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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Reminder: Google's policy is changing March 1st

I will speak more about this on my next show but I wanted to put the reminder out.

Google's new policy goes in effect March 1st.  The new policy is a consolidation of 60 individual policies that Google had.   There is a lot of hype around the policy as it clearly states that Google can share information across it's services.  What many don't understand is that Google has had a version of this right all along, but it was not as easy to understand.

Google does not share your information but rather leaves a cookie on your computer with key information like what are your common searches, or what your location is, or even what phone you own.   This cookie on your computer is what gets used to help target adds that are shown to you.   By no means are the advertisers getting your information.

The new policy is less about the cookie or advertising and more about all their services being able to have access to your information.  This is for your convince.  An example of future use of this policy change is the ability to have your gmail contents available to you when you use Youtube.

I will double-check but I am pretty sure this policy does not effect the education edition of Google apps (if someone reading this knows a link to this information please post it in the comments.)

The new policy can be read here, along with instructions on how to disable the cookie if you are concerned about that: http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/policies/privacy/

If you want to see what information Google has on you  and manage that information then you can look at your dashboard, which is basically their file on you:  https://www.google.com/dashboard/b/0/

-Bjorn Behrendt
Host: Google Weekly Podcast
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Episode 18 ~ Making Google Apps FERPA compliant with CloudLock

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Show News:
- 10,601 hits since November 2011. Thank you for all your support.

What's New in Google:


Interview:
- Gil Zimmermann: gil@cloudlock.com

App Exploration:
- Marketplace: CloudLock
- Chrome: Hangout Canopy
- Android: PocketCloud Explore

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Episode 17 ~ Interview with Google's Dana Nguyen (Google Certified Trainer Program & Chromebooks)




Show News:
Show Highlights:
    Apps of the Week:

    Universal Deign Learning:  Starts at 29:56
    • Recognition Networks
      • Ability to recognize patterns, visually, auditory, by smell, taste or touch
      • Bottom-up: Visually recognized by its self
      • Top-Down: Contextually
    • Misconceptions
      • Learning is physical connections
      • You can not unlearn anything
      • Misconceptions can be changed
    • Father's Example of misconception


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    Tuesday, February 14, 2012

    Episode 16 ~ The Flipped Classroom




    Show News:
    • VTed.org ~ Vermont's Educational Personal Learning Network
    Show Highlights:
    What's Current:
    • Table of Contents
    Apps of the Week:

    Universal Deign Learning:  Starts at 12:02

    • Flipped Classroom
      • lecture at home and come to class to do the work.  This allows for teachers to actually see the thought process of the students which make's it very UDL friendly.
      • Concern about lack of internet access.
      • Realization that a flipped classroom is less about how you present the material and more about how teachers spend their in-class time.
    • A description of my flipped classroom at the college level.
    • Gilbar, K. Why I flipped my classroom. Raleigh, NC: FIZZ (Friday Institute for Educational Innovation) North Carolina State University. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aGuLuipTwg&feature=related 


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    Tuesday, February 7, 2012

    Episode 15 ~ The 1st Google Weekly Podcast Listener Hangout





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    After the show research




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