The work by this group was very good in quality. 

Their oral presentation demonstrated a good to fair quality, as corroborated by the numerous student group comments on their evaluation.  A sampling of those comments include:

+ Good pictures; the poster boards were great.

+ Very organized and well prepared.

+ Reading, no eye contact.

+ Read from notes a lot, until Dr. Fox interrupted.  After that they improved their presentation style a lot.  Great work Steve and Amanda.

+ The web page seems filled with lots of good information.

The strongest components of this site are that (1) you offered a preview to the site (on first page); (2) used color to set apart key ideas; (3) included web links within the pages, so that people can go immediately to fiind more information (nice job!); (4) maintained the basic professional quality expected for college-level work (i.e., spelling, grammar, quality writing, and consistent source citation); (5) you offered a great deal of detail (i.e., Implications page), especially for those interested in doing more reading or research; and (6) the organization of the website pages was effective and consistent.

Congrats to you all, team.

Dr. Fox

MITA, or Moment-In-Time-Analysis, is a problem-based learning methodology developed by Daniel S. Fox, Ph.D. in 2003 for the purpose of engaging learners in course curriculum, developing their critical thinking skills, improving their internet and computer competence, and facilitating a group problem-solving challenge.  It is used here in a college-level Group Communication course at Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California.  For more information about PBL, visit www.speechprof.faithweb.com.

The assignment can be found at this site:  www.groupcomm.freeservers.com.

The introduction to the assignment reads, "Each group will explore dimensions of a selected historical event.

Parts:

1.           Investigate a designated Moment-In-Time issue, collecting the data using the MITA tool, and organizing it in a sensible format for an audience.

2.           Develop a web page at Freeservers.com or 20fr.com that showcases the results of the MITA study. 

3.           Present the results and the web page to the rest of the class in an internet-connect classroom."

Amanda, Omar, Steve, and Diana.

MW 1:00 Group Communication, Spring 2004.