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Team Project Assignment for Communication Networks: CS 3000
You will form three-person teams for the class projects.
There is a list of topic suggestions in the document called
projectIdeas.html
I will make additions/changes to the list as ideas occur to me.
YOUR SOURCES
You may use high-quality publications and high-quality sites on
the web as sources of information for your project.
Look
here
to find many sources of information on which to base
projects.
YOUR TOPIC
You must choose a topic with a strong relation to computer
networking and/or computer internets, and
you must present an interesting report on your topic.
If you wish, you may choose to do a project with a considerable
hands-on component. For example, some students using our
textbook at a different college built a client-server application
that allows a client to play a game such as tic-tac-toe over a
network.
On the other hand, you may choose to do a project without a
significant hands-on component.
YOUR GRADE
Three things will determine your project grade:
- Your team's oral presentation of the project activities and results
[35%];
- A handout distributed to each member of the class, including me, at the
beginning of the presentation [35%]; and
- A web site version of the presentation [30%].
All people on your team will receive the same grade.
DUE DATES
Finalize your project idea as early as possible. You must have a finalized
project idea by the due date (approximately during the seventh full
week of instruction). See the
course schedule
for the exact date. You must obtain my approval for your idea
before 5:00 p.m.
on this day. Be wise and finish up significantly before then.
In the meantime, keep me posted on what you are considering
to do for your project so that I have an opportunity to give you feedback.
Students will give their oral presentations at the end of the semester. See the
course schedule
for the exact dates. The entire class is required to attend all the
presentations.
THE CONTENT OF YOUR PRESENTATION
Your presentation must be between 15 and 25 minutes in length. (You lose
credit if it is too short or long.) In your presentation, tell what your topic
is and what is important about your topic. Report what you did, what your
sources of information were, what you hoped to learn, what you actually did
learn, and what you feel remains for you to learn. Report on any other
interesting outcomes. Be imaginative and original. Include some helpful
audio/visual aids. Your presentation will be judged by the quality of your
information and the effectiveness with which you
communicate. Be prepared to take a few questions from the course instructor
and the rest of the audience after you complete your presentation.
THE CONTENT OF YOUR HANDOUT
The body of your handout must be longer than two full pages and no more than than
four full pages. It must contain more than 1000 words. It must summarize what
you want your audience to know about the topic and help them with their
note-taking.
Attach a list of references to the handout. This list must contain complete
citations of all sources of information you used to assemble your project.
See the document
howToCite.html
for important additional information.
THE TIMING OF YOUR HANDOUT
You must distribute the handout to all members of the class, including me, at
the beginning of the presentation. Otherwise you lose all the points for that
component of the project. You must also e-mail me a copy of the handout
before the end of the day of your presentation.
TIMING AND CONTENT OF YOUR WEB PAGE
See the
class schedule
for the due date near the end of the term, by which you must make available a
web page containing the core material of your presentation. We will arrange
to publish the pages on a CS Department web server. See the files
webPagePattern.html
and
links.html
for some help getting started on making web pages. Also, please bring this
topic up in class where we can take care of the rest of the details. For full
credit on your web page, be sure to appropriately exploit links to relevant
web sites related to your topic.