Web presentation
Skills: none
Concepts: evolution of application development and deployment, levels of abstraction
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Development and deployment trends
Web presentation
Skills: none
Concepts: evolution of application development and deployment, levels of abstraction
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Deploying cloud applications
Skills: deploy a server with applications
Concepts: evolution of application development and deployment, virtual server
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Requiem for the textbook
Presentation summary
Skills: none
Concepts: evolution of media, experiments with modular teaching material, student-developed teaching material, peer tutoring and very large classes, textbook business opportunity
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Moving packets across the Internet
Skills: none
Concepts: local area network (LAN), router, Internet Protocol, WiFi, Ethernet, dumb (“end-to-end” or “neutral”) networks
Monday, March 19, 2012
Internet era teaching material
Presentation transcript (Word)
Presentation transcript (HTML)
Skills: none
Concepts: evolution of media using books, movies and television as examples, Internet-based experiments with modular teaching material, student-developed teaching material, peer tutoring and very large classes.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
A short history of tools for communication and collaboration
Skills: none
Concepts: pre Internet tools, key contributions to the development of the Internet
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Finding IP addresses, domain names and their owners
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: finding IP addresses, domain names and organization (whois) information
Concepts: host, IP address, domain name, command line interface, graphical user interface
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Profiles
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: Internet profile, canonical or authoritative profile
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Using a wiki
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: using a wiki
Concepts: operations common to all wikis, wiki administration, “freemium” business model
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Citizen journalism
Skills: none
Concepts: citizen journalist, use of Usenet, blogs and social media by citizen journalist, news archives, the interaction between citizen and mainstream journalists
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
What “they” know about you and how they use it
Related topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: information we give up voluntarily, information we reveal while using the Internet, use of information “signals” in search, advertising and suggesting “friends,” data mining, filter bubble, funding of the Internet
Monday, February 13, 2012
Internet surveillance
Related topic module
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: log, IP address, URL, packet header and body, geo-location, proxy server, the “dictator’s dilemma”
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Writing tweets
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Assignment
Skills: writing tweets
Concepts: application program interface (API), ecosystem, Twitter as a platform for developing applications
Monday, January 30, 2012
Program execution
Presentation transcript
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: computer components, stored program computer, machine language, register, fetch-execute cycle, von Neumann architecture
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Network application definition
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: application, network versus stand-alone application, client, server, application versus system program
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Embedded computers
Presentation transcript
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: embedded computer, RAM, ROM, sensor, effector, the “Internet of things”
Monday, December 5, 2011
TCP/IP from 10,000 feet
Skills: none
Concepts: local area network, router, inter network, the TCP/IP layered software “stack”, layer functions, layer protocols, dumb versus smart networks
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Beyond the textbook
Assignment
Related topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: evolution of media, modular teaching material
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Google Plus
Skills: Google Plus navigation
Concepts: rapid evolution of a network-based application,
Assignment
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Representing numeric data with bits
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: counting with decimal and binary numbers
Concepts: using a binary code for representing numbers, positional number systems, number system base, number of symbols in a number system
Friday, October 7, 2011
The democratization of application development
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: application development in the batch processing, timesharing, personal computer and Internet eras
Monday, October 3, 2011
Application characteristics
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: two uses of the word “application,” networked vs. stand-alone, collaborative vs. personal productivity, synchronous vs. asynchronous, same vs. different place, fixed and portable vs. mobile
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Popular Web client and server programs
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: open source, Web client (browser), Web server, standard protocol
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Reading and writing on the Internet
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: text as a data type, writing is important, common types of writing, good writing requires mindful reading, using the Internet may be changing our brains
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Rating and reputation on the Internet
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: user contributed content, user ratings and reviews, user reputation
Friday, September 9, 2011
History of IT platforms and IT literacy
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: evolution of platforms for developing and delivering IT applications, changes in the IT literacy course as platforms changed, our current Internet-era IT literacy curriculum
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Yahoo Groups
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment (deprecated)
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: Using Yahoo Groups
Concepts: Internet service, threaded discussion, message archives
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Innovation timing
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: innovation timing, research prototype, commodity versus custom hardware, graphical user interface, contributions of Doug Engelbart, Ivan Sutherland, and Xerox PARC
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Traceroute
Lecture notes
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: use traceroute and query the whois database
Concepts: router hops, whois database
Ping
Lecture notes
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: use ping
Concepts: network transit time, command-line user interface, prefixes for small quantities
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Ping and traceroute
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: use ping and traceroute and query the whois database
Concepts: network transit time, router hops, command-line user interface, whois database, prefixes for small quantities
This module has been replaced by ping and traceroute.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Bit Torrent, a peer-to-peer application
Skills: finding and downloading files with Bit Torrent
Concepts: client-server, peer-to-peer, copyright, Creative Commons
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Including images in Web pages
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: include images in Web pages
Concepts: tag, attribute, value, path (to a stored file)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Connectivity overview
Skills: none
Concepts: home, organization, backbone, and mobile connectivity options, local versus wide area network, network topologies
Thursday, April 21, 2011
HTML links
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Assignment
Skills: using the <a> tag
IT concepts: tag, attribute
Sunday, April 10, 2011
A modular IT literacy course for the Internet era
Presentation transcript
Assignment
Related topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: definition of IT literacy, evolution of IT literacy, variation in IT literacy courses, advantages of modularity, teaching module format
Monday, March 28, 2011
Two presentation research ideas
Presentation transcript
Presentation video
Presentation video, 15% faster
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: presentation experiments, audio tempo, audio speed, independent variable, dependent variable
Thursday, March 24, 2011
How much information in an image?
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: information, information in an image
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
PowerPoint is OK
Assignment
Skills: Making uniformly formatted presentations with simple, graphical slides, and writing scripts for narrated videos and for transcripts
Concepts: Bad PowerPoint presentations are boring, but good ones are effective
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Making narrated PowerPoint videos
Presentation transcript
Presentation video
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: create a narrated video of a PowerPoint presentation
Concepts: none
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Configure Audacity to export .mp3 files
Assignment
Assignment
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: export .mp3 files, configure Audacity
Concepts: metadata
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Text editor versus word processor
Assignment
Skills: None
Concepts: Text editor versus word processor, (ASCII) text file
Monday, February 28, 2011
Network services -- pros and cons
Skills: none
Concepts: network services pros and cons, service level agreement, application hosting alternatives
Friday, February 25, 2011
Application program interface (API)
Prerequisite topic module
Skills: none
Concepts: Application program interface (API)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Create a blog
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Assignment
Skills: create, modify and post to a blog
Concepts: wire-frame diagram, independence of content and appearance, gadget or widget
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Internet application development -- cheap and easy
Prerequisite topic module
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: none
Concepts: Application program interface, platform ecosystem, Internet infrastructure services, application development cost trend, end user application development trend
Tweeting an image
Prerequisite topic module
Assignment
Skills: posting images on Twitter using Twitpix.com
Concepts: application ecosystem, application program interface (API)
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Internet privacy
PowerPoint presentationSkills: none
Concepts: log, IP address, URL, packet header and body, geo-location, anonymity, proxy server, advertising signals, hacking, social graph
Monday, February 7, 2011
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