STS:  Computers and Society:  Summer 2001.    Assignment Three.  Revised June 15, 2001.

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This assignment must be completed and submitted in html format to the WEBCT drop box by the date and time due.

1.  Visit one of the Chatterbots and engage it in a conversation.  Copy three of the best questions and answers you get, and past them in here.  You may find that "Alice" is the best of the lot.

-  Before continuing with this assignment, please read the Instructions for Organizing a Presentation -

2.  Indicate the Title of the Presentation you will prepare for Assignment Four.  In thinking a bout your title, you should begin with the phrase "How Computerization is Changing the Way We Think and Work in [insert name of your area of interest]."  You can simplify the wording, however, making it "Computers in the Schools" instead of "How Computerization is Changing the Way We Think and Work in Elementary Education."

3.   Write a brief "Residual Statement" describing the message you want people to retain from your presentation.

4.  Indicate three major points your Presentation will make.  These should expand on the ideas in your "Residual Statement."  Each point must be declarative sentence with a subject and a verb;  they should not just be subject headings.].

            Point One:

            Point Two:

            Point Three

5.  Provide full references and hyperlinks to three WEB sites that provide information on your topic.  You may use links from the  Links on Computers and Society page, but you are not limited to them.   If at all possible, the links should be persistent links that will be useful if your reader clicks on them.  Links that some up when you use the "Search" facility on a WEB site are usually not of this type, they only work for you.  If you find an article through "Search" that you really want to use, you can save the content on a blank page and post it as a file on your own site (always giving proper credit to the original source).

    Type them in here, following this example.  Note that this link should work for anyone - the links on my  Links on Computers and Society page are this kind - that's why I maintain those pages instead of just asking you to Search the Times site.  [Note:  if you have already done this assignment without persistent links, it is OK - we won't grade you down on this assignment.  But for your finished WEB presentation [Assignment Four], you should have links that work for the user.]

Sample reference:

          Carl S. Kaplan, "Law Professor Sees Hazard in Personalized News," New York Times (online), April 13, 2001.  Downloaded on May 16, 2001 from http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/technology/13CYBERLAW.html

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