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Rough
winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And
summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Aye
it's that time of the year already.
Hope
this week's crop of information, events and resources helps you make the most of the longer days.
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1. SASSER Worm Leaves Coastguard High and
Dry
2. Cisco Security Messages
3. Newsfilm Online
- Recruitment for 30-month digitisation project
4. Developing Resources and Support for HE
Students in FE - 11 and
5. Here be Treasures
6. The Bioscience First Year: Putting
Research into Practice
7. What's New in KnowUK?
8. Using Satellite Technology in FE & HE:
Report now Available from JISC
9. Online Resources Roadshow:
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
10. Tender Deadline Extended: JISC
Consultation Workshop Report
11. E-Learning Centre's Guide to E-Learning
12. Revamp of Anne Frank web site
13. CHEST Virtual Exhibition
14. Training & Events
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SASSER
Worm Leaves Coastguard High and Dry
The
rapidly evolving "Sasser" computer worm,
the latest virus to attack the Internet, is doing damage around the world at
time of writing, hitting corporate and home computers and stoking fears worse
may be to come. Some estimates predict that over a million PCs have already
been infected, including travel-booking systems, banks, EC offices and
The
first symptoms likely to be noticed by home users would be a sudden rebooting
of their operating system or a dramatic slowing in the speed of Internet
connection. However, unlike previous viruses, infection is not prompted by a
user action such as opening an attachment. Users should update their PCs with
the latest Microsoft patches and consider installing a firewall to keep out
future infections.
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Cisco
Security Messages
Three
very important Cisco Advisory notices were posted April 20th. These notices
detail security vulnerabilities which affect multiple Cisco products. TCP
Vulnerabilities in Multiple Non-IOS Cisco Products, TCP Vulnerabilities in
Multiple IOS-Based Cisco Products and Vulnerabilities in SNMP Message
Processing. The following web page provides details of these and all other
Cisco Security Advisory notices:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a00801d2d9d.shtml
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Newsfilm Online -
Recruitment for 30-month digitisation project
Newsfilm Online is a
thirty-month JISC-funded programme to encode some 3,000 hours of news film and
associated media selected from the ITN Archive collection for use in FE and HE. Four posts are now being advertised under this
programme:
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Project Manager
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Senior Researcher/Deputy Manager
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Senior Cataloguer
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Education Officer
Details of all posts, with full application
details, can be found at http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmjobs.
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Developing
Resources and Support for HE Students in FE - 11 and
JISC
invites you to participate in these consultation workshops to be held:
11
June - Thistle Hotel,
25
June - Thistle Hotel,
The
Government's Widening Participation agenda has created challenges related to
the equitable provision of resources and support for HE students based in FE
colleges. Issues such as funding, quality control, sharing of electronic
resources and student support are key to ensuring such
students aren't disadvantaged. The workshop will look at current provision and
possible future models and will also look at the sharing of resources between
institutional partners in FE and HE through Virtual
Learning Environments (VLEs) and the implications for
administering such systems to ensure appropriate access and security.
The
workshops aim to air some of these issues and gather feedback from participants
on what JISC can do to help. Delegates will therefore be expected to play a
full part in the discussions during the day and make recommendations to JISC
and other organisations on taking this area of work forward. The workshop will
be of interest to the Funding Councils, government agencies, heads of support
services (libraries, learning resource centres, IT), HE co-ordinators, senior
administrators, heads of departments and other senior staff in universities or
colleges.
A
workshop programme and booking form are at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=event_students_06
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Here
be Treasures
To
reduce wear and tear on various priceless items, and also to make certain
treasures in its collections more easily available, the British Library has
launched a new system called 'Turning the Pages'. Best viewed via a broadband
connection, you can now turn the pages of Leonardo da
Vinci's notebooks and examine in fine detail the Lindisfarne
Gospels. http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation3.html
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The
Bioscience First Year: Putting Research into Practice
The
aim of this event at the University of Paisley on the 12th May, 2004, is to
consider supporting student needs and focuses on the 'First Year Experience' in
the biosciences. The morning session will review good practice in induction and
activities that have been shown to improve student progression and retention.
There is a choice of workshop in the afternoon session.
Programme
and on-line registration at: http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/events/registration/support.htm.
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What's
new in KnowUK
There
are two new additions to the User Resources area in KnowUK
this month:
"Using
KnowUK in Higher Education" (http://www.knowuk.co.uk/jsp/about/HigherEducation.doc)
is a short user guide that
helps university students, librarians and lecturers to get started using the
resource, and
"Running KnowUK taster
sessions for Silver Surfers' Day" (http://www.knowuk.co.uk/jsp/about/Silver_surfers.doc).
This guide will help trainers running sessions to introduce KnowUK
to Silver Surfers.
New
Content:
69
new towns have been added to the Local Information pages this month, mostly in
the North West of England.
The format
of the 'Life Events' section has been altered for easier use and a wide variety
of new life events has been added to the existing stock.
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Using Satellite
Technology in FE & HE: Report now Available from JISC
Ever
wondered how satellites work, and what part they will potentially play in
supporting education? If you answered 'yes' to the above questions then perhaps
you should get out more or at least get a copy of a new JISC report, Satellite
Technology and Education, which is very likely to have the answers you're
looking for. Commissioned by the JISC, the report is available from:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/sat_home.html
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Online
Resources for Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) Roadshow
The
Resource Guide HLST, (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/resourceguides/hlst)
Altis (http://www.altis.ac.uk)
and the
LTSN for HLST (http://www.hlst.ltsn.ac.uk)
are pleased to announce a
Scottish event showcasing online resources in HLST subjects to be held at
For
further information and a booking form, please go to: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=rg_hosp_main.
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Deadline
for Tenders Extended !! - JISC Consultation Workshop
report
The
JISC invites tenders to provide a written report on the JISC Consultation
Workshop "Developing resources and support for HE students in FE", to
be held on 11 and 25 June 2004. Tenders should demonstrate the knowledge and
expertise of the bidder in the workshop topic. The deadline for proposals has
been extended to:
Full
tender document is on JISC web site at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=funding_workshoprep_0304
Details
of the workshop programme are available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=event_students_0604
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e-Learning Centre's
Guide to e-Learning
As
the name implies, the
e-Learning Centre is a treasure house of materials and techniques
on all aspects of e-learning, and it has now published a new edition of its
online Guide to e-Learning by June Knight. This detailed and thorough guide
describes itself as being suitable for those who want an introductory,
structured, no-nonsense, practical approach to e-learning, aiming to provide
easy-to-read explanations of e-learning topics, links to great examples and key
resources as well as some practical guidance on how to get started with links to
useful tools and systems. No better
place to start: http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/guide2elearning/index.htm
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Revamp
of Anne Frank
web site
The
official Anne Frank site has been re-launched, opening on April 25th, with a
large number of previously unpublished pictures of Anne and her family, plus
about twenty small films of historical value, and a 3D-version of Anne's room
to look around in. Click here to visit the site: http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=1&setlanguage=2
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CHEST
Virtual Exhibition
Eduserv Chest
negotiates for all forms of commercially available electronic resource
(abstracts, full text, journals, software, courseware, etc) for the education
and research communities in the
Just
follow the link to: www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/fe/exhibition/index.html
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Training
& Events
A
full listing of all the workshops currently being run by both RSCs in
RSC
www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/rscsupport/training.html
RSC
www.rsc-sw-scotland.ac.uk/events.htm
These
courses and others are listed on the Scotfeict website
at: www.scotfeict.ac.uk/events
which also lists other staff
development opportunities for FE staff within
Nationwide
training opportunities are available on the NLN events database at www.nln.ac.uk/events
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