Key Words:
Participants from seven countries
including Jimbabwe in Africa and Papua Newguinia
Capacity: 300
Real time video conference
Keynote speech by Prof. Kunio Goto,
President of Tokai Schoolnet
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World Youth Meeting in Nagoya, '99
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1 The aims of this conference:
The current drastic development of technologies and media
show us possibilities of changes in many aspects. Schools, organizations
for cross-cultural understanding, the attitudes of citizens for cultural
exchange.
World Youth Meeting in Nagoya, '99 is held for the purpose
of introducing such new phases of exchanges by citizens and provides opportunities
of international communication with the youth as the leaders of the coming
21st century. It is our honor and pleasure to hold this conference as the
place to give presentation to share thier opinions and infomration after
the young people communicated with the ineternet.
2 Name World Youth Meeting in Nagoya, '99
3 Supported by Nagoya Kinjo Lions Club, Nagoya International Center
4 Cosponsers: Center for Educational Computing
5 Special Cooperation: Nagoya City Seiryo Commercial High School
6 Cooperation: Epson , Uchidayoko, Allied-Tellesis, KDD, Nippon Telegraph and Pelephone Corporation, Child Research Net, Tokai Schoolnet Kenkyukai
7 Koen Meigi, the following supports this conference: Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya City, The Aichi Prefectural Board of Educaion, The Nagoya City Board of Education:
8 Support: Matsushita Audio Visual Education Foundation
9 Date: July 31, 1999 (Sat)
10 Place: Nagoya International Center Hall
1-47-1 Nagono, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, 450-0001
Nagoya International Center
11 Capacity: 300 (High school students, young people,
teachers, citizens, guests from other countries)
Registration:
12 Contents: The youth who have communicated via Internet
are invited to Nagoya International Center. High school students, exchange
students, and teachers get together in and out of Nagoya City to disscuss
and communicate one another.
Topics: Japan seen from my country, Volunteer activities
13 Countries of participants: Germany, Australia, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Korea, Taiwan,
14 Before the conference: Participants communicate through Internet as the preparation of the conference. They utilize Internet to show degital images taken at each place. Comments are added to explain the images in English.
15 Schedule:
World Youth Meeting in Nagoya
July 30
Participating students meet at Seiryou in the morning.
10:00 Self-introduction of the
students
10:30 Chatting time to know each
other well
11:00 Preparaion for the conference
next day
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Go out with digital cameras
to take pictures in Nagoya city, mainly at Osu and Sakae areas
14:00 Come back to Seiryo and
make webpages with the pictures and write comments on them untill 16:00
17:00 Reception at Nagoya International
Center"
19:00 Go home with host families
July 31 World Youth Conference
10:00 Have a rehersal at Nagoya
International Center Hall
12:45 Opening attraction by Seiryo
High School Dance Club
13:00 Keynote speeches by
Prof. Kunio Goto of Nanzan University,
Ms Irene Langner (GMD), Mr. Tanaka of Osaka University of Education
13:40 Papua New Guinea "Volunteer"
14:00 Germany "Beethoven and My
Town"
14:30 Republic of Korea
CU-SeeMe session included
14:30 - 14:40 Intermission
14:50 Australia "Japanese Language
Class in My School and the Olympic Games in 2000"
15:20 Taiwan " AJET club of My
School" and "My School Life"
15:40 Japan " Our International
Collaborative Projects" by Seiryo
16:00- 16:10 Intermission
16:15 Zimbabwe ," Japan As We see
It In Africa.' ,"The Internet And how it affects Learning"
16:35 Mr. Makoto Kageto "For the
21st Century"
16:50 Closing Speech
17:00 Confernce is over
August 1
Sight Seeing by Bus.
As for teahcer , teachers conference
about internet use in education.