In light of the group blog Tawawa that I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve come across 6 weblogs of students who have been studying in Japan during the Spring semester, housed under the umbrella site the East Asia Center:
Andy Clark: Understanding Japanese Youth Culture Through the Interview
Austin Damiani: Cultivating Interdisciplinary Synthesis
John Grillo: Explorations in Learning Music in Japan
Abi Iverson: Developing My Artistic Self
Jaymie Wisneski: Understanding the Process of Artistic Creation
Rachel Winckler
Welcome to our cooperative blogging project! We are six university students studying abroad in Kyoto, through Friends World Program, an experiential learning center affiliated with Long Island University. This semester, five of us are experimenting with computer supported cooperative learning to carry out action research projects of our own. In combination with weekly face-to-face meetings, we will each be running our own blogs and cooperating with each other’s projects.
Sadly, it looks like I’m too late to this party, as the “The Semester is Over!” posts I found would seem to indicate. I’m not sure where these blogs will go from here, but at the very least, I recommend perusing the archives for each of these blogs, as I found some interesting analyses and takes on Japan and Japanese culture therein.
Yeah, I stumbled on this project a few weeks ago but never got around to exploring it. It is run by Aaron Campbell, who also authored three research papers on weblogs in education. Gotta read these sometime soon.
Hey don’t give up so soon, I’m maintaining my site indefinitely. So if you’re at all interested in learning about the life of your atypical foreign exchange student check in from time to time. I’m taking my BLOG with me to India next semester, it will be quite the ride (that’s for sure).
–John Grillo (aka – LeX)