Monday, October 22, 2012

Tuesday Lessons

Lesson 4: Multimedia Revision Links

Answer the questions in the links below: Click the Online study guide button

http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_beekman_tomtech_9/104/26866/6877918.cw/index.html

 http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_beekman_compconf_7/29/7508/1922230.cw/index.html










Sunday, October 21, 2012

Case Study Notes

Write short notes on the following and explain how these information will be useful to the Red Dragon Taxi Company.
  • Behavioural Marketing
  • Business intellignece software
  • CCTV
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Customer Management software
  • Data Logging
  • GPRS
  • GPS
  • Route planning software/route optimization
  • Smartphone apps
  • Software as a Service (SaaS) 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

IT Systems In Organizations:SDLC

With reference to SDLC write short notes on the following;

  • What is a feasibility study and what are the main features of a good feasibility study?
  • Distinguish between organization requirements and requirements specification of any IT system
  • What is the difference between a project goal, project scope, and project constrains? 
Boarding Meeting Activity (Role Play: Feasibility Reports)
Based on the Dragon Taxi Company, Your company Digitech has been tasked to draft some feasibility reports on the company. You will have 15 minutes to draft a simple feasibility report and present it in the board meeting;

Board Chairman, Shehaan: You are expected to guide your team to produce drafts for the different feasibility reports for the company; Ensure that each draft contains the relevant information.

Technological feasibility report: Fatema, Caleb
Economic feasibility report: Aarfa, Jamil
Legal feasibility report: William, Sohail
Operational feasibility report: Solitei, Jamal
Schedule feasibility report: Emmanu, Sadu

Board Secretary,George :Collect and record the main points and present the summary of the reports.

 




 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Case Study TAXI System Marketing Activity

You are the marketers of the TAXI  IT  managements system company. You are to prepare a convincing detailed presentation to Red Dragon Taxi Company employees and the family of Yao Chu. 

Since you know their systems requirements, your choice of the TAXI IT management system should be able to address most of their requirements.

During your presentation you will need 
  • to have an A1 paper with diagrams showing graphics, IT concepts and terminologies  related to the technology
  • Share any Youtube video that will be relevant in marketing the product. The Video showing be less than 3 mins. 
  • Share the major strengths of your product over the others by looking at it impact to the major stakeholders of the system.
  • Share at least three social and ethical issues you foresee the Red Dragon Company getting involved in using your system and suggest some measures or ways of addressing those issues.
 N/B 
  • The Trackit system should not be among the systems to be presented
  • The work will be presented on Monday 1ST Oct 2012 during our lesson
  • We will have guests who will represent the Red dragon company and they will assess your work and determine which product meets their requirements best.
  • The presentation will last for only 10 minutes or less. 
Teams
  • Caleb and Aarfa
  • Emmanuel and Fatema
  • Sadu and Soletei
  • George and Sohail
  • William and Jamal
  • Sheehan and Jamil
Get ideas from
http://itgsonline.wetpaint.com/page/Case+Study+-+Red+Dragon+Taxi+Company+%28May+2013%29
 

Thursday, September 20, 2012

ITGS Project Product design

 There are four significant components to the product design.

¨      Overall structure
¨      Internal structure
¨      List of resources
¨      List of techniques

The following information should also be included as part of the product design.
¨      Test plan
¨      Agreement of client


The product design form must be used as shown below

http://issitgsg12.wikispaces.com/file/view/Crit_D_Product_design.rtf

Product design Sample is shown in 

https://sites.google.com/site/mrstevensonstechclassroom/the-project-hl-sl/example-assessed-projects/example-2/annotated-student-work/product-design

Internal Structure Website design Sample
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/3307874546/
http://woorkup.com/2009/12/28/10-beautiful-sketches-for-website-prototypes/

Internal Structure Database Sample
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6898590.html


Internal structure Storyboard Sample 
 http://exhibit2011mobile.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/sketching-storyboards-in-the-design-proccess/

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Multimedia\Digital Media Project work

Music Mini  Project
Use any type music software to generate your unique kind of music. The final music product should have the following include
  • Apply the different techniques and features of the software
  • relevant lyrics
  • A number of musical instruments used
  • Last for 3-5 mins
Music Video
When the Music is completed, create a video version of the Music product. You can use animated characters in your video. The video should
  • show different scenes relevant to the song
  • Apply the different video techniques and skills
  • be uploaded in you tube
Email the Youtube link to me.
This work will be assessed and rubric will be shared later.
 

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Case Study 2013; Taxi Companies In & kenya south Africa

Research and compare how the following TAXI companies are operated in Kenya and south Africa

  • What information technologies are used by the companies? state If any?
  • Describe how each of the technology is used by the different companies to manage their taxis fleet.
  • What are some of impacts of using the identified some of the identified technologies
  • Describe some related social/ethical issues resulting from using the information technologies below.
  • Suggest and describe at least  6 new taxi related technologies that can be implemented by the some of the companies identified
  • What challenges do foresee them facing in implementation some of the above technologies?
Kenya Taxi Companies
 http://travel.kenya.co.ke/taxi-cab-companies/universal-cabs-ltd?section_id=57
http://www.bunsontravel.com/index.php/corporate/airport-transfers/49-transfer-services
http://www.kenyabuzz.com/component/mtree/travel/car-rentalstaxis/pewin-cabs
 http://www.jimcab.co.ke/
 http://kendy.co.ke/
 http://www.jatcotaxis.com/modules/home/index.php
 http://www.universalcabs.co.ke/online%20reservation.htm
 http://www.safarikenyacabs.com/

South Africa Taxi Companies
http://www.sacab.co.za/
http://www.verifone.com/us-taxi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge2gQJ3OHbE
http://www.aemindia.com/VTS.html
http://gpsintegrated.com/services/gps-radio-taxicabs-dispatch
Notes
http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/ZA/fleet-management.html