Friday, January 27, 2017

Week of January 30th - February 3rd, 2017: Welcome!

Monday:
Welcome! Please take this survey to help me know a little about you
Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment

Tuesday:
Homework for the beginning of class today: register for turnitin, bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet
Ones and zeroes: introduce binary/hex numbers

What is Unicode?
Give out binary/hex worksheet - due Wednesday

Wednesday:
Homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due
Complete binary/hex numbers discussion

Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
Audacity - free audio software
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans

Thursday:
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans

Give out internet vocab sheet - due Monday, see below.
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Monday, see below. 

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

Friday:
Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technologyVideos: 

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


For next Monday:
1) Internet vocab due.
2) 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:


For next Tuesday: