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Linked – Four Tips to Help Manage Your Classroom Time
I’ve always said that nothing gets you a bad review from training feedback faster than running over on your time. If you promise students they will be finished with class at 5, you’d better be finished by 5. (Before is even better!) These tips are fairly obvious, but something I’ve seen a lot of people…
Linked: Twitter’s Looking to Emphasize Lists with New, Swipeable Custom Feeds
First off, good. Twitter needs to make the lists feature as easy as possible for everyone to use. Secondly, use Tweetdeck. Seriously. From the article: As noted, Twitter lists have long been seen as an underrated, underused option, with many people using TweetDeck instead to easily see various listings and stay up to date. I…
Linked: This World Password Day Diligently Review your Passwords
I’m a day late on this, but didn’t want to let it go without mentioning the day, and the importance of better password management. Several times people choose easy-to-remember passwords rather than focusing on security. With the rising concerns over data breaches and troves of usernames and passwords being dumped on the dark web every…
Linked – Personal property inventory by smart phone and email
This is some really good advice from Jim Calloway. I might even have to think about this before the next tropical storm comes through south Louisiana. One evening soon at home, go through your entire house videoing everything with your smart phone or digital camera. Open every closet and every drawer. Don’t worry about clutter….
Linked – Google plans to clean up the web with Chrome ad blocker next year
On one hand, good for Google for recognizing the blight that internet advertising has become. On the other, can we trust a company who’s main source of income is web-based advertising to be the same one that decides which ads get shown and which ones don’t? I’m a little uneasy with that. “Google will introduce…
Linked: 5 Lessons from Fairfax County Public Schools’ Cybersecurity Failures
Sarah’s post has some good info, but this is just unbelievable… “The Washington Post further reported that FCPS’s issues, in part, resulted from FCPS’s failure to apply software updates for nearly two years and refusal to migrate to more advanced and privacy-friendly software.” TWO YEARS!?!?!?!?!? People, people. Update your stuff. Apply patches, keep things relatively…
