Spring 2005

INT197B – CyberCitizenship: Navigating Business, Social, and Personal Ethics

Prof. Harold BrownProf. Catherine Dwyer

Week 01 class 01

Spring 2005

Agenda

Class Introductions INT 197B Syllabus Using your Pace e-mail Class Blackboard site Setting up your blog Class homework and assignments Pre-course survey

Spring 2005

Prof. Harold Brown

Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies Faculty member at Pace since 1969 Courses taught include Logic, Ancient Greek,

Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Classical Political Thought, Modern Political Thought, Contemporary Philosophy and Hebrew Bible.

Spring 2005

Catherine DwyerLecturer IS Dept.

Full time since Fall 2000 Other classes taught: CS121, CS122, IS112 (now), IS223,

IS323, IS396E (Java), IS660Z(Programming Games Using VB) Lead developer for Web Assisted CIS101 (2002) Revision Chair for IS Undergraduate curriculum (2003) Co-author with Dr. Jeanine Meyer of Programming Games With

Visual Basic, Course Technology, 2001

Spring 2005

My Background

MS in CS (Pace), enrolled in IS PhD program at NJIT

Two daughters, college first year and 7th grader Prior Experience: Programmer/Analyst at NYC

investment bank, Technology Coordinator at Graphics Design Firm

Husband journalist with The New York Times Hobbies: reading, bike riding, kayaking, cooking You?

Spring 2005

Harold Brown’s Background

Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School University

Areas of Research include ancient philosophy and classical political thought

Married with two married children One granddaughter Late Victorian house 100+ years old

Spring 2005

What is INT197B?

Interdisciplinary course combining CIS101 and PHI121

6 credits 3 credits of CIS101 and 3 credits of AOK 5 Learning community Go to course syllabus at

http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/

Spring 2005

Your Pace e-mail

Official university communications will be sent to your Pace e-mail

E-mail from Blackboard (this course) will come to your Pace e-mail

Need Pace e-mail to register for personal web space

Spring 2005

Finding your e-mail ID

Find your e-mail ID in Pace Student E-Mail Directory (link to Directory from http://studentit.pace.edu/)

Enter your first name and last name Your e-mail ID and Alias will be displayed You will need e-mail ID to access your student e-mail

and access Blackboard Your Alias is another account name others can use

to e-mail you

Spring 2005

Access your Pace e-mail

Go to http://stmail.pace.edu/ Initial password is social security number

with no dashes and no spaces Enter ID and password (lower case) For further instructions on setting up Pace e-

mail go to http://studentit.pace.edu/

Spring 2005

Using STmail

All e-mail sent to Pace services (doit, etc) must originate from your student account

All Pace communications will be sent to your student account

To forward student account e-mail to another account:

– Click Options and styles, select forwarding, enter e-mail you want messages forwarded to

Spring 2005

This is a web assisted class

Hybrid class structure Combines in class meetings and online

content 4 hours in laptop classroom 2 credits delivered online (equivalent to two

classroom hours)

Spring 2005

What is online learning?

Class interaction and learning delivered using technology

Online site combines readings, blogs, and discussion forums

Pace uses Blackboard course management software to administer online courses

Spring 2005

Sign on to Blackboard

http://blackboard.pace.edu/ Username is Pace e-mail ID Initial password is social security number

with no dashes and no spaces Everything should be lower case

Spring 2005

What if it doesn’t work?

Access class documents at http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer

Report Blackboard problem to http://doithelpdesk.pace.edu

Spring 2005

INT 197B Blackboard Site

Syllabus and course schedule Course Resources Assignments Course Documents Communication and Discussion Board (post

message under welcome) Student Tools

Spring 2005

Pre-course survey

Consent form Attitudes towards technology survey Ethical issues survey

Spring 2005

Set up your blog

Blogging is a popular form of personal expression and communication

We will use a blogging tool for our course this semester

Will be a private blog community (to start) Go to http://int197b.21publish.com/ (or follow the link

from the course syllabus) Create new account (use Pace e-mail address)

Spring 2005

Ethics and technology

Civilizations have struggled with issues of property, privacy, responsibility, and power

Modern networked technology dramatically increases the scale and speed of ethical issues

Look at these examples of Ethical dilemmas

Spring 2005

Ethics and Truth-telling

“Italian tax mores” What issues does this case study raise?

Spring 2005

Week 1 Assignments

Chunking assignment for DC 2005 chapter one (due next Tuesday)

Set up a home page for your blog (due by Thursday) Roth chapter one Bring your Excel text to next class (Thursday)