On 16 December, a training seminar for faculty and staff from those higher educational institutions with Deaf students was held in Japan. PEPNet-Japan worked with the National Institute of Multimedia Education(NIME), NTUT, and Japan Student Services Organization(JASSO) to organize the seminar and select appropriate lecturers for the seminar. In addition, PEPNet-Japan organized a poster session at the seminar. The program for the seminar was as follows:
In addition to this business meeting, PEPNet-Japan had a pre-session at which the notetaker training programs at each partner institution were discussed. Three presenters from PEPNet-Japan partner institutions shared information about their training programs, their training curricula, and how they recruit and train notetakers. There was a midterm report by Ms. Kyoko Seto (Doho College, Nagoya) regarding the PEPNet-Japan notetaker training program and materials development project-one of the three major projects of PEPNet-Japan. Participants in the meeting were able to consider differing approaches for developing their notetaker training curriculum and materials. All participants agreed to cooperate in the development of their respective notetaker training programs.
| 10am | Opening | |
| 10:10 to 11:00 | Current situation and issues on notetaking service for Deaf and hard of hearing students(Haruyasu Ohta) | |
| 11:10 to 12:00 | How the Deaf and hard of hearing students feel in your class? A Short exercise regarding notetaking. (Jo Matsuzaki) | |
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00 to 13:30 | Remote interpreting and captioning service systems (Ichiro Naito, Shigeki Miyoshi) | |
| 13:40 to 14:10 | Deaf student support using captioning via voice recognition (Takayuki Kanazawa) | |
| 14:10 to 14:40 | Real-time synchronized captioning with movies and power point presentations (Takaaki Ohkura) | |
| 14:40 to 15:00 | Discussion | |
| 15:15 to 15:45 | Support services for Deaf and hard of hearing students in higher education: What we should do now? (Mayumi Shirasawa) | |
| 15:45 to 16:00 | Summary |
There were 50 participants at the seminar from across Japan.
