This matrix poster developed by Symantec outlines IT Controls for security and privacy concerns related to regulatory compliance in the workplace. Topics addressed in this poster include:

Regulations and Standards: ISO 17799, COBIT 4.0, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GLBA, NERC standards CIP, and PIPEDA (Canada). Issues or topics of concern:

Issues of Concern: Risk Assessment and Treatment, Security Policy, Organization of Information Security, Asset Management, Human Resources Security, Physical and Environmental Security, Communications and Operations Management, Access Control, Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Maintenance, Information Security Incident Management, Business Continuity Management, Compliance

This evaluation framework is offered not as a final model, but as a route by which people can think through and share some ideas around this goal. Conversation, disagreement, and dialogue about this evaluation framework will only improve it.

This March 2010 survey is a critical component of the 2010 EDUCAUSE Center on Applied Research (ECAR) follow-up to its 2006 baseline study of identity management in higher education. The 2006 study confirmed that authentication, directory services, authorization, and identity federations would become established elements of college and university middleware and important enablers of inter-institutional exchanges of all kinds. This follow-up study will document the state of college and university identity management practices as of 2010.

Citation for this work: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. “Identity Management in Higher Education 2010 Survey Questionnaire” (Survey Instrument). Boulder, CO: ECAR, 2010, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

This same thing happened a year ago.

In some fluke of nature because, as a state with leading indicators of worse budget deficit, lowest numbers of high school graduation rates, Arizona is somehow ahead of the curve in terms of not following the confusion of shifting clocks for daylight savings. Yes, all of the wheat farmers here have to deal with the vagaries of the natural changes of sunrise/sunset.

Our clocks stay the same year round.

For electronic devices, the code logic necessary to deal with setting the time must be simple.

function ArizonaDSTTimeAdjust() {   # code for adjusting daylight savings time zones in Arizona.   #ummm. we don't need any code. bye }

My computers use network timeserver to set the correct time; both my Mac and PC are correct. My atomic wall clock is correct. My wrist watch is correct.

Yet, my iPhone is not.

With settings in Automatic mode, my iPhone reports the time here an hour later than what it is.

I can’t really explain.

Last year, it eventually caught up, a few days? weeks? later. I cannot remember.

Does anyone know what time it is?

Yesterday, the FCC released “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan,” which reflects many recommendations from EDUCAUSE and affiliated communities. Not only does the plan open up high-speed and affordable broadband to all Americans, it also endorses Unified Community Anchor Network (UCAN). UCAN uses the community anchor institution model established by nonprofit network organizations and recommended to the FCC by EDUCAUSE, Internet2, National LambdaRail, and many regional and state networks.

UCAN will work to extend higher education’s success in broadband networking by providing high-speed broadband connectivity to anchor community institutions that do not yet enjoy it: community colleges, K12 schools, libraries, hospitals, and college and university campuses still constrained by inadequate connectivity.

The job description is here. If you are thinking about applying and have questions, feel free to ping me.

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1. How to Understand and Follow the Sakai Foundation
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Anyone who has played poker will see the resemblance between “five card draw” and Five Card Flickr, an engaging exercise that presents random images and challenges you to create a story to save and share. [read more]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by JPLatting

from the idle wonderings department…and summoning my best Andy Rooney voice

Did you ever notice…. how short/brief flickr comments are? “nice photo” “Awesome!” “great shot” — heck you could fit 4 or 5 in a single tweet.

Think about it- a good meaty blog post (the kind not typically found here), if read in their fullest take quite a bit of mental fuel to process. For example, if Stephen Downes takes only half an hour to write his deep posts -they might take me 4 times that to read to (partial) meaning.

And such content that takes time to process yields comments sometimes in the multiple paragraph form. I’ve seen blog posts where the comments are longer than the posts.

Yet a photo you can take in within a few seconds or more, is lucky if it illicit a full sentence in a comment, much less a verb.

So do briefly digestible media (not to say all photos can be appreciated in a glance) lends themselves to brief comments? is it a dissonance in responding in text form to a highly visible message.

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Môsieur J. [version 3.0b]

Or even father out on the limb, is it all a giant cinnamon bun roll up of McLuhan-esque medium is message? (what is the medium of a car body mean?)

What’s your theory? Is there a reason? Or do I just need sleep?

During the EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009 Project (http://www.educause.edu/eli/challenges), the community identified "creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative exchange, and knowledge creation" and "reaching and engaging today's students" among the top five challenges. The results were not surprising. As IT professionals and teaching and learning practitioners we've struggled with these challenges for some time. Todays technologies only intensify the search for strategies to foster truly collaborative learning environments that defy our definitions of time, space, and tradition to engage students in learning that is social, immersive, and learner-centered. In this interactive discussion session, we'll explore these top challenges, exchange ideas for how individual campuses are confronting these issues, and discuss strategies for moving forward on a solution-driven agenda as a community and on our own campuses.

While many libraries are already offering some types of reference services geared to users of mobile devices, they generally focus on the reference transaction and not on some of the broader aspects of service, including availability of content for mobile devices and relationship of the library's services to mobile initiatives on campus. Asking the right questions during the planning process can assist librarians in clarifying their goals for the service, identifying units to work with on campus, and determining whether the service is successful. This is a rapidly developing area and flexibility is key.

Findings are reported from student focus groups and a large–scale survey about how and why students (enrolled at six different U.S. colleges) use Wikipedia during the course–related research process. A majority of respondents frequently used Wikipedia for background information, but less often than they used other common resources, such as course readings and Google. Architecture, engineering, and science majors were more likely to use Wikipedia for course–related research than respondents in other majors. The findings suggest Wikipedia is used in combination with other information resources. Wikipedia meets the needs of college students because it offers a mixture of coverage, currency, convenience, and comprehensibility in a world where credibility is less of a given or an expectation from today’s students.