Project Status Review
This week you will complete research over the internet for the topic of your book chapter. You have already identified which chapter you are going to write in a collaborative manner all together as a team. Then you searched and found several articles already published on the internet which directly talk exactly about what you want to write or something very relevant to your topic. For all these articles you have added the bookmarks to your Delicious account. Your network bookmarks for your chapter are now in the range of about 20 to 40. You are requested to gather atleast 50 unique bookmarks between all the members of your team network. Many of you have already started browsing through these articles. Many teams have also tried to think how they will structure (Outline) their chapter. Congratulations! you all have done very well!
Now you need to do some serious study and get prepared for next big thing - brainstorming.
Assignment # 15.1
Start browsing all these 50 articles. Dont spend more than 5 minutes per article. Decide is this article really of interest to you? Are you going to find some useful information to add to your chapter from this source? Start making notes on whatever is coming to mind. A tool that can use for this type of quick notes is "Onenotes" from Microsoft and it is part of your Microsoft Office. Identify 2 most important articles that you must read end to end. Inform your team that you have selected these 2 articles for full reading, so your team members will try to choose some other article reading to avoid duplication of efforts. Read these 2 articles completely and keep making notes on your Onenotes. On your Onnotes, you can copy text, images, links, tables almost anything that you may like to note down for inclusion in your chapter.
Assignment # 15.2
These notes is your first deliverable created for the project. You need to store it safe and easily accessable by all your team members. For this purpose your team needs to create a separate shared folder on Google Docs. This shared folder will have read access all team members. You can save your notes into this shared folder. All team members will be able to view your notes and will not be able to make any changes. If you would like any specific team members to also make changes to your notes then only that specific team members you can provide extra previledges of editing it.
Assignment # 15.3
Now you need to prepare to present to the team what have you learned, what do you think will be good content to add to your chapters etc. For this presentation you will prepare slides using Microsoft Powerpoint. You can prepare some simple presenattion slides using Google Docs as well. But for preparing professional quality presentation slides, I will recommend you use Microsoft Powerpoint.
Assignment # 15.4
You will now get together as a team and listen to presentations of each team member. Remember, presenting your thoughts to a group of people is a great art, science technique. This process of presenting and listening to presentations is with the objectives of (1) learn the topic to it's depth and (2) start thinking what will be the chapter outline
Assignment # 15.5
After you have heard of all presentations, next step is debate among the group and create a Chapter Outline. Initially, debate and white board the outline. when you have concluded, then you can use the Word Outline template to document your conclusions. Then assign the sections of teh chapter to individual team membersfor th enext step of drafting out the section.
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