How To Research: Library Notes

• Micheal
• Occupation
• Library Researcher
• Purpose of His Speech
• To teach us how to perform proper research
• Credibility
• He has helped people perform research of all kinds.
• What is Micheal's Outline of the Day?
• Topics
• Building on Research
• Search strategies and tips
• Finding good sources
• Evaluating sources
• Research
• Information Literacy
• Definition
• Recognizing when you need certain information, where to go for it, how to evaluate it, and how to apply it to create something.
• Primary Sources vs Secondary Sources
• Primary Source
• Direct Sources, Data, Facts
• Secondary Source
• Academic, Peer-Reviewed, Sources
• Academic Content vs Popular Content
• Popular Content
• Is based on popular opinion
• Academic Content
• Academic
• Peer-Reviewed
• Written by scholars, experts
• What Websites Have Better Sources
• .edu
• .gov
• .org
• CRAAP Test
• Currency
• Relevance
• Authority
• Accuracy
• Purpose
• Searching Effectively
• Methods
• Search repeatedly using different key words and different databases
• Use filters to narrow your results
• Boolean Logic
• You want to search two different topics, and you want documents that cover one or the other.
• Ex. Topic 1 /or Topic 2
• You want to search two different topics, and you want documents that cover both.
• Ex. Topic 1 /and Topic 2
• You want to search a topic, but you don't want another topic.
• Ex. Topic 1 /not Topic 2
• When Taking Notes
• Make sure to always list the source and the page number of every note you take from a specific source.
• Good Sources
• Britannica
• Oxford Journals
• Oxford Reference Library
• UAH One Search
• What are Research Starters?
• If you search a topic on UAH One Search, you could find a research starter which is a relevant encyclopedia entry.
• How to do Domain Searches?
• site:(.edu,gov,etc)
• Think Tanks
• Definition
• Organization or Institution that conducts research and engages in advocacy in policy, politics, etc.
• Examples of Think Tanks
• Harvard Think Tanks
• Is a database of think tanks 
• Brookings Institute
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 
• RAND Corporation

Informative Speech Notes

Three Sources For Informative Speech

1. "Mission". Uahcampuscursive.blogspot.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 July 2016.
1. ("Mission")
2. Nobles, Marceilia. Informative Speech Interview. 2016. in person.
1. (Nobles)
3. "ABOUT US.". THE WORLD NEEDS MORE LOVE LETTERS. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 July 2016.
1. ("ABOUT US.")

Interview Notes

• What is your position in Campus Cursive?
• Vice-President
• Do you feel you know a lot about Campus Cursive?
• I feel I know a lot, but not as much as the president.
• Imagine I know nothing about Campus Cursive, what is Campus Cursive and how can I get involved?
• Campus Cursive is a group in which the members write anonymous encouraging notes, and leave them around campus for people to find. 
• If you want to get involved we have meetings under the stairway by Dunkin Donuts in Charger Union, on Friday afternoons. 
• They typically have free donuts. 
• How is Campus Cursive Relevant to the Average UAH Student?
• As far as the giving end, it is a good way for us to know that we are helping people have a better day, and for us to get together.
• On the receiving end, it is to help give those with a bad day, a bright smile and help to change their life for the better.
• How is Campus Cursive an Academic Group on UAH campus?
• We implement writing and creative skills, and you can use it to practice cursive writing.
• What is More Love Letters, and what does it have to do with Campus Cursive?
• More Love Letters is the mother corporation that started long before campus cursive, that does the same thing as campus cursive, but on a larger scale. They send notes to individual people as well as to a cause. Campus Cursive was started by one pretty awesome girl named Elizabeth. Aidan (President) helped Elizabeth to help develop Campus Cursive, he was following the message before Campus Cursive was fully fleshed out.

Annotated Bibliography

"ABOUT US.". THE WORLD NEEDS MORE LOVE LETTERS. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 July 2016.

"Mission". Uahcampuscursive.blogspot.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 July 2016.

Nobles, Marceilia. Informative Speech Interview. 2016. in person.

In Class Notes Information Systems 7/11/16

• How Do You Get a Competitive Advantage?
• Do something better than any of your competitors, or do something that none of your competitors can do.
• You don't want to be easily substituted
• Competitive Strategies
• Industry Wide Competitive Strategies
• Cost
• Lowest cost across the industry
• Differtiation
• Better product/service across the industry
• Focused Competitive Strategies
• Cost
• Lowest cost within an industry segment
• Differentiation 
• Better product/service within an industry segment
• What an You Do Better?
• Lower Cost
• Better Service
• Value Chain Structure
• Support Activities
• Management Supplier Relationships
• Investigate New Designs
• Hire and Support Employees
• Manage Company Resources
• Primary Activities
• Inbound Logistics
• Acquire Inputs
• Operations/Manufacturing
• Outbound Logistics
• Output outputs
• Sales and Marketing
• Customer Service
• What is Margin?
• Value-Cost
• What is Total Margin?
• Margin of Primary Activities + Margin of Supporting Activities
• Business Processes
• Figuring out how to get the competitive advantage over your opponents.
• It is how you actual have competitive advantage. 
• Every organization has its own unique businesses processes.
• Rule of Information Systems
• Always supports business processing 
• No matter how good your IS is, if your business model sucks, it does you no good. 

Information Systems Chapter 1, 2, 3 Independent Study Notes

Chapter 1

• Why is Introduction to MIS the most important class in the business school?
• The cost of data processing, communications, and storage is essentially zero.
• Introduction to MIS can help you learn non-routine skills such as:
• Abstract Reasoning
• Ability to make and manipulate models
• Learning and understanding The Five Component System
• Systems Thinking
• Ability to model system components, connect inputs and outputs among components to reflect systems.
• Ability to think critically about, analyze, apply, and discuss different systems.
• Collaboration
• The Ability to Experiment
• The ability to use analysis to develop and evaluate possible solutions.
• What is MIS?
• Key Elements of MIS
• Management and Use
• How to develop, maintain, and adapt by creating information systems to meet your needs.
• Information Systems
• Strategies
• Goal of MIS
• Managing IS to achieve business strategies
• How can you use the five-component model?
• Five Component Framework
• Hardware
• Software
• Data
• Procedures
• People
• Your ability to conceive information from the data is important. Information is value you add to information systems. 
• Why is the difference between information technology  and information systems important?
• Information Systems focuses on procedures and people
• Information Technology focuses on hardware and software
• What is Information?
• Definitions vary, I agree with the concept of processed data.
• What are Necessary Data Characteristics?
• Accurate
• Timely
• Relevant to Context
• Relevant to Subject
• Just Sufficient
• Worth its Cost
• 2025?
• The world will become more connected, and most things will be capable of being completed online.

Chapter 2

What Are the Two Key Characteristics of Collaboration?

• Feedback
• Iteration
• Collaboration is built upon creating a work, showing your work to a peer, getting feedback from your peer, and then revising your original work based on the feedback given by your peer.

What Are The Three Criteria For Successful Collaboration?

• Successful Outcome
• Growth in Team Capability Overtime
• Meaningful and Satisfying Experience 

What are the four primary purposes of collaboration?

• Being Informed
• Make Decisions
• Solve Problems
• Manage Projects

What are the requirements for a collaboration information system?

• Hardware
• Software
• Data
• Procedure
• People

How can you use collaboration tools to improve team communication?

• Synchronous Communication
• Occurs when all team members meet at the same time, such as with conference calls or face to face meetings.
• Asynchronous Communication
• Occurs when team members do not meet at the same time.

How can you use collaboration tools to manage shared content?

• Through applications and cloud drives.
• Shared content can be controlled or not, but their is a spectrum of control.

How can you use Collaboration tools to manage tasks?

• Examples
• Sharing Task Lists on Google Drive
• Sharing Task Lists Using Microsoft Sharepoint

Which Collaboration IS is right for your team?

• It really depends on what your team needs, based on what your team is trying to do.

2025?

• Face to face meetings will become more rare.
• Free data communications and data storage will make collaboration systems cheaper and easier to use.
• More employees work at home full/part time
• Conventions become virtual
• Travel industry focuses on recreational travel
• Asynchronous Corporate Training

Chapter 3

• How does organizational strategy determine information systems structure?
• Information Systems exist to help organizations achieve  their strategies.
• Businesses goals and objectives are determined by competitive strategies. 
• Competitive strategies determine the structure, features, and functions of every information system.
• What five forces determine industry structure?
• Bargaining Power of Customers
• Threat of Substitutions
• Bargaining Power of Suppliers
• Threat of New Entrants
• Rivalry
• How does analysis of industry structure determine competitive strategy?
• Four Competitive Strategies
• Cost/Industry Wide: Lowest Cost Across the Country
• Cost/Focus: Lowest cost within an industry segment
• Differentiation/Industry Wide: Better product/service across the industry
• Differentiation/Focus: Better product/service within an industry segment.
• How does competitive strategy determine value chain structure?
• Primary Activities of Value Chains
• Inbound Logistics
• Receiving, storing, and disseminating inputs to the products.
• Operations/Manufacturing
• Transforming inputs into the final products.
• Outbound Logistics
• Collecting, storing, and physically distributing the products to buyers.
• Sales and Marketing
• Inducing buyers to purchase the products and providing a means for them to do so.
• Customer Service
• Assisting customers' use of the products and thus maintaining and enhancing the products' value.
• How do business processes generate value?
• Inbound Logistics > Manufacturing > Outbound Logistics > Sales and Marketing > Customer Service
• How does competitive strategy determine business processes and the structure of information systems?
• Information Systems exist to help organizations achieve  their strategies.
• Businesses goals and objectives are determined by competitive strategies. 
• Competitive strategies determine the structure, features, and functions of every information system.
• How do information systems provide competitive advantages?
• Depends on the system, and what the system does to establish competitive advantages.
• Examples of Competitive Advantages
• Enhances existing products
• Differentiates Products
• Locks in Customers
• Raises barriers to market entry
• Increases profit margins by decreasing costs and decreasing errors
• 2025?
• Speed of business accelerating
• New Business advances
• More new technology will be integrated into businesses

To Do 7/11/16

Communications

Read Chapter Review, Vocabulary, and Lists For Chapters 9-12

Information Systems

Study Independent Study Notes For Chapters 1-3

Get Pencils For Class Tomorrow

To-Do 7/10/16

Communications

• Complete Peer-Review and Make Copies
• Read Chapter Reviews, Vocabulary Words, and Lists for Chapter 3, 5, 7, 8

Information Systems

• Write Independent Study Notes For Chapter 1
• Write Independent Study Notes For Chapter 3
• Place Your Notes For Chapters 1-3 Into One Document For Easy Studying

Excel Lab Notes

Future Value

What it Will Look Like

=FV (annual interest rate, years, yearly payment)

How are Yearly Payments Portrayed?

As negative values

How to Calculate Monthly Interest Rate

Annual interest rate divided by twelve.

How Do You Calculate Total Number of Periods When Given Years, When You Require Monthly Periods

Years Multiplied by Twelve

How Do You Calculate PMT For Monthly Payments

=PMT(Monthly Interest Rate, Number of Periods In Months, Amount Borrowed)

How Do You Calculate PMT for Annual Payments

=PMT(Annual Interest Rate, Number of Periods In Years, Amount Borrowed)

What is the Basic Set-Up for PMT?

=PMT(rate, number of periods, principal value)

How Do You Calculate Borrowing Amount

(Price+(Price*Sales Tax Rate) - Down Payment- Trade in Value)

How Do You Calculate The Monthly Payment of a Car Loan?

What Will You Need To Know

• Price
• Down Payment
• Trade in Value
• Sales Tax Rate
• Interest Rate
• Borrowed Amount
• How to Calculate Borrowed Amount
• =Price+Price*Sales Tax Rate- Down Payment - Trade in Value 
• Terms

How to Calculate Monthly Payment of a Car Loan

=PMT(Annual Interest Rate/12, Terms, Borrow Amount)

How to Calculate The Principal (Loan Amortization)

=PMT (Annual Interest Rate/How many payments made that year, which payment it is, number of periods, present value of the borrowed amount [which changes])

How Do you Calculate Interest (Loan Amortization)

=ipmt(Annual Interest Rate/12, which payment it is, Terms, Present Value of Borrowed Amount [which changes])

How Do You Calculate the Balance (Loan Amortization)

Original Amount You Borrowed Minus The Principal

What Do The Dollar Signs Do?

It locks the value as a constant. You put the dollar sign in front of the number and letter of the cell variable that you want to make constant.

How Do You Calculate the Sum of a column?

=sum(Starting Cell Variable : Ending Cell Variable)