Tue Sep 19 16:47:59 EDT 2006
Class: 33 freshmen, 26 sophomores, 22 juniors, 31 seniors (from the registrar's database). With 94 responses (out of 112 registered at this instant):
Your major or likely or possible major, with some double counting, and I have missed some when people suggested several possibilities. (I didn't include the always-popular UNK, which would have been somewhere in the middle.)
HIS 16, ENG 15, ECO 10, POL 8, ART/ARC 7, COM 6, WWS 5, CHM 5, PSY 4, ANT 4, SOC 3, PHI 2, NES 2, MUS 2, MOL 2, REL 1, MOL 1, FRE 1, EEB 1, CLA 1
Your life outside class, e.g., sport, music, theater, service, Prince, sleep, ...:
Lots of sports, both varsity and club, followed closely by a very wide variety of service activities, music in its myriad forms, writing in various venues, theater and dance and the like, work, and surprisingly (but perhaps realistically) not much interest in, or at least hope of, sleep.
Your computer experience: none 10 a little 49 some 24 a lot 7
What kind of computer do you have? PC 75 Mac 29. This ratio is 2.6:1; last year it was 3.5:1.
Which of these gadgets do you own?
cell phone 92
digital camera 64
iPod/MP3 player 76.
I probably lost count of cell phones; almost everyone has one, as we confirmed
in lecture.
I didn't distinguish iPods from others, though many folks were helpfully explicit.
Which one(s) of these do you use? MySpace 15 Facebook 89 Friendster 0
Which search engine(s) do you use regularly? Google 90 Yahoo 12 MSN 3 AOL 0
Which mail system(s) do you have an account with? Gmail 36 Yahoo 14 Hotmail 16 AOL 26
Are there any topics you would especially like to hear about in class?
Security and privacy issues and viruses: we'll get to them mostly when we do communications. Programming will be covered both in class and in the labs; you won't be a programmer by the end, but it should be non-mysterious. Web design: the early labs will do the basics. Among the others, how various devices work, digital music, cell phones, and search engines -- all of these will be included. There will also be on-going discussion of social and legal issues related to all of the above, especially copyright and other forms of intellectual property. I'm not going to do anything very "vocational", but the labs provide a chance to learn some specific skills; for example, one is a decent intro to Excel.
We'll have to see how lab times work out. The distribution is not very uniform, and of course we'll get killed if everyone shows up for any session; the room only has 25 seats and there's likely to only be one assistant at any session.
| Monday | 7:30-10:20 43 | |
| Tuesday | 1:30-4:20 30 | 7:30-10:20 34 |
| Wednesday | 7:30-10:20 41 | |
| Thursday | 1:30-4:20 19 | 7:30-10:20 15 |