Ever find yourself entering your personal information on a fake Web site after receiving an email with a malicious link? Known as phishing, this devious practice alludes to setting out bait in hopes you will click that link and reveal your password or confidential financial information that is then stolen. Learn more at a seminar on Phishing and the UW hosted by the UW Office of the Chief Information Security Officer on May 9, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the UW Tower Auditorium.

RL “Bob” Morgan, senior technology architect with UW-IT, received the Internet2 President’s Leadership Award at the Spring 2012 Member Meeting. For more than 20 years, Morgan has designed and deployed advanced identity management systems, working on key community-wide initiatives including Shibboleth, Groups, Directories, InCommon, and others that enable collaboration across institutions. This award recognizes his commitment to strengthening network services among the higher education and technology community. Internet2, a not-for-profit advanced international networking consortium led by its U.S. research and education partners, develops breakthrough network technologies to support the innovations of the future.

The UW Information Navigator (UWIN) Web page is being retired on April 30. Originally designed as a collection of information services for UW faculty and staff including news, library catalogs, and reference tools, and home to the first UW Webcam images of Red Square, the page is no longer being actively maintained as new Web pages have been developed. You can now visit the Faculty & Staff Insider pages for the latest UW news, information, and links for faculty and staff. Other sources of information include the UW home page and UW Today.

UW instructors and students are discovering the advantages of using Tegrity, a lecture capture system. Cheryl Kerfeld in rehabilitation medicine used Tegrity for her online physical therapy course and was excited by its user-friendliness and note-taking features for students. Economics lecturer Haideh Salehi-Esfahani, after a brief orientation by UW-IT, used Tegrity to easily record her lectures and exam review sessions for her 800 student class. Student feedback was positive; they liked seeing both an image of her and a larger image of the document she was working on. Read more and get started with Tegrity.

What do Minoru Yamasaki, designer of the World Trade Center, Victor Steinbrueck, who played a role in the Seattle Space Needle design, and Ken Anderson, art director for Disney’s "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", have in common? Their student drawings are included in the UW Architecture Student Drawing Collection, 1914-1947. So far, a small number of drawings have been conserved, and this online exhibit lets you appreciate examples from the collection and the teaching and design legacy they represent.

REMINDER: Most e-resources are governed by license agreements with the providers. Copyright laws apply, and some guidelines may be more strict. Be sure to know your rights and responsibilities.

Get short, easy-to-access, online information security and privacy training from the UW Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Passwords and Passphrases provides guidelines and best practices on creating strong passwords, geared for audiences at both UW and Seattle Children’s. Best practices for handling UW records that contain Social Security Numbers are detailed in SSN Use at the UW, developed with the UW Office of the Registrar. Access the training.

Students in two courses this quarter are using online textbooks through the UW-IT eText pilot, and more classes can be involved.  Faculty can get more information and sign up to be part of the eText pilot by April 25 for Summer classes and by May 25 for Autumn classes. Usable on any computer or device with a modern browser, eTexts include full text search, highlighting, and note-taking tools for students. This pilot is part of UW’s 2y2d Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century Initiative, and will help in understanding the potential of this technology.

UW staff can brush up on workplace software and other productivity tools through live Webinars offered by UW Professional & Organizational Development (POD). These instructor-led Webinars on Microsoft Office and Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and other topics are made possible at significant savings through POD’s partnership with content provider People-OnTheGo. Get details and register online.