Reference no: EM133091445

Ethics and ePortfolios

Overview

In this first lab, you will set up your online ePortfolio, which you will use throughout this course (and others), and add your first entries to it.

Learning outcome 1: State the uses of emerging technologies within key industry contexts;

Learning outcome 2: List major information systems that support business organisations;

Learning outcome 3: Recognize the impact of IT on broader societies;

Learning outcome 4: Review a range of information system applications;

Learning outcome 5: State and reflect on legal and ethical concerns relevant to IT;

Task Details

Task one - ePortfolio

Mahara is the University's ePortfolio system. Your ePortfolio is an online space where you can share your work, keep one or more learning journals, upload files and more. In this course, you will need to edit and maintain your ePortfolio a number of times, and you may need to in other courses as well.

Set up your ePortfolio

You should also open the Mahara "How to" page in a new browser window or tab.
Follow the "How to" instructions to Login and Update your Profile (it's ok if you don't have a photo right now, but put one up when you get a chance!)

Creating a Journal entry
From the menu, select Content and then Journals. You can maintain multiple Journals in your ePortfolio, so create one just for this course by choosing Create Journal. Label your Journal with an appropriate name, for example ITECH1100. You can choose to add a description if you like.
Add a new Journal entry by clicking + New Entry.

Ethics - Self Reflection

In the lecture, we discussed three ethical frameworks, Deontology, Utilitarianism and Virtue Ethics, and you were asked to consider which of these three resonate most with how you think about morality and ethical behaviour.
Using your own words, write somewhere between 100-200 words on which of the three frameworks makes the most sense to you. You may also search online for other systems of ethics that you might prefer.
Some ideas to help you write if you're having trouble:
• What makes this framework appealing?
• What is it about the others that you don't like?
• Would you be willing to listen to somebody using another framework?
• Explain each framework in your own words;
• Describe something positive and negative for each one;
• If one or more appeals to you, explain why; if none do explain why not;
• Justify your choice as best you can based on your experience, perhaps refer to an example in your life where you've faced a moral dilemma and how you responded to it
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Make sure you save your work. You might wish to write your micro essay in Word first, and then copying into Mahara, in case you accidently close the browser.
Being able to write short, well-reasoned documents is a critical skill in IT and other industries.

Creating a new page
You can submit your Mahara work through Moodle, but only if your content is in a Mahara page.
Luckily, it's reasonably easy to add content from your Journal to a page. You should be aware that, depending on your assignment, any work on a page submitted to Moodle will be locked until it has been reviewed by your tutor. This means you might choose to only include a single Journal entry so you can continue to add other entries to your Journal.
From the menu, select Portfolio and then Pages, and choose + Create page.

Call your new page ITECH1100 Topic One or something better.
Spend some time exploring the page creation screen - in particular, investigate the Edit layout tab, which allows you to choose a different content structure for your work.

Add your Journal entry to the page
Once you have chosen a layout you are happy with, you should add your Journal entry, by dragging a + Journal entry onto the page somewhere. Choose the entry you created earlier.
We will submit this to Moodle later, as there is another task to complete first

Task 2 - Contribute
There are two goals for this section - firstly, you will get a taste of contributing to a software or knowledge project online, and secondly you will gain some experience with the FedUni library web site. Your specific task is to improve a Wikipedia article by adding links to other pages.

Sign up to Wikipedia
Wikipedia is perhaps the single largest collaborative project ever, and in this task you will contribute to improve its quality.
Anybody can contribute to Wikipedia, even anonymously. However, it's best to sign-up so that your contributions can be attributed to you. If you already have a Wikipedia login, you may use that instead of signing up again.

Task 3 - Document your contribution
Using your new Mahara skills, write a small (approximately 50 words) Journal entry about your contribution. Add it to the Page you created earlier.

Attachment:- Ethics and ePortfolios.rar