電気通信大学 ASE I: Presentation topic 1・プレゼンテーション 1

Hello!

How are you? How was your Golden Week?

Today, I'll introduce our 1st presentation topic - a profile about a unique or interesting scientist, engineer, inventor, or other figure from science or technology, with a one-sided argument about what you admire about the person, or what you believe the person’s greatest achievements are (or were). 

Take a look at the picture above. It's the famous one of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at the camera. What were his greatest achievements? What impact has he had on science - and the world? 

These questions, and other questions like these, are examples of the kinds of things that you can explore with your most admired figure in science or technology! 


Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do these on May 21st (5/21). 

Guidelines

1. Prepare a summary (要約) about who you want to present on. 

    

*You will see the topic preparation sheet & classmate evaluation sheet that comes with the handout. The preparation part of the sheet is a working record of your preparation about your topic, and you are free to use it if you like. The classmate evaluation sheet is what you will use to evaluate your classmates in your presentation group.

You do not have to use the preparation part of the sheet if you don't want. But there is a section on it to fill out the summary - which you are required to fill out and hand in with your evaluation sheet. 

2. Make a small, A3-sized poster about your profile figure and be ready for the presentation day (5/21)! We will first practice our presentations next week (5/14) and then do the real presentations on the presentation day.

Good luck and have fun! I'll look forward to seeing your great work about your most admired figures from science or technology. 

See you next time! 

Image: Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8970653

東京理科大学 A英3: Scenarios about relations between people・人間関係のシナリオ

Hello!

How are you? Here is a post about imagining and writing our own scenarios with cause-and-effect about human relations (人間関係).  

Activity

Look at these three pictures below. Choose one (1) of them and write a 1-3 paragraph scenario about what is happening between the people in it. 

What do you think is the character of their relations? Are they happy with each other - or perhaps not so happy? Most importantly - what could be the cause of their good (or bad) relations? 

You can give names to the people in the pictures you choose for your scenarios! 

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Have fun with these! Again - remember to choose only one of these pictures. 

See you then!

Images: Top - Copyright-free image from Apple files/Man and woman in park - "Woman Do Not Look Happy Standing" (courtesy of nuttakit) FreeDigitalPhotos.net/People at table - By Touzrimounir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36884016/Woodstock couple - by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com/People on grounds -"Evstafiev Travnik refugees" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg/Painting - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - email, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25899486
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東京理科大学 A英3: Writing assignment 3 (The Small Book of Big People・The Stories of Science)・作文3

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you our 3rd writing assignment (作文3) - comparing and contrasting (比較対照している) different important people, discoveries, or inventions in science and technology. 

As an example - look at the picture above. It is Pierre and Marie Curie, the famous husband-and-wife physicist and chemist. Both of them won Nobel Prizes, with Marie Curie winning two prizes - one in physics and another in chemistry. 

She is the only woman to ever win two Nobel prizes, and the only person to ever win in two different sciences. Is it possible that she might have achieved more than her husband? Or is it possible that her husband might still have been greater, because he made it possible for her to do research at a time when it was very difficult for women to work in the sciences? What do you think? 

While I have already given you the handout about the assignment, I will post it here as well as another way to help remind you about it, and what you can do for it.

Task


You have a choice between two (2) different topics. Choose one (1) of these:

1. Compare and contrast (比較対照して) two (2) different important people in science or technology to each other. Compare the two people you admire and respect, and who are important to you and how you think about science and are interested in it. But which person do you think might have had the overall greater impact? Think about this and make this the basis of your comparison and contrast.


I will gather your writing on this topic into The Small Book of Big People book I have talked about before in class.

2. Compare and contrast two (2) different important related scientific or technological discoveries or inventions in their impact to each other. Compare two important discoveries or inventions in science or technology within the same or similar field, especially those that may have gotten you interested in science and technology. Which discovery or invention do you think might have had the overall greater impact? Think about this and make this the basis of your comparison and contrast.


I will gather your writing on this topic into another book called The Stories of Science.

How much to write

I would like you to write as much as you can, because your work may be published

(出版した) on both this blog and in The Small Book of Big People and Stories of Science books. 

I would like to see maybe 3-4 paragraphs' worth of writing - the more, the better. You can write more than this if you can - and I encourage you to do so!

Deadline (締め切り)

It will be at the beginning of the class on July 9th (7/9), so I want you to bring in a first draft (下書き) on that day in your notebooks in pencil. I will then show some more guidelines in class with language and other points of comparison and contrast, changing things about the draft as you need to, then write to the finish and turn in your work on 7/9. 

Good luck with this! I hope you can have fun with this, and enjoy writing comparisons and contrasts about people, discoveries, or inventions in science and technology. 

See you next time!

Image: By Unknown - hp.ujf.cas.cz (uploader=--Kuebi 18:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20426111

東京理科大学 A英3: Writing assignment 2・作文2 (The Small Book of Big People・Places & Traces)

Hello!

How are you? Today, I'll tell you about our 2nd writing assignment (作文2). While I usually would give all of you the handout about the assignment first, this time I am posting it here first as a different way to communicate the assignment to you. 

You have three (3) choices for topics. Choose one (1) of them:  

1. Write about a unique, interesting, or special person you know  
In this topic, write about a unique, interesting, or special person you know, like a teacher, best friend, coach, or even a family member like a mother, father, brother or sister - or a famous person you think is unique and inspiring, like a singer, musician, actor, athlete, or a writer or artist. 

I will gather your writing on this topic into a book called The Small Book of Big People. I started this a few years ago with my students at another university. You can check out their writing at this link, and also at this link too.

2. Write about a figure in science or technology that you admire 
In this topic, choose a figure from science or technology - any major person and any field of science or technology (biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, IT - any area of science or technology is okay) that inspired you to study science seriously. It can be a Japanese or foreign person, and anyone from the past or present. 

I will also gather any writing on this topic into The Small Book of Big People collection.

3. Write about your favorite place 
While we have been doing some writing about people, you can also write about a place - in this case, your favorite place. I would like you to go deep and far with it – in it, you can write about where the place is and why it is special to you, and very importantly, what feelings you have about it. Write deeply about those feelings and even give some history about them - especially about the first time you ever saw the place and what impact it had on you at that time.

If the place is a tourist spot, or has some long history to it (such as an important event in the past that happened there, or an important person who came there), also show why it brings tourists, or the reasons why it is so historical. 

I am gathering writing on this topic into a book called Places & Traces - a collection of student writing about unique places. 

You can use the place that you wrote about when doing your practice writing about places, and make your writing about it bigger and longer. 

How much to write
I would like you to write as much as you can, because your work may be published (出版した) on both this blog and in The Small Book of Big People and Places and Traces books. So write to the best you believe you can!

I would like to see around 3-4 paragraphs. (Make the paragraphs at least a little longer!) But if you can write even a little more - go for it!

Deadline (締め切り)
It will be June 4th (6/4). So starting from today, I want you to work on a first draft (下書き) in your notebooks in pencil in class. 

I will remind and show all of you how you can review each others' work. Then you can change things about the draft as you need to, then write to the finish and turn in your final draft on 6/4. 

Good luck with this! I hope you can have fun with this, and enjoy writing about a person who is special and unique to you, a scientist you admire, or a place that you have a great feeling for. 

Images: Top & bottom - personal photographs. All rights reserved/Kikunae Ikeda - by original uploader Dan@mac at German Wikipedia - Transferred from de.wikipedia to Commons by Magnus Manske using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8297726

東京理科大学 A英3: Scientists, mathematicians, & engineers・科学者、数学者、工学者

Hello! 

How are you? Today, let's look at some famous scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. Some you will know well, while others you may not know. Let's take a look!

Activity

Look at the pictures below. Do you know any of the people in them? Even more - do you know what their greatest achievements were? 

Talk about these people, as much as you know about them, with your classmates. When you're finished, write a little about what you know and talked about. Let's start!

Steve Wozniak

Thomas Edison

Yoshiro Nakamatsu (Dr. NakaMats)

Paul Erdos

Michael Faraday

Tim Berners-Lee

Have fun with these!  See you next time!

Images: Top - By NASA - Original. Source (StarChild Learning Center). Directory listing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1657641/Steve Wozniak - By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63344547/Thomas Edison - By Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c05139. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6582301/Yoshiro Nakamatsu - By Ushuaia.pl - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10358481/Paul Erdos - By Topsy Kretts - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2874719/Michael Faraday - By Thomas Phillips - Thomas Phillips, 1842, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=463384/Tim Berners-Lee - By Paul Clarke - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53878695

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電気通信大学 ASE I: Presentation topic 1・プレゼンテーション 1

Hello!

How are you? Today, I'll introduce our 1st presentation topic - a profile about a unique or interesting scientist, engineer, inventor, or other figure from science or technology, with a one-sided argument about what you admire about the person, or what you believe the person’s greatest achievements are (or were). 

Take a look at the picture above. It's the famous one of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at the camera. What were his greatest achievements? What impact has he had on science - and the world? Here's what you can do!


Deadline (締め切り)

We will do these next week on May 8th (5/8). 

Guidelines

1. Prepare a summary (要約) about who you want to present on. 

    

2. Fill in the topic preparation sheet that comes with the handout. There is a section on it to fill out the summary. This is a working record of your preparation about your topic. 

3. Make a small, A3-sized poster about your profile figure and be ready for next week (5/8)! We will first practice our presentations and then do the real presentations.

Good luck and have fun! I'll look forward to seeing your great posters about your most admired figures from science or technology. 

See you next time! 

Image: Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8970653