Influential People Presentations

(taken from: http://tech100.t3.com/1/Steve-Jobs.html)

Choose one of the following influential people and prepare a presentation for the rest of the class on Thursday and Friday (can be Keynote, Powerpoint, Prezi, etc). Two students cannot cover the same person, so let me know who you're presenting ASAP! As a rough guideline, your presentations should be about 10 minutes long.

1. Sergey Brin and Larry Page – Google


2. Evan Williams – Twitter NADIA


3. Daniel Ek – Spotify


4. Stephen Fry – Celebrity (Twitter)


5. Sir Howard Stringer – Sony


6. Richard Branson - Virgin Airlines


7. Yong Nam – LG NAHYEON


8. Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij - Bit Torrent/The Pirate Bay


9. Bill Gates - Microsoft DARIAN


10. Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook GEORGE


11. Steve Ballmer – Microsoft


12. James Cameron - Director (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator, etc)


13. Sam Houser - Rockstar Games YOHAN


14. Radiohead - Music Distribution


15. Satoru Iwata - Nintendo YOHANES

Focus your research with the following questions:

1) Brief background (how they started).

2) What did they do to develop technology?

3) What impact has it had on society?

4) Who else has made a similar impact?

5) Are there any controversies connected with your subject? As in, has your person been criticized by any groups for what they have done during their life?

Also, find an article about your subject (or their specific company) and lead the class in an analysis using the ITGS Triangle.

ITGS

Today you get to choose whichever articles you want to write about. Click the following link and read the articles from BBC and the Sydney Herald. Choose two articles and post about them on your page (remember to follow the ITGS Triangle):

http://www.ruthtrumpold.id.au/itgswiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage

For those of you missing class tomorrow (this is your homework for Friday).

The Dangers of Social Networking

http://www.switched.com/2009/02/27/teen-calls-job-boring-on-facebook-gets-fired/

http://itgsonline.com/?p=979

Read both articles above. Notice how the second writer links information from the first article to the ITGS Triangle. Use this as a technique going forward.

You next task is to find your own article about Social Networking and create another link to the ITGS Triangle. You can use Twitter, Facebook, QZone, or any of the other websites we examined yesterday. Try to find an article about how Social Networking can have a negative effect on the lives of its users.

Remember, we've already talked about Facebook in a general way, now I need you to find a specific incident and link it to the Triangle.

Post it on your blog.

Social Networking

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Building-Community-the-Platform/Community-vs-Social-Network/ba-p/5283

Click on the above link and read the article about Social Networks vs Community.

Afterward, write down as many forms of social networks as you can (many are listed in the article, but there are so many more you can think of). After that, do a compare and contrast between the different forms ("this one is mainly for ______, but this one is designed to ______, etc").

Finally, relate both Facebook and Twitter to the ITGS Triangle and post about it on your blog (remember, you need to relate it to all three strands, and as many topics within the strands as you can).