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?
… 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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