IBITGS - 1112 - October

Wednesday - Friday (10/26/11 - 10/28/11)

• IB ITGS - 1st Quarter Exam Review

Monday (10/24/11)

Warmup:

• Blog about the following article: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
  1. Link and title of the article
  2. Synopsis of the article
  3. Identify the stakeholders (people who have a vested interest in the scenario)
  4. Identify AND describe the social and ethical issues related to the article
  5. Identify the area of impact (look at the front board on the left)
  6. What is your opinion of the issue? i.e. How does it affect you? How do you feel about that?
  7. Do you agree with the Waldorf School?
  8. What positive and negative impacts have resulted with the introduction of technology into elementary education?

Agenda:

• Complete Download: Part 2 - Search

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
  1. Link and title of the article
  2. Synopsis of the article
  3. Identify the stakeholders (people who have a vested interest in the scenario)
  4. Identify AND describe the social and ethical issues related to the article
  5. Identify the area of impact (look at the front board on the left)
  6. What is your opinion of the issue? i.e. How does it affect you? How do you feel about that?
  7. 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
  1. Receive an area of impact and create a slideshow that presents your topic
  2. Find a *specific* use and examples of Networks or the Internet in your Area of Impact
  3. Explain how Networks or the Internet are used in your Area of Impact
  4. You should have some images/graphics of your specific example in your presentation (do *not* create a slide of just images)
  5. Describe the benefits in your example?
  6. Describe the costs in your example?
  7. Describe the social and ethical issues that arise in your example
  8. Describe the example's social impact
  9. 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"
  1. Summarize the article
  2. Describe the stakeholders
  3. Describe the Area of Impact
  4. Describe the major social/ethical issue(s) in 2-3 sentences
  5. 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)
  6. What is the disadvantage/cost of the IT scenario? (2-3 sentences)
  7. Describe one or two possible solutions to the issue at hand

Agenda:

• Electronic voting machine discussion
• Network presentations

Monday (10/3/11)

Warmup:

1. Create a Google Docs Presentation about your Open Source software
2. Create slides for the information that you posted from your hw assignment
3. This should be a presentation, so there should not be a lot of text!
4. 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
    • Packet-Switching Animation
    • Circuit-Switching Animation
• Networks/Internet Assignment
  1. 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
  2. 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

Homework:

• Complete your Networks/Internet Assignment by Wednesday (10/5/11)