Episode 150 - Story Behind Our TechTalk4Teachers Theme Music, Twitter Hacked, and Summer Projects

It’s Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 and welcome to episode 150 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, WooHoo, it is our 150th Episode!

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Show Links:

http://mashable.com/2013/04/27/hacked-starbucks/

AP Twitter  Hack  Preceded  By  A  Phishing  Attempt,  News  Org  Says

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/ap-twitter-hack-preceded-by-a-phishing-attempt-news-org-says/

OneNote Remodeling Example

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom’s Pick
Mixcraft 6 Teachers Guide for teachers and student music and audio projects
http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/v6guide.htm

Cindy's Pick
Critter Cams
http://www.wildlifeforever.org/conservation/wildlife-forever-video/critter-cams/

 Mike's Pick

Nest Thermostat
http://www.nest.com/

Get Stepping with EIU Moves
http://www.eiu.edu/herc/nutrition_eiumoves.php

That wraps it up for episode 150 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Mike Gioia,

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, PhD

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Episode 149 - Death, Taxes, and Online Accounts

It’s Monday, April 15th, 2013 and welcome to episode 149 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom, and I’m Mike Gioia. 

Happy Tax Day! 

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Today we discuss a somber but necessary topic of dealing with online accounts in the event of death. Last week Google introduced a tool to help with inactive account management. We also discuss our Tech Picks of the week including my recent blog series and Mike discusses a new fitness device he is beginning to use.

Show Links:

Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-digital-afterlife-with.html

Roger Ebert Memorial Website

http://www.rogerebert.com/

Passing Down Digital Assets

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443713704577601524091363102.html

Prepare a digital will for your Google Accounts
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57579113-93/prepare-a-digital-will-for-your-google-accounts/

Tell your family you love them – Write Your Will
http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneywisewomen/2012/03/30/tell-your-family-you-love-them-write-your-will/

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom’s Pick
Lessons Learned, 30 Days with a Surface Pro Windows 8 Tablet
http://eiuitc.blogspot.com/2013/04/day-30-lessons-learned-from-30-days.html

Mike’s Pick

Fitbit - Fitness Pedometer
http://www.fitbit.com/

Get Stepping with EIU Moves
http://www.eiu.edu/herc/nutrition_eiumoves.php

That wraps it up for episode 149 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Mike Gioia,

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, PhD

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Episode 148 - Information security is everyone's responsibility

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It’s Friday, March 29th, 2013 and welcome to episode 148 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Mike Gioia. Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology.

This time Mike Gioia joins us from the Information Systems department here at EIU and he shares his expertise about online security and how to be safe on the Internet. In this episode we discuss the importance of information security and how to protect ourselves from falling victim to phishing attacks. We will finish with our Technology Picks of the week.

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Report Phishing Sites

http://www.us-cert.gov/report-phishing/

Technology Picks

Tom's Pick

Video Screencast: Windows 8 On-Screen Touch Keyboards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2NK9EIsPf0

Mike's Pick

http://lifehacker.com/5940565/why-you-should-start-using-a-vpn-and-how-to-choose-the-best-one-for-your-needs

Cindy's Pick

aurora borealis space weather

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast

That wraps it up for episode 148 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich,

Keep on learning.
Tom Grissom, PhD

Cindy Rich, PhD

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Episode 147 - Modern Meets Traditional and a Technology Un-Pick of the Week

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It’s Friday, March 15th, 2013 and welcome to episode 147 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Welcome to the Spring Break Edition of Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology.

This time we have some news about how social media is affecting all aspects of our society, including the Catholic Church. So we will be discussing some of the ways social media is impacting society and the way we get news. This time I have a couple of Technology UN Picks of the week so we will explain that when we get to our Tech Picks segment, or” UN” picks in this weeks case.


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Technology Picks and 

"Un-Picks" 

of the Week

Tom's Unpicks

Google Reader
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html

iGoogle

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/07/igoogle-will-be-discontinued.html

TweetDeck (now part of Twitter - Shutting down some apps but keeping web app and Chrome app for now)

http://tweetdeck.posterous.com/an-update-on-tweetdeck

Cindy's Pick

Microsoft Surface Pro Tablets

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-8-pro/home?WT.mc_id=cpc_US-en_bing_mshh&WT.srch=1&semid=ef_BNG_e_69a7x7b05167i46u3gd9_2077589212&WT.search=1

That wraps it up for episode 147 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich,


Keep on learning.
Tom Grissom, PhD
Cindy Rich, PhD

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Episode 146 – Keeping up with EdTech: Twitter, Diigo, and RSS Feeds

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Tom: It’s Thursday, February 28th, 2013 and welcome to episode 146 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich.

In this episode we talk about some of the tips and tricks we use to keep up with the constant flow of information coming at us daily. It is easy to become overwhelmed but there are some things you can do to keep ahead of the game. In this episode we explore some of the technology we use to manage and archive the vast amounts of information we receive each day. As usual we also share our Technology Picks of the Week and discuss the ICE 2013 conference currently underway and how to take advantage of using hashtags on Twitter like #ice13 even if you cannot attend in person.

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Tools we use:

Twitter

https://twitter.com/

Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites and Educational Hashtags
http://cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

#edchat Twitter Discussions
http://shellyterrell.com/2009/08/18/edchat-join-the-conversation/

Diigo

https://www.diigo.com/

Google RSS Reader

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=reader&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/reader/&followup=http://www.google.com/reader/

OneNote

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote

YouTube video using OneNote in class at Pitt Meadows Secondary School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T5X_iSRNueU

Technology Picks of the Week

TweetDeck (now part of Twitter)

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Request your Twitter Archive

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/12/your-twitter-archive.html

Google Glass

http://www.google.com/glass/start/

That wraps it up for episode 146 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich,


Keep on learning.
Tom Grissom, PhD
Cindy Rich, PhD

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Episode 145 – Did the President Just Flip the State of the Union Address?

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Tom: It’s Friday, February 15th, 2013 and welcome to episode 145 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich.


This episode we talk about the State of the Union Address recently delivered by President Obama and some of the new technologies involved with delivering the speech in a “flip-style” presentation format. Plus we have two Technology Picks of the Week you will want to be sure to checkout.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2013

http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/white-house-state-of-the-union-2013-enhanced-graphics

Technology Pick of the Week


Tom’s Pick

Actiontec ScreenBeam: Wirelessly Display (Mirror) your computer screen to a Big Screen
http://www.amazon.com/ACTIONTEC-SBWD100KIT01-ScreenBeam-Universal-Wireless/dp/B009Z8T3K6

How to Wirelessly Display Windows 8 to the Big Screen
http://eiuitc.blogspot.com/2013/02/wirelessly-display-windows-8-to-big.html

Cindy’s Pick


We the People Petition at whitehouse.gov

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/22/petition-white-house-we-people

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/


That wraps it up for episode 145 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich,


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Tom Grissom, PhD

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Episode 144 - Catfishing and Spear Phishing - Let's Be Careful Out There

Episode 144 - Catfishing and Spear Phishing - Let's Be Careful Out There

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Tom: It’s Thursday, January 31st, 2013 and welcome to episode 144 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich.

Mike Gioia from the Information Systems group here at EIU also joins us this episode to talk about phishing and how to protect yourself against online phishing attempts.

Happy New Year!

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USA Today link about Manti Te'o and Catfishing
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/01/17/manti-teos-catfish-story-common/1566438/


Phishing-related links for this episode:

Antiphishing Working Group - http://www.antiphishing.org

OnGuardOnline - www.onguardonline.gov

National Cyber Security Alliance - www.staysafeonline.org

Facebook Security - www.facebook.com/security

Campus Downloading - www.campusdownloading.com

Technology Pick of the Week


Tom's Technology Pick of the Week

Using Audio Comments in Microsoft Word



Cindy's Pick

The iPad mini



That wraps it up for episode 144 of TechTalk4Teachers. I would like to thank Cindy Rich and Mike Gioia for helping out with this episode. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.