Episode 160 – Security Questions and Holiday Tech Gift Ideas

12/13/2013

It's Friday, December 13th 2013 and welcome to TechTalk4Teachers, I'm Tom Grissom, I'm Cindy Rich, and I'm Mike Gioia. Welcome to the TechTalk4Teachers podcast, the show about teaching and learning with technology.

In this episode...

Mike Gioia will lead our Security Spotlight feature and discuss the how hackers are using keyloggers and security questions to steal your passwords. Our Tech Picks this week will focus on Holiday Gift Stocking Stuffers for the teacher/techies in the house.

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Show Note Links

Avoiding Vulnerable Passwords - and Rules, Too

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/telepathwords-120513.aspx

https://telepathwords.research.microsoft.com/

Technology Picks of the Week

For Tech Picks of the Week we will focus on some holiday gift ideas for teachers and techies so be sure to check those out

Cindy’s Picks – Personalized Gifts

Vista Print http://www.vistaprint.com

Zazzle http://www.zazzle.com/create

MyPublisher http://www.mypublisher.com/

Shutterfly http://www.shutterfly.com/

Snapfish http://www.snapfish.com/

Mike’s Picks

Glif Tripod Mount for Smartphones

http://www.studioneat.com/products/glif

Remote Mouse Clicker (can often catch these on sale)
http://targus.com/us/wireless-presenter-with-laser-pointer-amp16us

Tom’s Pick

Raspberry Pi Kit Computer

http://www.makershed.com/Raspberry_Pi_Model_B_Revision_2_0_p/mkrpi2.htm

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5387

Hour of Code
http://code.org/educate/hoc

Happy Holidays and...

Keep on Learning,

Tom Grissom, PhD.

@tomgrissom

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