The End Is Near! So It's Survey Time.

They say that you know that school is almost over when the big white tent goes up. You also know that any semester's over when it's time to fill out surveys for your classes.

You should be familiar with what you're about to fill out, since they're all created with Survey Monkey. Each class has a different survey to fill out, please be sure to pick the right survey from the list below, and only take it ONCE. Please also be sure to answer the questions honestly; that helps us to make this class better.

• Section 4: D Block
• Section 5: B Block
• Section 6: C Block

Thank you.

Mon, Feb 14: Happy Valentine's Day

Today and tomorrow we'll be having a quiz. Nothing you can't handle. Just a short essay question about ethics, a little piece of file conversion, and a case of link shortening. You can handle this.

Then...we'll start drawing on some other talents you have...by playing around with EazyDraw.

Fri, Feb 11: A Little More Privacy - PLEASE

Sexting, Intimate Video, and Child Pornography.

• What adults mean by "sexting."
• Sexting at Hot for Words
• Student Sues DA Over Charges (CBS News)
• Dangers of Teen Sexting (CBS News)
• Sexting Suicide
• Sexting PSA
• Think Before You Post
• "You Would If You Loved Me..." and Male Bovine Excrement
• The Philadelphia Story and rules for gentlemen

The coming QUIZ

Don't get all bent out of shape about it, it's not that bad. It'll be stuff you should all know how to do by now. I'll just want you to be able to send me a YouTube video converted to an mp3 file. But I'm not telling you which video yet.

Fri, Feb 4: Copyright and Your Rights

Here we'll discuss copyright and how it relates to...copying. Is there a difference between what's legal and what's ethical. Is copying always wrong? Are there police offices stationed at every photocopying machine?

• A brief history of copyright.
• Who does copyright protect? YOU!
• Oswald and Mickey, Walt and Igor, and Al Michaels and Oswald.
• Cylinders, discs, and how cassettes were the "end of the world."
• The generation without singles.
• How much copying is too much? Casual copying?
• The Betamax Decision. A Prairie Home Companion and "wink, wink, nudge, nudge."
• Napster: when the entire Internet was your best friend.
• How is $1.29 less than 25c?
• How much copying is too much? What's ethical?
• Orphan works and ethical copying?
• What about YouTube?
• Parody, Fair Use, Free Publicity, and Downfall (original, iSketch parody, takedown parody)
• A Fine Day for Zamzar

Fri, Jan 28: Privacy and Stalker Tools

A metaphorical Day 3.

• Continuing looking at reasonable expectations of privacy.
• The Dresden Gigapixel Camera
• Finding Karen before the Internet
• Reasonable and "Unreasonable" Search tools: Google, White Pages, USA People Search, Spokeo, Google Maps.
• Reasonable and Unreasonable uses.
• Breaking news on the Fountain Lady.
• Finding the Fountain Lady (can we?)
• Facebook privacy. How safe are you?

Wed, Jan 26: The Expectation of Privacy

Our second day together, but not necessarily Day Two.

• Finish talking about Wikipedia and talk briefly about those long ugly links
• The reasonable expectation of privacy: The Star Wars Kid, Cathy Marerro, and Tyler Clementi.

The Star Wars Kid - Original



The Star Wars Kid - With Special Effects



Texting Woman Falls Into Fountain

Fountain Lady Decides to Sue

Tyler Clementi and Digital Webcams

• The importance of having a sense of perspective.
• The aftermath of the fountain incident.
• The gigapixel camera.

Tue, Jan 25: Welcome to Digital Literacy

Day One (Metaphorically speaking)

• The "Rules of the Road"
• Listen to The Shallows
• Barry Manilow and The Drunkard
• I use the Internet differently from you
• The class website
• URLs and my family website
• A little Wikipedia