IB Information Technology in the Global Society (ITGS)

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Thursday (11/3/11)

Agenda:

Tuesday (11/1/11)

Agenda:

  • 1st Quarter Exam

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

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
  • 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)

Thursday (9/29/11)

Warmup:

  1. Create a Google Docs Presentation about your Web 2.0 website
  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!

Agenda:

  • Open Source Software
  • Open Source Alternatives Assignment
    1. 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
    2. Find 2-3 open source alternatives of that software
    3. In you blog, post the following
      1. Name of the open source software
      2. What the software does
      3. Who maintains the open source software (e.g. name of company)
      4. Estimated number of users or downloads

Tuesday (9/27/11)

Agenda:

Homework:

  1. Find a website that is considered a Web 2.0 website
  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.

Back to School Night (9/26/11)

Friday (9/23/11)

Agenda:

Homework:

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:

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:

Friday (9/9/11)

  • Watch "Did you know? 4.0"
    • Respond to the following questions in your website (if we can get it working...)
    1. What 3 things surprise you?
    2. What questions come to your mind?
    3. What do you think the world will be like 5 years from now? 10? 20?
    4. 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
    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 Tuesday (9/13/11)

Wednesday (9/7/11)

Warmup:

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
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