Project Objective

The final project is an 'Infographic' that will provide an overview of your group's perspectives on ethics. The content should summarize your dialogues for the prompts released over the semester, and highlight the most important, interesting, or contrarian ideas that surfaced. Like the podcast, video and letter to the editor from the earlier units, this should be a fun and creative way for your group to showcase what you have learned about ethics in computing. 

The Infographic is due 5/9 at 12:00pm.

Dialogue Guidelines  

Review the Dialogue Trainee Manual for information on how your dialogue sessions should be conducted.

Appoint one of your group members as the Facilitator. The facilitator's role will be to lead each discussion, and to keep the group organized. This means maintaining the focus of the group, helping to move the conversation towards the end goal of the creation of the Infographic and scheduling meetings and making sure everyone attends. Only one person should serve as the facilitator for the entire unit. The facilitator for this project should be different from your facilitators for the last three units.

Each group member should be given an equal voice in the dialogues, and have equal input in the Infographic. 

Keep the discussions friendly and avoid arguments (this isn't Twitter!), but don't shy away from ideas that might be considered controversial.

Documenting Your Discussion on the Weekly Prompts 

Appoint one of your group members as the Scribe. Only one person should serve as the scribe for the entire unit. The scribe for this project should be different from the scribes for the last three units.

The scribe's role will be to keep notes for each session. The ideas the group wants to highlight in the Infographic should be recorded, along with any context you want to provide for why those ideas are important (Did an idea trigger a long dialogue? Were there diverging opinions on it when it was raised? Was it an idea that was new to the entire group?). You don't need to turn in the notes, but they should be reflected in the Infographic that is submitted as the project's deliverable.

Creating the Infographic

The Infographic must meet the following requirements:

1. It must include an element from each individual member. These elements should reflect a specific idea from the group's dialogues. 

2. The arrangement of the elements should tell a coherent story about ethics in computing, reflecting the group's consensus on this topic. 

3. The Infographic should make use of photos, illustrations and explanatory diagrams in a visually appealing way to explain the relevant material. 

Make sure to note at the very bottom of the Infographic who was the facilitator and who was the scribe. 

The Scribe will upload the infographic to canvas.

Expectations of Group Effort

All members of the group should contribute their fair share to the dialogues and the Infographic. The Facilitator and Scribe are expected to put in some extra work.  

Each group member should submit an effort form to indicate what they thought was the effort each person put into the dialogues and Infographic. These effort reports will be factored into the individual grades that will be assigned to the students in the group.   

Dr. KB will be grading the Infographics, and is very interested in what you have to say. Some of you will go on to work in the computer security industry following graduation, and your ideas may shape the future of this area of computer science. This project will help you reflect on how to apply what you learned moving forward.