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The purpose of this assignment is to develop some skill set you always wanted to learn. This means it can be developing skills with project management, learning to write a proposal or develop a IT strategic plan, experience taking a MOOC course, and so forth. This assignment addresses SLO 3 communications and 5 professional development)
Objectives (CO A, C, F):
1. Plan a project using some of the skills you are learning in project management.
2. Develop a product as a result of your planning.
3. Present your project to the class.
4. Convey what you learned from the project and how you would alter it if you had to do it again.
Guidelines:
1. Select a project and obtain approval from me. Make sure it is something that you can reasonably complete by Mar 14th and 16th.
2. Make appropriate adjustments to the Project Management Life Cycle - initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing as appropriate for this project.
3. Develop the project which includes a proposal/planning document, activities to implement the project, and methods for evaluating it.
4. Present the project to the class including what you learned from it.
Grading:
This project is worth 100 points and 20% of your grade. See rubric at the end of this document.
Examples of Projects:
Samples from previous years: BE CREATIVE AND DO SOMETHING TO ENHANCE YOUR
LEARNING!
- a proposal for some aspect of information technology ie proposal for outsourcing, cloud services, student server space, and so forth
- a website for a non-profit organization
- analysis of the intranet website with a plan for reorganization based on end user needs
- an IT strategic plan for some organization or part of an organization ie library, student clubs, online needs, and so forth
- a few short video clips teaching others how to do some tasks - using gmail, tablets, some concepts from this course, something IT related
- learning the basics of developing an app
- a proposal for faculty online support services
- an analysis of Web 2.0 tools and their potential use in a company
- app development for some non-profit organization
NOTE: There are also a lot of ideas throughout the textbook and on the textbook website. Try and pick something that you want to learn and that firms up or shows off your IT skills and knowledge. THIS IS NOT AN ACADEMIC PAPER BUT A TECHNICAL ONE WITH AN END PRODUCT. THIS IS NOT A REPEAT OF A DATABASE PROJECT FROM YOUR DATABASE CLASS...it is to go beyond that.
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