2nd Day of class - Presentations

Presentations were great first of all, but nothing is perfect. I will admit that even my group had its imperfections or mistakes that we might have forgotten to include on the presentation or more information was needed in certain situations.  The first thing that I realized is that the second day of class demonstrated where the class is heading during the semester in terms of group work and learning much more than we could imagine; this is what happened on the second day of class. Even though we lost more than half of the class, those who were left managed to do a great job on their presentations. Further below is my opinion and critiques of the strength and weaknesses of the presentations:
Group 1- Good PowerPoint presentation. The design was not a great one but good enough to have a normal class presentation. A PowerPoint presentation is based on how much information is given to the people with a few bullet points. I'll admit, I did learned a lot from this presentation. From knowing about the main reason why computer scientists intended to create the internet to how the commercialization of it in 1995 changed the interaction between people on a global scale. However, I just think that too much was written on presentation and because of it, it was hard to catch up with the presenters and reading everything at the same time. The font was too dark to read because of the theme, but everything else was great even as going far to predict the future of the internet. It was great to see how social networks have a mass amount of users that could make up a nation.
Group 2 - I was not expecting someone to create a video for their presentation, but this group went beyond everything else. The video not only presented the history of the internet, but how the internet is just more than what we see online.  For example, the narrator pointed out how the internet has become this competition for businesses leading for many companies to take control of what is given to people. There was only one small problem to the video, I know it was a group work but it would have been better if the narration could have been done by all the members. Focusing on Youtube and other social networks was a great point to talk about. What I like the most was the last minute when the video was showing how future technology will be on the palms of our hands. This means that communication over the internet will be closer than ever.
Group 3 - As previously stated on the introduction, I know our group could have done better. It was something new that we were testing. After testing the website for a while we decided to try it out in our class for our presentation.  In my opinion, more information was needed in certain circumstances such as the Supreme Court cases. I think that I needed to explain more how the cases evolved and what was the final decision made by the courts.
Group 4 - Their presentation brought a broader perspective on the history of the internet. They weren't specific on one thing only, but the internet overall.  The most important part of the presentation was pointing out who created the first computer on the 1800s and thanks to such person (Charles Babbage) today we have such great innovation of the computer.

Overall, second day of class but a great start. Hope we continue learning more from the readings and from class discussions.