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TEACHERS SHOW HOW COMPUTERS CAN HELP" Gazette and Herald ", July, 24, 2003 WILTSHIRE teachers and education experts shared their expertise at a major school computer conference in Bristol. Around 500 delegates attended the West of England ICT conference on Wednesday last week to hear about the latest ideas for using computers in the classroom. Six of the seminars were led by education professionals from Wiltshire. Ian Baker, E-Learning adviser for Wiltshire County Council, said: "We have a great deal of computing expertise across the county's schools and this is demonstrated by having six speakers. "There is also a great deal of innovation in how computer technology is being used to help children learn." Cabinet member for education and county council leader elect, Jane Scott, said: "This is a major conference for the west of England and to have so many speakers from Wiltshire just shows what excellent progress we are making in the best use of computer equipment in the county's schools. "Computer technology is a key component in the county council's drive to constantly improve education in the county." Myles Pilling, special educational needs adviser for Wiltshire County Council spoke on how tablet PCs can be used to help children with special educational needs. Ann Harrison and Susan Jackson, teachers at Shaw Primary School, Melksham, explained the benefits of an outreach project with a local secondary school. Children from Shaw used computer technology to design a mobile and then saw the components being made in the workshops at George Ward secondary school via videoconference. Fiona Allen and James Passmore from Corsham Primary School talked of how they used computer technology to reduce teacher workload. Mark Blackman, Learning coordinator for ICT at Abbey field School in Chippenham, hosted a seminar on how schools can get the best out of computer equipment suppliers. Vikki Bennett, an early years consultant, and Emma Aspery, an ICT consultant, both from Wiltshire, gave practical advice on how computers can stimulate and extend young children's learning. Sarah Corbett and Veronica Barody from Pewsey Primary School gave a presentation on the process of moving from a school with three computers shared between seven classes, to researching their options and settling on a network of 16 wireless laptops. The session then went on to explain how they then integrated the system into school life. E.g. 1. The article under the title "Teachers show how computers can help" is from the newspaper "Gazette & Herald" of July 24, 2003. The topic of the article is the report on the major school computer conference in Bristol. The main idea is – around 500 delegates attended the West of England ICT conference to hear and exchange views on the latest ideas of using computers in the classroom. The conference on the implementation of computer technologies in school has been organized in Bristol. About 500 delegates attended it and six seminars are led by educational professionals from Wiltshire. The participants exchanged their ideas about the application of computers to help, stimulate and extend pupils' learning. The conference was the major one for the West of England and it was a wonderful proof of the progress the schools had been making in implementation of computers in the educational process. The article is written in the form of a news report. The target audience is teachers and people who are involved in the teaching process and applying computers in it. It may also be interesting for some parents. The article is quite actual as for the topic but it is interesting mostly for the people living in this area. To my mind, there are too many names of the participants and only the titles of the reports are mentioned. Very little is said about the contents of the presentations. Nobody would deny the importance and great role the computers have been playing in modern life and in education in particular. It evidently stimulates the schoolchildren’s interest to learning and studying. The language of the article is very simple and easy to understand. E.g.2. The article entitled "Teachers show how computers can help" is an editorial from the local daily newspaper "Gazette & Herald" of July 24, 2003. It gives a brief account of the West of England ICT conference held in Bristol. Around 500 delegates took part in six seminars on the implementation of computer technologies in school. The participants noted the progress that had been made in the best use of computer equipment in Wiltshire county schools. The speakers submitted reports and projects to demonstrate how computers could stimulate and extend young children's learning or how computers could be used to help children with special educational needs. The article is very easy to understand because of the simple style of presentation. Its main purpose is to inform the teachers, first of all, and all the readers about the organized conference. As it is published in the local newspaper the use of so many names can be approved, though sometimes it interferes with the general comprehension… I totally support the idea of the wide implementation of computers in the modern teaching process and fully agree with the author's opinion that computers can be both great helpers and stimulants for the children in their school life. Assignment. Select one article from an English language newspaper and make a complete theme analysis in written form.
P A R T 4 SUMMARIZING THE COURSE Exercise 1. Get divided into three groups. Choose one of the articles from the book. Work on its analysis for 20 minutes. Appoint one of the students from each group to present the analysis you've made.
APPENDIX 2 THE PLAN OF ANALYSING AND RENDERING A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE A. INTRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS
1. State the headline of the article. The headline of the article is... The article is headlined... The headline of the article I've read is... 2. Name the author of the article. The author of the article is... The article is written by … The article is taken from the newspaper... The article is published in the newspaper … B. TOPIC AND MAIN IDEA 4. State the topic of the article. The topic of the given article is … 5. State the main idea of the article. The central idea of the article is... The main idea of the article is... The article is devoted to... The article deals with... The purpose of the article is to give the reader some information on... The aim of the article is to provide a reader with some material on... 6. State the main problems discussed in the article The article discusses some problems relating to … The article deals with some aspects of… The article considers the problem of … The article presents the basic theory … The article provides information on … The article reviews the basic principles of... C. RENDERING THE ARTICLE 7. Define themes and rhemes = > Give a summary of the article (10-20 sentences). The beginning of the article: The article begins with a short discussion on (deals firstly with the problem of)... The first paragraph deals with... First (at first, at the beginning) the author points out that (notes that, describes)... The bulk of the article: Then follows a discussion on... Then the author goes on to the problem of... The next (following) paragraph deals with (presents, discusses, describes)... After discussing... the author turns to... Next (further, then) the author tries to (indicates that, explains that)... It must be emphasized that (should be noted that, is evident that, is clear that, is interesting to note that)... The final part of the article and author’s conclusion: The final paragraph states (describes, ends with)... The conclusion is that the problem is... The author concludes that (summarizes the)... To sum up (to summarize, to conclude) the author emphasizes (points out, admits that...) Finally (In the end) the author admits (emphasizes) that... 8. Optional elements of the analysis (*) * Look for minor peculiarities of the article. * Point out the facts that turned out to be new for you. * Look through the text for figures, which are important for general understanding.
D. INFERENCE 9. Express your attitude to the problem discussed from the point of view of its actuality In my opinion (To my mind, I think)... The article is interesting, of importance (of little importance), valuable (invaluable), up-to-date (out-of-date), useful (useless)... (not interesting)... 10. State what places of the article contradict your views. 12. State what criterion for news selection (or a combination of them) is of key importance for the given article (prominence, proximity, timeliness, conflict, human interest, oddity, consequence etc.) 13. Define the genre (type) of the article and prove your point of view with some key characteristics of the defined genre (hard news; soft news; feature article; news report; news analysis; news commentary, etc.). 14. Define the target audience of the given article (or the target audience of the newspaper where the article was published). SAMPLE ANALYSIS (SOFT NEWS)
Time magazine's "Person of the Year" is You By Michelle Nichols Sat Dec 16, 2006
NEW YORK (Reuters) – You were named Time magazine "Person of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace. "For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is you," the magazine's Lev Grossman wrote. The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its "Person of the Year" issue, released on Monday, "because it literally reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age," Editor Richard Stengel said in a statement. You beat out candidates including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and James Baker, the former U.S. Secretary of State who led Washington's bipartisan Iraq Study Group. Time has been naming its person of the year since 1927 and the tradition has become the source of speculation every year, as well as controversy over unpopular choices such as Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. The aim is to pick "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse." Grossman said the creators and consumers of user-generated Internet sites showed a community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. "It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes," said Grossman, Time's technology writer and book critic. "The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web," he said. "It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter." MySpace – bought by media giant News Corp. last year for $580 million – has more than 130 million users around the world and adds around 300,000 members a day, while YouTube – bought by Internet search leader Google Inc. last month for $1.65 billion – gets about 100 million daily views. "These blogs and videos bring events to the rest of us in ways that are often more immediate and authentic than traditional media," Stengel said. "Journalists once had the exclusive province of taking people to places they'd never been. But now a mother in Baghdad with a videophone can let you see a roadside bombing or a patron in a nightclub can show you a racist rant by a famous comedian," he said. Time's 2005 Person of the Year was the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and Irish rocker Bono for being Good Samaritans, while the 2004 choice was President Bush. In 2003 "The American Soldier" graced the cover in a year when U.S. troops invaded Iraq.
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