what is this class about? who are you? who am i? how does the class work?
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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 our class blog)
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
• A general function people use computers for• A specific activity• To name a specific application program or “app”
What is the application program? The specific application? The function?
“Microsoft Word is a word processing program” – the application is word processing.
“Microsoft Word is used for screen writing” – the application is screen writing.
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? Of an organization you can think of? Of society?
• Application development• Content creation• User skills
Which skills?
Skill -- application development
Batch processing and time sharing
Personalcomputer
Internet
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?
Freshmen 13Junior 13Senior 14Sophomore 2
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Who are you?
How will this variety affect our class?
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 University
Who am I?
Who am I?
Then Now
Who am I?
Do you remember the next question we are asking today?
How does the class work?
Assignments 40% Midterm & final 50% Quizzes 10%
How does the class work?
• Full credit• half credit• no credit
Assignment format and ground rules
How does the class work?
Midterm 15%final (cumulative) 35%
How does the class work?
Quiz questions onlineHelp to focus studiesCollectively, you know all the answers
The grade curve
Blog post: curve relative to the highest score
Anonymous study habit survey
What grade do you expect to get in this class? (A-F)
How does the class work?
2013 Sloan-Merlot award for information technology teaching material
Our electronic text
A topic module The corresponding assignment
