Monday, September 21, 2009

Addendum: Homework assignments and the DropBox

Forgot to mention this one other article to read by Thursday. Besides
just reading about TED, I want you to watch at least one TED Podcast
and be ready to talk about it thursday night.

http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/making_the_world_safe_for_smart_why_ted_matters

Sam

PS TED might have some great ideas for your semester long project!


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Good evening.  Many of you have been inquiring about week 2 and Week 3
drop box submissions.  Some of you mentioned being prompted that a
deadline was approaching, as far as I know nothing should have
automated deadlines set up, if you could forward me a screenshot of
that it would be much appreciated.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we will meet in class to go over a first in-depth
look at Microsoft PowerPoint.  PP is actually a great place for us to
start, there is no test on this app but it is one that all of us will
have some need for in our business lives, whatever business we
eventually pursue.

This semester we will have a semester long set of assignments that
work together to help us all explore areas of great change in
information technology.  You will select a topic that you find
particularly interesting, you can find some suggestions below but if
you have better ideas we can vet those as well.  For the Week 2
dropbox assignment you will find 2-3 other students and form a group
to create a series of artifacts together that explore your given
topics.  To be clear groups must be at least 3 students but no more
than 4.  In Dropbx 2 you will, after tuesdays class, present me with a
three slide powerpoint presentation.

- Slide 1, title and topic
- Slide 2, pictures from a digital camera of all team members
- Slide 3 a brief set of bullet points on what you want to cover in
exploring this topic

We will meet in class Thursday night to approve or improve your list of points

Topics for consideration:
- Virtual Worlds
- Computer based training
- Digital Media, Voice and Video in the near future
- 'Hackers' and Malware
- Tricky ethical issues which are still being played out (think
gambling and other similar issues on the net)
- What comes after the internet?  Are we progressing towards Minority
Report, The Terminator or something totally different?
- Computers and parenting / Kids
- The ethics of piracy and the trouble with Copyright, and copyright
alternatives
- Alternatives to Microsoft Dominance in computing

Again, or something tat strikes your fancy and meets the criteria.
That's the easy part, the hard part will be for your teams agreeing on
how to flesh this all out and what angles you are most interested in.

NEXT Thursday you'll need to show me some progress on exploring the
issue via updates to your powerpoint presentation, dropped into Week 3
Dropbox.

Questions?  Let me know!  START building your teams before class
Tomorrow but please do not work on this assignment DURING our class!
If you don't have your team formed at the beginning of class we will
set a few minutes at the end for people to network and find others to
work with.

Professor Reynolds may have some other Dropbox assignments as well,
we'll explain that in class, make sure you are ready to follow through
on those too!

Sam and Professor Reynolds.

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