Handmade original contents using new information communication technologies and school activities

―Collaboration with domestic and foreign schoolteachers―

Abstract

　The university students have created handmade original contents with the following three Information Communication Technologies (ICT), (1) the dot codes that can link multimedia like audios, movies, html files, Web pages, and PowerPoint files, (2) e-books with Media Overlays and/or Authoring function, and (3)Augmented Reality (AR). One of the present authors (S. I.) with the university students has conducted cheerful school activities in the events of student festival at Kashiwagi elementary school (ES), student work exhibition at Shimoyugi ES, and reading period at the school library of Honmachidahigashi ES. The younger students and schoolteachers warmly welcomed the teaching materials created by the university students. Some of the materials were used for the staff (teacher) training at school, and asked to pass them to the younger students in the class. Collaborative teachers at special needs and general schools have developed their original handmade contents for the students with individual needs and desires, and conducted effective activities to help those students in their classes and homes. Collaborative research works with the staffs at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, Wayne State University in the U.S.A, and East China Normal University in China have been started; the dot code technology developed by a Japanese venture business company is spreading over the world. One of the present authors (S. I.) has joined the workshop for junior and senior high school female students, held at Wayne State University; continuous workshops aim to promote their science and math learning. S. I. introduced their female students to new technologies developed by Japanese companies and made a deep impression on them.