Sunday, April 07, 2013

A most interesting question for my lawyer friends. The Comments are definitely worth reading. (I would hit the roof if I was on the receiving end of this kind of stupidity.)
"I manage a few computers for an independent private medical practice connected to a hospital network. Recently I discovered repeated attempts to access these computers. After adjusting the firewall to drop connections from the attacking computers, I reported the presumed hacker IP to hospital IT. I was told that the activity was conducted by the hospital corporation for security purposes. The activity continues. It has included attempted fuzzing of a web server, buffer overrun attacks, attempts to access a protected database, attempts to get the password file, etc. The doctors want to maintain a relationship with the hospital and are worried that involving law enforcement would destroy the relationship. What would you advise the doctors to do next?"


Is this typical anywhere but Ireland?
Theft / Frape / Bully / Virus
A new survey by ESET Ireland has revealed what terrible things befall the Irish with regards to their computers and smartphones, with one in five having had their laptop, smartphone or tablet stolen and over 50 per cent having had a computer virus infection.


Why hide their ignorance? Let us have a good laugh and perhaps fewer people will take these morons seriously.
Twitter, hate speech, and the costs of keeping quiet
Last month was a bittersweet seventh birthday for Twitter. The Union of Jewish French Students sued the social-media giant for $50 million in a French court in light of anti-Semitic tweets that caried the hashtag #unbonjuif ("a good Jew"). In January, Twitter agreed to delete the tweets, but the student group now wants the identities of the users who sent the anti-Semitic messages so that they can be prosecuted under French law against hate speech. Twitter is resisting. It claims that as an American company protected by the First Amendment, it does not have to aid government efforts to control offensive speech


Interesting that India considers this news, but none of the US news services seemed to. Perhaps if there was a hint that it carried a missile with Kim Jong-un's name on it? I only noticed it because back in my Army days I was on this Air Force base reporting to a Navy Chief...
Japan, US mulling deployment of 'Global Hawk' to increase surveillance of N Korea
Japan and the United States might deploy a high-altitude reconnaissance drone called the 'Global Hawk' at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture to increase surveillance of North Korea, according to sources.


I'm thinking of making a series of short, supplemental 'courses' for my students. Things like “Dividing Fractions for Fun and Profit”
One of the trends sweeping the Internet of late is online learning. All kinds of websites are coming along where users can come and create courses to share their knowledge with other people. A new website called ProProfs Trainer Maker is looking to be a serious contender in online learning. Users can create professional courses for all kinds of reasons, and one of the main emphasizes is creating training courses for business purposes, but the uses are only limited by your imagination.
Creating courses is very easy with this website. You can create basic courses available to the public for free, and for private business training courses, a small fee is required. Creating a course is as simple as naming it and adding the content you wish to teach others. All of the content is divided into chapters, which makes it easy to organize your thoughts in way that will make sense to anyone taking your course. You can add images, links, videos and all kinds of other useful content to your chapters to help hammer home the message you are trying to deliver.


Tools worth trying?
The 10 Best Web Tools For Flipped Classrooms
… In an effort to provide a quick look at some of the best web tools for flipped classrooms, I thought it would be useful to poll the @Edudemic Twitter followers.
… One thing stood out to me: there were a lot of repeats! Many folks who have tried the flipped classroom model or are currently deploying it have leveraged a lot of the same web tools. Nearly all are free and most are actually tools you’re probably already using.
Wikispaces
Wikispaces is a free and useful web tool designed to give students (or ‘users’ of any kind, really) the ability to share their thoughts, reflect on the work of others, and edit a body of work together.
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere is being used by classrooms, conferences, and with audiences large and small to get instant feedback.
Edmodo
Edmodo may very well be the most-used web tool in education right now. So it’s no surprise that it’s popular among flipped classrooms. In case you haven’t tried it out, Edmodo is a classroom management platform designed to facilitate learning in all directions. By that I mean it lets students ask questions to other students, teacher to student, parent to teacher, etc. You get the idea.
Screencast
Screencast may not seem like a prime example of a flipped classroom tool, but it’s evidently quite popular. I’d say about 25% of all respondents to a few polls done by myself (not scientific, quite informal) recommended Screencast as one web tool to definitely try out. It lets you make your own (duh) screencasts and then gives you the full license to the product you just created.
Celly
Students use Celly to connect with one another at any time, anywhere. They use the text-based social network to pose questions of each other, direct learning, and even create assignments based on where students want to go in their learning next. Amazing stuff!
Dropbox
Dropbox enables students, teachers, and parents to work off the same set of information at the same time. It’s a popular cloud storage service that is free (for basic version) and lets you have a classroom folder that every student can pull and place data in.
YouTube
YouTube is being used to help students learn from people like Sal Khan and other YouTube educators to augment and add to their own learning. Many flipped classrooms use YouTube as a means to have students learn at their own pace, on their own time, and with each other. It’s a collaborative learning process where the teacher acts more like a ‘guide on the side’ rather than a ‘sage on the stage.’
Twitter
One of the most powerful tools in education, Twitter is by far the most popular tools among educators. It dwarfs most of the other web tools that teachers are using (aside from YouTube) and lets anyone build their own personalized learning network or professional learning network (PLN).
Evernote
Evernote is simply a tool that lets you take all your thoughts with you.
Teaching Channel
Teaching Channel is a video showcase—on the Internet and TV—of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America’s schools.


“There are more 'niche players' in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
PAC launches to support bearded political candidates

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