Publications CITations #56

CITations

September 14, 2001
No. 56

CITations is a report featuring information technology-related news of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members, graduate instructors and the staff who support them. CITations, published twice a month, is an electronic service of the ITS Center for Instructional Technology.

September CIT Class: Introduction to Blackboard 5.5
Carolina Course Evaluations: Important Dates for Fall 2001
Campus Network Security Presentation
Health Sciences Library PDA Forum
ATN Training Center Classes for October 2001
SILS Information Systems Lecture
August 2001 Issue of CIT Infobits
The Technology Source September/October 2001 Issue
ITRC Tip: Windows File Protection
ITRC Tip: Personalized Menus
CITations Tips Archive
Conference Announcements
2001 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations

SEPTEMBER CIT CLASS: INTRODUCTION TO BLACKBOARD 5.5

Designed for instructors, teaching assistants, and support staff who have no or limited experience with Blackboard, the course highlights the application's new features, as well as its strengths and weaknesses for supporting face-to-face and distance learning.

Dates and times:

Wednesday September 19, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.; #CI06-001; Hanes 02
Wednesday September 26, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.; #CI06-002; Davis 246

To register call the ATN Training Center at 962-1160 and give the registrar the following information: your complete name, department, affiliation (faculty, staff, or student), daytime phone number, and the course number.

The registrar will call to remind you the day before your scheduled classes. Please call the registrar if you can't attend a class so your spot can be given to a person on the waiting list.

CAROLINA COURSE EVALUATIONS: IMPORTANT DATES FOR FALL 2001

Each semester, the Center for Instructional Technology facilitates course evaluations through the Carolina Course Evaluations program. For more information about the program, link to http://www.unc.edu/cit/cce/

Deadlines for Fall 2001 Semester Carolina Course Evaluations:

September 17 -- Registration for Subject Coordinators and their selection of courses using Carolina Course Evaluations begins.

November 9 -- Last day to select courses.

November 19 -- Evaluation forms available for pick-up by subject coordinators.

January 25 -- Evaluation forms for Fall 2001 scanning are complete. Forms can be picked up, and results will be available.

If you have any further questions, contact Billie Lindley at 962-5283 or billie_lindley@unc.edu

CAMPUS NETWORK SECURITY PRESENTATION

Carolina Technology Consultants (CTC) is sponsoring the following presentation:

Campus Network Security
Tuesday September 18, 1:30 p.m. in 08 Gardner

The Security Office will present an update concerning recent security incidents which have affected the campus and will discuss communication plans for future attacks. Come hear Jeff Bollinger, Douglas Brown, and Jeanne Smythe talk about:
-- Code Red: what happened and UNC-Chapel Hill's response
-- Securing Windows 2000 and the IIS lockdown tool.
They will also demonstrate a personal firewall product and discuss incident response.

If you are a computer support person and not currently a CTC member, please consider joining. The CTC is a voluntary, cooperative effort aimed at professional computer support providers at UNC-Chapel Hill and is backed by the resources of the office of Academic Technology and Networks (ATN). Any permanent EPA/SPA member who provides computer support to a University school, department, or center is eligible to become a full member of the CTC program. For more information about the CTC, go to the CTC website at http://www.unc.edu/ctc/, or contact: Elaine Tola, CTC Services Coordinator, Academic Technology & Networks; tel: 962-9434; email: elaine_tola@unc.edu.

HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY PDA FORUM

The Health Sciences Library will be presenting its second in a series of PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) Forums for PDA users and anyone else interested in mobile technology. Judy Baker, Information Security Administrator for UNC Hospitals, will discuss security issues, why they are important, and what the options are. Jim Stinson, from Duke University Health System's Information Security Office, will present a slide show featuring security software applications developed for PDAs. A question and answer period will follow the presentation.

September 27, 2001 at 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
231-B McGavaran-Greenberg Building, School of Public Health

ATN TRAINING CENTER CLASSES FOR OCTOBER 2001

The October 2001 ATN Computer Training Class Schedule is now available at http://help.unc.edu/training/schedule/
ATN's computer classes are open to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff, undergraduates, and graduate students.

New classes offered:

Dreamweaver: Interactive Web Sites
Prerequisite: Dreamweaver: Tools for Layout & Design. The course's agenda includes: how to create an image map, how to associate JavaScript behaviors with images, and how to design jump menus.
Monday, October 15; 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.; Course #DW03-004
Tuesday, October 23; 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.; Course #DW03-005

Introduction to ArcGIS
Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills. This course will briefly examine the three core modules of the ArcGIS system: ArcCatalog, ArcMap, and ArcToolbox.
Tuesday, October 2; 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.; Course #GI12-001
Wednesday, October 3; 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Course #GI12-002

Migrating to ArcGIS from ArcView 3.2
Prerequisite: Familiarity with ArcView 3.2. This course is for users who wish to move from ArcView 3.* to ArcView 8.1 (aka ArcGIS).
Wednesday, October 10; 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Course #GI13-001

ArcGIS: ArcCatalog
Prerequisite: Introduction to ArcGIS. An introduction to ArcCatalog, the Data explorer component of ArcGIS.
Wednesday, October 17; 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Course #GI14-001

ArcGIS: ArcMap Data View
Prerequisite: Introduction to ArcGIS. This course will discuss the functions available in the Data View of the ArcMap interface.
Wednesday, October 24; 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Course #GI15-001

ArcGIS: ArcMap Tables
Prerequisite: Introduction to ArcGIS. This course will focus on the Table interface available from ArcMap.
Thursday, October 25; 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Course #GI16-001

ArcGIS: ArcMap Layouts
Prerequisite: Introduction to ArcGIS. This course discusses the tools in ArcMap for creating presentation graphics from your maps.
Tuesday, October 30; 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Course #GI17-001

ArcGIS: ArcToolbox
Prerequisite: Introduction to ArcGIS. We will begin by looking at the differences between using tools and using wizards in ArcToolbox.
Wednesday, October 31; 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.; Course #GI18-001

SILS INFORMATION SYSTEMS LECTURE

The School of Information and Library Science will sponsor a lecture, "Information Systems and the Organizational Interface," featuring Deborah Barreau, Assistant Professor The Catholic University of America. Washington, DC. This presentation will draw upon research to suggest some of the features required for usability by organizations, and discuss some implications for information professionals.

Thursday, September 20, at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
214 Manning Hall

AUGUST 2001 ISSUE OF CIT INFOBITS

CIT Infobits is an electronic service of ATN/CIT. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. To subscribe link to http://mail.unc.edu/lists/read/subscribe?name=infobits

The latest issue is available on the Web at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitaug01.html

Articles in this issue include:

Online Teaching Survival Tips
Education Statistics Resources
Thinking about Assessment
Digital Deterioration

THE TECHNOLOGY SOURCE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2001 ISSUE

The September/October 2001 issue of The Technology Source, a free refereed Web periodical published by UNC-Chapel Hill, is now available online. The purpose of The Technology Source is to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations. Issues include commentaries, case studies, reports on faculty and staff development, articles on the virtual university, and links to higher-education websites. You can read The Technology Source at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/

ITRC TIP: WINDOWS FILE PROTECTION

If you support other users, you probably have experience with a system that has behaved strangely or wouldn't start after a new program was installed. You may have even done this yourself. If you were ever able to pinpoint the cause, you may have found that the new program had replaced one or more critical Windows system files during installation.

Good news! Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 2000 Professional has a feature called Windows File Protection that is designed to prevent replacement of critical files. It runs in the background and protects critical Windows system files (that is, files installed by the Windows setup program).

There is a related utility called System File Checker (sfc.exe) that can be run only by system Administrators or members of the Administrators group. It's a command-line utility that scans your critical Windows system files for ones that have been overwritten and then replaces them with the correct version from either a cache folder or a Windows CD. This utility is not for the faint-hearted, and there's no guarantee of success, but it could prevent your having to rebuild a system.

For more complete descriptions, start Windows Help and look in the index for the keywords "Windows File Protection" and "System File Checker."

ITRC TIP: PERSONALIZED MENUS

By default, Microsoft Office 2000 displays only the menu commands that you use most often. You may want to see all of the menu commands at once as you could in Microsoft Office 97. Here's how:

1. Start any Office 2000 program.

2. On the Tools Menu, click on Customize, and then click the Options tab.

3. In order to show all the commands on the menus uncheck the box that reads, "Menus show recently used commands first."

4. Click on the "Close" button.

After following these steps, you should be able to go to any of your menus and see all of the menu commands at once. Once you do this in any Office 2000 program, it will apply to all of your other Office programs as well.

For more computing assistance, contact the Information Technology Response Center, Wilson Library, Suite 300
Walk-in Hrs: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Phone: 962-HELP -- 24 hours/7 days a week
Email: help@unc.edu

CITATIONS TIPS ARCHIVE

The ITRC, CBT, and Lyris tips published in CITations are archived on the Web, so you can locate tips without having to search through all the back issues. The tips archive is at http://www.unc.edu/cit/citations/tips.html

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Stay informed about technology conferences with the CIT's "Education Technology and Computer-Related Conferences" at http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-37.html and "Calendar of World-Wide Educational Technology-Related Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events." The calendar is at http://confcal.unc.edu:8086/

2001 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

September 28
October 5 & 19
November 2 & 16
December 7 & 21

CITations welcomes announcements from all UNC-Chapel Hill campus organizations involved in instructional and research technology. To have an announcement considered for publication in CITations, send email to Carolyn Kotlas, kotlas@email.unc.edu or call 962-9287. The deadline for submissions is noon the day before the publication date.

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