IB Information Technology in the Global Society (ITGS)

Tuesday - Thursday (9/18/12 - 9/20/12)

Warmup:

• Find an IT article from one of the following technology websites list
• Note: Stay away from articles that are just discussions about commercial products and their releases (e.g. iPhone 5). Try to find an article with some social/ethical significance
• 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:

• Warmup discussion
• Return S&E Vocab Quiz
• Finish Web 2.0 Presentations
• Areas of Impacts & Web 2.0

Friday (9/14/12)

Agenda:

• Take out earphones if you have them. Watch the following videos:
  • Wikis
  • Blogs
  • Social Bookmarking

• Find a website that is considered a Web 2.0 website. Every person needs to have a unique Web 2.0 website.

1. Write down your name and website on the clipboard at the front
2. 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.
3. 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!

Homework:

• Make sure you've completed My first website assignment
• Make sure you've completed the Web 2.0 blog post and presentation
• We will be presenting the presentations during next class

Wednesday (9/12/12)

Warmup:

• Read the following article: Twitter Ordered to Release OWS Protester’s Data or Be Fined for Contempt
  1. Go to your website and post the following to it (You may use a bulleted list:
  2. Link and title of the article
  3. Synopsis of the article
  4. Identify the stakeholders (people who have a vested interest in the scenario)
  5. Identify AND describe the social and ethical issues related to the article
  6. Identify the area of impact (look at the front board on the left)
  7. What is your opinion of the issue? i.e. How does it affect you? How do you feel about that?

Agenda:

• ITGS Article Discussion
• IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues Quiz
• 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?
• My first website assignment

Monday (9/10/12)

Agenda:

• Submit your ITGS website's URL here
• Media:ItgsLaymansTerms.ppt
• IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues Class Images Assignment
  1. Receive an assigned social/ethical key term
  2. Google Image Search for 3 different images that you feel best represent/explain that key term
  3. Write a brief caption/description of your images and how they represent the key term
  4. Add the images and caption to the appropriate slide in our class presentation
  5. Be sure to put your name in the caption too
• IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues Quiz on Wednesday (9/12/11)

Thursday (9/6/12)

• Misc logistics
  • 20/10 no pass policy
  • Location of bathrooms
  • Sign in/out sheets
• Introductions
• IB ITGS Syllabus
• IT Resources for Students
  • Google Apps - http://www.apsva.us/google - (UserID: StudentID# and Password: Birthday)
  • Dropbox - http://www.dropbox.com
  • etc.
• Technology-related News Websites
  1. As a class, we will create a list of technology-related websites
  2. Go to the technology websites list
  3. Search the web and add at least 3 websites that are not already on the document

Tuesday (9/4/12)

• Introductions
• 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 Surveys