San Jose State University

College of Business, MIS Department

Business 188 (Business Systems and Policy)

Fall Semester, 2007

                                                                                                                                              

 

 

Individual Tech Tasks

 

Below is a description of possible individual technology tasks designed to provide you with opportunities to use new and developing technologies.

 

MANDATORY

 

  1. Create a blog and make at least five entries throughout the semester related to you major and how technology affects it.  MANDATORY FOR ALL.  You may use any service (search for various sites that allow you to do this e.g. blogger.com)
  2. Participate in an online study session (Illuminate)-MANDATORY FOR ALL. You must go out to Elluminate.com and listen to the “Getting Started with Elluminate Live” (More information to come before the first session)

 

SINGLE CREDIT

 

3.                            Create an RSS feed to a technology blog and then provide comments to the author at least three times throughout the semester (GuyKawasakis Blog is pretty funny)

4.                            Contribute content to a website (wikipedia, flikr, youtube)

5.                            Develop a page in a social networking site (myspace, facebook, friendster, etc.)  

6.                            Create a Second Life profile and wander the virtual world

7.                            Find a website that uses a mashup to provide combined information from multiple sources of information (not housingmaps.com) Define a mash-up to support

8.                            Setup a Wiki on a topic of interest.   (e.g. PBWiki)

9.                            Visit Google labs and pick a tool.  Write a summary in your blog of the business value of that tool and how it might be used for you major in business

10.                       Signup for the news letter at Hitwise.com (webtraffic).  Investigate the various products and how you might use them in business.  What did you find especially interesting about these products?

11.                       Create a del.icio.us (web page) account and tag at least 10 articles related to using technology in your future career related to you major.

 

DOUBLE CREDIT

  1. Attend the MIS Experience (counts for two activities) See flyer

 

TRIPLE CREDIT

  1. Create an entry for the Social Innovation category for the Neat Ideas Fair based on a technology (e.g. Mashups).  This may be done as a group of 3 or less.