Mar 2007 Newsletter: Toshi's Monthly Note
February has been a month attending activities in Mie, Japan and
Vienna, working on system development and academic papers. I flied to
Vienna in early February and I saw a new technical staff, Kornelius,
who is dependable and skillful engineer. He is good at computer
doing programming, developing software and designing Web pages,
moreover he gives us constructive feedback and advice.
Most participants of Vienna are elementary school students. They were
very energetic to take part in Pangaea activity spontaneously.
At a Pangaea activity, I was glad to see that they were enthused about
expressing themselves by drawing their favorite things and sending
messages with excitement.
By the way, one of the most impressive things in Vienna at this
visit was a cell phone. Compared with Japanese cell phones, most of
them were very small and simple design. It made me think that cultural
and social difference affects to its process of cell phones' evolution.
There were so many sophisticated and cool designs that I almost
purchased one of them impulsively..
After visiting Vienna and coming back to Japan, I went to Tsu city in Mie prefecture to have a Pangaea activity at Mie University in mid February.
Then on a next day, we had a rehearsal with staffs for a coming big event, the Japan-Korea simultaneous activity. Even though it was on Sunday, a student volunteer and a technical leader, Morimori, and a facilitator, Megu-chan, came to join from Kyoto. Thank you all for your great support! This event will be held on 10th March to connect the MIZY center in Seoul, Korea, and Mie University, Japan, via Webcam. It will be the first experience for children in Mie to feel connected with Korean children simultaneously beyond language and distance. I will participate from the MIZY center in Korea and technical staffs including me are going to work on technical rehearsals over and over for success.
Vienna Youth Center: http://www.5erhaus.at/
MIZY center: http://www.mizy.net/eng/default.asp
Mie University: http://www.mie-u.ac.jp/eindex.html
Toshiyuki Takasaki
After visiting Vienna and coming back to Japan, I went to Tsu city in Mie prefecture to have a Pangaea activity at Mie University in mid February.
Then on a next day, we had a rehearsal with staffs for a coming big event, the Japan-Korea simultaneous activity. Even though it was on Sunday, a student volunteer and a technical leader, Morimori, and a facilitator, Megu-chan, came to join from Kyoto. Thank you all for your great support! This event will be held on 10th March to connect the MIZY center in Seoul, Korea, and Mie University, Japan, via Webcam. It will be the first experience for children in Mie to feel connected with Korean children simultaneously beyond language and distance. I will participate from the MIZY center in Korea and technical staffs including me are going to work on technical rehearsals over and over for success.
Vienna Youth Center: http://www.5erhaus.at/
MIZY center: http://www.mizy.net/eng/default.asp
Mie University: http://www.mie-u.ac.jp/eindex.html
Toshiyuki Takasaki
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