The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of Washington and Lee University established a Copyright-free Audio-Visual Resource Center for teachers of Japanese in 1998 with the support of Washington and Lee University, The Associated Colleges of the South, and Middlebury College's Project 2001. The Resource Center consists of digitized videos and still pictures that can be used by teachers of Japanese. Digitized images are for classroom use and developing teaching materials. Since all the images are copyright-free, teachers can use them without worrying about copyrights. All the images are in the form of three CD-ROMs. Videos contain images for teaching certain grammar and for katakana reading practice. There are approximately 430 still pictures of various sorts. All the materials will be obtained at actual costs ($13.00 for three CD-ROMs and postage). For further information, go to www.wlu.edu/~kujie/slide.html or contact Ken Ujie (kujie@wlu.edu).

List of teaching materials that are already digitized, compressed and stored at the Copyright-free Audio-Visual Resource Center:

Videos

A. For teaching grammar:
1. Basic verbs (15 minutes)
2. X (place) ni Y (thing/person) ga arimasu/imasu (15 minutes)
3. Time ni X (action) o shimasu (15 minutes)
4. Permissive causative (10 minutes)
5. Expression of time (Tokoro) (10 minutes)

B. For practicing katakana reading (2 hours)

C. Video clips from Tokyo Shoseki's "Video-Cued Structural Drills": No. 8-No. 12) (30 minutes)

Still pictures (approximately 430)