Session 2 DPLS707 Fall 02 Leadership and Technology --Ph.D.Leadership--Gonzaga

INTRODUCTION TO SESSION 2, ARE YOU READY?

SESSION 2 TOPICS

The real issue is deciding what you need to know about the Internet and matching your learning style to the different resources available. There are at least three different approaches: (a) reading a book like Internet Literacy, (b) spending some time with Web sites like the ones listed below, and (c) trial, error, and asking questions--seeking information only when you need. The third approach is illustrated by the Blackboard assignment for this session.
Data communications: voice, data, and image. Some discussion of speeds (ISDN, Fiber, etc.) Videoconferencing. Distance learning.
The Internet, electronic commerce, web pages, ISPs. Intranet development with its implications for communication and distribution of information throughout an organization.
Networking, including both LANs and WANs, 24 x 7 mission-critical, 100% uptime challenges. Significant treatment of global implications here. What are leadership responsibilities that result from a global system of instantaneous technological communications? Networks include both suppliers and customers. Includes a discussion of standards.
The future of the Internet.

Major Course Assignment, Introduction to the Technology, Organizations, and Leadership Project

A. The Internet

Required Reading: Hofstetter, Fred T. (2001) Internet Literacy Second Edition
Chapters 1-4, 9-11, 15-22, 25-27. Quick look at chapters 23 and 24. This assignment is designed to fill in gaps in your knowledge about the Internet. Do not invest time on materials you arlready know.

Online Learning Center. Web site that goes with book. [http://www.mhhe.com/cit/hofstetter/interlit2e/index.mhtml]****

Internet Literacy Web Site by Pat Sine, containing online resources for the book [http://www.udel.edu/interlit2/contents.html].

Web Manager's Reference Center (considered by many as the best sites for WEB development tools and resources) [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/faq.html]

B. New ways of seeking information only when you need it; trial, error, and asking questions.

SESSION 2 LINKED ASSIGNMENT
Even if you read the book or check out information on the web, you are likely to have additional questions. If you neither read the book or check out the web, you can be expected to have even more questions. Everyone should post one or more questions. Questions should be posted as

in the Discussion Board--Computer Questions Forum. Everyone is expected to help answer questions that are posted. Answers should be posted as

. Responses should include information on where and how the answer was found.
Possible questions:

Why do the figures on the page sometime stop moving?
What is a domain name and how can I request one?
In my MS Word document, how do I start my page numbers at 1 for my second chapter?
What is the difference between LANs and WANS and why should the leader of my organization know the difference?

Post additional questions and answers.

C. Introduction to Maintaining and Changing a Web Page

The first version is in MS Word, .rtf format. It is safe to open. It is a very large file and takes for ever to download. http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/webmaster.rtf

The second version is in .pdf format. To open the file you must have Adobe Acrobate on your computer. It is a small file. http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/webmaster.pdf

THE FTP Address in these files has changed. The correct address is ftp://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/doctoral/ld703/****

D. The future and the future of the internet

Thoughts on the Millenium: Esther Dyson (6:56) NPR December 15, 1999
[http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/19991215.me.11.ram]
Esther Dyson, Internet Tonightdiscussion with Esther Dyson, November 29, 2000. Go to Video Highlight. [http://www.techtv.com/bigthinkers/thisweeksbigthinker/story/0,23008,3013837,00.html] 09-13-2001
The Future of the Internet Slide Presentation with notes at the bottom of the slides [http://www.iol.ie/~niallrm/futnet/sld001.htm]
Future of the Internet. A collection of topics related to the Internet's Future [http://navigators.com/future.html]
The Future of the Internet Nerds 2.0.1 [http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/wiring_world/future.html]
Internet: "The Big Picture" "What are the major pieces of the Internet, and who are the major players in each segment?" [http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html]
Keeping up with the changes that are occurring on the Internet. [http://www.hartnell.cc.ca.us/faculty/jlagier/interlit/chap27.htm]

E. The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Their site contains a collection of scholarly resources, including university-level courses in cyberculture, events and conferences, an extensive annotated bibliography, and two full-length book reviews each month. The SCCS home page [http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/].
Major Class AssignmentIntroduction of the Technology, Organizations, and Leadership Project
There are two parts to this assignment. Part 1 is the "project" or the development of an action plan. Students will identify technology issues crying out for leadership in an organization and develop an action plan to realistically impact one or more of these issues. You may wish to include cost/benefit and social impact analyses of a technology implementation. Projects can be done in the student's own workplace or organization. Students may work on this project as a team and do a joint project. The amount of time invested on the project should be about the equivalent of what it would take to do a 15 to 20 page typed report. Reports on your project will be expected to make use of appropriate technology, such as a web page or a Power Point presentation that is posted to the web. If you publish anything on the web, the web site should clearly indicate that it is a project in this class and the names of everyone on the team (of course, exceptions to this are possible). The url should also be posted on the Discussion Board as a reply to your project in the Project forum. Part 2 is a two to three page statement of the ways in which material covered in the course as well as other references or resources you found influenced your project. References must be identified. Links to urls should be cited following APA guidelines [http://www.apastyle.org/electext.html]. This should be a web page. Regardless of whether the project makes use of a web page, this report on resources used should. If the project uses a web site, you will end up with two web sites. Make sure you identify the url of the web site.****

Identify your project, the names of everyone who will be working on it, and the organization and possible issues to be covered by and post to the Discussion Board--Project forum. Each project should be a new thread. Any additional information on the project as well as comments on the projects of others should be posted as replies.****

ALTERNATIVE TO PROJECT: Academic research paper that could be published on a topic from the course. APA format, 15-20 pages long. In addition to the paper, web site identifying resources, see Part 2 above. See instructor. ****
Short hands-on activitiesGroup Work
Introduction to the use of the Blackboard chat room.

Introduction to methods for sharing documents and working together on them