P2-IBE+Presentation

=Project 2 - International Business Environmental Factors=

You've been studying about different factors that affect international trade. Now it's time to apply your knowledge. Your team has selected a country. You will now research the environmental factors that make up the international business operating environment for that country. Remember that the four enviromental factors are geography, cultural/social, economic conditions, and political/legal. Refer to 16-18 in your student text for detailed information on these factors. This information should help guide your research.

Once your team has completed your research, you will develop an online presentation that illustrates your findings. You may use Prezi, SlideRocket, 280Slides, or LiveDocuments to showcase your research. Your presentation should include all the relevent research information for each of the four environmental factors, as well as a minimum of 10 relevant graphics, and at least one video. In addition, you must cite your sources. To do so, simply link relevant information to the website from where you found the it (called a contextual link--If you need assistance, please ask your teacher). You must use a minimum of 6 different resources for your research.

You may use the following resources to assist you in your research: · CIA, The World Factbook · BBC, Country Profiles · US Department of State-Background Notes · Executive Planet · Globalization 101 · International Monetary Fund

Your project will be graded utilizing the rubric listed below.
 * CATEGORY || 20 || 15 || 10 || 5 ||
 * Content || Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent. || Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good. || Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors. || Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors. ||
 * Organization || Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material. || Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed. || Content is logically organized for the most part. || There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts. ||
 * Attractiveness || Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. || Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation. || Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content. || Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentaion content. ||
 * Mechanics || No misspellings or grammatical errors. || Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors. || Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. || More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar. ||
 * Sources || Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. All documented in desired format. || Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. Most documented in desired format. || Source information collected for graphics, facts and quotes, but not documented in desired format. || Very little or no source information was collected. ||