1.2 Initial Ideas

✓ INSTRUCTIONS & DELIVERABLE

1. Generate a simple list of ideas for a chatbot. Write down at least 10 topics that might be interesting to you and useful to people.

2. Conduct an internet search for existing chatbots similar to some of your ideas. Simply try searching the term chatbot combined with variations on each of your ideas.

3. Use any search results to consider new ideas or adapt your initial ideas.

4. After some reflection on your ideas, define three concepts with a little more detail using the concepts template.

Concepts Template

❏ Deliverable Collect your team's initial ideas in a list and gather the resulting concepts into a single document or slide set.

★ RUBRIC

✓- Below Standard	✓ At Standard	✓+ Above Standard
Initial ideas and concepts are provided but they reveal limited effort.	Ideas and concepts provide valuable paths to consider and will contribute to refining the team's solution.	Ideas and concepts demonstrate especially keen or creative insight, recognizing gaps in existing products that the team could offer in their solution.