Prevent A Hacked Google Account

A few people I work with have had their Gmail accounts hacked lately. So here are some directions on how to see what sites or devices have access to your gmail account and how to revoke access to suspicious apps.

 

1. The first thing you should do is to log into your Gmail account and click your name or picture in the upper right hand corner. 

2. Click account. (see above). This is a link next to your image. (I am the frog) 

 

 

3. On the left hand side click Security and then click Account Permissions. (see the above picture) 

 5. You will now see any app or device that has access to account. The type of access is different depending on the app or device. As you can see above, my phone has "Full account access." 

Quizlet has access to basic account info, but for peace of mind, I will revoke access. This may mean that I will need to remember the password to quizlet, which is fine by me. 

I read elsewhere that if you are revoking access to many apps, you should write down the name of the app just in case you want to have it back. 

Good luck and I hope your Gmail account does not get hacked!

Flubaroo Button To Email Grades Was Missing!

Wow! I was going crazy until I figured this out. If that button is missing, edit your question that
asks students to enter their email. Look below at the screenshot for more information! Whew!

Hope this works! Good luck!

The Last Page of the Internet

There is no last page of the Internet but I really like the message on the website! 

See for yourself below.

http://www.wwwdotcom.com/

Clean Up YouTube Videos

I hate it when I show a YouTube video and I stress over all the extraneous videos and links around the main video. I am always in a hurry to make the video full screen so the students can't see the extra stuff.

I heard about A Cleaner Internet and just added it as an extension to my Chrome Extension Page. This is how you do it, because it is not an intuitive way of adding the usual extension.

First of all, make sure you are using the Chrome Web Browser. 

Go to        http://clea.nr/

Click extension at the top and click CHROME to download the extension.
After it is downloaded...

Go to        chrome://extensions/chrom

             (Just paste the above into the URL bar)   Your chrome extensions page should open up.

DRAG THE DOWNLOADED EXTENSION, FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR BROWSER, TO THE CHROME EXTENSIONS PAGE AND DROP IT.  (sorry I yelled)

It should show that it was added to your extensions. Now go watch a YouTube video and never be concerned about the surrounding, distracting videos again!   *Alas, one caveat. After your video is over I think it will still show all of the related videos inside the box where your video was just viewed.

Be careful because there could still be some inappropriate and distracting videos there. At least that is after your video has been viewed!

Spreaker is Great for Podcasts!

This short blog post will be about Spreaker which is a web based platform for creating and storing your own audio podcasts.

My computer class created a short podcast by opening up Spreaker on a laptop and clicking broadcast. We plugged in a microphone into a laptop and the student interviewer asked military related questions to our custodian David Isabel. Creating the podcast and storing it on the Spreaker website was very quick and easy.

When I first tested this out I used the iPad app for Spreaker and the sound was amazing. The built in microphone made it easy to record yet just a little awkward because the iPad was the microphone. Regardless, recording a podcast was easy both ways and I highly recommend Spreaker for audio podcasts.

One way to improve the podcast is to have two microphones and to add a personalized jingle. But these are minor points if you compare this method to the old way of recording a podcast with Audacity and then loading that to Podbean.

I also recommend the Spreaker iPad app. Although it froze a couple of times, the sound quality and ease of use compares well with the website version. Spreak away!

Aspen Posting Grades Instructions

I did not write the piece below. I pasted this from our shared resources. 

If you use Aspen to grade items, you would have to click gradebook, then scores on the right hand side of your screen. After that, pick Post Columns - (either term or progress) 

Then follow the directions below. Good luck!   

PART 1:  AVERAGE TO DATE
4.  To drive in your average from your gradebook into the grade column, perform the following actions:

• Go to the Options tab
• Select “Update Post Columns”
• A pop-up will appear.  Select Q1 and Progress grades Term.  Then hit “Next” at the bottom of the pop-up window

5.  The next screen will be titled “Update Post Columns: Choose Update Values” (all of your assignments should then appear in the list when you click on it), select the first choice “Average Q1”, then hit “Next”

[MICHAEL - THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE POPS UP THERE: Note: this operation will not update manually adjusted (  ) scores.
WHAT IS A “MANUALLY ADJUSTED SCORE?”

ANSWER- It is when you manually put in grades (such as making a 79 a B- instead of an C+), performing this action will override any manually inputted grades

6.  On the next screen- “Update Post Columns: Confirmation”, select Finish.  Your grade column of “ProgTerm_Q1_GRD” should now contain the Q1 average to date.

7.  Please note, you can also manually put in a score for each student if you so wish.

PART TWO: COMMENTS

Step 1- Put the cursor into the one of the cells for comments.
Step 2- Press “Control L” and a Pop-up list of Comments will appear

-OR-

Step 2- Go to “Options” and select “Look up”

PART THREE: UPLOAD
IMPORTANT- Once upload is completed you cannot not undo without significant work.  Please make sure everything is as it should be before proceeding with this step.  DO NOT UPLOAD UNTIL BOTH GRADES AND COMMENTS HAVE BEEN ENTERED AND FINALIZED. [YOUR WORK PRIOR TO THIS STEP WILL STILL BE SAVED, SO YOU CAN ENTER SOME COMMENTS AND THEN SIGN IN AT A LATER TIME TO FINISH.]

Facebook Privacy and Take This Lollipop

Students showed me this site in class. If you go to http://www.takethislollipop.com/ you will see that over ten million people liked this on Facebook and probably tried the site with their facebook account.

The freaky thing is that you have to agree to let the site access your Facebook pictures. If you want to show a teenager how freaky it is to "friend" people that they don't know, this is the site.

How to Right Click on a Chromebook

Touchpad tips (Chromebooks)

 Next: Transitioning from other computers

If you're using a Chromebook, use the touchpad to move the pointer and select items on the screen. Here are some gestures and actions supported by the touchpad:

	Move the pointer: Simply move your finger across the touchpad.
	Click: Just press down on the lower half of the touchpad. Since tap-to-click is enabled by default, you can quickly tap the touchpad to click.
	Right-click: Click the touchpad with two fingers.
	Scroll: Place two fingers on the touchpad and move them up and down to scroll vertically, left and right to scroll horizontally. If you have Australian scrolling (previously called "simple scrolling") enabled, move two fingers up to scroll down. (It works in the same way as say, your smartphone or tablet.)
	Drag and drop: Click the item you want to move with one finger. With a second finger, move the item. Release both fingers to drop the item at its new location.

How to turn off or access Airplane Mode on your Smartphone

Method 1:

1. Sweep down from the top of the screen to display the notification panel
2. Tap on Airplane to enable Airplane Mode. It will turn green.
•     Touch it once more to turn off Airplane Mode

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 Method 2:

By pressing and holding the  power key, Airplane mode can be toggled on or off .

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Method 3:

1. Press the Home Key 
2. Press the Menu Key 
3. Tap on Settings
4. Tap on Wireless and Network
5. Tap on Airplane mode, when on a check appears in the checkbox
• To disable Airplane mode, tap on Airplane mode once more.

SMS vs. MMS

The meanings of SMS and MMS are below but I found an excellent page that explains how they are both used in marketing in the link that follows.

 I will need to look at my cell plan to see if MMS is automatically included or if they charge an additional fee. 

SMS - short message service - this is text only. (limit of 160-170 characters; splits into two messages if it is more)

MMS- multimedia message service - this is photos, videos, audio that can be sent from phone to phone.

http://txt180.com/blog/tips/sms-and-mms/

WiFi Problem Solved

After returning home and trying to access the Internet, no connection could be found. After checking to see if the WiFi was actually on and that the router was OK, I figured out that I had to enable the wireless adapter in my laptop by pressing F2.

After pressing F2, the wireless signal turned on and I was good to go. I have no idea why it was off, but now I know one use for the F2 function key!