⇒ Catalyst Technology and Media Services ⇒ K-State College of Education
August 2010
→ August/September Calendar
→ Now scheduling for Fall 2010
→ Catalyst to host Welcome Back Coffee
→ Time to change your eID password
→ Free photo sessions from K-State Communications and Marketing Photography
→ The Seeing ME book collection
→ Behind the Counter Profile: Emily Surdez
→ Midwest Equity Assistance Center can enhance courses
August/September Calendar →
August 20: CLOSED for Catalyst Student Training
August 24: Welcome Back Coffee for Faculty and Staff, 8 a.m.
September 6: Closed for Labor Day
September 9: Deadline for changing your eID password
September 21: 21 Things to Do with an iPad, noon-1:30 p.m., 21 Bluemont Hall
Now scheduling for Fall 2010 →
We are now taking equipment and video conferencing requests for Fall classes.
→ Technology Equipment Requests:
Contact Equipment Scheduling at coesched@ksu.edu or use our online request form
→ Video Conferencing Requests: Contact Tweed Ross at twross@ksu.edu
Catalyst to host Welcome Back Coffee →
The central room of the Catalyst will be host to the annual College of Education Welcome Back Coffee on Tuesday, August 24th. This means that the Catalyst will not be open to students until approximately 10:00 a.m. that morning as faculty and staff greet new members and reestablish old ties at this informal gathering hosted by the Dean’s Office.
Time to change your eID password →
It's that time again to change your eID password for the fall semester. You have until September 9th to change it online. You can manage your password and your eID profile by going to https://eid.k-state.edu/. A word of caution– the start of the school term seems to be when the spammers come out with new ways to get you to reveal your eID and password combination. If you receive an e-mail asking for your eID and password– even though it appears to come from university sources– ignore and delete it. Only change your password by navigating to the secure university website, not by clicking on a link in an e-mail.
While writing this article for the newsletter, after just changing my eID password, the following e-mail appeared in my Inbox. This is exactly the type of thing that should be deleted immediately!
Dear Kansas State University
It has come to our notice that your email has not passed the verification/Update process
that we are presently working on. We are currently upgrading our data base and email
account center. We are deleting all Old Web mail email account to create more space for
new accounts. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it so that we
will know that it's a present used account. To complete your account re-confirmation, you
must reply to this e-mail immediately and enter your account details as requested below.
Kansas State University
Email User-name :
EMAIL Password :
Date of Birth :
Country or Territory :
************************************************
You have limited time to supply the above details for effective services by replying to this
e-mail and any delay or incorrect username or password, may cause our server to
automatically log you out from our system.
Thank you.
Regards,
Web Support Team
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Free photo sessions from K-State Communications
and Marketing Photography →
Would you like a new photo on your College of Education Profile page? Free walk-in portrait sessions are available for faculty and staff on the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month, though appointments may also be made at other times. Because of Labor Day on the first Monday of September, the next walk-in session will be on September 7, from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m.
For more information, check out their website:
K-State Communications and Marketing Photography
The Seeing ME book collection →
This book collection was developed by two College of Education professors, Dr. Laurie Curtis and Dr. Gayla Lohfink, as a part of a Tilford Grant called Seeing ME: Reaching Diverse Populations with Multicultural Children's Literature. They created their “wish list” and then compared it against the MEAC Library resources and asked us to include the books in the MEAC collection because it fit well with our mission. Most of the books are bilingual children's picture books and are currently used in the Block classes as a resource for the elementary students preparing to be teachers to read aloud and video tape themselves doing so. They then share their book with their classmates.
The brochure describing the program can be found at http://www.k-state.edu/chalc/Assets/seeingme_brochure.pdf
The books are located in the Catalyst, on the west wall near the past issues of our magazine collection.
Behind the Counter Profile: Emily Surdez →
Fourth in a series of profiles of our behind the counter student staff
Hometown: Sabetha, Kansas
Year at K-State: Senior
Major: Ag Communications and Journalism; Minor: English
Activities: College of Ag Ambassadors, Sigma Alpha, STUMO, Student Alumni Board
Favorite K-State Experience: Participating in the Ag Ambassadors and Student Alumni Board mentoring programs has been one of my favorite K-State experiences. In both mentor pairings, I was blessed to build friendships with some incredible young women. It was amazing to grow with them and then watch them succeed in the organization!
Midwest Equity Assistance Center can enhance courses →
The Midwest Equity Assistance Center can enhance your courses in a variety of ways:
→ tours and presentations
→ scavenger hunts and class activities
→ large assortment of educational, news and multicultural magazines and journals
→ vertical file of educational and multicultural articles and materials
Contact Ronna Olivier (2-6408) or Val McKain (2-5926) for more information.