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Step 2 - Brainstorming and Research

Mind Map - One submission required per group - Due ASAP

After picking a group and a topic, your next step will be to brainstorm some of the sub-topics you will cover. I'd like this to be submitted as a mind map (but you don't need to get fancy with it - colours and pictures are not required!).

Submit your mind map before getting too far into your project, since I may make suggestions about the trajectory of your presentation at this point.

Research Notes - One submission required per student

Your presentation needs to contain factual content. Even if most of your content is based on opinion or on your prior knowledge, you need to find concrete information to back up your claims.

One page of research notes per student should be sufficient in most cases, and each student should have 2-3 different sources. For each source you use, I'd like you to include point form notes, where most points do not exceed seven words. This can be difficult, but it is intended to be an exercise in summarizing information. Here's an example:

Topic - Internet History

Source 1: "A Brief History of the Internet" (https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml)

  • started in 1960s
  • originally for government researchers to share information
  • creation was partially due to cold war
  • orignally known as "ARPANET"
  • became Internet in 1983 due to TCP/IP
  • ...

Source 2: "A short history of the Web" (https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web)

  • invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989
  • developed at CERN
  • ...