From soraya at eff.org Fri Feb 16 16:55:32 2018 From: soraya at eff.org (Soraya Okuda) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:55:32 -0000 Subject: [Companion-announce] Updates on SEC Message-ID: <0bc39e0b-883c-1576-b32e-a7b213cc250b@eff.org> Hi good people, Happy Lunar New Year! We've had a quiet period, processing feedback and trying to reflect on what the immediate next steps are for the Security Education Companion. No need to respond to anything this round, but I wanted to clue you in on some changes we made, and some things that are happening in the near future. Hope you are well, Soraya ---- *Additions to the group: * Welcome to the advisory group, Chinyere Tutashinda and Megan DeBlois! Chinyere is at the Center for Media Justice, and Megan is at Internews. (For those who are new: This is an announce mailing list, so what you can expect is a fairly quiet mailing list, with a few emails from me sending once-in-a-while updates on the project. If you have feedback, comments, suggestions or even life updates, please feel free to email me directly! I'd love to hear from you.) *+ In the past few months...We've been posting and gathering content ideas * In general, I've been doing light posting (mostly posting one article to Security Education 101 every week, and adding things to the Security News section). Almost all of the Security Education 101 pieces are up. I have a few lesson plans in the queue (e.g. Tor Browser, Circumvention, PGP) but need to take some time to really sit with them and get them right. I collected a bunch of notes on big picture ideas for digital security training. Thank you to those of you who shared ideas! I've attached the ones I received. At EFF, we're still figuring out how we want to disseminate and share this information. We're presently looking into micro-blogging (very social media-friendly short paragraphs that succinctly describe an idea). *+ In the last month...We did a round of **user tests **! * My colleague, Michelle, and I used a digital user testing service on to see how seven regular people (non-digital security trainers) interpret the site on mobile and on desktop. How are they able to get around? Did they understand what they were looking at? Do they understand who this website is for and what they can find there? I've attached the summary of our user tests for SEC, for those who are interested. These are just for you, so please don't share them outside of the group. My excellent colleagues on the SEC team (in particular, Peter, Bill and Michelle) are helping me to prioritize some of these findings into actionable changes. Some things to expect: + a glossary! SEC will link to the *SSD glossary * in future releases, where technical, jargon-y digital security terms will be highlighted. I'm very excited about this. + a better flow when referencing topics between the Teaching Materials section and Lessons section. + we created a section called *Technical Concepts and How They Fit Into the Bigger Picture *in Security Education 101, to help the less-technical trainers with getting oriented with big picture digital security concepts.** ** *+ This week...We did a webinar!* DIrk Slater (who is on this advisory group!) interviewed me on the process for developing the Security Education Companion for his Network-Centric Resources project. If you'd like to learn more about what designing this thing using user-centered/human-centered design has been like and can tolerate my awkwardness, the webinar dives into it. * https://www.fabriders.net/ncrnoteseffsecsoraya/* I'm also always happy to chat about the project with you and friends if it's useful for your own project development—I gained a lot of insight from chatting with many of you early on, so please reach out if I can help pay it forward. *+ Next few weeks...IFF and SSD * A few of my colleagues and I will be at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia! If you're around and want to hang out, send me a note! I'd love to see you. Additionally...SSD is quietly going through a front page redesign and visual change after a rigorous process. So, in the next few weeks, you'll see a new version of Surveillance Self-Defense that will hopefully flow into the Security Education Companion in a smoother way. I believe the roll-out date for that is for sometime in the next few weeks. *+ The future...?* + Making changes to the feedback I'm still making changes to the content and am figuring out a way to make these edits and roll out changes in a sustainable way. It might take me a while to get the editing/feedback cycle right, so thank you for bearing with me. I'm still looking through everyone's comments on the current resources, and figuring out a plan for how we can make these changes. + Help me collect feedback from people using the resource? If you know of digital security teachers (new and old) using the Security Education Companion, I'd be keen to hear from them. I'm eager for specific feedback on how things can be improved, and especially, what their experience was like in teaching people with these resources. Please let them know they can contact us using the sec-feedback at eff.org email, which goes to me directly. -- Learn more about digital security at https://ssd.eff.org/. 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