9th March 1996

Internet Usage Status at Small-sized School
Booting of "Lessen Room" and Future Expectation
Katsurao Junior High School
Masakuni Watanabe

"Communications and Study"
Hikari Junior High School of Yamaguti Univ.
Nobuo Kamimura

From Tool to Media, Hand-made Intelligent School
to Open Classroom Window to the World
Otsu-municipal Hirano-elementary school
Kazuhiko Ishihara

Junior High School Classroom Club Activity for
Pleasant Use of Internet From international joint work
"Russia Japan Summer Computer Camp School"
Shimizu Kokusai High School
Tsuyoshi Iyanagi

Internet at School Having Small Number of Terminals
Kounan Elementary School
Yuichi Fujimura

Use of Internet at Computer Operational Subject
Future Use of Internet
KEIO GIJUKU FUTUUBU HIGH SCHOOL
Akira Arakawa



100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No.1 Sub-committee
Internet Usage Status at Small-sized School
Booting of "Lessen Room" and Future Expectation

Katsurao Junior High School
Masakuni Watanabe




Our Katsurao Junior High School is a small-size school having only 97 students and 12 teachers. Although the equipment to be connected to the Internet was delivered in June 1995, it could not be used as a reliable educational equipment since problems frequently occurred to the server. In the first half semester, possibility and the direction of use of Internet were mainly pursued mainly at elective subjects. After trials and errors, the following points were selected for utilizing the high-degree information services of the Internet:
(1) Use of the Internet as the tool for gathering information
(2) Use of the Internet as the mean to transmit our information
(3) Use of the Internet as the environment for upbringing the communication ability
 In the second half semester, the equipment began stable operation thanks to the great effort by supporting personnel, the Internet was actively used in many classrooms. At present, lessens using the Internet have been conducted at all classrooms and the "Lessen Room" containing summary of lessens are booted up.

Result
With the conventional computer education, activities of students and computer were limited in a closed world, we noticed that the Internet was just an entrance beyond which were vast number of living people and the world of infinite information.
Students feel free to operate the Internet and handle it as if they are indexing the information at a library or handling stationaries.

Future Theme

By experiencing voluntarily activities repeatedly, lessens are changing from "being taught by teachers" to "study by themselves." We recognize that the important role for teachers is how to support students who want to study with intelligent curiosity.
100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No.1 Sub-committee
"Communications and Study"

Hikari Junior High School of Yamaguti Univ.
Nobuo Kamimura




1. Network and Study by Students
(1) Internet Wherever (Internet from 50 places in the school)
We understand that it is essential that students feel free to use the Internet without limitations and fix it as a part of daily life for students who have different subjects from student to student in the environment of school. We believed that the Internet must be handy for students any time and anywhere. So, we established the environment which we call as Internet Wherever. (See Figure 1.)
(2) Although advices from advanced people were valuable in constructing such a network, the most important point was that we could work jointly with students. This created a consciousness of our own network and students recognized importance of people who support it.
(3) Interchange by mail and activities of media kids causing changes to teachers and students themselves
At present, the Internet is available everywhere including the computer room, classrooms, staff room and student meeting room. The habit of students and teachers has changed from carrying floppy disks to using the network for interchanging data, reading mails addressed to each student and exchange the information anywhere at any time. Restrictions that a student must go to the computer room where tens of computers are installed to access the network or limitation of the time allowed per use are eliminated. Students feel that free use of the network is guaranteed and have feel of active participation to the network. Changes we noticed are listed below.
(4) Own town and native town observed by students
As information interchange is deepened, students felt the fact that they did not know their native town. This makes them to begin reconfirm facts and events around them (including facts first known by them and noticed). To our surprise, their consciousness on desire to know more about their own town has been improved. While "going out" for knowing the facts is not suitable for the education purpose, they began to form their knowledge in a physical mean, that is, "expression" for remote people.

2. Lessen development utilizing Internet ("Change of weather" at science classroom)
A classroom where factors determining the weather (temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative humidity) and results of tests on how the cloud, fog and rain are produced are correlate with the factors of the personal weather observation for forecasting in order to prove that old way of forecasting the weather has the scientific reasons and to achieve more accurate weather forecasting. As for the personal weather observation, students gathered data by asking people and checking materials. Unless they experience by themselves, however, students cannot know if the method is applicable on at the local area or true everywhere. So, the information is gathered from wide ranges of areas using the Internet. Based on experience by themselves and others, students expressed the accuracy of weather forecasting by personal observation quantitatively or by words. The information obtained was shared by all students and evaluated to judge if the personal observation for weather forecasting is generally effective. We made students to write cards telling that asking and gathering others' opinion and information are useful to summarize their way of thinking, to return them to the originators of the information. We thought that the information originators would think that they would appreciate the relationships with their friends. We carried out the classroom expecting that students would gain the consciousness on observation of nature through relationships among friends and people who provided the information.
100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No.1 Sub-committee
From Tool to Media, Hand-made Intelligent School to Open Classroom Window to the World

Otsu-municipal Hirano-elementary school
Kazuhiko Ishihara




We have been involved in the educational use of Internet, with the slogan of "One step by 100 people than 100 steps by a person", ever since our participation to the 100 school project was approved.
As the first step, we installed cables by ourselves to create a so called Intelligent School in the campus. Computers in eight higher degree classrooms, computer room, health room, handicapped classroom and staff room were connected by the Ethernet, and total of about 25 computers are connected to the Internet. Students of our school thus can come into contact with and facing to the Internet during their daily lives.
Practical activities ranges from announcement of top news being checked through the server in a newspaper company at the morning meeting by students in charge on each day and to opening of the computer room so that students who want to enjoy the NetSurfin freely during intermissions. As each student of higher grade has individual account of the electronic mail, there are many who write letters to their friends during intermissions. An interesting example was that a student asked what would be the dinner on that day to his mother who was engaged in the university laboratory and received a response of vegetable curry, using the electronic mail.
The second point was that we had lessens at all classrooms from the 1st to 6th grades and the handicapped classroom, on the theme of "Utilization of Internet." Actual use of the Internet in the classroom was launched in September. In September, lessen was given to the 1st grade classroom followed by a lessen in the 4th grade classroom in October. In November, we held a small lessen study meeting. There, lessens for the 3rd, 5th and 6th grades were opened to the public and we received valuable advices from many people. Then, we held lessens for the 2nd grade classroom in December and then for the handicapped classroom in January.

GradeLessenLessen name How Internet is used
1st gradeLife lessenSecrets about rabbitAsked questions to Sugisaki teacher of Takatori Senior High SchoolH0 Pref.
2nd gradeLife lessenWinter comes to the townAsked facts and lives in winter to schools in Hokkaido.
3rd gradeSocial studiesStores and our daily lives Studied various products in Japan using WWW.
4th gradeSocial studiesLake and nationalFﾐShiga Pref.Facts about the Biwa Lake and roads summarized by ourselves were transmitted.
5th gradeScienceWeather by temperature change Conducted weather forecast using images received from weather satellite Himawari.
6th gradeClassroom activityVirtual world orientating Enjoyed virtual trips to worldwide WWW servers.
Handicapped classroomLifeLet's play with computer, part IV Used "Hiragana Zoo" developed by Yogo School Attached to Shiga University.

Interchange with overseas schools also began. A 5-grade classroom is conducted letter exchange with an elementary school in Canada. Towards the end of the last year, an American who saw our home page visited us.
The first year of the 2-year 100-school networking project is planned as the year for "trail." During the half year we could actively used the network, anything that can be reported as the result have not been accomplished. So, good points of the Internet we learnt are summarized to confirm the bases of our full-scale activities in the coming year.

(1)Through use of the Internet at the existing lessens, the degree of study can be deepened. For example, students were encourage to study further in depth by utilizing images received from the weather satellite Himawari at the weather study classroom (http://www.is.kochiu.ac.jp/weather/index.sj.htm) and acquiring vast information of and observing various images of planets (http://www.cec.or.jp/es/mirrors/9planets/TNPJP/nineplanets/). Use of the Internet permits studies which were impossible by the conventional lessens.

(2)Wide interchange with other schools becomes possible by using Internet, overcoming the distance and types of school.
At the fish industry lessen of a social study classroom, students asked questions to a fish industrial senior high school in Kagoshima Pref. By receiving the information on special products at various areas in Japan, students studied local special products, feeling as if they were traveling all over Japan (http://www.hirano-es.otsu.shiga.jp/products.htm).

(3)Easy interchange with overseas countries
Soon after we booted an English home page, we received inquiries and desire for mail exchange from overseas readers. We did not expected to feel friendly with overseas schools which we thought that they were far away to communicate with.

(4)The most fruitful result is establishment of linkage with people.
We have met with people who are impossible to meet without the Internet and had a fulfillment feel that both of us were aiming at the same target of the educational use of Internet under cooperation. We hope to let students have the same feel in the next year.

100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No.1 Sub-committee
Junior High School Classroom Club Activity for Pleasant Use of Internet From international joint work "Russia Japan Summer Computer Camp School"

Shimizu Kokusai High School
Tsuyoshi Iyanagi




1) Introduction
One of the important features of the Internet media in the educational use is the fact that international joint works are possible through communications between classrooms, eliminating distance existing between the two classrooms. It is possible to create a small utopia without walls of national borders, nations, races and culture difference when children cooperate each other on the Internet. We are pleased to report our activities using the "Global Club" as the example, which is the name of our personal computer communications for international interchange using the Internet at the classroom club of our junior high school.

2) What is personal computer communications club "Global Club"
The club activities are carried out at the weekly, 50-minute classroom and the voluntarily club (throughout the junior and senior high schools) after school, aiming at experiencing joint international work using the Internet. All students from the 1st to the 3rd grade of junior high school join the club. An ID is obtained for each project and shared by all classrooms and the club. The Global Club has a history of 2 years in use of the personal computer and 3 years in use of the Internet, totaling 5 years. It proposes unique projects created by the club and participates international projects being sponsored by other networks. Examples include the Tanabata Project, Russia-Japan Summer Computer Camp School, Forest Project, Christmas Project, International Picture Book Edit Project, etc. Countries we communicate with are U.S.A., England, France, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Peru, South America, etc.

3) Participation to Russia-Japan Computer Camp School
The facility is located at the Preslavl-Zalessky Lake in the suburbs of Moscow, built under assistance by the UNESCO and open only during the summer vacation. We have continued interchange for 3 years. Ages of Russian participants ranges from 9 to 15 and mainly English is used as the language. Since the person in charge in Russia speaks Japanese, interchange in Japanese is also possible. The number of participants in Russia is about 8 and communications are concentrated for 1 month.

4) '95 Camp School Interchange Programs
The programs of the '95 Camp School included 1) joint design of handkachiefs with natural grass patterns, 2) joint design of portrait picture handkerchiefs, 3) exchange of natural animals, 4) international Tanabata festival by exchange of Tanabata strip paper, 5) exchange of hand-written Japanese (with images inserted), 6) exchange of English mails, 19 characters x11 lines, 7) joint edition of creative picture book (square shape), 8) joint edition of Diana & Heda-Go international picture book, 9) joint edition of legend "Hagoromo," 10) joint design of Japanese and Russian wooden dolls, 11) joint design of Russian wooden spoons, 12) exchange of Russian and Japanese butterfly images , 13) creation of flower calendar, 14) edition of picture book, English story created by Russian children for pictures drawn in Japan, 15) picture book edition of "Golden Fish" which has been continued since the 1st camp school, and 16) farewell fire cracker meeting

5) Hardware and software used
During the last summer, 300 black/white, color image and mail files were successfully interchanged by the test base using the LHA,ISH. For the interchange, each one server and client being provided from the 100 school project and 2 offline Windows terminals were used.

6) Result and problem areas
Before participating to the 100 school project, only mail exchange was possible for us. Our long desire of exchanging color images was presented by the project, permitting even international joint edition of color international picture books. Students tell that they feel like a dream comes true that, although they cannot speak Russian, they can design handkerchiefs under the theme of Russian and Japanese natural grass using color images, overcoming the language barrier. This project, we consider, is successful in that it gives dreams not only to us, but also children in the world. Interchange with the Internet, however, can be realized only when communicating people exists. To find a good partner and establish a reliable international relations cannot be done by 1 or 2 years. We hope that the project will be continued and further developed in the future.

100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No.1 Sub-committee
Internet at School Having Small Number of Terminals

Kounan Elementary School
Yuichi Fujimura




1. Introduction
We only have a single client which is provided by the 100 school project at our school. The number of stand alone personal computers is limited to three. We studied how best we can utilize the Internet under such a condition.

2. Natural expansion with the core of a club having small number of mastered club members
Terminals are located at the Internet corner specially prepared in the staff room for the control reasons. Because of the limited space, only a small number of students is allowed to use the facility. So, a club we called "Internet Club" was founded and rules of the activities were determined as follows:

The operation methods for obtaining the information which is interesting to children were expanded to all students, as if they learn games and play, without need of instructions by teachers. We are arranging contents of instructions needed to expand the free use of Internet during intermission, which is carried out to the 6th grade students on the trial basis, to all students. The plan is scheduled to launch in April this year and we are planning to teach manner and cautions necessary at the initial introductory period to the network society.

3. "Northern City Information Service" by sister school interchange committee
We decided to use the Internet at the bi-monthly committee activity in addition to the Internet Club. Because of the nature of the committee, it was not possible to limit the number of committee members and the sister school interchange committee was composed of 20 students.
Because of the larger number of students and limited available time compared to the club, the importance was put to deepen interchange in terms of the contents rather than direct operation. The activity contents are as listed below.

The following results were obtained through the above activities:
Students deepened their studies beyond our expectation with the reverse way of thinking that the snow and cold weather are treasure for them after knowing the pleasure of receiving responses telling, "well, it is like that in the northern city" or "it's a good way," etc. This could not have accomplished without the excellent information transmitting mean of Internet.

4. Release of client at library to students
We tried other programs such as at the lessen on international understanding and observation of the total sun eclipse at the science classroom. We had difficulties because of the slow transmission speed and support of prior data acquisition at the cache memory was needed. As students hesitate to enter the staff room, two new clients were installed in the library to permit free use by students during intermissions, with additional two stand alone terminals. Since many students and staff members use the library and it is located in front of the staff room, the location is ideal, eliminating our worry on accessing to undesired data. Students enjoying Internet in library






100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No.1 Sub-committee
Use of Internet at Computer Operational Subject Future Use of Internet

KEIO GIJUKU FUTUUBU HIGH SCHOOL
Akira Arakawa




1. Introduction: Computer education at Keio Gijuku General Course
The General Course had introduced the language education by the FORTRAN language before the personal computer gains popularity, using the large-sized computer installed in the computer center of the university. In 1987, the IBM JX was installed in the computer classroom to language education of 3 languages, BASIC, PASCAL and FORTRAN, mainly for reachers of the mathematics. In 1990, the FM-TOWNS was installed from Fujitsu to allow more wide applications from mainly by mathematics to wordprocessing and color images using the pain function. There are two classrooms per week as the standard curriculum, for which students select optional subjects, and, while art was the main elective subjects, the computer was adopted 4 years ago. Although the language was the main subject at the initial year, exchange of electronic mails began 3 years ago using the UNIX, leasing the computer center of the university. As the computer center was strengthened, it provided the environment permitting students to use the Internet. The General Course students began operation of the Internet on the UNIX, using EMACS as the editor. The Internet became widely introduced in the society and we obtained the information of the 100 school project, to which we were pleased to participated. It was November when each one server and client were installed in the meeting room, thanks to the 100 school project. At present, we are considering replacement of the model existing in the computer room and planning to let students use the Internet in that room.

2. Lessen contents at elective subject in fiscal 1995 under guidance by teachers Tadayuki Ishida and me
Content: To use computers actively under the Internet environment and to conduct international interchange using the electronic mail service.
To participate in the world school and actively play roles as a team of Japanese branch (WSJ).
Contents of lessens:
4/15: Guidance, registration of users, cautions on use of the Internet, North Pole Project
4/22: login, logout, mail transmission, EMACS
5/6: EMACS, mail send/receive, history of North Pole Project
5/13: Japanese input by EMACS, mail send/receive, introduction of talk
5/20, 27: talk, mail send/receive, history of North Pole Project
6/3: How to use MS-WORD
6/10: How to use MS-EXCEL
6/17, 24: Preparation of report
9/16: Plans in 2nd semester, report on North Pole Project, mail send/receive
10/14, 21, 28: C language, mail send/receive, FTP
11/4, 11, 18, 25, 12/2: Preparation of report
1/13: World school video and mail send/receive
1/20: Distribution of Christmas presents, mail send/receive
1/27: Mail send/receive, gopher
2/10: Book search (OPAC at university library)
2/17: Lecture "Meaning of Information Renovation--from Standpoint of Software Researcher" by Morio Nagata, Management Engineering Dept., Keio Gijuku University

The above was introduced in the Mita Hyoron Vol.Jan. under the title of "Internet Activities at General Course." Students are learning many things through the most advanced information system of the Internet.
Our opinions and impression are under summary jointly with students using a home page.

Impression:
I am surprised on the convenience obtained by using the Internet. Various information can be obtained from far away places while sitting in the home (or school). The information can be sent accurately and quickly than letters. There are many user-oriented useful features in the system. I wish to continuous use the "technology connecting the world" in a wider range of applications.
It is splendid to exchange mails with same aged people in the U.S.A., yet, it is only a part of features available. It should be a wonderful world if I could use all features freely.
People in the overseas countries who were people living in a different world are now felt as friends of mine. I feel that students feel in the same way and re0the necessity more than me.

Please send your comments and opinions to: arakawa@kf.hc.keio.ac.jp