BUSN
2311 Computers in Busienss
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
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Please try to make Projects 1 and 2 quality web documents. These are the start of
what will soon be a common practice by you of publishing personal and professional
documents on the WWW.
Your PERSONAL WEB DOCUMENTS (Project 1) must be available for grading before class on
March 18, 1998. Late documents will be severely penalized (5% per
day late on Project 1). These documents are worth up to 100 points for the course.
Your personal web documents should tell us things about you and our special interests and
experiences (work, travel, hobbies, etc.). For example, if you are an expert in Rhubarb,
tell us all about Rhubarb. If you have a butterfly collection, show us your butterflies
and describe these specimens. You may discuss your athletic activities or campus faternity
and club activities.
Some Project 1 web pages in prior semesters contained copies of term papers and projects from previous or current courses. For example, Sylvia Ramos included a web page on a course project in Human Evolution. David Thornton included a first year seminar project. Karen Driscoll included her writing and her art at http://131.194.250.50/users/kdriscol/ Mike Roberts revealed some intense interests at http://131.194.250.50/users/mrobert2/ Other projects can be viewed at http://www.trinity.edu/~rjensen/busn2311/helpers1.htm#Student.
For PROJECT 1 due by class on March 18, the following grading weights will be assigned:
- 50% on creativity in design, content, and innovative use of HTML tags (e.g., anchors, images, insert elements such as block quotations, bullets, tables, frames, definition tags, forms, image maps, JavaScript, buttons, etc.).
- 20 % on quantity and quality of links to other web sites.
- 10 % on picture quality (not quantity).
- 20 % on quality factors writing content and writing style, spelling, grammar, etc. Remember that these documents are public and will reflect upon you as a scholar. You must follow proper WWW citation standards. Lifting of text, pictures, and other works of others without proper citation is considered plagiarism.
Note that your Project 1 will be formally evaluated by other students in the class. You will also be asked to make an evaluation of the Project 1 web pages of other students in the class.
Your BUSINESS APPLICATIONS WEB DOCUMENTS (Project 2) must be available for grading by noon
on April 13, 1998. Late documents will be severely penalized (10 %
per day late on Project 2). These documents are worth up to 200 points for the
course. I will flesh in the details for Project 2 later on in the course.
Project 2 is to be more like a term paper (except it is to be a HTML document at your web site). Project 2 is due April 13. You are to submit a weekly log of you efforts on Project 2. The logs are due on March 23 and March 30.
Project 2 is to address the topic "The Business of Education and Training on the Internet." Along those lines you may want to look at "The Future of Network Databases in Education." We will be addressing network databases in greater detail in class. For openers, I want you to look at my Working Paper 255 at
Network databases are discussed in my Working Paper 260 at
I suggest that you print out both of the above papers.
ˇYou need not shotgun a lot of business applications in Project 2. In fact, it is
possible to focus in greater depth on just one topic such as the widespread increase in
intranets. The important thing is your analysis of whatever topic(s) you focus upon. You
may link to and/or quote from other web
documents. However, your citations must be complete with both typed URL addresses and
links to those citations.
- Some of the best projects in the past have focused upon a web applications of a single company or a single industry. For example, these are times when you can find companies and/or industries that are totally changing the way they do business because of the web? Others that have not changed dramatically as of yet are planning dramatic changes in long range strategies.
- You must send me progress reports via email. These reports should reveal what progress you have made toward selecting a topic, interesting results of web searching, interesting results of library homepage searching (Library Catalogs * Databases * Palladian * E-journals * News * Net Guides * Net Search * Forms * Services), and interesting results of other types of searches such as plain old fashioned (sneaker net) book and journal searching. Progress reports are March 23 and March 30 for Project 2.
You must work ahead on the above projects, because the student lab computers become very busy late in the semester.
You need to be aware of the criteria used to grade Projects 1 and 2. Note that your Projects will be available for anyone in the world to read, and your classmates will be asked to identify which projects they think rank at the top.
For PROJECT 2 due by class time on April 13, the following grading weights will be assigned:
- 50% on quality of analysis of topics and creativity of content coupled with innovative use of HTML tags (e.g., anchors, images, insert elements such as block quotations, bullets, tables, frames, definition tags, forms, buttons, etc.) Writing content is much more of a factor in assigning Project 2 grades.
- 30 % on quantity and quality of links to other web sites coupled with complete and accurate citations that are both typed for reading and linked using anchor tags
- 20 % on quality factors such as citations that are fully complete, writing style, spelling, grammar, etc. Remember that these documents are public and will reflect upon you as a scholar.
These are not joint projects in which students may share
modules with one another. All writing must be in your own words for both
projects. I have retained the HTML files of all prior student projects in this course. Any project in this course cannot be fashioned after a cureent or
former student's project in this course unless you identify that student and note how you
have improved upon that student's project. You are to fully cite both
quotations and ideas obtained from other sources. Your projects will be public web
documents. Other students in this course will be required to evaluate your work and send
me their votes for the top projects submitted this term.
Please try to make Projects 1 and 2 quality web
documents. These are the start of what will soon be a common practice by you of publishing
personal and professional documents on the WWW.
BUSN 2311 Computers in Business
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
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