Episode 158 - MOOCs, Cryptolocker, and RIP iGoogle

It’s Thursday, October 31st, 2013 and welcome to episode 158 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers. I'm Tom Grissom, I'm Cindy Rich, and I'm Mike Gioia. (evil laugh - Halloween edition)

Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology.

This month we will be talking about a Technology and Science Symposium currently underway here at EIU, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), a very scary Cryptolocker threat for PCs and we will finish with our Technology Picks of the Week.

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Show Note Links

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide,
Snowden documents say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html



2013 - EIU Technology and Science Symposium
http://castle.eiu.edu/~wahby/Symposia/Science-Technology/2013-EIU-S&T-Symposium-Web-Schedule.pdf




MOOCs

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.udacity.com/

Stephen Colbert Tries to Make Sense of MOOCs with the Head of edX

http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/stephen-colbert-tries-to-make-sense-of-moocs-with-the-head-of-edx.html  

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom's Pick
Twitter in-line pictures
 http://mashable.com/2013/10/29/twitter-photos-videos/  

How to turn off Twitter in-line pictures
http://mashable.com/2013/10/29/turn-off-twitters-photo-preview/




Cindy's Pick

ighome - iGoogle Alternative

http://www.ighome.com/ 


Mike's Pick

Lunatik Stylus

 http://www.amazon.com/LunaTik-Stylus-iPhone-Screens-PMSLV-020/dp/B00821TR7G/ 


Keep on Learning,
tg

Episode 157 - Edchats, Hashtags, and Adobe hacked

It’s Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 and welcome to episode 157 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers. I'm Tom Grissom, I'm Cindy Rich, and I'm Mike Gioia.

Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology.

This month we will be talking about Connected Educator month and participating in ed chats by using the  #edchat by using other educational hashtags on Twitter, we will also discuss the recent Adobe hack that compromised 2.9 million Adobe accounts and of course we will finish with our Technology Picks of the Week.

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Connected Educators Month
http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/connected-educators/


Oldie but a Goodie for Connected Educator Month
http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/2011/11/episode-126-social-media-digital.html

Chats: What are they and why do we need them?

http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/chats-what-are-they-and-why-do-we-need-them/

Cybrary Man Links

How to take part in, or moderate a Twitter chat

Excellent link to Some Educational Hashtags

Google Doc List of edchats with times

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3780539831788176254#allposts/postNum=0

other chats of interest

#ntchat

#edchat

#iledchat - 9-10pm CST Monday Nights

#iaedchat
#aledchat
#caedchat

Security Spotlight - Adobe hacked

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/03/adobe-hacking-data-breach-cyber-attack

EIU IT Security Website
http://www.eiu.edu/its/security/

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom’s Pick

FlippedPD YouTube Screencasts for Smart Notebook 11.3 available at the EIUITC YouTube Channel

itcts_024 Launching Smart Notebook 11.3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1myckl_OAOk&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAkVWHTOjqjhlmEn742w2Aw

itcts_025 Using the Smart Notebook 11.3 Toolbar ( Part 1 of 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJBJnWRjfoY&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAkVWHTOjqjhlmEn742w2Aw

itcts_026 Using the Smart Notebook 11.3 Toolbar ( Part 2 of 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7w0cwkF9E&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAkVWHTOjqjhlmEn742w2Aw

itcts_027 Using the Smart Notebook 11.3 Toolbar ( Part 3 of 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZLgcLgXQuQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAkVWHTOjqjhlmEn742w2Aw

itcts_028 Using the Smart Notebook 11.3 Gallery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lHnEaWZ81U&feature=c4-overview&list=UUAkVWHTOjqjhlmEn742w2Aw

You're unable to interact with Adobe Flash Player objects in SMART Notebook software after updating to Adobe Flash Player 11.9.X

http://knowledgebase.force.com/articles/Troubleshooting/You-re-unable-to-interact-with-Adobe-Flash-Player-objects-in-SMART-Notebook-software-after-updating-to-Adobe-Flash-Player-11-9-X?utm_content=Adobe+Active+X+11.9+issue&utm_campaign=Software+Updates+EDU&utm_source=Facebook%3A+SMART+Technologies&utm_medium=post&WT.mc_id=Facebook%3A+SMART+Technologies_Software+Updates+EDU_Adobe+Active+X+11.9+issue

Cindy's Picks

Archive.org and teh Way Back Machine

http://archive.org/

Mike's Pick

Nest Protect

http://nest.com/smoke-co-alarm/life-with-nest-protect/

That wraps it up for episode 157 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, I'm Cindy Rich, and I'm Mike Gioia, keep on learning.

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, PhD