Beyond Lost: File Management & Data Protection

Beyond Lost: File Management & Data Protection

Have you ever felt lost while perusing your own computer files? It’s one thing to lose a PDF. It’s another thing to mistake files, delete information, or hoard unnecessary duplicates because you don’t have a consistent system in place for saving and organizing data. Add to that the files and metadata we produce without even noticing and it’s easy to see how anyone can lose perspective on the sensitive information we store on our personal computers. This workshop will discuss strategies for organizing, preserving, and securing data so that it remains accessible to you—and only you.

April 5th, 2017, 3:10-4:00pm, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Bringing a laptop to work on is encouraged, but not required.

Questions? Please contact David Squires: david.squires@wsu.edu

Digital Literacy Workshops
The CDSC offers a series of workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools is a fundamental prerequisite for joining any contemporary profession and, as with reading and writing skills, college instructors across the disciplines expect students to arrive on campus with a foundational level of digital literacy. These workshops help all students meet those expectations, regardless of major.

Beyond Basic: Smarter Web Browsing

Beyond Basic: Smarter Web Browsing

Much of our life online occurs within the environment of a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari). Whether we’re working, socializing, or shopping, we access the internet through software applications that go with us wherever we surf on the web. If you’re curious to know how much activity your browser tracks—or leaves open to third-party tracking—this workshop will help you investigate. By going beyond basics to look “under the hood” of your browser you’ll gain more control over your data traces. We’ll review settings and configurations; discuss maintenance habits; and review a few specific plug-ins and extensions that can enhance security online.

February 15th, 2017, 3:10-4:00pm, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Bringing a laptop to work on is encouraged, but not required.

Questions? Please contact David Squires: david.squires@wsu.edu

Digital Literacy Workshops
The CDSC offers a series of workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools is a fundamental prerequisite for joining any contemporary profession and, as with reading and writing skills, college instructors across the disciplines expect students to arrive on campus with a foundational level of digital literacy. These workshops help all students meet those expectations, regardless of major.

Beyond Annoying: Email that Works for You

Beyond Annoying: Email that Works for You

Nobody enjoys email. It takes up valuable time, distracts us from more important work, and clutters our lives with spam. In a word, it’s annoying. Yet most of us rely on email for professional and personal communication, turning our inboxes into a trove of sensitive personal information. That makes it crucial to understand both the full functionality of email services and the etiquette of email correspondence. This workshop will help participants get beyond the annoyance to make the most of their email by customizing settings, organizing messages, and prioritizing responses.

January 25th, 2017, 3:10-4:00pm, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Bringing a laptop to work on is encouraged, but not required.

Questions? Please contact David Squires: david.squires@wsu.edu

Digital Literacy Workshops
The CDSC offers a series of workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools is a fundamental prerequisite for joining any contemporary profession and, as with reading and writing skills, college instructors across the disciplines expect students to arrive on campus with a foundational level of digital literacy. These workshops help all students meet those expectations, regardless of major.

Ejected Spectators: Locating Multimodal Historiography in Cinema’s Recycled Spaces

vparedesVeronica Paredes is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois. Her research and teaching interests include reconfigured media spaces, feminist and critical pedagogies, networked collective praxis, and digital media historiography and forms of scholarship. She is an active member of FemTechNet (Feminist Technology Network) and serves on its Steering Committee, as well as its Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Committee and Tech Praxis working group. She received her Ph.D. from the Media Arts + Practice program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is currently working on a book project about cinema’s recycled spaces in contemporary mediascapes.

Join us for Veronica’s talk at the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4th floor Holland Library, Thursday, February 2nd, 3:00-4:30pm

Wikipedia in the Classroom

By Deckdeckdeck & Vaparedes - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39176696Wikipedia in the Classroom
This session will provide a brief overview of the communities, policies, and protocols that shape Wikipedia in order to facilitate deeper engagement with the platform in the classroom. In addition to providing instruction on how to technically edit and contribute to Wikipedia, during the session we will explore how to read the unspoken knowledge practices embedded in the free encyclopedia anyone can edit, but to varying results.

February 1st, 2017, 2:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library.

Register here (limit 20 participants)
Bringing a laptop to work on is encouraged, but not required.

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