Session & Date

LECTURE TOPICS

• Formal presentations 1-2 hours/ week.

• Discussion of the lectures in class and via BLACKBOARD.

READINGS & PROJECTS

• Labs 3-5 hours per week in the Geoinformatics Lab.

• Outside-class labs arranged with the Lab Director (Seth Wiafe)School of Public Health.
  
  
• Everyweek students will be given assigned readings to report on orally in class and posted on the DISCUSSION FORUM

NOTES

• Everyone is required to participate in the online discussions several times a week.

• All responses MUST be completed during the week assigned!

Session 1

TOP

Information Technology and Society
(Robert Ford, Michael Scoffield-ESRI)

Goals : Historical overview of IT’s development as a management tool, i.e. growth of the Internet, role of data and information in decision-making and scientific analysis.

READINGS:

SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE - Sociological Tour through Cybersopace - Michael C. Kearl

Sociology of Knowledge - Michael Ryder

Computers and Social Change:
Information, Property, and Power (Web Edition) by Judith A. Perrolle chapter 1 - Basic Concepts

Social Construction of Reality - Virtual School

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK by Stan A. Hannah and Michael H. Harris

Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter?

Systems thinking: critical thinking
skills for the 1990s and beyond
Barry Richmond

John Seeley Brown, Paul Duguid, 2000. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press. Chapter 1-4

Technology of the future - ITWorld.com

The Future of Integrated Threat Management - ITWorld.com

Other Readings:

• What's Coming in Technology Innovation - eWeek

• Reinventing Enterprise (By Peter Coffee September 26, 2005) Techology - eWeek

• The Future of Technology and Learning in the University - PDF - CITS Whitepaper

• Center for Information Technology and Society (UCSB)
  

• Coherent Policy-making
  Beyond the Information Barrier (Online article) - PDF
  
• IT & Society - Webjournal - Digital Divides: Past, Present and Future (Summer 2003)

• Personal media and the human
  community.Technos: Quarterly
  for Education and Technology,
  Summer, 2002

• An illustrated speculative timeline of future technology and social change: a - j r m o o n e y h a m . c o m - o r i g i n a l

Session 2

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Information Technology and Society (Robert Ford)

What is Knowledge Management (KM)

• Fundamentals
  of KM (Knowledge
  Management) theory and practice.
• Building CoPs (Communities of Practice)
• Fostering “organizational
  learning” and effective
  networking with technology.
• Promotion of collaboration
  and teamwork to“level hierarchies” and maximize
  flexible and rapid response to opportunities and challenges.

Hewlett-Packard CEO
Lew Platt touched on both those characteristics in his widely quoted observation that "if HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times as profitable."

READINGS:

Melissie Clemmons Rumizen. 2002.The Complete Idiot's guide to Knowledge Management. ALPHA-Pearson Education Company.

John Seeley Brown, Paul Duguid, 2000. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press. Chapter 5-8

Michael C. Daconta, Leo J. Obrst, and Kevin T. Smith, 2003. The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management.
Wiley Publishers. Chapter 1-4

Human Cognition of the Spatial World. Daniel R. Montello, Department of Geography University of California
Santa Barbara

History of the Web and HTML
(About.com)

LAB ACTIVITY #1: Web Publishing Basics (WYSIWYG versus Direct Coding and other Web Editors

Create your own Personal Webpage for the course using following resources.

Readings:

• LINKS - Geo-Informatics and Knowledge Management
  
• Center for Spatially
  Integrated Social Science
  (CSISS) - see Learning
  Resources , e.g.
  criminology, demography,
  public health, sociology,
  environment and resources, urban studies

Session 3

TOP

(KM): Fostering Collaboration and Teamwork using Technology (Ford, Scofield, Alcorn, Sheridan)

GUEST: "How-to-be an
Expert Witness" (PDF) - Frank Sheridan, San Bernardino County, Chief Medical Examiner)

GUEST: Transforming Data into Knowledge

TOPIC: Data Quality
Control, Assurance and Information Management

READINGS:

Tomoye - Simplify - success stories - White Papaer (PDF)

Peter F. Drucker, 2001. Management Challenges for the 21st Century. Harper Business. Chapters 1-5.

FRAMEweb - USAID

CBNRM Net: From Managing Natural Resources to Managing Ecosystems, Knowledge and People

Expanding the Role of Location
Technology in Business Intelligence - Wharton School

LAB ACTIVITY #1 - CONTINUED: Web Publishing Basics (WYSIWYG vs.other editors)

Ford Resources: Web-Publishing: Graphics, Editing and Design

Other Readings:

• LINKS - Geo-Informatics and Knowledge Management
• Learning & Knowledge
  Portal - World Bank
  
• Definitions of web services
  on the Web
• W3C Web Services
  Activity Statement
• Web Services Architecture W3C Working Group Note 11 February 2004
• Web Services Portal - home
• Hurwitz Report on Using
  Web Services to Drive the
  Next Generation of Applications - White Paper
• Web Services Business
  Strategies and Architectures -
  Webservices Architect

Session 4

TOP

Non-spatial Data and Database Applications (Robert Ford and Michael Scoffield)

GUEST: SAS Tools for Information/Data Sharing, Business Intelligence, Analysis, and Management
Patrick and Jennie Alcorn, Robert Gardner

Goals : Explore DSS
(Decision-Support-Systems). Introduction
to the essential issues
around the use of
databases and related management issues:
data security and confidentiality, application areas, reporting, decision-support, data warehousing, business intelligence....

READINGS:

Melissie Clemmons Rumizen. 2002.The Complete Idiot's guide to Knowledge Management. ALPHA-Pearson Education Company.

Chris Collison & Geoff Parcell, 2001. Learning to Fly: Practical lessons from one of the World's Leading Knowledge Companies. Capstone Publishing Limited. Chapters 1-13

Inside Text Mining - By Patricia Cerrito Health Management Technology

Web Style Guide - 2nd Edition. 
Copyright 2002 Lynch and Horton

Netiquette - home

Columbia Guide to Online Citation The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 1)

General Resources - Web Publishing and Internet Use

Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing Philip Greenspun

Other Links:

• SAS Institute - home Training Resources
  
• SEDAC - home
  
• Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) - statistical tools and data of all types
  
• Center for Computational
  Intelligence - home
  
• R-Project for Statistical Computing - home

Session 5

TOP

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) - policy and public-private ssues (Robert Ford)

IPR (Intellectual Property
Rights), database law, “interoperability”,
transparency, open-access
vs. controlled access to data,
cost of data, and business
plans for maintenance and
storage, e.g. custodianship
issues between public and
private sectors, issues of
long term archive management.

READINGS:

Rikke Frank Jorgensen. 2004. Human Rights in the Global Information Society. The MIT Press.

ELSI Project - Ethical, legal, and
Social Issues in Science e.g. Personal Privacy and Access to Medical Databases

Primer on Legal Issues in GIS & Agriculture and Natural Resource Management CSI-CGIAR (PDF)

Fairuse Guidelines for Educational
Multimedia -

Internet Law Library - LawGuru

IP Issues for Spatial Data (R. Longhorn) - PDF

Other Legal issues for Spatial Data (R. Longhorn) - PDF

Copyright Clearance Center

Plagiarism and the Web - article

Other Readings:

• LINKS - Geo-Informatics and Knowledge Management
  
• Ivan Hoffman, B.A., J.D. Attorney at Law (articles on "Web law"....)
  
• List of Weasels - House of Shame (thieves on the Internet)- Philip Greenspun
  
• Netiquette - home
  
• Web Law FAQ Provided by the law firm of Oppedahl & Larson Intellectural Property Law Web
  
• Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders
  
• IPR rules and human rights: is there a conflict? Graham Dutfield - October 2001 (revised December 2002)

Session 6

TOP

Communications for Executives:

• Web Design Basics for Managers

• Policy Briefs

• Powerpoint Presentations

GUEST: Web Design
Basics for Managers
(Michael Brown -50-90 min) - Pirate's Lair (Riverside)

Resources:

Ford: Web-Publishing: Graphics, Editing and Design

Resources by Michael Brown:

Dreamweaver Templates:

aplustemplates.com
dreamweaver-templates.net

Photoshop Tutorials:

Help.com

Outsourcing:

Graphic Design Information:

http://graphicdesign.about.com/

Books:

Color Index, by Jim Krause

Layout Index, by Jim Krause

Idea Index, by Jim Krause

Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book, Adobe Press

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Visual Quickstart Guide


www.layout:Effective design and layout for the world wide web, by Jerry Glenwright

Many other books can be found at:

peachpit.com

ONLINE Style Guide - Projection.net

Color Wheel (Jemimap)

Color Theory - "Color Matters"

RESOURCES:

Ford Resources: Web-Publishing: Graphics, Editing and Design

ONLINE Style Guide

Edward Tufte, The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint.

PowerPoint Is Evil, Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. Edward Tufte (Wired Magazine).

In Defense of Powerpoint, Neville Holmes, University of Tasmania. IEEE Computer Society.

Presentation Skills For Managers
by Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo Jr.

Diane DiResta, 1998. Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz. Chandler House Press.

Say It with Presentations: How to
Design and Deliver Successful
Business Presentations, by Gene Zelazny

OTHER Resources:


General Web Design, Marketing, Use and Promotion

Presenting to Win by Jerry
Weissman

ROI's Secret Ingredient -
Real Value - CIO Magazine
Jun 15,2003 - book

Storytelling in business,
storytelling in organizations,
organizational storytelling
- resources

Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication,
by Gene Zelazny

LAB ACTIVITY #4: Powerpoint and Web Graphical Design Issues i.e. Policy Brief design and publishing....

Ford - Web Publishing Tools: Graphics,
Editing, Design

Using Powerpoint in Church

Photoshop and Graphics....

Using Powerpoint in Online courses - WebCIT Design Classes - University of  California, San Francisco

NOTES:

Criteria for Policy Briefs (mini-papers) - Robert Ford (ESSC 500)

SAMPLE POLICY BRIEFS :

SCIDEV.Net - online policy briefs

Brookings Institution - Policy Briefs

National Center for Public Policy Research - home

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania - Reports

Heritage Foundation - home - Policy Weblog

Center for American Progress - "The Issues"

Population Action International - Factsheets or Issues

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - The Wilson Quarterly - Environmental Change and Security Project Publications

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) - Policy Briefs

AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) - Policy Briefs

Institute for International Economics - Policy Briefs

Community Voice - Health Care for the Underserved - Policy Brief

Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR) - Policy Briefs

Institute for Policy Research (Northwestern University) - Policy Briefs

Foreign Policy in Focus - Policy Briefs

Children NOW - on California Policy and Children

Color Brewer (Penn State University):

ColorBrewer is an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics. It is free to use, although we'd appreciate it if you could cite us if you decide to use one of our color schemes.

Interactive Color Wheel

Color Brewer (Penn State University):

ColorBrewer is an online tool designed to help people select good color schemes for maps and other graphics. It is free to use, although we'd appreciate it if you could cite us if you decide to use one of our color schemes.

Session 7

TOP

Collaborative Tools, e,g, BLOGS, Lists, Forums (Carlene Drake and Andrea Griffith) -

Internet law and privacy issues

Scholarly Communication - Powerpoint (Carlene Drake-LLU Library)

Blogs and Blogging Powerpoint (Andrea Griffith)

Lecture Notes:
Info_Tech_Handout.DOC (Andrea Griffith)

Medical Library Association's Resources on Scholarly Publishing Issues

Scholarship & Scholarly Communication in the Electronic Age: EDUCAUSE Review, January/February (35), 2000, P. 86-92.

READINGS:

FRAMEweb - USAID

CBNRM Net: From Managing Natural Resources to Managing Ecosystems, Knowledge and People

Peter F. Drucker, 2001. Management Challenges for the 21st Century.
Harper Business. Chapters 6.
"Managing oneself"

NSDL (National Science Digital Library) - Community pages - see WIKIS

DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) - home

What's a BLOG? and Create your own BLOG - Google

History and Perspective (weblogs)

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

OTHER Resources:


A Web of SINs-The Nature and Organization of Special Interest Networks, David G. Green

SNE - Social Network Enabling - BLOG post

Social Software Weblog - see Top 11 web destinations

Computing and Technology (About.com)

Top 3 Web Site Design Editors (About.com)

More on BLOGS and Wikis:

• What is a wiki?
  
• Weblogs Compendium - home
  
• Trilibis - Mobile user services
  
• Online Diaries and Weblogs<