)

Dear teachers of Japanese,

Invitation to Shinnenkai (New Year's party)

I am a occasional volunteer HelpDesk at this online conference center
for educators. Everybody is welcome!

SHINNENKAI: January 3rd-4th, 2005

SHINNENKAI is a Japanese tradition of getting together at the beginning
of the year to renew our friendship/working relationship for the new
year. Anybody who is interested is welcome. (Professional conduct is
expected in TAPPED IN.) SHINNENKAI hopes to achieve the following
goals.

- Serve as introduction to senseiOnine and/or TAPPED IN.
- If participants are interested, I can take a tour of TAPPED IN.
- Help networking among the members/guests and provide feedback on
senseiOnline and its online forum, Benkyoukai

To be sure of your local time, please go to Timezone Converter at
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ and calculate from US Pacific time.

Session 1:
January 3rd, 2005 (Monday) 9am PST
7am Hawaii, 11am CST, noon EST, 5pm London/GMT; January 4th (Tuesday)
2am Japan, 4am
Sydney, 6am NZ

Session 2:
January 3rd, 2005 (Monday) 3pm PST
1pm Hawaii, 5pm CST, 6pm EST, 11pm London/GMT,; January 4th (Tuesday)
8am Japan, 10am
Sydney, noon NZ

How long:
One hour from the starting time indicated above

What to talk about:
Nothing is set in advance.

Where:

Instructions to log in as a guest and get to the After School Online
Room:
1. Go to http://ti2.sri.com
2. Click the "Guest Login" Button on the TAPPED IN home page
3. Fill in your name (up to 6 letters) and click on "Log in as a Guest"
4. When loading is done, you will be in the Reception area.
5. To talk, type in the message in the window next to the word SAY.
Then press the SEND button or the ENTER key
6. In order to get to After School Online room, you can click on After
School Online in the Featured Passageways.

You can view Introduction to the TI2 User Interface at
http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/web/ui.jsp

What is TAPPED IN?
TAPPED IN is the online workplace of an international community of
education professionals. Teachers and librarians, professional
development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and
researchers engage in professional development programs and informal
collaborative activities with colleagues. You can find out what
TAPPED IN is about including the activities that educators can do at
http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/web/about.jsp

Can I use Japanese?
With some combination of operating system and browser, TAPPED IN is
known to be Japanese capable. I expect some non-Japanese speakers, but
you are welcome to test the Japanese capability at the event.

What is senseiOnline?
Info at http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to write to Keiko Schneider
at <senseionline-owner@yahoogroups.com> Hope to see you there!

Sincerely yours,
Keiko Schneider 

--
Keiko Schneider (kschnei@sabotenweb.com)
Bookmarks: http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks
Manager, SenseiOnline:
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html
Executive Board ATJ 2003-2006:
http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/
HelpDesk volunteer at TAPPED IN: http://www.tappedin.org/new