Tuesday, May 29, 2007

E-commerce

Prepare a presentation on the following
Sheliza & Alex
a) What is online marketing?
b) How do you market online?
c) What are the effects of marketing online?
d) Discuss any social / ethical issues that arising from online marketing

Jamsheed & Owais
a) What is data mining?
b) How does data mining work?
c) What are the effects of data mining?
d) Discuss any social / ethical issues that arising from data mining

Samuel & Salsabila
a) What is a spyware?
b) How has spyware been used in E-commerce?
c) What are the effects of using spyware in business?
d) Discuss any social / ethical issues that arising from using spyware in e-commerce

Katalina & Arif
a) How has IT systems been used in retailing, advertising and in the media?
b) What are the effects of using IT systems in retailing, advertising and in the Media?
d) Discuss any social / ethical issues that arising from the above

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Banking and Finance

Take the first 2o minutes to research on the following and share your findings in the next 5 minutes. You may use www.howstuffworks.com to learn some of the terms

Sheliza
a) What is an ATM?
b) How are ATM's Used?
c) What are the effects of using ATMS
d) Mention any issues arisings from the use of ATM's

Samuel
a) What is EFT?
b) How are EFT's used?
c) What are the effects of using EFT's?
d) Mention any social/ ethical issues that relate to EFT's

Jamsheed
a) What is internet banking?
b) How does internet banking work?
c) what are the effects of internet banking?
d) Mention any social / ethical issues related to internet banking

Owais
a) What is Electronic cash?
b) How is electronic cash used?
c) what are the effects of using electronic cash?
d) Mention any social / ethical issues related to electronic cash

Arif
a) What is internet brokerage?
b) How does internet brokerage work?
c) what are the effects of internet brokerage?
d) Mention any social / ethical issues related to internet brokerage

Katalina
a) What is Electronic insuarance?
b) How does electronic insuarance work?
c) what are the effects of electronic insuarance?
d) Mention any social / ethical issues related to elctronic insuarance

Alex
a) What is international commerce?
b) How are IT systems used in the management of transnational corporations?
c) What are the effects of using IT systems in management of transnational corporation
d) Mention any issue that relate to the use of IT system in transnational corporations.

Salsabila
a) What is teleshopping?
b) How does teleshopping work?
c) What are the effects of teleshopping?
d) Share any social/ethical issues that arise from teleshopping.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Web Design Assignment

Design a website individual or in pairs using any websign language available to solve any social / ethical issue within your surrounding community. Your website should have the following
  • At least five links
  • At least two related images in each page
  • A least one table
  • varied background colors
  • different fonts size and appropriately used
  • Animated text or images
  • Any other features you discover

Your can use the following links for further learning

http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/frontpage/

http://www.activejump.com/a.shtml

http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html1.html

Check out on the following website examples

http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/spp/8thgrade/justjewelry/

http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/spp/8thgrade/cafebonjourJulieS/

http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/spp/8thgrade/austinj07/

http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/spp/8thgrade/logan07/

INTERNET ASSIGNMENT

Prepare a presentation on the following in pairs. Your presentations should describe the concepts, give atleast five examples with brief descriptions and discuss five social/ethical issues that arise from the topic given. Presentations will be on Friday.

Jamsheed and Sheliza
Email and viruses

Allesandro and Owais
Encryption methods used in the internet

Arif and Samuel
Internet services

Katalina and Salsabila
Global internet databases

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Business And Employment (Employment)

Prepare a presentation on the following topics, bring out important information such as, areas in use or applied, the effects and social/ethical issues that arise;
Sheliza
Job obsolescence as result of information technology
Samuel
Job retraining as result of Information technology
Owais
Online job search
Arif
Employment surveillance
Allessandro
Online Job recruitment
Salsabila
IT Jobs created as a result of IT
Katalina
Jobs lost as a result of IT
Jamsheed
Online job advertisement and teleworking

Communication Part 2

Obtain individual notes and print a copy of the notes for marking on the following
a)
i) Internet service providers; Described.
ii) Examples of internet services providers in Kenya.
iii) Social and ethical issues expected of internet service providers.
b) Internet Servers:Described and example given.
c) Internet browsers
i) Define a Internet browser,
ii) Name and describe the distinct features of 6 different types of internet browser,
d) Search engines
i) Define a search engine
ii) Name and briefly describe 6 types search engines stating their distinct features if any.
e) Electronic commerce
i) what is e-commerce
ii) How does e-commerce work
iii) What are the issues that arise from trading using e-commerce?

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Business and Employment (Transportation)

Each individual student should prepare a presentation and handout on the following:

Sheliza

a) Identify the reservation systems used in different areas.

b) Describe the three organization or companies that use the reservation systems.

c) Discuss the effects of using the reservation systems( Advantages & disadvantages)

d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the reservation systems.

Samuel

a) Identify the luggage processing systems used in different areas.
b) Describe the three organization or companies that use the luggage processing systems.
c) Discuss the effects of using the luggage processing systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the luggage processing system .

Jamsheed
a) Identify the navigation systems used in different areas.
b) Describe the three organization or companies that use the naviagtion systems.
c) Discuss the effects of using the navigation systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the navigation systems.

Owais
a) Identify the scheduling and distribution systems used in different areas
b) Describe the three organization or companies that use the scheduling and distribution systems.
c) Discuss the effects of using the scheduling and distribution systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the scheduling and distribution systems.

Arif
a) Identify the traffic simulation systems used in different areas
b) Describe the three organization or companies that use the traffic simulation systems.
c) Discuss the effects of using the traffic simulation systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the traffic simualtion systems

Salsabila
a) Identify the different types smart roads and smart systems used in different countries.
b) Describe the three organization or companies that designed either smart cars or smart roads.
c) Discuss the effects of using the reservation systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the reservation systems.

Allesandro

a) Identify the transport security systems used in different areas.
b) Describe the three organization or companies that use such security systems.
c) Discuss the effects of using the security systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the security systems.

Katalina
a) Identify the shipping systems used in different areas.
b) Describe the three organization or companies that use the shipping systems.
c) Discuss the effects of using the shipping systems( Advantages & disadvantages)
d) Analyse social/ethical issue that arise from using the shipping systems.