電気通信大学 AE2Y II: Final notes for final project・期末プロジェクトの最後のノート

Hello!

How are you? As I mentioned today, here is a short post with some reminders about what you need to bring with you next week (1/29) for the hand-in of your final writing project composition and the final presentations. 

Reminders
First, please bring:

• Your final draft of the final writing assignment composition (作文) 

• Your completed presentation display with a slideshow handout of your display (not print-outs of all your slides!), and a final draft of your presentation outline 

• Your own computer or tablet with the battery charged to 100% (or close to it)

If you need another refresher on outlining, click on this link here.

Next: 
Make sure that both your writing composition and your presentation display has numbered citations (引用) within both the composition and display in IEEE style. 

Make sure you also have a reference list in IEEE style at the end on a separate page of your composition and a reference list on the last slide of your display.

To refresh yourself on IEEE style, see my slideshow link from last week's (1/15) class here.  

Finally:

As I mentioned in class, I have to give one tough rule for the day on the final presentations. This is so everyone gets an equal chance to do their presentations, and that the day goes smoothly for everyone. 

This is the rule - please come on time for the time schedule you chose! If you are more than 5 minutes late, I cannot let you give your presentation.

Our schedule is - schedule 1 (13:00-13:40) & schedule 2 (13:45-14:25)

I am not allowed to post your names on here as this will violate the UEC privacy policy - so please remember your group members and time!

Good luck for the presentations - and see you next week!

See you then!

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電気通信大学 ASE II: An apology & final guidelines for 1/29 final presentations ・申し訳 ・1月29日期末プレゼンテーションの最後のガイドライン

Hello!



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How are you? To begin with - an apology.

I got a little angry at the end of class today. It is not like me and I am very sorry about that. I should not have gotten angry like that. You have been a great class all semester and I should remember that. So...

・・・申し訳すみませんでした。

Final guidelines

Now - some final guidelines about next week's (1/29) final presentations.

First - please make sure the batteries on your devices (computers, tablets, or smartphones) are 100% charged (or close to it).

Second - please bring the following with you:

• A finished final draft of your summary
• A finished final draft of an outline
• A print-out of a slide show handout of your presentation display

Presentation shift schedule

Now here is our presentation shift schedule:

Schedule 1: 09:10~09:40

Schedule 2: 09:45~10:15

The UEC privacy policy does not let me post the board notes with your names on it, so please remember your group members' names and the time schedule your group chose.

Presentation day rules

As I mentioned in class, I have to give some tough rules for the day on the final presentations. This is so everyone gets an equal chance to do their presentations, and that the day goes smoothly for everyone.

First - please come on time for the time schedule you chose! If you are more than 5 minutes late, I cannot let you give your presentation.

Second - please come with the right group members you chose at the right time your group chose!

I look forward to seeing all of you next week. See you then!

東京理科大学 A英1: Final fall review board game questions・後学期期末テスト「ボードゲーム」のレビュー

Hello!

How are you? As I mentioned in class today, here are some review questions for all of you for next week's (1/28) board game review test. 

NEW - I wrote here for yesterday that the review test will be worth a maximum of 50 points. I'm very sorry to make a mistake here - the review test will be worth 40 points - not 50!

So here are some review questions for Units 9, 10, 11, & 12. 

Review questions 

Unit 9

What does it mean to focus on something?
What is another word for a result?

Who began the modern study of sports psychology? 
Which sport's athletes did he first study?

What do educational psychologists specialize in? 
What could be one (1) example of what a sports psychologist does for a sports team?
What do clinical psychologists specialize in? 
Name two (1) ways in which exercise can help our mental health.

Unit 10
What is barter?

Name one (1) problem with barter.
Around when did the concept of money first develop?

Name one (1) place where money first developed.

What language does the English word "salary" come from? 
What does the word "salary" mean in that language? 
Why did that word have that meaning? 
According to the textbook, what could be one (1) idea about the future of money?

Unit 11

Where did the Tenerife disaster happen? 
When did the disaster happen?
Which two airlines' planes were involved in the accident? 
What was the weather like on the day of the accident? 
What are fatalities?
How many people were killed in the accident?
Which language is standard in use for radio communications in airports?
What expression do air traffic controllers use to ask pilots to wait? 

Unit 12
What does it mean to breathe? 
What is the chemical equation for carbon dioxide? 
Around how many people can one tree produce enough carbon dioxide for? 
What is the chemical formula for photosynthesis? 
What are purposes of plant sugars? 
What are the three (3) functions of photosynthesis? 
What is algae?
Where is the sunlit zone? 

So good luck on your review! As I also mentioned in class, I recommend that you get together with the partner you selected and review with him or her this week outside of class. That way, you can help prep each other for the test. 

See you at your time with your partner next week!

Image: Scan of personal illustration. All rights reserved. 

東京理科大学 A英1: Final review game board exam instructions review・期末テスト「ボードゲーム」の説明レビュー

Happy New Year!

 

How are you? I hope you had a great New Year's break! 

Today I will post here a review of the instructions (説明) about our final review exam. As I've said in class, it will be in the form of a board game. We will play this on our final class meeting on January 28th (1/28).

It's the same board game you played in the review exam in July - but now with some different questions from the textbook!

I hope once again that this is an interesting way to take a test for all of you! 

Instructions

First - like before, this is what the board will look like. It will be on A3-sized paper:

You will notice 14 playing squares - seven (7) black squares, and seven (7) white squares, with the start square and the goal in gray. This board will be for the two (2) game pieces that two (2) players will play on. 

The 14 squares will be for the questions that both players will ask each other. The arrows show the directions the players will move their game pieces around on when they answer the questions correctly.

Now let's review the steps in the board game!

Here is what the score sheet looks like (It's small on the scan shot, but you'll see it more clearly on paper next week!): 

As before, you will see that there are spaces for three (3) "makeup" (補講) questions. 

As you play with your partner, if your partner's score is not so high after the seven (7) questions, you will see four (4) extra questions. You can choose up to three (3) of these "makeup" questions to ask your partner. 

Special note: Only do these extra three (3) questions if your partner hasn't been doing well. If your partner has been scoring well - you don't need to ask these questions! 

This can give your partner some more chances to raise up a higher score on the test. 

I hope this is okay for all of you! Take a look at these steps - look at them as many times as you want or need. We'll play this next week (1/28) in our last class for the review exam!

So good luck! See you next week!

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電気通信大学 ASE II: More supporting links for final presentation assignment・期末プレゼンテーションのサッポートリンク

Hello!

How are you? Today here is a short post of some more supporting links for all of you that may be to your interest for your final presentation assignment. They connect in some ways to my topic suggestions that I posted last week about the final presentations. 

Links 
You are free to check out the following links:

• Fawn Qiu - Easy DIY projects for kid engineers (2016.7) - click on this link to watch this video 
• David Hoffman - Sputnik mania (2007.3) - click on this link to watch this video

For both of these videos, you can get Japanese subtitles (字幕) and written transcripts of the talks in Japanese if you need them. 

Here are two (2) other links from YouTube that are longer, but may also be to your interest: 

• Mojo.com - 10 overhyped inventions that flopped - go to this link to watch this video 

• Great Moments in Science and Technology - Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web - go to this link to watch this video 

Like the TED Talk videos, these YouTube links also have Japanese subtitle support if you need it. 

About two-sided argumentation
New - here are the board notes from today's (1/15) class. Look at these for a refresher on two-sided argumentation development in presentation speaking delivery: 

I hope these links and notes will help you in your topic interests, choices, and research. 

See you next week for presentation practice!

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電気通信大学 AE2Y II: About citation・引用について

Hello! 

How are you? This is a short post with a link where you can access today's slide show about citation (引用) in academic writing and presentation. 

The picture at the top is a screenshot of a Word document reference list page. It is the Word version of the same reference list I showed at the end of my slide show today.  

While the rules for citation that I showed you may seem complex, they are important to follow in showing the sources of information and content that support your writing and presentation topics. 

I will require that you show where you get the information that supports the content within your topic for your final writing and presentation assignment, and that you follow these rules exactly in your citation and reference lists in both your written paper and your presentation.  

So to see today's slide show, click on this link. 

You may find that it is easier to see this on a computer or tablet rather than a smartphone. If you cannot access the link on a smartphone, please go to a computer or tablet to access it. It is important! 

Watch the slide show where you can access it. Watch it as many times as you need. 

See you next week! 

Image: Screenshot of personal Word document page. All rights reserved. 

電気通信大学 ASE II: Fall semester final presentations ・後期末プレゼンテーション

Hello!



Our fall final presentation topic will be your choice! Like all our presentation topics this semester, these will also be individual projects.

NEW - semester topic review

Here is a review of the topics of this semester:

• Comparison & contrasting educational systems in different countries
• Japan and the future

Deadline (締め切り)

We will do these on January 29th (1/29), so you have the next four (4) weeks to prepare these. That will seem like a long time, but we will go through topic selection and review, plus presentation practice that I will coach you on. 

This process is very important, because as always, I would like to see you make the best presentations you can, so I would like to continue to guide and coach you so that you can make the best presentations you can to this point - that is why we will take time to prepare and practice! 

Here is our remaining schedule, and what we will do in it:

1/8 - introduction of final presentation project & open class time for idea/topic generation
1/15 - topic summary review & open class for preparation
1/22 - final presentation practice
1/29 - final presentations

Guidelines

You can choose one (1) of these topics, but with these guidelines:

1. Comparing & contrasting the quality of science education in different countries

You can focus on the quality of science education in different countries, in any area of science, with Japan as one of the countries you can focus on.

Like our two presentations we have done this semester, you must present a two-sided argument about the merits or demerits of the area of science you focus on. 

Special note: If you have focused on science in your presentation on educational systems before, you must present on something different than what you did before, such as a different country for comparison or a different area of science – do not present the same thing about the same country(s) that you already did!

2. The merits and demerits of the social impact, in the past or present, of key inventions or discoveries in science & technology

You must present on something different than what you did before – do not present the same thing on the same topic that you did also!

In this topic, you can take a historical view - focus on an invention or discovery in science or technology in any area of science you are interested in (chemistry, physics, math, or an applied science like engineering or technology like IT). What has been – or is becoming –  the social impact of the invention or discovery?

Like our two presentations we have done this semester, you must present a two-sided argument about the topic, and what you would do.

Special note: Once again, you must present on something different than what you did before – do not present the same thing about the same invention or discovery that you already did!

3. A topic of your choice
For this, see me on what you have in mind for a topic. It should be science or technology-oriented, and something that you have not done before.

Like with the other topic suggestions, you should work towards a two-sided argument within your topic choice.

NEW - supporting links
1. Here are some video links to things that relate to the first two theme ideas above. Each one will take you directly to the TED website. With each one you can download the written transcript of the talk in either English or Japanese. (Note - the first link is a longer video than the second.)

  

The Japanese subtitling on the videos that have them may still not be exact for the topic, but it generally is better than on most YouTube videos. In the same way, the Japanese transcripts may not be exact, but generally give you good guides that you can follow for a topic if you need them. 

• Cesar Harada - How I teach my kids to love science (2015.10) - click on this link for this talk.

• Margaret Gould Stewart – How the hyperlink changed everything (2018.03) - click on this link for this talk.

2. Here is a link about outlining that I made for my AE2Y II class, but should be useful for all of you as well. Go to this link to see it.

I hope these links can help get you going on ideas. 

Good luck! See you next time!

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