Group Assignment Due Feb. 15: Group Web Page and Resources List. This assignment contains two parts:

Part 1: Each team should create a single, simple, uncluttered web page that will be considered the index page for the group's assignments.  The page should have the group's number and the names of team members somewhere clearly identifiable on this page.  There's no need to spend a lot of time on this page – it doesn't need to be fancy, it's just an index.  However, as the semester progresses and you complete assignments that are to be posted to the web (e.g. your executive summary, slides for your presentation), your group will add links to these assignments from your index page.  Once you have created this page, be sure to send the URL to me via e-mail along with your group & section number so that I can add a link to your group's page to the group listing page for each section.

Part 2: For your end-of-semester group project, you're being asked to do something that most of you have never done before – present an analysis of an industry or market segment impacted by electronic commerce.  We will use the collective brainpower of the class to identify resources that will help you in the creation of your group project.  Each group (not individual) will create a web page listing resources to help their classmates. You may suggest information from sources such as articles identified via a search of items in the press pass, articles or databases from the electronic resources of the BC Library, as well as material from any other accessible resource.  Information on industry competitiveness, demographics and trends, technologies, and financials on existing companies are examples of resources that you might find most helpful.  Each team will create one web page with links to readings/resources that they found useful and (if appropriate) very brief summaries (1-2 lines) of why these resources are useful.  Format is open, so feel free to be creative, but the assignment is competitive.  At the end of the semester as part of the project grading criteria, your fellow classmates will rate your resource list in terms of usefulness to them.  Remember, the most dense & resource packed web pages aren't necessarily the most helpful.  A targeted, neatly formatted, well summarized list of a few critical links may be most valuable. When the group has developed the page, the page's URL should be linked to the index page created above.  This page should be completed by the due date, however you are encouraged to add to and improve this page during the course of the semester. Note that you can begin searching for resources for this page even before you have been assigned a group.