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 DIGITIAL 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 Societal topic of the week

WEEK 5 – OPEN SOURCE TEXTBOOKS  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 , 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 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, , Twitter and the web.