Preparing for group presentations

Today was, mostly, spent on teams working on the group presentation task for next week. Remember that the purpose of the group presentation (and this class in general) is to help each other with the research for the four Building a Network PC tasks.

I asked everyone to think about how the presentations would be structured and delivered. The obvious way to create a sense of a unified presentation is to use something like PowerPoint. The use of a common platform will help link the elements of your presentation.

I also handed back some feedback on the minutes. Remember that the structure of the minutes should reflect the structure of the agenda. You should always have a copy of the agenda when you are writing the minutes.

Minute writing and feedback

I started off today by giving some guidelines on minute-writing, directed you towards the template on the P drive and then let you get on with that.

I also gave feedback individually to everyone who took part in the meeting next week. Some folk finished the minutes and others, I presume, are on their way.

Next week you will work in your teams to organise your group presentation to the rest of the class.

Research meetings

Thanks to everyone for your input at today's meetings.

There was a lot of useful research been shared - the fact that we ran over time on this is evidence of the amount of relevant information that people have come across.

One of the ideas that came up was for teams to share information on their research by opening up their Facebook sites to each other: that's up to you as teams. However, I will be collating all the sites that people are recommending and will put the links up on this blog.

One of the main points to come out of today's meeting is the importance of preparation. If you didn't feel that your slot didn't go as well as you hoped, then think about how prepared you were.

Next week we will be looking at writing up the minutes of the meeting and after that we will be looking at putting a group presentation together.

Thanks again for your hard work.

Preparaing for research meeting

Most of today was spent preparing for the formal (and assessed) meetings next week.

The first thing that most people did was devise an agenda for the meeting next week.

After that, everyone worked on their individual research. Remember that you need to come along prepared with written notes on two websites which are of use for your research for the tasks. Again, use "Document 2 Research and Reading 1" (page 11) from the Student Guide for this unit which you'll find on the P drive (see file location address on right hand column).

As everyone has set up a Facebook for their group and acting on a suggestion from, I have set up a Facebook space for me as a tutor (not my personal Facebook page - you don't want a window into my world believe me ...). If you want to invite me - I'm there somewhere.

If anyone has any questions about what needs to be done, please get in touch.