Welcome to Technology
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Basic Rules for Online Safety
"Yes, I realize that’s an ambitious title for a blog post about staying secure online, but there are a handful of basic security principles that — if followed religiously — can blunt the majority of malicious threats out there today." - Brian Krebs
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Articles for Educators at DCISD
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TRICKY SCAM PLANTS PHISHING LINKS IN YOUR GOOGLE CALENDAR
You know the drill: If you have any doubts, don't click links or download attachments. Now, thanks to new findings from the threat intelligence firm Kaspersky, along with phishing texts, phishing tweets, and phishing pop-ups, you need to worry about one more thing: phishing in your calendar.
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500 Creative Writing Prompts
You have to write for a minimum amount of time or minimum words without stopping for more than a few seconds or all of your work is lost. If you do reach the minimum (you choose what the minimum is), you can download your writing as a Word doc to continue the writing and editing process.
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Teaching With Historical Newspapers - An LOC Webinar Recording
There are two sites that often refer people to when I'm asked about locating copies of old newspapers. The first is the Google Newspaper Archive. The second is the Chronicling America collection from the Library of Congress.
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Try Mentimeter for Classroom Quiz Games
Mentimeter lets you create slides that then become the basis of your quiz game. You can have multiple choice and open-response quiz questions in your slides. The responses to each question can be displayed in a variety of ways including bar graphs, word clouds, and heat maps.
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Three Lessons to Learn from the $9.2M Copyright Ruling Against Houston ISD
The short version of the case is that teachers in the district were photocopying and redistributing copyrighted study guides without permission of DynaStudy and continued to do so even after DynaStudy raised concerns to the school district. According to World IP Review's article, the district tried to make a Fair Use claim regarding use of four of the copyrighted works, but the court ruled against the claims.
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Randy Butler
Director of Technology
randy.butler@dcisd.org
Phone: 806-592-5912
Leslie Escalante
Technology Specialist
leslie.escalante@dcisd.org
Phone: 806-592-6076
Jay Spears
Technology Specialist
jay.spears@dcisd.org
Phone: 806-592-6078
David Escalante
Technology Specialist
david.escalante@dcisd.org
Phone: 806-592-6064
