Presentations about your country/home town/etc

I totally would, but I'm only in the office for 10 more minutes. 
Maybe later this week if you have time?

It's all good. We can do something on Wed or Thurs afternoon then!

last month i did a 1.5 hr presentation on ~introducing america~ for mostly older attendees of this city-wide event and i kinda went wild with it. i didnt do a lot of the overall culture thing BUT i decided to do a "virtual road trip" where i used my pics and introduced all sorts of cities around the US and showed what their individual points were, with quite a bit of history in it. i think they enjoyed it a lot!

when i have adult audiences, i like to focus on a more nuanced and less stereotypical view of the US (diversity/rural or urban issues, how my experience living in america differed from when i came here), so i think the non-game ideas you have here would definitely be interesting

i am doing an immigration and diversity presentation at a lifelong learning college next month (still have to make it tho haha) for adult students and i think i'll be doing it the same way

My brain is not functioning and my boss asked me to prepare some things about one of our sister cities.
However, I'm not sure what happyounagare is sensible. I also have no idea how long the timing has to be, when it is due by, or anything else except that my boss was going to cherry pick things.

1-Title Slide
2-Where this place is in X country, population, etc.
3-When they became a shimaitoshi
4-Wine (because that's one of their meibutsu)
5-Food
6-Famous University
7-Famous People (poet w relations to our city, plus a very famous doctor)
8-Japanese stuff in their city from us
9-Stuff from their city in our city
10-Stuff about the program that is linking us (music stuff)

thank you

It's probably going to be more of a 15 min max presentation, but I am not unhappy about per say due to how challenging the topic could potentially be and I don't need to be switching into extra languages 

alright this is a bit late but I did the presentationTM

close to two hours and with like 60+ attendees (all of them students at a lifelong learning college so they were on the older end)

actually it was quite nice and some ppl gave me really sweet kamsou at the end

15-30 mins of me rushing through my home state intro (nervous so I talked fast) and then nearly an hour on the history of immigration in the US, included but not limited to: indigenous peoples’ presence in the country and the importance of their stories and history being in the center of any discussions on who a “real American” is, the early days of european immigration and how the Spanish came to Mexico/my neck of the woods, Ellis island and its connections to the RUUTSU of a lot of Americans, who dreamers are, slavery’s role in the debate of who constitutes an American-born citizen (since those brought to the americas through the trans-Atlantic slave trade were never truly immigrants, which then tied into the diversity part of my presentation), equality vs. equity and how this would work to uplift the voices of minority groups, a lot on how the civil rights movement and MLK has been spearheaded as “the end of racism” when in fact there’s a long way to go still, even if America’s seen as the pinnacle of diversity and the melting pot. (although im not a POC I still thought it was important to give a sense of what the American conversation around diversity is like) also being from my own state and my experiences of how my own view of diversity shifted when I came to the east coast and interacted with way more different communities than I ever had at home.

somewhere in there i also went on a whole tangent on education, and how American states are split on how to present their history, and how the reparations debate is still an ongoing one. how do we represent our history while acknowledging the violence our ancestors caused/were forced to endure? This may have been a lot for my audience but I just steamrolled along with it

I was kinda worried how to end such a heavy presentation so I decided to recommend some good movies showing diversity and american culture! one slide on civil rights movement-era biopics (green book is a popular one that I picked up from an earlier presentation, also hidden figures is good when talking about feminism and intersectionality) and one on lighter movies that are more important in terms of representation. also im just a big fan of the in the heights movie and how it approaches an immigrant community in NYC and their experience of trying to find their place in America.

anyway, it was a valuable experience even though half of it was totally stream-of-consciousness and there was a lot of vocab I tripped up on since it was entirely in japanese. personally, I like going into the more nuanced view of “yes, the america you know isn’t actually real, so here’s what it’s like based on my nearly 2 decades living there” but I can only ever talk to adults about it. 

tldr; I really like giving adult education presentations on america bc I can go as deep as I want instead of doing surface-level introductions. pls feel free to samko

If it's just talking at them the entire time, they'll get bored very quickly.

I reccomend having mini games or quizzes scattered throughout the presentation (depending on length), where kids who answer correctly can win stamps or stickers from you. They go nuts over that kind of thing

how long is the presentation/time you've been given to work with the kids?

Thanks! Its a 45 minute lesson but they're expecting me to do about a 30 minutes presentation within that

You can also have time for a Q/A, but you might have to force the kids to ask questions. The teacher may also encourage them to ask you personal questions (what ___ do you like?) as well

This sounds like a super solid structure! Thanks for your help

Actually, I've been asked to do it all in Japanese, so hopefully the language won't be too much of a problem!

Heya, any suggestions for what Japanese kids find interesting about gaikoku Christmas? (specifically igirisu).
I always run out of content pretty quickly for this one coz tbh from a child's perspective Christmas is basically about presents and Santa in both Japan and the West

So much useful stuff here, thank you!