HANDS ACROSS THE WATER: A TIU/TIUA Collaborative Project

Phase II
Fall 1996


Part 1 - Introductions

• Thursday, Sept. 26 - Prof. Wayne Gregory assigns each of his students to e-mail the TIU students with a self-introduction.
• Monday, Sept. 30 - Prof. Barry Duell assigns each of his students to e-mail the TIUA students with a self-introduction.
• Tuesday, Oct. 1 - Gregory assigns his TIUA students to edit the e-mail messages once they are received and send back comments. The TIUA students should include a request for a response from their TIU partners upon receipt of the edited e-mail messages.
• Monday, Oct. 7 - TIU students should have received their edited messages and should respond to TIUA students by Monday, Oct. 14.
• Monday, Oct.14 - Part 1 completed.

Part 2 - Questions & Learning Materials

• Monday, Oct. 14 - TIU students send questions to TIUA students about life in Salem and at Willamette University.
• Tuesday, Oct. 15 - TIUA students send questions to TIU students about life in Kawagoe and Japan.
• Thursday, Oct. 24 - By this date, TIUA students have responded by posting answers and accompanying language learning materials on the project Web page.
• Monday, November 11 - By this date, TIU students have sent all requested information to TIUA students.

Part 3 - Internet Video-Conference

• Sunday, Nov. 17/Monday, November 18 - Both classes participate in an interactive, videoconference over the Internet. Students should be prepared to share their evaluation of the experiences.
• Monday, Nov. 25/Tuesday, Nov. 26 - Students write and turn in to the professors their written evaluations of the experience.
• Tuesday, Nov. 26 - Project is complete

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Original text by Wayne Gregory. Adapted for the Web by Barry Duell.
Last changed: October 9, 1997