As a follow up to my presentation today I have created a wiki on Zoho for you to experiment with. Feel free to check it out at http://techietami.wiki.zoho.com/.
You should be able to add your own information and edit existing information.
Enjoy!
Welcome
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
EON Day 2
Day 2 of the EON conference was another hit. Thanks to Trinity, Kathy, Marcia, Judy, Tina, Judy and Gretchen for all of their hard work!
Technology was the word today. You in the network are interested and today's sessions were well attended. We had a great deal of fun in the Techno Tools session looking at VOIP, Skype, Bluetooth, Smart Tools and even twittered. (I'm TechieTami on Skype and Twitter if you ever want to find me!) Great discussion in our forum on marketing non-traditional software application training (open source, etc). I appreciate everyone's participation in those two sessions plus the session I did with Debby Peters on low cost marketing strategies.
I talked about a Social Networking series that I am hosting via elearning technologies. Click here for more information if you are interested in signing up.
If you are checking out this blog because you heard about it at the conference, please use the comment feature and let us know.
Technology was the word today. You in the network are interested and today's sessions were well attended. We had a great deal of fun in the Techno Tools session looking at VOIP, Skype, Bluetooth, Smart Tools and even twittered. (I'm TechieTami on Skype and Twitter if you ever want to find me!) Great discussion in our forum on marketing non-traditional software application training (open source, etc). I appreciate everyone's participation in those two sessions plus the session I did with Debby Peters on low cost marketing strategies.
I talked about a Social Networking series that I am hosting via elearning technologies. Click here for more information if you are interested in signing up.
If you are checking out this blog because you heard about it at the conference, please use the comment feature and let us know.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Live from EON
Day 1 of the EON conference is in the books and went well. The IT Roundtable found some great discussion about trends in the IT market and the need of the network campuses to keep up and to collaborate. A great article from Gartner on the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009 was reviewed (click here to read more). We also received an article entitled "Service Management May be the Degree of the Future" (click here to read).
A special guest was Sanjay Dudaney of the Ohio IT Alliance (www.OhioITA.org). Sanjay discussed the purpose of the alliance and was very interested to learn of the mission of EON. We hope our two organizations will be able to collaborate in our shared effort of furthering Ohio's technology proficiency and making Ohio more competitive in the global marketplace.
In the afternoon we had two sessions that focused on distance learning. There are many options out there that campuses can explore as an additional service to provide our clients.
A special guest was Sanjay Dudaney of the Ohio IT Alliance (www.OhioITA.org). Sanjay discussed the purpose of the alliance and was very interested to learn of the mission of EON. We hope our two organizations will be able to collaborate in our shared effort of furthering Ohio's technology proficiency and making Ohio more competitive in the global marketplace.
In the afternoon we had two sessions that focused on distance learning. There are many options out there that campuses can explore as an additional service to provide our clients.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Technology Sessions at EON
Lots of opportunities for technology updates at next week's EnterpriseOhio Network fall conference:
10/28
IT Roundtable 10-12 Trombley & Norris
The Online Learning Process 2 - 3:15 Trombley & Bautz
Online Learning Vendors 3:45 - 5:00 Trombley & Bautz
Sakai Collaboration & Learning Environment 3:45 - 5:00 Akir
10/29
A New Generation of Learning 9:45 - 10:45 Milliron
Easy eMarketing Using Student Manager 1:30 - 2:30 Vogley & Boettger
New Techno Tools 1:30 - 2:30Trombley & Norris
Computer Application Training...You Mean There is Life Beyond Microsoft? 2:45 - 3:45 Norris
Hope to see you there.
10/28
IT Roundtable 10-12 Trombley & Norris
The Online Learning Process 2 - 3:15 Trombley & Bautz
Online Learning Vendors 3:45 - 5:00 Trombley & Bautz
Sakai Collaboration & Learning Environment 3:45 - 5:00 Akir
10/29
A New Generation of Learning 9:45 - 10:45 Milliron
Easy eMarketing Using Student Manager 1:30 - 2:30 Vogley & Boettger
New Techno Tools 1:30 - 2:30Trombley & Norris
Computer Application Training...You Mean There is Life Beyond Microsoft? 2:45 - 3:45 Norris
Hope to see you there.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Clickjacking
Submitted by Julie Sharrow, Youngstown State
"Clickjacking (also known as user-interface or UI redressing and IFRAME overlay) is an exploit in which malicious coding is hidden beneath apparently legitimate buttons or other clickable content on a website.
Here's one example, among many possible scenarios: A visitor to a site thinks he is clicking on a button to close a window; instead, the action of clicking the "X" button prompts the computer to download a Trojan horse, transfer money from a bank account or turn on the computer's built-in microphone. The host website may be a legitimate site that's been hacked or a spoofed version of some well-known site. The attacker tricks users into visiting the site through links online or in email messages.
Researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen discovered the vulnerability. Here's how they describe the issue:
Think of any button on any Web site, internal or external, that you can get to appear between the browser walls, wire transfers on banks, Digg buttons, CPC advertising banners, Netflix queue, etc. The list is virtually endless and these are relatively harmless examples. Next, consider that an attack can invisibly hover these buttons below the users' mouse, so that when they click on something they visually see, they actually are clicking on something the attacker wants them to. [...] Say you have a home wireless router that you had authenticated prior to going to a web site. [The malicious coding] could place a tag under your mouse that frames in a single button an order to the router to, for example, delete all firewall rules.
The issue is said to result from an integral flaw in browser software and affects Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Safari and Opera. In fact, only non-GUI browsers, such as Lynx, are protected, simply because there is nothing in the interface that's clickable.
According to Hansen, there are multiple variants of clickjacking: "Some of it requires cross domain access, some doesn't. Some overlay entire pages over a page, some use iframes to get you to click on one spot. Some require JavaScript, some don't."
In his Security Corner blog, Ken Harthun advises: "For now, everyone should immediately disable scripting and iframes in whatever browser they're using. Firefox users should install NoScript and set the "Plugins Forbid iframe" option... I also recommend that everyone review US-CERT's article 'Securing Your Web Browser' to insure maximum protection against this and other security risks."
"Clickjacking (also known as user-interface or UI redressing and IFRAME overlay) is an exploit in which malicious coding is hidden beneath apparently legitimate buttons or other clickable content on a website.
Here's one example, among many possible scenarios: A visitor to a site thinks he is clicking on a button to close a window; instead, the action of clicking the "X" button prompts the computer to download a Trojan horse, transfer money from a bank account or turn on the computer's built-in microphone. The host website may be a legitimate site that's been hacked or a spoofed version of some well-known site. The attacker tricks users into visiting the site through links online or in email messages.
Researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen discovered the vulnerability. Here's how they describe the issue:
Think of any button on any Web site, internal or external, that you can get to appear between the browser walls, wire transfers on banks, Digg buttons, CPC advertising banners, Netflix queue, etc. The list is virtually endless and these are relatively harmless examples. Next, consider that an attack can invisibly hover these buttons below the users' mouse, so that when they click on something they visually see, they actually are clicking on something the attacker wants them to. [...] Say you have a home wireless router that you had authenticated prior to going to a web site. [The malicious coding] could place a tag under your mouse that frames in a single button an order to the router to, for example, delete all firewall rules.
The issue is said to result from an integral flaw in browser software and affects Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Safari and Opera. In fact, only non-GUI browsers, such as Lynx, are protected, simply because there is nothing in the interface that's clickable.
According to Hansen, there are multiple variants of clickjacking: "Some of it requires cross domain access, some doesn't. Some overlay entire pages over a page, some use iframes to get you to click on one spot. Some require JavaScript, some don't."
In his Security Corner blog, Ken Harthun advises: "For now, everyone should immediately disable scripting and iframes in whatever browser they're using. Firefox users should install NoScript and set the "Plugins Forbid iframe" option... I also recommend that everyone review US-CERT's article 'Securing Your Web Browser' to insure maximum protection against this and other security risks."
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Open Office 3.0 Out, But Can You Get It?
OpenOffice.org version 3.0 released Monday, but the high demand for the open source application overwhelmed the company's servers and users have had a hard time getting to the site. As of the writing of this blog, the site is still down, but does direct you to several mirror sites where you can download the software.
What makes this version so desirable is that it "supports the OpenDocument Format 1.2 standard, and can also open files (“docx”) created with Microsoft’s Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac OS X. It also features a new Start Centre, icons and zoom control in the status bar."
Let us know when you get it downloaded and what your thoughts are on this new release.
What makes this version so desirable is that it "supports the OpenDocument Format 1.2 standard, and can also open files (“docx”) created with Microsoft’s Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac OS X. It also features a new Start Centre, icons and zoom control in the status bar."
Let us know when you get it downloaded and what your thoughts are on this new release.
Friday, October 10, 2008
IT's Continuing Impact on Higher Education
Today's "Inside Higher Ed" contains a summary of results from the latest Educause survey. Educause is an organizations which "which represents information technology in higher education." The survey was a collection of responses from 1,016 campuses, across all types of institutions and included many schools in Ohio among which were the University of Toledo, Case Western and Ohio Northern to name a few.
The survey points to an ever increasing need for technology-proficient professionals in the field of education. A few items of note from the survey:
Use of open source software increased to almost 51 percent of responding institutions, from 47 percent the previous year and 32 percent in 2005.
Over 35 percent of the institutions surveyed reported that they use course management systems such as Blackboard, WebCT or open source solutions like Moodle or Sakai for all or almost all of their courses, up from 29 percent the previous year. Only half a percent said they didn’t or didn’t plan to use such a system at all.
Among various technologies deployed on campus networks, several saw marked increases last year, including software that blocks spyware, personal firewalls and voice over IP (VoIP), among others.
Sixty-eight percent said they had performed a formal campus IT risk assessment, up from 63 percent last year. Forty-nine percent have deployed emergency notification systems (such as text message alerts) and 47 percent are exploring their options.
Link to the survey results: http://net.educause.edu/apps/coredata/reports/2007/index.asp?bhcp=1
I would submit that now is an important time for IT in higher education. First that we have a strong IT department to support programs and initiatives. Second that we have strong IT programs in both credit and non-credit offerings. Third that if we do not have strong offerings that we look to collaborate with those campuses that do through partnerships.
What emerging trends do you see in IT?
Is IT an outdated term? What should we call it?
Are higher education institutions in Ohio equipped to fill the need for IT workers?
The survey points to an ever increasing need for technology-proficient professionals in the field of education. A few items of note from the survey:
Use of open source software increased to almost 51 percent of responding institutions, from 47 percent the previous year and 32 percent in 2005.
Over 35 percent of the institutions surveyed reported that they use course management systems such as Blackboard, WebCT or open source solutions like Moodle or Sakai for all or almost all of their courses, up from 29 percent the previous year. Only half a percent said they didn’t or didn’t plan to use such a system at all.
Among various technologies deployed on campus networks, several saw marked increases last year, including software that blocks spyware, personal firewalls and voice over IP (VoIP), among others.
Sixty-eight percent said they had performed a formal campus IT risk assessment, up from 63 percent last year. Forty-nine percent have deployed emergency notification systems (such as text message alerts) and 47 percent are exploring their options.
Link to the survey results: http://net.educause.edu/apps/coredata/reports/2007/index.asp?bhcp=1
I would submit that now is an important time for IT in higher education. First that we have a strong IT department to support programs and initiatives. Second that we have strong IT programs in both credit and non-credit offerings. Third that if we do not have strong offerings that we look to collaborate with those campuses that do through partnerships.
What emerging trends do you see in IT?
Is IT an outdated term? What should we call it?
Are higher education institutions in Ohio equipped to fill the need for IT workers?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
NCCET Update 2
Another good day at the conference.
This morning I attended a session by Stark State's Russ O'Neill on Kids College. They really have an amazing program and I would suggest contacting either Russ at Stark or Terra CC if you are interested in launching this initiative at your campus.
Our lunch speaker was Lt. Governor Lee Fisher. The LG spoke to the important role workforce development plays in the economic welfare of Ohio. If we want to be competitive we must have adequate educational resources. A few points..
"...need for critical thinkers for tomorrow..."
"We have to engage with the world"
"...skate where the puck is going..."
In the afternoon, Tina and I presented on EON and the IT project. It was a small group so we were able to have good conversation regarding the importance of networking. I content that to be successful, we must network with our vendors, our peers (other workforce development divisions) and our clients.
Tom Wylie attended an interesting session on Social Media and it aligns nicely with what the Lt. Governor said and with a movie that Tina & I will play at the EON IT Roundtable later this month...there are more people on MySpace than there is the population of the US and there are more text messages being sent daily than there are cell calls being made. The paradigm has shifted...have you?
This morning I attended a session by Stark State's Russ O'Neill on Kids College. They really have an amazing program and I would suggest contacting either Russ at Stark or Terra CC if you are interested in launching this initiative at your campus.
Our lunch speaker was Lt. Governor Lee Fisher. The LG spoke to the important role workforce development plays in the economic welfare of Ohio. If we want to be competitive we must have adequate educational resources. A few points..
"...need for critical thinkers for tomorrow..."
"We have to engage with the world"
"...skate where the puck is going..."
In the afternoon, Tina and I presented on EON and the IT project. It was a small group so we were able to have good conversation regarding the importance of networking. I content that to be successful, we must network with our vendors, our peers (other workforce development divisions) and our clients.
Tom Wylie attended an interesting session on Social Media and it aligns nicely with what the Lt. Governor said and with a movie that Tina & I will play at the EON IT Roundtable later this month...there are more people on MySpace than there is the population of the US and there are more text messages being sent daily than there are cell calls being made. The paradigm has shifted...have you?
Monday, October 6, 2008
NCCET Update 1
Quick update before dinner:
Sunday's keynote was Beth Mooney, Vice Chair of Key Corp. Beth brought us an update on the events that led up to the crisis in the mortgage industry.
After the keynote was the first round of sessions.
I attended a session on "Creating an Institute of Government." This was presented by Tom Davenport of Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and was a good overview of working with local municipalities and elected officials to set up a training program for them.
The second session I attended was "Recession Proof Your Contract Training." In this session the room was full. Great ideas for keep up revenue in difficult financial times (I will post some of the tips later).
Monday brought my presentation on "eLearning is More than Online Courses" and in the afternoon a session on EON & Aceware. We also had a chance to meet with other members of the Great Lakes region and discuss future directions for NCCET.
Have seen several campus members from Ohio including Owens, Stark State, Terra and Washington State.
Well...off to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More to follow.
Sunday's keynote was Beth Mooney, Vice Chair of Key Corp. Beth brought us an update on the events that led up to the crisis in the mortgage industry.
After the keynote was the first round of sessions.
I attended a session on "Creating an Institute of Government." This was presented by Tom Davenport of Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and was a good overview of working with local municipalities and elected officials to set up a training program for them.
The second session I attended was "Recession Proof Your Contract Training." In this session the room was full. Great ideas for keep up revenue in difficult financial times (I will post some of the tips later).
Monday brought my presentation on "eLearning is More than Online Courses" and in the afternoon a session on EON & Aceware. We also had a chance to meet with other members of the Great Lakes region and discuss future directions for NCCET.
Have seen several campus members from Ohio including Owens, Stark State, Terra and Washington State.
Well...off to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More to follow.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Live from NCCET
Well after dealing with a bout of the flu, I arrived mid-morning today at NCCET in Cleveland. I will be blogging about various events throughout the conference. I am especially interested in hearing the session titled "Recession Proof Your Contract Training Unit" and the Tuesday luncheon speaker, Lee Fisher.
Good luck to the EON members who are presenting. Look forward to connecting with our Ohio counterparts!
Good luck to the EON members who are presenting. Look forward to connecting with our Ohio counterparts!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Ning Site Launches
Just wanted to give a quick update on the Ning site I have created for the EON IT project. Ning is a social networking site that can accept RSS feeds, videos, discussion, photos and more. In fact I have some pictures from the ACEware conference uploaded on the site.
My thought is this can be a playground of sorts for you, our EON gang. If you would like to see the site visit http://eonohioit.ning.com/ to see what we have so far. If you would like to become a member email me at tnorris@northweststate.edu.
My thought is this can be a playground of sorts for you, our EON gang. If you would like to see the site visit http://eonohioit.ning.com/ to see what we have so far. If you would like to become a member email me at tnorris@northweststate.edu.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Productive Blogging
I read an article today entitled "Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students." This article is on Campus Technology and while this site is geared toward degree/certificate programs, I find that it has a great deal of useful information for workforce development/non-credit programs as well.
To summarize, the 5 mistakes are:
1. Ineffective Contextualization
2. Unclear Learning Outcomes
3. Misuse of the environment
4. Illusive grading practices
5. Inadequate time allocation
To apply these to blogging with our students/clients I took away the following:
1. There should be a clear reason for the blog. Is it to discuss trends, technology, business?
2. Your target audience needs to know where it is, what it is and how to use it. Some will take more time than others.
3. Blogs are not wikis or chat rooms. "The essential difference between a blog and other online tools is that it is intended to be an individual publication: a one-way monologue or self-post to which others may comment but do not contribute. The original post remains as the person who posted it wanted it to be."
4. If you are going to use a blog as a tool in one of your classes, make sure the students understand the learning outcome. Is it online proficiency? Learning to analyze and articulate a position? If they don't know what you are expecting you are setting them up to fail.
Please let us know if you have successfully incorporated a blog into your campus or program.
To summarize, the 5 mistakes are:
1. Ineffective Contextualization
2. Unclear Learning Outcomes
3. Misuse of the environment
4. Illusive grading practices
5. Inadequate time allocation
To apply these to blogging with our students/clients I took away the following:
1. There should be a clear reason for the blog. Is it to discuss trends, technology, business?
2. Your target audience needs to know where it is, what it is and how to use it. Some will take more time than others.
3. Blogs are not wikis or chat rooms. "The essential difference between a blog and other online tools is that it is intended to be an individual publication: a one-way monologue or self-post to which others may comment but do not contribute. The original post remains as the person who posted it wanted it to be."
4. If you are going to use a blog as a tool in one of your classes, make sure the students understand the learning outcome. Is it online proficiency? Learning to analyze and articulate a position? If they don't know what you are expecting you are setting them up to fail.
Please let us know if you have successfully incorporated a blog into your campus or program.
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