Dear Networkers:
 
	I will appreciate it if any of you could help me find out a Bitnet site
which could kindly  host a listserv for Teachers of Japanese as well as for
professionals of educational technology.
 
	I teach Japanese at Kenyon College, OH. You might wonder why I do no
set up a list at our own site. It is almost impossible to do so for two
reasons. First, we are a small college whose computing service cannot afford
enough space (esp., for archives). Secondly, we are on Internet,
which fact also makes it difficult to archive incoming data. I would like to
have  this proposed listserver as a database as well as for a discussion forum.
For this purpose I would like to own LISTSERV which will allow a database
search.
	Below I am attaching two announcements that I posted somewhere else.
They describe the basic motivation of the proposed list. So far I have
solicited 30 interested individuals from Australia, Japan and from across the
United State as shown by the name list provided below. The contribution of the
list will be tremendous, and it will be greatly appreciated by many if any of
your site could generously host the list.
 
 
Thank you very much for your consideration.
 
Hideo Tomita
Instructor of Japanese
Kenyon College, OH
(614) 427-5800
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From: [log in to unmask] (HIDEO TOMITA)
Subject: Setting up a list for Teachers of Japanese
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:04:00 GMT
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Dear Networkers:
 
        Currently, I am trying to set up a listserv for teachers of Japanese
where,teachers can discuss pedagogical issues, including methodology, effective
use of media for language education, distance education between Japan and
other countries, and so on. It would be also nice and convenient to have
an electronic network among teachers of Japanese in order to effectively spread
information and announcements about scholarships, language programs and
conferences. Communication in real Japanese, now possible, thanks to Ken
Lunde and others, is also among the planned experiments to be attempted and
further developed on this list.
      Please send a message with the body of text "JAPT-L" (Japanese
Teachers' List, tentatively) to the following address, if you are interested.
 
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I will also appreciate it if you could spread the word.
Thank you.
Hideo Tomita
MLL
Kenyon College, OH
(614) 427-5800
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From: [log in to unmask] (HIDEO TOMITA)
Subject: Japanese Teachers' List
Date: 28 Apr 91 15:57:00 GMT
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Dear Nihongo subscribers:
 
        Thanks to  many of you who quickly responded to and supported the
idea of setting up a list for Japanese Teachers. I hope that
the list will be not only a discussion forum but a database for Japanese
teachers, where they can retrieve information about research in language
education, regular and summer programs in institutions in the U.S. as well as
in Japan, educational technologies such as satellite dishes, interactive video,
and CALI, etc. Disadvantage of Nihongo listserv, the list where you are
reading this posting, is that posted discussion is not archived. If you missed
or lost some information that you thought important/interesting, you have to
ask for the same information again (unless you have a feed from USENET,
where all the postings on Nihongo are eventually archived together with
posings from other lists. But not all can access USENET due to the technical
configuration of the local host.). Questions from newcomers will also increase
the chance of the same questions being asked and answered, resulting in a
heavy traffic and sometimes in time-consuming searches for information.
With a database and a database search apllication like the one used on Bitnet,
we can avoid the above difficulties, saving time, energy and space.
This is one of the main objectives of setting up this list, with others linking
Japanese teachers  and  professionals from the field of educational
technology.
 
Thank you again for your support and cooperation.
 
Hideo Tomita
MLL
Kenyon College, OH
(614) 427-5800
 Tomita <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
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		LIST OF INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS   As of May, 1991
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*These people responded to the above proposals. We had no previous contact
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