Center for Educational Computing

The Section for the Promotion of Network Use^The Voluntary 100-School Networking Project

The 100-School Networking Project

The joint utilization project for FY 1995

[The information exchange-type of usage project]

(The respective participants furnish information so as to create an arena for information exchange. How the information is most profitably used after it is selected and dealt with will depend on the plans of the various participants.)

[Themes]

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The exchange of teaching materials and learning aids

[Outline]
All types of materials and teaching aids that can be applied to the learning process are exchanged. Chiefly for teachers.

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Local information exchange

[Outline]
Each month a theme is fixed and information is exchanged in the form of differing regional characteristics, local news, differences in the thinking of the students, etc.

[The status of activities]
To the theme home pages

[The joint learning-type of usage project]

(The participants embrace shared objectives, collaborating and acting in concert with each other.)

[Themes]

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Nationwide market research

[Outline]
Research is conducted into the prices and types of merchandise available in each locality, and a summary is presented of the differences in commodities in terms of prices, season and region.

[The status of activities]
To the theme home pages

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The compilation of data bases

[Outline]
A joint data base is compiled on the methods of collecting trash around the nation.

[The status of activities]
To the theme home pages

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Investigations on acid rain

[Outline]
Acid rain pH measurements are conducted. Samples are taken in unit quantities from the time it begins raining and submitted for testing at a specialist institution. The data obtained and the analysis results are then shared.

[The status of activities]
WWW enables data input from each of the participating schools. Reuse of registered data is also possible.
To the theme home pages

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A single tree(Bioecological research)Recruiting new member schools(Information is presented here.)

[Outline]
Member schools conduct continuous observations on a single tree in their neighborhood and compare notes on the nature of the variations depending on the region.

[The status of activities]
Observation records are registered on WWW.
To the theme home pages

[The network conference-type of usage project]

(We conduct network e-conferences, which involves the transmitting of information and the exchange of views on a real-time basis. The format to be put on trial will include the providing of a conference space over the period of several weeks, during which the exchange of opinions can take place.)

[Themes]

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Issues occurring on our doorstep

[Outline]
An exchange of views is carried out via the network concerning everyday events around us. Themes will be set on a separate basis for elementary, junior high, and senior high schools.

[The status of activities]
To the theme home pages

Opinion exchange with people of learning and experience

[Outline]
Video real-time meetings etc. will be implemented with the kind of people one does not, under normal circumstances, have access to.

[The status of activities]
To the theme home pages

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Network lectures

[Outline]
Virtual lectures will be held via the network for the raising of issues and the offering of talking points. Questions, queries, and views will also be exchanged over the network.

[The status of activities]
To the theme home pages

[Special education joint usage project]

(Although we would like children and pupils of various special educational institutions to take part actively in our general themes wherever possible, this project is being planned so as to focus in this category on disabilities.)

[Themes]

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Applied to special education

[Outline]
With a view to "eliminating the differentiating aspects posed by disabilities," themes will be implemented of a type that aim at effective use of the Internet in the "field of special education." We intend to conduct this from an overall viewpoint, without limiting subjects solely to disabilities.

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Accessibility

[Outline]
Themes will be implemented that enable research surveys to be conducted on the accessibility of Internet usage for those with visual and physical disabilities.

[Network contest]

[Outline]

These are contests created on the network so as to provide virtual exhibition space for any digitizable creative products of children and pupils. Now in progress are the theme section "The Future of our Town" and also the specified modeling software section "Kika-Koen."

(Kika-Koen employs software developed in 1994 by IPA for the design of three-dimensional figures.)