"December 1st: Your First ONLINE Test"

"November 16: Entering your weekly topics through a WWW Form" "

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"October 1st: What your final test HTML Home Page should look like" "
"September 14: Common mistakes made by most students when creating the "Executive Report" "
"September 1: Corrections and Evaluations to your Executive Report "
"June 18: How to create your report Part 1. "
"June 2: How to efficiently search the Lycos search engine. "
"May 31: Please send me e-mail about your topics and partners"
"May 17: More Information Next Week"
"May 16: What to do Now???"
"May 16: Contacting by e-mail your partners on researching topics"
"May 16: Your assigned topics by class"
"May 15: Sending mail to each other"
"May 15: Ms-word and e-mail"
"May 8: About sending e-mail to professor"
*************************************Corrections to your FIRST Gakushuin ONLINE TEST ****************

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""December 16st: Corrections to your First ONLINE Test"

• December 16st, 1996
• Subject: : Corrections to your first ONLINE test through the WWW Internet.
• Detail Information

If you click here you will be taken to the Corrections of your ONLINE WWW Internet test. Hopefully, this will clarify the test. The first 20 questions have explanations why the mistakes are in error

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
*************************************FIRST Gakushuin ONLINE TEST (30 questions using e-mail) ****************

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""December 1st: Your First ONLINE Test"

• December 1st, 1996
• Subject: : Taking your first ONLINE test through the WWW Internet.
• Detail Information

• You will be taking your first ONLINE WWW Internet test today. Good luck! The test is not difficult but you need to concentrate.

If you click here you will be taken to the ONLINE WWW Internet test. You should save the Input Form URL in your Bookmarks; so you can easily go to this page.

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
*************************************WWW FORM Topic Input ****************

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"November 16: Entering your weekly topics through a WWW Form"

• November 16, 1996
• Subject: : Entering your weekly topics through a WWW Form.
• Detail Information

• Every week you will need to submit this FORM with your weekly topics included. The instructor has not chosen a single topic for each of the students. By using this form, students can select from 5-10 different topics for their weekly reports. These topics will be changed each Monday. Good luck.

If you click here you will be taken to the Input Form. You should save the Input Form URL in your Bookmarks; so you can easily go to this page.

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
*************************************First HTML ****************

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October 1: What your final test HTML Home Page should look like

• October 1st, 1996
• Subject: : Example of your Home Page after you finish entering it at Gakushuin U.
• Detail Information

• Your HOME PAGE 1st example "My First Home Page" should look like this. If it doesn't, you have made a mistake somewhere

If you click here you will see the example of your first HOME PAGE

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
*************************************CommonMistakes ****************

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September 14: Common mistakes made by most students when creating the "Executive Report)

• September 14, 1996
• Subject: : Corrections and Evaluations to your Report-Part 1 (Executive Overview)
• Detail Information

• After you have looked at the corrections to your reports done on September 1, 1996, you should study this section because it identifies the common mistakes made by almost all of the students. This is true even if the student has studied English outside of Japan.
• In this section, most of the common mistakes are identified and suggestions for avoiding these mistakes in the future are given.

If you click here you can study the common mistakes made by most students in writing their reports.

You should keep this information in your Bookmarks in Netscape.

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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September 1: Corrections and Evaluations to your Report-Part 1 (Executive Overview)

• September 1, 1996
• Subject: : Corrections and Evaluations to your Report-Part 1 (Executive Overview)
• Detail Information
• Each evaluation includes the following:

1. A copy of your original Executive Report
   • This is an exact copy of the Executive Report you wrote before the summer vacation. No corrections or comments are included.
2. Instructors suggested Grammatical and logical corrections
   • Your original Executive Report has been corrected. These corrections include grammatical corrections, where required.
   • Where necessary, sentences have been changed to more idiomatic English expressions.
   • Whenever a correction or change has been made, an explanation of why the change was made has been included.
   • You should print off your reports and compare your original English "Executive Report" with the corrected version. This is a learning experience.
   • Almost all of your "original" uncorrected "Executive Reports" were understandable. That is very important! Most of you did a very good job at explaining your ideas in English. However, if you seriously study the corrections, you will discover that you can even do a Better Job by improving your use of English grammar and English sentence structure.
3. Questions for further research to be included in the "Body" of the Report
   • This section identifies some additional questions or requirements for the rest of your report".
   • You should work together with your "team" to develop the "Body" of the Report...another 3- 5 pages. These questions should help you in your research and thinking about the rest of the report.
   • If you have questions or comments, please send me an e-mail.

If you click here, you can select your report topic and see the instructors corrections and evaluations.

You should keep this information in your Bookmarks in Netscape.

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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June 18: How to create your report Part 1.

• June 18, 1996
• Subject: June 18: How to create your report Part 1.
• Detail Information
• Many of you have already begun researching your report and are getting reading to write the report. Your report should be divided into three (3) separate sections.
  1. Executive Overview
  2. Main Body of the Report
  3. Summary of the study including your opinion.

I would like you to develop the first part of your Report "Executive Overview" as a first step to completing the report.
If you click here, You can see an example of how to prepare the "Executive Overview".
You should keep this information in your Bookmarks in Netscape.

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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June 2: How to efficiently search the Lycos search engine.

• June 2, 1996
• Subject: How to efficiently search the Lycos search engine.
• Detail Information
• If you click here, you will see a demonstration on how to efficiently search the Netscape Lycos database. You should keep this information in your Bookmarks in Netscape.

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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May 31: Please send me e-mail about your topics and partners

• May 31, 1996
• Subject: Need electronic mail from you about your topics and partners
• Detail Information
• Because there were some technical problems setting up the remote system in the United States, I am a little bit late sending you information. However, everything is ok now. I would like all of you to send me an e-mail on your current status with the research topic. I have sent all of you e-mail, in addition to this comment in the Update Page.
  • You should try and work together with your topic partners.
  • There is a lot of information in the Internet about your topics. Because there is so much information, you need to "focus" your search on specific questions. In each class I have briefly discussed your topic; presented a problem for you to solve and given you some sample questions to help with your research. You should try and use these sample questions to help "focus" your searching.
  • Any time you have a problem or concern, you should send me an e-mail and I will try and help you.
  • As I stated in the e-mail to all students, this class is different from others you have taken. You will know more about the topics you research than I will. However, I will be able to help you in creating your reports.
  • Stay in touch with me!!!

"Goback to list of update topics"

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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• May 16, 1996
• Subject: More Information Next week
• Detail Information
• I will be sending you additional information next week on how to actually start searching for information about your various topics through the Web. Also, in the next 1 or 2 weeks, I will send you a sample of the type of report you are to prepare.

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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• May 16, 1996
• Subject: What to do now.
• Detail Information
• Before you start researching for your topic, you need to read the following sections in the Creative Systems group of home pages. These pages will give you background information on the Internet and, also, tell you how to use the URL and different indexes to help you search for information.
  1. Discusses what an "URL(Uniform Resource Locator) is. This section will tell you how Internet and WWW locates unique files. This describes what is contained in the "LOCATION:" on the Netscape page. Very important section. You should read and understand this and keep this section in your BOOKMARKS.

  2. Discusses how to use the different indexes on the Web. Used to find information on the Internet. Very important section. Used to find information on the Internet. Very important section. You should read and understand this and keep this section in your BOOKMARKS.

  3. You should also read all the information about Internet from my home page. You should have already saved the address of my home page.

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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• May 16, 1996
• Subject: Contacting by e-mail your partners when researching topics
• Detail Information
• After you have been assigned a topic to research, you need to contact the other students who are researching the same topic. You should use e-mail to do this. The section assigning your topics also points to a list of the email addresses for all students in your class.

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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• May 16, 1996
• Subject: Your assigned topics by class
• nformation

• I have assigned each student a topic to research. You can look at the following pages to see what topic you have been assigned to. You should also see what other students have been assigned to the same topic because you will be working together researching this topic. This information also contains the students e-mail address. After you reach these pages, you should save the address using the Bookmarks in Netscape. Then you can easily go back to these pages anytime you wish.
  1. Topics and E-mail for 9:00 Politics/Law class
     
  2. Topics and E-mail for 1:00 General English seminar
     
  3. Topics and E-mail for 2:40 Management class

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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May 15: Sending mail to each other

• May 15, 1996
• Subject: Sending mail to each other
• Detail Information
• You can contact anyone in your class at any time by e-mail. You can also send a single message to everyone in your class at the same time. If you do not understand something, you should try and contact someone else in the class because someone else might be able to answer your question. You can always contact the professor but you need to use English. You can use Nihongo to contact one of the other students in the class.

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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May 15: Ms-word and e-mail

• May 15, 1996
• Subject: MS-Word and E-mail
• Detail Information
• Some students have not finished the first assignment. If you haven't done the first assignment (creating a MS-Word document and then e-mailing to the professor), you need to do this. You can contact any student in your class by e-mail (see above) and they will tell you what to do

"Go to Professor Wachners homepage"
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May 8: About sending e-mail to professor

• May 8, 1996
• Subject: Information about Mailing a message to the Instructor
• Detail Information
  • There are two ways to mail information to the instructor.
    1. You can use the regular Denshi mail (from Internet icon in Program Manager). You should address the mail to the following addresses:
       • miles.wachner@gakushuin.ac.jp
       • creativs@pixi.com
    2. You can use the Mail from NETSCAPE. At the bottom of most of the Creative System pages, you can click on "Click here to send a mail message to the professor. This will open up the NETSCAPE window.
       • You DO NOT need to enter a Mail address. It is automatically done. Do not change this address.
       • You should enter in your message in the Subject:.
       • Enter your message in the large space available for your message.
       • To send the message you need to hit theSend key at the bottom left hand side of the mail page. This will send the mail message to your instructor. If you make a mistake you can use the Cancel key. Do not use any of the other keys.