SOCIETAL TOPICS

Created by:

Kelly Mitchell

WEEK 1 - WHAT IS SHOWROOMING ?

Showrooming is when a shopper visits a store to

look for a product but then purchases the product

online for a cheaper price.

An example of this can be a customer going to the

Apple Store to look for an iPhone case. The shopper

finds the case they like and then goes on Amazon

and buys the product for more than 50% off.

WEEK 1 - HOW I LEARN BEST:

Visual learning is how I learn best. Hands-on

activities help me understand the task or concept

rather than taking notes and hearing a lecture for

over an hour in class.

WEEK 2 – PREVENTING DIGIT IAL WILDFIRES:

Social media can rapidly spread information that is

either intentionally or unintentionally misleading or

provocative.

We need to build digital firewalls to contain the

risk of misleading information so we cannot spread

the word like a wildfire.

WEEK 2- MOOC:

MOOC stands for a massive open online course

Type of online course aimed at large-scale

participation and open access via the web

MOOCs are a recent development in the area of

distance education.

WEEK 3 – INNOVATION:

Innovation is the development of new customers

value through solutions that meet new needs,

inarticulate needs, or old customer and market

needs in value adding new ways. This is

accomplished through more

effective products, processes, services, technologies,

or ideas that are readily available

to markets, governments, and society.

WEEK 3 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

IP is divided into two categories:  Industrial

property, which includes inventions (patents),

trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic

indications of source; and Copyright, which includes

literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and

plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as

drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures,

and architectural designs.

WEEK 4 – COPYRIGHT, OSS & EPIC:

Societal topic of the week

WEEK 5 – OPEN SOURCE TEXTB OOKS

Hate paying thousands for your required readings?

Give free open source textbooks a try. A growing

number of authors are publishing their writings

online and allowing students to download them

without paying a dime. Many online instructors are

beginning to select open source textbooks rather

than forcing their students to pay for costly

traditional materials.

WEEK 5 - ACCESS

What’s new in Access 2013? In a word, apps. An

Access web app is a new type of database that you

build in Access, then use and share with others as a

SharePoint app in a web browser. To build an app,

you just select the type of data you want to track

(contacts, tasks, projects, and so on). Access creates

the database structure, complete with views that let

you add and edit data. Navigation and basic

commands are built-in, so you can start using your

app right away.

WEEK 6 – HUMAN RIGHTS

Our commitment to respect fundamental human rights of our employees, people

working for our suppliers, and our customers reflects Microsoft’s company

mission to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full

potential.

Microsoft recognizes that as a leading technology provider with global

operations, our business can help to promote – or be used to impede – human

rights. Our approach to human rights is aligned with the UN Guiding Principles

for Business and Human Rights and we accept the important responsibility we

have to respect human rights and we aid to bring the power of technology to bear

to promote respect for human rights throughout the world.

WEEK 6 - JQUERY

jQuery mobile framework takes the "write less, do

more" mantra to the next level: Instead of writing

unique apps for each mobile device or OS, the

jQuery mobile framework allows you to design a

single highly-branded web site or application that

will work on all popular smartphone, tablet, and

desktop platforms.

WEEK 7 – INTERNET GOVERNANCE

Internet governance is the development and

application of shared principles, norms, rules,

decision-making procedures, and programs that

shape the evolution and use of the Internet.

WEEK 7 – GOOGLE APPLICATIONS

Google Apps is a suite of Google applications that

brings together essential services to help your

business. This is a hosted service that lets

businesses, schools, and institutions use a variety of

Google products -- including Email, Google Docs,

Google Calendar, and Google Talk -- on a unique

domain.

WEEK 8 - GEOLOCATION

Geolocation is the identification of the real-

world geographic location of an object, such as

a radar, mobile phone or an internet-connected

computer terminal.

Geolocation may refer to the practice of

assessing the location, or to the actual assessed

location rather than geographic coordinates.

WEEK 8 – NET NEUTRALITY

When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for

granted. We assume that we'll be able to access whatever Web

site we want, whenever we want to go there.

What makes all these assumptions possible is "Network

Neutrality," the guiding principle that preserves the free and

open Internet. Net Neutrality means that Internet service

providers may not discriminate between different kinds of

content and applications online. It guarantees a level playing field

for all Web sites and Internet technologies.

WEEK 9 - SPAM

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to

send bulk messages, mostly advertising,

indiscriminately.

While the most widely recognized form of spam is

e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in

other media.

WEEK 9 – OFFICE LIVE

Microsoft Office Live is a discontinued web-

based service providing document sharing and

website creation tools for consumers and small

businesses. Office Live consisted of two

services, Office Live Workspace, which was

superseded by SkyDrive, and Office Live Small

Business, which was superseded by Office 365.

WEEK 10 - JQUERY MOBILE SECURITY

With the rise of smart phones and similar devices, web

application security has been broadened to include mobile

applications. Because of the constraints imposed by the

interfaces of many such devices, developers sometimes work

with the flawed assumption that client-side input validation is

sufficient for protection against attacks. With sensitive data

sometimes stored on devices and the servers that they use,

the protection of users from black-hat hackers is critical. The

following types of vulnerabilities are covered:

Cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, broken

access control, SQL injection, file inclusion, OS command

injection, scripting language injection and arbitrary file

creation

WEEK 10 - STANDARDIZATION

Is the process of developing and implementing technical standards. The goals

of right standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers

(commoditization), compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or

quality.

In social sciences, including economics, the idea of standardization is close to

the solution for a coordination problem, a situation in which all parties can

realize mutual gains, but only by making mutually consistent decisions.

Standardization is defined as best technical application consensual wisdom

inclusive of processes for selection in making appropriate choices for

ratification coupled with consistent decisions for maintaining obtained

standards.

WEEK 12 – ZILLOW.COM

Zillow is a home and real estate marketplace

dedicated to helping homeowners, home buyers,

sellers, renters, real estate agents, mortgage

professionals, landlords and property managers find

and share vital information about homes, real estate

and mortgages. We are transforming the way

consumers make home-related decisions and connect

with real estate professionals.

WEEK 12 – PRIVACY

Privacy.net provides information and tips about Privacy. Read about

credit reports, identity theft, Internet privacy and more. Demonstrations

of your Internet connection and Internet cookies have been recently

updated.

EXAMPLE - Password security is becoming a major problem as hackers

break into web sites to collect passwords. Do you reuse your passwords

such as using your Facebook or game site password for your bank

account? Can you remeber different long and complicated passwords for

each web site? Privacy.net has reviewed a complety free password “safe”

called KeePass.

WEEK 13- IPHONE 5S

Apple has been expected to introduce fingerprint-

scanning technology since it acquired biometrics

firm AuthenTec last year.

WEEK 13 - INSTAGROK.COM

Research a topic with an interactive map

Customize it with facts, links, and videos

Share it to show what you’ve learned

instaGrok presents each topic as an interactive

visual interface, allowing the user to quickly grasp

important concepts, key facts and relationships.

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WEEK 14 - USHAHIDI

We wanted to create a platform that allowed

geospatial visualization of where major

groups/resources exist on [human] trafficking, as

well as overlay information about latest cases, news

on trafficking and risk areas. Ushahidi allows us to

do just that.

We built the Ushahidi platform as a tool to easily

crowdsource information using multiple channels,

including SMS, email, Twitter and the web.