Working on minutes - more meetings.

Today groups 1, 2 and 3 worked on producing their minutes for the research meeting. Remember that everyone has to submit their own minutes - I can't accept the same set of minutes for each member of the group. I know that this isn't the way minutes would be done in a work setting, however, as part of the assessment, each student is required to produce minutes (I asked people to submit their work at the end of the class - I got some, but not all, of the minutes. I presume the rest are on their way to jerryoneill@stevenson.ac.uk).


As the groups worked on that, Group 4 had their meeting (I'll give you feedback next week). And we set up a Group 5 for the three folk who still need to do their meeting.


One thing that came out of the meetings so far is that there is little use in going to the first sites that Google suggest. These sites are often more to do with the marketing and promotion of the event and you may find that there is little there on the political, economic or social impact of your event. You need to dig a bit deeper and, as one member of Group 4 said, "Go old school - use the library".

However, all of this is part of the reasons for having these research meetings in the first - you get to discuss some of the problems you are having with your research topics.


Next week, you will be putting all of your research together in your report.