Keynote Presenter

Steve McCarty

Third Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference

Honolulu, April 1998



Voluntaristic Online Education Sites

by Steve McCarty

Online Conference Background Sources

Revalorizing General Education and TEFL in Japan. Presentation at the First Annual TCC-L Online Conference, April 2-4, 1996.
"World Time Zones." Conference participants can use this 1997 report to find out the present time in Hawaii for synchronous communication events.
"Opening the Conference Gates to K-12 and Worldwide Educators" A Well Connected Educator article on how the 1996 and 1997 TCC-L conferences were conducted entirely online, by the 1997 Conference Presentations Committee Chair.

Related Scholarly Electronic Discussion Lists

The Teaching in the Community Colleges List (TCC-L) and the Online College Classroom List (OCC-L), founded by Jim Shimabukuro, Kapiolani CC. The East-West Discourse List (EWD-L), founded by Steve McCarty in Japan for those interested in Pacific Asia, with the cooperation of Judi Kirkpatrick, Kapiolani CC, and the U of Hawaii.

To join all of the above mailing lists, for example, send the message:
subscribe TCC-L Your Name
subscribe OCC-L Your Name
subscribe EWD-L Your Name
TO: listproc@hawaii.edu.

Online College Classroom List messages can be viewed on the Web, and in 1998 there has been some dialogue between 1997 and 1998 TCC-L Online Conference Keynote presenters. See, e.g.: "Reconstituti ng Academia in Cyberspace," "Re: Questions for Online Education" (by Crawford Kilian in Vancouver), then "Ethics to Guide Technology"

Let your voice be heard as well concerning online education.

Webbed MOO Home Room at DaMOO

"The Pearl Dive" For easy instructions on entering and using this MOO that the TCC-L conferences also use for synchronous communication sessions, see Steve's home page.

Asian Studies and Multilingualism

Bilingualism and Japanology Intersection
An Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library 4-star site
Global Shikoku Internet Project
Shikoku Island e-text initiative in Japanese, English and French
Legend of the Woman Diver in English and Japanese
French Guide to Shikoku Island, Japan in French
The Global Shikoku Internet Project in English
Ohio State U, Asian Database Online Community E-Newsletter
Bilingual Haiku Scroll
Notes from the Pacific Rim
Webgeist electronic literary magazine column home page
Gleanings from Pacific Asia
Contributions to Humanist, London University

Steve's Bio-Data

"Steve McCarty's (Japanese Language) Home Page"
Japanese-English bio-data and family photos
"Net Presence and Link Relations"
English language home page with site map and bio-data

Steve McCarty
(Full) Professor, Kagawa Junior College
3717-33 Nii Kokubunji, Kagawa 769-0101 JAPAN
FAX: +81-877-49-5252 (college)
TEL: +81-877-49-8041 (office, direct line)
E-mail: steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp
or steve_mc@ibm0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp

"Voluntaristic Online Education and the Future with Japan"

A Keynote Address of the 1998 TCC-L Online Conference