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Wednesday 1/18/2012 Teacher Development seminar was Wonderful! Thanks to everyone who came and it is a pleasure to work with you all! 
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Sorry our classrooms are so cold but your beautiful faces and warm hearts do a lot to keep me feeling warmed and happy!

We don't have much left to do - and I'm already expecting to miss seeing you twice a week. Presentations are coming up and will be the last 4 days of our classes. We have one test to take but that's no problem for any of you. 

Submit your final presentation to me as a PDF attachment to an email. The SUBJECT of the email AND the NAME of  ATTACHMENT should be your name and student number (in English). That will make it possible for me to find it easily. We will use my iPad to show your presentations (you get to run the iPad).

Relax - it will be fun!  This exercise is more about making a pdf from a PPT than making a presentation. I think the future is in your hands and want to give you tools to make it work!

FINAL PRESENTATION

Suggestions for topics are HERE.

Directions for the final presentation:

Presentation Challenge:

Problem - How do I share my message with as many people as possible? 

PowerPoint presentations give me access to very few people, require a computer to deliver and special tools to show to an audience. People in other countries may not have either. Microsoft Office costs nearly a year's pay in many countries and we can't go to small villages to make presentations.

Solution - Convert your PowerPoint presentation to .pdf and publish it on the Internet. 

Virtually every cell phone in the wold is now capable of Internet connection and viewing .pdf files. This delivery system will be replacing printed books within the next few years.

Your presentation must be web ready in .pdf format.

Title page with your name, student number, course of study

White background 

Black letters

Six words per line. These do NOT have to be complete sentences.

Six lines per slide.

30 point web ready font.

Arial,  (or Mac Helvetica), Verdana, Times New Roman, Georgia, Tahoma

Graphics beat text.

Presenting:

Be prepared.

Be clear.

Stand up straight.

Speak in a loud voice.

Speak about the slides - no script. Use your presentation as your notes.

Look at faces.

Speak conversationally.

Speak slowly.

Introduce yourself, then your topic:

Today I'm going to talk about ~ ~.

Give your presentation. You will have approximately 5 minutes to speak. You may not speak longer.

Today I spoke about ~ ~. 

Thank you.

Take your bow and go back to your seat! You didi it!

Don't forget to check the calendar as well as the syllabus and remember to bring your review task answer sheets to class!

SYLLABUS / HOW TO / LISTENING

FALL TERM SYLLABUS AND SCHEDULE

HOW TO USE LIVE REPORTS

LINKS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR WORK

LIVE BOOK REPORT FORM

LIVE ESSAY FORM

LIVE CALL CHECK FORM

OTHER TOOLS

HOW TO STUDY FOR A TEST

CALL STUDY DIARY

Wednesday 1/18/2012 Teacher Development seminar was Wonderful! Thanks to everyone who came and it is a pleasure to work with you all! This is a link to my presentation. Click and download!

Use Google for more than search.

Google is so much more than search.
Get started with GMail now.
Google is also an on line word processor,spreadsheet and presentation package.


As adults you need a REAL email account. One with your name that you can use forever. You'll change ISPs some day. You'll graduate from Iba-dai (I hope so!). You can't do business with keitai mail.

Get a G-Mail account!

Gmail is in Japanese. It is free. You don't get めいわくマイル。You can check your mail from any computer in the world. Gmail has huge storage. AND you can use Google Docs for MSOffice compatible documents, spreadsheets and presentations!

G-Mail . Click this lint to sign up for GMail, use Google Docs.