Times’ Harvest, ISP 3360 Winter 2205, Section 001 Class #1: January 21, 2005.

Times’ Harvest, ISP 3360

Winter 2205, Section 001

Class #1: January 21, 2005

1/21/05 Times' Harvest, Class 1 2

Agenda

• Names• Next meetings• Taking an online class• Using Moodle• Review of Syllabus for 3360• About Futures’ Studies• Third books• Review of Syllabus for 3340


Names

• Me: David Bowen

• Check off your name on the sheet

• Review of nameso (Latanya Plair <[email protected]> is

forwarded to an invalid address [email protected])

• Pictures


Next meetings

6 – 8 PM Friday evenings in 122 Cohn

• February 25

• March 11

• April 15, includes Student Evaluation of Teaching

• April 29, Final Exam for AGS 3340

Request for Saturdays 10 AM - Noon


Taking an online course

• A lot of working alone (most of course is in writing) but understand when you need help, and get it quicklyo Methods for contacting Instructor

• Do at least something most weeks

• The online discussion will be the most motivating feature – express yourself!


Taking an online course (cont’d)Make sure that:

• You know what to do next, find out if not

• Instructor has an email address that you use, or that is forwarded to one you use

• You don’t let your email inbox overflow, do not overflow the Instructor’s

Having trouble connecting?• Web Server Monitor.


Taking an online course (cont’d)

Every week:

• Check email, assignment schedule, forums

• Reading – active reading. What are you going to post, applies to what essay topic?

• Posting (two posts does not mean two separate times)

• Thinking about an essay


Course web site• Log in to desktop

o User Name: tomclasso Domain: guplabo Password: 3Nv1r0nm3nT

0 = zero (“Environment”)

• Start web browser, go to class web site: http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/thw05

• What’s with the course logo?• Who does not yet have a Moodle account?

zero


Set up Moodle account & enroll• On course web site, click on Moodle link• In Moodle, click Login• Directions on right side – click, fill in form

o After initial login, use left side or easier direct link

• Go to email, find “account confirmation”• Click on link, enroll in “Times’ Harvest”• Enrolment key = interesting• Click Logout (always on public computer)


Moodle afterwards• On course web site, second link goes

straight to login then course• Can go back and forth during a session• Breadcrumbs separated by >>• Watch left and right

o Who else is on (open chat?)o List of new stuff, since last timeo What you have done (under “Administration”)o Deadlines coming up


Course stuff in Moodle

• Keep profile up to date (email, telephone)o Edit Profile

• Weekly reports (time limit)

• Forum >> Discussion >> Replyo Single-purpose – you cannot start a discussiono General – you can, but keep it organized


Course stuff in Moodle (cont’d)• Profile:

o Nameo Email (and who can see it)o Yes / no automatically subscribe you to activities you

post in (“Yes” gets you a lot of email)o City and country (public within class)o Self-descriptiono Pictureo (for Instructor only) ID number, telephone numbers and

street address


Course stuff in Moodle (cont’d)

• “People” blocko Participants: see list of participants

• Full profile link - this does nothing (privacy?)

o Edit profile

• “Administration” blocko Activity report – everything you have doneo Change your password


Course stuff in Moodle (cont’d)

• Groups (IST 3340)

• Turning in homework

• Grades

• Stay tuned


Why Moodle?• Good system• Open Source (Internet, Moodle) Vs

Proprietary (Blackboard, Windows)o Open Source: developed by user community,

others can change it, free to allo Proprietary: developed by company, no one

else can change it, sold to users

• Expanding to other areas of societyo Wikipedia


Syllabus 3360• My contact info – don’t be a stranger

o Last time, assignment to call me at homeo Encouragement also

• Assignment descriptions, then weights• Assignment schedule – late assignments?• Essay description – content, form,

mechanics. High level of writing. Watch for page on common writing problems.

• Posting description


Syllabus 3360 (cont’d)

• Online citizenshipo Speak about yourself, not the other persono Be helpful

• Plagiarismo Memo to Department

• OK to disagreement with readings and with me, but not to ignoreo Recognize disagreement, give your basis


Futures Studies

• Example – what if we could know the future? Say, for the lottery?

• We need to know about the future - why?o “We are all Futurists”

• Foundations:o Future is not determined – fate, conspiracy etc.o Definite past and present, indefinite futureo Future is “constructed” by all of us by making

our choices and actions. Example: car, suburbs


Futures Studies (cont’d)• Foundations:

o “I will go to Traverse City” – statements about the future may or may not come true. Their present truth is unknowable, better seen as statement of present intent

o A fan of futures – Futures Studieso Forecasting, not prediction of a specific evento Possible, probably, preferable futureso Latin: facta are past events, Vs futurao From Bertrand de Jouvenal, The Art of

Forecasting (1967).


The Third Wave

• Has aged very well• Stages of human society (named for

dominant technology)o Hunter-gatherero Agriculturalo Industrialo The next stage (names for this)

• Why are we interested in naming it?• Change is still going on, full-tilt


The Third Wave (cont’d)

• With four stages and three transitions, we are in the third great wave of change

• We do not lose old forms – they still existo Regionso Within each regiono DB: also within each of us

• Industrial = second wave, now is third wave



• Each stage is different, but is the reality for those living it, a complete change (more later). Each wave grips those inside it.

• Toffler: transitions are not orderly but full of conflict. The rules change (example)

• What did Toffler get right? DB: autonomy or increased choice, and results - individuation



• Concentrates on differences between second- and third-wave societies, characteristics of third-waveo Chapter 4 – “Breaking the Code” – is keyo Toffler: all six characteristics of second-wave

society move to the opposite extremeo DB: Some exceptions, e.g. distribution such as

FedEx, still having transnational corporations



• One characteristic – hyphenation punso Indust-reality


In the Age of the Smart Machine• Detailed examination of work differences

between industrial (second-wave) and third waveo Paper-mill workerso Financial service workers

• Computer technology can be used to:o Monitor and control

ORo Empower


Smart Machine (cont’d)

• Lots of interest along the way, but the real importance – why it is in course – comes in last ten pages: which approach will win in the marketplace?


Third bookSame book for everyone? Some possibilities• (Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by Edward

Cornish)• (2025: Scenarios of Us and Global Society Reshaped

by Science and Technology by Joseph F. Coates, et al)• The Future of Success by Robert B. Reich• Release 2.1 by Esther Dyson• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman• Global Trends 2005 by Michael Mazaar• Global Futures by Jan Nederveen Pieterse• The World Ahead by Federico Mayor & Jerome Binde


Third book (cont’d)

• There is an optional Moodle Forum for discussing the third book.

• If I choose one book, how many would want to buy it from the Barnes and Noble campus bookstore?

End for ISP 3360

ISP 3340 is next


ISP 3340

• Two books for two credits, three for four credits

• Two online quizzes (probably on Moodle)

• More postings, six during semester for two credits, twelve for for credits

• Team assignments (probably on Moodle)

• Final, in person

The End

Times’ Harvest, ISP 3360 Winter 2205, Section 001 Class #1: January 21, 2005.

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