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AT A GLANCE: Beginner Level Docs & Links, Intermediate/Advanced Docs & Links, General Information Links (Info on Japan, Online Newspapers, Homestay Programs, Student Contests, College Info on Japan/Asia-related majors and programs, Local & State Japan-Related Organizations)

***General Support & Class Resources

Vocabulary Improvement Strategy (VIS) Requirements for Notebooks

***Essay Writing Resources

PDF file to download for practice)

***Kanji Writing Resources

***General Support & Class Resources

***Language & Grammar Resources

***Essay Writing Resources

PDF file to download for practice)

INFORMATION OF GENERAL INTEREST

Country Studies - Japan (sponsored by the Federal Research Division of the The Library of Congress) - A scanned book that covers information about every aspect of Japan.

Japan Institute - ANU (sponsored by Australian National University) - There are a number of article links that relate to Japan's public policy and general involvement in world affairs.

NHK in English (Japanese News and TV); NHK in Japanese (Choose either domestic or overseas news)

ABYZ News Links - An index of world, national and local newspapers covering news in Japan, includes newspapers by geographic region

Radio.Net - Listen to some common radio stations in Japan

Internet Radio - Listen to a variety of radio stations in Japan

Youth For Understanding - This organization provides scholarships for year-round and summer homestays in Japan. Many of our students have been accepted to this program in the past. THE DEADLINE FOR MANY OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THIS PROGRAM IS JANUARY 1st or 15th.

US High School Diplomats (HSD) Program - This is a summer exchange program with Japanese students at Princeton University; after one summer in this program, you become eligible to apply to the HSD Japan and spend the next summer in Japan. Many of our students have been accepted to this program in the past.

Kobe College Corporation - Japan Education Exchange 500-word essay related to a current event in Japan.
High School Essay Contest 1-month trip to Japan is awarded to one student who writes a 2019 APPLICATION DEADLINE : To Be Announced - Usually FEBRUARY 1st each year .

Laurasian Institution Programs - This program provides an entire class the opportunity to go abroad to Japan.

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Resource Padlet

Do you teach a world language? Do you teach Japanese? Do you teach ESL? Is communication a big part of your curriculum? If YES, then these resources might be helpful to you!

PLEASE ADD MORE in the comments!!!!!!!!

I've listed in alphabetical order below, but you can click the link above to see them all in one place on my padlet:

10 Tech Tips for New Teachers: This is a good one for us newbies to tech.

34 Smartphone Ideas for the Classroom: If you're curious about using smartphones in your classroom, but aren't sure how where to start...and let's face it, who is sure? Here's a good start.

101 Ways to Ditch the Textbook: This isn't all about tech, but has some good ideas. Ditching the textbook is big in the WL world these days as teachers are leaning towards comprehensible input in an engaging way.

AATJ: American Association for Teachers of Japanese homepage. Great for annual events. Link students to opportunities.

ACTFL: This site has it all for WL teachers. Links to assessment standards, proficiently standards, training, workshops, etc. Tech in the classroom is the big buzz these days, here is a place to connect with resources galore.

Audioboom: Ss can use this to create podcasts. Might be fun for an oral project. It also allows them to record from their smartphones and in the privacy of their own space.

Avant: Avant has example language exams to give to students who want to know their proficiency level. The specific file I have linked is called, Proficiency vs Performance vs. Achievement

Cells in Class: How do you use your Ss cells in class? Here is a list of ideas.

Digital Storytelling: Pick a subject, pick a theme. You name it, you can probably find something to use in class.

FreeTech4Teachers: How to use tech in the classroom and a list of tools.

Genki Japan: This is the Japanese version, though still improving, of Genki English.

Genki English: This is what I used in my home English Conversational School children's lessons. There are lesson plans, full curriculum, videos, games (online and printouts), flash cards, writing sheets, etc. Richard Graham created this system and it's slowly working its way across the globe. He has other languages too, but nothing as well set up as the English section.

iMovie: This, and many like it are great for having students create skits or speeches to show. You'd be amazed how creative students can get.

Iya Sensei: This teacher is the bomb! (I know that's bad outdated slang!) She has created and posted her proficiency handouts, teaching style, assessment standards, etc. Great for Japanese teachers. She is also quick to respond if you have any question.

Japanese Pic Books: Online picture books for students to use during TADOKU.

Japan Foundation: LA located homepage for Japanese teachers and students. Provides students and teachers links to grants for teachers/school, supplies, opportunities for students to study/travel to Japan for inexpensive, etc. Constantly have movie events, etc.

JPLT Samples: Here you can find free example of the JPLT for students who are wanting to take the test and find their proficiently level. Great for giving sample exams to students. This is something students will need to take to prove fluency for jobs. This is a career ready source.

JSongs via RedKaraoke: Students love to sing. In Japan, karaoke was a great way to improve our Japanese reading and speaking skills. Here's a sight to let the students pick a song to learn.

Kahoot! It's all the rage. Quiz your Ss mid class or use it to get feedback in an anonymous or non anonymous way. There are a few of these types of apps. Which do you use?

Karaoke via Bing: There are karaoke videos in full kanji, kana only, and romaji. Great for students of all levels. When Ss are into what they are learning, they learn it.

Latest Tech Games: Another site of what's new today....just remember they're going to be old tomorrow!

Merlot: This is an outstanding collaboration site for WL teachers. Check it out, explore, post your own advice.

NHK Easy News: This is an authentic news source for lower level Japanese readers. The stories are written at a lower level and have a native oral reader. This is great for TADOKU (Extensive Reading). Students can choose which article they want to read/listen to. Great input, even if they can't understand 100%

NHK World: Online language lab. Teaches a number of languages, including Japanese. There are endless links and authentic language/cultural sources. Students can roam this site and learn at their own pace as a supplement to what they are learning in class.

OWL: Organic World Language. This is an organization that's fairly new. They have teaching methods that focus on instructors staying 100% in the target language from the very beginning. There are training and other information available at charge.

Pintrest: This is a fun activity for Ss to create boards of articles, photos, etc that relate to the topic of choice (chosen by them or you!)

Quia: WEB: This site lets teachers create quizzes, practice activities, etc. There are teachers from my WL department who like this more than Quizlet. They say you must invest a lot of time upfront to create the activities, but in the long run the pay off is worth it. I'm only in my first year, and still working on my pacing, so I haven't tried it yet.

Seattle WL Outcomes: This is a great source for WL teachers to see what is expected from them via Seattle. Sources for testing linked.

Skype in the Classroom: If your TL's timing works with your classroom time, here is an awesome site with tons of ideas on how to use Skype in the classroom.

Storybird: Students can create and publish stories online. The graphics are beautiful, students can look at the photos and create a story, or create their own.

Ted ED: Videos to show your students. Type in a topic, and you're bound to find something great. My personal favorite to show on day 1 of a new course is Mia Nacamulli's The benefits of a bilingual brain. Did I mention they have lesson plans/activities attached to each video? Great for sub plans.

TELL Collab-Seattle: This site has notes from the Seattle TELL collab. Full of local WL teachers' feedback, ideas, websites, etc. Take a look, add your two cents, it's a place for all of us to comeback to and reflect on what we talked about.

TPRS Method: TPRS is what the Spanish and French department follow. It seems to be a great technique, but I'm still clueless on actually implementing it. This site has some answers...do you know any better sites?

WATJ: Washington Association for Teachers of Japanese's homepage. Provides students and teachers links to local Seattle events.

Workflowy: I like this for giving my students their curriculum in drop box form in a word doc looking form. This particular one is an example curriculum.

Updated: 2/8/17

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Lesson Plans
Japanese American Internment

The Fillmore

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco

TITLE: Japanese American Internment

PDF: DOWNLOADABLE FILE (see PDF Instructions)

GRADES: 11-12

SUBJECT AREA(S):

U.S. History (Twentieth Century)

American Democracy

Language Arts

OVERVIEW: What would it feel like to have neighbors and friends from school suddenly disappear because of their race? In this lesson, students will experience the internment of Japanese Americans from San Francisco's Fillmore neighborhood. By connecting local experiences with national events, students will understand both the constitutional issues at stake and the human impact of this government policy.

STANDARDS

PROGRAM SEGMENTS:

1. 0:08-0:14 The Japanese American community in the Fillmore before internment; internment and loss of property, assets, pride; survivors' desires to forget

2. 0:20-0:22 Japanese Americans return to the Fillmore after World War II to find their property occupied and businesses gone

3. 1:20-1:23 Japantown today; a neighborhood for Japanese American living in other places; the Day of Remembrance

Students will write to reflect on the experience of internment for Japanese Americans, making connections to prior knowledge and experience. [LA St.5]

Students will evaluate and explain the decision to intern Japanese Americans during the war; discuss the constitutional issues involved; and investigate the human impact of internment. [HSS Gr. 11, St.6 and HHS Gr. 12, St. 1]

Students will write to analyze and interpret the U.S. government internment policy, supporting their judgements through references to texts and non-print media. [LA St.5]

MATERIALS:

The Fillmore, part 4 of The Neighborhoods of San Francisco

U.S. Constitution

the World Wide Web

TIME:

2-3 class periods (60 min. each)

Have students:

1. Visit www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html and click on the link to the war poster. What does the poster announce? Who printed it? When? Who was intended to read it? Why?

2. Imagine you are a Japanese American high school student in May, 1942. Today you saw this poster and learned you and your family will have to leave your school, your home and all your belongings. Write a diary entry describing your feelings, questions, and fears.

3. Define: relocation, internment

Ask students to generate their own questions about the internment of Japanese Americans. Write them on the board. Ask students to listen for answers as they watch.

Pause the tape after segment 1.

1. What questions were answered? What questions remain?

2. Discuss: What was it like to live in this neighborhood before the war? How did non-Japanese neighbors feel when the Japanese "disappeared"? Why do you think the Japanese Americans did not resist? What did Japanese Americans lose?

Pause the tape after segment 2.

1. What questions were answered? What questions remain?

2. Discuss: How had the neighborhood changed during the war? What choices did Japanese Americans have once they were released?

Pause the tape after segment 3.

1. What questions were answered? What questions remain?

2. Discuss: How do Japanese Americans today feel about the internment? How do their feelings differ among different generations? Why? What does the neighborhood mean to Japanese Americans today?

Have students:

1. Find newspaper articles from 1942 and interpret the rationale for interning Japanese Americans and the community reaction for class discussion.

2. Find photographs of Japanese Americans online being evacuated and in internment camps. Choose one photo that moves you. Try to find out who the person(s) was. Write a letter to him/her in the camp. What thoughts and feelings would you like to convey about their situation? How do you feel about them being locked up while you are free to continue living where you do, continue going to school, etc.?

3. Find a map of internment camps in the US and identify the number of Japanese Americans imprisoned.Students could create a map of internment camps locations.

-Have students role play a Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of the presidential order to intern Japanese Americans.

Based on their previous knowledge, have the class list potential legal conflicts with the order (e.g. federal government's role in defending the country, habeas corpus, treason, equality before the law, search and seizure, presidential powers, balance of powers, citizens rights). Put these on the board.

Divide the class into groups of nine. Each student is a justice who will argue one of the above constitutional points; a chief justice should be appointed on each team who is responsible for assigning issues of interest to each justice.

Have students read the Constitution to find text bearing on their issue in relation to the treatment of Japanese Americans. (Have students find the US Constitution online www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html or www.usconstitution.net/). Quoting text from the Constitution, have students draft a 1-page argument supporting or denying the constitutionality of the order.

Have each chief justice call his/her court to order. Each justice should present his/her case and is responsible for listening to the arguments of his/her colleagues. After all 9 have presented, have the chief justice call a vote.

Have all chief justices report the decision and main arguments back to the whole class. If the courts agree that internment of Japanese Americans was unfair, have them make recommendations for reparation. Then have students research and evaluate what reparations were actually offered and when. Discuss: Could this history be repeated? Why or why not? Are there any similar situations today? What role do citizens have in upholding the rights guaranteed to individuals in the Constitution? What recourse do citizens have to violations of rights?

In groups of 3, role play 3 generations of a Japanese American family: (1) a grandparent who lived in an internment camp as a young adult, (2) a parent who lived there as a child, and (3) a grandchild who was born after 1970. Based on the film, who wants to forget and who wants to remember? Why? How does Japanese culture, history, and personal experience impact your opinion?

-Have students read "Snow Falling on Cedars," by David Guterson or watch the film adaptation to explore another community torn by discrimination.

-Research the 442nd, a battalion of Japanese American soldiers who fought in World War II for the US while relatives were interned. Watch "Honor Bound," a documentary film by Wendy Hanamura. Order the video at 1-800-666-9970.

-Watch "Rabbit in the Moon," a documentary film by Emiko Omori about the shame and pain of her family's internment experience. (Transit Media, 22-D Hollywood Avenue, Hohokus, NJ 07423 Phone: (800) 343-5540) Visit KQED's web site to read how diverse audiences relate this event in US history to their own experiences: www.kqed.org/tv/productions/baywindow/rabbitinthemoon/index.html

-Compare and contrast the experiences of German Americans and Italian Americans. Use the web to search for information on internment of these groups. Evaluate the impact of race on governmental policy.

Review students' diary writings, letters, and constitutional arguments. Assess students' understanding of historical events, the human consequences of internment, the logic of arguments, and the appropriateness of citations from the Constitution to substantiate their points.

This lesson addresses the following national content standards found in the McRel Standards Database: www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks.

Grades K-12:

United States History:
Era 8 Ð The Great Depression and World War II
25. Understands the causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs.
31. Understands economic, social and cultural developments in the contemporary United States.

Civics:
1. Understands ideas about civic life, politics and government.
4. Understands the concept of a constitution, the various purposes that constitution serve, and the conditions that contribute to the establishment and maintenance of constitutional government.

Language Arts:
Writing:
1. Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
4. Gathers and uses information for research purposes.

Reading:
5. Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process.
7. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts.

Viewing:
9. Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.

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Lesson Plans Japanese American Internment The Fillmore Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco TITLE: Japanese American Internment PDF: DOWNLOADABLE FILE (see PDF Instructions) GRADES: 11-12 SUBJECT AREA(S): U.S. History (Twentieth Century) American Democracy Language Arts OVERVIEW: What would it feel like to have neighbors and friends from school suddenly disappear because of their race?

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February 19, 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. The order, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, allowed the incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans. The first Day of Remembrance was held in 1979 at the Washington State Fair Grounds in Puyallup, according to an essay by Jennifer Ott on Historylink.org. The day is officially recognized by Washington state as a day to remember civil liberties. This year numerous organizations will be holding events to recognize and remember the signing. Below is a calendar of events happening in and around the Seattle area.

Japanese American Citizens League

Day of Remembrance at the State Capitol
Wednesday, February 15
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (By Bus 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
State Capitol Building, Olympia
Free, RSVP at[email protected]

This year the Washington State House of Representatives will be observing the Day of Remembrance on Wednesday, February 15th in the House Chambers of the State Capitol in Olympia. Attendees will meet with their Senators and Representatives in recognition of the 75th Anniversary of EO 9066.

Seattle JACL will be chartering a bus to transport all interested attendees to and from the state capitol. We will be meeting at Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church, 3001 24 th Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98144, at 8:00 a.m. The bus will depart promptly at 8:15, returning at around 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon. Joining the bus ride is not required.

This event is 100% free to attend. Snacks and lunch will be provided in Olympia.

For questions and to RSVP please email Seattle JACL board member Toshiko Hasegawa at [email protected]

Schedule:

7:45 A.M. - Bus arrive
8:00 - Passengers arrive
8:15 - Bus departs Blaine
9:30 - Bus arrives in Olympia
9:45 - Arrive in House Chambers
10:00 - House Floor Session, including color guard, prayer, resolution, and speeches
10:45 - Democratic and Republican Caucus introductions
12:00 P.M. - Lunch in the House Rules Room
1:00 - Group photo/Conclusion
1:30 - Board Bus
1:45 - Bus departs Olympia
3:00 - Bus returns to Blaine

Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Experience

"Year of Remembrance: Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner"
Thursday, February 16
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
719 South King Street, Seattle, WA

This exhibit features poetry by Lawrence Matsuda and art by Roger Shimomura. They explore historic and contemporary issues of racism, discrimination and human rights. Free, RSVPs encouraged to [email protected]

University of Washington

The Holocaust and Japanese American Connections: How Could Concentration Camps Happen?
Saturday, February 18
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
University of Washington
Kane Hall, Room 120

The lecturers will discuss the conditions in Europe and America which led to the creation of concentration camps. The lecture features Dee Simon, the Baral Family Executive Director at the Holocaust Center for Humanity, Professor Lorraine Bannai from the Seattle University School of Law, and Dr. Tetsu Kashima of the University of Washington. The lecture is the first of a series of events connecting the Holocaust to Japanese American Incarceration.

The event was created through partnerships between the Holocaust Center for Humanity, the Nisei Veterans Committee, the Consulate General of Japan, and the Department of American Ethnic Studies of the University of Washington. This event, which honors the Day of Remembrance, is co-sponsored by the Seattle Japanese American Citizens League.

A reception will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Walker-Ames Room on the second floor of Kane Hall following the Day of Remembrance event.

Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial

The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is hosting a day of service to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. Inspired by the unique legacy of a community that welcomed their Japanese American friends and neighbors home after World War II, the Memorial asks for volunteers to offer landscaping maintenance and improvements to the National Historic Site for the March 30 commemoration of the first forced removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during WWII. Please wear appropriate work clothing, gloves and bring your own gardening tools.

Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee

Day of Remembrance Taiko Concert
Sunday, February 19
12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Concert begins at 1:00 p.m.
Seattle University-Pigott Auditorium,
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Ticket Price: $20 General Admission. $10 for students with identification.

The Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee and Seattle University are holding their annual taiko concert to benefit youth and elder scholarships for the 15th annual Minidoka Pilgrimage to the Minidoka Incarceration Camp in Idaho. Tickets are available online at http://dor2017.eventbrite.com, at the International Student Center of Seattle University in the James C. Pigott Pavilion, and day-of at the Paccar Atrium. Parking is complimentary at Seattle University's Broadway Garage. For more information, visit Minidoka Pilgrimage webpage.

Seattle Public Library

The Seattle Public Library will host a dialogue between Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho, and Arsalan Bukhari, executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Washington State. Ikeda and Bukhari will discuss the connections between the incarceration of Japanese Americans and American Muslims as well as provide resources to prevent discrimination and harassment of American Muslims.

The event is hosted in partnership with Densho, CAIR-Washington State, and the ACLU of Washington State. Rep. Pramila Jayapal will be attending and making brief remarks. The Elliott Bay Book Co. will be selling books at the event. Admission is free, but seating is limited.

Reserved seating for Japanese Americans who were incarcerated or who served during World War II and their families is available. Email [email protected] to let them know you're attending so that we can reserve space for you.

If you can't attend in person, a live streaming of the event is available at Densho Facebook page beginning at 2:00 p.m. EST on February 19.

Day of Remembrance Vigil
Sunday, February 19
4:30 p.m. to 5:00p.m.
Japanese American Remembrance Garden
Seattle University
901 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
Free and open to the public
As a collaborative effort between many Japanese American organizations, a candlelight vigil will be held at Seattle University following the end of the Minidoka Pilgrimage's Taiko Fundraiser. This candlelight vigil will be to show that as a community, Japanese Americans stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans and all those facing discrimination and targeting by our administration.

Speakers will include Seattle JACL President Sarah Baker as well as representatives from Nisei Veterans Committee, religious leaders, and Seattle University Ministry.

Steve Griggs Music

The Steve Griggs Ensemble will be performing free jazz, this time at the Japanese Community Cultural Center of Washington, to remember the signing of Executive Order 9066. This is a series of performances commissioned by a 4Culture Historic Site Specific grant and funded in part by the National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites grant and the Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle. This is the last of the performances after over two and a half years under the current funding.

The Steve Griggs Ensemble includes saxophonist Steve Griggs, trumpeter Jay Thomas, vibraphonist Susan Pascal, guitarist Milo Petersen, and bassist Phil Sparks. For the February 19 performance, trombonist Chris Amemiya is substituting for Jay Thomas.

Densho

Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho, speaks about Executive Order 9066 and its implications for today's presidential executive orders and anti-Muslim policies. More information available on the University of Puget Sound event page.

Metropolitan King County Council

The County will issue a proclamation parking the 75th anniversary of the issuance of Executive Order 9066, which forced the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.

We invite the public to join us in Council Chambers to observe and solemnly reflect upon this day in our nation's history.

City of Seattle

Proclamation of Remembrance
Tuesday, February 21
2:00 p.m.
Seattle City Hall
600 4th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

The Seattle City Council and community leaders invite the public to observe as the City of Seattle honors and commemorates the 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066.

Join us at City Hall as we recognize and honor Japanese Americans incarcerated 75 years ago, committing to never again let fear drive our treatment of any community.

Neely Mansion and King County Library System

Read Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude, then discuss the book with its author. Sample a Japanese treat and tour the mansion's newly restored Japanese Bathhouse.

Please bring a copy of the book. Registration open at King County Library System website.

Ninth Circuit Civics Contest

"Not to Be Forgotten: Legal Lessons of the Japanese Internment" essay contest
Deadline: April 16, 2017

Open to high school students in Western states and Pacific Islands; essay or video formats. Cash prizes: $2,000, $1,000 and $500. More information available at http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/civicscontest/

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Below is a calendar media airing to recognize the signing of Executive Order 9066.

KING5 TV: "Prisoners in Their Own Land"
Monday-Friday, February 13-17
6:30 p.m.
Each night this week, anchor, Lori Matsukawa interviews local Japanese Americans who were incarcerated 75 years ago. More information and videos available on the King5 website.

George Takei's Allegiance: The Broadway Musical On The Big Screen
National Movie Screening on February 19.
A number of theaters will host screenings of Allegiance, a musical about the Japanese American Incarceration. This in an encore screening for the film as a commemoration for the Day of Remembrance. More information including screening locations and tickets is available at the Allegiance musical website.

KUOW 94.9 FM: "Reflections on Japanese Internment, 75 Years Later"

Bill Radke talks with writer and Humanities Washington speaker Mayumi Tsutakawa, including her own personal connection to EO 9066 and how it can help educate about modern prejudices. Visit https://goo.gl/aWmM7L.

Bill Radke speaks with author Frank Abe about his documentary film, Conscience and the Constitution. Visit https://goo.gl/WZGe6J.
This calendar has been lightly edited from the print version

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Manzanar

National Historic Site California

In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated during World War II.

Learn About the Park

Explore news releases, curriculum, history & culture articles, photo galleries and more to learn about Manzanar!

Last updated: May 11, 2020

Explore and Discover Manzanar

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For most, this lesson would more than likely fit into a unit pertaining to the Second World War, either the Homefront or Pacific Theater. In this lesson, it stands alone as a one-day assignment during the second week of the school year to coincide with Fair Day, an annual tradition that allows students to be released from school early to attend the Washington State Fair, or Puyallup Fair as it is more commonly known. In the Puyallup School District, this is a big event that students and staff celebrate; this lesson informs and/or reminds students of a history that does not dominate the headlines.

In this lesson, students will share their earliest memories of the fair grounds and other experiences that they have had while living near this celebrated location. They will then watch a short film clip about Japanese relocation, read an interview with a young girl that was sent to the Fairgrounds as a young child during Japanese internment, and be given an opportunity to reflect on how this changes their own perspective of the location, as well as how it fits into a global vision of freedom, democracy, and the American dream.

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Smithsonian Channel: This was life for Japanese-Americans...WWII

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This Was Life for Japanese-Americans During WWII

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Looking Like the Enemy

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A 16-year-old girl reacted with horror as the bombs of Pearl Harbor unleashed a tsunami of events, including her imprisonment in a Japanese-American internment camp, even though she was an U.S. citizen. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, this memoir by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald captures the devastation of WW II on a teenage girl and her family.

Against her will, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps. She struggled for survival and dignity, and endured psychological scarring that has lasted a lifetime.
Looking Like the Enemy is told from the heart and mind of a woman now over 80 years old who experienced the challenges and wounds of her internment at a crucial point in her development as a young adult. Gruenewald brings passion and spirit to her story, superbly capturing the emotional and psychological essence of what it was like to grow up in the midst of this profound dislocation and injustice in the United States. Few other books on this subject come close to the emotional power, raw honesty, and moral significance of this memoir.

In the end the reader is buoyed by what Mary Matsuda Gruenewald learns from her experiences and what she is able to do with her life. In 2004 she returned to Minidoka, now established as a National Monument, and describes her experiences and still vivid memories some 60 years later.

In 2005 Mary Matsuda Gruenewald celebrated her eightieth birthday as well as the publication of her first book. She began writing her story in her seventies, no longer willing to stay within what she describes as "the self-imposed barbed-wire fences built around my experiences in the camps." With her book, Gruenewald breaks her silence as a Nisei.

After her release from her last Japanese-American internment camp, Gruenewald became a registered nurse, and worked as an R.N. for more than twenty-five years. She established the Consulting Nurse Service within the Group Health Cooperative in 1971, which has become a national model for numerous health care providers. In 2002 she was a medical delegate representing seniors on behalf of Medicare Plus Choice. At that meeting she was selected along with ten other delegates to advise President George W. Bush on health care issues.

When Mary had completed her memoir in 2005, for a while she thought she was done writing books. However, in time, she was inspired to continue writing, even though she says writing does not come easily for her! Mary continued attending her weekly writing class with her teacher and mentor, Brenda Peterson, and went on to complete two more books.

In 2011, a Young Reader's edition of Mary's memoir, Looking Like the Enemy, was published by NewSage Press. Writer and editor, Maureen R. Michelson, worked closely with Mary to adapt her book for young readers just learning about World War II and the internment of Japanese Americans during the War. Mary is very interested in reaching young students with her story, impressing upon them the importance and preciousness of freedom, as well as learning from our history so we do not repeat the same mistakes.

In June 2012, Mary's third book, Becoming Mama-san: 80 Years of Wisdom, will be published by NewSage Press. Mary recently celebrated her 87th birthday in January. The idea for this book grew out of a long conversation with her editor and publisher while driving to a speaking engagement in Oregon in Spring 2008. . With enthusiastic support from her writing class, Mary worked long and hard to distill what she considers ten salient life lessons to pass on to younger generations.

Mary continues to speak to students, community groups and organizations about her experiences in Japanese-American internment camps, and the wisdom she has garnered from that life experience. It is her greatest hope that the United States will never repeat this mistake.

Her articles on internment during WW II have appeared in newspapers nationally, and she has presented radio commentaries for NPR KPLU. Gruenewald also consulted with the National Park Service during its establishment of Minidoka Internment Camp as a National Park. She speaks to many schools and community groups about her internment. Gruenewald received an Asian American Living Pioneer Award in 2003 honoring her contributions.

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As Japanese-language newspapers were forced to shut down in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Masaoka attempted to keep the line of communication alive by producing news bulletins and distributing them to JACL chapters. This, in effect, placed the JACL in the position of censoring and disseminating news stories intended to offset government suspicion. He next turned his attention to public relations work. In his autobiography, Masaoka writes that the "JACL urged its members to cooperate with authorities, buy war bonds, volunteer for civil defense units, sign up for first-aid classes and donate blood, look for good newspaper publicity, and, in short, do everything to project a favorable patriotic image." That New Year's Eve, he addressed fellow JACL members with a message proclaiming his allegiance to the United States, consistent with his manifesto, the " Japanese-American Creed ," penned in 1940 for the JACL national convention.

Masaoka's pro-American ideology would shape the JACL's course of action and, in turn, affect government policy on Japanese Americans throughout the Second World War. As the war broke out between the U.S. and Japan, key Issei leaders were immediately arrested and incarcerated. Amid the power vacuum created by the disintegration of Issei leadership, Masaoka found himself as the liaison between the War Relocation Authority (WRA) and the Japanese American community as plans for forced migration became closer to reality. In a show of ultimate loyalty to the country, Masaoka approached the army with a proposal to form a suicide battalion of Nisei volunteers. Lest any doubt remain, they would offer their parents as hostages. The army responded instead with an advisory role for Masaoka on how to operate the prison camps and later appointed him head of the Japanese American Advisory Council. Meanwhile, his testimony at the Tolan Committee already underway proved ineffective in saving the Nisei from mass incarceration, which many believe was a foregone conclusion. When the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was formed, Masaoka became the first to volunteer and urged other Nisei to enlist as proof of their loyalty. He has defended his controversial position on the internment in his autobiography arguing that cooperation was essential if some safeguards were to be provided by the government.

Masaoka's loyalty campaigns were not without critics and his wartime actions remain a contested issue. His emphasis on patriotic duty went so far as reporting to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on what the JACL considered traitorous elements within the Japanese American community. He opposed challenging the evacuation order in court on the grounds that any violation of the law was a subversive act that "would hurt the majority." His ideas for resettlement to unrestricted zones were also predicated on the demonstration of loyalty. Despite making administrative recommendations for the WRA camps, he was never an inmate. The army had made an exception for him to head directly to Washington without going through the detention process.

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Interment Camp Basic Info Sources/Lesson Plans

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Interment Camp Basic Info Sources/Lesson Plans

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Genki English (in Japanese), Genki Japan, Adventures, Iki Iki Nihongo, etc.

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Other Useful Sites for Japanese/WL/ELL Teachers

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Internment Camps: People's stories for Ss to choose from... 

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" One of the reasons that digital stories fit so well with today's students is that they incorporate the skills, tools, and practices that resonate with contemporary learners."

-Michael Searson

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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

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" One of the reasons that digital stories fit so well with today's students is that they incorporate the skills, tools, and practices that resonate with contemporary learners." -Michael Searson

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You pick/Ss pick. There are songs in kana or romaji for any reading level.

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japanese karaoke with lyrics - Bing video

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The Japan Foundation was established in 1972 by special legislation in the Japanese Diet and became an Incorporated Administrative Agency in October 2003. The mission of the Japan Foundation is to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries.

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The American Association of Teachers of Japanese is a non-profit, non-political organization of individuals and institutions seeking to promote the study of Japanese language, linguistics, literature, culture, and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction. AATJ fosters professional development, the promotion of Japanese and foreign language education, and the exchange of research, and seeks to coordinate its activities with related organizations to promote Japanese studies, including a network of state and regional affiliate organizations. AATJ is the product of the consolidation of two national organizations: the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ), founded in 1963, and the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT), founded in 1992.

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Courtesy Anderson Japanese Gardens, Rockford, IL New job openings for college and K-12 positions Webinars, workshops, resources and more Fall: At ACTFL Convention Spring: At Asian Studies Conference Quarterly Newsletter & Journal "Japanese Language and Literature" Join our professional community Japanese Language

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Sample Japanese Placement Language Tests

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Kahoot is a new edtech company that's leading the charge to gamify quizzes and classroom participation.

Classroom response systems are nothing new. They've actually been around since the 80's but until now, they've been clunky and outdated. A classroom response system allows a teacher to get a bit interactive by having students participate in an interactive discussion or quiz.

Older classroom response systems were relegated to simple yes or no, or true or false questions. If you were lucky the school you went to had a classroom response system that may even allow multiple choice. Of course many schools didn't have this type of technology at all.

Now, the classroom response system has been able to get a little more sophisticated. There are systems out there that let teachers create interactive content via a PowerPoint presentation and then have students participate with a handheld device that looks like a remote control, which is what Ombea does.

Kahoot, makes it even more fun and essentially gamifies quizzes and classroom participation by taking a gaming style approach and combining that with a drag and drop content creation platform that allows teachers to add in just about any kind of content and media that can be found on the web.

"Kahoot! is designed as a game from the bottom up. It's multiplayer, inclusive, works on any device and focuses the social behaviours that mobile technology has created outside the classroom, inside the classroom". Kahoot co-founder Jamie Brooker told us in an interview.

Kahoot is built on a foundation of three easy steps; Create, Launch and Play.

Teachers create their own content using the drag and drop tool. Then they launch the content on a smart board or projector. Next they have the students participate by playing the content filled game the teacher created.

One of the key differentiators between Kahoot and other classroom response systems is the ability for the students to participate on just about any device even if it's a BYOD environment. All of this customization from the content creation tool to the fact that these interactive quizzes and games can be played on any device lends itself to unheard of engagement in the classroom.

"First and foremost it creates 100% engagement the classroom, focusing students on the content being taught, motivated through the game.... a rare, or unheard of feat! Our users find the moment they first experience it so magical that they feel compelled to share - in person, at events or across social media. Educators become the star of the show, as their students beg for more." Brooker said.

We've seen quite a few classroom response systems at various ed tech conference and Kahoot definitely has all the right components for both teachers and students. We got a chance to speak with Brooker more in depth. Check out the rest of the interview below:

What does your company do?

Kahoot! is a game-based classroom response system.

Like a "Playstation for education", Kahoot! is a game-based educational platform that leaves students begging for more. With a refreshingly new take on introducing a subject and formative assessment - through quizzing, collaboration and presentation of content - Kahoot! initiates peer-led discussions, with students left on the edge of their seats.

It ensures 100% engagement by turning the classroom into a gameshow; combining multiplayer gaming, ease-of-use and mobile technology, creating an enchanting social experience which leaves everyone totally gripped and absorbed in the subject.

Kahoot! provides deep learning through creation of educational games, and new understanding through playing them. Our game-based pedagogy takes students on a journey from "Learner to Leaders" as they create their own games for classmates to play.

The Kahoot! platform has hundreds of thousands of learning games created by other users globally, ready to be discovered and played in classrooms anywhere.

As of June 2014, 3.5M unique students have played a game of Kahoot!

Tell us about the audience/target of your technology/software/product

Educators and learners globally - school, university and business. Kahoot! really is for anyone in a setting where knowledge can be shared between those present in the same room, or by connecting over the web. You can create, discover and play with educational content suited to any subject, language, ability, age range, or anything else! It's up to you how you use it, Kahoot! provides the framework. Kahoot! has been used in 160+ countries, by everyone from kindergarten students to executives in a boardroom, and everyone in between! We've seen our highest usage in K12.

What makes your product different than what is currently available?

Kahoot! is designed as a game from the bottom up. It's multiplayer, inclusive, works on any device and focuses the social behaviours that mobile technology has created outside the classroom, inside the classroom.

First and foremost it creates 100% engagement the classroom, focusing students on the content being taught, motivated through the game.... a rare, or unheard of feat! Our users find the moment they first experience it so magical that they feel compelled to share - in person, at events or across social media. Educators become the star of the show, as their students beg for more.

Our creation tool allows you to create games of any subject, language, ability, intended audience. The games (known as Kahoots) are a framework to teach and share any content you want.

Whilst Kahoot! isn't explicitly focused on assessment, many of our users use it to assess the current knowledge levels of their students - whether it's a quick formative assessment, or a more in-depth review. The game elements help remove anxiety about testing in students, and allows them to relax and focus on the content.

Why did you get involved in the Ed-Tech space?

As an experience designer, I have huge desire to create positive impact on people's lives through my work, in sectors I care about - impact is how we (designers) measure ourselves. Education is the primary sector I've always felt an urge to help improve - from a personal perspective based on past negative experiences, but also because of the obvious huge potential to have impact. It feels like the EdTech movement is building up momentum to help bring education up to speed with and beyond other sectors.

In the past, myself (through my role as Co-founder of We Are Human - http://wearehuman.cc/) and my fellow co-founders have helped launch new businesses and products through design thinking, and Kahoot! is us "practising what we preach" in an area we truly care about.

When the opportunity came up to explore the potential of (what is now called) Kahoot! with the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (who approached us due to our understanding of game design and expertise in launching growth businesses), we jumped at it because of our passion for the education space. We ended up co-founding Kahoot! with a number of other clever people (mentioned in 'team' section), and here we are today.

Tell us about your team and their backgrounds

Alf Inge Wang is a Professor in Game Technology at the Norwegian University of Technology & Science (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He invented and extensively researched the multiplayer games you see in Kahoot! (at the time called LectureQuiz) after identifying a need for it in his own lectures. Thus proving it increases engagement and performance of students over a sustained period of time (more here: http://blog.getkahoot.com/tagged/research). Alf Inge is our Educator in residence, and continues to develop new game concepts for the platform.

Morten Versvik worked with Alf Inge during his Masters project at NTNU, inventing the technical platform which powers Kahoot! Morten is our Chief Technical Officer, in charge of the backend platform - helping us scale usage globally, whilst also hacking together new concepts for future research and development.

Before launching Kahoot!, Johan Brand and Jamie Brooker Co-founded London based We Are Human - helping startups launch and established businesses release new products, through design thinking; everything from branding to business model to to user experience to user interface. They've taken this thinking into Kahoot!, with Johan leading the product strategy/vision and developing partnerships, and Jamie leading the product design and user engagement.

Åsmund Furuseth is our CEO, with a background in launching startups from a number of sectors. In Kahoot!, he's focused on raising finance and business development, as well as analysing user engagement metrics, mapping out business objectives.

George Agnelli is Kahoot!'s Lead developer. A designer turned developer, George has a wealth of experience running his own software development business in London, and is in charge of our front-end architecture, as well the underlying data and analytics.

What is the next step? What do your current goals look like?

Our focus is on creating the ultimate game-based learning platform through mobile and social technology, providing:

- A range of a games which are, multiplayer social, playful and centred around knowledge
- A suite of dynamic tools for formative assessment to make more efficient use of valuable time in the classroom
- Playful, curriculum aligned content in any subject, topic, ability and age range
- Increased collaboration between educators and learners globally, through the creation of personalised educational content

Where can people find out more (make sure to include all of your web sites, social channels and app download links)

Our website (sign up in 30 seconds!) - https://getkahoot.com/
Our user guide - http://blog.getkahoot.com/post/88279784407/kahoot-user-guide-weve-created-this-kahoot
Our blog (full of tutorials and stories) - http://blog.getkahoot.com/
Our Twitter - https://twitter.com/getkahoot
Our favourite Tweets in a curated list - https://twitter.com/GetKahoot/timelines/405628885800210432

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EdTech: Kahoot Is Gamifying Quizzes & Classroom Participation

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Explore the rich world of Japanese language and culture with the perenially best-selling textbook series Adventures in Japanese, now updated in the 4th Edition for today's classrooms. The three-volume series gives novice students a strong command of Japanese through targeted emphasis on the four language skills, while sustaining their interest with full-color manga dialogues and fun activities and projects.

With dialogues that follow a cast of American high school students as they learn Japanese, the lessons in all three volumes draw from topics that are appealing and relevant to teenagers. Volumes 1 & 2 deal with different themes of daily life, such as school, shopping, family, and hobbies, while Volume 3 has a more global and socially minded focus.

A rich variety of communicative activities gauge students' comprehension and allow them to apply new skills immediately. Pair and group activities encourage interpersonal communication, and authentic reading exercises are presented in real-life, relevant contexts. Activities are aligned with the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards (5Cs), Common Core, and 21st Century Skills. Extensive hiragana, katakana, and kanji practice early on ensures students know how to write correctly using all three Japanese writing systems.

Culture Notes sprinkled throughout the texbook provide insights into the nuances of contemporary Japanese culture. At the end of each lesson, there is also a review section along with either a Project Corner, which could have students making origami or cooking Japanese rice cakes, or a Japanese Culture section that encourages students to research topics like Japanese New Year or the cost of living in Japan, keeping classroom instruction lively and fun.

The student resources hosted on the companion website include textbook and workbook audio, flashcards, vocabulary lists, and additional review lessons and project corners. The teacher resources include audio for the tests, professional development materials, additional activities, and scope and sequence and correlations.

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Adventures in Japanese, Volume 1, Teacher's Guide to Go

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Easy to carry, easy to use, easy to customizeAccess all of the Adventures in Japanese teacher materials on a convenient USB flash drive. No more tearing apart a Teacher's Handbook or scanning pages to create your own materials. The Teacher's Guide to Go gives you all the digital files you need to support your Japanese class.

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Create docs that expand and close. Great for collab projects. This one has an awesome curriculum starter

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Create your own actives via tech that match exactly what you're covering in class, or borrow someone else's

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Create your own educational games, quizzes, surveys, and web pages. Search millions of games and quizzes created by educators around the world.

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Adriana Ramírez - Teaching Spanish with Stories

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Ss can create art (visual and written) and receive feedback from the world

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Ss create podcast in the target language

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Host, distribute and monetize your podcast with Audioboom.

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34 Ways Ideas For Smartphones In The Classroom By Category by John Hardison first appeared on gettingsmart.com
In continuation of last week's article, Part 1: 44 Better Ways to Use Smartphones in Class, here is a new list of thirty-six additional ideas to help leverage the power of these tech gadgets in the learning environment. In this blog post, I have attempted to avoid any redundancies. Please join me in helping educators everywhere creatively use smartphones by contributing any overlooked uses and supportive responses via this survey.

34 Smart Ideas For Using Smartphones In The Classroom

To Collaborate

1. Have students collaborate with their off-campus peers by exchanging phone numbers. This may sound far-fetched, but the organization is easy to set up. Through teacher communication, an explanatory permission letter, and a shared Google form/spreadsheet, appropriate information from many students could be distributed. Imagine, for example, three different classes from three different schools collaborating on a shared project.

3. Embrace the power of augmented reality with apps like Planet Finder to make a lesson plan more realistic. Imagine thirty in-class students pointing their smartphones towards the sky to reveal the actual location of Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn.

4. Use Junaio on a field trip to continually research and access information on-the-go. This app uses augmented reality to "float" informational bubbles in the direction of the host area. Although it is often used by shoppers and social media fans, Junaio is well worth the time spent investigating its potential educational value.

To Communicate

6. Have P.E. students/athletes post workout data by using a Google form/spreadsheet. Instead of the old school format of a wall poster where students pencil in their workout maxes, P.E. teachers and coaches can ask students and players to quickly post their athletic progress directly from their smartphones.

This method encourages educators to abandon the time-consuming and inefficient task of periodically calculating the data. Instead, educators can simply input a formula and share the spreadsheets online and/or print them out and make visible on classroom walls. Students will also have the freedom to continue their workouts and training outside the classroom without having to remember to record their scores upon return to school. They can take care of inputting the data immediately after performing the task.

7. Athletic coaches can also integrate powerful apps like Cyclemeter, Heart Rate Monitor by Azumio, and iMapMyRide with modern workout accessories like heart-rate monitors to create powerful and accurate data. Click here to see how Coach John Calipari of Kentucky is doing something similar to get the most out of his players. Just imagine how this on-going data collection could be integrated into science, math, language arts, and even history lessons. You could even ask an art student to illustrate the growth of an athlete in a symbolic drawing or painting, while inviting a "Music Theory" student to create an instrumental song that accurately depicts the same student's triumphant transformation.

To Create

9. Not enough cameras to go around when recording original movie trailers and mini-movies? No worries. Allow students to use the powerful iMovie app to produce polished videos. On a personal note, I see this so often with my 13-year-old son who routinely turns a slow, laid-back Sunday afternoon with his friends and cousins into a collaborative movie-making expedition with a create-on-the-go script, multiple camera angles, and an accompanying soundtrack. With this app, students can elevate any lesson plan by creating an interesting movie trailer.

11. Rig a smartphone or iPod to any tripod to avoid recording "floating" scenes.

13. Use apps like Mouth Off, Zippo Lighter, Lightsaber, and Rimshot for visual props and to liven up any in-class skit or presentation.

15. Create an instant song with Songify. Have no singing or rapping talent? No worries. Just speak into the app and let it work all the magic.

16. For the more serious musicians, use SoundCloud to record original sounds, songs, and podcasts to share with the world.

18. Assign students certain topics and allow them to create boards of informational pictures via Pinterest. These Pinterest boards of images, information, and links can be shared with the entire class as additional resources to kick-start any unit.

19. Take beautifully edited pictures and share with anyone through Instagram.

20. Have students create an informative collage of pictures that address a particular area of concentration. These collages can then be printed and posted around the classroom for yearlong references. PicCollage makes this way too easy.

21. Capture symbolic photographs of lessons studied and send with textual citations to Posterous for viewing by the entire class.

22. Leverage the power of Juxtapose to "photoshop" or transpose pictures.

23. Declare everything as a potential note by setting classes up from day one with Evernote. By sharing "notebooks" as a class, students are able to treat anything as a potential note. Whether a picture or text, students continually add to the shared documents that are accessible from anywhere.

24. Have teams document their progress with large, collaborative projects with Pinterest, ImageFave, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

25. Make a geometry lesson real by photographing examples of various angles and theorems on campus.

26. Add audio and explanations to pictures and invite comments with Audioboo. Think of it as the speaking version of Twitter. This app would be excellent for interviewing, reporting, documenting, etc.

27. Write an original poem with symbolic pictures using Visual Poet. This app could be very effective during a campus walk designed to take pictures of nature while linking those images with original poetry to reflect a particular genre, such as Romanticism.

28. Bring out the inner artists within all students by allowing them to represent their understanding with drawings. Check out the Draw Something Free app.
Create and share podcasts with Audioboo or other voice recording apps.

To Curate/Coordinate

29. Take a Google Literature Trip in Google Earth.

30. Explore the world directly from students' desks with Google Earth.

31. Take pictures of on-screen notes and use Evernote to write directly on those pictures.
32. Diffuse students' indecision by encouraging the use of simple selection apps like Dice. 34. Read available PDFs directly from smartphone when not enough books exist or when you have already reached your copying maximum. Here is a PDF file that would be very handy for my American Literature class: The Red Badge of Courage.

Still not convinced? Check out this parody of Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free" that illustrates how these awesome tech gadgets are revolutionizing the classroom. Written by my friend and colleague, Dave Guymon, and me, it is appropriately titled "Smart, Sleek and Me." As with the smartphones-in-the-class issue, we wanted to take a negative and turn it in to a positive. I hope you enjoy.
Image attribution flickr user davelawler

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34 Smart Ideas For Using Smartphones In The Classroom

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Ss create language rich videos as assessments

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With a streamlined design and intuitive Multi-Touch gestures, iMovie lets you create Hollywood-style trailers and beautiful movies like never before.

Make Hollywood-style trailers
* Choose from 14 trailer templates with stunning graphics and original scores by some of the world's top film composers
* Customize movie studio logos, cast names, and credits
* Select the best videos and photos for your trailer with the help of animated drop zones
* Record video for your trailer right in iMovie

Create beautiful movies
* Choose from 8 unique themes with matching titles, transitions, and music
* Give your movie the perfect look with 13 Apple-designed video filters
* Enhance your movie with slow motion and fast forward*
* Easily add picture in picture, green screen, and split screen effects
* Create a soundtrack using built-in music that automatically adjusts to match the length of your movie
* Add sound effects, songs from your music library, and your own narration
* Connect a keyboard and use simple shortcuts to edit movies quickly

iMovie everywhere
* Easily transfer projects between your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch using AirDrop or iCloud Drive
* Send any project to your Mac via AirDrop or iCloud Drive to finish editing with iMovie or Final Cut Pro X
* Connect an external display to your iPhone or iPad and choose to mirror the iMovie interface or display your video fullscreen while you edit**

Share with friends and family
* Send videos with Mail and Messages
* Save to your photo library or share to YouTube in 4K or 1080p60***
* Save videos and iMovie project files to iCloud Drive
* Share videos and iMovie project files with AirDrop****
* Use AirPlay to wirelessly stream video to your HDTV with Apple TV*****

* 2x speed-up is available on iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4 and later devices.

** Requires iPhone 7 or later, iPad (6th generation) or iPad Pro (2017) or later

*** 4K support is available on iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro, and later devices.

**** AirDrop requires an iCloud account and is available on iPhone 6s, iPad (5th generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, iPod touch (7th generation) and later devices.

***** AirPlay requires Apple TV (2nd generation) or later.

Version 2.2.10

* Give your videos a hand-drawn look with 3 new filters: Comic, Comic Mono and Ink
* Choose from 25 new soundtracks - in genres including action, chill, and sentimental - that automatically adjust to match the length of your movie
* Addresses an issue that could prevent the viewer from updating after duplicating a photo in the timeline
* Improves reliability of Redo when editing a trailer
* Includes performance and stability improvements

Almost perfect, almost!

So. It's very rare that I leave a review on apps, but this one deserves it. I have been having an absolute blast with this, especially since I've really gotten into drone photography and it's the perfect tool to make for video editing. My favorite feature honestly is making the movie trailers, it's so fun with a compilation of media. The ONLY issue I have with it is that I'd love more freedom. Once you pick the general theme it predetermines what you can do. It boxes you into a certain amount of clips per section and has a variety of different kinds that you cant control whatsoever. So for example. One section in the trailer would have 3 slots for clips. The first one would be a .9 second, the next one would be a 3 second closeup (which is very annoying since it zooms way in on the picture or video and there's nothing you can do to adjust it or stop it.) so if it's a video it could focus in and cut out what you actually want to show in the clip which makes it impossible to use a lot of media. The third one could be 1.5 seconds.

The fact that you can't change the number of possible clips in a section and that you can't change the duration of any of the clips is very frustrating.

But beyond that this is an AMAZING app that I will love using for a long time, definitely worth having to be more strategic on what media I place where.

Great, But Here is a Suggestion

Yes, iMovie is a great movie and trailer or film maker, you can make retro trailers/films/movies, romance, teens, family, fairy tale, swashbuckler, expedition, superhero, scary, coming of age, indie, Bollywood, adrenaline, and narrative movies films or trailers. I know, a lot of options 😅.

But... There should be an option where you can change the music and where you can have the images and videos you took on iMovie only be stored in the movies on your app, not the gallery. It is a huge waste of space for your device, especially if you make lots of movies/trailers like me. I wish you could make the trailers longer than a minute, and can make it 1-4 minutes at least for trailers. When making a trailer, you can't hear any talking or sounds just music. Maybe still keep the music, because that is still cool, but make there a setting where you can turn off music and can hear talking and sounds. Still a very great app I recommend, but I am just hoping for an update that will change that and further experience in the update. I hope this is good enough to explain the change I'd be grateful for and to explain to others who might download this app. Please make this change though, if not, it's fine but thx anyways ☺️

I've only seen 1080P results on an iPhone 8

As far as I can tell, iMovie works great. I had to do some overlay stuff (PIP) which required me to look up instructions for that online, and I learned a lot about other more "advanced" features as well. Once, during many, many edits of a short video, it did seem to stop working, so I just restarted it. I'm looking forward to adding my own music next to see how that works. It's super easy once you get the hang of it after searching specific online instructions. I mean, skip the basic feature instructions, they are already very straightforward and more or less intuitive. And what a bargain it is!👍 Meanwhile, those other video editing apps might not even have the some of the features you want, except maybe for an extra charge, and/or vampirize your wallet with regular subscription fees, charge $90 for a one time fee, and end up having you in fetal position shaking like a leaf in a corner somewhere wondering how you, at least temporarily, lost that full, unlocked app you already paid a much better price for that went to a $ubscription plan. If this app crashes on your phone or iPad, I don't have anything supercalifragilistic to say about that. So far, I have no complaints in that department whatsoever.

Information

Compatibility

Requires iOS 13.4 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Languages

English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Copyright

© 2013-2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Tech for the Classroom

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Throughout the year I offer webinars on a variety of educational technology topics. But I also publish a tutorial or two on my YouTube channel every week. That playlist now contains more than 300 tutorials on everything from graphics editing to podcasting to tips for new Chromebook users. The entire playlist can be found here or viewed as embedded below.

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Full Curriculum for ESL + other languages. Online games, videos, flash cards, etc.

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Researched by Harvard University Graduate School of Education
& The University of Oxford Department of Education.
Licensed by theBritish Council around the world.

Engage your students in the energetic, "Genki" world of songs, games and exciting lessons.
Have all your students, and their parents, learning more than you could imagine and begging you for more.

Cut discipline problems and get your kids' attention - and keep it! Guaranteed!

First time here? See the free ESL/EFL Teacher Training Video or the First Lesson Ideas

+ As seen on TV in India, Canada, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, USA and UAE.
And used to teach millions of students in almost every country..

"Taking Primary Schools by Storm" - Daily Yomiuri
"...bringing about a grassroots revolution in English-language teaching" - Japan Times

Any questions? Start here for all the advice and help you need.
Online Videos, 6th Graders, Teaching Guidelines, Email Exchanges, Lesson Plans, Classroom English, and lots more!

British Council Press Release:

The Genki approach to learning English works by engaging all of the learners' senses and appealing to a wide range of learning styles. Children are engaged visually through the simple but striking graphics, aurally/orally through the simple chants and songs and limited amounts of graded vocabulary input and kinaesthetically through the actions and games. Because all of the learning tasks are organised as game-like activities, children are immediately motivated to take part." -

Get started with the Free Genki Email course

If you're not ready for the Teacher's Set yet then be sure to sign up to my FREE email course to get all my best teaching tricks, tips and advice!

Fantastic site, I highly recommend Genki English to any teacher; whether novice or veteran.
- Garry Forbes

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If you need an instant boost of energy in your English lessons right now, then this is the program for you!

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Researched by Harvard University Graduate School of Education & The University of Oxford Department of Education. Licensed by the British Council around the world. Engage your students in the energetic, "Genki" world of songs, games and exciting lessons. Have all your students, and their parents, learning more than you

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WL T's Collab

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Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Ni Hao! Marhaba! MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field. Please peruse our collection and correspond with us if you are interested in knowing more about the World Languages community peer review process. Contact Laura Franklin (lfranklin@nvcc.edu) for more information.

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Bonjour! Buenos Dias! Guten Tag! Ni Hao! Marhaba! MERLOT welcomes all language educators and students of World Languages to access the many OER available in the ever-expanding World Languages Collection. This pioneer community contains thousands of OER, many of them peer-reviewed by distinguished scholars in the field.

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Online Lang Lab

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Easy Japanese - free lessons with audio drama | NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN

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Japan's only public broadcaster NHK provides this reliable Japanese language course for free. You can easily start learning basic grammar and vocabulary by listening to the story of Anna, who studies Japanese at a university in Tokyo.

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NEWS WEB EASYは、小学生・中学生の皆さんや、日本に住んでいる外国人のみなさんに、わかりやすいことば　でニュースを伝えるウェブサイトです。

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Resource Padlet

Do you teach a world language? Do you teach Japanese? Do you teach ESL? Is communication a big part of your curriculum? If YES, then these resources might be helpful to you!

PLEASE ADD MORE in the comments!!!!!!!!

I've listed in alphabetical order below, but you can click the link above to see them all in one place on my padlet:

10 Tech Tips for New Teachers: This is a good one for us newbies to tech.

34 Smartphone Ideas for the Classroom: If you're curious about using smartphones in your classroom, but aren't sure how where to start...and let's face it, who is sure? Here's a good start.

101 Ways to Ditch the Textbook: This isn't all about tech, but has some good ideas. Ditching the textbook is big in the WL world these days as teachers are leaning towards comprehensible input in an engaging way.

AATJ: American Association for Teachers of Japanese homepage. Great for annual events. Link students to opportunities.

ACTFL: This site has it all for WL teachers. Links to assessment standards, proficiently standards, training, workshops, etc. Tech in the classroom is the big buzz these days, here is a place to connect with resources galore.

Audioboom: Ss can use this to create podcasts. Might be fun for an oral project. It also allows them to record from their smartphones and in the privacy of their own space.

Avant: Avant has example language exams to give to students who want to know their proficiency level. The specific file I have linked is called, Proficiency vs Performance vs. Achievement

Cells in Class: How do you use your Ss cells in class? Here is a list of ideas.

Digital Storytelling: Pick a subject, pick a theme. You name it, you can probably find something to use in class.

FreeTech4Teachers: How to use tech in the classroom and a list of tools.

Genki Japan: This is the Japanese version, though still improving, of Genki English.

Genki English: This is what I used in my home English Conversational School children's lessons. There are lesson plans, full curriculum, videos, games (online and printouts), flash cards, writing sheets, etc. Richard Graham created this system and it's slowly working its way across the globe. He has other languages too, but nothing as well set up as the English section.

iMovie: This, and many like it are great for having students create skits or speeches to show. You'd be amazed how creative students can get.

Iya Sensei: This teacher is the bomb! (I know that's bad outdated slang!) She has created and posted her proficiency handouts, teaching style, assessment standards, etc. Great for Japanese teachers. She is also quick to respond if you have any question.

Japanese Pic Books: Online picture books for students to use during TADOKU.

Japan Foundation: LA located homepage for Japanese teachers and students. Provides students and teachers links to grants for teachers/school, supplies, opportunities for students to study/travel to Japan for inexpensive, etc. Constantly have movie events, etc.

JPLT Samples: Here you can find free example of the JPLT for students who are wanting to take the test and find their proficiently level. Great for giving sample exams to students. This is something students will need to take to prove fluency for jobs. This is a career ready source.

JSongs via RedKaraoke: Students love to sing. In Japan, karaoke was a great way to improve our Japanese reading and speaking skills. Here's a sight to let the students pick a song to learn.

Kahoot! It's all the rage. Quiz your Ss mid class or use it to get feedback in an anonymous or non anonymous way. There are a few of these types of apps. Which do you use?

Karaoke via Bing: There are karaoke videos in full kanji, kana only, and romaji. Great for students of all levels. When Ss are into what they are learning, they learn it.

Latest Tech Games: Another site of what's new today....just remember they're going to be old tomorrow!

Merlot: This is an outstanding collaboration site for WL teachers. Check it out, explore, post your own advice.

NHK Easy News: This is an authentic news source for lower level Japanese readers. The stories are written at a lower level and have a native oral reader. This is great for TADOKU (Extensive Reading). Students can choose which article they want to read/listen to. Great input, even if they can't understand 100%

NHK World: Online language lab. Teaches a number of languages, including Japanese. There are endless links and authentic language/cultural sources. Students can roam this site and learn at their own pace as a supplement to what they are learning in class.

OWL: Organic World Language. This is an organization that's fairly new. They have teaching methods that focus on instructors staying 100% in the target language from the very beginning. There are training and other information available at charge.

Pintrest: This is a fun activity for Ss to create boards of articles, photos, etc that relate to the topic of choice (chosen by them or you!)

Quia: WEB: This site lets teachers create quizzes, practice activities, etc. There are teachers from my WL department who like this more than Quizlet. They say you must invest a lot of time upfront to create the activities, but in the long run the pay off is worth it. I'm only in my first year, and still working on my pacing, so I haven't tried it yet.

Seattle WL Outcomes: This is a great source for WL teachers to see what is expected from them via Seattle. Sources for testing linked.

Skype in the Classroom: If your TL's timing works with your classroom time, here is an awesome site with tons of ideas on how to use Skype in the classroom.

Storybird: Students can create and publish stories online. The graphics are beautiful, students can look at the photos and create a story, or create their own.

Ted ED: Videos to show your students. Type in a topic, and you're bound to find something great. My personal favorite to show on day 1 of a new course is Mia Nacamulli's The benefits of a bilingual brain. Did I mention they have lesson plans/activities attached to each video? Great for sub plans.

TELL Collab-Seattle: This site has notes from the Seattle TELL collab. Full of local WL teachers' feedback, ideas, websites, etc. Take a look, add your two cents, it's a place for all of us to comeback to and reflect on what we talked about.

TPRS Method: TPRS is what the Spanish and French department follow. It seems to be a great technique, but I'm still clueless on actually implementing it. This site has some answers...do you know any better sites?

WATJ: Washington Association for Teachers of Japanese's homepage. Provides students and teachers links to local Seattle events.

Workflowy: I like this for giving my students their curriculum in drop box form in a word doc looking form. This particular one is an example curriculum.

Updated: 2/8/17

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Teacher Resource Page

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January 21-22, 2017 Share the Learning via Social Media: #TELLcollab If you get locked out of the building, call or text Michele 206-234-4029.   Workshop Notes & Resources  Proficiency Introduction  Thomas’ Proficiency PPT Proficiency Descriptor Videos NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements STAMP ...

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TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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SeattleWorldLanguages - WL Course Outcomes

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These World Language Course Outcomes by level were originally developed by a team of World Language teachers in Seattle working with a national consultant, Donna Clementi, in 2010. They were updated in August 2015 to match the revised World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages:

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Organic World Language page

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What's your method of choice and why?