In Japan, most students attend the sessions from a computer laboratory, while on the East Coast, the students access the Internet from their dorms. We have used CuSeeMe video conferencing. All members of kanri are also included in the other lists so that they receive the mail traffic of each team. Fortunately, Web Crossing supports double-byte encoding in its bulletin boards. Although this is an inter-institutional project, the students and faculty at each institution consider the project as only one part of their work.
Projects normally run for six weeks, i.e. only part of a semester.
Motivations for participating may also differ. In the case of Seiryou Commercial High School, participation is a form of becoming internationalized through interaction with people overseas. The students at Chubu University are studying methods of teaching Japanese as a second language, so their motivation is partly to gain experience of possible value in their later work. Hence, only a portion of the syllabi is common to all project members. The remaining portions are specific to the each institution.