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Editor’s Note
App Spotlight: Socrative
Your Digital Lockbox: 1Password
One Note: A Digital Symphony
Hey Siri!
2017 Tech Days
Help Desk Ticket Statistics
Fall 2016 IT Lab Summary
One Port To Rule Them All
From Gaming To Learning In The Class Room
Fantastic Plastic
Implementing a One-to-One Technology
Initiative in Higher Education
Phishing Alert
EMAIL: Examine Message And Inspect Links
Phishing Email Demonstrations
Data Privacy Day!
How To Lose Your Car In 60 Seconds
Cyber Security Campaign
Stay Safe During Tax Time
Facebook Security
Software Deadlines
Interview with Karl Blankenship
of 2017 was rang in with good cheer, Martin Luther
King celebrations occurred not only campus-wide
but also nationwide, students returned for the spring
semester, and Data Privacy Day was recognized.
Wait a minute—you forgot to celebrate Data Privacy
Day? While you surely recognize the first three events
mentioned, it’s past time for you become more familiar
with Data Privacy Day. In this issue, we have included
a brief article that shares six quick tips to help you
become more digitally perceptive. To further this
agenda, we’ve included a piece on Facebook security.
In our teaching with technology category, our App
Spotlight article explains how both students and
teachers will find the Socrative app a useful tool. While
not considered an app, Microsoft’s OneNote, available
on your computer as well as your other devices, is an
excellent instrument for notetaking. Learn more by
reviewing the feature, OneNote: A Digital Symphony.
The growing interest in ‘wearable’ technologies
necessitates our From Gaming to Learning in the
Classroom piece on use of the virtual reality headset.
Implementing a One-to-One Technology Initiative
in Higher Education provides a detailed account of
how the College of Education tackled the challenge
of change and acceptance when initiating a new
technology program on our campus.
One can never be too diligent when it comes to
cybercrime. To bring awareness with a just-in-time
topic, we have included an article on How to Stay
Safe from Cybercrime during Tax Time. Add to your
security toolbox a tool to help you track and store
your numerous passwords by considering 1Password.
Discover the active role Information Technology staff
took to prevent Southeast students and employees
from falling prey to Phishing scams in the article
Phishing Email Demonstrations. Help IT bring an even
greater awareness of malicious messages by reviewing
our write-ups EMAIL: Examine Message And Inspect
Links and Phishing Alert. Be sure to also check out our
latest cyber security campaign poster, starring Little
Red Riding Hood.
From the online journal, The Conversation, four
types of artificial intelligence (AI) are identified as
reactive machines, limited memory, theory of mind,
and self-awareness
). In the current issue of
TechTalk, Hey Siri! is a demonstration of the simplest
type of AI: a reactive machine, lacking memories and
experiences. Self-driving or drive-assist cars are prime
examples of a second type of AI, limited memory. With
the intent of keeping you safer, these autos come
preprogrammed with data. Review the article, How to
Lose Your Car in 60 Seconds, to see the negative side
of having a smart car.
These days, we all seem to be plugged in to one
device or another. See what benefits the release of
USB type-C will bring to your world by perusing One
Port to Rule Them All. Pay special attention to the
software deadlines and IT statistics on the help desk
and computer labs. Additional face-to-face technology
support was provided at Southeast – Kennett,
Malden, and Sikeston campuses. See what services
were offered in January by reviewing the Spring 2017
Tech Days article. Wrapping up the fourth edition, we
provide you with a fun section, displaying handy items
created by a 3D printer that you won’t want to live
without.
anuary has been a very eventful month on the
campus of Southeast Missouri State University.
Just about every week, a celebration or
momentous occasion was scheduled. The year J
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