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JALT Bylaws state that each SIG must produce three newsletters each year. These may be full journals, news-based newsletters, or email circulars to members. As each members parts with 1500 yen of hard-earned cash, SIGs must strive to show value for that cash. The most immediate product is our newsletters. In this section, you can access some past newletters, find out about the upcoming one, and members can access the latest published one. Non-members, you can easily become a member.

Contributing to Between the Keys

Our newsletter, Between the Keys comes out three times a year, in March, July and November. Submissions are accepted up to one month before the distribution date. Please contact the Editor for exact dates.

Contribution content should be related to any aspect of the materials production process. To get a firmer idea of what our goals are, please read our mission statement. Previous contributors have written about new web-based programmes for the development of instructional material, how to self-publish, the use of road signs in classrooms, writing for a newspaper, successful lesson plans and many other topics, the range is as wide as your capacity to relate your ideas to materials making.

Images, graphs, tables and other non-text items are accepted. The preferred method of sending articles is by e-mail, with the article attached as an .rtf document, although other formats are accepted. Please, do not format the article beyond the basic headings, italics, and so on. Art work can be sent by post or by e-mail attachment. If the quality of the art work is important to you, please contact our Newsletter Layout chair for instructions.