Difference between revisions of "IB Information Technology in the Global Society (ITGS)"
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== Tuesday (10/18/11) == | == Tuesday (10/18/11) == |
Revision as of 13:36, 20 October 2011
Contents
- 1 Thursday (10/20/11)
- 2 Tuesday (10/18/11)
- 3 Wednesday (10/12/11)
- 4 Friday (10/7/11)
- 5 Wednesday (10/5/11)
- 6 Monday (10/3/11)
- 7 Thursday (9/29/11)
- 8 Tuesday (9/27/11)
- 9 Back to School Night (9/26/11)
- 10 Friday (9/23/11)
- 11 Wednesday (9/21/11)
- 12 Monday (9/19/11)
- 13 Tuesday - Thursday (9/13/11 - 9/15/11)
- 14 Friday (9/9/11)
- 15 Wednesday (9/7/11)
- 16 Tuesday - Thursday (9/6/11 - 9/8/11)
Thursday (10/20/11)
Agenda:
- Complete Networks/Internet + Areas of Impact Presentations
- Introduction to Search Engines
- Web crawling
- Meta keywords
- What problems do you think would arise?
- Download: Part 2 - Search
Tuesday (10/18/11)
Warmup:
- Blog about the following article: Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
- Link and title of the article
- Synopsis of the article
- Identify the stakeholders (people who have a vested interest in the scenario)
- Identify AND describe the social and ethical issues related to the article
- Identify the area of impact (look at the front board on the left)
- What is your opinion of the issue? i.e. How does it affect you? How do you feel about that?
- What future impacts/changes do you think will occur?
Agenda:
- Networks/Internet + Areas of Impact Presentations
Wednesday (10/12/11)
Agenda:
- Complete discussion on Download: Part 3 - Bubble
- Areas of Impact
- Business & Employment - David, Betty, Bazargur
- Education & Training - Myiam (Education), Rabia (Training), Kevin (either one)
- Environment - Morgan
- Health - Jonathan
- Home & Leisure - Bui
- Politics & Government - Andrew
- Networks/Internet + Areas of Impact Presentation Homework
- Receive an area of impact and create a slideshow that presents your topic
- Find a *specific* use and examples of Networks or the Internet in your Area of Impact
- Explain how Networks or the Internet are used in your Area of Impact
- You should have some images/graphics of your specific example in your presentation (do *not* create a slide of just images)
- Describe the benefits in your example?
- Describe the costs in your example?
- Describe the social and ethical issues that arise in your example
- Describe the example's social impact
- Review your presentation and make sure that it is clear, concise, and presentable
Homework:
- Networks/Internet + Areas of Impact Presentation Homework due Tuesday (10/18/11)
Friday (10/7/11)
Agenda:
- Complete Network presentations
- Download: Part 3 - Bubble
Wednesday (10/5/11)
Warmup:
- QUICKLY read "Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control"
- Summarize the article
- Describe the stakeholders
- Describe the Area of Impact
- Describe the major social/ethical issue(s) in 2-3 sentences
- What was the original intent/advantage/benefit of the IT scenario? (i.e. why do we use electronic voting machines in the first place?) (2-3 sentences)
- What is the disadvantage/cost of the IT scenario? (2-3 sentences)
- Describe one or two possible solutions to the issue at hand
Agenda:
- Electronic voting machine discussion
- Network presentations
Monday (10/3/11)
Warmup:
- Create a Google Docs Presentation about your Open Source software
- Create slides for the information that you posted from your hw assignment
- This should be a presentation, so there should not be a lot of text!
- This should only take you 5 minutes!
Agenda:
- Present Open Source alternatives
- Introduction to Networking and the Internet
- Media:Networking.ppt
- Packet-switching vs. Circuit-switching Networks
- Networks/Internet Assignment
- You will research your given issue in relation to "networks" or "the Internet" (e.g. find a problem or connection to networks or the Internet that relates to your issue)
- Example: Intellectual property + Internet = Music Piracy
- Create a presentation (PowerPoint/LibreOffice/Pages) that contains the following:
- Technical definition of your social & ethical issue
- Your explanation of the definition to a 10 yr old
- Explanation of how your issue relates to the Internet (give a specific example of an issue)
- Graphics / Images
- List & describe stakeholders
- List & describe advantages / benefits
- List & describe disadvantages / costs
- Describe a possible solution to your issue
- You will research your given issue in relation to "networks" or "the Internet" (e.g. find a problem or connection to networks or the Internet that relates to your issue)
Homework:
- Complete your Networks/Internet Assignment by Wednesday (10/5/11)
Thursday (9/29/11)
Warmup:
- Create a Google Docs Presentation about your Web 2.0 website
- Create slides for the information that you posted from your hw assignment
- This should be a presentation, so there should not be a lot of text!
Agenda:
- Open Source Software
- Open Source Alternatives Assignment
- Receive a closed-source software example
- Anderson - Windows Media Player
- Auchter - Facebook
- Cakar -
- Ghebrekrstos - Microsoft Windows
- Mejia - Apple iTunes
- Rafky - Apple iOS
- Scott - Microsoft Office
- Sukhbaatar - Adobe Photoshop
- Vargas - Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Find 2-3 open source alternatives of that software
- In you blog, post the following
- Name of the open source software
- What the software does
- Who maintains the open source software (e.g. name of company)
- Estimated number of users or downloads
- Receive a closed-source software example
Tuesday (9/27/11)
Agenda:
- Wrap up My first website assignment
- Flattener #4 - Uploading
- Wikis
- Blogs
- Social Bookmarking
- Open source software
- Other examples?
Homework:
- Find a website that is considered a Web 2.0 website
- Post in your blog responses to the following:
- Name of site
- Link to site
- Explanation of how it is Web 2.0
- Estimated # of users who use the site
- What is the social significance and impact? Explain in several sentences.
- What social ethical issues are there involved in the website? Explain.
- What areas of impact would the site relate to? Explain.
Back to School Night (9/26/11)
Friday (9/23/11)
Agenda:
- Finish Download: The True Story of the Internet - Part 1
- Flattener #3 - Workflow Software
- Introduction to HTML
- Download: The True Story of the Internet - Part 2
Homework:
- Complete My first website assignment over the weekend
Wednesday (9/21/11)
Warmup:
- Go to the Technology section of a news site. Find an IT article.
- Post to your blog:
- Link and title of the article
- Synopsis of the article
- Identify the stakeholders
- Identify AND describe the social and ethical issues related to the article
- Identify the area of impact (look at the front board on the left)
- What is your opinion of the issue? i.e. How does it affect you? How do you feel about that?
Agenda:
- Flatteners #1, 2 - Fall of Berlin Wall & Netscape
- Media:Flatteners_1_&_2.pdf
- Download: The True Story of the Internet - Part 1
Monday (9/19/11)
Tuesday - Thursday (9/13/11 - 9/15/11)
Warmup:
- Read the following article: "Judge Forces Employer To Rehire Workers Who Vented On Facebook"
- Go to your blog and post the following to your blog (You may use a bulleted list:
- Link and title of the article
- Synopsis of the article
- Identify the stakeholders (people who have a vested interest in the scenario)
- Identify AND describe the social and ethical issues related to the article
- Identify the area of impact (look at the front board on the left)
- What is your opinion of the issue? i.e. How does it affect you? How do you feel about that?
Agenda:
- ITGS S&E Class Presentation
- ITGS Social & Ethical Issue Quiz
- Introduction to Computer Hardware
- Computer hardware assignment
Friday (9/9/11)
- Watch "Did you know? 4.0"
- Respond to the following questions in your website (if we can get it working...)
- What 3 things surprise you?
- What questions come to your mind?
- What do you think the world will be like 5 years from now? 10? 20?
- What kind of effects do you think that this will have on people?
- Create a blog at Blogger
- Submit your blog's URL here
- Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
- Can you give examples of web-sites that did not exist 10 years ago, but are popular today?
- Media:ItgsLaymansTerms.ppt
- IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues Class Images Assignment
- Receive an assigned social/ethical key term
- Google Image Search for 3 different images that you feel best represent/explain that key term
- Write a brief caption/description of your images and how they represent the key term
- Add the images and caption to the appropriate slide in our class presentation
- Be sure to put your name in the caption too
- IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues Quiz on Tuesday (9/13/11)
Wednesday (9/7/11)
Warmup:
- Visit each of the following websites and read the headlines. After going through all the headlines, find the article that most interests you and read it. Be able to give a brief synopsis to the class.
Agenda:
Tuesday - Thursday (9/6/11 - 9/8/11)
- Introductions
- IB ITGS Syllabus
- Name cards
- Lab setup/config
- Login username is your first initial and lastname (e.g. pbui)
- Your password is your student ID number
- Go to Apple (upper left) -> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Change Password
- Acceptable-use policies apply in this lab!
- Complete the Student Survey