From kcleary at me.com Sun Aug 8 04:18:53 2010 From: kcleary at me.com (kevin cleary) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:18:53 +0900 Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] MoodleMoot Japan 2011 Call for Presentations (Deadline: 1 November 2010) Message-ID: <20100808081853.362495167@smtp.me.com> Dear members, I hope you are enjoying your summer. We have a few messages to send today or tomorrow. First up is a Call for Presentations that the MoodleMoot 2011 Conference Chair, Paul Daniels, asked CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning SIG) members to publicize. If you use Moodle I imagine you would be very interested in attending, or presenting at, this conference. For more information on the CALL SIG, please see: For information on MoodleMoot and the Call for Presentations, please see below. Thank you and talk to you soon, Kevin Cleary Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair ## MoodleMoot 2011 -- Call for Presentations ## -- CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS -- Deadline for submissions: 1st November, 2010 -- The Third Moodle Teachers & Developers Conference February 22-23, 2011 Kochi University of Technology, Shikoku, Japan. Conference website: Event: MoodleMoot Japan 2011 includes presentations and workshops to learn about Moodle, the very popular open- source course management system. This event is sponsored by The Moodle Association of Japan, Kochi University of Technology, JALT CALL, & JALT East Shikoku Venue: Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan Details: Anyone interested in sharing and/or learning about Moodle is welcome to participate. Attendees vary in expertise from newbies to developers and administrators, and represent various academic disciplines and non-academic areas. Presentations will cover a wide range of topics including Moodle course development, Moodle module and plugin development, system administration, and teaching techniques, testing and evaluation using Moodle. Keynote Speaker: Martin Dougiamas, founder and lead developer of Moodle, will be giving the Keynote at MoodleMoot Japan 2011. Moodle is one of the most popular open source course management systems and is used by thousands of institutions around the world. ## End ## From kcleary at me.com Sun Aug 8 06:14:04 2010 From: kcleary at me.com (kevin cleary) Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:14:04 +0900 Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] ETJ Tokyo ELT Expo and TEL Book Fair Call for Proposals (deadline: 31 August) Message-ID: <20100808101404.888848285@smtp.me.com> Dear members, Terry Yearley, the Secretary of English Teachers in Japan (ETJ) Tokyo, asked to have this Call for Proposals put on our mailing list. The Expo will be held 6 - 7 November (Sat/Sun) 2010 at Toyo Gakuen University in Suidobashi. The deadline for proposals is 31 August 2010 (Tue). Many thanks, Terry, for sending us this notice, and best wishes to those who would like to present at ETJ Tokyo in November! all the best, Kevin Cleary Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair ## ETJ Tokyo ELT Expo and TEL Book Fair Call for Proposals ## The 31st Tokyo ELT Expo and TEL Book Fair will be held on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th November 2010 at Toyo Gakuen University in Suidobashi. This event is attended by hundreds of teachers from all over the Kanto area. If you would like to submit a proposal for a 50-minute non- commercial presentation on a language teaching or learning topic of your choice. Your proposal should be in the following format. Please note that item 9 is date/times that the presenter(s) is (are) *not* available. 1. Name(s) of presenter(s) 2. School or company 3. E-mail address 4. Title of Presentation and topic area (e.g. reading) 5. Presentation description (max 50 words) 6. Biographical data (max 30 words) 7. Type of teachers for whom the presentation is relevant (e.g. university teachers) 8. The language the presentation will be given in (e.g. English) 9. Date/times that you are not available to give your presentation 10. The location of your nearest Expo (Expos will be held in Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai, Tokyo, Kansai, and Kyushu.) Please submit your proposal to Terry Yearley by 31st August at: Proposals for commercial presentations should be submitted to David Paul at: Full details of all the Expos will appear here in due course: Outline details are on ELT Calendar: Day 1 (Saturday, 6 November) Day 2 (Sunday, 7 November) ## End ## From kcleary at me.com Fri Aug 13 20:24:02 2010 From: kcleary at me.com (kevin cleary) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:24:02 +0900 Subject: [TokyoJALT-announce] Japanese language teaching position -- Ochanomizu University (deadline: 27 September) Message-ID: <20100814002402.1470330781@smtp.me.com> Dear members, Partly as a reminder that this is a mailing list for the Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for _Language_ Teaching (i.e., not limited to the English language teaching environment) I'd like to pass along a job notice for a full-time position to teach Japanese language classes at Ochanomizu University. The deadline for application is 27 September 2010, and the starting date for the job is 1 March 2011. More information is available at the school website: I hope this is of interest to you or someone you know. all the best, Kevin Cleary Tokyo Chapter Membership Chair