User talk:(WT-en) Ted/Talk Archive

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Feel free to ask me about Japan, especially Nagoya or Tokyo and the surrounding areas.

I will! But for now I'll probably just take the opportunity to Welcome you to Wikivoyage. It's just a chance to make sure you've taken a sec to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines. Of course, feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

You seem to be very well-travelled, with lots to contribute. In particular, I think information on Teaching English abroad would be a really great Travel topic. And, indeed, we could definitely use a Japanese phrasebook. We have a phrasebook template that might make getting started a little easier; it was developed for the Phrasebook Expedition. But of course contribute where and what you want. Thanks for coming on board. --(WT-en) Evan 01:42, 29 Jan 2004 (EST)

Hi Evan. This looks to be a great site. I picked it up through the link from Lessig's blog (I think. Hard to remember where some of those links come from...) I was already pretty familiar with copyleft and Creative Commons. I'd looked at Wikipedia quite a bit. Several of my students have started to use it as a reference for writing assignments. I'd never tried editing a page before, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is. I hadn't read the plunge forward, but just went to work on some typos. The style manual is clear enough, and then the templates got me started on new articles. All very easy.

This is good news! I'd been considering using wiki in some form with writing students, perhaps having them write articles for Wikipedia on Japanese cultural items. The syntax is quite simple, so I'm sure they can handle it with a little help. Wikivoyage will suit my purposes even better. I expect to enlist my students to write about the Tokyo area starting in April. I will be teaching an English seminar in which students will research and write about Tokyo in English. We'll see how much relevant material they come up with, and then post it. It may get a bit chaotic, so I may use a [moodle] to thrash out the basics first. --(WT-en) ted 08:21, 30 Jan 2004 (JST)

Japanese "Love Hotels"

In the Tokyo/Shibuya#Sleep article you stated: Shibuya is also surrounded by love hotels. Please discuss at Talk:Tokyo/Shibuya. -- (WT-en) Huttite 08:10, 5 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Thanks for the explanation you gave. I copied it almost as is to the Japan page under Love hotels - please check I got it right. -- (WT-en) Huttite 22:08, 8 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Japanese Wikivoyage

A-ha, so you're the one to bla...err, thank for bringing in all those innocent Japanese users... well, don't just stand there, ウィキトラベル日本語版を作りましょう！ Correcting my Japanese should be plenty of amusement for a lesson or three. =) (WT-en) Jpatokal 06:44, 16 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Sorry, er... your welcome? Yes, I've introduced a few students to Wikivoyage. I hope they haven't been too disruptive. I'm still trying to work through with them what Wikivoyage can do at the same time as we just get started. I guess it is a class-sized "plunge forward". The results have been a bit mixed so far. I described the class to them last semester, but few students really want to do any writing, and I think they are tiring of Tokyo. Some of them anyway. On the other hand, in class last week, they began to see some of the possibilities. I really didn't mean to pawn the re-writing off on the rest of Wikivoyage, but corrections, but even better- extensions, from you and Paul have been highly instructive. I've been trying to keep tabs on what they are doing after a big copyright violation from one student last semester, but it sometimes takes me a couple of days to get to my Watchlist. Also, if they make changes without logging in, I might miss them.

They are all in an elective English writing course, which makes it kind of hard for me to encourage them to join the Japanese Expedition. I'm sure they would get a kick out of correcting someone else for a change, but I think I need to hold off a couple weeks before mentioning it as their teacher. I'm supposed to help them write in English! Term ends in December, so I'll talk about it a bit before then. Of course, if someone who was not their English teacher left them a message on their pages, I'm sure they would appreciate it! I see you left a note for Atsuko, but you might have better luck with a few of the others listed on my user page.

(WT-en) Ted 17:24, 18 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Students

Ted, it's great to see so many of your students involved in Wikivoyage! Thank you for inviting them. I hope they enjoy working on Wikivoyage and that they can share their knowledge about their country (and others)! --(WT-en) Evan 09:38, 28 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Evan, it took me far longer than I expected to bring some students to Wikivoyage. I've also introduced them to contributing to Wikipedia. Many of them know Wikipedia as readers: it has become a popular source for plagiarism information at many unis here in Japan. Even though some students had read Wikipedia, they had no idea that they could actually create it themselves. I think they often arrived directly at pages through web searches.

On balance, I hope that bringing these people into Wikivoyage will be a plus. Just getting the idea of wiki into their hands is a good start and opens some new ideas about reading, writing, cooperation, and creativity. I hope a few will join the nascent Japanese Expedition later. In the short term I hope any growing pains, like copyright violation, are not too troublesome. (WT-en) Ted 23:43, 30 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Teaching English

I started out here as I was just talking to myself in a few odd moments at work. Moved at Hypatia's (valuable) suggestion.

Teaching English comments

Do you want to move this discussion to Talk:Teaching English to hash it out? It can then be moved into the main article as it evolves. It always feels a bit weird editing other people's talk pages :) -- (WT-en) Hypatia 22:00, 30 Nov 2004 (EST)

Good idea. I was really just talking to myself, but you're right. (WT-en) Ted 20:57, 3 Dec 2004 (EST)

I've fairly extensively rewritten Teaching English, partly along lines you suggest. Comment? Additions? (WT-en) Pashley 12:54, 23 May 2006 (EDT)

Old List of Obirin Students

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Online Communication 2 Students--Autumn 2009 User:(WT-en) Mayu User:(WT-en) Tomo User:(WT-en) Asako User:(WT-en) Shoko User:(WT-en) Kani-chan User:(WT-en) Namimin User:(WT-en) Etsumi User:(WT-en) Ayumi.k User:(WT-en) Miumiyu User:(WT-en) Marichan User:(WT-en) Tomoyo User:(WT-en) Rie Tazawa User:(WT-en) Haruka User:(WT-en) Yusuke Horii These are the usernames of some past Obirin students from spring 2009 or earlier: User:(WT-en) Cream User:(WT-en) Lao seeker User:(WT-en) Moe User:(WT-en) Megumi awa]]User:(WT-en) Asami User:(WT-en) Erina User:(WT-en) Natchan User:(WT-en) Kaori-n User:(WT-en) Shushishin User:(WT-en) Niunaimei User:(WT-en) Shota User:(WT-en) Noriko User:(WT-en) Kurara User:(WT-en) Yone User:(WT-en) Suzuki User:(WT-en) Nomari User:(WT-en) HIRO User:(WT-en) Piipii User:(WT-en) Ma-chi User:(WT-en) Keina User:(WT-en) Jun User:(WT-en) Naokiitohara User:(WT-en) Maiko Ogasawara User:(WT-en) Tossy