FACTSnet Alberta/Japan Network – Summer 2012

This summer the Alberta/Japan Network went through a major overhaul, and various other blogs, which will act as an extension of this network, were also initiated. In the Alberta/Japan Network blog, a new index was created and existing posts were organized into more intuitive categories.

The area that undergone the most renovation was the Historical Places to Visit, specifically the three major cities of focus related to the Alberta grade 8 curriculum: Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Kyoto. A survey was created for each of these cities so that students could rank the historical sites based on what they would like to visit if they traveled to Japan.

A new section, University Life in Japan vs. University Life in Canada, was added to the Life in Alberta & Japan portion of this network. In this section are two interviews with Japanese exchange students who spent time at the University of Alberta.

The Japanese Value blog was changed to the Japanese Language & Culture blog. New components to this blog include a section on the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test), the JET Programme, and a post on July in Tokyo in the Culture section.

The Grade 8 Alberta/Japan Network, and the Travel Blog were also created.

It’s recommended that the old index is removed from the site, and that work gets done on the Alberta/Japan Relations section. The remaining historical places to visit also need to be updated to the same standard as the three aforementioned cities, complete with the Google maps.