Japan Nearby

Thank you to the Provost of Eastern Michigan University, Jack Kay, and the Director of International Programs, Stephen Burwood, for their support of this Internationalization Stimulus Grant.

This May, I willvisit Saga Prefecture in the south of Japan to accomplish the following:

• set up scholarly connections between Saga University and Eastern Michigan University's College of Education
• begin initial planning of a Study Abroad program to begin May 2014
• engage education students at Saga University with an interactive session in which they will exchange insights into an educational topic - in this case the topic will be mobile computing in the classroom
• video, photograph, and podcast my trip taking advantage of as many Web 2.0 tools as are applicable to the classroom
• share the results in a manual for other instructors considering study abroad projects
• demonstrate the power of these tools to bring our scholarly travels back to the classroom

Saga Prefecture is on the large southern island of Kyushu