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Venezuela's Chavez: Twitter Messages Are Terrorist Threats
Hmm now that is a great way to show how powerful Twitter really is!
FBI's Most Wanted: Your Browsing Activity
Seems the whole world is going to more and more surveillance of the internet and our private transactions - do you think this will make use safer?
Security flaw puts iPhone users at risk of phishing attacks (Updated)
Wikileaks Raises Enough to Keep the Lights On – GigaOM
Three cheers for this - did any of you donate?
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…My heart’s in Accra » Yahoo!, Moniker: why is Mowjcamp.com still offline 6 weeks after hack attack?
ATM Skimmers, Part II — Krebs on Security
More on those dreaded skimmers - be careful - but more importantly is there a way to solve this problem?
Augmented reality system lets you see through walls - tech - 23 October 2009 - New Scientist
Wow here is an interesting and real use of augmented reality beyond all those silly games and iPhone apps...
YouTube - Monica's Icosatetraped
"Icosatetraped" - hmm what is one of those?
YouTube - iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds: Incredible, Beautiful, Amazing!
Simply amazing - huh - sorry I could not resist...
Interesting take on the Google pulling out of china story...
Tags: ITGS, unfazed, google, china, integrity
Tags: ITGS, endures, wrongful, ISP, piracy, intellectualproperty, reliability
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Teenager invents low-frequency radio for underground communications -- Engadget
Wow - will any of you do as well?
Social Networks Are Becoming a Security Risk [SURVEY]
Read the facts before it all goes wrong...
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01 Feb
Posted by drtech as ITGS, Integrity, Just for Fun

Well Grade 12's as you are wading through those past papers - here is some light relief for you to get your teeth into and discuss...
A big story at the moment is that of Wikileaks closing down due to lack of funds when it is now being hailed as the only way forward for serious investigative journalism in the world! A serious statement but a very serious site. Have a read of the following articles and then comment and discuss on the issues, the technologies and whether you agree this is an important way forward or if it should remain closed or even be made illegal. If you do think it is important - why so and why now?
Looking forward to your comments and thoughts...(note Grade 11's you can join in as well!)

01 Feb
Posted by drtech as Assignment, ITGS, Web 2.0

This is a much longer term assignment than the other one you are undertaking at the moment - and involves reading a book. Yes you did not here me incorrectly yes you will need to read a book - Yikes. During the coming lesson I will present you with a choice of books that all have ITGS related content and discussion but are in much more depth than anything you have read before. You will need to choose one (will tell you how that will work) and then over a period of weeks read it regularly. You will then need to publish a blog post every two weeks summarising the content and what the author is discussing and your points of view of the issues and IT systems described. The post should be specific especially in terms of describing IT systems involved.
The end game of the assignment- will involve a final presentation.
Here is the basics of what you will need to do for the final presentation What do you need to show? Well read on below for full information:-
BOOK Decisions - after much deliberation and cogitation here are the decisions based or maybe not based on your choices for book to read. Note Dr Tech's decision is final and is based on a rigorous and thoughtful process of skills based analysis linked with your choice/interest: -

01 Feb
Posted by drtech as Assignment, ITGS

Using the skills that you will garner during the next week or so with creating tutorial/example based Excel Spreadsheets (yes for once we will use a normal application rather than some Web 2.0 based shenanigins), you must then choose a realistic project from one of your other subjects to design and create a spreadsheet for. Subjects that would probably be very sensible to choose might be Mathematics, Economics, Sciences, Design Technology, Drama etc... What productive function the spreadsheet does is up to you? It might create a test, it might plot a specific experiment and show results, it might be a booking sheet for a theatre or it might be a break even chart analysis? YOU decide.
You must however use a minimum of ten of the following skills (that you will practice this next week or so) within your spreadsheet to make the design and so its workings as efficient and automatic as possible. You must also be able to discuss what each of these functions does and why you would use it:-
Along with this, the spreadsheet should be well designed and user friendly with suitable instructions for a new user to be able to follow and understand what they are doing when it comes to inputting data and processing an output. The spreadsheet should have multiple sheets, and include a title page. Dr Tech will show you some examples of existing spreadsheets that fulfill the above purpose.
Make sure you test your spreadsheet models, as the assessment will be based on an unknown user/client attempting to use your spreadsheet without instruction from yourself.
To help you learn, I will provide a series of spreadsheet worksheets - but also you can find your own if you would like or use something like Atomic Learning - see around the room for login details. Deadline for your spreadsheet is on the Monday after the mid winter break so you do not have long - so use your time well this week to learn any new skills.

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Expelled for Facebook messages - do all schools need policies and standards?
KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Augmented (hyper)Reality’ by Keiichi Matsuda
Will we end up in augmented reality overload before it is to late?
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Kids' TV hosts terrorism-stopped for pew-pewing with sparkly hair-dryers Boing Boing
Apple - iPad - Technical specifications and accessories for iPad.
This should be our topic of discussion tomorrow. End of story.
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China hits back at US over internet censorship | World news | guardian.co.uk
Facebook friends are virtual, finds Oxford University study - Telegraph
National Trust landmarks introduced to Google Street View | Travel | guardian.co.uk
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