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
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 Email, 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 e-mail 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.
WEEK 14 – EASY GRADING
SOFTWARE
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other multimedia features — on the Web site, on the mobile site, and
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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, email, Twitter
and the web.