Today's class was our first of the semester, where we got an introduction to the brief, and an overview of roughly how the whole semester is going to pan out.
We spoke as a class about the whole brief, as well as how we can accommodate an ISTD brief within it. I found it extremely interesting the fact that it is in essence one large project, where the outcome from the first brief ideally sets you up for the second brief.
The brief revolves around milestones, with several examples being given for people, geography, animals, flora or fauna. For example, doing a project on the extinction of the moa, the dramatic increase of the opossum, or even a historic event like the Mount Tarawera eruption. In terms of running the ISTD brief at the same time as our project brief, we would be required to do a 'milestone' as such which revolves around death and extinction.
I'm quite intrigued in doing the two briefs together, although ultimately I want to choose a project which I'm going to enjoy, find interesting and be able to invest a whole heap of time into.
By next week, we have been asked to research and come up with a couple of ideas as to what we might do our project on, as well as some relevant data sets for each. It is crucial to the project to make sure we have a whole bunch of data we can use right from the start so that we don't run out of information to use later on in the second brief.
Initially I was thinking I would do the Lake Taupo eruption, although I'm unsure as to how much data will be recorded since it was so long ago. However, I'll have a look and see what I can find, if not I will come up with some other possible options. I'd quite like to do some sort of disaster, which could hopefully tie in with the ISTD brief as well.
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