LET: The Treasure Hunt Club

Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Welcome to October. Though the column this month features Halloween as
its topic, I’ll be introducing a variety of sites―something for
academic searching, a place to be creative or let your learners get
creative, and a tool that just might save you some time.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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When I first came to Japan years ago I was impressed by the widespread
use of maps. People drew maps for each other when giving directions,
for example, and almost every advertisement seemed to feature a map of
some sort. Times have changed, everyone has a cell phone and
businesses now all have websites, but the use of maps has not. There
still seems to be one on every site these days―only now it is usually
an embedded interactive Google map.

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Many years ago I paid about $20 for a nice little software program
called SnagIt by a small company called Techsmith. It did only one
thing but it did it very well―it allowed me to take pictures of part
or all of my computer screen and save them as files. Over the years, I

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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You probably have a memory stick, a flash memory device that you
connect to your computer by plugging it into a USB port. In fact, if
you are like most people these days, you probably have more than
one―either on a keychain, in your bag, permanently plugged into your
desktop computer, or maybe all of these. Over the last few years,
these convenient devices have been increasing in memory capacity and
speed and decreasing in price. It is now possible to buy a high-speed

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Marcel Van Amelsvoort
（Kanagawa Prefectural College of Foreign Studies）
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Hello everyone. Right now you are probably in the middle of the term and too
busy with your own classes at the moment, so this month I’d like to give you
something to put away and think about for later. I also would like to
introduce something we all need to keep our eyes on for the future, Google
Wave.

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