Professional Presentations
“From Silence to Confident Speaker: Using Free Software to Transform Your Students” Minority Languages Workshop for Prince George's County, Fulton, MD, April, 2008.
“From Silence to Confident Speaker: Using Free Software to Transform Your Students” MFLA Spring Conference , Fulton, MD, April, 2008.
"Japanese Instructional media Archive (Japanese IMA): Creating a Community of Japanese Language Learners ” North East Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City, NY, April, 2008,
“Talking with Technology: Asynchronous, synchronous communication and beyond” NVCC Wimba Lunch and Learn-Best Practices Showcase , Alexandria, VA, February, 2008
"From Silence to Confident Speaker: Using Free Software to Transform Your Students ” Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference , Annadale, VA, January, 2008
Thank you for surfing my website. Teaching Japanese with instructional technology is one of my passions. My current pet project is developing websites that contains movie clips, assignments, exercises, etc. so that the community of Japanese teachers can contribute materials that go with movie clips. If you are interested, please check the “Movie in the classroom” page.
Another of my pet project is a vocabulary exercise site. On this page, your students can listen and practice pronunciation and reading of vocabulary while looking at an image. The vocabulary coincides with the ones presented in the Nakama textbooks. Please check this site at the “Japanese Vocabulary Exercises” page.
Sharing is my other passion. I completely believe the old saying, “We don’t have to re-invent the wheel”. If you would like to use any of the materials on my website including workshop/presentation materials, please do no hesitate to do so. I would welcome any comments, suggestions and questions. Also, if you see any typos and broken links, please let me know. Thanks for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
E-mail: tshigehisa@nvcc.edu
Skype message: tshigehisa
Phone #: 703-933-3971
