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Premium member Presentation Transcript WS445/545 Women & Computers : WS445/545 Women & Computers To be offered Spring 2010 Wednesday nights from 5pm to 7:45pm in SH 306 Instructor: Pat Samuel Why Take Women and Computers? : Why Take Women and Computers? It's an interesting and useful class It counts as an elective for the WS Minor and is required for the WS Major Meets the requirements for “Professional Development Courses” in the Social Responsibility graduate program For more information, visit our class wiki at ws445.wetpaint.com/ Topics Covered : Topics Covered Explore the Web using the Lens of Gender, Race, and Class Learn how Social Justice Activists use the Web Hands-on Skill Development – free software and online Web tools How Have Women Contributed to the Development of Computers & Web : How Have Women Contributed to the Development of Computers & Web Institutional Classism : Institutional Classism MySpace vs Facebook. Nonprofits using only Facebook ignore large, non college-educated youth using MySpace. Watch video explaining. Barriers facing low-income kids when Financial Aid application moved online. Study showed that while the high schools all had lots of computers, often broken. Computer labs only open limited hours. Kids didn’t know they had to check their email (nor did their counselors know) in order to learn status of application or how successful. Institutional Racism : Institutional Racism How Social Justice ActivistsUse the Web : How Social Justice ActivistsUse the Web Feministing.com –Feminist Blogging WildLifeDirect – Raise Money and Awareness for small projects to save animals by connecting project staff & supporters via blogs. DigiActive.org – Case studies of how online tools used in various campaigns. Slide 12: The Guerrilla Girls in Canada It's amazing that after 20+ years of existence, the Guerrilla Girls' message is still as resonant and needed as ever. Art museums average 15% women in curated exhibits, women of color .003%, and 4% of museum acquisitions are of work by women artists. Ridiculous. There's no question that the Guerrilla Girls' methods are funfunfun, but are they effective? I'm not blaming the lack of change on these creative, bad ass women, but I do wonder if their antics entertain the choir more than challenging the power brokers. Thoughts? The Permalink – URL to access this post Note 12 people commented Click here to place public bookmark to this Post on Delicious The WildlifeDirect Website : The WildlifeDirect Website Slide 14: Campaign: Half a Million Kenyans to Unite Tools: blogs, facebook How these tools are being used: The Sukuma Kenya project was launched in the aftermath of the humanitarian crisis at the beginning of the year. The project is an online donation blog that was launched to raise funds for the thousands of people displaced by the crisis. Within 24 hours of its launch the blog raised US$ 1,500. Online activist Michael Bomet launched a Half a Million Kenyans Unite campaign to unite the people of Kenya against the corruption of the government. The campaign unites people through Facebook and through an on-line petition. The goal is to unite half a million Kenyans in a petition to reduce MPs salaries and privileges. Click on any Tool to read about campaigns using that tool. Portable & Free Software : Portable & Free Software Main Menu – Portable Apps on USB Stick Multimedia Apps on USB Stick To obtain Portable Apps, go to PortableApps.com to get portable versions of OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC Media Player and other software that requires major adaptation to make it portable. Or go to The Portable Freeware Collection which has many more apps than PortableApps.com and has very helpful how to install instructions . Social Bookmarking at Delicious : Social Bookmarking at Delicious Bookmark your Favorite Web Sites online Always available no matter what computer you are using Contribute to others’ knowledge about good Web Sites Use Delicious to search for the Web sites others have found (and bookmarked) to be most useful on your topic. Searching at Delicious : Searching at Delicious Search by Tag : Search by Tag Different Tag Formats – Different Results : Different Tag Formats – Different Results Sources : Sources "E-Activism: Analysis of Black Bloggers in the Blogosphere" Press Release from Brown University, April 5, 2007. Summarizing Brown University researcher Antoinette Pole study of Black Bloggers, whose findings appear in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-130.html Kimchi Mama’s Blog info from “Putting PR People on Notice” dated 7/28/07 in Kimchi Mama’s Blog Lenhart, Amanda & Susannah Fox, "Bloggers: A Report of the Internet's New Storytellers," PEW Internet and American Life Project, July 19, 2006, p. ii. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%20Bloggers%20Report%20July%2019%202006.pdf “Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media,” PEW Internet and American Life Project, Dec. 19, 2007. Full Report at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Social_Media_Final.pdfVisitor Statistics for Feministing.com from Compete.com as visited 2/10/08 reporting data for Jan. 08 http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ Visit our class wiki at ws445.wetpaint.com You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
About Women & Computers Class-Narrated cronegeek Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 40 Category: Education License: Some Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 17, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Describes main topics of the Women and Computer course: Gender, Class and Race Perspectives, How activists use the Web, Hands-on experience with portable apps & online tools Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript WS445/545 Women & Computers : WS445/545 Women & Computers To be offered Spring 2010 Wednesday nights from 5pm to 7:45pm in SH 306 Instructor: Pat Samuel Why Take Women and Computers? : Why Take Women and Computers? It's an interesting and useful class It counts as an elective for the WS Minor and is required for the WS Major Meets the requirements for “Professional Development Courses” in the Social Responsibility graduate program For more information, visit our class wiki at ws445.wetpaint.com/ Topics Covered : Topics Covered Explore the Web using the Lens of Gender, Race, and Class Learn how Social Justice Activists use the Web Hands-on Skill Development – free software and online Web tools How Have Women Contributed to the Development of Computers & Web : How Have Women Contributed to the Development of Computers & Web Institutional Classism : Institutional Classism MySpace vs Facebook. Nonprofits using only Facebook ignore large, non college-educated youth using MySpace. Watch video explaining. Barriers facing low-income kids when Financial Aid application moved online. Study showed that while the high schools all had lots of computers, often broken. Computer labs only open limited hours. Kids didn’t know they had to check their email (nor did their counselors know) in order to learn status of application or how successful. Institutional Racism : Institutional Racism How Social Justice ActivistsUse the Web : How Social Justice ActivistsUse the Web Feministing.com –Feminist Blogging WildLifeDirect – Raise Money and Awareness for small projects to save animals by connecting project staff & supporters via blogs. DigiActive.org – Case studies of how online tools used in various campaigns. Slide 12: The Guerrilla Girls in Canada It's amazing that after 20+ years of existence, the Guerrilla Girls' message is still as resonant and needed as ever. Art museums average 15% women in curated exhibits, women of color .003%, and 4% of museum acquisitions are of work by women artists. Ridiculous. There's no question that the Guerrilla Girls' methods are funfunfun, but are they effective? I'm not blaming the lack of change on these creative, bad ass women, but I do wonder if their antics entertain the choir more than challenging the power brokers. Thoughts? The Permalink – URL to access this post Note 12 people commented Click here to place public bookmark to this Post on Delicious The WildlifeDirect Website : The WildlifeDirect Website Slide 14: Campaign: Half a Million Kenyans to Unite Tools: blogs, facebook How these tools are being used: The Sukuma Kenya project was launched in the aftermath of the humanitarian crisis at the beginning of the year. The project is an online donation blog that was launched to raise funds for the thousands of people displaced by the crisis. Within 24 hours of its launch the blog raised US$ 1,500. Online activist Michael Bomet launched a Half a Million Kenyans Unite campaign to unite the people of Kenya against the corruption of the government. The campaign unites people through Facebook and through an on-line petition. The goal is to unite half a million Kenyans in a petition to reduce MPs salaries and privileges. Click on any Tool to read about campaigns using that tool. Portable & Free Software : Portable & Free Software Main Menu – Portable Apps on USB Stick Multimedia Apps on USB Stick To obtain Portable Apps, go to PortableApps.com to get portable versions of OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC Media Player and other software that requires major adaptation to make it portable. Or go to The Portable Freeware Collection which has many more apps than PortableApps.com and has very helpful how to install instructions . Social Bookmarking at Delicious : Social Bookmarking at Delicious Bookmark your Favorite Web Sites online Always available no matter what computer you are using Contribute to others’ knowledge about good Web Sites Use Delicious to search for the Web sites others have found (and bookmarked) to be most useful on your topic. Searching at Delicious : Searching at Delicious Search by Tag : Search by Tag Different Tag Formats – Different Results : Different Tag Formats – Different Results Sources : Sources "E-Activism: Analysis of Black Bloggers in the Blogosphere" Press Release from Brown University, April 5, 2007. Summarizing Brown University researcher Antoinette Pole study of Black Bloggers, whose findings appear in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-130.html Kimchi Mama’s Blog info from “Putting PR People on Notice” dated 7/28/07 in Kimchi Mama’s Blog Lenhart, Amanda & Susannah Fox, "Bloggers: A Report of the Internet's New Storytellers," PEW Internet and American Life Project, July 19, 2006, p. ii. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%20Bloggers%20Report%20July%2019%202006.pdf “Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media,” PEW Internet and American Life Project, Dec. 19, 2007. Full Report at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Social_Media_Final.pdfVisitor Statistics for Feministing.com from Compete.com as visited 2/10/08 reporting data for Jan. 08 http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ Visit our class wiki at ws445.wetpaint.com