"Let's start getting some questions going for the conference discussion panellists."

Do any of the organizations already use technology to communicate with their members and other outside organizations (besides email)? If so, what do they use, is it effective and would they like to continue to use the wiki after the conference?

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You've hit on a key issue here.

BOEs across the nation are jumping on the outsourcing band-wagon.

They are well aware of the fact that contracted teachers are less likely to participate in such things as weekend conferences (that would definitely not be paid for by those teachers' employers).

However, with the extremely high turnover rate of foreign teachers, I think the BOEs believe that such professional development isn't worth it - the teachers they have now will be gone in a year or two anyway (especially if they are brokered teachers getting paid much less than direct hires to do the same job)!

So it's a vicious cycle spinning faster and faster with every year.

Before the problem can be solved, BOEs and MEXT will have to be convinced that there is a problem with this way of running their public English education system.

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Sure.

When you are working on a server that blocks certain pages that you want to access, you can try accessing those pages through circumventor sites like https://copwedding.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi .

Just go to the site and type in the url you wish to access, and -viola- it will take you there*.


*Not all cites are accessible through such circumventors. Also, you have to put up with slow page loading and bombardments of pop-ups. Still, I successfully used a circumventor to read my gmail when I was working at my previous job which had an internal network that blocked access to email accounts.

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