CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society

Students @ Work - a student collaborative writing project. Help us by providing feedback on the Discussion page.

CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society
A critical examination of the capabilities and uses of modern computers and how they are changing business, law, politics, and society. Course format is question-based student-led discussions and collaborative group projects.

CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society is a GE course. This is the online distance learning section. The course includes lots of reading, discussing, critical thinking, and web-based research. CIS2 is concerned primarily with the uses of technology (good and bad) and issues for society. We cover everything from accessibility for people with disabilities to identity theft. We discuss and research the impact of technology on computer crime, copyright, education, medicine, business and ethical issues.

Students' work

• This semester :

• Summer 2011
• Summer 2010
• Winter 2010
• Fall 2009
• Summer 2009
• Spring 2009
• Winter 2009
• Fall 2008
• Summer 2008

Student presentations

• Podcasts and video about computers and the internet in society - discovered and reviewed by students
• Catalyst features and guidelines - helpful suggestions provided by students
• Simulations - provide an opportunity to learn interactively through computer based demonstrations
• Great Technologies List
• Students' guide to group work
• Engineering
• WikiEducator promotions
• California History Center projects - Day of Remembrance, Community Gardens, Chinese Immigration

Community service learning

Community service learning student guidelines - community partner organizations, service learning opportunities, project requirements, outlines required submissions - project information, service learning work proposal and reflection prompts

Final Projects

For project communication, draft document sharing, revision, final submission preparation and publication, we will be using space in the public WikiEducator wiki. For more information about the final project and group work, see ...

• Final Project Guidelines
• Collaboration and Group Projects

Previous projects - the project task changes each semester. Some really effective project topics and scenarios are revisited from time to time.

• Scenario-Based Learning - Public relations presentation for client: WikiEducator.org - Fall 2009, Winter 2010

• U.N. Millennium Development Goals - Summer 2009, Summer 2011

• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education - Spring 2009

• Virtual volunteering - Summer 08
• Mobile learning - Spring 2008, Summer 08, Fall 2009
• Online communities - Summer 08
• Project Gutenberg - Summer 08, Fall 2009
• Computers and Crime - Summer 08, Fall 2009

Students @ Work - a student collaborative writing project. Help us by providing feedback on the Discussion page.

• OER Open Educational Resources
• Second Life in education

• Wikiversity learning projects
• Service learning

• Textbook Collaboration - student written textbook - work in progress - why use a textbook that is out of date before it hits the bookstore shelves.

Resources

• Collaboration and Group Projects

• collaborative writing and editing http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Collaborative_Editing

WIKI

• tutorial http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial
• .pdf cheatsheet http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cheatsheet-en.pdf

IMAGES

• http://wikieducator.org/Help:Editing - brief summary of editing
• image tutorial http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Images_and_Media
• same for WikiEducator as Wikpedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial