Thursday, October 31, 2013

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




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

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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



other chats of interest
#ntchat
#edchat
#iledchat - 9-10pm CST Monday Nights
#iaedchat
#aledchat
#caedchat




Security Spotlight - Adobe hacked





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





Technology Picks of the Week


Tom’s Pick

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