電気通信大学 ASE II: Presentation topic 4・プレゼンテーション 4

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce our 4th presentation topic - on Japan and the future. 

Topic

Here you can present about scientific, technological, social, or cultural trends and issues that you see could happen in Japan in the future. 

This is a little different kind of topic as this will be more of an imagined sense of what you feel or see for Japan in the future – though any data you can find and show will strengthen your content, and you should work to make a basis in fact.

You must work towards a two-sided argument about what you see or believe for Japan in the future – things such as technological or scientific breakthroughs, but also some social and economic difficulties and dangers that you believe Japan should take care for, and work to avoid.

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do these on December 17th (12/17), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare these. Aim to make a presentation of around 5 minutes, including a Q&A from others you will present to. 

Guidelines

1. Prepare a summary (要約) about what you want to present on. The summary will be due next week for check on December 10th (12/10). 

On 12/10, bring a computer or tablet with you and I can give you time in class to work on your presentation and practice it. 

2. Finalize your presentation outside of class and be ready to present on 12/17!

Now here are the board notes for our class on 12/3:

Good luck! See you next class!

Image: By ころぞう - Self-photographed, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2149120/Board notes - personal photographs. All rights reserved.

東京理科大学 技術英語: Final presentations・期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Here is our final presentation assignment. 

Topics & tasks

Select an area or issue of mechanical engineering or IT, and focus on a specific problem or issue and a solution to it – for example: 

• a technical problem, with a solution, in mechanical engineering or IT – for example, a classic case of a problem with a famous or noteworthy structure, or vehicle, device, component, or piece of equipment within ME or IT, and the solution to the problem with it – or –

• a socially-impactful issue, with a solution or proposal of a solution, that ME or IT made possible, or could make possible – for example, a classic case of a past social issue, difficulty, or dilemma that that was solved by mechanical engineering, perhaps in conjunction with civil or electrical engineering, or IT, perhaps with the help of precision mechanics, mechanical engineering in general, or mathematics – or perhaps a current problem that ME or IT could solve.

With your topic, develop a 5-6 minute presentation about it, including methodologies and results, and your opinions and suggestions, on implications and directions of what your topic subject is about.  

Special note:

With this last task idea, you could propose an original solution within ME or IT to a problem - but you should show a methodology, with proof and a projection of results, that you believe could work.

Guidelines

As we have done before, develop a digitally-based display (Power Point, Key Note, Google Slides, or some other possible digitally-based show) with a summary that shows some background to the area or issue with any research or investigative reports about the area or issue, plus a statement on what you will focus on in your presentation. 

In addition, you will also develop an outline for your topic showing main and supporting ideas, and points of details of the topic.

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will turn in the summaries and outlines, and do the presentations, on December 17th (12/17), so you have three (3) weeks to develop these. 

During our planning and preparation time, starting from next week (12/3), I will allow you to bring in your devices (laptops and/or tablets) and work in class, with my guidance and some supporting paper material and blogposts, to develop your summaries, outlines, and spoken presentation delivery. 

Special note:
Because we will only have one week in January 2020 for a class meeting left, on January 21st (1/21), we should aim to have the presentations completed on 12/17, before our New Year's break. But we can use 1/21 as a makeup day for any final presentations that we could not get to on 12/17. 

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics, and helping you to develop them.

Image: By Kevin Jarrett - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/8295289152/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24031884

電気通信大学 ASE II: Timelines of things from past to present & future・過去、現在、未来のタイムライン

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at more ideas about the future, but from a different viewpoint - from timelines of things from the past to the present, and what we could imagine about the future. 

Look at the picture above. It comes from a magazine in the U.S. called Popular Science. It has been published for a long time, and this picture is from 1947. In one of their magazines from 1947, Popular Science had a report about the future. It imagined many things about it. From the picture, what do you see that it imagined about the future? Talk about it!

例えば：In the picture at the top, maybe they thought all our electricity (電気) would come from nuclear power plants (原子力発電所) in the future. 

Now look at this short video. It's the opening and closing credits to an animated cartoon from the early 1960s that was popular in the U.S. It was called The Jetsons and it was about an American family living in the future. What sorts of things do you notice in the video? 

What do you think of that? Every culture has its own ideas about what the future looks like. The Jetsons video clip plus the picture at the top are very some American ideas, especially after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s, about what the future would look like. Would any of these ideas be the same as some Japanese ideas at that time about the future?  

Activity
Now how have some things developed and changed over time? Here are two (2) other short videos for all of you - one is about money, and the other, about cars. 

In a pair or group, choose one (1) video. Watch it and note how things have changed with the topic - either money or cars - over time. 

Then - get together with another pair or group who has watched a different video. With the other pair or group, compare and contrast (比較対照して) what you have seen in your video - and give each other some ideas about the future with the thing you watched about (either money, or cars). 

About money

About cars

Have fun! See you next time!

Image: Screenshot of illustration uploaded to Popular Science website. 

Uploaded for educational purposes only. I do not own the rights to this illustration. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). 
Videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the animation or other content within. All rights reserved to the copyright holders. Uploaded for educational purposes only.

東京理科大学 技術英語: Short presentations・発表

Hello!

How are you? Today, here is our short presentation assignment. 

First, here are the board notes for our class on 10/1 (my apologies for the shot being a little out of focus!): 

Now let's look at the short presentation task!

Theme & task

Depending on your major, select a technical aspect to present about based on either of the following themes (choose one):

Mechanical technicalities of a piece of equipment, a vehicle, or an aircraft – in this theme, any piece of equipment relevant to tasks, problems, issues, or situations that mechanical engineers have to deal with is good.

Showing how something works mechanically is especially encouraged – for example, in the case of vehicles, how a combustion engine (or battery power) for an automobile operates, or for aircraft, how a jet engine works. This should also include some background to the development of the equipment, vehicle, or aircraft (with some research of your own such as (a) reading(s) from the web, and/or from the readings in class on the timeline of the automobile, or about BEVs). 

Technicalities of hardware, operating system, or software development key to the evolution of the internet or creation of the World Wide Web – in this theme, any technicalities that systems engineers or software developers have to deal with is good.

Showing how something works that was (or is) crucial systematically is especially encouraged – for example, in the case of the development of the internet, a technical issue about network connection in the early history of development, or how Tim Berners-Lee developed the technical connectivity to realize the World Wide Web (with some research of your own such as (a) reading(s) from the web, and/or from the readings in class of the early history, and further development, of the internet and WWW).  

Guidelines

Develop a short, 3-4 minute presentation about your topic – not a reading in front of others of a script, but a developed spoken presentation of your topic with Power Point or Keynote.

You will also write, and hand in, an original summary (要約) in your own words of your presentation topic. 

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do the presentations on November 5th (11/5), so you have almost one (1) month to research, develop summaries, practice presenting, and finally presenting your topics based on the theme of your choice. 

NEW - now here are the board notes for our class on 10/8:

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics as well as your presentations. 

See you next time!

Image: By Tim Fields from England - Focus stacked Circuit Board 1Uploaded by ComputerHotline, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23248869/Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved. 

東京理科大学 情報工学科技術英語: Supporting post for final presentations・期末発表のサポート

Hello!

How are you? Here is a supporting post for all of your final presentation projects - a series of TED Talk links that treat different areas of the internet, WWW and AI, and issues concerning views on internet regulation.  

Video links
Here are the links. Each one will take you directly to the TED website. With each one, except one, you can download the written transcript of the talk in either English or Japanese. 

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. 

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

2. Chris Sheldrick – A precise, three-word address for every place on earth (2017.08) - click on this link for this talk. 

3. Kenneth Shinozuka – My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe (2014.11) - click on this link for this talk. 

4. Keller Rinaud – A mini robot – powered by your phone (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk. 

5. Pratick Shah – How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease (2018.07) - click on   

this link for this talk.

6. Olga Yurkova – Inside the fight against Russia’s fake news empire (2018.4) - click on this link for this talk. 

7. Trevor Timm – How free is our freedom of the press (2016.2) - click on this link for this talk.

8. Daniel Engber – How the progress bar keeps you sane (2018.3) - click on this link for this talk.

9. Tamas Kocsis – The case for a decentralized internet (2018.11) - click on this link for this talk. 

Important notes:
Talks #6 and #9 do not have Japanese subtitles or transcripts, but both show some timely issues with the internet. Talk #9 is also longer - at 10 minutes - but again, is a powerful talk and is the latest one here, uploaded to the TED website in November. 

NEW - Presentation tips and example
Here are two (2) videos for you on presentation that may help you as well. Rather than making a separate post, I have decided to include them here.

The first one is a funny, but important one on good and bad presentation habits:



The second one is a TED Talk from a 12-year-old app developer. It's a great model for a confident, informative, and interesting presentation:



I hope these links and videos will be interesting and informative for you. 

Take care!

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東京理科大学 情報工学科技術英語: Final presentations・期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Here is our final presentation assignment. 

Once again, I am very sorry to post this later than what I had planned! While we still have a lot of time left in our course this semester, I had intended to post this on the day of the class this week. Please accept my apologies once again on posting this late!

Topic & task

Select an area or issue of AI (artificial intelligence), IT, the internet or the World Wide Web – for example: 

• a technical area of AI or IT – for example, how AI or IT can play a role in different areas of society and culture, such as medical care, or education, or even the arts – or –

• a general issue about the pros and cons of regulating the internet by governments or public or private organizations – or –

• a specific issue on the internet/WWW – for example, how to regulate fake news and spread of misinformation, or whether or not governments should intervene wherever there is any publicly harmful content on the internet

Along with this, develop a short, 5-6 minute presentation about your topic, including methodologies and results, and also your opinions and suggestions, on implications and directions of what your topic subject is about.  

As one example – on the issue of regulation of the internet: If you believe that the internet does not need to be regulated by local or national governments, state your opinion about it – but do not stop there. Exactly why, in your view, does it not need to be regulated? What research and studies, or journalistic investigations, can you find about the dangers of outside organizations regulating the internet?

Or by contrast – is regulation by bodies such as government organizations, or even through governmental law-making itself, necessary to keep the internet and WWW a safe area? What actions of internet regulation on such public levels have been taken in some countries?




Guidelines

You have a choice of making a Power Point or other digital display, as we have done before, with a summary that shows some background to the area or issue with any research or investigative reports about the area or issue, plus a statement on what you will focus on in your presentation. In addition, you will also develop an outline for your topic showing main and supporting ideas, and points of details of the topic.

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will turn in the summaries and outlines, and do the presentations, on January 22nd (1/22), so you have more than one month to do these. 

During our planning and preparation time, I will allow you to bring in your devices (laptops and/or tablets) and work in class, with my guidance and some supporting paper material and blogposts, to develop your summaries, outlines, and spoken presentation delivery. 

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of topics, and helping you to develop them. 

Image: By Kevin Jarrett - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/8295289152/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24031884

電気通信大学 ASE II: Presentation topic 4・プレゼンテーション 4

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce our 4th presentation topic - on Japan and the future. 

Topic

Here you can present about scientific, technological, social, or cultural trends and issues that you see could happen in Japan in the future.

This is a little different kind of topic as this will be more of an imagined sense of what you feel or see for Japan in the future – though any data you can find and show will strengthen your content, and you should work to make a basis in fact.

You must work towards a two-sided argument about what you see or believe for Japan in the future – things such as technological or scientific breakthroughs, but also some social and economic difficulties and dangers that you believe Japan should take care for, and work to avoid.

Deadline (締め切り)

We will do these on December 18th (12/18), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare these. Aim to make a presentation of around 5-6 minutes, including a Q&A from others you will present to.

Guidelines

1. Prepare a summary (要約) about what you want to present on. The summary will be due on December 11th (12/11).

2. Finalize your presentation outside of class and be ready to present on 12/18!

Good luck! See you next class!

Image: By ころぞう - Self-photographed, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2149120