What is this class about? Who are you? Who am I? How does the class work?
What is this class about? Who are you? Who am I? How does the class work?
Feb 25, 2016
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What is this class about?
Who are you?
Who am I?
How does the class work?
Thomas KurtzJohn Kemeny
We will cover skills and concepts needed for success as a student and after graduation as a citizen and a professional.
What is this class about?
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
Let’s look at each of these terms, starting with applications.
First the concepts
(The tagline from our class blog)
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
Add some of each type of application. Which do you do with a mobile, tablet, laptop or desktop computer?
The word “application” is used in two ways:
Things you do like:
• Word processing• Playing games• Listening to music
Programs you use like:
• Microsoft Word• Pokeman Go• Pandora
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
• Communication• Storage• Memory• Processing
The computer I used for my dissertation research
Is the improvement slowing down?
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
• What has changed because of the Internet?• What will change because of the Internet?
How had the Internet changed your life? Changed an organization you know of? Changed society?
• Application development• Content creation• User skills
Which skills?
Have you created any Internet content? Developed any applications? Do you have any Internet skills?
Skill -- application development
Batch processing and time sharing
Personalcomputer
Internet
Four computing eras -- application development keeps getting easier.
Skill – content creation
What are the four data types we will work with?
Video ImageText Audio
Skill – content creation
Skill – user skills
Students teaching students new skills
Do you remember the next question we are asking today?
Who are you?
How will this variety affect our class?
Bus Ad:Information SystemsBus Ad:Pre-Maj:AccountingBus Ad:Pre-Maj:FinanceBus Ad:Pre-Maj:Gen BusinessBus Admin: EntrepreneurshipBus Admin: Info Sys Sec PremajBus Admin:Gen BusinessBus Admin:Global Log&SupplyBusAd:Mgt.&Human ResourcesComputer Tech: Homeland SecPre Major: Global Log & SupplyPsychologyUndeclared
How will this variety affect our class?
Freshman 3Sophomore 1Junior 5Senior 12
Who are you?
Do you remember the next question we are asking today?
Computer Usage Corporation IBM Corporation Beatrice Foods CorporationNASA Goddard Los Angeles City Schools Los Angeles LibraryMount St. Mary's College Rexon Business Machines Perfect Data CorporationIMS International Texas Instruments Santa Monica CollegePhilips, Austria Sony Corporation National Bureau of StandardsJohn Wiley and Sons Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb MicroPro InternationalApple Computer SoHaR, Inc. Rome Air Development CenterSurpass Software Systems SCOPUS Tecnologia Van Nostrand ReinholdSoftware Technology Clancy Associates EIESSoftel California State University RANDUN Development Programme Department of Defense Toyota of AmericaGiga Information Services Colson, Hicks, Edison, et al Matrix.Net (was MIDS)Int’l Telecommunication Union Hyundai Motors of America LantronixUNCTAD Democracy Council California State UniversityUSAID Internews US Trade Commission
Who am I?
Who am I?
Then Now
60,240 page views this month
Who am I?
Blog on the Internet in Cuba
Do you remember the next question we are asking today?
How does the class work? Grading
Assignments 40% Midterm & final 50% Quizzes 10%
How does the class work?Assignments
• Full credit• half credit• no credit
Assignment format and ground rules
• Assignments must be typed or printed -- no hand writing.• Type your name (s) on the front page.• Type the assignment number and title on the front page.• Staple each assignment separately.• Don’t bother making a separate cover page unless you want to.
Assignment ground rules
How does the class work?Exams
Midterm 15%final (cumulative) 35%
How does the class work?Quizzes
Quiz questions onlineHelp to focus studiesCollectively, you know all the answers
Why do you think I give quizzes each week?
The grade curve
Blog post: curve relative to the highest score
• Discussion presentation• Topic modules -- our “textbook”• Assignments – due the following week
Each week
• Last week’s class• Anonymous study-habit surveys• Assignment feedback• Current events
Discussion presentation
Anonymous study habit survey
What grade do you expect to get in this class? (A-F)
Electronic text
2013 Sloan-Merlot award for information technology teaching material
A topic module The corresponding assignment
Presentation format
The presentation slides …
Slide format
Summary
We’ve seen that the class covers Internet applications, implications and technology, gotten to know a little about each other and learned how the class is structured and graded.
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