Week of October 2nd - 6th, 2017

Monday:
all students working on medical informatics presentations

Tuesday:
Please complete this pre-assessment before your presentation
Computer pioneer oral presentations
Please complete this post-assessment after your presentation

Wednesday:
Group 4 current events
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. Also remember to submit your writeup to turnitin.
P1: Iqra, Michael, Amol, Benedikt
P2: Christine, Bryan, Rylie, Abby
Mr. Judkis will review presentation with each group during class


Thursday:
Sophomores report directly to media center for "Minding your mind" presentation
First period 9:00 - 10:13
Second period 11:17 - 12:18
Third period 12:20 - 1:21
Fourth period 1:23 = 2: 25

Wrap up preparation for presentations - begin Monday

Friday:
JSUMC rotation

Week of September 25th - 29th, 2017

Monday:

Go over any questions from test review sheet

Introduce Medical Informatics unit and projects

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
Each group must create a google slides document and share it with Mr. J. by the end of the period.

Tuesday:
Test on material since beginning of semester
Work on medical informatics projects when done

Wednesday:

JSUMC orientation

Thursday:

Group 3 current events

Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. Also remember to submit your writeup to turnitin.

P1: Jake, Antonio, Dayna, Alexandra

P2: Matthew, Ramya, Noah, Shipra, Ria

Please complete this post assessment on your knowledge of computer security terminology.

Everyone working on medical informatics projects.

Friday:
JSUMC rotation
Computer pioneers project due, on paper and via turnitin - before we go to the hospital. 

Week of September 18th - 22nd, 2017

Monday:
Homework for today:
Read Cookie Monsters.
Please complete this survey so I can assess your knowledge of computer security
Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
Video:
What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)

Tuesday:
Homework for today:  
Read the following:

• 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.

Wednesday:

Group 2 current events:
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. Also remember to submit your writeup to turnitin.
P1: Aaron, Eliana, Kaitlyn, Stephanie, Andrea
P2: Brian, Jess, Ayla, Alex, Lenny

Homework for today:  
Query class on Medical Informatics topic preferences
Read the following:

• 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 and this followup

Video (in class): Business Casual G-Men

Pass out review sheet for test next week.

Thursday:

School closed

Friday:

Homework for today:  

Read the following:

• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia (2007)
• If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It's a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism (2014)
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016)
• DDOS attack that disrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say(2016)

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

Give out review sheet for test next week.

Week of September 11th - 15th, 2017

Monday:
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Wednesday, see below.
A little bit about pixels from code.org
Pixel widgets from code.org
Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org
Text compression widget from code.org
Let's enhance. . . Gigapixel images

Tuesday:
Homework due today: Internet vocabulary

Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Videos:
The Lighting of the Beacons
What is the Internet?
Wires, Cables, and Wifi
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Wednesday:
Homework due today: 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.
Group 1 current events due today:
P1: Riley, Safwan, Carolyn, Jenna, Logan
P2: Leyla, Rudra, Matan, Vincenzo, Tara
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Continue with discussion of Internet technology.
Videos:

IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability

Thursday:
Homework due today:  Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.  
Recommended but not required:  Here's an example of how big a deal a compromised DNS can be: Hackers Hijacked Bank's Entire Online Operation

Introduce Computer Pioneer project

Wrap up discussion of Internet technology
Demo Visual traceroute
News report from 1981
DNS Explained video

Review: HTTP and HTML
Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools


Friday:
Homework due today: Read  How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did and How to see everything Google knows about you

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) 

Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Fall 2017!

Wednesday:

Welcome! 

Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment, "Good Questions".

Thursday:

homework for the beginning of class today: register for turnitin, bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet, take this survey to help me know a little about you.
Mr J's homeroom, also please bring back the yellow 'Student Handbook Acknowledgement Form", and any other beginning-of-year forms that you need - emergency information, transportation, and military recruiting info.

Ones and zeroes: introduce binary/hex numbers, give out worksheet.


Friday:
homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due

Complete binary/hex numbers discussion.
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
What is Unicode?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
Audacity - free audio software
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Tuesday