IT 8 Challenges
Challenge exercises are to be done after you complete the required assignments
in the course. The purpose of each challenge exercise is to get the student
to discover new concepts and extend their learning. I will mark these exercises
based on creativity, degree of difficulty, attention to detail, technical
design, new concepts applied, and extension of skills outside of what we
have learned in class. You must show the challenge exercise to me during
the course of the year and not in the final days of the school year when
you want to boost your mark. These challenges are for extra credits (up
to a maximum of 5% based on the criteria above) and will be added to your
final grade.
Here are some examples of challenges:
- create a CD cover
- create a book cover
- create a catalogue
- create a menu for a restaurant
- create poster campaign for an event
- redesign a cereal box and send it to the manufacturer
- redesign a soup can label and send it to the manufacturer
- topics of interest:
- advertising on the Internet
- commerce on the Internet (E-Commerce)
- computer forensics
- web monitoring software
- data encryption concerns
- DVORAK vs QWERTY keyboards
- email spamming
- online gambling
- how Internet search engines collect information
- backup strategies
- firewalls (preventing virus and trojan infections)
- groupware
- Intelligent agents
- Internet censorship
- Internet exposure of data
- language translation software
- voice recognition software
- repetitive stress syndrome
- computer vision syndrome
- telecommuting
- virtual reality
- personal project - think of a idea that uses technology to change
the world - put it into ACTION!
Recommended Resource: |
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| Green, Chuck. "The Desktop Publishers Idea Book." Bantam Books:
Toronto, Canada, 1993. |
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