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FOLENS Seminar April 2011: What is FOLENS? Reflection on 2010 and Planning for 2011
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On 28 April, we had the first FOLENS Seminar in the academic year 2011. While sixteen FOLENS students and 4 FOLENS Head Office faculty members participated, this was also the very first seminar for those students who just joined FOLENS a week before. The seminar’s goal was to exchange views on “FOLENS” and ideas on what to do in 2011. Such a discussion is very important to start the year, while one of the important objectives of the FOLENS Seminars is to promote learning based on students’ own interests and needs.
We started the session with an ice-breaking activity, where everyone moved around and chatted with each other to create a line in various orders such as the time you woke up this morning, the number of countries you have visited, and so on. After warming up, we discussed what “Field-Oriented Environmental Leaders” are in three groups. Following the group discussion, students shared ideas that they thought most important and/or impressive, as shown below.
Ideas shared after the group discussion on “What is Field-Oriented Environmental Leader?”
Next, we reflected on FOLENS seminar activities in 2010 by looking at slides, with explanation by faculty and students who participated in them.
Finally, we discussed ideas on activities for this year’s FOLENS seminars in groups, based on our image of FOLENS and experience from the last year. While sharing ideas at the end, we realized that many of us had a strong interest in the topics related to the Earthquake-Tsunami disaster in eastern Japan on 11 March, such as natural disasters, energy, radioactive contamination, and volunteers. Based on this finding, we decided to have a discussion in the next seminar, especially on what have happened on March 11 and afterward, before finalizing this year’s plan. (SN)
| Date | 10:00-12:00, 28 April 2011 |
| Venue | Alumni 50th Anniversary Hall, Fuchu Campus, TUAT |
| 10:00- | Introduction: What are we doing today? |
| 10:10- | What is “Field-oriented Leaders in Environmental Sectors”? ～Exchange views on “FOLENS” |
| 10:50- | Reflection: FOLENS Seminar Activities in 2010 ～Reflect on what we did and what we learned |
| 11:20- | Sharing Ideas on What to Do in FOLENS Seminars ～Share ideas on what we want to do through FOLENS Seminars in 2011 |
| 12:00 | Closure – Lunch! |