1.5 Activity: IS Technology Current Event
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What’s News in IS Technology?
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Welcome to the “What’s News in IS Technology?”
current events activity introduction. For the next eight weeks, you will report
on topics relating to “Current Events with New Technologies in Information
Systems.”
To complete the current event activity, perform research
utilizing resources such as the Internet, magazine publications, newspapers,
and journals on a current event that illustrates the implementation of a new IS
technology. This technology should have played or a significant role or created
a competitive advantage for an enterprise. Summarize the details and
implications of the reports in your own words, and reflect on how such
technology was used to improve the functional or operational process in current
business practices.
Select your current event for this module, keeping in mind
the topics presented in this week’s module and your Research Project. Evaluate,
synthesize and summarize the data obtained from your research on your selected
current event. The information that you utilize to construct your summary data
must relate to events that are newsworthy and currently in the media.
The data that you create may prove to be useful information
that can support your Research Project findings.
Deliverable
This current event assignment is an individual activity. You
are required to post your summary data in the “Reply” section at the bottom of
this assignment to share knowledge and ideas with your peers. Everyone can gain
from this current event activity to improve upon their Research Project.
The Canvas “Like” tool is activated, and you are
encouraged to “vote up” the best post.
Your summary data should contain a minimum of 250 words. Be
sure to follow the APA Style guidelines. Post your summary data before the last
day of the module’s week.
Your instructor will evaluate and grade the IS Technology
Current Event posts using a customized rubric. The rubric is accessed the in
the same manner as the Discussion activities. For viewing instructions, select
