9th March 1996
Lectures Until Students Freely Access to Internet
Okayama Hosen Senior High School
Hiromi Miyake and Haruo Koami
Activities at Tsukumi Senior High School,
Member of 100-School Networking Project
Tsukumi High School
Keiji Zuiki
Joint Translation Project Using Internet
Togane Girls' High School
Kunio Takahashi
Report on Under-going Activity and Future Development
Activity for Study Subject "Research on Network"
Yamura Technical High School
Yoshikazu Tezuka
Aiming at Classroom based on Versatile Expression of Information
A Trial at General Senior High School
Toyama Prefectural Daimon Senior High School
Shuji Fujii
Students Full of Spirits
Seiryo Commercial High School
Makoto Kageto
100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No. 2 Sub-Committee
Lectures Until Students Freely Access to Internet
Okayama Hosen Senior High School
Hiromi Miyake and Haruo Koami
1. May to September 1995
The equipment was installed and adjusted in May 1995 and the tentative operation launched in June.
Although we knew nothing about the Internet including what is the Internet, how to is it and how it could be used for classrooms, we started our activities putting emphasis on try and experience it.
We made a home page. (http:/www.hosen-hs.lkayama.okayama.jp)
We suggested students to use the Internet for preparation and gathering information for the coming cultural festival in July to September 1995.
Social science club: Asked a lecture to AMDA using the electronic mail. The AMDA was surprised to receive an electric mail from senior high school students and willingly accepted a lecture.
ESS, radio and other clubs: A part of 2nd grade classrooms used Internet for information gathering.
On the day of the cultural festival on September 9th, we offered opportunities to experience access to WWW of the various parts of the world, the NetSurfin, by students and general attendants. Voluntary member students planned and completed the "Challenge Information from Okayama Musiums" for experiencing the "Information from Hosen Senior High School," which is now open to the public.
2. Necessity of lecture meeting
There were many students who never even touched to the computer when they wanted to use the Internet for preparation of the cultural festival. At this stage, we thought how to use the computer and the NetSurfin operation procedure individually who wanted to learn, because of timewise limitations.
We, however, believed that instructions had to be given officially including morals.
In October and November, we released a classroom for free use by cultural clubs after school. We observed, however, that many were enjoying games.
3. Execution of training meetings
Starting in November, we held training meetings of computer introductory course to teach how to boot up a personal computer, operation procedure for acquiring the information from a vast information source of WWW, manners needed to access the Internet and rules of network usage at Hosen Senior High School.
A 2-day training course was held with 20 students at a time using one and a half hours after school. Contents on the first day included what is Internet, how to use the computer, how to use WWW Plauza and how to use the electronic mail. On the second day, students learnt how to use the NetNews and rules and cautions on use of the network. The course completion test was carried out after training course was over.
A total of 8 training courses is held until January 30, 1996, and 119 students succeeded in the tests (to whom use of the Internet was authorized).
The importance of the training course was put to make students interested in through experience of NetSurfin. Easy tests were prepared since the target was to make them succeed.
Individual lessens were given on preparation and transmission of electronic mail to those who succeeded the test and desired so.
4. Results of training course
Activation of cultural club activities
A home page of each cultural club is under preparation, aiming at a virtual cultural festival throughout the year by opening the home page containing activities of the club to nationwide readers. The number of students eagerly operating on keyboards is increasing at a cold classroom after school. There are no more students who play games.
Utilization to lessens
The "Key Pal Project" has started with the Mid Pacific Institute in Hawaii. This was proposed by the Nara Takatori Senior High School as a joint project through the network. Thirteen voluntary members of the 1st grade are participating the project from our school and actively involved in the interchange and study.
The information could not be obtained if we were not connected to the Internet. We evaluate it highly as a valuable result. Several teachers who used not to use the Internet began to use its electronic mail feature and strongly feel its effectiveness.
There are several 1st grade students who are using the Internet for gathering information for the health lessen.
We have just started our research on use of Internet for lessens of various subjects.
100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No. 2 Sub-Committee
Activities at Tsukumi Senior High School,
Member of 100-School Networking Project
Tsukumi High School
Keiji Zuiki
Our activity had to be planned from what should be done under a condition of less number of clients. The possible method was to prepare a graduation study home page that could be done even by a small number of participants. We, therefore, requested the Internet Study Group formed by 3rd grade students of the Electronics Course where the equipment was installed. The following summarizes history of their flunky activities.
May 10: Long-waiting Internet was connected.
It was a great pleasure that we were connected to the world on the same day as the anniversary of the school.
July 5: Copies of school orientation and other documents were handed to 7 member students who, in turn, input them on floppy disks.
July 14: Layout of the home page being proposed in the past began. Of the 7 students, two had been mainly involved, however, two new comers joined the activity, totaling 4 member students.
July 25: The home page was completed 100%, including a page containing the information of Tsukumi City. Creation of home page is a work requiring patience as acquiring photos of pamphlets by the image scanner, inputting sentences using the wordprocessor and understanding the HTML. The excellent home page could not be completed without Masakazu Hiramatsu who put the atmost efforts. The work would be completed if problem of the server would be solved.
July 26: As transmission from the client to the server was successful, we sent the home page to the mailing list of the 100 school project to wait for evaluation by nationwide readers.
August 4: We received high-ranked appreciation from readers of the home page through electronic mails.
August 10: The "Tsukumi Senior High School Home Page" was introduced as well as our history at the industry-school interchange conference "Virtual Realty Research Group" under guidance by Mr. Koichi Utsunomiya of the Oita University.
September 27: The group who complete the circle activity home pages prepared a questionnaire form and visited circles by themselves. We were surprised to find that an entirely voluntary activity was put into practice and delightfully felt that we were approaching the ideal stage of the theme, "to study by finding a subject of theme study by oneself." Electronic mail exchange among students was began under guidance by Mr. H. Iwanaga of the Kumamoto Prefectural Ogawa Industrial Senior High School.
October 4 to 6: During the Tsukumi Cultural Festival, the campus of 100 school project was introduced, image data of baseball player Hideo Nomo was displayed and our home pages were demonstrated.
October 7: Although we planned transmission of our cultural festival real-time to nationwide readers, we were failed because of excessively vast information and processing of data was time consuming work.
November 6: An Internet introduction corner was held, taking an opportunity of 1-day experience school.
November 7: All 43 members of the Tsukumi City Rotary Club visited with us and observed the Internet facility. Members are well known persons in Tsukumi City and interested in the system and our activities to make is impossible to adjourn as scheduled.
November 12 and 13: Our home pages were introduced at the No.2 sub-committee "100 School Project and its Periphery" at the '95 PC Conference held in Kyushu Industrial College, Information Engineering Dept. The home pages received high remarks.
November 25: Our activities were introduced at the No.3 Oita Prefecture Industry and Education Fair.
January 9, 1996: We received a response mail from a teacher of Elen Wollen High School in England, from who we had received a mail. It was decided to exchange pictures of 2 or 3 students each other and include them on the respective home pages and some representative students would exchange mails.
February 13: Our 3rd-grade students of the Electronic Course made a presentation on the study results at the Oita Prefecture Industrial Club, Student Research Conference.
February 16: Our activities presented at the Kyushu Industrial College, Information Engineering Dept. was highly appreciated and we were selected as one of the 9 member schools for the CEC joint project "practical research on voluntarily information interchange by senior high school students." Three 2nd-grade students of the Electronic Course were registered as the core group and they began information exchange with selected students nationwide.
While the home page was completed on July 26, it was regrettable that the guide to historical points in Tsukumi City using a clickerable map and the vote program on the vertical signboard of the cultural festival were incomplete because of lack of our skill. As already graduated then 3rd-grade students left a vast of data in the file including events and photos of the cultural festival, we wish to actively use the data to the future home pages without wasting them. The theme for my graduation study was use of network in computer literary and I believe that creation of a home page using the TML is ideal as the theme study where a subject is determined by oneself and study is proceeded according to one's plans. In addition, this gives an ideal opportunity for students to reconfirm on facts and events about the school and the home town by themselves. To create the home page, various technical skills are required such as the design sense of determining the layout and programming sense using the HTML language. We are proud that features of the home page of our school are all home-made by students by themselves. This good convention will be succeeded by the 2nd-grade students. As the home page functions are advancing almost every day, we wish to create more interactive and real pages by including animation and games.
Through the home page activities, we received many electronic mails. It was found that Mr. Shinichiro Ando of the NBU Media Center is one of our graduates and asked to act as an external lecturer at our Internet conference. This makes us to feel possibility in expansion of the human network. As a computer classroom being equipped with 41 Internet terminals will be completed in the coming fiscal, the in-house committee meeting is discussing various plans on full utilization of the network.
100-School Networking Project Result Reporting Conference
No. 2 Sub-Committee
Joint Translation Project Using Internet
Togane Girls' High School
Kunio Takahashi
We gathered voluntary translators using the Internet mailing list and electronic news in order to carry out edition of Japanese version of American excellent works contained in the WWW. Here, activities on the two projects are introduced, those are, "FAU Guide & Netiquette Japanese Version Project" and "The Nine Planets Japanese Version Project."
FAU Guide & Netiquette Japanese Version Project
"The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette" written by Ms. Arlene H. Rinaldi of the Florida Atlantic College was translated into Japanese by a volunteer team mainly consisted of member schools of the 100 school project. It contains guidance of the basic services and explanation of the netiquette (network etiquette) for beginners of the Internet (the Net). Its first version was issued in 1992 as a text file.
When we heard of the netiquette at aimiteno ML of the 100 school project in November 1995, we knew the document by using the Senrigan Search system of the Waseda University. We contacted the writer using the electronic mail, asking if a Japanese version is available and, if not, translation into Japanese was accepted. We received a response, "Japanese version is not available. Please translate it for Japanese readers." We, therefore, gathered volunteer translators using the aimiteno ML and began the work immediately. As of February 1996, about 90% of translation has been completed and is open to the public using the WWW. It is planned to make is open without cost using the anonymous FTP service when the work is completed.
[mEnglish version URL: http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/netiquette.html]
[mJapanese version URL: http://www.togane-ghs.togane.chiba.jp/netiquette/netiquette.html]
In relation to the above project, the "Netiquette Guidelines" (RFC1855;FY128) written by Sally Hambridge, which was introduced by Professor Muto of the Keio Gijuku University at the 100 School Project Study Meeting on January 26, has been translated to a Japanese version and released to the public by the fj news group and also through the WWW. This was also introduced by the daily electronic news named Internet Watch on February 5, and was highly appreciated being proven by 1,260 access on that day alone.
[mJapanese version URL: http://www.togane-ghs.togane.chiba.jp/netiquette/rfc1855-j.html]
Based on the above, the "Netiquette Home Page" is opened for sending the netiquette information.
[mURL: http://www.togane-ghs.togane.chiba.jp/netiquette/indix.html]
The Nine Planets Japanese Version Project
With "The Nine Planets Japanese Version Project," the solar system multimedia expedition "The Nine Planets" written by Mr. William A. Arnett is translated into Japanese under cooperation by general astronomy fans.
At the initial period after the Internet equipment was installed by the 100 school project, we enjoyed so called the NetSurfin by the WWW and, incidentally, had come to know "The Nine Planets" written by W. A. Arnett. When I was deeply impressed, I thought it would be nice if Japanese students could easily ready it to deepen their knowledge on the planet science. I, therefore, contacted Mr. Arnett asking for approval on opening a mirror (copy) and translation into Japanese, to which he willingly approved by replying, "It will be the first mirror opened in Japan and translation into Japanese is a good idea." As translating over 80 pages of the document was a tough work, I gathered voluntary translators. Although I proposed the project through the 100 school project mailing list, response was not preferable as the timing was wrong; people was busy at the end of a fiscal year. So, I sent the news through the electronic news, fj.sci.astro News Group, to receive many response from general astronomy fans. Thus, a joint translation project was started. Thanks to voluntary members with pre-condition of work without costs, about 90% of translation had been completed in November 1995 and was contained in the attached CD-ROM of the Internet Magazine 1996 January Volume. Contents of the English version are revised weekly based on the updated information and the update work on the Japanese version is now under-going. For this project, two schools is participating from the 100 school project members.
[mEnglish original URL: http://www.seds.org/nineplates/nineplates/]
[mJapanese version URL: http://www.togane-ghs.togane.chiba.jp/9planets-j.html]
Both projects are still under-going and the resultant written products are made open to the public and the FTP package is distributed without costs in order to return our benefit received from the 100 school project in the form of contribution to the society. For execution of the project, the electronic mail, WWW and FTP are used.
The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette
Japanese Version of The Nine Planets
