- Hi! Nice meeting you! Could you introduce yourself? What department are you from? What courses are you teaching or have been teaching? What are the classes you teach like, such as format or class size? Is there anything you want to tell us about your teaching, research, or other projects?
Hey everyone! My name is Michael D’Angelo and I teach both CIS4093 and CIS9793 – Intro to Digital Forensics at an undergrad and grad level. My classes were about 30-40 students in person but have been more consistently 15-20 now that we are remote and online. The classes are delivered as live lessons and additional recorded lessons/readings outside of class. This is paired with in-class tool labs and at-home virtual labs. The class project is a group research paper focusing on how to update Forensic workflows with a forward looking stance. - Could you talk a little bit about that course you’ll be working on during this seminar?
My class involves live lessons that cover forensic investigations and technical background on key indicators. This is given as a live powerpoint presentation but mostly conversational style delivery. Questions are posed to the larger group at multiple times throughout the lesson. There are also multiple recordings and readings every week, with a weekly virtual lab as an assignment. - What are the listed learning goals of your course? They could be ones provided by the department, or ones that you have written for your syllabus? Please list them (pasting is fine!).
-Analytical skills: The identification of related and necessary investigative tactics for particular investigations scenarios and outcomes.
-Technological skills: The application and use of leading forensic software (open source and licensed suites) in data collection, analysis and review.
-Ethical decision-making: Properly applying ethical limits to investigation scopes and accessing of particular datasets throughout investigations.
-Written Communication skills: Students will submit written assignments, as well as a term project where they will be expected to apply key digital forensic skills to real-world investigations and cyber events
-Oral Communication skills: Students will be expected to present short summaries of the assigned readings and a brief description of their final project. - What class materials are you planning to develop? What goals do you have for them?hat
I am hoping to develop the in-class labs further to be much more interactive and easier to understand. It is a complex topic to focus a class on, especially when it is a completely unfamiliar topic to them versus the bulk of their studies. My goal is to have in-class assignments be easier to understand, allow for group discussion and have clearly defined relevancy to different lessons.