電気通信大学 ASE I: Presentation topic 2・プレゼンテーション 2

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce our  second (2nd) presentation topic - key inventions or discoveries in science and technology.

See the picture above. It's a section of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. The discovery of DNA is one of the great breakthroughs of science in the 20th century.  

Topic approach
I would like you to approach your presentation preparation  in one of two ways. Choose one (1) way:

1. Select one (1) invention or discovery in a similar area of science or technology, either that was accidental or deliberate – for example, in mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry or IT – and present a one-sided argument about the merits (or demerits) of the invention or discovery. 

2. For a greater challenge - select two (2) similar inventions or discoveries in a similar area of science or technology,  either that were accidental or deliberate – and compare and contrast the two inventions or discoveries.

Then – present a one-sided argument for which invention or discovery you believe overall was the more successful, or has had the greater impact in the world - in its merits (or  demerits). 

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do these on June 25th (6/25), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare.

Guidelines

1. If you would like to do Power Point you are free to do so - but as we did before, you must bring your own device (computer or tablet). Let me know if you want to do a Power Point show. Have a slide that would show the summary (要約) of your topic.

2. As for posters, A3 size is good, though if you would like to go a little larger, that is okay. But show a section on your poster where you would write a summary of your topic. 

Here are the board notes for our class on 6/11:

Good luck! See you next time!

Image: Top - by Zephyris at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6285050/Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved.

東京理科大学 A英3: Writing assignment 4・作文4

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show our 4th writing assignment - writing about a cause-and-effect (原因結果) situation with people or things.

While I have given all of you the handout about the assignment, I am posting it here as well as another way to help remind all of you about what you can write about. 

Topic

Write a story – imaginary (想像上のストーリー) or real – about a cause-and-effect situation.    

How much to write

I would like you to write as much as you can, so around 3-4 paragraphs' worth of writing. 

Deadline (締め切り)

It will be at the beginning of the class on October 22nd (10/22), so I want you to bring in a first draft (下書き) on October 15th (10/15) in your notebooks in pencil. I may then show some more guidelines in class with language and other points of cause and effect. You can change things about the draft as you need to, then write to the finish and turn in your work on 10/22.

Guidelines

You will see two stories that go with the handouts I have given all of you. They are based on stories involving cause-and-effect from other students. I would like you to read these stories. They can give you ideas on how you can imagine cause-and-effect situations.

Write out a first draft (下書き) today in your notebooks in pencil. Write to your own pace – but if you finish first, look around for anyone else who is also finished. Get together with that person and read your writing to that person, then let the person read his or her story to you.

If you can, give a little advice to the person about his or her writing. Let the person also suggest some things to you too. You can then change things about the draft as you need to, then write to the finish in class and turn in your work. 

I will then select what I see to be the best writing and ask those of you I select to then type up your writing to hand in to me. I will then publish (出版する) the best stories! I will tell you about a different deadline then.


Good luck with this! I hope you can have fun with this way of doing a writing assignment. 

I look forward to reading your great writing on this theme!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

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
All rights reserved to the copyright holders of original Woodstock and Nighthawks images. I do not own the rights to these images. Uploaded for educational purposes only. 

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

電気通信大学 ASE I: Presentation topic 2・プレゼンテーション 2

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce our second (2nd) presentation topic - key inventions or discoveries in science and technology.

See the picture above. It's a section of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. The discovery of DNA is one of the great breakthroughs of science in the 20th century.  

While I have given all of you the handout about the presentation, I am posting it on here as well as another way to help remind all of you about what you can prepare for this topic. 

Topic approach
I would like you to approach your presentation preparation in one of two ways. Choose one (1) way:

1. Select one (1) invention or discovery in a similar area of science or technology, either that was accidental or deliberate – for example, in mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry or IT – and present a one-sided argument about the merits (or demerits) of the invention or discovery. 

2. For a greater challenge - select two (2) similar inventions or discoveries in a similar area of science or technology, either that were accidental or deliberate – and compare and contrast the two inventions or discoveries.

Then – present a one-sided argument for which invention or discovery you believe overall was the more successful, or has had the greater impact in the world - in its merits (or demerits). 

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do these on June 12th (6/12), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare.

Guidelines

1. If you would like to do Power Point you are free to do so - but you must bring your own device (computer or tablet). Let me know if you want to do a Power Point show.

2. As for posters, A3 size is good, though if you would like to go a little larger, that is okay. But show a section on your poster where you would write a summary (要約) of your topic.  

Good luck! See you next time!

Image: By Zephyris at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6285050