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My name is Amilcar and I am both a student and faculty for FIU. This course has taught me a lot thus far and I am sure this COIL will continue to share wisdom…

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Group Project 4 Amilcar TONY Castellano-Sanchez

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Hi everyone! This is my COIL PowerPoint introduction I hope you like it.

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Hi everyone! It is so nice to meet you! :)

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Hey! Nice to meet you guys!

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Hey everybody! Nice meeting all of you. Have a pleasant day!

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Hi everyone! This is my introduction

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Hey everyone! This my introduction

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Group Project 4 Santiago Aguillon Introduction-2

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Hello! This is my introduction about myself. Hope you enjoy! Thank you!

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Hi! I'm not sure where else to write this but I won't be able to attend the zoom meeting tonight. So sorry!

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Hello everyone! This is my intro presentation! Nice to meet you all!

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Laura Hernandez Introduce Yourself (1) (1)

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Hi, I don't think I can attend today's zoom meeting. Sorry.

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So nice to meet everyone!

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Hi, this is a little introduction of who I am, sorry for my pronunciation, but recording myself makes me very nervous.

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Hello Group! Nice to meet you Takumi and Haruto

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Hi! Looking forward to meeting everyone! :)

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Hello! My name is Miranda Gomez! A pleasure to meet you!

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Here is our team's linguistic landscape project. Hope you enjoy :)

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Nice to meet you everyone💖

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Nice to meet you!!💛

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坂本凜 - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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Nakashige Aki - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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Yuto Matsuo - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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Nice to meet you!

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Amika Maesaka - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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森悠希 - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me (2)

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齋藤涼 - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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Hi. Nice to meet you all !!!

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Hello! Here is my introduction.

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I'm sorry to late.

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洲浜希羽 - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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I took a video last time but it wouldn't play so I took it during class! I know it's hard to hear me, but take a look!!

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2024 12 03 Kirk Daniel Shinji Self Intro

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Hello everyone, here is my introduction.

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Hello everyone, here is my introduction.

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神田拓海 - 2024 11 15 ARP DAP COURSEWORK 1 All about me

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E.M. Krause - COIL Introduction Powerpoint

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E.M. Krause - COIL Introduction Powerpoint

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IDH 3034 - E.M. Krause - Introduction Slides

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Here is my intro, I submitted it to the wrong group lol.

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Hi all! I hope this message finds everyone well. The presentation is halfway complete; we are only missing the final Miami slide, but we do not have any for Hiroshima. I am not sure if my emails regarding the contents of the project were received, but we decided on covering fashion, food, sports, nightlife, and college life for both cities. The first three topics were confirmed by all members but the last two were only confirmed by the FIU students because we had not heard back from the HSU students. Hopefully this message is received by everyone so we are all aware of our current progress in the presentation.

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Here is the video explaining American and Miami dishes!

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This is Group4 Presentation. Please take a look at it!!

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This is Group4 Presentation. Please take a look at it!!

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This is Group4 presentation.Please take a look at it!! Here is the finished version.

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This is Group4 presentation.Please take a look at it!! Here is the finished version.

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Hello this is my introduction, nice to meet you all!

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Hector Zumbado - COIL Introduction Presentation

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This project was easy to complete because everyone was so wonderful. We were able to work together early on so we finished the project in time. The only difficulty we all faced was the time change between the students. We were only able to communicate in certain windows of the day. I think this project was a perfect way for us to collaborate and compare our cultures. Food is a big part of culture and it was nice to reflect on the differences we have. We learned about sushi early on in the semester so it was interesting to revisit it through a personal perspective. The other students were really great and it was a pleasure working with them

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Food Culture in Miami and Hiroshima.

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This project was a valuable learning experience, especially in understanding cross-cultural communication and teamwork. I enjoyed learning about different traditions and sharing my own experiences. It was very nice and interesting to see how culture, tradition, and community are reflected in food and how it becomes a celebration of our roots. However, the time difference and the short project timeline were challenging, making coordinating effectively difficult. I also haven’t had the chance to try some of the dishes mentioned, but learning their stories has made me eager to experience them in the future. Overall, I appreciated the creativity and openness of the other students.

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I consider that the project was easy to complete because we had a good communication although of the time change. we all divided the assignment in different parts and roles and this allowed us to complete the assignment before the due date. only difficulty was that it was hard to come up with a topic we all were interested in, but ended up going for comparing the food in both cultures. through this assignment we were able to understand Daniel, Takumi and Haruto's culture and introduce them to ours, working with them was amazing because we could communicate perfectly as they all speak English.

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Since working with international kids in high school, I hadn't done a project like this. I realized how much I appreciate and benefit from cultural exchange activities after revisiting that event. Since we created our own content, the PowerPoint presentation comparing our cultures was easy. The occasional misunderstandings were perhaps the hardest part. I wish we could have interacted more through Zoom. Overall, the other students were caring, dedicated, and motivated to learn English and succeed in school.

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This wonderfully interactive project was quite simple to complete as everyone did their parts and was engaged into it, we were all able to work cooperatively to finish the project on time. The only difficulties I could think of was the differing time zones between the HSU students, but we worked it out in the end! This project was a great way of displaying differences in food and culture; after all, food is part of any culture in the world and it's great to show similarities and differences between them. Since we learned about Jiro's sushi before the COIL project, I thought it was interesting the way it was brought up again. The HSU students were a pleasure to work with and I really hope they do well in their futures.

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Throughout the COIL project, I learned about about my classmates and the students of Hiroshima University. I think it was fascinating to learn about their favorite meals such as okonomiyaki and its history. I hope that my Japanese classmates enjoyed learning more about our culture and favorite foods. I hope to someday visit Japan and try their traditional dishes in-person. The easiest part of the project for me was interacting with the Hiroshima students. In addition, the projects were simple and fun to do as a group. On the contrary, the hardest part was creating my voiceover. I had many technical difficulties yet I was still able to figure it out. If I had more time, I would loved to join the zoom meetings and interact more with the Hiroshima students. However, the zooms interfered with my other class. Regardless, I plan on visiting Japan in the future and immerse myself in its cultures, cities, traditions, and way of life. I would have liked to include more pictures in the final presentation, alongside adding other famous dishes in Miami. Ultimately, I enjoyed this course and would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Japan and wishes to build international friendships.

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I really enjoyed working on this project! It was very interesting to compare what students do differently in FIU and HSU. Like transportation, HSU students use the train and bus to get to their school, while FIU students mostly drive or live on campus. It was also interesting to get to know more about the students in HSU as well. I had never had the opportunity to work internationally with students like this, especially from Japan! I do think that time zone differences really affected how we communicated, but even still, creating the presentation went great. It was a pleasure and honor to work with the other students!

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I really enjoyed working on this project! It was such a fun and interesting topic and, honestly, it wasn’t hard at all. I loved learning about how another country celebrates Christmas! It’s so cool to see the differences in traditions. The other students we worked with were so sweet and patient, which made the whole experience even better. It felt like everyone was really trying their best and supporting each other, which I really appreciated. Thank you so much for collaborating with us! It was such a great experience and I’m really glad we got to work together on this! I hope we stay in touch!

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I am not sure why the font appears the way it does, but once you access it it should be fixed. Also, it only contains the Miami slides; the Hiroshima slides are missing due to difficulties in communication as we weren't getting responses back (at least not to the extent that allows for us to work together efficiently since FIU students were unaware of HSU students progress). We included audios for each slide to explain our topic in a little more detail, so you may do the same.

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It was easy for me to come up with topics for this project; I thought about the things that interested me most, so that I can learn about how it is defined in a place other than one I am familiar with. The most difficult part about this project was hearing back from everyone. I think the timing of the project made it somewhat difficult to work around given it was assigned right before Thanksgiving break when everyone would be away and with family. I think that if the project were assigned sooner, it would be easier to communicate and complete it on time. I honestly wanted to exchange ideas more and really learn about the other students and their culture, but I wasn’t really able to hear back from them. I understand the obstacles of time difference and other priorities, but I don’t think email works as an effective method of communication. For future COIL projects, I would suggest emphasizing the use of other means such as WhatsApp (given that it is used to message internationally and is more likely to be viewed because it is on the phone). I am really glad to have gotten this opportunity, but I just wished everyone was actively communicating.

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This project was an easy and enjoyable experience, and it taught me about a new culture and being able to admire the differences between it and my own.  I am glad to participate in this experience with my group members in this collaborative and engaging environment. In the future I would wish to cover more topics from each culture and learn even more about our similarities and differences. I enjoyed working with the HSU students all the new things we learnt from them.

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COIL presentation on College Life

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During my experience creating the COIL project, I would say finding my topic of interest was quite simple. Although I do not engage in the nightlife culture here, I know that many visitors enjoy the late-night parties Miami has to offer. Since we were collaborating with students abroad, I thought it would be interesting to know how it differs. The most difficult part would be the communication, it was harder for my group to communicate as seamlessly as before due to the holidays, finals, and busy schedules. Overall, this project was an opportunity I have never experienced before, and I am glad I got to participate!

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Although the experience was quite short, I really enjoyed participating in the COIL project. As we said in the presentation, it's not often that we can collaborate like this with students from another university (even less so students from another country). There were many areas related to college life where I thought our responses would be quite different, but they turned out to be almost identical. Everyone was so nice and excited about this project. Thank you again to everyone from our group (HSU and FIU, both). I hope I get to do something like this again in the future!

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This project was a unique experience to share different perspectives and interact with people from different cultures. I learned how to work completely remotely and what strategies are efficient when the team is far away from each with different schedules. The thing that was easy was agreeing about what topic to chose since we all love food. Most difficult was the communication and choosing a platform to communicate. I wanted to have more time to connect with other students. I loved everything, I did not want to do anything less. My impression of other students is that they are very hardworking and dedicated.

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Personally, I really enjoyed participating in this collaboration. I have always been interested in the differences between different cultures when it comes to celebrating the holidays, especially Christmas. Because I really like Japanese culture, I already had some ideas, so I was delighted that this experience confirmed them and enabled me to learn some new things. On the other hand, I felt that we all worked in harmony and that everyone gave their best to make it as good as possible, something that I value infinitely. I loved this collaboration, it was a pleasure! It was a unique and incredible experience. I hope we can keep in touch!

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Hieu Khanh Truong - I made friends, shared, and learned about the academic and cultural contrasts and similarities between FIU and HSU's college experiences through this initiative. Working together to create our slides and gather information was simple. But it was a little difficult to coordinate schedules across time zones. I wish we could have talked more deeply about our individual experiences and gotten more details from our HSU buddies. Overall, the other students' cooperation throughout the assignment made me extremely delighted.

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I enjoyed the COIL experience and wish we had more time with our group to learn more about the cultural differences. Most of the project was trying to make a group for communication and working out technology issues, so it would've been nice to have another project where that was not as much of a worry, and we had more time to talk. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the project and had a lot of fun with it!

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I felt that it's easier to make contact with college students who live in another country than I 've expected. And I felt that they are smart because they could do some tasks they should do soon.

What I wanted to do less is ZOOM meeting with every student in every class. I think it's important to do ZOOM meetings with the same group members.

But this project was fun for me! I was able to make friends. I appreciated it.

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I learned that it is important to communicate as much as possible from this project. This project was a joint project not only with students from HSU, but also with students from other universities, and even from overseas. So we must communicate about what we are thinking or how they feel about each other. It took a long time because of the time difference, this made it more difficult. But I think it worked because we were able to set policies among the HSU students and share them with the FIU students from time to time.

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The period was too short. It was not a satisfactory presentation. There were a lot of people in each group, 7 or 8 people, so it felt like it would take about 10 minutes to make a presentation. So even though we were divided into breakout rooms, we could only hear one group's presentation. Overall, I felt like we didn't have enough time. I'm very happy to have made new connections.

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Through this COIL project, I have learned the importance of making an effort to communicate beyond language barriers. For me, nothing about this project was easy. We had a hard time because of the early deadline. I would have liked more time for further preparation and more time for MTG with American university students. It would be even better if the group size were smaller. The large number of people made it very difficult to communicate via social networking and email. However, everyone seemed very friendly and I sincerely appreciate the cooperation in completing the project.