How are you?Here are the final board notes for all of you about our final presentations. The notes at the top are for my Friday EE4 1st period class (英語表現演習2 金 1限). Now here are the other notes for my Friday EE4 class:
Friday EE2 & e-classes Now below are the board notes for my Friday EE2 and e-classes. They are the same notes for every class:
Saturday EE4 class Now below are all the board notes for my SaturdayEE4 class:
Good luck to all of you on next week's presentations! See you then!
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How are you? Today as a review for all of you, here are the board notes for our class on 12/6. Here is the link for the final presentation assignment for this class. Click hereto access it.
How are you? Today as a review for all of you, here are the board notes for our class on 11/29. Above are the main board notes. Here is the link for the final presentation assignment for this class. Click hereto access it. Now here are the other board notes about outlining:
As I said in class today, I will have outlining handouts for all of you next week. So see you next week!
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Here is our fall semesterfinal presentation assignment.
Topics & task
Here are your choice of topics. They're based on what we've done so far in class from the textbook since the mid-term (中間). You can choose one (1) of these:
Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans
Ethical and legal issues of DNA application
Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals
Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning
Guidelines
1. Prepare rough drafts of a summary (要約) and a basicoutline (あらすじ) for the presentation, following the guidelines from the handouts I will give you about outlining, about the topic you want to present on. The rough summariesand outlines will be due for checking on December 14th (12/14).
2. On the presentation day, you will hand in final drafts of both the summary and the outline about your presentationtopic.
Some starting resources
Instead of a separate supporting blogpost, I have decided to include some links to TED Talks here as some starting sources of information and research. You should do your own research, so please search around for more resources of your own - TED Talks you have searched out on your own, YouTube videos, Japanese or English websites on biological science or biotechnology, and such. But these links could help you get started on your research. Each one of these talks come with Japanese subtitles (字幕) and both English and Japanese transcripts of the talks if you need them. Important note: Do not copy anything word-for-word from the transcripts! You can point to things a speaker says in a talk, but please do not plagiarize (盗作して) any of the content. Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans: Nina Tandon – Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? Click on this link here for this TED Talk. Dean Ornish – Your genes are not your fate Click on this link here. Ethical and legal issues of DNA research: Ellen Jorgensen – What you need to know about CRISPR Click on this link here. Keolu Fox – Why genetic research must be more diverse
Click on this link here. Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals: Tony Buffington – Why do cats act so weird? Click on this link here. Prosanta Chakrabarty – Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish Click on this link here. Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning: Richard Resnick – Welcome to the genomic revolution Click on this link here.
A note about this last link: It is not directly about cloning, but the possibilities Resnick discusses in his talk may have an impact on cloning research.
Presentation tips and hints
Here is a short and funny, but important video on good and bad presentation tips and hints. Watch this one! If you need support, or have trouble watching it here, go to this linkhere.
Deadline (締め切り)
We will do the presentationson December 21st (12/21), so you have around three (3) weeks to prepare these.
Special note:
In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units.
Once again – you cannot use a written composition as a script for your presentation! Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/30:
Good luck!I look forward to seeing your choices of presentation topics.
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How are you? Today I will show you the fall semester final assignment - a presentation with a written summary (要約) and an outline (あらすじ) about a product, component,or piece of equipment. Topic & task
Prepare a short presentation about any product, component,or piece of equipment used in, or is from, not only mechanical engineering but any field of technology now or in our own time. This could even include IT-related digital applications or components as well.
Along with this presentation, you will also write a short separate summary showing what you will present about, along with an outlinewith keywords and key phrases that will be a guideto your topic.
Guidelines
You have a choice of making an A3-sized posterorshort Power Point/Key Note/Google Slides (or some other digital) display. In your presentation about your product, component, or equipment, you should show:
A short background about it (where it comes from and when it was first made)
What it is made of
What the key components are - with measurements (if many, show only the most important components)
Some drawing or other schema of it (any kind of engineering drawing – or if IT-related, an algorithm and/or program that is the basis of it)
A short explanation of how it works
Its use, popularity, and/or impact in workplaces, schools, universities, research institutes, and so forth
Special notes: In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, especially from the units on components and assemblies and engineering design - though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units. The summary you will write is not to be used as notes, however. It is a written preview of the presentation topic and what the contents of it are - it is not the presentation itself! You will only use the outline to speak from. Some starting resources Here are two (2) links to TED Talks relating to engineering that could help you on topic ideas and style of presentation. Watch these for ideas.
David Lang - My underwater robot (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk. Keller Rinaud – A mini robot – powered by your phone (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk. Both of these talks have Japanese subtitles (字幕), plus transcripts in English or Japanese that you can download. Now here are two (2) videos on presentation tips and hints, with one about engineering presentation. You can also get Japanese subtitles with these:
Deadlines (締め切り)
We will do the presentations and hand in the summariesand outlines on December 20th (12/20). So you have around three (3) weeks to prepare these. Special note: We have one (1) classonly in January 2020 - on January 10 (1/10). It is our last class. We can use this as an extra presentation dayfor anyonewho needs it - but we should try to go for presenting on 12/20so we can get all the presentations finished and out of our way! I will let you know about the method of evaluation after this week. Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/22:
Good luck!I look forward to seeing your choices of topics!
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First of all, my apologies for canceling the class on 11/9. While it was a little holiday for all of you, it pushes us back one (1) week on our schedule - that is my fault. But my back problem (ギックリ腰) was especially bad last week - I could not travel or move well at all. So last week, before I knew that I had to cancel the class, I posted what would have been a paper handout about more on outlining - you can see it above. Activity
Look at the screenshot above. It's a shot of a final outline activity you can do in class, copying it into your notebooks. This is our first activity today,one more activity you can do to help with your outlining skills, and it may help you with your final outlines for your writing assignment.
Look at the guide above the outline. Make the screenshot larger as you need to so you can see the steps. Follow it by copying the order in your notebooks and labeling the categories correctly. Remember the order of Roman numerals (I., II., III., and so on), capital Roman letters (大文字 A, B など) and Arabic numerals (1., 2., 3., and so on).
My apologies to all of you for my condition. I hope to get better very soon!
See you next week!
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How are you? Here are some special notes for all of you about writing outlines.
About outlines First, what is an outline? An outline is like a guide or set of steps to what will be in your written composition (作文). Because of this, the language in an outline should be cut down to the minimum - no complete sentences and only keywords and key phrases. It should be as concise (簡明) as possible. Outlines are divided into an introduction, with main ideas, supporting points, and details. Let's look at an example of an outline for a paper comparing Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and their research with electricity. Parts to an outline Introduction The introductionshows the key to what the paper is about. It has a Roman numeral (ローマ数字) - always, Roman numeral I. 例えば： I. The research of Edison and Tesla with electricity Note: Write this in regular type - do not put in italics or in bold. Also, do not put a period (.) after - this is a guide point, not a full sentence. Main ideas - first main idea The first main idea should show the first thing you will treat in your topic. It will have a Roman numeral II. 例えば： II. Edison Note: It should be as short as possible - even a key word. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. Main ideas - second main idea The second main idea should show the next thing you will treat in your topic. It will have a Roman numeral III. 例えば： III. Tesla Note: It should be as short as possible - even a key word. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. Supporting points Your supporting points go with the main ideas, and they break down the main points. They will have capital letters with periods after (A., B., C., etc), and be indented around five (5) spaces. Let's look at an exampleof subheadings with the first main point about Edison: 例えば： II. Edison A. Experiments with electricity B. Direct current (DC) research Note: The supporting points should also be as short as possible - even key words are okay. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. Details Details show, in a short way, some important pieces of information about the main points. They have Arabic numerals (算用数字、アラビア数字), and are also indentedfive (5) spaces from the supporting points. 例えば： II. Edison A. Experiments with electricity B. Direct current (DC) research 1. Carbon filament 2. Electric lamp Note: The details should also be as short as possible - key words are okay. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. Not every supporting point needs to have details, but if they are important enough to be further broken down, then you should put in some details. Conclusion The conclusion is a summarized sentence, or even phrase, that shows the final point of your topic. It will have whatever the last Roman numeral is in your outline. In the example of the Edison and Tesla paper topic, this one has the Roman numeral V. 例えば： V. Overall impact of Edison over Tesla Note: Like the introduction, main ideas, supporting points and details, the conclusion should also be as short as possible. Also - do not put in italics or in bold,do not put a period (.) after. Completed outline Look at this example of a completed outline, with a title, labeled to show you what each part of the outline means. This is to show you what you should try for in your outline writing. While this example is a little small, you can expand it on your screen. Because this is a screenshot, you can also print this out:
Now here is the same outline, without the labels. This is how it should look when you turn it in.As this also is a screenshot, you can also print it out:
So this is what the final versions of your outlinesshould look like - keywords and key phrases only!
I hope these notes can help you with your summary and outline writing. Good luck!
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