New Year… Clean up and safety check

‘The Daring Librarian’ has posted a great list of things to do to smarten up online presence.

  1. Change Passwords – Click the link below and read her 4 tips for super passwords
  2. Clear Cache, History and Cookies
  3. Clean up and organise Flash Drives
  4. Check out using the Cloud for storage and consider …Dropbox, iCloud, Google Docs etc
  5. Edit privacy settings and ‘friendships’

These five are a ‘must’ to get ready for the new school year. For the rest please visit The Daring Librarian’s Blog:

 

YouTube & Commoncraft videos to the rescue!

Commoncraft videos on YouTube are very useful for a quick overview on new technologies. Check out these videos – most only a few minutes in length. Start with

World Wide Web in Plain English if you are not already familiar with exactly how it all works. Go on to learn about:

Wikis in Plain English

Blogs in Plain English

Twitter in Plain English

RSS in Plain English

Social Networking in Plain English

Google Docs in Plain English