Topic Outline Schedule — v0.98 ( 07 Apr 2013 )

Note: Guest speakers ARE confirmed! Other dates are still around moving a bit!

Date Topic Reading Assignment Deliverable
Jan 8 Triumph of the Nerds, Part I (video) BYUtv: Insight with Jon Du Pre
Jan 10 Introduction/Orientation Blog Setup
Ken Robinson: Schools kill creativity (short video)    
Jan 15 Writing Workshop I
Focus on smallish blog posts
Start reading Strunk and White LinkedIn and Internet Safety Wiki sign-up
Jan 17 The Digital Age Smallish Post
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history (short video)
Michael Wesch: The Machine is Us/ing Us (short video)
Erik Qualman: Social Media Revolution 3 (short video)
   
Jan 22 Technological Entrepreneurship

Guest Speaker: Jan Newman, SageCreek Partners
 
Jan 24 No class - STEM Career Fair  
Jan 29 Writing Workshop II
Focus on longer essays
  Current Event
Jan 31 The Orders of Ignorance  
Feb 5 Triumph of the Nerds, Part II (video)   Current Event
Feb 7 Triumph of the Nerds, Part III (video)   Smallish Post (Women in Computing)
Feb 12 Writing Workshop III   Bring 5 copies of one of your blog posts to class.
Feb 14 CyberSecurity and Espionage Book-Inspired Post
Feb 19 No class - Monday Instruction   Finish reading Strunk and White
Feb 21 No class   Current Event
Feb 26 Women in Computing

Guest Speaker: Carla Heesch
Wiki Report 1
Feb 28 Frontline: Dot Con (video)  
Mar 5 No class  
Mar 7 Technology and Law Smallish Post
Mar 12 Nerds 2.0.1, Part II (video)  
Mar 14 Technology and Family History Work

Guest Speaker: Craig Miller, Senior Vice President, FamilySearch
Smallish Post
Mar 19 Revolution OS (video) Smallish Post
Mar 21 No class: RootsTech 2013, Salt Lake   Wiki Report 2
Mar 26 Technology and the Church

Guest Speaker: Blaine Maxfield, Chief Information Officer, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Smallish Post
Mar 28 Technology and Society Reading Circles Selected book completed Book-Inspired Post
Apr 2 No class  
Apr 4 Internet Safety I Smallish Post
Apr 9 Internet Safety II Wiki Report 3
Charles Knutson: Families and the Internet (audio talk)    
Apr 11 Personal and Professional Ethics Smallish Post
Apr 16 No class   Articles of Personal Ethics