Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education

 

 
The 1999-2000 ALT Mid-Year Seminar

 

Mining the Internet for Cross-Cultural Activities

January 20, 2000

  • A realistic approach to using the Internet
  • Facts about cross cultural understanding
  • Famous personages project
  • "Springboard approach"
  • Finding Material -- Some examples
    • Zambia (Unicorn, HS Book 1)
    • Using Google
    • CIA Factbook
    • Invitations (New Horizons, JHS Book 3)
    • Using Yahoo
    • (Choosing between Yahoo or Google)
    • Sample Invitations
  • How to extract the material for a lesson
  • Possible ways to use the material