Team+23

=Team 17, Team 23, and Team 24 will now be working together as one big team!= =Please redesign your new wiki team page here - Teams 17, 23, and 24= = = Hopefully with a larger team you will find it easier to meet teammates in SL and move forward with a successful international exchange. You should not feel that you need to get everyone's approval before taking action. However, you should try to meet with and/or get the opinion of as many foreign teammates as is possible. But if you find after your best efforts that some or many of your teammates are not participating then please **take action** with those that are participating and **write down your decisions on the wiki** and be open to responses after the fact. Those that are active in SL and on the wiki will be rewarded with a better grade (as determined by your teacher), while the slackers will suffer the consequences. Also, now that you have a new wiki team page, try to keep it clear and neat. You do not have to re-create everything from your old pages. Simply list your team members names, create links to the old info, and do your best to decide on meeting times in SL. Moving forward, I recommend creating new linked pages for new discussions and topics, this will keep your Team page clear and easy to follow. Good Luck! -Elmo

Today, I would introduce myself to everyone. I am from Nagoya of Aichi. I have one sister and one dog. I belonged to Kendo club and I play kendo now too. It is my favorite sport. OK, now I will tell all my liking. My favorite place is Yakushima. My favorite music is J-pop. My favorite artist is X-japan. My favorite food is pizza. My favorite animal is cat. My favorite subject is science. My favaorite game soft is final-fantasy. My favorite color is gray. My favorite movie is Totoro. OK, next, I will tell all about my disliking. My least favorite season is spring. My least favorite class is math. My least favorite place is train. My least favorite food is natto. My least favorite animal is rat. My least favorite sport is volleyball. My least favorite word is "try or do best". My least favorite picture is my dog's. Here, I would addition more comments here. I do not have enough skill of PC and Second Life so please help me when I can not operate S-L. I would start my s-l life in my house too. Thank you very much!! From Maria
 * [[image:pingu.jpg]] about Maria**

Hello there! My name is John M. White and I'm a libra. I enjoy long walks on the beach and my recent music craze is Sufjan Stevens. Let's go over some of my history:
 * I am one of three children, the middle child with two sisters.
 * I have lived in Pennsylvania my whole life, but I've moved around a lot due to my father's job in the radio industry.
 * I count percussion and singing as my hobbies. I've held many jobs, from working on patents and data processing to teaching drum lessons to high school students.
 * I'm currently at DeSales University and I'm majoring in TV/Film: one day you'll see my name in credits, hopefully under "director" and not "assistant to the coffee guy."
 * My avatar name is Roderick Stransky, so don't be shy when you see me. You can email me at jw3766desales.edu so we can figure out when we can all meet online. So you SL!

Hi, everyone! I already wrote my short introduction on 'discussion' page, but I'll tell you more about me, Heejung Indigo! :)

Maybe some of you know my name, HeeJung Kim. HeeJung is my first name, so you can call me as itself or just Jung if you want. I know that it's hard to say, but I want you to remember my name for me.

As I said before, I'm double majoring in English and Japanese at PUFS, so I'm really interested in American and Japanese culture. I like reading all kinds of books, drawing cartoon as one of my hobbies, watching dramas and movies, especially foreign dramas like 'Lost', 'Prison Break', and Japanese drama called '花ざかりの君たちへ' that I'm watching interestingly these days.

I'm not good at sports, but l like watching basketball, soccer, baseball, and many kinds of sports through on TV, or in the stadium with friends. It's really exciting to see it. And, I like listening to various kinds of music, especially electronic and Acid Jazz, so I often watch music videos on TV or through the website. If you also like music, tell me and talk about it together!

When I have free time, I often chat with other foreign friends through a messenger like ICQ, MSN, and so on. These days, I don't have much time to meet many people, but I think this is a great chance to talk with you through wiki and SL. I want to see you all in SL as soon as possible and hope to have a wonderful time together during this semester!

You can also see more information about our university and small pictures of me and my friends if you click PUFS students.

Lucas Worldue
this is Lucas and sorry for a long absence. ・I am 20 years old, and sophamore at KGU. ・I am Japanese, but I was born in New York. ・live in a city between Osaka and Kobe. ・I used to live in New York for 3 years when I was 12 years old. ・I study at school of policy studies, where you can study broad area of fields such as international relations, environment, urban design, IT relations, etc. ・Last year, I mainly studied urban policy and environment. ・This year, I mainly study creativity and web design. ・I love baseball ・I also love traveling ・I also love cycling.**
 * Hello everyone!!

From Lucas

 Can you speak English?
 * Japanese Strange Virtue**

After my stay in New York for 3 years and came back to Japan, I have noticed a big difference in country characteristics between United States and Japan. When I asked American students if they can speak Japanese, they say "Yes" Then I asked them "please speak Japanses", and they could only speak Kon ni chi wa (Hello), and A ri ga to (thank you). They couldn’t even know grammar. On the other hand, I asked Japanese students whether they can speak English or not. Japanese students say “No” or “a little bit”, and nobody said “Yes”. At the same time, I asked them how many scores they got for TOEFL. Most of them had got between 450～520 average. To get these scores, you should know English grammar. However, why do they say they cannot speak English even they knew some English grammar? There are big differences in language ability and what they say in two countries. This was my big question for a while when I was 15 years old. My conclusion was that Japanese people are tended to be a modest. Historically, Japanese people’s spirit was based on Bushido. There are about seven basic important things said in Bushido, and one of them is telling be strict to yourself.

Well, I should know more about Bushido. The funny thing is that although Japanese people are unintentionally following Bushido, they don’t know much about Bushido. If you read this and interested in Bushido, or you know some of our Bushido, please give me some comments to lucas.worldue@yahoo.com Thank you!!

Hello everyone! My name is Jerry! Let me introduce myself. :->
 * //Jerry WorldUE//**

I’m from Sakai in Osaka prefecture. I like playing the guitar. Also, I like basket ball very much, but I hardly do it since enter university, because another circle it little busy. The circle’s name is AIESEC. This circle do international internship, so if you interested in it, please tell me!

And, I major in school of policy study now. Do you know this? This is the school which see the problem from many viewpoint. Therefore, we study various subject, for example, law, economic, sociology, literary and so on.

Now, I’m interested in ecology. Ecology is global issue, but we have to act locally. “Think globally, act locally” lol. Now I study Emissions Trading as the approach. Emission trading is trading of CO2. It was provided by “Kyoto protocol”. Developed country is imposed the quantity of CO2 emission reduction. Oops, sorry this isn’t introducing of myself. lol If you interested in it, please tell me anytime!! :->

I did basket ball in junior high school and did Karate in high school. I like sports very much, but I scarcely do it recently as I said head of this article. If you like sports very much too, please do any sports in second life!lol I did second life for the first time in last week, so if you are particular with second life, please teach me!!

Thank you!:->

 This time I wanna focus on negative aspects of Japanese company’s culture. ・Company’s culture senariotiry: Japanese hardly change their job. Many Japanese will work same company through their life. Therefore, in Japan there is the system the longer they work the company, the better status they can promote.

diaplomaism: In Japan, some company likely to judge the student of their college when they conduct interview. To enroll college is difficult in Japan, but we can graduate there easily, so many students don’t study after they enter the university. Companies know that. This is why some of they don’t try to see their effort after entering school but their ability which was exercised when they enter university.

But recently, above Japanese company’s culture is changing gradually because there are a lot of problem the in the system itself. There are many student who study hard after they enter the college, but such superior student go abroad because of it, so we have to change the system as soon as possible!! As one of the solution of problem, some company do unique interview. For example, certain companies do the interview through a year. This means they conduct it face to face, they see the student’s web log. They can get not temporally skill of the student but profound skill by seeing web log through a year.


 * TEAM 23 NAME : SPEAK IDENTITY**

Please write down your available time in SL here. We can make an appointment to meet each other. :)
 * Team Members || Times vailable in Second Life (SLT) || Contact ||
 * Heejung Indigo || Mon - Fri 4:00 - 5:30 a.m / Sat - Sun 5:00 - 6:00 a.m || pufsam4@yahoo.com ||
 * Jerry worldue || Mon,Wed,Fri - Sun 5:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m / Tue,Wed 5:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m || jerry.worldue@yahoo.com ||
 * Maria WorldUE || Mon - Fri 4:30 - 6:00 a.m || maria.worldue@yahoo.com ||
 * Roderick Stransky || Mon,Wed 1:00 - 8:00 p.m || jmwhite1023@hotmail.com ||
 * Sebastien Seesaw || Mon,Tue, 6:00 - 12:00 a.m / Fri 9:00 - 8:00 a.m and on weekend... || genest.s@gmail.com ||
 * Lucas worldue || Mon-Fri -4:00PM-6:00PM || lucas.worldue@yahoo.com ||
 * Lucas worldue || Mon-Fri -4:00PM-6:00PM || lucas.worldue@yahoo.com ||

I think we can probably meet on Wed 5:00 - 6:00 p.m SLT to discuss about our first assignment. We wrote about team rules, but we need to decide whether it is good or not and talk about our team name and flag as well before Fri (the third week on wiki starts on 12th, Oct). If we can't meet in SL, I'd like to talk through wiki. -Heejung

Our Team Flag
Please check here↓

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I tried to upload my pic, but it didn't work. I'll upload here. How about this? I want to make a flag which represents a global team. We all from another countries and meet, so I think this is also good as our team flag. It looks more beautiful if I give coloring to it, but I don’t know how to do it. Tell me about your opinion. -Heejung



I suppose your suggestion is nice. This flag image is world-wide so it is suitable for this course. If all have no objection, let's decide on this. -Maria

I like that pic too. :) And, I'm challenging to color it now. It's not easy, but I'll try to finish it. -Heejung

Our Team Name
I suggest "SUNSHINE" If anyone has a good idea, please write here.

I suggest "SPEAK IDENTITY" This name bring individual university initial. Suny Pufs EAul Kgu Iup Dsu ENsaT + ity Also, this team name mean "various country's student speak their culture, and discuss world issue." by jerry

I like two of the team name that Maria and Jerry suggested. Especially, I think "SPEAK IDENTITY" is good and unique. I didn't think of using the initial of individual university. :) And, I'd like to suggest "AMITIE". It's a French word which means 'Friendship'. I think it would be good to use it as a meaning that many students from various countries meet and become friends while learning and understanding each other's culture. -Heejung

I would support Jerry's idea. It is unique and also having a impact. Does anyone have another good idea? If no, let's decide on "SPEAK IDENTITY" for our team name. -Maria

I also think Jerry's idea is really good! As we talked in SL, let's decide it! -Heejung

We're also supposed to come up with

ten rules for our group.
I'll get this started with three rules; feel free to add your own or change the ones I suggest.
 * 1) Respect for everyone.
 * 2) Keep communication open: everyone's opinion is valid.
 * 3) If we set a time to meet, we keep it. If we can't make an appointment, we let someone know.
 * 4) Try to know another country's culture.
 * 5) Check out the hompage of wiki at least once a day.
 * 6) Try to think the issue globally in the SL.
 * 7) If we have a chance, try to speak other country's people.
 * 8) Try to think over other student's opinion.
 * 9) Do not hesitate to ask teacher when we have a question.
 * 10) Try to use new word in the SL.

I think the rules we suggested are good. :) I'd like to suggest using English and contacting & interacting with team members frequently, but I think those are already based on our rules. Is there anything to change? -Heejung