CIS2

[|outcomes] CIS2_SLO_1 Analyze the effect of the Internet, computers, and cellular communications on individuals, culture, and society. CIS2_SLO_2 Analyze the effects of the Internet, computers, and cellular communications on institutions, including education, business, economics, and politics. CIS2_SLO_3 Judge the effect of the the Internet and computers on law and ethics.


 * http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Computers_and_Society
 * http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/CIS2_Fall13


 * http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Computers_and_Society/archives
 * http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Computers_and_Society/Community_service_learning_guidelines
 * http://wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learning_projects

[|CIS2 Fall 2013]
 * Welcome to CIS2 - Computers and Society**
 * Read the **Syllabus**. The Syllabus for the course is online. Please keep a copy for future reference.
 * Begin working on the assignments for this week. **1. Introductions**. For each topic there is an Assignments page. Click on the Assignment link in the main CIS 2 course page, and a list of all the assignment activities for the topic are displayed in a separate window.
 * Introduce yourself in the discussion forum. We have a busy schedule for the semester. I hope you enjoy it!

Getting started

 * [| CIS Getting Started] Resource
 * [|Syllabus - CIS 2 Computers and the Internet in Society] Resource
 * [|Introduction to CATALYST] (aka Moodle) - [| Discussion participation]
 * [|DeAnza CIS2: WELCOME to CIS 2 - Computers and the Internet in Society] Resource
 * [|Missing assignments] Resource
 * [| Drop notice] Resource

Community Service Learning
partner projects
 * [|guidelines]
 * [| Project Gutenberg] - proof reading
 * [| Tar Heel Reader] - creating easy reading online picture books for young adult learners
 * [|Scratch] - review sample programs, write an intro
 * [|Engineering 4 Kids] - review, write stories about people, places and things related to engineering for kids in K-8
 * [|CIS2 "Trailers"] - promotion for one of the topics in CIS2
 * Citizen Science - [|Zooniverse]

1. Introductions
What impact have computers and the internet had on society in general? Is this good or bad? Who has been affected? Where are computers now?
 * Resource [|1. Introductions]
 * [| Academic Integrity, Copyright, Fair Use and Plagiarism] Resource

2. Privacy and Freedom of Speech
An important area of society that is being impacted by computers. Your personal information may be at risk.
 * [|Assignments 2] Resource [|2. Privacy] [|2. Privacy and Freedom of Speech]
 * [| Privacy guidelines]: What you can do to protect your privacy and personal information - student contributions

Freedom of Speech - Controlling online publication has an important new meaning in cyberspace. 
 * [|Assignment 3] Resource [|3. Freedom of Speech]

3. Intellectual Property
Because of the ease of access to information and the ability to duplicate and store vast amounts of data, people have concerns about their rights to it. 
 * [|Assignments 4] Resource [|3. Intellectual Property]
 * [| Students' Guide to Group Work]

4. Crime
There are many new ways to commit crimes, and to detect and prevent crime, as well. 
 * [|Assignments 5] Resource [|4. Crime]
 * 3. Intellectual Property & Crime
 * 4. ? Visitors and Residents most people are both in different roles, history, questions that lead to developments - past, present, future overview

5. Employment, Education and Entertainment
Thousands of people are working in jobs that did not exist ten years ago. Other jobs have changed dramatically. 
 * [|Assignments 6] Resource [|6. Work] [|5. Employment, Education and Entertainment]

6. Midterm - Millennium Development Goals

 * [|6. Midterm - Millennium Development Goals]
 * [|Millennium Development Goals (MDG)] - [|MDG Fall 2013]

7. Evaluating and Controlling Technology
What are the broader implications for a global society? information sources, reliability, authentication, community, digital divide, knowledge sharing, machine intelligence, future advances and associated issues 
 * [|Assignments 7] Resource [|7. Evaluating and Controlling Technology]

8. Risks, Failures and Responsibilities
What happens when there are conflicts within the rules or data and something goes wrong? Having professional qualifications and a code of ethics are considered by many to be important to safeguard society in a computing environment. ethics, professionalism, responsibilities, violations, consequences, conflict of interest 
 * [|Assignments 8] Resource [|8. Risks, Failures and Responsibilities]

9. Anytime, Anywhere
Introduced in just the last 20 years, mobile computing and the internet have both made anytime anywhere computing a reality. While there are disadvantages to being available all the time, there are many more benefits to access to information and services 24-by-7 (all the time). Being location-independent has enormous benefits as well for researchers, people with unusual hobbies, and acquiring scare or unique goods and services from anywhere on the planet. anywhere anytime - mobile, presence, publishing, distribution, geo-locating, source forge, open source, paypal, commerce, security, off-shoring, games, entertainment, education, mobile learning, eWallet [|9. Anytime, Anywhere] 
 * [|Assignments 9] Resource [|9. Anytime, anywhere]

10. Technology Advances, Social Trends
The need for Information Systems continues. Advances in technology open up opportunities for new applications, businesses and services. There have been some surprises - personal computers, the internet, multi-purpose mobile devices have replaced telephones, just to name a few. But wait, there's more... technology advances and social trends - art and music, identity, privacy, ethics, professional certification, environment, climate change, digital divide, wearable computing, second life virtual worlds, healthcare 
 * [|Notes and assignments 10] Resource [|10. Technology Advances, Social Trends]

11. Final projects
The Final Project is an opportunity to demonstrate the application of everything that you have learned in this class. replaced - previous version * [|User:Vtaylor/Computers_and_Society/Final Projects] 
 * [|Notes and assignments 11] Resource [|11. Final Projects]
 * [|CIS2 Final Project Guidelines] ..2013.12.1

12. Peer reviews

 * [|12. Peer Reviews]

13. Extra Credit assignments
There are several Extra Credit assignments. These can be submitted throughout the quarter for additional points. Each extra credit can be submitted once for credit. For extra credit points, you are required to do extra work. These submissions are in addition to other assignments, and should expand your knowledge of the course material through research and reporting. Extra credit assignments are optional. Additional Extra Credit points are available for assignments that come up from time to time - course information review, special questionnaires, research project participation.
 * X. News Item Forum
 * X. Catalyst features and guidelines Forum - Suggestions for using Catalyst features, or explanation how Catalyst tools work. If you discover some good way to use a Catalyst feature and think others will benefit, post a note here. How do you access this feature? How do you use it? Why would someone want or need to use it?



14. Resources

 * [| Collaborative Projects - Collaboration and Group Projects] Resource
 * [| Grading Criteria] Resource
 * [| Reporting a Problem] Resource

CIS2 : Computers and the Internet in Society web readings - open educational resource replacing textbook. Textbook used in previous semesters is still available for purchase as the print version (new or used) or pay for 180-day access the online eTextbook version. Optional. NOT REQUIRED Summer 2012 delicious tag - cis2 [] Learn more...
 * [| Students' guide to group work]
 * [|archives]

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A critical examination of the capabilities and uses of modern computers and how they are changing business, law, politics, and society. Course format is question-based student-led discussions and collaborative group projects. CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society is a GE course. This is the online distance learning section. The course includes lots of reading, discussing, critical thinking, and web-based research. CIS2 is concerned primarily with the uses of technology (good and bad) and issues for society. We cover everything from accessibility for people with disabilities to identity theft. We discuss and research the impact of technology on computer crime, copyright, education, medicine, business and ethical issues. [show] || 
 * CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society**
 * ==Contents==

Students' work

 * This semester :
 * [| Summer 2011]
 * [| Summer 2010]
 * [| Winter 2010]
 * [| Fall 2009]
 * [| Summer 2009]
 * [|Spring 2009]
 * [|Winter 2009]
 * [| Fall 2008]
 * [| Summer 2008]

Student presentations 
 * [|Podcasts and video] about computers and the internet in society - discovered and reviewed by students
 * [|Catalyst features and guidelines] - helpful suggestions provided by students
 * [|Simulations] - provide an opportunity to learn interactively through computer based demonstrations
 * [|Great Technologies List]
 * [|Students' guide to group work]
 * Engineering
 * WikiEducator promotions
 * [|California History Center] projects - [|Day of Remembrance], [| Community Gardens], [| Chinese Immigration]

Community service learning
[|Community service learning student guidelines] - community partner organizations, service learning opportunities, project requirements, outlines required submissions - project information, service learning work proposal and reflection prompts 

Final Projects
For project communication, draft document sharing, revision, final submission preparation and publication, we will be using space in the public WikiEducator wiki. For more information about the final project and group work, see ...
 * [| Final Project Guidelines]
 * [|Collaboration and Group Projects]

Previous projects - the project task changes each semester. Some really effective project topics and scenarios are revisited from time to time. Help us by providing //feedback// on the [|Discussion page]. ||
 * Scenario-Based Learning - Public relations presentation for client: WikiEducator.org - Fall 2009, [| Winter 2010]
 * [|U.N. Millennium Development Goals] - Summer 2009, [|Summer 2011]
 * [|Seven Principles for Good Practice] in Undergraduate Education - Spring 2009
 * Virtual volunteering - [| Summer 08]
 * Mobile learning - [| Spring 2008], [| Summer 08], [| Fall 2009]
 * Online communities - [| Summer 08]
 * Project Gutenberg - [| Summer 08], [| Fall 2009]
 * Computers and Crime - [| Summer 08], [| Fall 2009]
 * [[image:http://WikiEducator.org/images/thumb/0/0d/Moodlesmilie.png/40px-Moodlesmilie.png width="40" height="40" link="http://wikieducator.org/File:Moodlesmilie.png"]] ||> **Students @ Work** - a student collaborative writing project.

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 * OER Open Educational Resources
 * Second Life in education
 * Wikiversity learning projects
 * Service learning
 * [|Textbook Collaboration] - student written textbook - work in progress - why use a textbook that is out of date before it hits the bookstore shelves.

= Resources = WIKI IMAGES
 * [|Collaboration and Group Projects]
 * collaborative writing and editing []
 * tutorial []
 * .pdf cheatsheet []
 * [] - brief summary of editing
 * image tutorial []
 * same for WikiEducator as Wikpedia []

= = =CIS2 Fall13= < [|User:Vtaylor] [|User:Vtaylor/Computers_and_Society] - [| CIS2] - Moodle - Dev [|CIS2 course outline] == [[|edit]] ==

2013 Fall
Thanks - appreciate your feedback. What are the problems with the assignment descriptions? What would make these clearer? Does the lack of clarity prevent you from completing the assignments? You have asked some questions. Do the replies provide the clarification you need? ..vt
 * Could Be Better - Assignments are not clear

New for Fall 2013 #cis2f13 - tweet
 * [] - Digital citizenship
 * [] Another look at privacy - Downes comments on [] Another look at privacy - Johnson
 * security / privacy - encrypting, cookies, tracking, alternatives - email, browsers, texting, phone calls, searching - [] SciFri 12jul podcast - With the NSA conducting surveillance on our data and Google scanning our email, how can we protect our personal information? Jon Xavier, digital producer at Silicon Valley Business Journal, discusses the services that you can use to make your information more secure and private.
 * [] - what your account is worth to a thief - site is still there - tools wasn't working 2013.7.27
 * there is a search engine that does NOT save your search history and share it with the government. It's at duckduckgo.com. 2013.7.30
 * []
 * []
 * []
 * []
 * [] 1. What do you see? 2. What do you think about that? 3. What does it make you wonder?
 * inquiry / design - own project
 * podcasts - [|Audacity] - usb microphone / adapter
 * [] Animoto - video from pictures, text, music
 * Gift of Fire 4/e - review copy 7/15/2013 ? optional
 * textbook - poll, discussion - need, want, skip, keep after course, resell, rent disgital
 * Scratch - programming - check out and review 3 or more - checklist, modify 1 or create your own
 * projects - trailer presentations for each topic - [|Powtoon] - animation, Tarheel - picture book, slideshow with pictures, text, music
 * [|Rule of Three] -- a three-member team means each team has three relationships being negotiated. I made that change in my classroom and found that teams of three became units able to function at a higher level more quickly, and they really needed each member present to make it work. Three students gave them enough variety of experience and ideas to sharpen their creativity and enable outside-the-box thinking. Also, it was easier for me to devise tasks and deliverables that gave each member something meaningful to contribute. ** rubric - assessment > guide work, expectations, outcomes

A list of study skills required by tertiary students have been prepared by members of the Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ATLAANZ). The full list is available on their [|Resource site]. For example:
 * from Flexible learning
 * [|Study Skills].
 * [|Academic Writing Skills], and [|Essay Writing].

Referencing in APA format is required when you are referring to material that you have been reading. This is called citing. The following links take you to some useful resources to help with referencing.
 * The Purdue Owl [|APA Referencing Guide] has all the information you need to produce APA references and is clearly explained.
 * [|Citation Machine] is a great website that takes you through all the steps of adding the information required for a reference before producing the formatted reference for you. You can then cut and paste it into your document. Very handy.
 * [|Guide to APA referencing] - University of Waikato.

[|Cal Poly faculty notes]
 * What do you mean by _?
 * How is this related to __?__
 * __Could you give an example of__ _?
 * What is the evidence of _?
 * Could you explain your reason for ?