Useful Links for Teachers by Makoto Netsu & Maki Watanabe

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Advocacy

The Joint National Committee for Languages & the National Council for Languages and International Studies  http://www.languagepolicy.org/ New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers  http://www.nysaflt.org/ Why Learn a Foreign Language (Jessica Haxhi & Kazumi Yamashita, Maloney Magnet http://teacherweb.com/ct/maloneymagnetschool/japanese/wqr1.stm

Copyright

Copyright and Fair Use, Stanford University http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ Copyright and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html Copyright on the Internet http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm Copyright Website http://www.benedict.com/ 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html US Copyrgiht Office http://www.loc.gov/copyright/ ネットワークにおける著作権 問題等について http://homepage3.nifty.com/itaru_watanabe/chosakuken/main.html

Fonts

白舟書体 (Hakushu Shotai) http://www.hakusyu.com/ みかちゃんフォント http://mikachan-font.com/ グレイグラフィックス http://www.orange.ne.jp/%7Eden7/index.html About Font http://home.intercity.or.jp/users/masak/ Design Font http://www2.wind.ne.jp/maniackers/designfont.html

Links

FLTEACHERS' Web Pages http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9806/flteacherspgs.html#JAPANESE Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/

Professional Development and Standards

NBPTS (National Board for Professional Teaching Standards) http://www.nbpts.org/ Standards for in-service teachers INTASC (Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium) http://www.ccsso.org/projects/Interstate_New_Teacher_Assessment_and_Support_Consortium/ Standards for new teachers NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) http://www.ncate.org/ Standards for teacher education programs at university NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) http://cnets.iste.org/ Technology standards for students and teachers Japanese Professional Development SIG http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/SIG/prodev/index.html U.S. DOE http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp 50 States' Certification Requirements (University of Kentucky)　http://www.uky.edu/Education/TEP/usacert.html You can search a website of the DOE in your state.

ACTFL's Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Executive Summary http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3324 Standards for Japanese Language Learning (Draft, ATJ) http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Standards/stand1.html Education Standards (Link) http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic28.htm Links of education standards

Pedagogy

Reading in a Foreign Language (Journal) http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/

Rubric

Designing a Rubric http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/DesignRubric.html Steps of making rubrics New Ways of Testing and Grading in Middle School http://www.middleweb.com/CSLB2testing.html Explanation on rubrics Rubrics Websites http://home.nyc.rr.com/teachertools/Rubrics%20Websites.html Links of rubrics websites Project Rubrics Generator  http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/project/ Team Work Rubric Generator  http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/teamwork/ Directory of K-12 Foreign Language Assessment Instruments and Resources http://www.cal.org/CALWebDB/FLAssess/

Security

IPA Security Center http://www.ipa.go.jp/security/ McAfee http://www.mcafee.com Symantec http://www.symantec.com/ Symantec Security Report (JP) http://www.symantec.com/region/jp/sarcj/index.html Trend Micro Security Information http://www.trendmicro.co.jp/vinfo/

Teachers' Association

ATJ http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/ NCJLT http://www.ncjlt.org/ Local Teachers' Association (JFLALC) http://www.jflalc.org/index.php?act=tpt&id=157

Teachers' Network and Support

Foreign Language Resource Centers http://clear.msu.edu/nflrc/ Japanese Language Material Ring http://www.dartmouth.edu/~introjpn/webring.e.html Japanese Resource Center (Kanji Step) http://www.kanjistep.com./index.html Minna No Kyoozai Site (in Japanese) http://www.jpf.go.jp/kyozai/ Minna No Kyoozai Site (in English) http://momiji.jpf.go.jp/kyozai/English/index.php Nihongoweb (Prof. Omoto) http://www.nihongoweb.com/ The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles http://www.jflalc.org/index.php?act=tpt&id=9 The Japan Forum (DEAI) http://www.tjf.or.jp/index_e.html The Comprehensive Support Network System for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language http://www.kokken.go.jp/nihongo Nihon Mura http://www.nihonmura.com/

SenseiOnline http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/about/senseiOnline.html JTIT-L http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=jtit-l&A=1 Japan-Related Mailing List (ATJ) http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Japan_info/lists.html

Teaching Material Generator/Templates

Crossword Puzzle http://www.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/crossword.cgi Kantango http://www.kantango.com/index.php Mail-in Exercise (CLEAR, Michigan State University) http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/ MaxAuthor (University of Arizona) http://cali.arizona.edu/docs/wmaxa/ TrackStar http://trackstar.4teachers.org Website generator in English (w/o ad) 魔法のiらんど http://ip.tosp.co.jp/index.asp Website generator in Japanese (w/ad) Microsoft Office Templates http://office.microsoft.com/japan/TemplateGallery/default.aspx

Kanji Project (MIT) http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kanji-project/index.html Template Gallery for Teachers (Microsoft) http://search.officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery/ct149.asp Lesson plan using "Kokoyakyu" http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/kokoyakyu/for.html Classroom Jeopardy http://www.classroomjeopardy.com/ Genkouyoushi http://www.cjlea.org/teachers/fumikota/fumikota.htm Japanese Teaching Materials http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~emiahn/materials.htm Game Design http://www.gamedesign.jp/ 日本語テスト http://www.atok.com/index2.html Adventures in Japanese supplemental teaching materials http://home.att.net/~robertayoung/jessi/aij1

Textbook

Japanese Textbook Discussion Board http://www.japaneseteaching.org/projects/textbook/ Friends of Nakama http://www.uiowa.edu/~japanese/NAKAMA/index.html Genki Online http://www.genki-online.com/ Supplementary Materials for Introduction to Modern Japanese (Prof. Ujie) http://home.wlu.edu/~ujiek/imj.html

WebQuest

WebQuest Generator http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/ Building Blocks of a WebQuest http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/buildingblocks/p-index.htm Step by step guide for 6 stages of WebQuest Webquest 101 - Putting Discovery into the Curriculum http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml

WebQuest Samples

Japanese Webquest: Invite Japanese Exchange Students to the Party! http://php.indiana.edu/~mfukai/webquest/webquest.html A WebQuest for Intermediate level College students developed by Miyuki Fukai and Yoko Hanson Japan Theme WebQuests http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquests_themes/japan_theme/japan_theme.html List of WebQuests on Japan compiled by Crystal Pearl-Hodgins in Canad Becoming Japanese http://edtech.suhsd.k12.ca.us/inprogress/gjh/becomingjap/bejap#Resources Discover Japan WebQuest http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/for_lang/Japanese/WebQuest/discover/DiscoverJapan.html My Two Homes http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/cornelia/teach/webquests/japan/japan.htm Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/sadako.htm Think Sheets for Japan Webquest http://www.education.umd.edu/Depts/EDCI/edci385/webquests3/Webquest5/thinksheet.html Travel Japan http://sd71.bc.ca/Sd71/Edulinks/countries/japan/