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=01--Introductory stuff, and an assignment that's definitely too hard....= =02--A Paper 1 assignment, based on a previous year's test, on Photo Editing.= Provides informational answers; intended to get students used to writing papers using command terms like identify, describe, and discuss. =03--the rest of the same Paper 1 test, these questions relating to Wirelessness, Internet Telephony, and Security Issues.= =05--an introduction to Social and Ethical Issues.= Best used with classroom discussion; ask students to provide examples. Includes sample answers to Day 02 and Day 03 Assignments, both good and bad examples. Includes a pop quiz for identifying the S&E terms. =07--Social and Ethical Issues: Hanover County GIS= My students happen to be living in Hanover County, so this is directly relevant to them. [|Link to Hanover County GIS] Includes Outcomes so you can see student responses. Notably, all of the kids assumed that "if it's on the internet, it's free," and therefore there's total equality of access. They don't know anybody that can't afford a computer. =09--The Project.= We spend this day discussing the project and what it entails and requires. IB provides an abundance of materials relating to the project, which is great, and I won't repost them here. This single post is an attempt to condense everything into a single handout that can be distributed to students. Every week after this, students will be subjected to logbook checks. =10--Web Browsers= a very simple Paper 1-type question. Students have to research these informational answers as well as identifying, describing, and discussing. The Outcomes.zip file contains MS Word files (2003) which were the student work on this assignment. Should be useful for showing how to do and not do this. =11--Social and Ethical Issues presentations= Students broke into teams and developed presentations intended to teach the rest of the class about individual S&E issues. Notice I selected 6 issues for this because those were the ones my students needed help with. Results were poor. In particular, teams were supposed to create a quiz on their material which the other students would complete. This quiz was supposed to be in Paper 1 format. The kids were pretty bad at making quizes. The instructor should shape this material to their own class.