In preparation for summer school, all voice mailboxes will be deleted Wednesday, May 22nd. Please be sure to retrieve all voice mail messages before that day, or all messages will be lost.
Thank you and have a great summer!
We would never ask you for your username and password in an email.
Recently many of us received a variant of the following message:
——— Forwarded message ———-
From: Bucknell University <acorrao@iwu.edu>
Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Hello
To:Your two incoming mails is on pending status due to our recent
database upgrade Click,
http://bucknelluniversity.webs.com/ to lo-gin for online account
upgrade and await Tech Desk for response,we
apologies for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.Sign
Tech Desk
Lewisburg PA 17837
Ph:570.567.2000
Email:Techdesk1@bucknell.edu
Copyright © 2008 Bucknell University All rights reserved.
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This is a wonderful opportunity to educate ourselves on what to look for in a phishing email. This message shows a number of signs of a scam:
1. WE WOULD NEVER ASK YOU FOR YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD IN AN EMAIL!
2. Who is “acorrao@iwu.edu” and why would his or her name be “Bucknell University?”
3. The grammar and punctuation throughout the email leaves much to be desired.
4. The URL you are invited to visit–bucknelluniversity.webs.com–is a bit “phishy,” don’t you think?
5. If you actually visit the site (which I don’t recommend–I was just curious), someone made what appears to be a fifth-grade attempt at replicating a legitimate Bucknell web site asking for your username and password.
6. WE WOULD NEVER ASK YOU FOR YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD IN AN EMAIL!
7. Looking at the signature, who is “Tech Desk?” A Bucknell staff member always signs our emails (looks us up in the directory!)
8. The phone number and email for “Tech Desk” are both wrong.
9. Why cite a copyright from 2008 in a Tech Desk email of this nature?
10. And finally, WE WOULD NEVER ASK YOU FOR YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD IN AN EMAIL!
Hopefully few, if any, have fallen for this scam. However, if you or someone you know did we strongly encourage you to change your Bucknell password immediately.
As always, if you have any further questions or concerns please contact Tech Support at techdesk@bucknell.edu or by calling 570.577.7777. (Yes, this contact information is indeed legitimate.)
Our library catalog, Worldcat, has announced that it now lists two billion holdings in libraries all over the world! Bucknell’s holdings are part of that giant database.
See the press release here: http://www.oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2013/201322dublin.html
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), launched on April 18th, 2013, arose from the vision of a national digital library with millions of items from libraries, museums, and archives across the country. Leaders from libraries, academia, foundations, and technology projects are collaborating to create “an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources that would draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums in order to educate, inform, and empower everyone in current and future generations.” Search DPLA with the main search box, then refine results by subject, location, date, format, and language. Browse DPLA’s fascinating exhibitions, or browse by subject, map, or timeline.
Library and Information Technology is pleased to announce our summer 2013 workshops
Innovation Sandbox: Strategies for the Classroom
May 13, 1- 3 pm
Drop in to the Library Lab, BERT 025 (no need to register)
Looking for additional ways to engage students with course concepts and materials? Check out the L&IT sandbox and try out some new tools while talking with a librarian or an instructional technologist about how you might incorporate them into your classroom. Stop by and learn more about GIS and spatial thinking, digital storytelling and video production, visualization, embedding a librarian and/or an instructional technologist in a course, blended learning or the flipped classroom, and working with primary sources. This May Plan session is sponsored by the Dean’s Office of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Intro to GIS:
May 20 – 23, 9am-1pm
This hands-on workshop is designed to be broadly useful to faculty, regardless of their specific disciplines and areas of research. To make the experience more meaningful and relevant, this workshop, which introduces faculty to geospatial project development will feature local data and topics of interest. This is a grant-funded workshop that will provide up to 12 faculty with a stipend of $400. The workshop has no prerequisites. Lunch will be provided.
Video Workshop
August 5 – 8, 10 am – 3 pm
If you are interested in incorporating a video assignment into your classroom, attend this hands-on workshop. We will cover major components of a video assignment, including concept development, script writing, storyboarding, narration, filming, equipment selection, editing, and assessment. All participants will complete two video assignments: one collaborative and one individual. Please come with a digital story idea, images and/or video clips; refer to the Center for Digital Storytelling for ideas http://www.storycenter.org/. The workshop provides up to 11 faculty a stipend of $400. Lunch will be provided.
Teaching with Technology
August 19 – 23, 9 am – 12 pm
During this week our sessions will focus on some of the most relevant and exciting innovations emerging in teaching and learning. Through a combination of best practices examples and hands-on sessions, faculty will explore how digital pedagogies are re-framing research and classroom practices. Topics include:
Mon: Digital Collaboration - an introduction to technologies for collaborating with students and fellow scholars in a range of disciplines
Tues: Visualization methods - exploration of a variety of programs for visualizing data
Wed: Approaches to spatial thinking - a survey of web-based programs for mapping data with spatial dimensions
Thurs: Strategies for flipping the classroom - a brief overview discussing why and how to flip your classroom, with opportunities to test technologies including Doceri, a Wacom tablet, and traditional tablet computers
Fri: Why and how to create a website for your course - Discussion of the benefits for creating a website for your course; we will focus on using WordPress and Google Sites
Faculty can sign up for one session or for the whole week, a $100 stipend available for each session.
Many faculty and staff from Coleman, Vaughn Lit, Olin, Carnegie, Botany, and Taylor will be moving to new offices this summer, with some making stops in temporary offices. For information on what it means for technology–your computers, monitors, telephones, etc., please go to myBucknell and check out the Reminders. All the latest information from Library & IT and Facilities is located there.
For Faculty and Staff receiving a Bucknell issued computer this year, some important notes:
While your computer will come with the most frequently used software (see below), you will need to install any unique software or devices attached to your computer. Please allow enough time to install any programs you may need after the upgrade.
Important Note for Laptops:
You must install software from Self Service (Mac) or Run Advertised Programs (Windows) while you are on campus.
Your New Macintosh Computer will have the the following:
Mac OS 10.8
Microsoft Office 2011
Chrome 26
Mozilla Firefox 20
Safari 6.x
Additional programs can be installed through Self Service in Applications
Your New Windows Computer will have:
Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
Microsoft Office 2010
Adobe Reader X1
Mozilla Firefox 20
Internet Explorer 8
Chrome 26
Microsoft Forefront (Anti-Virus)
Additional programs can be installed through Run Advertised Programs in Control Panels
MozyPro: Windows computers will automatically install MozyPro within one week. Mac users will receive an email from MozyPro with a link and a license code to install or reinstall Mozy Pro.
