IBITGS - 1011 - September
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Contents
Back To School Night (9/29/10)
Wednesday (9/29/10)
Warmup:
- Find and read an IT article
- Post to your wiki account the following information
- 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:
- FTP accounts
- Hostname: ftp.washlee.net
- Username: username@washlee.net (e.g. pbui@washlee.net)
- Password: Your student ID #
- Introduction to Networking cont'd
- Packet-switching vs. Circuit-switching Networks
- Media:Networking.ppt
Monday (9/27/10)
Agenda:
- Complete My first website assignment
- Note, you should have multiple web pages that link together
- Zip/Archive your webpages and images.
- Submit the zip file to School Web Lockers (SWL)
- Flattener #4
- Introduction to Networking
- Packet-switching vs. Circuit-switching Networks
- Media:Networking.ppt
Thursday (9/23/10)
Warmup:
- Create a new html file on your desktop named warmup.html
- Try to create the webpage that Mr. Bui is showing on the board
Agenda:
- Introduction to HTML
Tuesday (9/21/10)
Warmup:
- Find one IT article through any website. Read the article and answer the following questions on your student page.
- Link to the article
- Summarize the article in 2-3 sentences
- Who are the stakeholders?
- How does it relate the ITGS social/ethical issues? List and describe the issues that relate.
- How does the article relate to YOU? (i.e. How does it impact you?)
- How would you solve the issue(s) at hand?
Agenda:
- Flattener #3
- Introduction to HTML
Friday (9/17/10)
Warmup:
- Find an IT article with a social/ethical issue
- Read the article
- Prepare to identify one of the issues on the board
Agenda:
- Receive wiki accounts
- Discuss wiki privileges, responsibilities, and accountability
- Add to your own wiki student page
- Media:ItgsLaymansTerms.ppt
- IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues
Wednesday (9/15/10)
- Complete the Computer hardware assignment
- School Web Lockers
- Flatteners #1, 2
Monday (9/13/10)
Warmup:
- Go to a computer retailer's website (e.g. Dell, HP, Sony, Apple, etc.)
- Find a DESKTOP computer that you would be interested in purchasing
- Go to Office->Open Office Writer and create a new document
- Put your name at the top of the document
- In your new document, copy and paste the link to the computer that you would like to purchase
- Copy and paste the "technical specifications" of the computer
- Save the file as Lastname_HW.odf
Agenda:
- Introduction to Computer Hardware
- Computer hardware assignment
Tuesday - Thursday (9/7/10 - 9/9/10)
- Introductions
- IB ITGS Syllabus
- Name cards
- Lab setup/config
- Complete the Student Survey
Agenda:
- Share Introductions
- ITGS Student Opinion Survey
- Example On-line Resources
- Digg - Technology
- CNET News
- Slashdot
- Wired News
- MIT Technology Review
- Washington Post - Technology
- Wikipedia
- and MANY MANY MANY more!
- NOTE: DO NOT USE NEWS AGGREGATORS AS SITED SOURCES
- Watch "Shift Happens": here
- What 2 things surprise you?
- What questions should we be asking...
- of our schools?
- of our teachers?
- of yourself?
- What does the title suggest to you?
- IB ITGS Social & Ethical Issues
- Media:ItgsLaymansTerms.ppt
