Committee:
- Supervisor: Dave Mazierski
- Voting Member: Dr. Shelley Wall
- Content Advisor: Dr. Darryl Gwynne
Master's Research Project (MRP) title/general idea: Arthropod Evolution
Goal: To produce a fun, informative, and interactive display (game, website, museum kiosk) that would teach people the key characteristics found amongst all arthropods, and how these characteristics evolved from primitive arthropods.
I still need to narrow down an age group...I think this will be determined by the means of communication I choose (ie: if I stick with museum kiosk then I would be creating something for all ages, whereas a website or game based approach could be focused to a younger crowd)
Committee meeting #1: My first committee meeting was on Wednesday April 22nd. Dave, Shelley and I met Darryl at UTM and Dave filled him in on what the BMC program entails and what he can expect as a content advisor on one of the MRP projects. We also explained that I would be in the New Media stream and how this differed from the 3D stream.
We discussed possible ideas for the project . Darryl suggested that I could focus on general arthropod evolution, but it could be interesting to focus and explore one of the various schools of thought on this topic or to do a comparison between different schools of thought (mostly classification and genetic disagreements).
Shelley also had a wonderful "build your own arthropod" concept that I think will work wonderfully within the project.
Finally, we talked about future requirements. We will have 2-3 more committee meetings and explained to Darryl that I may have content questions at various points while working on the project.
Other decisions to be made:
- should I write a paper?
- should I evaluate (probably yes)?
Well, that was a bit of a catch-up on the older stuff. Here are some of the links I've found to online resources (there are amazingly many e-books that I've come across on arthropods). The entire books may not be available, but enough for me to gage whether it would be worth finding elsewhere!
http://books.google.ca/books?id=aJAnh7CrOJsC&pg=PA75&dq=arthropod+evolution#PPP1,M1
http://books.google.ca/books?id=65KqxDz3GmEC&pg=RA4-PA95&dq=arthropod+evolution#PPP1,M1
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Pj-q9eHyIx0C&pg=PA106&dq=arthropod+evolution#PPP1,M1
Here's one for fun (Dave and Shelley, it's the website I mentioned during the MRP that I found somewhat amusing and definitely filled with info!)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/arthropodstory
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