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Parents are getting increasingly worried about the ease with which undesirable content can be accessed online, according to Kaspersky Lab...
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Facebook cannot be ignored. So it’s surprising that we don’t talk about it more on Edudemic and other edtech sites, right? It has a sort of stigma that it’s not for educational purposes. All that’s about to change thanks to these 100 ways you can use Facebook in your classroom to actually learn!
Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/09/100-ways-to-use-facebook-in-your-classroom/
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Today is Labour Day Monday, and I'm sitting in my office preparing for the first week back at school. Every year brings new challenges but I am a firm believer that most issues can be addressed if we are able to identify common ground and maintain our focus on what's best for kids.
Remember: “Together is better.”
Read more: http://www.learningwithnoboundaries.com/2012/09/combined-classes.html?spref=tw
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Arcticsid asked the Answer Line forum if his ISP can "sit back…watch a screen, and see everything you are doing at any given time?
And how can you protect yourself?
HTTPS in ChromeFirst, embrace any technology that encrypts the data for its Internet travel. If you need privacy, use Secure Socket Layer (SSL--secure web pages with URLs starting with https) or a virtual private network (VPN).
If you're really paranoid, you might want to consider Tor, a free program and service that makes it much more difficult to track where you're going online. For more information, see Tor Network Cloaks Your Browsing From Prying Eyes.
Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/261752/is_your_isp_spying_on_you.html
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Dans le cadre de la production de la communauté qui s’est crée autour de cet observatoire, nous avons décidé de publier une infographie qui présente des grandes lignes autour d’un point de vue sur la gouvernance de l’information, et d’une partie des résultats.
Si le sujet de la gouvernance de l’information, ou du pilotage de l’information, des référentiels, des politique de gestion de l’information, .. vous intéresse, voici donc cette infographie.
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Editor’s note: This is a contributed post by Gabriela Jugaru, a tech enthusiast who is passionate about the mobile industry and gadgets. She’s a technology entrepreneur, co-founder of UnlockUnit.com.
Read more: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/augmented-reality-apps-for-education/
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Langwitches Blog
The faculty at my school has a problem! Their heads are spinning because they have several different social media platforms available for them.
For clarification: At our school,
- all teachers are required to maintain a classroom blog (there are at varying stages of the blogging step ladder)
- all teachers are members of a private Professional Development Ning for our faculty and are required to blog reflectively at least once a week (in lieu of turning in lesson plans).
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Learn How to Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat.
Gust MEES: this is for me the BEST advice I have found and the BEST pratice about Twitter Chats... I am a fan of #lrnchat and I learned a lot only by lurking ;) Read more, very interesting and a MUST for people who want to start one day a Twitter Chat...:
Read more, a MUST to get success with it: http://getsocialpr.com/2012/08/31/how-to-run-a-successful-twitter-chat/
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First time impressions are everything, but sometimes they creep up on you. What are recruiters looking for on social profiles?
Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/09/01/social-profiles-job/
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Robin Good: David McCandlees, the author of the book Information is Beautiful celebrates great data visualization and information design work through the Information is Beautiful Awards.
» Data visualization– A singular visualisation of data or information.» Infographic – Using multiple data visualisations in service to a theme or story
» Interactive visualization – Any viz where you can dynamically filter or explore the data.
» Data journalism – A combination of text and visualizations in a journalistic format.
» Motion infographic – Moving and animated visualizations along a theme or story.
» Tool or website – Online tools & apps to aid datavizzing.
The selection itself is worth a tour of the site and of this initiative.
Check: http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/
Longlist selection: http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2012/07/our-longlist/
Shortlist selection: http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2012/08/awardshortlist/
Via Robin Good
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Getting Smart, a group that promotes innovative solutions in education, recently featured an infographic on today’s online learners. The infographic compares online students with their traditional peers, and highlights factors such as retention rates, degree selection, and career outcomes for those who pursue their degree online. Some interesting points from the infographic include:
About 30% of all higher education students take at least one class online.
The infographic was originally published on OnlinePhDprograms.com. To see it in full, view below or click this link:
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K-12 TEACHERS
The Internet is a critical resource for today’s elementary through high schools - and you can play an essential role in ensuring that this digital resource remains safe and secure for your students.
A great place to start is by participating in National Cyber Security Awareness Month, held in October 2012. Even if you have just one hour to devote to this nationwide observance or decide to make a larger time commitment, you’ll be sure to find at least one activity from the list below that can make a big difference!
Read also my FREE courses about basic IT-Security (easy to learn, ONLY change your habits...):
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/bring-your-own-device-advantages-dangers-and-risks/
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Advocates Good “Cyber Hygiene” . Check also what CIO.GOV http://www.cio.gov/pages.cfm/page/National-Cybersecurity-Awareness-Month-Advocates-Good-Cyber-Hygiene An Official Website of the United States Government says: Surfing the web. Social networking. Shopping. Even the most innocuous online activities can pose a threat to our nation’s cybersecurity, and all Americans should play a part in protecting it.
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/cyberhygiene-hygiene-for-ict-in-education-and-business/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/category/get-smart-with-5-minutes-tutorials/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
- http://www.scoop.it/t/ict-security-tools
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet
Read more: http://staysafeonline.org/ncsam/get-involved/k-12-teachers
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It is a model in which authentic, often hands-on, experiences and student interests drive the learning process, and the videos, as they are being proposed in the flipped classroom discourse, support the learning rather than being central or at the core of learning. Via Nik Peachey 
Carlos Lizarraga Celaya's curator insight,
July 3, 2013 1:20 PM
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Using the Trend Micro mobile app reputation, we found out that several popular Android apps are susceptible to data leakage.
Gust MEES: a MUST READ for people who are using "Bring Your Own Device" (Hashtag on Twitter is #BYOD)!
Read more: http://blog.trendmicro.com/do-you-know-what-data-your-mobile-app-discloses/
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How we act and communicate sets the course for success or difficulty with our team and colleagues. Leading my example is critical. The most effective members of a team are those individuals who can accept both their strengths and weaknesses; using both to develop ===>proactive <=== success strategies. Great team leading is a component of any successful business or enterprise.
Read more: http://justcoachit.com/blog/2011/09/08/team-building-tips/
Thomas C. Thompson's curator insight,
June 16, 2013 3:46 PM
Most of the teams that I've participated with had active leaders, but few had active followers. Leading by Example works well when combined with active work on the Team's Dynamics
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While of course we here at Online Universities are online education’s biggest fans, there is still something to be said for the magic that happens when a group of bright, inquiring minds come together under one roof. Some of the world’s most incredible research has come and continues to come from traditional colleges and universities in the United States and around the globe. These are some of the most amazing projects going on now.
Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/08/stunning-research-projects/
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In the midst of this multimedia blitzkrieg, the importance of mindfulness and focused attention is rising. If we can't cultivate mindfulness and focused attention while sitting quietly in a room, then how can we expect to bring these qualities of mind into turbulent circumstances -- both on and offline?
Read more: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/04/why-we-need-to-teach-mindfulness-in-a-digital-age095.html
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Online challenge encourages users to protect their identities by searching for personal mentions of themselves on the web.
Read more: http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/08/google-yourself-safety-infographic
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![The C-level is coming around on big data [infographic] | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/AOaWlbUaHmlDUPhfDEEPVDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
According to a new survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (commissioned by IT consulting giant Capgemini), corporate executives are starting to figure out that big data matters and how to leverage it, even if they haven't fully come around on...
Read more: http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-c-level-is-coming-around-on-big-data-infographic/
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Today, most educational systems are designed to work from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Students learn facts and figures and tiny fractions of knowledge long before anyone really puts things into a larger context.
Macroscopic learners need context. ===> They need to know the "big why" before learning the little what. <=== It’s a scaffolding problem. Macroscopic learners need to see the whole X-Mas tree before they start to hang the ornaments. Without this scaffolding, without understanding why they’re learning what they’re learning—aka context—then little makes sense and nothing is retained.
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Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Carlos Marcelo, juandoming
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Update plugs remote code execution flaw in imaging software...
Adobe is advising Photoshop users to update their systems following the release of a security fix for the imaging tool.
Gust MEES: UPDATE asap!!!
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more“ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How can course instructors encourage their online students to learn? In this post I’ll describe how course ins...
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If you thought that capturing a user's social media session was only done by skilled hackers, now the Firesheep addon can allow even the truly clueless to become an Internet griefer.
Even if you were drunk and surfing at a Wi-Fi hotspot, you probably wouldn't stand up and shout your username and password for anyone who might want it. But an attacker does not need to find out your username and password. If you thought that capturing a user's social media session was only done by skilled hackers, now the Firesheep addon can allow even the truly clueless to become an Internet griefer.
If you were at a Wi-Fi hotspot, you probably would have no options and no encryption at all. Although many websites give lip service about how important their users' privacy and security is to them, very few have their entire site encrypted with HTTPS. Most sites encrypt the username and password during the login process, but most of those sites stop encrypting and protecting the user right there. As soon as a user moves on to a regular HTTP page on the site, an attacker can sniff and capture the user's cookie information.
Many of us are busy multitasking, so we log into Twitter or Facebook, or even Flickr, and then move on to surf other sites without first logging out of those accounts. If any of those future sites have a Twitter or Facebook widget, or even a Flickr image embedded, if you didn't log out of those sites before continuing to surf, then HTTP session jacking, also called "sidejacking," can happen and leak the user's cookie. Security researchers explained that if a person can steal the cookie, then they can steal your session and allow them to do anything the user could do on the site.
Gust MEES: a MUST READ for Mac, Linux and Windows users!!!
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