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Assignments |
Fall 2008 |
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| Case Study Project |
| Students are required to do one case study that evaluates the information management systems for an organization. The details of the case study will be described more fully as the class progresses. The case study should be in submitted in MS PowerPoint. Students will submit a proposal outlining the case study project in MS Word. The final case study presentation should be in your own words. All rules covering plagiarism are the same for presentations as they are for research papers. Please review the information regarding plagiarism on the Class Policies page. Do not copy and paste information from any source without clearing that first with the instructor. Indicate quotes as you would for a research paper. See the Style Guidelines on the Class Policies page. |
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| Discussion of the Case Study Presentation |
| Each student will be responsible for managing the discussion on her or his case study. The PowerPoint presentation will be submitted for the professor to review before it is posted on the Web. After the presentation is posted on the web, the student will lead a discussion on the case study presentation. We will set up a separate thread for each presentation and have the student handle the questions from other students and help people relate it to their current or future jobs. The instructor will moderate as needed, but the "presenter" will be the primary leader of that thread.
Grading for the presentations will be primarily on the management of the discussion that results from the topic. |
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Case Project Proposal Due Date: October 10, 2008 |
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Case Project Due: October 27, 2008 |
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| Weekly Tests/Online Discussion |
Students will take part in online discussion threads that will count as tests. |
| Every student is expected to take part in weekly threaded discussions on the WebCT site. The discussions will be based on the course readings and lectures or other information presented online. A topic will be posted in each unit and students are expected to provide insightful commentary. Such analysis is only possible if you read the assigned materials for a given unit. Students should also respond to comments made by other members of the class. Responses to threaded discussion questions must be made during the week that they are posted. |
| Anyone who is confused by this requirements should contact the instructor directly to get more information or clarification. |
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| Presentation on IM Topic |
| Each student will prepare and deliver a presentation on a topic related to information management. The topics might include those covered in the textbook or from another source (approved by the professor). All topics will be proposed by the student and will require the instructor's approval. More details will be provided in class. |
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| Research Project |
| Students will take part in a research project related to information management and the ways that government agencies utilize the Web. The details on the project and student roles will be explained in more detail the first week of class. |
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| Submission of Web Sites for Class |
| Students should submit at least five web sites relevant to the class
for the instructor to include in the Web Links.
The web links will be worth 5% of the final grade for the course. (See "Evaluation" on the Class Policies page.) |
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| Project Submission |
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| All project files and
assignments will be submitted through WebCT Vista as attachments to E-mail and formatted
as outlined below (unless another format is negotiated with
the instructor). These files will follow the formatting and file
naming conventions listed and explained below: |
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Text documents will
be formatted as either Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat *(PDF) documents. |
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Data files (if
needed) will be Excel files (for spreadsheet data) or Access files
(if database information is required). |
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Presentations will
be PowerPoint files. |
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File
Names: For the case proposal, we will use "proposal.doc" as
the file name. For the case study projects, we will use "case.ppt" for
the project file name. |
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Ownership of
files: to indicate ownership of submissions, use
your first and last names in the file name with an underscore
*(_) between the parts. Examples: gerald_merwin_proposal.doc and gerald_merwin_case.ppt (Note: Microsoft products typically add the file extension to the name you give the file. You should not normally have to add the "doc" or "ppt" to the file name.) |
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Course Codes
in Subject Line: If you are using regular VSU email to send messages, be sure to associate your submissions with
our course to aid in filtering of E-mail, use the PADM
7110 in
the subject line of all messages sent to the instructor. |
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Questions: Please
ask questions if any part of this information is unclear. |
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| Reference
http://www.valdosta.edu/~gamerwin/pa/classes/padm7110/assignments.html |
| Updated
09/02/2008,
contact Jerry Merwin |