Course Resources
"Gift of Fire" Resource Links page

Reading for Understanding guidelines

Sample homework responses

Sample Presentation: Electronic Voting

Ethics in a Nutshell

Ethical Analysis and Decision Making Worksheet  [HTML]  [RTF]

Sample exam study questions and Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives

Computer Basics

Book List

Privacy Issues

Internet Speech/Privacy Summary

Privacy: An important but complex right

Ruling on GPS for surveillance

DHS monitor Twitter   DHS Twitter Keyword list
The Impact of a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Program

File-sharing programs and peer-to-peer networks: Privacy and security risks [PDF File].  US House of Representatives Committe on Government Reform. May 2003.

What Google Search Reveals About Us

Passport standards vs privacy

RFID Passports coming June 05   RFID passports opinion

RFIDbuzz - blog about RFID concerns

California Proposition 69: DNA database

Random webcams from the net

The surveillance society by FuturePundit

Iris Scanner City

Ordering Pizza in 2010

Cookies and Privacy explained

Company Bypasses Cookie-Deleting Consumers

 Free Speech Issues

False Promises about ending spam

Spammer sentenced to 9 years

California's Ban on Video Game sales to minors.

Intellectual Property Issues

Legal online movie and tv sites         Legal music downloading

File Swappers Find New Ways to Trade Tunes

Grokster and the Supreme Court    Grokster closes shop

Logo copyright case

DeCSS Gallery

Crime Issues

Sample e-mail scam letter

Bogus link to http://www.paypal.com

ITS Spyware Warning Notice 11/14/2004

Cyber Extortion

How computer viruses work

Identity Theft overview (FTC)

Risks

Planning to E-Vote? Read This First

Internet Voting vs. Large-Value e-Commerce

Electronic voting systems in SLO County

Educational Testing: Quality Concerns  (scroll down to see text of article)

Is your computer killing you?

Stretching [pdf] to avoid RSI.

General Social Issues

Your Toxic Computer

A View to a Kill - review of "JFK Reloaded" video game

College Gambles on Technology

Internet Addiction Test

Lonely virtual world article  Internet and social isolation

The Overworked American

The Unfinished Revolution - Michael Dertouzos

The Technology of Uselessness - The Critical Art Ensemble

Virtual Reality and the Tea Ceremony - Michael Heim (pdf)

Lessons from the Luddites -  by Kirkpatrick Sale

The Computer Trap - Theodore Roszak

Losing Productivity with Windows (humor)

Digital Hype

No PDF's, please

Brain chip enables man to control computer

Step Away From the Spell-Checker

The Portable Cellphone Booth [quicktime video]
Elephant Seal Facebook page

The perils of data rot

The Twittersberg Address

Your Brain on Computers

Multitasking may not mean higher productivity (Dr. Nass interview)
Multitasking Parody
Multitasking Critique
Multitasking Splits the Brain

Index of NY Times Series "Your Brain on Computers"
Attached to Technology and Paying a Price
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
Outdoors and Out of Reach, Studying the Brain
First Steps to Digital Detox - debate



Campus Escort and Emergency Telephone Numbers

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