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 ESLP0570AA English for Special Purposes: Technology                                                                                           

ESLP0570AA English for Special Purposes: Technology

Course Instructor: Adrian DeMuro
Email: demuroad@shu.edu,  tel. 973-761-9254 Office: 571 Jubilee Hall

Course meeting day/time: Tuesday 10:00 AM to 12:45 PM
Course location: Jubilee 233 (or designated computer lab)

This course is designed to improve English language skills, at the high-intermediate and advanced level, within the context of computer technology. While discussing various relevant topics and completing projects on current issues in the field of information technology, course participants will work to develop fluency, structure, vocabulary, writing, and presentation skills.  Several workshops through the Computer Training Center (CTC) and guest presenters will be offered. Training sessions both during class time and as outside assignments will be assigned, to enhance participants' computer skills and knowledge.

Course requirements: Students are expected to
     *attend all classes,
     *participate in  discussion,
     *complete assignments,
     *prepare presentations to be delivered in class as well as online, and
     *use English in all aspects of the course, including technology.

All students should know their username and password for their SHU accounts:LAN (Novell), Blackboard, and Webmail.  See the instructor or Computer Services Help Desk in Corrigan Hall. For an immediate question or advice, you may call them on campus ext. 2222. From your phone, that is 973-275-2222.

You are encouraged (but not required) to bring your laptop (notebook) computer to class. The CS Dept. can help you set up access and the wireless connection for use on campus.

Where their knowledge of a particular technology is not as developed as they'd like, students should ask questions, seek help from their colleagues and instructors, and frequent the CTC to become more familiar with the subjects of the course. The purpose of the course is not only to learn technology, but to improve English skills as well.

Course texts: Texts and materials will be available on internet (links below) and through handouts in class.

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Assignments / Topics:

Week 1 - January 22  
Week 2 - January 29
Week 3 - February 5
Week 4 - February 12
Week 5 - February 19
Week 6 - February 26
Week 7 - March 4
Week 8 - March 11
Week 9 - March 18
    Spring Break: March 25
Week 10 - April 1
Week 11 - April 8
Week 12 - April 15
Week 13 - April 22
Week 14 - April 29

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Week 1 - January 22 - personal self-assessment survey.

Please answer the following questions about yourself.  Write at least 50 words for each question.  Send me the answers by email (to demuroad@shu.edu), or in Word as an attachment (probably good to use both).  You may also use paper or any other written form for this survey.

Name:____________________________  Date: __________________

1. Describe your own "computer literacy"-- that is, your knowledge and familiarity with technology.

2. What particular applications do you use regularly?  Please describe your particular use in detail.

3. What areas would you like to explore in technology?  Be specific and list as many as you can.  Why do you have an interest in them?

4. What technology would you like to share with the class? That is, what would you feel confident to talk about or to give a presentation on?  This can involve research, outside training sessions, and collaboration as preparation.

5. What computer skills do you need to learn for your particular field of study or professional capacity? For example, perhaps you would like to learn Microsoft Excel or become familiar with other programs for accounting, because you would like to obtain your CPA license, pursue the MBA degree in finance, or have your own company. 

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Week 2 - January 29

Some vocabulary:

e-commerce
B2B = business to business
B2C = business to customer
P2P = peer to peer
webinar = web seminar
     from "world wide web" + "seminar" (academic meeting)
webtop
cyberspace
cybercrime
 

Week 3 - February 5

 "Cybercrimes"
Click to see PowerPoint Presentation by Sergio Scanzoni:

 

Week 4 - February 12

Presentation by Jiin Jung

Ebay announced some new strategies.

What does this mean:
Commercial traffic has been flat (2% in the last year).

Who will be leaving?
Meg Whitman, CEO (chief executive officer)

Why?
Ebay will be changing.

How?
New strategies:
Reduce by half the up-front fee Platform List.
The purpose of the strategy is to remove the obstacle of the seller.
E.g., the severe competitor, amazon.com, charges no fees.

Objective:
They expect these changes to bring new users.  

Vocabulary:
traffic
CEO
“flat”
mitigator
brand equity
competitor
up-front fee

Related article: http://gigaom.com/2008/01/23/the-ebay-shuffle-donahoe-to-replace-whitman/   

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Presentation by Selim on Firefox (vs. other browsers)

 

    

 

Week 5 - February 19

Review of Selim's talk

Survey questionnaire - feedback (see below)

Protecting against spyware: www.spybot.com   

 

Assignments for Feb 26

Lukasz – editing music
Presentation to the class on Feb 26 

Editing movies, audio, etc.
Bouba, SooYoung, Sirinart (Demo on Nero Feb 26) 

MS Excel - Spreadsheet
Supawan (Demo to the class on calculating & pivoting in Excel Feb. 25)
Sun Sook, Santanee …

Other areas of interest expressed by the participants

Please explore at least two of the following and plan to report to the class. For at least one, you should plan to give a demo to the class.

How to be protected from viruses and spyware. (E.g., Norton, Symantic, V3, Kaspersky, etc. )

Programs to do music

Buying a computer

Downloading music & sound files
     iTunes
     Winamp
     VLC
     Wav

Programs for editing & storing video files

Sharing audio & video
    Bit Torrent
    U Torrent
    Photo Bucket
    You Tube
    MySpace
    Blog Spot
    Picasa
    PowerPoint

Week 6 -- Feb 26

Web 2.0 -- some multimedia materials

Multimedia and Web 2.0 -- click to see PowerPoint presentation by Mike Soupios, TLTC

Presentations by course  participants (see above)

Free Technology Workshops offered through TLTC:  CLick the link to learn more and register for a workshop.

 

Week 7 - March 4

Presentations by course participants on researched topics -- individual and group.

 

 

Week 8 - March 11 -- TLTC Workshop (Walsh Library -- lower floor)

Using MS Excel

other topics

 

Week 9 - March 18 -- Distance Learning

Some reading for discussion and practice:

"Online ESL Study: Preparing Before You Go?"
http://www.tips4students.com/eslstudy.htm   

"Online Degrees: Advantages and Disadvantages" (Randall)
http://www.tips4students.com/onlinedegree.htm   

NY Times article on online courses for public school children:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/education/01virtual.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=online+courses+&st=n 

 

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