Headwaters of capital punishment: By whose authority?  capitalpunishment.freeservers.com (Rykart, Chrystal, Caitlin, Ryuta): checked

Student Group Peer Evals:

1. Good job on eye contact.
2. They spoke clearly throughout.
3. One presenter was extremely long in his presentation.
4. Some language difficulties.
5. Good volume and articulation.
6. Reading off of cards; does not seem very knowledgeable.
7. Third presenter was not loud enough; could not understand.
8. Website was well organized.

Your Peer Evals:

1. Taking leadership
2. Put in a lot of time and work.
3. Did lots of typing; hard worker.
4. Contributed a lot and came to all meetings.
5. Had the hardest subject to research and did a really good job.
6. Really good control of the group; guided us really well.
7. Did everything that was asked of them.

Strong points of your site:

1. Thorough research; much detail provided (i.e., cases, dates, name).
2. Good treatment of various factors in the Key Influences section.  Nice work.
3. Key Figures Quotes were a strong selection.

Areas that need improvement:

1. Could use more photos/images to supplement the narrative along the way.
2. Adding the source of a quote is one way to add credibility of your report.
3. Possible Outcomes section could use more development.
4. Images on Photo page were good, although they could use some narrative to aid in explaining them.

Congrats on completing this project!

Dr. Dan 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."

Dr. Fox is a professor of Speech Communication at Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California.

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