week 2 - wednesday 6 april
Evolution of Digital Communication
- As students arrive ... take this time to read classmate blogs
Today's Featured Post
As Winston says, "the storm of progress blows so hard as to obscure our vision of what is actually happening." As a technologically progressive nation, are we blinded by the rate of these new innovations, so much so that we forget our international responsibility? Should we even have an international responsibility in the technology realm? - Lecture - Evolution of Digital Communication, part 2
- Discussion Leaders - explanation of responsiblities, schedule
- Lab:
- Assignment 3 (handout)
- Please let me know if you're having problems with any technology that we are using in the class!
assignments
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Reading for the next class :
(1) "We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload" from ACM Crossroads by Mark R. Nelson (nd) ; (2) "Information overload, retrieval strategies and Internet user empowerment" from Proceedings: The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant (COST 269) by Christopher N. Carlson (2003) (click the PDF link to read the article)- blog post due by 9.30 am Mon 11 Apr : Use these readings to explain how your life is affected by information (too much? too little? just enough?) [ 1 post ]
- Responses (comments) to this week's blog postings due by 5 pm Friday; remember to click the "comments" link associated with the blog post!
- Final (Individual) Project : Proposal (consists of an abstract and rationale) Due - Friday 8 April, 5 pm; How to Use Catalyst Peer Review