Week of October 3rd - 7th, 2016

Monday:
no school

Tuesday:
"Computer Pioneers" papers due, on paper and via turnitin
Continue to work in groups on Medical Informatics project

Wednesday:
Group 4 current events:
P1: Brianna, Ben, Molly, Kerry
P2: Sam, Emily, Anna, Ashlesha, Sophia
Continue to work in groups on Medical Informatics project

Thursday: 
Continue to work in groups on Medical Informatics project

Mr. J. will review all presentations and get feedback to groups by Friday morning

Friday:

(shortened periods due to week of respect activity)
Return and discuss tests
Continue to work on Medical Informatics, incorporate comments.  Be prepared to present beginning on Tuesday.

Week of September 26th - 30th, 2016

Note: I have decided to move the "computer pioneers" project due date to Tuesday, October 4th, at the beginning of class, on paper and via turnitin. 

Monday:
Wrap up computer security unit,  discuss:

• 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.
• If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It's a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism (2014)
• Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia’s Clash With NATO (2015)
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)

Video (in class):

• finish Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (2015) (53:10)
• Ukraine blames cyberattack for Christmas power outage (2016) (5:48)

Pass out review sheet for Friday's test

Tuesday:
Introduce Medical Informatics unit and projects

• CBS News video (in class): Charting a New Course (Sept 2009)

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
Some sources to start with are at:
https://sites.google.com/a/ctemc.org/judkis/medical-informatics

Wednesday:
JSUMC orientation

Thursday:
Group 3 current events:
per 1: Grace, Ayaan, Hania, Nick, Matt
per 2: Katya, Anusha, Hannah, Erin, Candace

Go over review sheet, answer questions in preparation for test
In time remaining, continue to work on Medical Informatics project.

Friday:
Test on binary/hex numbers, analog/digital information, internet technology, and computer security.

Week of September 19th - 23rd, 2016

Monday:

Homework - readings for today:

• How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant  Before Her Father Did
• How to see everything Google knows about you

Review: HTTP and HTML

Begin discussion of Google, cloud computing, dynamic web pages

Videos: 

• Being a Google Autocompleter (2:37) 
• How Google Search works (3:15) 
• How Search Ads Work (2:38) 
• How Google Apps Work (1:51) 
• Google Data Center (4:52) 

Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools

Tuesday:
Homework - reading for today:

• Cookie Monsters.

Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.

Video:

•  What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)

Wednesday:

Homework:

group 2 current events:

p1:  Christina, Shai, Arsala, Kurt

p2: Willow, Jessica, Curran, Eshaan, Danish

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) 
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2015)

Video: 5 of the Worst Computer Viruses Ever
Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Thursday:

Homework - reading for today:

• 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)
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Another Lawsuit Filed Over School Webcam Spying (2010)
• Privacy advocates try to keep 'creepy' 'evesdropping" Hello Barbie from hitting shelves
• I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too

Video (in class): 

• Business Casual G-Men

Friday:
Note: I have decided to move the "computer pioneers" project due date to Tuesday, October 4th, at the beginning of class, on paper and via turnitin. 

Homework - reading for today:

Security readings for today:

• 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.
• If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It's a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism (2014)
• Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia’s Clash With NATO (2015)
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)

Please complete the Stronge Student Survey

Video (in class): 

• Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (2015)  (53:10)
• Ukraine blames cyberattack for Christmas power outage (2016) (5:48)

Week of September 19th - 23rd, 2016

Monday:

Homework - readings for today:

• How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant  Before Her Father Did
• How to see everything Google knows about you

Review: HTTP and HTML

Begin discussion of Google, cloud computing, dynamic web pages

Videos: 

• Being a Google Autocompleter (2:37) 
• How Google Search works (3:15) 
• How Search Ads Work (2:38) 
• How Google Apps Work (1:51) 
• Google Data Center (4:52) 

Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools, Wireshark

Tuesday:
Homework - reading for today:

• Cookie Monsters.

Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.

Video (in class):

•  What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)

Wednesday:

Homework:

group 2 current events:

p1:  Christina, Shai, Arsala, Kurt

p2: Willow, Jessica, Curran, Eshaan, Danish

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) 
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2015)

Video (in class):

• 5 of the Worst Computer Viruses Ever

Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Thursday:

Homework - reading for today:

• 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)
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Another Lawsuit Filed Over School Webcam Spying (2010)
• Privacy advocates try to keep 'creepy' 'evesdropping" Hello Barbie from hitting shelves
• I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too

Video (in class): 

• Business Casual G-Men

Friday:

Homework - reading for today:

• 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.
• If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It's a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism (2014)
• Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia’s Clash With NATO (2015)
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)
• How Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million a Day from U.S. Advertisers (2016)
• What We Know About Friday's Massive East Coast Internet Outage (2016)

Video (in class): 

• Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (2015)
• Ukraine blames cyberattack for Christmas power outage (2016)

Week of September 12th - 16th, 2016

Monday:
homework due at the beginning of class: binary/hex worksheet
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Links:

• What is Unicode?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
• Audacity - free audio software 

Tuesday:
Continue with digital representation of sounds and images

Give out internet vocab sheet - due Thursday

• Pixel widgets from code.org 
• Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org 
• Text compression widget from code.org 
• Let's enhance. . . 
• Gigapixel images

Wednesday:
homework due at the beginning of class: Group 1 current events
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
P1: Ridhima, Dienye, Abigail, Sarah, Daniela
P2: Liza, Sydney, Adriana, Subhan, Dante

Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan

Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Friday.  Links to instructions are below under Friday's entry.

Videos: 

• The Lighting of the Beacons
• What is the Internet?
• Wires, Cables, and Wifi
• IP addresses and DNS
• Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Thursday:

homework due at the beginning of class: Internet vocabulary.  

Introduce Computer Pioneer project
Continue discussion of internet history and technology

Friday:

homework due at the beginning of class: 
Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet. 
Also do TCP/IP try-at-home for Windows 7, and Mac OS/X.  Windows 10 users, this page may be helpful if you can't figure out how to get telnet to work.  Also:

1. whatismyipaddress.com shows a less detailed map than it used to.  Also try http://www.ipfingerprints.com/ and http://addgadgets.com/ipaddress/ and see if your results are different.
2. if you were interested in tracert (called traceroute on Mac), you might want to play around with servers around the world like w2.vatican.va (the Vatican) and sina.cn (China).  You might also want to try the visual traceroute tool at http://www.monitis.com/traceroute/ . 

Wrap up discussion of internet history and technology.
DNS Explained video

Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2016!

Wednesday:
Welcome! Please take this survey to help me know a little about you

Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment

Thursday:

homework for the beginning of class today: register for turnitin, bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet

Ones and zeroes: introduce binary/hex numbers

Friday:
homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions" due

Complete binary/hex numbers discussion, give out binary/hex worksheet - due Monday
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans

from http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/12/18/google-classic/