Information Services

Contributed by Emily Riggs, ITAP Communication Consultant

October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. In past years, DePauw University chose to spend the last week in October to educate students and faculty about cyber security. This year, the Student Technology Support team at DePauw decided to start the fun a little earlier and offered many opportunities and activities to raise awareness of the issues throughout the month. Cyber Security Awareness Month is a great opportunity to educate students, faculty and staff on many topics related to cyber security, including virus scanning, protection of digital data, prevention of stolen identities through the internet, and education about simple computer maintenance. The increase in awareness and education of these issues is not only of great benefit to individuals; it also helps create a safer technological environment for everyone on campus.

Throughout the month of October, the Student Technology Support team introduced four Cyber Security villains to the DePauw Community. Students, faculty and staff were invited to aid our local superheros, The CyberCats, in bringing these villains to justice and restoring technological peace back to campus. Radio PSAs, posters and emails announced the villains’ pictures and the crimes they committed, along with links to websites, each with a short quiz on a particular cyber security issue. Answering the questions correctly not only helped stop the cyber villains, it registered participants in a drawing for their choice of an Amazon or iTunes giftcard. In addition, a video contest was offered inviting students to submit 30-second  videos to be used later as public service announcements, with a Panasonic USB digital video camcorder prize as incentive.

Cyber Security Awareness month provides an annual reminder of the need to engage year-round in safe practices to protect ourselves and the campus community from constantly changing technology threats. Building this foundation of knowledge helps reduce the load on DePauw’s technology support resources, which in turn allows them to serve the DePauw community more efficiently. It also creates a safer environment for students and the university community, as well as protect important documents and the information that is stored on any given computer. For more information on Cyber Security issues and to learn what you can do to help prevent them, refer to the healthy computing section on DePauw University’s HelpDesk website.

Mara Mote '11

And, the winners are…

Mara Mote, a junior in ITAP, won the CSAW Video Contest’s Judges Choice Award with her 30-second public service announcement on identity theft.  View Mara’s winning entry, as well as the other PSA contest entries on phishing, viruses and data backup here.  The online quiz winners - determined by a random drawing of all participants who’d answered the questions correctly - won their choice of an Amazon or iTunes giftcard. The winners are Zakary Phillips ‘11 (Identity Theft), Stephanie Wood ‘11 (Viruses), Kevin Bunge ‘10 (Laptop Theft), and Amber Goode ‘03 (Data Backup). Congratulations and thanks to all participants for helping us promote awareness of cyber security issues this year!

Workshop for Campus Web Authors - Dreamweaver Basic
Sept 29 at 3:30-4:30pm

This session will cover using Dreamweaver to create and edit web pages but it will not address using the DePauw Template.

To register:

E-mail webteam@depauw.edu. Be sure to include the title and time of the session you wish to attend.

Questions? Contact:

Andrea Adamchak ( webteam at depauw.edu)
DePauw Web Team

Tablet PC Workshop for Students - Tuesday, September 22, 7 - 8pm
Roy O. West Instruction Room A

Do you want to learn how to utilize a Tablet PC’s special pen functions?

Join this session and learn how to write on documents, take notes in OneNote, annotate presentations and more.

If you have questions, contact Michael Gough (michaelgough@depauw.edu)

What’s a Tablet PC?

A Tablet PC is fully-functional Windows laptop with a screen that enables you to write directly on the screen using a special pen (included with the computer). You can also rotate the screen 180 degrees and lay it flat over the keyboard for a more comfortable reading and writing experience.

This makes it easy to perform a number of common tasks such as drawing diagrams while taking notes in class and making hand-written annotations or highlighting marks on PDF documents while doing assigned reading.  In addition, some DePauw courses use special collaboration software that works very naturally with Tablet PCs.

Tablet PCs at DePauw — Watch the video!

** This event is sponsored by Student Technology Support.

FITS invites you to the following events during the week of Sept. 14.

Monday, Sept. 14   1:00-2:00 pm ET  Julian 135
ELI Webinar: Teaching Without Walls: Life Beyond the Lecture

Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, will moderate this web seminar with Michelle Pacansky-Brock
(ELI webinars are archived, so please contact Donnie Sendelbach if you are interested but cannot make this day and time)

Tuesday, Sept. 15  2:00-3:00 pm ET   Julian 135
Campus Technology Webinar: Preparing Your Students for the New Era of Journalism: Backpack Journalism and Documentary Film Making

Sponsored By Sony

Thursday, Sept. 17 4:00-5:00 pm   mitc Lab (inside the Music Library in the GCPA)
Introduction to Moodle

Led by Veronica Pejril

For a listing of all upcoming events sponsored by FITS, visit FITS Events.

If you have questions about or suggestions for future FITS events,
contact Donnie Sendelbach, Director of Instructional and Learning Services,
 donniesendelbach at depauw.edu.