IBITGS - 1112 - September
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Contents
Thursday (9/29/11)
Warmup:
- 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!
Agenda:
- Open Source Software
- Open Source Alternatives Assignment
- 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
- Find 2-3 open source alternatives of that software
- In you blog, post the following
- Name of the open source software
- What the software does
- Who maintains the open source software (e.g. name of company)
- Estimated number of users or downloads
- Receive a closed-source software example
Tuesday (9/27/11)
Agenda:
- Wrap up My first website assignment
- Flattener #4 - Uploading
- Wikis
- Blogs
- Social Bookmarking
- Open source software
- Other examples?
Homework:
- Find a website that is considered a Web 2.0 website
- 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:
- Finish Download: The True Story of the Internet - Part 1
- Flattener #3 - Workflow Software
- Introduction to HTML
- Download: The True Story of the Internet - Part 2
Homework:
- Complete My first website assignment over the weekend
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:
- Flatteners #1, 2 - Fall of Berlin Wall & Netscape
- Media:Flatteners_1_&_2.pdf
- Download: The True Story of the Internet - Part 1
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:
- ITGS S&E Class Presentation
- ITGS Social & Ethical Issue Quiz
- Introduction to Computer Hardware
- Computer hardware assignment
Friday (9/9/11)
- Watch "Did you know? 4.0"
- Respond to the following questions in your website (if we can get it working...)
- What 3 things surprise you?
- What questions come to your mind?
- What do you think the world will be like 5 years from now? 10? 20?
- 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
- Receive an assigned social/ethical key term
- Google Image Search for 3 different images that you feel best represent/explain that key term
- Write a brief caption/description of your images and how they represent the key term
- Add the images and caption to the appropriate slide in our class presentation
- 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:
- Visit each of the following websites and read the headlines. After going through all the headlines, find the article that most interests you and read it. Be able to give a brief synopsis to the class.
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
