HL Case Study (26th Aug 2010) Period 3

CASE STUDY
'It is important that the students describe who? what? where? when? how? when they write their responses on paper 3.'


Use the A3 paper provided to create a Mind map that will guide your case study process.

Mention everything that you will need to know about "Developing and Running an Online business"
Look at the examples of mind maps

http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/mind-maps-examples.htm

CASE STUDY CONTINUATION WORK 30/9/2010

I hope the mind map is a good guide towards your case study research.
In order to proceed with the case study, I have assigned each of you some research work on IT system used in Online businesses. You need to give a full description in your own words and with a variety of research explanations regarding how the IT System works and how it connects to the Case Study. Any useful information regarding the system should posted. This should be posted in the blog for others to read or you can create your own. You will then post atleast one question after reading the reaserched work. Please respond to any question addressed to you.

Gary: Backup strategies / RAID

Sajni: Denial of service attack

Tasin: JavaScript

Immaculate: Search engine optimization / Page ranking

Atiya: Payment options: Paypall, credit card payments / direct account deposit.


Further Research activities to be done individually. (Post your responses here)

1) What is Online business? Give three types of definitions

2) List the different types of online businesses. List as many as possible

examples

3 How do you start an online business?

starting an online business

Watch the following videos on starting online business and make a summary of your

Video

Class activity for 23rd Sept 2010.
Use the worksheet provided to respond to the questions below. This activity will last for 20 minutes. After this you will be expected to present your findings.

-If you were to start an online business; which one will you start?
-What are some of the things you will need in terms of software, hardware and expertise to setup the business?
-Why would you require mentioned above?
-What are some of your expected challenges in setting up and running the business?
-What would be some of solutions to the stated challenges mentioned above.
-Outline some social/ethical issues expected.

Homework

What are the impacts of using search engines that translates websites into different languages?