MOBILE PHONES IN JAPAN-Smeralda, Geollier, Da Mota Pires

Glynnis Smeralda, Caroline Geollier et Helena Da Mota Pires

Mobile phones using in Japan.

Japan occupies the first place in the mobile phone market. It’s certainly for that there 75% of Japanese population own a mobile phone.

Questions:

How many other countries can use Japanese mobile phone?

(http://www.japan-zone.com/new/mobile_sim1.shtml)

Why do our own mobile phone don’t work in Japan? (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2223.html)

Where is it harder to use GSM phones? (http://www.japan-zone.com/new/mobile_sim1.shtml)

What are the advantages and the drawbacks using own mobile phone outside provider’s country? And what solution can be taken to remedy to an inconvenient?

(http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2223.html)

What are the greatest advantages when you rent a mobile phone to Adam Phones Company? (http://www.japantravel.co.uk/site/phone.html) (Click on website into this one)

Game: Find the words according to what you have just learnt and put them in the cross-ruling:

Horizontal:

1)How can you access to a mobile phone without buying it? (4 letters

2)What does population have GSM networks?

3)What is the society which proposes advantages renting mobile phones?

4)What is synonym of mobile phone?

5)What is the network advised in Japan?

Vertical:

A)Who do use most mobile phones?

B)Local SIM cards are better than______SIM cards. (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2223.html)

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			1)
					4)
			B)
						3)
	2)
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THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY-Chebab, Diakite, Famby

 CHEBAB Fairouz

DIAKITE GNAMOYE
FAMBY Lise-Andrée

L2G2

« The Virtual University »

Often used in the USA, virtual universities know a huge popularity nowadays. The principle of the virtual university is simple: give the courses of higher education in line through multiples tools. Virtual schools are not free schools: indeed, you have to pay to have access to the content, for example, Open University, the first virtual university costs between £3000 to £16,000. Virtual universities can be seen as an alternative of “physical universities” since they provide courses for those who can’t attend classes because they are sick, parents or just living abroad. In any case, students can study at home at their own rhythm, with a perfect timetable, no students talking around them, no uncomfortable chairs… just like the current multimedia class. The question here is to know how virtual tools such as videos, blogs, chats, text messages can be used to conduct a university course online.

1. What does this picture make you think about ? http://prizma.haifa.ac.il/mich-vu.jpg

You may all think that Google in only a search engine actually, it has a lot of functionalities and tools such as “Google for Educators”

2. Go to: http://www.google.com/educators/index.html what is Google for Educators? What does it offer to help teachers?

3. Now, go to page 2 of http://www.youblisher.com/p/30257-Google/ how many sites, in Google, can help a teacher to create his own site? Which one would you choose? Why?

4. Go to: http://www.cleanapple.com/blog/?p=208 how many steps there are to create a site?

5. http://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no2/kovalik_0610.pdf Read from page 3 (from “Research questions”) to 7 (“… with text messaging.”) What is the subject of this study? Does this study led to a positive or a negative conclusion?

6. Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f_FtzgL9y4 can you briefly explain the main differences between this “virtual class” and a “normal” English class in school.

Questionnaire:

1. Do you think that virtual universities are better than the “physical” ones?

2. Would you like to receive SMS from the university? Why?

3. Do you think that a visual support (videos) make the explanations easier to understand?

4. Is this new way to learn and teach a representation of our society, the next step in learning?

MUSIC AND THE INTERNET -Drame, Bekiouui, Yassine, Kulmicht

L2 Group 2 LEA
Expose of : Drame Kadi , Bekioui Sonia , Yassine Bouchra , Kulmicht Marina


7) The music industry

Our subject is an art, an industry and it permit the access to a kind of  culture. With the Generation Y, this industry is hold in esteem on the internet. Moreover we can exchange it on the net by sites like the famous one :
www.youtube.fr

Internet can be harmful to it. It can impede its development or even can make it extinct. Nowadays few people are ready to use the legal mean because of the fact that is not free so they prefer to use illegal means to reach this topic :
http://www.limewire.com/fr
http://2011site.org/fr/
But Internet is also essential to our subject. This industry can’t survive without Internet. Fortunately some legal websites exist to develop and promote it like:
http://www.fnac.com/telecharger-musique.asp
http://www.apple.com/fr/itunes/download
http://www.virginmega.fr/musique.htm

Thanks to the internet, talents have been discovered. In France, there is a famous website called
Now this industry declines because of the illegal means impeaching its development and also the pay of the people working for this industry. Here we have the point a view of a former talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAOrKQyp0WU



PLAY with Words : Puzzle

A   U   Y   M   B

N   S   O   U   L

A   S   U   I   U

H   0   T   0   E

I    S   U   A   S

R   N   B   0   R

C   S   E   A   L

Find the words

BLUES

RNB

RIHANA

SEAL

STAR

YOU TUBE

At the end, with the letters remaining, you will find a word in connection with our subject…

                  

WIKIS, WIKIPEDIA, WIKILEAKS-Codzamanian, Desroses, Espartero

Multimedia

Eva Codzamanian

Béryl Desroses

Corinne Espartero

Subject: Wikis, Wikipedia, WikiLeaks

A wiki is a website in which a part of people or everyone can create or modify free linked web pages. It’s a collaboration of internet surfers.

The first wiki was created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham and was called WikiWikiWeb.

Wikipedia and WikiLeaks are Wikis.

Wikipedia is a free encyclopaedia and WikiLeaks is an international website about political analysis and societies that publishes unavailable documents from anonymous sources.

Questions:

1) What are the 3 main principles that explain Wikis success?

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples

2) How many pages were existing in 2005?

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory

3) Why is it important to check information from Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Risk_disclaimer

4) Wikimedia foundation is an organization that hosts Wikipedia. Give names of other wiki projects hosted by this organization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

5) Why WikiLeaks disturbs the United States, particularly the US Army?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/04/wikileaks-founder-urges-us-investigation

Quiz : ( choose the right answer)

1)      All the information from Wikipedia is true. T / F

2)      There were 100 000 wiki pages in 2005. T / F

3)      You don’t have to pay to access to Wikis. T / F

4)      The first wiki was created by Duke Cunningham. T / F

5) Wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian. T / F

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY and THE INTERNET Cieslak, Claro-Suma, Lietout

GROUP 2: Laurène CIESLAK, Louise CLARO-SUMA, Antoine LIÉTOUT.

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Part 1 – TODAY'S SITUATION:

Here are figures about the current situation in the music industry:

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20100428.html

1 – Is the music industry in good shape?

2 – Give the percentage of variation of global sales in 2009

Here is a chart showing the music sales drop from 2000 until now (including forecast until 2012):

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/04/drm-lock-ins-and-piracy-all-red-herrings-for-a-music-industry-in-trouble.ars

3 – Have physical and digital sales followed the same curve during the last decade?

4 – How would you explain the total sales drop, despite the digital sales rise?

The US have rather successfully created a legal alternative to illegal downloading, here are a few charts that show the american legal music consumption:

http://www.journaldunet.com/cc/11_musique/musique_us.shtml

On the other hand, France failed to react at the beginning of the crisis. Here are figures about the situation of legal downloading in france today:

http://www.iabfrance.com/?go=edito&eid=375

Here is information about the past year tendency in legal downloading in the US and in Europe:

http://www.iabfrance.com/?go=edito&eid=375

5 – Compare legal downloading in France and in the US. What can you assess about the situation in the future?

Part 2 – SOLUTIONS

Increased collaboration between various protagonists of the music business:

http://www.betanews.com/article/YouTube-Universal-Vevo/1239398450

Another example:

http://www.lexpansion.com/high-tech/l-accord-entre-youtube-et-la-sacem-une-revolution_240032.html?xtor=RSS-128

6 – Do you think that such solutions can curb the current financial crisis of the music industry?

7 - Is the music industry trying to lower legal music downloading prices ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7048053/ )

8 – What do you think the legal downloading offer should look like (price, online structures, etc.)?

Go HERE for Crossword Game
http://www.variety-games.com/CW/Puzzles/1928060620194167235230-puzzle.htm

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY and THE INTERNET-Cakici, Moronenko, Lepesant

CAKICI Mehmet

MORONENKO Thomas

LEPESANT Maxime

LEA L2 Groupe 2

The Music Industry

The music industry : attitudes towards different legal and/or illegal solutions? The use of the internet for promoting music, exchanging music, making music while avoiding the music industry, etc.

Subject :

What are the various supports which allow to promote its music without passing by music industry ?

The music industry is the business of music. Although it encompasses the activity of many music-related businesses and organizations, it is currently dominated by the "big four" record groups, a.k.a. "the major labels"/"the majors" — Sony BMG, EMI, Universal and Warner — each of which consists of many smaller companies and labels serving different regions and markets.

Nowadays, the music industry knows an important crisis because of illegal downloads and also legal downloads because people can buy only one song instead of buying the full album. The music industry tries to find solutions to promote, exchange and make music. Internet, for example, seems been a good mean.

Questions :

1/ What are the consequences of legal/illegal download on the music business ? Justify your answer.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/21/study-illegal-music-downloaders-buy-10-times-as-much-legal-music-as-non-illegal-downloaders/

2/ What are the different stages to promote your own music ?http://musicians.about.com/od/beingamusician/ht/selfpromote.htm

3/ Is Youtube a good mean to promote your music ? Why ?http://hubpages.com/hub/promote-your-music-for-free

4/ Do you know some artists who use internet to become known ?

5/ Have you ever donwloaded illegally ? If your answer is positive, what software did you use ?

Quiz :

1/ How many euros cost a music on Itunes Store ?

2/ What's the name of the new law which was voted in order to stop the illegal downloads in France ?

3/ Who's the young singer produced by Usher and become known by Youtube ?

4/ Do you know this rapper native of the campaign who became known by internet ?

5/ Grégoire, a french singer was revealed thanks to a web site. What is this site ?