Due dates/deadlines are strictly enforced, late and
un-submitted assignments receive a grade of zero. No reason/excuse for lateness or not
submitting the assignment will be accepted. There are no makeup assignments. To qualify for a grade for any
assignment, you must have been in class for the full duration of any
content/material/etc. which the assignment is related to (attendance is
taken). Regardless of whether an
assignment has been submitted on time, late, or not submitted, a future
assignment may depend on the completion of a previous assignment. Although you have until 11:59 PM on the
day before class to complete assignments, do not wait until the day the
assignment is due to begin and/or complete an assignment. Doing assignments on their due date
usually results in poorly done work which will be reflected in the evaluation
received for that work. As well,
problems with computer hardware and/or software may cause you to be unable to
complete the assignment by the due date/deadline which will result in a grade
of zero for the late/un-submitted assignment. Therefore, start and finish assignments
well before their due date/deadline, check your work for errors, omissions, and
quality before submitting it.
Assignment 1: Setup
of your CFADW course Website and Email account.
Assignment 1 is a foundation assignment which must be
completed in order for you to be able to do subsequent assignments.
You must complete assignment 1 to be able to do the
next assignment.
Although there is/was no
class on Thursday, February 7, 2008, the videos for that class can be accessed
through the Internet. You are
to view the Inventing The Future and The Paperback
Computer episodes of the Machine That Changed The World by accessing them on
the internet through your computer and complete the assignment by the
deadline. The questions to be
answered regarding Inventing The Future and The
Paperback Computer are in Part 1 of this assignment.
Assignment 2: THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE
WORLD: INVENTING THE FUTURE and THE PAPERBACK COMPUTER
PRESENTATION
TOPICS and PARTNERS:
In addition to completing Assignment 2, you are to email two potential presentation topics, and an explanation of why you chose those two topics and what you intend to cover in them, by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, to the course email website. The subject line to be used is: CFADW Presentation Topics. The two topics are to be specifically related to information technology – history (past, present, future), important people, effects on the individual and society, important technologies (past, present, future), etc. The topics may or may not be related to your college Program. For example: if you are in Human Resource Management, a presentation may be about how information technologies are used in human resource management or, if you are in Hotel Management, you may want to do a presentation about how information technology is used to manage a hotel or one or more areas of a hotel such as hotel security. No product demos are allowed (Those are done at Future Shop, Best Buy, etc.). The topic and its content must inform/educate about information/content not covered during the course. Presentation topics will be discussed during class.
You will be partnered with one other person in the class to work together. If you and another person in the class want to work together, you must inform me of this during next class on Thursday, February 14, 2008. If you don’t have a partner or if you and your partner do not inform me about your partnership during class on February 14, 2008, you will be arbitrarily assigned a partner.
Assignment 3: April 3, 2008 PRESENTATIONS
Assignment 4: April 10, 2008 PRESENTATIONS
Bonus Assignment: