BU4045 TOPICS IN MIS

02/01/2007

Today's Menu

1) Review of Last Class

2) Discuss Project B

            Study of Errors and Features

            Learning System

            C++ Tutorial

            ***Use the textbook as a content guide!

3)    Project A Discussion and Selection.

4)    Problems and Obstacles.

5)    Web Class Management Links

6)    Your research should be published under the research guideline.

    1)  Review of Last Class

            In the last class we discussed the seven C's of site and system analysis.  We looked at Princeton University's website and tested out their search engine, where we found several problems.

    2)  Discuss Project B

            Study of Errors and Features

           C++  Learning System development.

            ***Use the textbook as a content guide!  

           In your research make sure you explain why the research is important, why are we doing this research?  

**Hint*** The web is becoming more and more important for the exchange of information and is helping to cut costs and increase convenience in obtaining information.

Make sure you note the date that you are doing the analysis of your school website.

We will go into Project B in more depth next class.

        3)    Project A Discussion and Selection.

    We made school selections for project A.  Please see the index page for a list of the schools chosen for this project, under the "Meet Your Classmates" Section.

        When you are doing your project, take note of out dated courses in the MIS major of your chosen university.  If you see courses like COBOL or microcomputer, take note of the lack of currency in the curriculum and write about it in your project.

Answer the seven W's in your introduction.  What, Where, When, Why, Whom, How, Wow regarding your school website.   Discuss a little background about your school.

Use the seven C's in the body of your report.

You will use the seven H's to analyze your site's HTML code.

Look at the HTML code of your website and see if the code is written well.   For instance are the colors on the site "Color Safe" are they colors that display correctly on a projector.  Color Safe colors are html colors that are divided by 33.

To look at the code of a website move the mouse over the page click the right mouse button and then left click "View Source"

    4)    Problems and Obstacles.

            Any problems or obstacles that you encounter while doing the course work for this class should be discussed here.

We looked at Cornell briefly to see what problems would be typical on the sites you'll be investigating.

The search entry section was colored too closely to the top bar of the website and is not easily noticed.

The gray and white bar across the center of the screen should be changed to color safe and made more noticeable.

We searched for Ezra Cornell and came up with some online counseling section instead of information about the founder of the college.  See our gallery for more information.

Build on your gallery!!