Thing 18.One Student Thing

My third year students know so much about Japanese music and Japanese bands. One of the students said, " I read Panic Channel’s blog everyday". So I asked how she does that. She taught me this.”Yaplog.jp” Try going to "yaplog.jp. You can find free blog site with a lot of cute pictures. And, Yes, you have to be able to read Japanese.
I am going to check it out. Some of the Japanese musicians are writing blogs and my students are reading them and learning Japanese. It is amazing that students can learn so much from Internet. Yes, and the students reading these Japanese blogs are very smart students.

Web. Page

I went to EBSC database and tried to create a "Web Page". I chose the background color and typed some text. I did not have enough time to finish so I went home and tried to continue. But I could not open my page and I could not do anything at home. So, next day at school I tried again and it worked. I was not sure what I was doing but finally I kind understood what that search box is. Most of my Japanese classes, we do not do research. So I chose my 4th year IB class and listed all the students' IB research topics. Their topics are like "onsen"(Japanese hot springs). "Bon odori", "Naruto" and "Namie Amuro". I typed "bon odori in that search box and I found two articles and one book on Bon odori. I read the outline of the article. These articles will not be helpful for the student. I did the similar things for "onsen". I found one article that might help my student. If I were writing a research paper, for the social science class or history class, this web page will be great, I thought. When I was in school, I never had this and I spent many hours looking for books and articles in front of the card catalogue.( Wow I am old.)