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A book review game Bibliobattle: For English learners to build an open community online
- 1. A book review game Bibliobattle For English learners to build an open community online Yukie KONDO, Syuhei KIMURA, Mayumi OGA Ritsumeikan University FLEAT VI August 12, 2015 at Harvard University
- 2. Who we are?
- 3. Who are we? • Ritsumeikan University o College of Life Sciences o College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- 4. Bibliobattle
- 5. Bibliobattle • To inform you of the attraction of Bibliobattle • To find someone who can collaborate with us Our goal for today’s presentation
- 6. What’s Bibliobattle? • Social book review game o Inventor: Tadahiro TANIGUCHI[1] • Players: o 5,200 players in Japan (2012) • Venues for the game: o Universities, Schools, Libraries, Companies, etc. “To get to know books through people To get to know people through books” Concept
- 7. Bibliobattle is booming in Japan • Increasing number of games 230 times 483 times 915 times 2011 2012 2013 2014 1354 times
- 8. Bibliobattle is booming in Japan • Japan Bibliobattle for University Students (2014) o Participants: 874 students, 130 universities Retrieved August 2, 2015 from https://youtu.be/n44_OQ6zQbU Champion-book “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan
- 9. Rules for Bibliobattle Choose a book Introduce the book Q&A Decide on the champion book Adopted from Bibliobattle Official Webiste[3] http://en.bibliobattle.jp/rule-of-bibliobattle Vote for a book that you want to read most! Champion book!
- 11. Bibliobattle for English learners • Findings in previous studies[2] o Bibliobattle can be played by a group with a great diversity of English proficiency. o Good chance for even a basic-level English learner to win. o Players devise tactics to win. Active learning and motivation to take part in the next Bibliobattle. Opportunity to stimulate a self-learning process
- 12. Bibliobattle for English learners Good English learning process Play Look back Devise tactics Choose a new book Read the book Join the next game
- 13. Bibliobattle for English learners • Type A o Japanese students • Easier for beginners to join. • Good first step.
- 14. Bibliobattle for English learners • Type B o Japanese students + Foreign students • Makes more sense to do it in English. • Involves real communication in English.
- 15. Bibliobattle for English learners • Type C o Japanese students + Japanese adults • Lots of adult learners in Japan. • Can meet people with different backgrounds.
- 16. Bibliobattle for English learners • Type D o Mixed • Good for advanced learners. • Not a practice any more, but a real game!
- 17. Bibliobattle to build an open community Closed Community Open Community
- 18. Bibliobattle to build an open community English can be a very strong tool to break down the borders between closed communities. Bibliobattle in English
- 19. Bibliobattle to build an open community • Not easy to find brave players who are willing to compete in English. • Online tools are useful to appeal to more people. Bibliobattle in English
- 20. Bibliobattle to build an open community Call for players online Bibliobattle Upload videos Can talk about the game beforehand. Can reach people we haven’t met. Can further discuss the books. People outside can watch videos. Meet new people. They might join the next game. Can get to know more books and more people!
- 21. Bibliobattle to build an open community Call for players on Facebook Bibliobattle Upload videos This part can be online, too! Meet new people.
- 22. Bibliobattle to build an open community In Tokyo In Kyoto
- 23. Bibliobattle to build an open community
- 24. Bibliobattle to build an open community Comments from the participant with Skype…. • Didn’t feel any communication problem. • Could relax because of good atmosphere. • Made me want to see the other participants face to face. • Can meet people all over the world! • Makes perfect sense to do it in English!
- 25. Bibliobattle: Social Book Review Game • As English is the global communication tool, Bibliobattle can be played online by people on every continent and in any country. Let’s get everyone around the world talking about intelligent topics and making great new friends! “To get to know books through people To get to know people through books” Concept
- 26. References [1] Taniguchi, T. (2013). Bibliobattle: A book review game to get to know books and people. Bungeishunju Ltd. [2] Kondo, Y., Oga, M. & Yamashita, M. (2015). English Bibliobattle as an Opportunity to Generate a Self- learning Process. Ritsumeikan Journal of Humana Sciences, 32. [3] Bibliobattle Official Website. http://www.bibliobattle.jp/
Editor's Notes
- First of all, let us talk about who we are. We are from Rits University, which is located in Shiga Prefecture in Japan. Actually, we have three campuses in Japan, one is in Shiga, which is famous for the biggest lake in Japan, another in Kyoto ancient capital of Japan, and the other one in Osaka, which opened this year. We are the teachers of the colleges of Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
- Today, we are here to tell you about our activities outside our university, which is a book review game, Bibliobattle. Our biggest goal of today’s presentation is to inform you of the attraction of Bibliobattle and to find someone who can collaborate with us in the future.
- Bibliobattle is considered a social book review game, which was invented by Tadahiro Taniguchi when he was at Kyoto University. Now, the players in Japan amount to more than 5,200, and games are played at many different venues such as universities, schools, libraries, companies and houses, etc. The game is called social, because the concept of the game is “to get to know books through people, to get to know people through books.” So, people play Bibliobattle while enjoying meeting new people or finding out different aspects of the people they already know.
- I want to show how it is booming in Japan. The number of games held in Japan, has been increasing greatly over the past 4-5 years. It was 230 in 2011, and last year it was 1354. These numbers include small games involving small groups of people and also large games involving large groups.
- The largest game is probably this one, Japan Bibliobattle for University Students. At last year’s event, 874 students from 130 different universities took part. The final was in Kyoto last year, but before the final, a lot of qualifying rounds were held all over Japan. The champion-book was “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore” by Robin Sloan. I said the champion-book. Well, it’s a really important element of this game. We don’t elect a champion. We elect a book. So it’s not about a good presentation or how attractive the person is, but simply a book everyone wants to read that deserves to be considered a champion.
- Now let’s look at the official rules for Bibliobattle. Players get together with a book, and then introduce that book for 5 minutes. Strictly for 5 minutes. This is a rule. After each presentation, we have a Q&A session for about 3 minutes. After all the presentations have been completed, we’ll vote and decide on the champion-book. The criterion is that you vote for a book that you want to read the most. So choosing a good book for the audience is a very important winning strategy.
- This is about Bibliobattle in Japan, in Japanese. What we have been working on is Bibliobattle in English. We thought it would work because our students are keen on presenting their ideas in English. They have been seeking opportunities to present in English. Furthermore, it’s just fun because it’s a game.
- In our previous studies, it was found that Bibliobattle can be played by a group with a great diversity in English proficiency. Because we vote for a book and not for a person, there is a good chance for even a basic-level English learner to win. It’s sometimes great that we, teachers, are beaten by our students. We don’t get hurt because it’s our book that was beaten. But after each event, especially when they lose, players devise tactics to win by themselves, which leads to active learning and motivation for taking part in the next Bibliobattle. Therefore, Bibliobattle can an opportunity to stimulate a self-learning process.
- Play a game, look back on the game and devise tactics for the next game, choose a new book and read it carefully again, and join the next game. We do it in English, so it’s a very good English learning process.
- Now let us look at some examples of the events we have held so far. As we said earlier, this game can be played by different types of groups. So I want to show you some of the cases. Type A is a group that consists of Japanese students only. This is easier for beginners to join. Also, it’s a good first step. Actually, we decided to hold this event, because students told us that they wanted to do it with beginners only.
- Type B consists of Japanese students and foreign students. In this case, it makes more sense to do it in English. It involves real communication between Japanese students and foreign students.
- Type C is Japanese students and Japanese adults. As you know, there are a lot of adult English learners in Japan. We are also adult English learners. In this case, they can meet people from different backgrounds.
- Type D is a mixed group. This is good for advanced learners or native English speakers. In this case, it’s not a practice anymore. It’s a real game.
- According to Taniguchi, the inventor of this game, Bibliobattle started in a very small closed community, which was a university laboratory. As you know, in the laboratory, graduate students usually choose a paper to read together. For this process, Taniguchi used the mechanism of Bibliobattle, choosing a paper that everyone wanted to read the most. After that, Bibliobattle was developed more in a closed community and later, also in an open community.
- In the case of English Bibliobattle, English can be a very strong tool to break down the borders between closed communities, even across countries. Facebook is one example. To be honest, it’s not always easy to find brave players who are willing to compete in English. That is one reason why we started to used online tools, to appeal to more people, who are outside of the community.
- According to Taniguchi, the inventor of this game, Bibliobattle started in a very small closed community, which was a university laboratory. As you know, in the laboratory, graduate students usually choose a paper to read together. For this process, Taniguchi used the mechanism of Bibliobattle, choosing a paper that everyone wanted to read the most. After that, Bibliobattle was developed more in a closed community and later, also in an open community. In the case of English Bibliobattle, English can be a very strong tool to break down the borders between closed communities, even across countries. But to be honest, it’s not always easy to find brave players who are willing to compete in English. So we used online tools to appeal to more people, who are outside of the community. Facebook is one example. https://www.facebook.com/events/618296298224114/
- By using an online tool to call for players, we can reach people who we haven’t yet met, and also, people can exchange information before and after the event. After the event, we upload videos of presentations so that people who didn’t join can watch them. They might join the next game. So by using online tools, we can get to know about more books and contact more people
- Furthermore, we thought that bibliobattle itself can be played online, too. We did an experiment.
- I’ll introduce our experiment with a remote participant. We held this event last May in Kyoto. Please look at the map. Here is Kyoto. A person on the display participated from Tokyo. Here is Tokyo. From Tokyo to Kyoto it takes two and half hour by bullet train. so we used skype to communicate. To proceed smoothly, we used two displays. One is the big one and…
- ..and the other is a small one. Let us show you a video of the event. This is Question and answer session after his speech. In the middle of the event, we experienced a little time lag between the images and sound and the Internet disconnections several times, but overall it went very smoothly without any serious problem . We can say that we were able to create a similar situation to ordinary face to face Bibliobattle.
- After the event we got comments from the participant, the guy joined from Tpkyo with skype. He said he didn’t feel any communication problem. In addition, although this was the first Bibliobattle for him, he could relax because of good atmosphere, He also added participating with skype in a remote place made him want to see the other participants face to face. Actually after all participants speech, he guided around his university Tokyo university using skype. Using online tools enables to meet and know new people and books from all over the world. We believe that it makes perfect sense to do Bibliobattle in English.
- Let me wrap up today’s presentation. Bibliobattle is a social book review game, the concept of which is to get to know books through people and get to know people through books. It’s already prevalent in Japan, and the English version of the game is working well, too. As English is the global communication language, no matter where the players are based, it can be played online by people on every continent and in any country. Why don’t we start together and get everyone around the world talking about intelligent topics and making great new friends? Yukie is distributing handouts which have information about us just now. It is included our facebook pages, the link of rules for bibliobattle video and its guidebook PDF. Who feel I want to play Bibliobattle? If you are interested in meeting and knowing new people and books, please feel free to contact us. Let’s play Bibliobattle together!