Hi Cybercats I'd like you to look at this web site for Journalists the URL will take you to the first of three pages you should look them all over carefully.>http://www.mediachannel.org/getinvolved/journo/<
FOR A STORY THIS WEEK I'D LIKE YOU TO WRITE UP SOMETHING ABOUT A SPORTS EVENT. SOME OF YOU READ THE SPORTS PAGE IN THE PAPER AND IT WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE EASIER FOR YOU THAT DO. FOR THOSE THAT DON'T YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE SPORTS PAGE OF A PAPER AND TRY TO WRITE IN THAT STYLE. WRITE YOUR OWN STORY. DON'T COPY ONE FROM A NEWSPAPER. YOU COULD WATCH A SPORTS EVENT ON TV AND REPORT ON IT. E-MAIL ME THE STORY BY 12 OCLOCK NOON MONDAY. GOOD LUCK
Saturday, May 31, 2003
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Como esta. Last week I went to the actor's school at Yutenji on Tuesday and Thursday morning. I also went to the theater to see the play at Roppongi in one of my classes. On Saturday I moved to Tsunashima with my mother, so I was busy preparing almost all days last week. But it's nice to me that it takes about 30
minutes to get to the actor's studio and 50 minutes to school.
I'm glad to see you again in this class. Yuya Honda
minutes to get to the actor's studio and 50 minutes to school.
I'm glad to see you again in this class. Yuya Honda
Natsumi Yanagihara
Last Satuaday, I went to Yokota Base because one of my friends invited me to have dinner and see a film at Yokota base. It was 4th times for me to go there and I like the place because I can feel as if I am in America. We exchanged yen into dollars first, then we ate dinner at a restaurant, by the way I ate big roast beef and it was so delicious. After the meal, we went to a movie theater and saw the film " The Houres". I spend good Satuaday night.
Last Satuaday, I went to Yokota Base because one of my friends invited me to have dinner and see a film at Yokota base. It was 4th times for me to go there and I like the place because I can feel as if I am in America. We exchanged yen into dollars first, then we ate dinner at a restaurant, by the way I ate big roast beef and it was so delicious. After the meal, we went to a movie theater and saw the film " The Houres". I spend good Satuaday night.
Hard to Make Good Relationship with Clients
By Mizuho Ueno
Last Sunday as usually I do, I did a part-time job in the chyukagai, the china town. I work at Heichinrou which is the oldest restaurant in the chinese town three days in a week. My work is not serving food but receiving call from consumers. Of course, the contents of telephone are various from reservations to complaints. Usually three people who work as receiver of telephone. And the morning the person who ate and bought souverior at our restaurant called us. He said there was a piece of plastic in souvenior but my cowoker said wrogly we did not sell such a food. So he angered and call us again complainig with her attitude. Our boss accused her and resign her. I was vvery surprised at the news and thought it's too hard to get along with client.
By Mizuho Ueno
Last Sunday as usually I do, I did a part-time job in the chyukagai, the china town. I work at Heichinrou which is the oldest restaurant in the chinese town three days in a week. My work is not serving food but receiving call from consumers. Of course, the contents of telephone are various from reservations to complaints. Usually three people who work as receiver of telephone. And the morning the person who ate and bought souverior at our restaurant called us. He said there was a piece of plastic in souvenior but my cowoker said wrogly we did not sell such a food. So he angered and call us again complainig with her attitude. Our boss accused her and resign her. I was vvery surprised at the news and thought it's too hard to get along with client.
BY Mayuko Tsunekawa
Yesterday, I went to Kodoo-no-Kuni (a Children World?). I haven't been there since I was in 6th grade,so I was kind of excited.
We arrived there around 3:00 and payed 600 yen to enter.
In Kodomo-no Kuni, there are boats, cyclings, and some animals like a cow or a pony to see. We wanted to row a boat but it was already closed. So we decided to do the cycling instead, but it was also closed. Plus, all the animals were already in there home and we couldn't see them....
It seemed that the reasons of it is because since it's a Children World, it close early. Children must go home early.
I wonder why we went there for.. Just for walking??? Well that was a good exercise. I might have gained 2kg.
Yesterday, I went to Kodoo-no-Kuni (a Children World?). I haven't been there since I was in 6th grade,so I was kind of excited.
We arrived there around 3:00 and payed 600 yen to enter.
In Kodomo-no Kuni, there are boats, cyclings, and some animals like a cow or a pony to see. We wanted to row a boat but it was already closed. So we decided to do the cycling instead, but it was also closed. Plus, all the animals were already in there home and we couldn't see them....
It seemed that the reasons of it is because since it's a Children World, it close early. Children must go home early.
I wonder why we went there for.. Just for walking??? Well that was a good exercise. I might have gained 2kg.
Last Friday, I went to the college for the first time. The class I took at the college was, 'Making The Music VIdeo With Computer Graphics'. I went with my friend who was also interested in making music videos. The class was held by a teacher who was a professional graphic designer.
It was very hard for me to make the video with computers because I'd never had experience doing that. Though, after the two-hour
lesson, I had managed to make 30 seconds video crip. It was hard, but so much fun!!
I am thinking of going to the college again.
It was very hard for me to make the video with computers because I'd never had experience doing that. Though, after the two-hour
lesson, I had managed to make 30 seconds video crip. It was hard, but so much fun!!
I am thinking of going to the college again.
PRACTICE MAKES US STRESSFUL
By AYA YAMAZAKI
First, go and see this page : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/music/shinkyo-wind/
I belong to this brassband. This group is organized with many working people who love music. I've attended this band since this April. I play the clarinet there, and tomorrow, we will hold our concert at Nakano Zero Hall in Nakano. It will start at 7 o'clock p.m..
So last weekend, we of course made our best effort to gratify the people who would come and see us. Last weekend's practice was longer than usual and it was eight hours long. I couldn't attend all of that because of school classes. At the end of that long-time practice, everyone got very tired. We were so nervous about what the conductor said that everyone could claim about that! Only one week before the concert, members got to be black situation. So I thought that too long practice makes people frustrated and stressful.
By AYA YAMAZAKI
First, go and see this page : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/music/shinkyo-wind/
I belong to this brassband. This group is organized with many working people who love music. I've attended this band since this April. I play the clarinet there, and tomorrow, we will hold our concert at Nakano Zero Hall in Nakano. It will start at 7 o'clock p.m..
So last weekend, we of course made our best effort to gratify the people who would come and see us. Last weekend's practice was longer than usual and it was eight hours long. I couldn't attend all of that because of school classes. At the end of that long-time practice, everyone got very tired. We were so nervous about what the conductor said that everyone could claim about that! Only one week before the concert, members got to be black situation. So I thought that too long practice makes people frustrated and stressful.
Hello,
What did I do last weekend? I was working at my part-time job. (><;) I was lucky to be working because once I got there, there was a big event going on. It was a ViVi Magazine event. The models from the magazine were there and for the closing act, Chemistry and EXILE started to sing and dance and I got to hear and see them live. It was really cool. Proffesional singers can really sing!! Kai
What did I do last weekend? I was working at my part-time job. (><;) I was lucky to be working because once I got there, there was a big event going on. It was a ViVi Magazine event. The models from the magazine were there and for the closing act, Chemistry and EXILE started to sing and dance and I got to hear and see them live. It was really cool. Proffesional singers can really sing!! Kai
What I did last weekend. Risako Horiki
My friend came from Mie which is my hometown to have an interview for job-hunting. After she finished her interview, we had an appointment to meet in Shibuya. I haven't met her since I went home in January so it was nice to meet her. We are both having hard time finding job, so most of the stories we talked about was about our future. We went same junior high school and high school and we both have a same dream. We are best friends. She doesn't like Tokyo very much because it is so noisy and crowded, but we enjoyed the night.
My friend came from Mie which is my hometown to have an interview for job-hunting. After she finished her interview, we had an appointment to meet in Shibuya. I haven't met her since I went home in January so it was nice to meet her. We are both having hard time finding job, so most of the stories we talked about was about our future. We went same junior high school and high school and we both have a same dream. We are best friends. She doesn't like Tokyo very much because it is so noisy and crowded, but we enjoyed the night.
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Hi thought you might take a look at some of these sites:
Are you ready for social software?
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/050103/social.html?action=print
Integrating the Internet into the Classroom (a 3-week online course)
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/home.html
Public blog/discussion on Intercultural Literacy
http://waoe.blogspot.com/
2 Rs Left in High School (as writing is dropped out of curriculum)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2CB11E94
Bilingual Research Journal (with free full-text access)
http://brj.asu.edu/
The Great Media Gulp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/opinion/22SAFI.html
Multimedia and ICTs in Education (Dec. 3-6, Badajoz, Spain)
http://www.formatex.org/micte2003/micte2003.htm
Monterey Institute may be incorporated into University of California
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=335
What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy (new
book by Jim Gee)
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalogue/index.asp?isbn=1403961697
How to ensure ed/tech is not oversold and underused (new book)
http://www.scarecroweducation.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810846209
Are you ready for social software?
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/050103/social.html?action=print
Integrating the Internet into the Classroom (a 3-week online course)
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/usia/home.html
Public blog/discussion on Intercultural Literacy
http://waoe.blogspot.com/
2 Rs Left in High School (as writing is dropped out of curriculum)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2CB11E94
Bilingual Research Journal (with free full-text access)
http://brj.asu.edu/
The Great Media Gulp
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/opinion/22SAFI.html
Multimedia and ICTs in Education (Dec. 3-6, Badajoz, Spain)
http://www.formatex.org/micte2003/micte2003.htm
Monterey Institute may be incorporated into University of California
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=335
What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy (new
book by Jim Gee)
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalogue/index.asp?isbn=1403961697
How to ensure ed/tech is not oversold and underused (new book)
http://www.scarecroweducation.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810846209
Saturday, May 24, 2003
WORTH THINKING ABOUT: DIVERGING FROM THE PARTY LINE
In a memoir of her days as a Washington Post journalist, Meg
Greenfield wrote:
"We in Washington have been moving in recent years toward a kind of
effigy journalism. Those we write about we all too often project to the
public as lifeless, one-dimensional representations of various political
positions and cultural categories, each within his designated grouping
being cookie-cutter identical to the rest.
"They are effigies in that they are suitable only for sticking pins
into or pasting over with little iridescent stickum hearts. For there is
neither tolerance nor room in our concept of them for individuality or
surprise or quirkiness or honest change of opinion, and no room for their
espousing an eccentric, unauthorized mixture of views that whoever it is
decides these things has decreed do not belong together. If you've been
badgered by the press as an unreconstructed liberal, say, or a hard-line
conservative, you're supposed always to act like our idea of one and not
complicate our lives.
"Thus, we tend to dismiss most divergence from the expected party
line as trickery -- temporary tactical maneuvers, presumptively
politics-driven. Our effigy subjects have been defined entirely in terms of
their 'position' and are expected, in some sense even demanded, by us to
live the lifestyle and vote the votes that we have associated with their
badges: the left-wing this and the right-wing that, conservative Christians
and secular humanists, pro-choice activists and pro-life demonstrators,
hawks and doves, and so on.
"As they emerge from the pages and airwaves of American journalism
these days, they are, in my view, terminally boring because they are, as
sketches of people, so monolithic, unconvincing, and implausible. Everyone
knows real people are not like that. Loath to abandon their fixed idea of
our views at the Post editorial page, many of our critics have a tag they
use on the innumerable occasions when we are not faithful to it. At such
times we are known, with reluctant, wary, and above all conditional
approval as 'Even the Washington Post...' It's like a temporary pass that
runs out at midnight."
***
In a memoir of her days as a Washington Post journalist, Meg
Greenfield wrote:
"We in Washington have been moving in recent years toward a kind of
effigy journalism. Those we write about we all too often project to the
public as lifeless, one-dimensional representations of various political
positions and cultural categories, each within his designated grouping
being cookie-cutter identical to the rest.
"They are effigies in that they are suitable only for sticking pins
into or pasting over with little iridescent stickum hearts. For there is
neither tolerance nor room in our concept of them for individuality or
surprise or quirkiness or honest change of opinion, and no room for their
espousing an eccentric, unauthorized mixture of views that whoever it is
decides these things has decreed do not belong together. If you've been
badgered by the press as an unreconstructed liberal, say, or a hard-line
conservative, you're supposed always to act like our idea of one and not
complicate our lives.
"Thus, we tend to dismiss most divergence from the expected party
line as trickery -- temporary tactical maneuvers, presumptively
politics-driven. Our effigy subjects have been defined entirely in terms of
their 'position' and are expected, in some sense even demanded, by us to
live the lifestyle and vote the votes that we have associated with their
badges: the left-wing this and the right-wing that, conservative Christians
and secular humanists, pro-choice activists and pro-life demonstrators,
hawks and doves, and so on.
"As they emerge from the pages and airwaves of American journalism
these days, they are, in my view, terminally boring because they are, as
sketches of people, so monolithic, unconvincing, and implausible. Everyone
knows real people are not like that. Loath to abandon their fixed idea of
our views at the Post editorial page, many of our critics have a tag they
use on the innumerable occasions when we are not faithful to it. At such
times we are known, with reluctant, wary, and above all conditional
approval as 'Even the Washington Post...' It's like a temporary pass that
runs out at midnight."
***
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