Week of April 28th - May May 2nd, 2014

Monday:
All students working in groups on medical informatics presentations
I will review what your group has completed at the end of class today and get comments back to you via email by Tuesday morning.

Tuesday:
Last class time to work on presentations and incorporate my feedback

Wednesday:
(Why not do a current event?)
Presentations begin.  I will give you 15 minutes to get organized at the beginning of class.

Thursday:
Complete presentations.
Part II of medical informatics project due - written summary of your group's topics.  You can turn this in today, or on Friday BEFORE the field trip.
Give out "Cartoon Guide to the Computer" handout - read up to page 65 for Monday

Friday:
Field trip to Camden aquarium
You can also turn in part II of the medical informatics project today, before we leave.

April 14th - 25th, 2014

Monday, April 14th:

• Watch AI videos: "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode), "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert from Stanford)

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Have a great spring break!

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Monday, April 21st:

• 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, April 22nd::

• Query class on medical informatics preferences
• Video (in class): Sabotaging the System (2009) (backup links: part1 part2) (use Firefox)
• Optional video: Stuxnet (2012)
• Readings for Tuesday:
• Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines (2014)
• 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, April 23rd:

• Why not do a current event?
• Review for security quiz, tie up any loose ends
• Continue with Robotics/AI topic 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)
• A very human-like robot invented by Japanese engineers (3:24)
• How to Survive A Robot Uprising (4:02)
• AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)

Thursday, April 24th:

• Computer security quiz
• Start Medical Informatics unit:
• In class, watch CBS News video: Charting A New Course
• All groups working on informatics project.  Each group must create a google docs presentation and share it with Mr. J. by the end of the period

Friday, April 25th:

• Mr. J. out, personal day
• one-hour periods - International Fair and Art Show in afternoon
• All groups working on informatics project
• I will look over what you have accomplished and get comments back to your group via school email before Monday morning

Week of April 7th-11th, 2014

UPDATE: on Friday, April 11th, Mr. J's homeroom will take the midterm first, at 7:35, and Mr. J's regular 2nd period class will take midterm second, at 9:00

Monday:

• Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.
• TCP/IP try-at-home due. Here are the worksheets:
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Mac OS X
• Note: 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.
• Continue with discussion of internet technology, TCP/IP try-at-home, DNS reading

Tuesday:

• Complete discussion of internet technology
• Give out "official" internet vocabulary definitions
• 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:

• Why not do a current event?
• Video (in class): Business Casual G-Men
• Readings:
• 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)

Thursday:

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

Friday:

• Midterm - homeroom takes it at 7:35, 2nd period takes it at 9:00