Final Blog Post Due April 29, 2015

Information and Privacy are big topics in technology today. I have found three articles talking about privacy and the internet. Please read one of the articles and share your opinion on the article as well as your thoughts on Internet Privacy. Tell me what you think about the article and if you think there may be other ways to protect ones privacy on the internet.

The posts are worth 75 points of your grade that being said if you have not posted faithfully do not be shocked that your grade we will be lowered.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/privacy-erosion-in-internet-era 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/improve-internet-privacy_n_6902622.html

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/08/ftc-iot-privacy-warning/

Blog Post Weeek of April 22


Think about the different technologies we've used in this class (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Google Drive - Forms, Spreadsheets, RSS Readers, Blog platforms, etc). Which do you think will be most useful for you in the future? How will it help you? Feel free to mention more than one.

BLOG POST FOR APRIL 15

FOR THIS WEEK I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LOOK AT WEBSITES. IN PREPARATION FOR OUR NEXT TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE OF CREATING A WEBSITE.

 I  WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO REVIEW MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF WEBSITES SUCH AS .COM-.ORG.GOV. AND FIND ONE THAT YOU THINK IS GOOD AND ONE NOT SO GOOD.

I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO INCLUDE THE LINK ON YOUR BLOG POST AS WELL AS WHY OR WHY NOT YOU MAY THINK THIS IS A GOOD WEBSITE. THE WEBSITE MAY BE ON ANYTHING BUT I PREFER IT TO BE ONE THAT TALKS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.

Our next blog which is due on Wednesday March 25.
I would like you to research a new  Classroom Technology. Any new and interesting things you may find on Classroom Technology that would be helpful for teachers to communicate better with their students. It may be some kind of social media, possibly an app or any other technology method to enhance learning in the classroom. I look forward to reading what you come up with and tell  me if you think it would work and why you think it would work and also include a link to the  article.

 As a teacher I am always looking for ways to connect better with my students. Please do some research on a helpful technology tool for me to use in my classrooms.

It could be some type of social media, or anything that would be helpful to student learning, it should be some type of technology to help with the way teachers and students communicate.

Hi All-

Our next blog will be due Wednesday March 11!  
So you have plenty of time to think about what kind of video on current technology you will be embedding  in your blog and tell us a little about the technology and why or why not you may think the technology is good or not so good. Below is my video and it also shows what I will be looking for when I say embedded.
Hope you enjoy my video!

Hi All,

The blog for the week of 2/25 will be a blog on your views of the subjects I have picked for you to use. You will pick one from two of the topics you must pick either a pro from the first series and a con from the second series or visa-versa and talk about your views on that subject. You may want to do a bit of research to find out more information on the subject.

Information technology empowers people

• Pro:  Technology empowers people by giving them the information needed to live in this complex world; for example, information about their health and welfare lets people challenge those in power. 

• Con:  Technology empowers the few who control it and disempowers the rest, for example, the majority of the world is losing access to their information, intellectual property, resources, and opportunities for advancement, language, and culture.  Technology and the Internet are another way for the rich to control how the world works in order that they can control and benefit from the work of the poor. 

 Individual privacy

• Pro:  What is all this fuss about privacy.  Only the crooks and deviants need to fear monitoring by governments.  We are the government and we need information to protect ourselves from all the problems in this modern world.

• Con:  Governments with GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi, and automatic monitoring of electronic communications are accumulating too much information on the average law abiding citizens.  A good government will represent its people rather than spy on them.  Sooner or later, governments will use the information they collect for control and punishment of anyone challenging the government are anyone different from the norm.  

Cyberspace and isolation

• Pro:  Cyberspace isolates people more than connects them, e.g., most times they are sitting in front of a computer interacting with the web and not socializing with anyone.

• Con:  Cyberspace connects people more than isolates them, e.g., they are using a computer to connect with others, although not always in real time.

Hi All,

Your assignment for the week of February 11th will be to tell your class mates about any type of computer program that you may find to be of use . The program may be an app you use on your phone, a web app you access through a browser, a program installed on a desktop or laptop computer. It can also be any type of program - productivity, game, financial, social - anything you can think of. 
Insert a picture related to the app (you might find one through image search on google or bing). Also if there is a cost to use the program/app. and if you can tell us when the program was developed.

Hi All,

I am glad to see that some of you have already done their assignment for this week. The assignment was to find your own article on a new technology and give us a brief synopsis of the article and whether or not you would use the technology. This article and two comment posts are due by Wednesday February 4, 2015 

Hi Everyone,

For your own blog, you will need to post once a week as well as leave a total of two comments on the blogs of your classmates.
The weekly topic and/or instructions will be posted here at the beginning of each week. The topic will also be posted on Blackboard.
The second post, due by midnight on 1/28/2015, should focus on the topics below. 

Please read one of the articles below and write about what you think is useful or interesting.
Briefly describe the item and explain why you chose that particular technology. The post should be at least 4-5 sentences or more.

http://dupress.com/articles/bitcoin-fact-fiction-future/?top=9

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/20/obama-cybersecurity-state-of-the-union-address-speech

 http://www.informationweek.com/government/open-government/5-education-tech-trends-for-2015/a/d-id/1318396 

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/nfl-fans-help-test-quake-detection-equipment-150120.htm 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/this-is-how-close-we-are-to-a-baseball-playing-robot 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/devices/google-takes-on-parkinsons-one-bite-at-a-time

Hi everyone!

 This is the official blog for IST 125G.

 I'll be posting here with summaries of the week's lessons and links to relevant materials. For your own blog, you will need to post once a week as well as leave a total of two comments on the blogs of your classmates.

The weekly topic and/or instructions will be posted here at the beginning of each week. The topic will also be posted on Blackboard.

 The first post, due by midnight on 1/21/2015, should focus on the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES). I'd like you to browse some of the articles listed below and pick one new technology exhibited at CES which you think is useful or interesting.

Briefly describe the item and explain why you chose that particular technology. The post should be at least 4-5 sentences long.

• Gizmodo: CES 2015 Sub-blog
• Wired: Best of CES 2015
• Forbes: Five Most Disruptive Innovations at CES 2015
• IGN: The 4 Coolest Things of CES 2015
• Yahoo: Weirdest Tech of CES 2015
• Gizmodo: Our Very Favorite Stuff from CES 2015
• ZDNET: CES 2015 Meet This Year's Best Tech