computers and society ist 2710 section 006 class #11: 4/2/08

Computers and SocietyIST 2710

Section 006

Class #11: 4/2/08

http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/casw08

4/2/08 Computers and Society, Class 11 2

Grade What-If

• Excel spreadsheet to estimate your course grade

• Download from course website

• Save to local storage to preserve and update

• Can get grades from Online Grade Reports

• Danger in leaving grades blank if not done


Staying for Lab

• Two or more labs or assignments behind, must stay during Lab to get 100% attendance credit tonight - 3 labs in, and 2 assignments in. Who must stay:o EVERYONE! (Unless you have turned more

in tonight).


Social Issues - Essay

• From “Social Issues” handout on website

• Topics for short homework essays and semester essay, and on Quiz 2 and final

• Review of semester Essay (handout in first class)o 3 – 5 pageso One one of the social issues from web pageo Must use course materials and discussiono Not a research assignment


Second makeup for Midterm?

• There has been a request for a second makeup for the Midterm Exam

• Proposed date-time-place: April 9, 4 – 6 PM in 213 State Hall (normal room)

• LAST makeup for Midterm

• If you want to retake it for a better grade, let me know.


Makeup for Quiz 2?

• Only time for one

• Two weeks, April 16, 5 – 6 PM in Room 213


Upcoming Assignments

• Quiz 2 this week, April 2• Next week, April 9

o Another Midterm makeup, 4 – 6 PMo Essay, on disketteo Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET)

• Two weeks, April 16o Makeup for Quiz 2?o Last regular class, lab in classo All work to be counted in regular grade (*)o Review for Final

• Three weeks, April 23: Final Exam


Social Issues

• Children and Pornographyo Most people feel children (especially very

young) should be protected from pornographyo Widely available on Internet, can come upon it

by accident, or have it pushed on childo Many legal attempts, all struck down

• May not restrict rights of adults to protect children• Adults have a right to access to almost all writing

and imagery• Exception: pornographic pictures of children


Social Issues

• Children and Pornographyo Also, some people say to just pass a law

outlawing pornography, or outlawing distributing pornography to children

o Would that stop children’s exposure to pornography? That is, would it be a solution?

• Software filters, but they “leak”

• Put computer in family area

• Monitoring software, or suggestion


Reading in Chapter 7

• Pp 245 – end of Chapter, for next week• Social effects of computers• Digital Divide – discussed this last week• Assistive Technology – using computers

and Internet to help deal with disabilitieso Large-print screenso Screen readerso Cursor follows eyeo Other examples in book


Reading in Chapter 7

• Environmental effects of computerso In book: toxic chemicals during manufactureo Also toxic chemicals in partso Papero Electricity use

• Book includes methods to control these• Also (not in book), computers used to

monitor and control environmental damage, share information about cleanup


Linking Vs Embedding• For Lab 11 (tonight’s lab)• Putting an “object” from one application

into anothero Object: picture, document, text, chart, movie,

sound, etc.o Application: Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Access, Outlook, etc.o Document – A user file produced by an

application

• One method is linking, the other is embedding


Linking Vs Embedding

• Diagramming

• Embedding – a copy of the object is copied from the source document to the clipboard and from there into the destination document

• After this is done, link doesn’t exit anymore

A Document

An Object

source destination

clipboard

source destination

clipboard



• Linking – a link to the original object in the source document is pasted into the destination document

• Link stays (persists)o When destination wants to print or display, it

gets object from source

source destination



• Linking – when source is updated, destination is automatically updated the next time it is openedo Link gets broken if source or destination is

moved (disadvantage)• Embedding – there is no persistent

connection between the source and destinationo If the source or destination is updated, that

does not affect the othero In effect, two different objects

Lab 11

computers and society ist 2710 section 006 class #11: 4/2/08

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