​The Fukuoka JALT MyShare event is an opportunity for language teachers to share their work with a wider audience and gain constructive feedback. With a semi-formal round-table discussion format, MyShare offers time for multiple presenters to explain a specific language learning activity or idea. Presenters will have 20 minutes, including discussion.

Miki Tokunaga (National Institute of Technology Kurume College)
Two fun classroom activities you can use with any proficiency levels and class sizes
I will demonstrate two activities that I use most often in my classes. One is a picture guessing game for speaking practice and the other is a vocabulary review game. They are both easy to prepare, and can be used in classes of any sizes with students of any proficiency levels.

Pharo Sok (Kyushu Sangyo University)
From Bored to Board (Games): Collaboration and Creativity in the Classroom
Drawing on research about the benefits of gamifying education, I created an original board game creation project for undergraduate students at a Japanese university. In this presentation, we’ll explore the process behind making the games and the finished products. Ultimately, students had to think creatively in terms of construction and mechanics as well as create a game that encouraged English conversations about typical and unusual topics.

Fess Higgins
Semi-Automated Multimodal Flashcard Generation
Explicit vocabulary learning has a place in every classroom, and substantial evidence supports flashcards as one of the best resources for memorization. However, on their own, students often make flashcards that are far from what the research would recommend. In this presentation, I will outline a few web-based tools that can be used together to seamlessly make effective virtual flashcards from videos both inside and outside a classroom.

Tim Pritchard (Seinan Gakuin University)
The Benefits of a Simple Lesson Warm-Up Activity
This talk demonstrates a simple lesson warm up (or warm down) speaking activity for students in pairs or small groups. The pros and cons of a brief follow-up activity will be explained, as well as ways to deal with some problems that can arise and possible variations of the activity. Finally, several unintended benefits, expressed by the students after using this activity for one semester, will be revealed.

Prof. Yasuo Nakatani (Hosei University)
Utilizing Corpus Data Analyses of Top-tier Business Professionals in Presentation Instruction
To gain insights into instructing English presentations, we analyze 300,000 words corpus data from top-tier business professionals, which includes speakers from TED Talk and the Oxford Union. Through key word and cluster analyses, we investigate their significant words and collocations for persuasive public speaking. What communication strategies do figures like Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, and James Quincey employ to captivate their audiences? Moreover, how can we effectively impart these techniques to learners in Japan?