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Key Questions Answered
- Why should a teacher or education administrator use Twitter?
- How do I set up an account? (step-by-step instructions included!) - What questions should I always ask myself when I follow someone? - How do I tweet? How do I retweet? What the heck is a retweet?! - How do I find good people to follow? Fellow teachers? People interested in what I like? - What’s privacy like on Twitter? - What should my profile photo be? - What are the drawbacks of Twitter? Read more...
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In our last blog, we discussed the importance of competence for fostering the trust you need as a manager to influence others. We stressed that management competence includes not just technical knowledge of the work but operational and political know-how as well. Here we want to focus on the other great component of trust — character — but by taking a different approach. So far we've argued that intentions — character — are the foundation of trust, that they must be supported by competence, and that you must take pains to reveal them. But we haven't addressed the question of your intentions themselves. Does it matter what your intentions are? Yes, of course it does. We don't trust anyone simply because they have clear intentions. Otherwise, we'd trust Hannibal Lector and other villains. ===> People trust us because we have the right intentions, which are those intentions people accept and agree with. What are "the right" intentions? <=== That's not an easy question to answer, especially for a boss, and it's the subject of our next blog. Read more, very interesting...
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If you’re building elearning courses, then you should expect to have a graphics editing program as part of your tool chest. In a previous post I mentioned a few free (or low cost) graphic editors if you don’t already have one. There’s a difference between having a graphics application and being a professional graphics artist. Many of us work alone and have to do our own graphics. I find that what I do for graphics doesn’t require overly sophisticated skills. While we may be using different tools, there are some simple graphics editing we should all be able to do. Let’s review a few of the common image editing tasks. Read more...
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A week after the Flashback Trojan began running rampant on Macintosh computers, the malware appears to be in remission.
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In today's college classrooms the sound of furious note-scribbling has been replaced by clacking on keyboards and tapping on tablets. Thanks to the ubiquity of WiFi on campuses, it's not just note-taking that's been given a 21st-century update.
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Suggestion of a few tools with which you can get your students mapping! 1. Create an animated “flightpath” of a journey with Tripline 2. Add voice recording to a map with Map Maker and Vocaroo 3. Record and share your impressions of different places with Woices Read more...
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The new free tool adds to the growing community effort to help affected Mac users remove the malware from their systems. Read this blog post by Topher Kessler on MacFixIt. This new tool by F-Secure is another advancement by the Mac community against this threat that accompanies not only manual instructions and help from community members, but also swiftly updated definitions for Sophos, ClamXav, VirusBarrier, and other malware scanners for detecting the malware. On Apple's end, even though the extent of this infection stemmed largely from Apple's delay in issuing a patch for known Java vulnerabilities, the company finally released the patch and has further announced its own Flashback removal tool is in the works.
It's hope that these, and the continuing efforts by the Apple community, will reduce the prevalence of this infection to a minimum.
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Hello Mac users, welcome to the problems facing Windows users! Now Mac users are facing a far more serious threat. Having your Mac as part of a botnet, and having malware on the system that’s sniffing passwords is a big deal indeed, and far scarier than some fake security popup. Flashback is serious malware. Unless you do some digging around on your system, you won’t even know it’s there. That’s serious. But is it serious enough to get Mac users to protect their Macs? I hope so, because ===> this incident has highlighted how wide open Mac users are to attacks, and it’s clear that Apple doesn’t have their backs covered. <===
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How to avoid identity theft, phishing scams, viruses and spyware when you use social networking sites.
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A new variant of the Flashback Trojan that appeared last year can install itself on a Mac without need for an administrator's password.
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scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network.
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10 Reasons for Education Professionals to Use Twitter
Can a message of only 140 characters really affect change in the world? Twitter is doing just that one message at a time.
Dr. Daniel L. Frazier explains you very well why; read more...
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The projects on this page are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. What it is: Web Adventures-Explore Science is a site by Rice University. Web Adventures lets students explore science-one game at a time. Each adventure has a section dedicated to students and a section dedicated to teachers who are using the adventures in the classroom. In the Cool Science Careers section, students can experience what it means to take on science as a career. They can go through Profession Pathfinder to see which science careers best match their personality based on their answers to career interest questions. Students can select from five different science career fields to virtually try out activities that are typical for the career. With Zoom In, students can learn about different science jobs and read interviews with real scientists. In the CSI: Experience, students learn all about what it takes to be a forensic scientist.
This website is compliant with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
See also this web site: http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4586
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How can parents support children’s internet safety? The challenge
Many stakeholders are working together to support children’s internet safety, including governments, teachers, industry providers and services, child welfare agencies, parents and children themselves.
Given the Safer Internet Day 2012 theme of Connecting Generations, we ask whether, instead of imposing restrictions, parents can support their children’s internet safety by sharing a positive experience of internet use with their children...
Read more...
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The Flashback malware threat for OS X is on a steep decline, but still underscores that Mac systems are not immune to threats. Read this blog post by Topher Kessler on MacFixIt.
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A new Trojan known as “Sabpab” could hurt Mac users who run Java and Microsoft Word. Security researchers are warning users to make sure their computers ===> have the latest software updates from both Apple and Microsoft, <=== and to use anti-virus software. In some cases, manual removal of Sabpab may be needed. Word about Sabpab comes on the heels of another nasty piece of malware, Flashback, that infected up to as many as 600,000 Macs, security experts said, by exploiting a vulnerability in Java software. Apple last week issued a software-base removal tool for that malware, which can be used by criminals to steal personal information, including passwords. Read more...
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April 15, 2012
By Dave Meister The first PHSprincipalBlog (changed to Director 4/1/2009) post was on 9/18/2007. (332 posts overall) I have been using Twitter for 4 years, 4 month... We still have a lot of work to do, but I feel more strongly than ever before that we are willing to meet the challenges to make our learning environments relevant and engaging. We have the unique opportunity to design and build a new school complex that will be both flexible and transparent and able to accommodate learning for today’s world and the challenges of tomorrow.
I AM SO GLAD I STARTED TO BLOG AND TWEET!
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Another Mac OS X Trojan has been spotted in the wild, which exploits Java vulnerabilities, just like the Flashback Trojan. Another Mac OS X Trojan has been spotted in the wild, which exploits Java vulnerabilities, just like the Flashback Trojan. ===> Also just like Flashback, this new Trojan doesn’t require any user interaction to infect your Apple Mac. <===
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Help teach tweens/teens about #Onlinesafety & preventing potential risks
Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D This is cross-posted on the Powerful Learning Network – http://plpnetwork.com/2012/04/10/telling-our-stories-self-promotion-or-sharing-best-practices/ This is my response and reaction to Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s Unselfish Self Promotion posted on the PLP Network blog. Conceptually, I am in agreement with Sheryl. I discussed similar ideas in a blog post entitled Every Educator Has a Story . . . Just Tell It. Where I have have difficulties is in the language of self-promotion. I begin with an excerpt of my original blog post and then discuss my thoughts regarding the language surrounding self-promotion. Every Educator Has a Story . . . Just Tell It.
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Researchers from Kaspersky Lab supplied more evidence that there are more than 500,000 Macs infected by the Flashback malware. If correct, that would represent more than 1 percent of Macs out there.
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The BioDigital 3D medical imaging software allows users to navigate the human body, toggling various systems and conditions on and off.
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{EAV:f075bd7c19d97b3d} How I became a convert to Twitter • The teaching and education community on Twitter is truly inspirational... Twitter is a fantastic collaborative tool. As teachers, how often do we get to visit other schools? In my experience, very rarely. Twitter has enabled me to collaborate with teachers in schools across the country. Combine this with cloud services such as DropBox and Google Docs and you can create and share resources and ideas quickly and easily. The site is also a great place for discussion. It is amazing how creative you can be in 140 characters. Teachers, academics, technologists and other experts come together on Twitter to chat and discuss a whole range of topics – you can follow and contribute to these discussions by using hash tags.
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An espionage campaign targeting pro-Tibetan groups is employing malware that can seize control of employees' Macs and secretly siphon away confidential data.
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Stream Facebook and Twitter info bubbles in the background of your homescreen! Keep up to date with the latest from Facebook and Twitter -- right on your home screen!
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