Educational uses for Rev

[Alejandro Tejada]

on Thu, 12 Aug 2004 
Nicolas Cueto wrote:
 
> > Alejandro Tejada asked:
> > What's the main operating systems of PC in Japan?

> Windows, hands down.

So XBox still had a chance to displace Sony
in their own market! ;-)

> > I've read somewhere that NEC computers are
> > a majority in Japan, or it was long ago?
> 
> Long ago, there's a good chance NEC were dominant.
> All the schools of all
> the schoolboards I taught at 15 years ago, for
> example, had installed
> "top-of-the-line" CALL rooms (40+ PC's, projector
> screen, printers, all
> networked, though no internet), and everything had
> the NEC brand.
> (Incidentally, those rooms also collected a lot of
> dust.) And, knowing
> bureaucracies, if two or three schoolboards went NEC
> then the likelihood is
> also high that many (most? all??) other schoolboards
> nationwide went NEC
> too.

Similar to the motto:
"Nobody gets fired for buying from Microsoft"

> Things now, though, may have changed.  This comment,
> too, is just a guess
> from experience. For example, the private jr/sr high
> I was at most recently
> was originally NEC based, but this year they re-did
> one of the CALL room's
> with Dell machines. Must be the economy and
> everyone's efforts to cut down on costs.

Dell? Not Sony or Toshiba? :-(

> > Talking with some japanese people, i learned
> > that relatively few japanese could speak
> > english with fluency. This was a surprise for me.
> 
> Sadly, that's still probably true. But, then again,
> coming from Canada, I
> can't speak with pride about the general French
> ability of Anglo-Canadians
> despite years of education and, more importanly,
> despite the fact that it's
> one of our official languages.

I believed that French is mostly speaked in
Quebec...

> (Y ademas, Alejandro, me imagino que en tu mente
> estaras haciendo una
> comparacion entre el nivel de ingles aqui y ese
> nivel tan alto que existe
> por casi toda Europa. Si es asi, yo pienso que no es
> una comparacion
> razonable. Por ejemplo, como ya sabras, los sistemas
> de letras y la
> gramatica son bastantes diferentes, y, ademas, el
> ingles forma parte tanto
> de la historia europeana como la de sus paises
> coloniales. Pero pensando
> positivamente, me parece que a lo mejor despues de
> una o dos generaciones
> mas, la abilidad en ingles aqui tambien se vera
> significadamente mejorada.
> Por ejemplo, en una de los high-schools que enseno,
> casi todos los maestros
> de ingles hablan el ingles "pera-pera". 

Interesting, indeed!

I had to look in google for pera-pera:

>From this page:
<http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2002/08/mieuli>

Pera-pera is a great Japanese word that means 
fluent or talkative. 

> En contraste, hace quince anos antes
> que, de las dozenas de maestros de ingles que yo
> conocia en las escuelas
> publicas, solamente dos o tres hablaban o entendian
> el ingles
> suficientemente. Puesto que, espero que las cosas
> esten cambiando
> veramente.)

Do you think that RunRev and Transcript have
a chance to get introduced to english students 
and japanese english teachers?

Are you able to type EASILY Japanese with unicode
characters within RunRev fields?

> Now, if only I could draw, I'd be all set. <g>

If you could take photos, and control Photoshop
or another image editing application then you are
almost ready! ;-))

> Enjoying and benefitting from this education thread!

Actually, RunRev could benefit from opening the
educators list, but this time by sending an 
invitation to suscribe. :-)

> http://kweto.com

Your image "Still under construction"
wins my laugh for today! :-))

al

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