Halloween?

 Many of us traditionally celebrate halloween by donning costumes and making a trek to our neighbors’ homes in search of tricks or treats. But do we really know why?  For an answer to the reason why, check out this website:  http://www.halloween.com/

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month:

Each year, the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joins with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and other partners to support National Cyber Security Awareness Month, a national campaign focused on educating the American public, businesses, schools and government agencies about ways to secure their part of cyber space, computers and our nation’s critical infrastructure.

The goal of National Cyber Security Awareness Month is to educate everyday Internet users on how to “Protect Yourself Before You Connect Yourself”, by taking simple and effective steps. These steps will teach Internet users how to safeguard one’s computer from the latest online threats, offer ways to respond to potential cyber-crime incidents, and link how each person’s cyber security affects securing our nation’s critical infrastructure. (http://staysafeonline.org/events/index2007b.html)

This link will take you to some excellent information: http://staysafeonline.org/index.html

I’m fixing to put up a bulletin board in the Parham Campus Library using these posters created last year at Indiana University : http://itpo.iu.edu/education/ncamkit.html.  The picture here is one of them.

Wikipedia – Quality or Quantity?

As noted in a recent article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Quality, not quantity, has become Priority No. 1″ for Wikipedia.  Which direction do you think Wikipedia should take?

Free Online Videos

The following are freely available streaming video resources.  These  can be used for your class lectures and/or linked to Blackboard for students’ use. Check them out at http://www.vivalib.org/collect/online_resources.html.