Social entrepreneurship, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,
Co-Creation, Network Society, History of Information Technology
Revolution
Microcredit/Microfinancing, Grameen Bank, Kiva
Blog (Weblog), Wiki, eCommerce (Services vs. Products), Web 2.0,
Domain Name, Web Feed/Syndication
Info-Projects ($100 Laptop, ICT, Kiosks, IT backbone for
personalization)
User needs, Product and Services Design, Innovation
GreenTec (Health, Energy, Environment)
Intellectual Property
Entrepreneurship and Globalization
Creating Web 2.0 web site inlcuding buying and hosting domain names, creating web pages using XHTML and CSS
Creating blogs, RSS feeds, wikis, analyzing and maximizing web traffic
Social-Info Projects at UCSC, UCB, Stanford, SCU
Schedule:
Week 1: September 22
New Heroes (Social Entrepreneurship), 2-3pm
Overview and Motivation, 3-4pm
Organic Team Formation, 4-5pm
Additional Resources:
New Heroes DVD 2816
(can be viewed at Film and Music Center, McHenry Library Basement).
Teamwork and Project Management by Karl A. Smith (Science Lib Reserves)
Week 2: September 29
Microfinancing, 2-3pm
GIIP (Guest Lecture by Adam Thomson), 3-4pm
Team skills, 4-5pm
Additional Resources:
Teamwork and Project Management by Karl A. Smith (Science Lib Reserves)
Week 3: October 6
Web 2.0 (blog, wiki, folksonomy, social networking, web feed/web
syndication, eCommerce), 2-3pm
Web 2.0 (Guest Lecture by Ian Myers), 3-4pm
Cross-Gender and Cross-Cultural Communication, 4-5pm
Resources:
wikipedia
He said she said (Videorecording) by Deborah Tannen
(also books "Thats not what I meant" and "You dont understand")
Projects at TIER, UC, Berkeley (Guest Lecture by Joyojeet Pal), 3-4pm
Non-Violent Professional Communication, 4-5pm
Resources:
Basics of Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
(book and/or video)
Video is available for viewing at McHenry Library Film and Music Center
until October 26, Thursday, 5:00pm and Book is at McHenry Reserves
Final Projects Discussion, 2-3pm
Product and Service Design, 3-4pm
Silicon Valley Culture, Networks, and Innovation (Guest Lecture by Kyle
Eischen, Santa Clara University), 4-5pm
Resources:
What is Web 2.0?
Deep Dive (Video at Film and Music Center, McHenry)
Week 7: November 3
Art of Entrepreneurship, 2-3pm
Buying Domain Names and Hosting WebSites
Primer on copyrights, patents, and global innnovations, 3-4pm
Talk by Raj Abhyanker
on Intellectual Property, 4-5pm
Resources:
"The Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki
"New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century"
by Jeffrey Timmons
Buying Domain Names
Web Applications Lab
November 4, Saturday, 9am to 4pm
Kresge 317
Week 8: November 10
GreenTec and Innovations, 2-3pm
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, 3-4pm
Talk by Miguel Aznar, CEO,
KnowledgeContext on Innovations, 4-5pm
Resources:
The Next Industrial Revolution (DVD 1553 at Film and Music Center, McHenry)
"Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher
Negotiation and Conflict
Management
Week 9: November 17
TBA
Final Projects Question and Answers, 4-5pm
Resources:
"The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century" by Thomas Friedman,
2005.
Week 10: November 24
No Class; Work on Final Projects
Week 11: December 1
Students Presentations
Final Projects Due
Maintained by Suresh Lodha