Week 12- 11/8 and 11/10

We started off the week by talking about cloud computing and how Dr. Wilkes uses it in his bee keeping. We watched a really interesting video of a swarm of Dr. Wilkes bees. I would not want to be near them. On thursday, we started discussing the topics that we had to research. One of the topics we talked about were how hate groups use the internet. There is actually a website where you can see the different hate groups and their location in the U.S. This site also allows you to see how many hate groups are in each state. During this conversation we watched a video interview of the wife of the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church and Anonymous which was quite ridiculous. Another thing we talked about was the role of the internet in overthrowing the government in Egypt and Tunisia. People were able to organize and plan on the internet. It is amazing the number of ways the internet is used throughout the world today.