3MT Workshop 1: Analysing Features of Successful 3MT Presentations

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PolyU 3MT Briefing

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Two stupendous performances from the ELC’s Drama Club to watch!

In March 2024 the ELC’s Drama Club staged two performance of 2:22 A Ghost Story! The supernatural thriller by Danny Robins revolves around a strange sound being heard in a large house at exactly 2:22 am over several nights.  Is the house haunted or are there more logical explanations for the noises? Watch the play to find out! The fabulous cast and crew of the ELC Drama Club delivered two remarkable performances, and both are now available for you to watch on YouTube. So, get your popcorn ready, gather your friends, and prepared to be thrilled! Friday night performance Saturday night performance Remember to like the videos and subscribe to the ELC’s YouTube channel!

GenAI@ELC

Join us during May 2024 for a series of Professional Development sessions on how teachers at the ELC are using GenAI. For more details, please look at our Professional Development Pages: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/ProfessionalDevelopment/UpcomingEvents/Default.aspx Sessions include: Using GenAI for teaching and learning Identifying GenAI use in student writing Enhancing working efficiency with GenAI Creating videos with AI Working with Copilot for M365

Book SAP and Get AI feedback on your Pronunciation

Have you tried the ELC’s SAP yet? Book a session with our expert teachers and benefit from AI feedback on your pronunciation. The ELC is integrating AI into its language enhancement initiatives. In the Speaking Assistance Programme (SAP) students can now benefit from an AI Pronunciation Assessment Tool. Other features of the AI tool include: Role play a job interview, sales pitch or even leaving your employment Be a time traveller, robot creator or vampire Interview Zeus, Confucius or Karl Marx Take part in debates including animal testing, AI and a 4-day workweek And while using the AI assistant you will have your ELC expert teacher to help you with any questions. Book a SAP session now!

Try out the new Fashion and Textiles Materials

Do you know the names of different types of clothing? Yes, you know shirt, trousers and shoes, but how about a safari suit, a sailor collar and loafers? Do you know what they look like? Find the answers to these and much, much more in our newly designed website for vocabulary related to Fashion and Textiles. Equip yourself for new challenges by expanding your vocabulary! 

ELC Reading Club Book Exchange

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Supporting students to use AI ethically and effectively in academic writing

Join us for a talk by Dr Ursula Wingate, Professor of Language Education at King’s College London. In the talk, Dr Wingate will cover how students are currently using machine translation tools, including ChatGPT to improve their writing skills. She will then consider students' perspectives on the use of AI before covering ethical use of AI.  Registration Link Supporting students to use AI ethically and effectively in academic writing Drawing on the concept of translanguaging and research evidence from the Chinese higher education context, I will begin by discussing the affordances of machine translation for facilitating the various stages of text composition. My talk will then focus on an ongoing pedagogical intervention funded by the King’s College Teaching Fund. For this project, we recruited student collaborators from two BA and two MA programmes to support us with the project management, the delivery and analysis of focus group discussions, as well as the design, delivery and evaluation of programme-specific workshops on the use of AI in academic writing. The four focus group discussions revealed that most students regularly use ChatGPT in addition to an extensive range of other freely available tools such as machine translation, citation generators, automated paraphrasers, and digital writing assistants. However, whilst many participants acknowledged the helpfulness of these tools in assisting with the planning and revision of their texts, there was a considerable presence of negative perceptions. These ranged from uncertainty about academic conduct policies, ethical concerns as well as the fear of compromising autonomy and losing one’s authorial voice.  On the basis of these findings, the workshops address ethical issues and pitfalls of using AI tools. In addition, they aim at improving social justice by levelling the linguistic playing field for non-native speakers of English as well as enabling digitally less experienced students to use the most effective tools for the enhancement of their texts. The content of one of these workshops will be presented in this talk.

ELC Drama Club - 2024 Performance - 2:22 A Ghost Story!

ELC Drama Club - 2024 performance - 2:22 A Ghost Story! Dates: 15 March 2024 (Fri) and 16 March 2024 (Sat) Time: 6:00pm – 7:30 pm Venue: CHIANG CHEN STUDIO THEATRE (Ground Floor Core A) Trailer: https://youtu.be/AeW4U1rbk58 Tickets: FREE for staff! (please register your attendance via the link) https://form.everestwebdeals.co/?form=c25b3b67bc6bfd7ab4574bb61d8caa4d

Have you tried the ELC's VR Space yet?

Explore the ELC's VR Space in Room A305a! Go to Room A305 and find the VR Space on the left between the entrance and the counter. We have a range of different experiences for you to try out including: - Virtual Becomes Reality: A Stanford VR Experience This will give you a good overview of how to use the equipment. - Mona Lisa Beyond the Glass Go to the Louvre Museum in Paris and experience Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting. - Becoming Homeless: A Human Experience Interact with your environment to attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in another’s shoes - The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience A virtual underwater ecosystem to allow you to observe firsthand what rocky reefs are expected to look like. - COLOSSE A real-time virtual reality storytelling experience And many more!