Assignment 3: Group Web Assignment

For this assignment, you will (1) make a website to complement a science research article of your mutual choosing and (2) give a brief presentation to the class on the functioning and value of your site.

As with the sixth-grade lecture assignment, the article you select will need to be a research report by scientists (not a news story or popular science article).

The site will need to translate key aspects of the original research into a succinct, accessible, and easy to follow language and format.

In addition to text, the site will need to use images, graphs, and/or diagrams to clarify and present the material.

The site should both (1) summarize the scientific findings and (2) supply context or background for the non-expert reader's benefit.

The Website

  1. Decide on a topic –
  2. Find/choose a source article. Again, it needs to be a hard-science research article like this one and NOT a news story or science piece for a more general audience like this one or this one or this one.
  3. Independently research topic – finding content, images
  4. Divide work – each of you will make one page.
  5. Make pages
  6. Swap and revise pages
  7. Share files (don't forget the images): the complete group site should be on each of your eden accounts

The Presentation

  1. Give a short (10-minute) presentation on your site –
  2. Link and save source for pages onto a laptop; present from laptop in class.

I'll update this over the next few days.

The Groups

Group 1
Hassan
Christie
Rebecca
Francesco
Yasmin 		Group 2
Saira
Aaron
Daniel
Rachel
Jae
Group 3
Rudy
Allison
Caroline
Garrett 		Group 4
Seth
Roxanne
Hannah
Lindsey
Jason

The Grading

Each group member will be responsible for at least one page as well as for helping to research, design, organize, proofread, and correct the complete site.

Two grades, then, will be given: one for the invidividual page and a group page for the total site and presentation.