IB Information Technology in the Global Society (ITGS)

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Monday (2/7/11)

Agenda:

  • Presentation on fair use of copyright material File:Fair Use.ppt
  • Discuss case studies in groups
  • Continue project work

Thursday (2/3/11)

Agenda:

  • Turn in Criterion I
  • Open Dreamweaver
  • Download a template from Dreamweaver Templates or Dreamweaver Templates 2
  • Walk through editing one of the templates with your own customizations
  • Demo a customized template that is built for your project

Monday - Tuesday (1/24/11 - 2/1/11)

Warmup:

  • Find an IT article within the last month
  • Respond to the following questions on your wiki:
    • Today's date
    • 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:

  • Paper prototyping
    1. Obtain 3-5 sheets of paper from Mr. Bui
    2. Fold each of the sheets in half (as shown by Mr. Bui)
    3. Put your name and today's date at the top of the sheet
    4. Each half sheet of paper will be a sketch or panel of your ITGS project
    5. Paper-clip and show Mr. Bui your sketches by the end of class
  • ITGS Project Criterion I: Planning your solution due Friday (1/28/11)

Thursday (1/20/11)

  • Make sure you've turned in ITGS Project Criterion H
  • ITGS Project Criterion I: Planning your solution
  • Work on your projects (writing section or your actual project)

Friday (1/14/11)

  • Introduction to Screencasting with Jing
  • Screencasting Assignment
    • Create a narrated screencast
    • Walk through the steps of any particular Photoshop tutorial
    • Make sure you create a .swf file with your name in it and then upload it to SWL
  • Turn in all work:
    • Photoshopped images
    • Podcasts and podcast scripts
    • ITGS Project Criterion G
  • ITGS Project: Criterion H due Friday (1/14/11)

Wednesday (1/12/11)

Monday (1/10/11)

Agenda:

Tuesday - Thursday (1/4/11 - 1/6/11)

Warmup:

  • Find an IT article within the last month
  • Respond to the following questions on your wiki:
    • Today's date
    • 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:

Wednesday (12/22/10)

Warmup:

  • Upload your "photoshopped" pictures to SchoolWebLockers
  • Upload a textfile that has a list of the tutorials/changes that you made to the pictures
  • Find a sound clip that you would like to edit today

Agenda:

  • Introduction to Sound Editing w/ Audacity
    • Changing pitch
    • Splicing
    • Fade In/Out
    • and more!

Monday (12/20/10)

Warmup:

Agenda:

  • Find a picture of yourself
  • Complete at least 6 tutorials on this page Photoshop Facelift
  • Save the image and list the tutorials that you performed on the picture

Thursday (12/16/10)

Tuesday (12/14/10)

  • Turn in your website URL here
  • Complete the following Photoshop tutorial
    • You'll need to find two pictures on the internet

Wednesday - Friday (12/8/10 - 12/10/10)

Monday (12/6/10)

Thursday - Monday (12/2/10 - 12/6/10)

Agenda:

Tuesday (11/30/10)

Warmup:

  • Lookup and describe the terms: robot, android, and cyborg

Agenda:

  • Introduction to Robots
    • Discovery Learning: Dean Kamen interview
  • Begin researching & creating robotics presentations
    • One specific example of a robot per person
    • Include a description and image of the robot
    • Explain the costs & benefits of that specific robot
    • Explain the social & ethical issues relating to that specific robot

Friday - Tuesday (11/19/10 - 11/23/10)

Warmup:

  • Review expert systems
  • Assign AI/Expert Systems topics
    • Politics & Government - Rigo & Waseef & Biniam
    • Science & the Environment - Alex & Robert
    • Education - Muntaha & Ian
    • Business & Employment - Samiha & Allen & Arifur
    • Arts, Entertainment & Leisure - Mudasar & Aida
    • Health - Chris & Nick

Agenda:

Wednesday (11/17/10)

Warmup:

Agenda:

  • Finish presentations
  • Make sure you've turned in your technical document
  • Introduction to artificial intelligence
  • Introduction to expert systems
  • Assign AI/Expert Systems topics
    • Politics & Government - Rigo & Waseef
    • Science & the Environment - Alex & Robert
    • Education - Muntaha & Ian
    • Business & Employment - Samiha & Allen
    • Arts, Entertainment & Leisure - Mudasar & Aida
    • Health - Chris

Monday (11/15/10)

Warmup:

Agenda:

  • Turn in your RFID technical document via SchoolWebLockers or print-out
  • Turn in your RFID presentation to SchoolWebLockers
  • RFID Student Tracking Presentations

Thursday - Wednesday (11/4/10 - 11/10/10)

Agenda:

Monday (11/1/10)

Warmup:

  • Read this article on Facebook Privacy
  • Respond to the following questions on your wiki:
    • Today's date
    • 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:

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