東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1b・技術英語: Supporting post for short presentations・発表のサポート

Hello!

How are you? Here is a supporting post of presentation tips, links, and hints, with a models of presentations, for all of your short presentation projects for both the Listening & Speaking and 技術英語 classes. 

Listening & Speaking 1b (神楽坂ヤンパス) 10/21 & 10/14:

Here are the board notes for our classes on 10/21 & 10/14. If you would like a review of the short presentation project, go to this link. 

技術英語 (葛飾キャンパス) 10/15:

Here are the board notes from our class on 10/15. If you would like a review of the short presentation project, go to this link. 

Useful links for Listening & Speaking and 技術英語 classes
Space and time do not let me go into a full post on the topics. So I have created blogpost pages on Power Point tips and hints, and on outlining for presentations, for all of you if you need them. 

So go to this link for tips and hints on Power Point presentation design.

While making an outline (あらすじ) is optional and you do not have to make one, it might help you organize your speaking better. If you want to make an outline, go to this link about outlining for scientific and technical presentation topics. 

Presentation tips and examples
Here are three (3) videos for you on presentation that may help you. 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 on the ideal structure for an engineering presentation. While this is aimed more towards the mechanical engineering students, it should be useful as well for the IT students in our class:

The third one is a TED Talk from a 12-year-old app developer. It's a great real-life model for a confident, informative, and interesting presentation. While it is oriented around IT, it also is a good model for our engineering majors as well:



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

Take care!

Images: Top - "Presentation word" (courtesy of Stuart Miles)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Board notes - personal photographs. All rights reserved. 

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.