ICR Class 11: Cycle 4 research on global issues: Possible actions & solutions
Summary: You discussed in pairs the possible actions and solutions to your issue. Then, we discussed ways to prepare for your Cycle 4 presentations on December 18th or December 25th. Finally, you reflected on the three questions in your Google Doc.
I would like to remind everyone that you need an introduction, conclusion, references, and in-text citations on each slide so you can say where you got your work from. Also, I email your presentation back to you with corrections and feedback.
Please do not use your old draft PowerPoints while presenting. Please download my attachment with feedback because as I am trying to help you improve your presentations!
Cycle 4 Presentations on 012/18/2022: (Order Decided in class on 12/11/2023)
Cycle 4 Presentations on 12/1252022 (Order decided in class on 12/11/2023):
Presentation Content and Design for presenting on Zoom:
Stratvert, K. (2020, July 24). How to properly present PowerPoint slides in Zoom [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOZRa089-U
I recommend before you start to create your slideshow restate your five research questions based the five sections below and then catagorize your notes based on your references:
- Basic Information
- Causes
- Cases or Further Examples
- Effects
- Solutions
Summary: Guidelines for your Presentation in addition to the information in the presentation of your issue document:
IRD_Presentation-ChecklistDownload
1. Your talk should be about 7-8 minutes and then 2-3 minutes for questions, comments, and answers.
2. It is good to practice your presentation several times (even recorded on ZOOM) so you can focus with your timing and gain confidence.
3. There are usually 12 to 16 slides.
4. You’ll have a References or Works Cited page to show where you got your work from. Please include the author’s name, date published, the organization or publisher, and the URL link.
5. In the slideshow, please write and say where you got the information from in the form of in-text citations for APA such as (Miller, 2020, para. 3). You can also do narrative in-text citations such as Suzuki (2020, p. 5) suggested that… If you use the author’s exact words, you need to use “quotation marks,” but you do not need quotes if you summarize the keywords. For MLA it would be Suzuki (5) or (Miller par. 3).
6. Here are three free websites where you can download free and beautiful images and pictures:
7. Samples of Chuo Students’ IRD PowerPoint Presentations
Homework due on Friday, 12/15/2023 or 12/22/2023 by 2 PM Cycle 4 pair and small-group presentations (Assigned on Class 11) Please email your presentation to me via attachment and not in your Google Document due to formatting. Please look for the email I will send you with feedback on your presentation.
ICR Class 10: Cycle 4 research on global issues: Case analysis or Effects
Summary of Class 10: You shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the case analysis or effects of your issue.
Our focus was more on documenting, organizing your work. Furthermore, making reflection questions about your issues to get informative research for your discussions and presentation. We again also focused on help with doing online searches and note-taking to help make sense of and discuss your research. Finally, you wrote refections of your learning in class in your Google Doc:
1. How did you participate in class today? Please describe as best you can.
2. What did you learn about your issue? Your speaking pairs issues?
3. What are your next SMART (simple, manageable, attainable, real, timely) learning goals?
Homework is due on 12/08/2023 by 2 PM. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “第 11回 Cycle 4 sharing research notes 4: Possible Actions and Solutions.”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 1 or 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what are the Effects of Your Issue. Then take two to four pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write on your notes also the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarize in your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
New note: Please do not research only in the Japanese language and translate because it does not support your English reading skills. Some research related to law and Japan is fine, but explore studying in English with a variety of publications and not one source.
Moreover, here is are the IRD links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
And more search engines:
Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidential content for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.
Google Scholar: Google scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.
CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access.
And important quick guides for how document your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system and the focus is more on the content of your research:
Finally a useful phrases sheet that I use in the ICR classes:
ICR Class 09: Cycle 4 research on global issues: Cases or Causes
Summary of Class 09: Today, you shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the cases or causes of your issue. Our focus was more on documenting, organizing your work. Furthermore, making reflection questions about your issues to get informative research for your discussions and presentation. We again also focused on help with doing online searches, note-taking, and mind-mapping to help make sense of and discuss your research. Finally, you wrote refections of your learning in class in your Google Doc:
1. How did you participate in class today? Please describe as best you can.
2. What did you learn about your issue? Your speaking pairs issues?
3. What are your next SMART (simple, manageable, attainable, real, timely) learning goals?
Homework is due on 12/01/2023 by 2 PM. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “Class 09 Cycle 4 sharing research notes 4: Possible Actions and Solutions.”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what are the Effects of Your Issue. Then take two to four pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write on your notes also the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarize in your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
New note: Please do not research only in the Japanese language and translate because it does not support your English reading skills. Some research related to law and Japan is fine, but explore studying in English with a variety of publications and not one source.
Moreover, here is are the links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
And more search engines:
Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidential content for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.
Google Scholar: Google scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.
CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access.
And important quick guides for how document your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system and the focus is more on the content of your research:
ICR Class 08: Cycle 4 research on global issues: Basic information
Summary of Class 09: You shared your research notes with different pairs by discussing the basic information and cases about the issue of your choice. Also, I gave time to write reflections in your shared Google Drive file. When you search for additional information, please ask Wh-questions about your issue to narrow your focus.
Two or Three students will present their Cycle 1 research slide shows.
Homework due on 11/24/2023: Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “第 9 回 Cycle 4 sharing research notes 2: Basic Cases (or Causes).”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing.
The theme should be on what are the Case Analysis or Cause/Effect of Your Issues. Then take one to two pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write on your notes the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarize your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
Please remember to make notes on where you got your work, including the author’s name, date published, publication, URL, and which section or paragraph number you go your information from. It is helpful to know where you got your information to discuss that with your classmates in the breakout rooms and on your presentation day.
APA
Kurokawa, S. (2020, October 2020). Residents in northern Hiroshima pref tormented by low-flying jets. The Mainichi.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201019/p2a/00m/0dm/022000c
MLA
Kurokawa, Shinji. “Residents in Northern Hiroshima Pref. Tormented by Low-flying Jets.”The Mainichi, 20 Oct. 2020,
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201019/p2a/00m/0dm/022000c
Moreover, here is are the IRD links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
And more search engines:
Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidential content for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.
Google Scholar: Google scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.
CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access.
And important quick guides for how document your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system and the focus is more on the content of your research:
ICR Class 07: Cycle 3 reflection and self-evaluation/assessment; student interests and goal- setting for Cycle 4; choice of issue
Summary of Class 08: We had three lovely and informative presentations.
Homework is due on 11/17/2023, by 2 PM. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “ICR Class 07 Cycle 4 sharing research notes 2: Basic Information/Cases.”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what is the Basic Information and what are the Cases of Your Issues.
Then take one to two pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write in your notes and on the Google Doc. the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarize with your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
Again, if you read this, please remember to make notes on where you got your work, including the author’s name, date published, publication, URL, and which section or paragraph number you go your information from in your Google Doc.
It is also helpful to know where you got your information to discuss with your classmates in the breakout rooms and on your presentation day.
Moreover, here is are the IRD links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
And more search engines:
Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidential content for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.
Google Scholar: Google scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.
CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access.
And important quick guides for how document your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system and the focus is more on the content of your research:
ICR Class 06: Cycle 3 Workshop Preparations for Your Research Presentations
Summary: You discussed in pairs the possible actions and solutions to your issue. Then, we discussed ways to prepare for your presentation on November 7th. Finally, you reflected on the three questions in your Google Doc.
Summary: Guidelines for your Presentation in addition to the information in the presentation of your issue document.
1. Your talk should be about 7-8 minutes and then 2-3 minutes for questions, comments, and answers.
2. There are usually 12 to 16 slides.
3. You’ll have a Reference page to show where you got your work from. Please include the author’s name, date published, the organization or publisher, and the URL link.
4. In the slideshow, please write and say where you got the information from in the form of in-text citations such as (Miller, 2020, para. 3). You can also do narrative in-text citations such as Suzuki (2020, p. 5) suggested that… If you use the author’s exact words, you need to use “quotation marks,” but you do not need quotes if you summarize in the keywords.
5. Here are two free websites where you can download free and beautiful images and pictures:
6. Samples of Chuo Students’ PowerPoint Presentations
Homework due on Friday, 11/04/2023 by 2 PM: 第6回 Cycle 3 pair and small-group presentations (Assigned on Class 05) Please email your PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation to svye001@g.chuo-u.ac.jp via attachment and not in your Google Document due to formatting. Please look for the email I will send you with feedback on your presentation. Please use the show that I send back to you.
Note: The 6 presenters need to send their final revised slideshow via email, thank you!
Presentation Checklist:
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Presentation Samples (Not APA, but MLA formatting, sorry!)
Presentation 1: Vertical Farming
ICR Class 05: Cycle 3 research on global issues: Possible actions & solutions
Summary: In the class and also in research pairs, you focused on discussing actions and solutions, but you also spoke and reflected on your past work on your issue, including the basics historical information, data, the causes, and then the effects, and possible solutions or at least some relief to the situation that is your close reading. Afterward, you learned about strategies to synthesize your notes as a template as an outline for your upcoming APA formatted presentation.
References-Formatted-with-URL-LinksDownload
Synthesizing-Your-Issue-on-4-A4-Papers-1Download
Making Great Research and Research Questions
Homework due on Friday 10/27/2023 by 2 PM:
1. Please write your four or five questions related to your topic that you are researching and categorizing your notes on six articles on three A4 papers as shown in the sample images and the downloadable “Synthesizing Your Issue on 4 A4 Papers” PowerPoint above, which is like mind-mapping:
https://sites.google.com/view/brd-ird-resources/3b-mindmapping-1
2. Then, use your research questions to categorize your notes into five or six sections in three pages of notes. The research questions become your paragraph topic thesis statements in your paper. Each section should have at least two citations and note the paragraph numbers and pages, especially your quoted material, so you can remember where you got the information from to make the paper easier to write with the necessary in-text citations. Please take photos and place them in your Google Document under the Synthesized Notes section
2. Please include your references in the document APA style on the fourth page and insert the corrected clean copy of your references in alphabetical order in your Google Document at the end of your Synthesized Notes section. Please provide the details of the author’s name, date published, the title, pages (if needed), and the publisher (or organization). We have already formatted many of your references, so refer to the edited format provided for your references and use that content.
Note: Your reference section should be in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name or the organization if there is no author.
ICR Class 04: Cycle 3 research on global issues: Case analysis
Summary of Class 04: You shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the effects of your issue. Our focus was more on documenting, organizing your work.
Furthermore, making reflection questions about your issues to get informative research for your discussions and presentation. We again also focused on help with doing online searches, note-taking, and mind-mapping to help make sense of and discuss your research. Finally, you wrote refections of your learning in class in your Google Doc:
1. How did you participate in class today? Please describe as best you can.
2. What did you learn about your issue? Your speaking pairs issues?
3. What are your next SMART (simple, manageable, attainable, real, timely) learning goals?
Homework is due on 10/20/2022 by 2PM. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “第 4回 Cycle 3 sharing research notes 4: Possible Actions and Solutions.”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what are the Solutions or Recommendations about your issue. Then take three to four pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages.
Remember to write on your notes also the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarize in your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
Moreover, here is are the IRD links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
And more search engines:
Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidential content for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.
Google Scholar: Google scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.
CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access.
And important quick guides for how document your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system and the focus is more on the content of your research:
ICR Class 03: Cycle 3 research on global issues: Cases (or Causes)
Summary of Class 03: You shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the causes or cases of your issue. Our focus was more on documenting, organizing your work. Furthermore, making reflection questions about your issues to get informative research for your discussions and presentation. We also focused on help with doing online searches, note-taking, and mind-mapping to help make sense of and discuss your research.
Homework due on 10/13/2023, Friday by 2 PM Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section Class 04 Cycle 3 sharing research notes 3: Effects.”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what are the Effects of Your Issue.
Then take one to two pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write on your notes also the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarize in your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
In Class 02 and 03, none of the students notes were long enough. Simple is best, so two research articles and about four pages of notes with the detailed references please and NOT seven articles over two pages, which is nearly impossible to find where the original sources are from unless you document very carefully.
Moreover, here is are the IRD links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
And more search engines:
Carrot 2 Carrot helps you find topics related to your search term. After entering the term you enter and then click on ‘search,’ you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map, or pie chart that helps you visualize your issue and narrow your search at the same time.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): DOAJ is a community-designed and maintained online journal directory that provides you access to robust, open access, peer-reviewed journals. This search engine is independent, and it is free including being indexed in DOAJ. Please use this engine for topical issues and authors, and you might find research that provides evidential content for your academic essay. DOAJ is an educational outreach search engine that focuses on high-quality applications and submissions.
Google Scholar: Google scholar helps you do a broad or narrow search of articles. It also helps you cite your “references” for APA and “work cited” for MLA! You can also get the quick guides to both systems below.
CORE Research Engine UK: This research search engine claims to be the largest open-access research database in the world giving free access.
And important quick guides for how document your sources through references or works cited. You do not have to be perfect on the system and the focus is more on the content of your research:
ICR Class 02: Cycle 3 research on global issues: Basic information
Summary of Class 02: You shared your research notes with different groups and pairs by discussing the basic information about the issue of your choice. We also looked at ways of shifting the research from basic information to cases or causes related to your issue. Students who did not do the homework did so in class. This is rare. Is everyone alright?
Finding Research: Successful Presentation or Paper
Samples of Chuo Students’ IRD PowerPoint Presentations
Homework is due on Friday, 10/06/2023 at 2 PM. Please upload the pictures of your notes in your Shared Google file under the section “第 3 回 Cycle 3 sharing research notes 2: Causes.”
Please, research the SAME research issue using 2 Internet, book, newspaper, or journal articles about a topic you are passionate about discussing. The theme should be on what are the Causes of Your Issues. Then take three to four pages of notes for each reading or viewing using the keywords on the pages. Remember to write on your notes also the author’s name(s), the date, and page or paragraph numbers if you use direct quotations. Also, the URL is very convenient to include and search later from the Google Doc. These actions will help you not copy/paste when you are note-taking and summarise in your own words or use quotation marks using the authors’ exciting thoughts, data, and vocabulary.
Moreover, here is are links and docs for your homework below for your convenience:
Resources for students and teachers in Basic and Improving Research & Discussion
Note-taking on Age Discrimination
Note-taking on a Right to an Education
Instructions for APA