In your teams you should pretend that this is the ninth annual Symposium for New Technologies – a meeting of the people responsible for molding the future of technology. This year your speakers’ (team members) speech topic will be: “Modern Inventions … People and Inventions which changed the world." Their speeches should last no more than 1 to 2 minutes each. (see "How to Make a Speech")
Please COMPARE these 20th century innovations with the newer versions that exist today – for example “How televisions in 2008 compare to television in 1988,” or “The evolution of the mobile phone,” etc.
I have provided you with a web link to each product, as well as a brief summary. YOU should the whole story, make note of the details in the story, and then report those details to the class.
If at all possible, DON'T READ YOUR SPEECH! Learn the details, and then practice them so you can tell them in your own words. Maybe creating a draft, or an outline, will help you – but remember that I am more interested in HOW you tell the story than in the story itself, so be creative.
THE TECHNOLOGIES YOU WILL INTRODUCE
Television
Mobile Phone:
- 1st generation
- 2nd generation
- 3rd generation
Computer
- Apple
o Apple II
o Macintosh - IBM
- Radio Shack
o TRS-80 (Trash 80), The most popular home computer
o Atari 800- The machine that won the color graphics race
o Commodore 64- Breaking the price barrier
Camcorder:
VCR:
· Beta
· VHS
CD/DVD Player
· CD
· DVD
· HD-DVD
· Blu-Ray
MP1/MP2/MP3/MP4/MP5
Food Processor
Microwave
Fax Machine
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