Posted 11/19/2004 by Steve McCarty

Another paper online

I've tried to make most of my publications of the past decade available online, and just found another, which Dr. Kinshuk in New Zealand has made available in pdf format:

Bowskill N., McCarty S., Luke R., Kinshuk, Hand K. (2000).
Cultural Sensitivity in Voluntary Virtual Professional Development Communities.
Indian Journal of Open Learning, 9 (3), 361-379 (ISSN 0971-2690).
http://infosys.massey.ac.nz/~kinshuk/papers/ijol_2000.pdf

Posted 11/12/2004 by Steve McCarty

Japanese universities / Reference book for non-native users of English

Professor Takamitsu Sawa of Kyoto University wrote an article for the Japan Times entitled "Universities Lack Will to Reform." The Japanese Institute of Global Communications reprinted that article online and published my response, Comment on Takamitsu Sawa's Article "Universities Lack Will to Reform." Read Prof. Sawa's article and then mine if you are interested in Japan.

Meanwhile a reference book has come out for EFL self-study and one of the authors is WAOE officer Dr. Begum Ibrahim who graces this blog as well (scroll down to see and read about her). I wrote the Foreword for the book, proofreading and editing the manuscript:

Get Speaking Right: Suitable Expressions for Effective Communication.
by Abdul Hameed Mohamed Mydin and Ahbul Zailani Begum Mohamed Ibrahim
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Prentice Hall / Pearson Education (2004); ISBN 983-3205-04-6.

Posted 11/03/2004 by Steve McCarty

The WAOE Electronic Bulletin (WEB), Vol. 4, No. 3 (November 2004), published at Portland State University for the World Association for Online Education, is now available free to the public here.

It is loaded with articles representing most regions of the world, with links to yet further sources. Contents include:

* WAOE 2004 Annual Meeting; New Officers Selected
* Update on Mentoring Project
* Four Members Meet and Present at the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) Conference in Brighton, England (includes photo of authors, link to presentation abstracts and PowerPoint)
* Online education news or announcements of projects in the Asia-Pacific, Oman, South Africa, India, and East Africa.
* Member Profile -- Begum Ibrahim (Malaysia)
* Call for participation in the WAOE Online Educator Develoment Committee (OEDC)
* Upcoming conferences in South Africa, India and China.
* Review of The Reach Of Reflection: Issues For Phenomenology's Second Century
* Online Study Tool offered by Respondus: Study Mate
* Community in the Digital Age -- article and book review
* Learning Objects: What are they and why should I care? (includes screen shot of a content management system)
* The Digital Literacy Alliance: An update (support group for Ghana)
* President's Corner: Virtual Organization goes Hybrid as Online meets Offline
* Troubleshooting the WAOE Website, Discussion Boards, and List-Servs

Posted 10/31/2004 by Steve McCarty

This latest article fits into the topic of intercultural literacy but not much else :)

Feature: Steve McCarty, Can non-Japanese write real haiku poetry?
Simply Haiku: An E-Journal of Haiku and Related Forms
November-December 2004, Volume 2, Number 6
http://www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv2n6/features/Steve_McCarty_Feature.html

Posted 10/28/2004 by Steve McCarty

Sayonara Papyrus News

For 14 months I have filled in for Dr. Mark Warschauer of the University of California in editing the e-mail distribution list Papyrus News, on language, technology, and other topics of concern. Now, happily, Mark is ready to resume this activity but with Papyrus News as an interactive blog. Bookmark or add it to your favorites after checking out the Papyrus News blog.

The Papyrus News distribution list messages of recent years are still preserved in the archives.

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
President, World Association for Online Education (WAOE)
An NPO with membership free. When filling out a Web form to join,
you can click to join the WAOE Views unmoderated discussion list.
Bookmark Steve's projects | Home page in Japanese
Online library (Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library 4-star site)

Posted 9/28/2004 by Steve McCarty

Since the last post, the following articles have come out:

"Internet Voice Technologies for Oral Foreign Language Teaching"
Column in WEB - WAOE Electronic Bulletin - Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan/Feb 2004)
Portland State University: World Association for Online Education (WAOE)

"E-learning and Online Education in the Foreign Language Teaching Field"
University of California, Irvine: Papyrus News (March 2004)

Since I moved to Osaka in March 2004 I have not been able to update my publications Website, the Bilingualism and Japanology Intersection, an Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library 4-star site linked from Stanford, Harvard, Duke, the British Library, and over a thousand other sites. So the most recent publications, mostly available on the Web, are noted below and in future posts.

Leadership in Introducing Educational Technology in Japan
WAOE Electronic Bulletin (WEB), Vol. 4, No. 1, President's Corner
Portland State University, World Association for Online Education

Using English and the Internet could foster a Cultural Revolution in Japan
Archive of CRN Home Page Topics for Discussion
Tokyo: Child Research Net, May 2004

Fear and the Election
New York Times, Letters, 23 July 2004

A Picture of Online Education
Archive of CRN Home Page Topics for Discussion (10 September 2004)

Presentations

Japanese People and Society
Osaka: Japan International Cooperation Center, 8 September 2004
Japan International Cooperation Agency, Government of Japan

Meeting a Worldwide Need for Community and Faculty Support for Online Education
Association of Internet Researchers 2004 , 5th Annual Conference, 22 September
University of Sussex, UK [Abstract of presentation]

Course home pages at my new college:

Individual, Cultural and Linguistic Human Rights

Academic Vocabulary [WebCT] information page

Posted 4/18/2004 by Steve McCarty

See you in Osaka?

I have moved to another professorship at Osaka Jogakuin College in Japan's second largest city. As a result of moving from an outer island, it will be easier to meet people in person. I'm not accessing e-mail to the addresses steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp and steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp, but you can still contact me at mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp except when it fills up with spam. My Website, moved to WAOE's site, still works.

See you in Brighton?

World Association for Online Education officers in the UK, US and Japan will make a group presentation on WAOE at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR 5.0) conference at the University of Sussex in England, from September 19-21, 2004. Our proposal was accepted and the reviewers cited our "international collaboration" on an "interesting topic." If you can attend the conference, let us know. See the conference home page.

Posted 2/02/2004 by Steve McCarty

Articles and columns published this winter:

"Voice Technologies help turn the Computer into a Communication Device"
Archive of CRN Home Page Topics for Discussion
Tokyo: Child Research Net (January 2004)

"Revival of the Papyrus News distribution list on language and technology" (pdf format)
APACALL Newsletter No. 4
Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
The University of Southern Queensland, Australia (December 2003)

"Parameters of Online Education"
[President's Corner, near the bottom of the newsletter]
World Association for Online Education (WAOE)
WEB - WAOE Electronic Newsletter (October 2003)

"Connectivity: the 'Line' in Online Education"
WEB - WAOE Electronic Newsletter (December 2003)