EdTech Situation Room Episode 54

Welcome to episode 54 of the EdTech Situation Room from May 31, 2017, where technology news meets educational analysis. Visit https://edtechsr.com/links to access all referenced links from our show. This week while Jason Neiffer (@techsavvyteach) was out on assignment, returning special guest Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) joined Wes Fryer (@wfryer) to discuss cybersecurity and recommended anti-malware computing solutions. They also talked about efforts to salvage Twitter and Internet discourse by web 2.0 pioneer Evan Williams (@ev), the perils of moderating live video moderation, and recent commercial space milestones by SpaceX as well as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s company, Vulcan Aerospace. For Geeks of the Week, Miguel shared Multcloud.com and CloudHQ.net as solutions for creating backup copies of cloud-based storage files, and Wes extolled TabPilot as a Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform. Next week we’ll be back to our regular live show time (Wednesday at 10 pm Eastern / 9 pm Central / 8 pm Mountain / 7 pm Pacific) and will welcome special guest, Dr. Scott McLeod (@mcleod). Please follow @edtechSR on Twitter to stay updated. As always thanks for tuning in and please share your feedback!

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  6. Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) – blog: Around the Corner blog and TCEA’s TechNotes blogFree Resources and MORE
  7. Wes Fryer (@wfryer) – blog: speedofcreativity.org
  8. Read MGuhlin on Medium | Read wfryer on Medium
  9. Did Kaspersky step in dog-doo? US Intelligence targets Kaspersky Labs (CSO from ISO Labs, 13 May 2017)
  10. Private Internet Access VPN | OperaVPN for Mobile Devices
  11. Opera browser has built-in VPN
  12. Miguel’s Windows Tips & Tricks
  13. BitDefender Free (antivirus)
  14. Spybot Search and Destroy
  15. MalwareBytes Anti-Ransomware | Download
  16. CCleaner (great for cleaning your registry)
  17. White hat or black hat? Firefox hacking tool Firesheep raises ethical concerns
  18. SSL Everywhere (VentureBeat, October 2010)
  19. EFF Publishes “Pwning Tomorrow,” a Speculative Fiction Anthology (EFF, Dec 2015)
  20. Defective by Design: Digital Rights Management (DRM) – look at the repeat offenders
  21. Medical Devices Hit By Ransomware For The First Time In US Hospitals (Forbes, 16 May 2017)
  22. Apple’s new iCloud security requirements: How it affects you and the software you use (22 May 2017, MacWorld)
  23. Set up 2-Step Verification for your domain – G Suite (Google Tutorial)
  24. Cyber Security Education Consortium (CSEC) Cyber Stars Summer Camp (Rose State College, Midwest City/Oklahoma City, OK)
  25. A US federal appeals judge said drones are no different than radio-controlled planes (Quartz, 19 May 2017)
  26. Learn to Code with a Drone (by Tinker)
  27. This Dystopia is Completely Ridiculous (7 May 2017, TechCrunch)
  28. ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (NY Times, 20 May 2017)
  29. Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides (Gizmodo, 3 May 2017)
  30. U.S. Consumers Time-Spent on Mobile Crosses 5 Hours a Day (FlurryMobile, 2 March 2017) – “Communitainment, or communication for the sole purpose of entertainment”
  31. DARPA Picks Design for Next-Generation Spaceplane (DARPA, 24 May 2017)
  32. SpaceX successfully launches its heaviest geostationary orbital payload yet (TechCrunch, 15 May 2017)
  33. Elon Musk: SpaceX Is Almost Ready to Update the World on Its Plan to Get Humans to Mars (Futurism, 24 May 2017)
  34. Elon Musk: The future we’re building — and boring (TED Conference, April 2017)
  35. Paul Allen showed off his new rocket-launching plane today, and it’s BIG (ArsTechnica, 31 May 2017)
  36. Apple’s Siri home speaker now in manufacturing, may not ship until later in 2017 (AppleInsider, 31 May 2017)
  37. Creating Worlds of Tomorrow: Microsoft Innovations & Minecraft: Education Edition
  38. Miguel’s Geeks of the Week: Shuffling cloud storage content from one site to another with Multcloud.com and CloudHQ.net
  39. Wes’ Geek of the week: TabPilot (MDM)

SpaceX by ST33VO, on Flickr
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