Digital Foundations Workshop: Better Web Browsing

As we spend more of our time collectively online, it has become important to know more about the tools we use to connect with various websites, apps, and through which we do everything from pursue research to play games. This workshop will provide background on the differences between the most popular browsers, and some tips and tricks for customizing your web browsing experience with tools, settings, and extensions/plugins, making time spent online more productive, engaging, and enjoyable. We will also delve into the ways in which your browser can help you to take more control over your digital footprint. To that end, we’ll review settings and configurations; discuss maintenance habits; and review a few specific plug-ins and extensions that can enhance security online.

Led by Richard Snyder, DTC Instructor and Ph.D. Student, English

Monday, February 26th, 2018, 3:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop. Facebook event link.

Students should try to bring their own laptop if they have one. We’ll be working with Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Of course, phone browsers also have some things we could talk about, but that won’t be the focus for this talk.

Questions? Please contact Kristin Becker: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become 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. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

Digital Foundations Workshop: Operating Systems Basics 

Have you ever wanted to know more about your computer and why it runs so many processes and services? This workshop will cover a number of topics ranging from a short history of the evolution of modern operating systems to a survey of modern general and specialty operating systems. The session will end by breaking down the Windows 10 task list.

This is full outline of the topics to be covered: 1) Quick History of Operating Systems and the Graphical User Interface; 2) Parts of an Operating System; 3) General Use Desktop Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, macOS); 4) Mobile Operating Systems (Android, iOS, Windows 10); 5) Specialty Operating Systems (Server Operating Systems, Embedded Systems: Real-time Operating Systems, etc.); 6) Breaking down your Windows 10 Task Manager process list.

Led by Alex Merrill, Head of Systems and Technical Operations, WSU Libraries

Monday, December 4th, 2017, 3:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop, but please bring a laptop, tablet, or smartphone if possible

Questions? Please contact Kristin Becker: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become 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. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

Digital Foundations Workshop: Digital Mindfulness

Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of emails and texts you receive each day? Confused by the number of websites and electronic resources assigned for various classes? Or frustrated by the pressure you feel to keep up with friends and family on social media? Digital mindfulness helps us focus our attention at any given moment, and draws our awareness to how we feel when engaging in digital practices. This workshop will introduce you to the basic concepts of mindfulness as they apply to the use of technology. It will also help you develop an individual plan to understand and therefore manage your personal digital tendencies. Mindfulness does not make the pressures of our technology-rich lives disappear, but it offers a path to sanity through better understanding of how we behave when confronted with digital communication options.

Led by Kristin Becker

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017, 3:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Please bring a laptop, tablet, or smartphone with you.

Questions? Please contact Kristin Becker: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become 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. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

Digital Foundations Workshop: The Invisible Digital Literacy: Understanding Social Media Surveillance, Privacy, and Data

While much of our online identity is self-constructed, there is also another identity that Beck (2015) defined as the invisible digital identity. This identity lies “under the hood” of the digital spaces that we occupy. In order to better understand the invisible digital identity, this workshop will seek to develop a digital literacy in understanding the terms of service (ToS) of social media and the ways in which we can begin to identify how algorithms aggregate and sell our data. As such, this workshop will be both hands on and discussion based in navigating what we own, how we’re protected, and what we can do to safely use and navigate social media spaces.

Led by Lucy Johnson

Tuesday, October 10th, 2017, 3:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Laptops are encouraged, but not required.

Questions? Please contact Kristin Becker: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become 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. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

Digital Foundations: Creative Commons

Have you ever wondered if you have the right to use an image in a presentation or on a website? Or maybe you’ve wanted to adapt an existing piece of music, change up a design, or include someone else’s infographic in your paper? Creative Commons licenses can help answer some of these questions by clarifying the intentions of authors for how they would like their work to be shared, used, and reused by others. This workshop will cover the basics of Creative Commons licenses—what they are, how to find CC-licensed material, and how to license one’s own work.

Led by Talea Anderson

Tuesday, September 12th, 2017, 3:00-4:00pm, CDSC, 4th floor Holland Library

Registration is not required for this workshop.

Laptops are encouraged, but not required.

Questions? Please contact Kristin Becker: kristin.carlson@wsu.edu

Digital Foundations Workshops

The CDSC offers a series of intensive workshops for WSU students seeking hands-on instruction in the foundations of digital literacy. Facility with digital tools has become 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. Such expectations mean that many students never receive explicit guidance in how to write emails, organize files, or engage in online communities. These workshops fill that general education gap by helping students cultivate essential skills and develop good digital habits for the future. We intend the workshops to serve all interested students, regardless of major or prior experience. Workshop sessions will be 30-40 minutes, with 20-30 minutes for questions and one-on-one assistance. Grad students, staff, and faculty are also always welcome.

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, 4^th 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

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 15^th, 2017, 3:10-4:00pm, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4^th 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

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 25^th, 2017, 3:10-4:00pm, Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, 4^th 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.