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Learn about a number of free and powerful technology tools that can help align your social media efforts, make an impact, and save you time. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

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A group of tech-savvy librarians offer up a list of their favorite education apps this year.

A few years ago, I was using satirical news to research the accuracy of news sources. Today, there is an abundance of misinformation online which creates a great opportunity for us to teach our students media literacy with fake news. Develop Students into Knowledge Constructors In 2016, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) revisited its […]

If you are an instructional leader who wants to continue growing, then mark your calendar to participate in these free K-12 Education Leadership online Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

If you want to effectively begin using game-based learning with your students and ensure engagement, there's no better way to start than with Minecraft. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

Add project-based learning components to these Minecraft lesson plans and see learning and engagement soar in your classroom. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

The ability to redesign and improve existing materials is empowered through the use of the free SketchUp Pro 3D modeling software. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

Learn to use Typorama to craft beautiful quotation designs, as well as a collection of copyright-friendly image resources to use with it. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

With two free Google tools, educators can ensure that when students are researching, they come away with valid data and conclusions. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.

Spread the loveWith some of the biggest names in technology focusing their creative and financial assets on education, edtech will be at the forefront of education reform over the next decade.  Bill Gates is investing billions and Mark Zuckerberg 100’s of millions, into the future of learning. We expect Edtech to transform the way we teach and learn. Standardized testing and core standards are not going away, so many educators are turning to edtech to help them negotiate the demands of this exacting system. There is a growing relationship between these core standards and the personalized learning initiatives being funded […]

The web has largely switched from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. All web servers use one of these two protocols to get web pages from the server to your browser. HTTP has serious problems that make it vulnerable to eavesdropping and content hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of these problems. That's why EFF, and many like-minded supporters, have been pushing for web sites to adopt HTTPS by default. As of 2021, about 90% of all web page visits use HTTPS. This is a big win for encryption and security for everyone. It’s easier than ever to implement HTTPS by default, and we're providing the tools to do it. For many years, web site owners chose to only implement HTTPS for a small number of pages, like those that accepted passwords or credit card numbers. However, over the last ten years, the Internet security community has come to realize that all web pages need protection. Pages served over HTTP are vulnerable to eavesdropping, content injection, and cookie stealing, which can be used to take over your online accounts. Content injection is when someone adds data or code to your communications with an HTTP web page. For example, it's how GCHQ and NSA took over a Belgian ISP's computers. Content injection is also how China took down GitHub with a massive DDoS attack, dubbed "The Great Cannon". Content injection is also becoming popular with ISPs. Verizon injected tracking headers into every request made by their customers. And Comcast injects pop-ups into sites where they don't belong. All of these attacks can be stopped by HTTPS, provided it is implemented and made default on enough sites. What you can do as an individual You can only use HTTPS on websites that support it, and there are still sites that don't send visitors to the HTTPS version by default. You can now force HTTPS by default in Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Firefox Settings > Privacy & Security > Scroll to Bottom > Enable HTTPS-Only Mode enable_httpsonly1.gif Chrome Settings > Privacy and security > Security > Scroll to bottom > Toggle “Always use secure connections” This feature is also under the flag chrome://flags/#https-only-mode-setting. chrome_https_only1.gif Edge This is still considered an “experimental feature” in Edge, but is available in Edge 92. Visit edge://flags/#edge-automatic-https and enable Automatic HTTPS Hit the “Restart” button that appears to restart Microsoft Edge. edge_https_only.gif EFF’s browser extension, HTTPS Everywhere will retire at the end of 2022, because default HTTPS is now available on most websites without the extension. We see this as a great victory. HTTPS Everywhere was always meant to be a stopgap solution until more of the web was automatically encrypted. What you can do as a web site owner We're encouraging everyone who runs a web site to offer HTTPS and redirect visitors to HTTPS by default. Offering HTTPS has gotten a lot cheaper in the last 10 years.r. In fact, offering HTTPS makes it possible for sites to implement the modern HTTP/2 standard, which can dramatically speed up web browsing relative to HTTP. This also future proofs for even more up to date protocols that promise even more performance gains like HTTP/3-QUIC. Offering HTTPS requires getting a certificate from a certificate authority. It used to be expensive and complicated to get a certificate, but since 2016, a new certificate authority, Let's Encrypt, offers free certificates to the public using an API that enables easy automation. Let's Encrypt is a joint project of EFF, Mozilla, and many other sponsors. If you manage your web site entirely through a web interface, the easiest approach is for your hosting provider to integrate Let's Encrypt support as a setting you can turn on. Many hosting providers already support Let's Encrypt, and many more add support all the time. If you have shell access on your hosting provider, you can use Certbot, a tool developed by EFF. Certbot can get you a free certificate from Let's Encrypt. It can also automatically configure your Apache or Nginx server to correctly use that certificate. What you can do as a hosting provider We encourage all hosting providers and CDNs to offer HTTPS by default for their customers, at no additional cost versus their HTTP services. Many already have, like Cloudflare, OVH, WordPress.com, and SquareSpace. The Let's Encrypt integration guide has additional details on how to best implement HTTPS by default. We continue to celebrate free, automatic HTTPS being the industry standard for web hosting.

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These are resources for Shelly Fryer’s presentation and workshop, “Enriched Assessment with Technology.” All of Shelly’s past and upcoming presentations are available.  Ques…

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Learn the process of encrypting and decrypting folders on your Android device with the help of SSE Universal Encryption.

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Susan Landau has an excellent essay on why it’s more important than ever to have backdoor-free encryption on our computer and communications systems. Protecting the privacy of speech is crucial for preserving our democracy. We live at a time when tracking an individual—­a journalist, a member of the political opposition, a citizen engaged in peaceful protest­—or listening to their communications is far easier than at any time in human history. Political leaders on both sides now have a responsibility to work for securing communications and devices. This means supporting not only the laws protecting free speech and the accompanying communications, but also the technologies to do so: end-to-end encryption and secured devices; it also means soundly rejecting all proposals for ...

Many creatives believe the longer you spend with a piece of writing, the better it is. This isn’t the case. My most popular article was done in under 30 minutes.

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