ShowaELC

WordEngine for Vocabulary

All third year students will have free access to WordEngine’s Advanced Course.

Instructions on how to sign up for the course (you need a special card from EiComi).

A good example of an unusual use of iPod Touch for teaching students how to move around. The best applications of Touches are ones like these, ones that you would never think of yourself.

Use the iPod Touch to move around

One of the best blogs about using the iPod Touch for education. Tony Vincent.

Learning in Hand

A 50-slide presentation about different softwares we can all use for learning with the iTouch.

ICTAC Memo iTouch for Learning

The Dream Room

An interesting article fro Reuters by on the pet boom in Japan. There is simple English print, and listening in the video. It is a very sad story.

A very good website form Louise Duncan showing a number of ways to personalize learning with the iPod Touch.

Learning with the iPod Touch

Best Apps for Education

The best thing about the iPod Touch is that you can run Applications, software programs, called Apps, on it. There are more than 150,000 different applications. They can do almost anything except wash the dishes. Here is a list of the 50 most interesting Apps for Education.

Luis Poza comments on Obama

Each Friday we will bring a short question from a Showa student to a political blogger in Tokyo. Luis Poza of Lakeland College in Tokyo commented on Obama last summer in an interview with a Showa student. He also writes about politics, Apple computers and Japan on his blog, the blog from another dimension.

Today we listen to the introduction to find out about Luis and Obama.

Listen here

ITunes is the center

Most people think of iTunes as a helper for an iPod. It is really the other way around. The iPod Touch only makes the iTunes software portable. You can use iTunes software without the iPod. You can’t use the iPod without iTunes. iTunes is the way to get new software, new music, new video and organize it and get it ready for your iPod. You should spend some time learning iTunes well if you want to use your iPod Touch well.