Phishing is the fraudulent act of obtaining information through email or instant messaging by falsely claiming to be a trusted source. 
The message will usually alert you to a fake problem and offer to fix it by asking for your bank account information, PINs, or password. Some of these attempts are very realistic in appearance and may even direct you to a familiar looking website. It is a good rule of thumb to never respond to any emails of this nature, regardless how valid they may appear. Call your credit card company, IT administrator, help desk, etc., if you doubt the validity of a message.
Use the tagging feature in Depot to quickly locate and organize your resources.
Once you’ve uploaded a resource, add a few keywords to your description make it easier for others to find. If you’ve got several organizers that are all related, assigning them the same keyword will allow them to show up together. When you are finished, click Save Resource information.
You can also edit your own existing resources by clicking the edit button on the right side and then add tags.
Web conferencing tools are used to communicate as a substitute for face-to-face meetings and training sessions on the Internet. Each participant is able to log in through a computer in the comfort of their home or office and can collaborate with other participants about a common topic. Here at the Center for Research on Learning, it will usually be through a web-based application, such as Adobe Connect, where participants can access the meeting by clicking a link distributed through email or this blog to enter the conference.
At the beginning of each month, Stratepedia is creating a custom work of art for you to download as your desktop wallpaper. Just pick the size you need and click on the link below to download to your computer. Select the image as your new desktop background in your computer’s system preferences or right-click on the image and select “Set as Desktop Background.” You can select to stretch the image to fit your background also.
Download here:
March Calendar (1280 x 800)
March Calendar (1024 x 768)
The term, bandwidth, refers to the amount of data that can be sent through a network connection. It is usually measured in bps, which stands for bits per second. I read a great analogy that relates bandwidth to cars traveling on a highway. The highway is the internet connection and the cars are the different bits of information being shared back and forth. A four-lane highway allows for more cars and faster traffic flow as opposed to a two-lane highway. Therefore, the more bandwidth you’ve got, the more information you can share in a shorter amount of time. This also applies to streaming audio or video online. Your chances of success are greater if you’ve got more bandwidth to work with.
Here are a few ways to test your connection abilities:
-Speedtest.net (Click the Begin Test button on the map)
-Connection Doctor for Mac users. Access this tool in either Mail or iChat.
-Adobe Connect. We use this connection test to prepare for webinars.
So last week I asked you to share some ideas with us regarding the content published on this blog, specifically my Wednesday posts. We had 24 participants provide us with some great insight. We definitely have a diversified group when it comes to your personal technology preferences. The survey is now closed, but please feel free to share ideas in the comment section if you’ve got something to add. Thank you for your input and look, in the weeks to come, for content geared toward what you’ve shared. Here are the results:
A few weeks ago, we hosted two similar Depot webinars to serve as a refresher for Depot members. You can now view the recorded sessions in the archives on Stratepedia’s webinar site.
Depot (re)introduction
Aaron – Monday, Feb. 1
Amber – Thursday, Feb. 4
In the sessions we also mention the Depot Introduction Handout which is available here if you don’t already have it.
Cloud computing is a more cost-effective internet-based approach to storing information. It is an alternative method to hosting websites on multiple servers physically located in a random building. If you’ve got three minutes to spare, check out this great video from the Plain English series by CommonCraft.
What is useful to you? I believe it is important to deliver content relevant to our audience and useful in your professional, and even personal, lives. In order to provide you with meaningful information every week, I’d like to pick your brains and give you the chance to weigh in on what is shared during these weekly Wednesday posts of mine. I would be ever so grateful if you’d take a few minutes to answer the survey below. Your answers will go to a private Google Docs database for me to review.
Thank you!
