Takako Shigehisa
 
 

Professional Presentations

i“From Silence to Confident Speaker: Using Free Software to Transform Your Students” Minority Languages Workshop for Prince George's County, Fulton, MD, April, 2008.
See Presentation
i“From Silence to Confident Speaker: Using Free Software to Transform Your Students”  MFLA Spring Conference , Fulton, MD, April, 2008.
See handout
  1. i"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,  
    See presentation
  2. iTalking with Technology: Asynchronous, synchronous communication and beyond” NVCC Wimba Lunch and Learn-Best Practices Showcase , Alexandria, VA, February, 2008
  3. i"From Silence to Confident Speaker: Using Free Software to Transform Your Students Power Up Your Pedagogy Conference , Annadale, VA, January, 2008
    See presentation
    to previous presentations

award/grant

i NVCC Educational Foundation Grant, 2007

iNVCC Alumni Federation Faculty of the Year Award, 2004-2005

iIndiana University East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Associate Instructorships, 1990-1992

iRotary International Foundation Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships, 1989-1990

 
 
 
Sharing, Sharing, Sharing.

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.  

hi E-mail: tshigehisa@nvcc.edu
Skype message: tshigehisa
Phone #: 703-933-3971