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<p>Hi good people,<br>
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<p>Happy Lunar New Year!</p>
<p>We've had a quiet period, processing feedback and trying to
reflect on what the immediate next steps are for the Security
Education Companion.<br>
</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Hope you are well,</p>
<p>Soraya</p>
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<p><b>Additions to the group:<br>
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<p>Welcome to the advisory group, Chinyere Tutashinda and Megan
DeBlois! Chinyere is at the Center for Media Justice, and Megan
is at Internews. <br>
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<p>(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.)</p>
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<p><b>+ In the past few months...We've been posting and gathering
content ideas<br>
</b></p>
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<p> 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.<br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>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).<br>
</p>
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<p><b>+ In the last month...We did a round of </b><b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing">user
tests</a></b><b>! </b><br>
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<p>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?<br>
</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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:</p>
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<p>+ a glossary! SEC will link to the <b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://ssd.eff.org/en/glossary">SSD glossary</a></b>
in future releases, where technical, jargon-y digital security
terms will be highlighted. I'm very excited about this.<br>
</p>
<p>+ a better flow when referencing topics between the Teaching
Materials section and Lessons section.</p>
<p>+ we created a section called <strong><a
href="https://sec.eff.org/articles#Technical_Concepts_and_How_They_Fit_Into_the_Bigger_Picture">Technical
Concepts and How They Fit Into the Bigger Picture</a> </strong>in
Security Education 101, to help the less-technical trainers
with getting oriented with big picture digital security
concepts.<strong></strong></p>
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<strong></strong></p>
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<p><b>+ This week...We did a webinar!</b><br>
</p>
<blockquote>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. <b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fabriders.net/ncrnoteseffsecsoraya/">https://www.fabriders.net/ncrnoteseffsecsoraya/</a></b><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<b>+ Next few weeks...IFF and SSD<br>
</b>
<blockquote>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.<br>
<p>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.</p>
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<b>+ The future...?</b><br>
<blockquote>+ Making changes to the feedback<br>
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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>+ Help me collect feedback from people using the
resource?<br>
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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sec-feedback@eff.org">sec-feedback@eff.org</a> email, which goes to me directly. <br>
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Learn more about digital security at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ssd.eff.org/">https://ssd.eff.org/</a>.
Want to teach digital security? Check out the Security Education Companion at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sec.eff.org/">https://sec.eff.org/</a>.
Check out tools for encrypting the web at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/encrypt-the-web">https://www.eff.org/encrypt-the-web</a></pre>
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