Final Project

Purpose of Assignment

This project is the culmination of all the work you have been getting together. This includes the discovery assignment, empathy map, wireframes, and prototypes. Your website does not need to be fully functional, but it should appear correctly. Basic actions like links should work correctly.

Assignment Description

Design Elements
Your web site must contain each of the following design elements

• Minimum of 5 pages (including the homepage and the other page for which you submitted wireframes).  Any other secondary pages you want to include.
• HTML5 document type declaration on EVERY page
• HTML5 tags(header, footer, section, main, article, aside, nav).
• Proper use of heading levels to organize pages.
• Appropriate integration of color and visual interest elements (images, rules, multimedia, etc.).
• One custom web font.
• Use of CSS3 for page layout.
• Responsive design.
• Appropriate, meaningful inclusion of forms (although they may not function at this point).
• Unique and proper usage of page titles values on every page.
• Use of meta description tag to appropriately describe the page.
• Use mobile breakpoints. Same breakpoints as the assignments.
• Other best practices covered in class or in your assigned readings (naming conventions, naming of folders, separate CSS, etc.).
• A sitemap.xml will be required for your project. Check out this tutorial (Links to an external site.)
• You will be required to implement Google Analytics (Links to an external site.)(even if it’s nonfunctional).
• Your homepage should be named index.html.

Coding
The code you create for your web pages must meet industry standard requirements for ‘acceptable code’; code that is easy to read is easy to update and fix. Your code should:

• Have tags, attributes, and attribute values typed in all lowercase letters, and attribute values enclosed with double quotation marks. Consistently creating code using this format will only make your pages easier to debug, For example
  <p align=”center”>Welcome!</p> is correct
  <P ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome!</P> is incorrect
  <P Align=”center”>Welcome!</P> is incorrect
  <p align=center>Welcome!</p> is incorrect
• Optional closing tags should be present. Browsers vary in how forgiving they are of non-closed tags. Although your browser may display list items, table cells and paragraphs without the closing </li>, </td>, and </p> tags (respectively), your viewers’ browsers might not. Also, as we learn how to format pages with styles non-closed tags can cause confusion as formatting from one section ‘leaks’ into another.
• Make appropriate use of hard returns and indents. See my example below to recognize the visual cues this offers:
  <div><p>Hello World</p><p>This is my website</p></div>
  The above will display identically to the code below, but it should be clear which is easier to read and to check for errors
  <div id=”content’>
           <p>Hello World</p>
           <p>This is my website</p>
  </div>.

Required Elements

1. Complete the items listed to finish this assignment.

Assignment Instructions

• Design your own web page. Do not use a template or wizard to generate this page. Please do not submit a white background page.
• Create your Project Brief in HTML5/CSS. HTML/CSS must not have any validation errors.  Use the HTML validator(Links to an external site.), and CSS validator (Links to an external site.) to check your code. See HTML/CSS requirements below.
• Post your Project Brief to your web server.
• Create a .zip file that contains both the HTML and CSS files. Title the Assignment “YourName-Final-Project.zip”. Submit your zip file to Canvas assignment.

HTML5/CSS3 requirements
A HTML file that will contain:

• • HTML 5 <doctype> tag
  • Use of <header> tag
  • Use of <article> tag. Content will reside inside <article> tag.
• • Use of <footer> tag
  • Use of appropriate usage of <h1> and <h2> tags. Use other header tags if necessary.
  • Proper label within <title></title> tag
  • Use of <meta description> and proper description

A CSS file that will contain:

• • Must use external CSS file.
  • Must style font color, at least two different font sizes
  • Use of a custom web font
  • Appropriate use of classes, IDs selectors
  • Style groups of tags
• • Style structural elements: header, footer, and article

Grading Criteria is simple. If you completed all “Required Elements” then you get highest points. If you completed some then you get mid points. If you did not complete then you will get no points.

Rubric

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Instructions

Paper A: Application of a decision making framework to an IT-related ethical issue.

This assignment is an opportunity to explore and apply a decision making framework to an IT-related ethical issue. A framework provides a methodical and systematic approach for decision making. UMGCModule 2 – Methods of Ethical Analysis (see LEO Content – Readings for week 2) describes three structured frameworks that may be used for ethical analysis, namely Reynolds Seven-Step Approach, Kidder’s Nine Steps, and Spinello’s Seven-Step Process. There are several ways described in UMGC Module 2 to systematically approach an ethical dilemma, and while each of the frameworks described has its merits, each will result in an ethical decision if straightforwardly, objectively,  and honestly applied.

In addition, consider the ethical theories described in Module 1 – Introduction to Theoretical Ethical Frameworks (see LEO Content – Readings for week 1) which help decision makers find the right balance concerning the acceptability of and justification for their actions. A separate write-up of the ethical theory that supports your decision is part of the following requirements.

For this paper, the following five elements must be addressed:

• Describe a current IT-related ethical issue: Since this is a paper exercise, not a real-time situation, you may want to construct a brief scenario where this issue comes into play, and thus causes an ethical dilemma.  The dilemma may affect you, your family, your job, or your company; or it may be a matter of public policy or law that affects the general populace. See the list below for a list of suggested issues, which may be a source of ethical dilemmas.
• Define a concise problem statement that is extracted from the above description or scenario. It is best if you define a specific problem caused by the dilemma, that needs a specific ethical decision to be made, that will solve the dilemma.   Be aware that if it is a matter of public policy or law, that it may require a regulatory body or congressional approval to take action to implement a solution.
• Analyze your problem using one of the structured decision-making frameworks chosen from Module 2. Make sure that you identify the decision-making framework utilized. In addition, the steps in the decision-making framework selected must be used as major headings in the Analysis section. 
• Consider and state the impact of the decision that you made on an individual, an organization, stakeholders, customers suppliers, and the environment, as applicable!
• State and discuss the applicable ethical theoryfrom Module 1 that supports your decision.

Concerning your paper:

• Prepare a minimum 3- 5 page, double-spaced paper and submit it to the LEO Assignments Module as an attached Microsoft Word file.
• Use headings for each topic criteria
• Provide appropriate American Psychological Association (APA) source citations for all sources you use.  In addition to critical thinking and analysis skills, your paper should reflect appropriate grammar and spelling, good organization, and proper business-writing style.
• Include a Cover Page with your Name, the UMGC/Name of the Class, and the Title of the Paper.

For example, Kidder’s approach has nine steps, which are:

• Recognize that there is a moral issue.
• Determine the actor (whose moral issue is it?).
• Gather the relevant facts.
• Test for right-versus-wrong issues.
• Test for right-versus-right paradigms (what sort of dilemma is this?).
• Apply the resolution principles (ends-based, rule-based, or care-based).
• Investigate the “trilemma” options (look for common ground or compromise).
• Make the decision.
• Revisit and reflect on the decision. (Kidder, 1995, p. 183-187)

Reminder: Each of the steps for whatever framework that you select must be a major heading in the Analysis section of your paper.

Here are some suggested issues for you to consider, the additional text is designed to help you flesh out the issue:

1. Privacy on the Web: What is happening now in terms of privacy on the Web? Think about recent abuses and improvements. Describe and evaluate Web site policies, technical and privacy policy protections, and current proposals for government regulations.
2. Personal Data Privacy Regulations in Other Countries: Report on personal data privacy regulations, Web site privacy policies, and governmental/law enforcement about access to personal data in one or more countries; e.g., the European Union.  This is especially relevant as our global economic community expands and we are more dependent on non-US clients for e-business over the Internet.
3. Computer-Based Crimes: Discuss the most prevalent types of computer crimes, such as Phishing. Analyze why and how these can occur. Describe protective measures that might assist in preventing or mitigating these types of crimes.
4. Government Surveillance of the Internet: The 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001 brought many new laws and permits more government surveillance of the Internet. Is this a good idea?
5. The Digital Divide: Does it exist; what does it look like; and, what are the ethical considerations and impact?
6. Privacy in the Workplace -Monitoring Employee Web and E-Mail Use: What are current opinions concerning the monitoring of employee computer use. What policies are employers using? Should this practice of monitoring, be authorized or not?
7. Medical Privacy: Who owns your medical history? What is the state of current legislation to protect your health information? Is it sufficient?  There are new incentives with federal stimulus financing for health care organizations to develop and implement digital health records.
8. Software Piracy: How many of you have ever made an unauthorized copy of software, downloaded software or music (free or for a fee), or used copyrighted information without giving proper credit or asking permission? Was this illegal or just wrong? How is this being addressed?
9. 9.Consumer Profiling: With every purchase you make, every Web site you visit, your preferences are being profiled. What is your opinion regarding the legal authority of these organizations to collect and aggregate this data?
10. Biometrics & Ethics: Your fingerprint, retinal-vessel image, and DNA map can exist entirely as a digital image in a computer, on a network, or in the infosphere.  What new and old ethical problems must we address?
11. Social Networking:  What are some of the ethical issues surrounding using new social networks?  How are these now considered for business use?  What are business social communities?  Are new/different protections and security needed for these networks?
12. Gambling in Cyberspace: Is it legal? Are there national regulations and/or licensing? What are the oversight and enforcement requirements? Are there international implications? What are the social and public health issues?
13. Pornography in Cyberspace: For example, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling protecting as free speech computer-generated child pornography
14. Medicine and Psychiatry in Cyberspace: Some considerations include: privacy issues; security; third-party record-keeping; electronic medical records; access to information, even by the patient (patient rights); access to information by outsiders without patient knowledge; authority to transfer and/or share information. Are there any policies proposed by professional organizations?
15. Counterterrorism and Information Systems: Your protection versus your rights
16. Open-source Software versus Closed-source Software: Ethical ramifications and impact on intellectual property law
17. Creative Commons Licenses: How do they work and what are the legal and ethical impacts and concerns?
18. Universal ID card: What is the general position of the U.S. government about issuing each individual a unique ID card? Which individual U.S. government agencies have already provided a unique ID card? What steps have been taken to include individual ID information electronically in passports? How is privacy and security provided?
19. Video Games: Does playing video games distract from everyday responsibilities? Do video games correlate with real world violence? Why do game creators continually increase the violence of video games? What is video game addiction?
20. Cyberbullying: What is cyberbullying and what can be done to stop it?
21. Net Neutrality: What is the current position of the federal government and is it fair to all?

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Write a paper (2,000-2,500 words) in which you apply the concepts of epidemiology and nursing research to a communicable disease. Refer to “Communicable Disease Chain,” “Chain of Infection,” and the CDC website for assistance when completing this assignment.

Communicable Disease Selection

Choose one communicable disease from the options below.

1. Chickenpox
2. Tuberculosis
3. Influenza
4. Mononucleosis
5. Hepatitis B
6. HIV
7. Ebola
8. Measles
9. Polio
10. Influenza

Epidemiology Paper Requirements

Address the following:

1. Describe the chosen communicable disease, including causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment, and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incidence, and prevalence). Is this a reportable disease? If so, provide details about reporting time, whom to report to, etc.
2. Describe the social determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease.
3. Discuss the epidemiologic triangle as it relates to the communicable disease you have selected. Include the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors. Are there any special considerations or notifications for the community, schools, or general population?
4. Explain the role of the community health nurse (case finding, reporting, data collection, data analysis, and follow-up) and why demographic data are necessary to the health of the community.
5. Identify at least one national agency or organization that addresses the communicable disease chosen and describe how the organizations contribute to resolving or reducing the impact of disease.
6. Discuss a global implication of the disease. How is this addressed in other countries or cultures? Is this disease endemic to a particular area? Provide an example.

A minimum of three peer-reviewed or professional references is required.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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