Professional Presentations
“Free Resources for Japanese Language Teachers” FLAVA Conference, Richmond, October, 2009
"Free Technology for Asynchronous, Synchronous Communication adn Beyong” North East Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City, NY, April, 2009,
Powering up your Chinese and Arabic Language Courses with Technology" NOVA STARTALK , Alexandria, VA, June, 2009
"The Virtual Foreign Language Classroom Online Workshoop ” VCCS Peer/Foreign Languages Peer Group Meetinge, Richmond, VA, October, 2008
award/grant
Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire
Multimedia Educational Resources for Leaning and Online Teahcing International Conference, 2009
NVCC Educational
Foundation Grant, 2007
NVCC Alumni Federation Faculty of the Year Award, 2004-2005
Indiana University East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Associate Instructorships, 1990-1992
Rotary International Foundation Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships, 1989-1990
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
