Week of December 2nd - 6th

Monday:

• Robotics/AI topic signup opens at 7:30AM
• 10-15 minutes to get group organized before presentations
• Begin Medical Informatics presentations

Tuesday:

• Complete Medical Informatics presentations
• Give out Cartoon History of Computers packet - read through page 65 for Friday

Wednesday:

• First current event due
• Part II of Medical Informatics project due (summary of all the topics in your group)
• Introduce Soldering: How To Solder video
• Hardware basics - input, output, storage, processing worksheet
• Begin discussing history of computers - Jacquard, Babbage
• Video: Babbage's Difference Engine

Thursday:

• Soldering lab

Friday:

• Last day for Robotics/AI topic signup
• Be sure you've read Cartoon History packet through page 65 for today
• Discuss basic electronics - circuits, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors
• Continue with computer history through Hollerith
• Start "Busses and Chips" if time allows
• Give out computer hardware vocab worksheet

Week of November 25th-29th

Monday:

• Continue to work on Medical Informatics presentations. I will look over what you have at the end of the day and get comments back to your group via school email by Tuesday morning

Tuesday:

• Work on presentations, incorporate feedback. 

Wednesday:

• Last in-class time to work on presentations.  You can start on part II of the assignment if your presentation is done

Thursday, Friday:

• Thanksgiving holiday.  Take a little time to be thankful.

Week of November 18th-22nd

Monday:

• Return and review midterm exams
• Video (in class): Business Casual G-Men
• Readings for Monday:
• Email Phishing and Scams (2011) -or- How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks) or both if you're so inclined. . . 
• Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
• Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords As You Type (2006)
• Growing Target for Identity Thieves: Kids (2006)
• Security Firm Discovers Global Spy Campaign (2013)

Tuesday:

• Stronge student survey
• Video (in class): Sabotaging the System  (2009)  (backup links: part1 part2) (use Firefox)
• Optional video: Stuxnet (2012)
• Readings for Tuesday:
• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia (2007)
• The Enemy Within (2010) - a long but worthwhile article with one really bad word, please ignore it.  There's also a worksheet that goes along with it.
• (In case you're wondering:  yes, Conficker is still out there. . . )

Wednesday:

• Review for security quiz, tie up any loose ends
• Query class on informatics preferences
• Introduce Robotics/AI topic with videos:
• Dancing Sony Robots (3:26)
• High Speed Robotic Hand (3:00)
• The Latest Version of the LittleDog Robot (2:17)
• Sebastian Thrun - Google's Driverless Car (4:14)
• Robots that Learn from People (3:43)
• A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (1:43)
• RoboBees - Design Poses Intriguing Engineering Challenge (2:20)
• MIT's Nexi MDS Robot - First Test of Expression (1:12)
• Robot Baby Learns How to Express Human Emotion (2:01)
• How to Survive A Robot Uprising (4:02)
• AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)
• Introduce AI paper/presentation
• Optional: distance learning on Cyber Security, room 111, 10:30 to 11:30 -- bring your lunch.

Thursday:

• Computer security quiz
• Watch "Smartest Machine on Earth" episode of NOVA
• Recommended video: "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" with Andrew Ng, machine learning expert from Stanford

Friday:

• Start Medical Informatics unit:
• In class, watch CBS News video: Charting A New Course
• All groups working on informatics project.

Week of November 11th-15th

Monday:

• TCP/IP try-at-home due.  Here are the worksheets:
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Mac OS X
• if you run into problems with any of the commands, take your answer from these screen shots -- what you would have seen if it had worked.
• Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.
• Continue with discussion of TCP/IP
• Give out "official" internet vocabulary definitions.

Tuesday:

• Give out review sheet for midterm
• Wrap up internet technology, begin unit on computer security
• Ransomware video: FBI Ransom Computer Virus
• Readings for today:
• New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm (1999)
• Slammed!  An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)
• The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
• What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
• Think You're Safe at Starbucks? Think Again. (2013)

Wednesday:

• Complete reading and discussion from Tuesday
• Shortened period, knee replacement distance learning

Thursday:

• opportunity to review and ask questions before midterm
• if time remains, students can study for midterms or start readings for next week

Friday:

• Principles of Computer Technology - Midterm

Week of November 4th-8th

Monday:

• Continue with discussion of digitizing sound, images
• Video: Autotune on Nova
• Video: using Audacity
• Algorithms: difference between selection sort and merge sort
• Here are links to TCP/IP try-at-home worksheets, due next Monday, Nov 11th
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Mac OS X
• if you run into problems with any of the commands, take your answer from these screen shots -- what you would have seen if it had worked.
• Also for next Monday: read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.

Tuesday:

• Grand Rounds, JSUMC

Wednesday:

• Internet vocabulary worksheet due at beginning of class
• Begin discussion of internet history and technology
• Video: The Lighting of the Beacons
• Video: Warriors of the Net

Thursday, Friday:

• No school, teacher's convention.