Happy Data Privacy Month - List of Interactive Activities

Readers,

This month is data privacy month! I am excited about celebrating this important month's activities this week.

Here are several activities that were held or will be held during the month (some of these activities are archived):

January 4 (1–2 p.m. ET): EDUCAUSE Live! Webinar on data privacy with guest speakers Jolynn Dellinger (NCSA), Merri Beth Lavagnino (IU), and Nat Wood (FTC). Listen to the webinar archive now (all three presentations and the chat transcript are also available from the archive page).

January 10 (3–4 p.m. ET): EDUCAUSE Policy hosted a webinar on Privacy and Security Risks in Higher Education with guest speaker Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School). Tracy Mitrano (Cornell University) moderated.

January 25 (1–2 p.m. ET): EDUCAUSE Policy will host a webinar on FERPA and privacy initiatives at the Department of Education with guest speakers Kathleen Styles and Michael Hawes (Department of Education).

January 30 (1–2 p.m. ET): EDUCAUSE Policy will host a webinar about Online Reputation Management with guest speaker Matt Ivester (founder of JuicyCampus and author of lol...OMG!).

Check out the rest of the activities - http://www.educause.edu/policy/dataprivacy

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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Action Item - Do Not Forget About the "Adobe Products in Higher Education" Contest!

Readers,

This is just a soft reminder about the "Adobe Products in Higher Education" contest that the Millennial Professor blog is sponsoring with the Communication in Higher Education blog (http://www.commhighered.com/). Dr. Helvie-Mason and I are avid users of the Adobe Creative Suite and we are offering the following contest for all of you! 

If you have a GREAT idea for using Adobe Products in Higher Education, please feel free to submit the idea on the form below...

The WINNER of this contest will receive free software products from the ADOBE COMPANY! Very exciting right? I am elated! :)

If you have ANY questions, please type them in the blog response box below. 

The contest ends mid-February! So, enter the contest as soon as possible! :)

Good luck!

Sincerely,

Dr. J. Edwards (and Dr. L. Helvie-Mason)

 

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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Tech Tip Week! - Using Voicethreads in Online Courses

Readers,

I am actively looking for a free or low-cost software that would enable me to record my lectures and sync the recording with the Power Point slides for each lecture in the online class.

Here's a neat blog post titled, "Using Voicethread in an Online Course from Professor Russ Meade"

Do you use Voicethread?

Sincerely,

J. Edwards

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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Tech Tip Week! - Run Your Profile Through Socio Clean

Readers,

Greetings! I am too excited about sharing this next blog post with you for today's TECH TIP!

I enjoy posting on Facebook and Twitter, but sometimes social networking website users need to "check" their profiles for potentially negative information.

Recently, the Texas Social Media Research Institute (TSMRI) contributed a post to their blog titled, "Give Your Social Media Account a Check-Up".

Using Socioclean, you can post the link to your social networking profile and the website will "grade" your profile.

Enjoy! What GRADE did you social networking profile receive?

Sincerely,

J. Edwards

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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Tech Tip Week! - A Great Guide for University Research, Teaching, and Impacts Activities

Readers,

I use Twitter on a daily basis! As an avid Twitter user, I was very pleased to find this comprehensive guide for academics who use Twitter.

"Using Twitter in University Research, Teaching, and Impact Activities: A Guide for Academics and Researchers"

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2011/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf

1. Setting up your Twitter account
2. Useful Twitter terminology
3. Tweeting styles
4. Building up your followers
5. Using Twitter for research projects
6. Using Twitter in departments
7. Using Twitter alongside blogging
8. Using Twitter in teaching
9. Related Resources

Sincerely,

J. Edwards

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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Tech Tip Week! - Digital Textbooks/Free Resource - Sponsored By: CommTechProf/Millennial Professor

Readers,

I hope you are having an amazing morning!

I am a huge fan of digital textbooks (e-textbooks) and here is a great, FREE resource that you can use to either supplement OR replace your existing textbook.

Here's the link - http://www.bookboon.com/en/textbooks/

Sincerely,

J. Edwards

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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Tech Tip Week! - Printing Power Point Slides/Green Printing - Sponsored By: CommTechProf/Millennial Professor

Readers,

Good morning!

Here is the first Tech Tip of the Week! This tech tip is from The Ohio State University and it is titled, "Format Your Power Point Slides in PDF so Students Can Use Them"

I always save my power point sides in PDF format (six on one page) OR I use Google Presentations. Through Google Presentations, the students can save or print the file in almost any file format.

Here is the video that I created about printing from a Google Presentation a few semesters ago.

Sincerely,

J. Edwards

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

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