By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. "Passwords are stored in plain text."
Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman, 2015/02/10
A nice explanation of password hashing and salting, and a rather interesting set of responses from various academic services about the manner in which they store their passwords (or entrust third party services to manage them as GET requests, storing them in access logs for later retrieval and reuse). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Typology of Web 2.0 Learning Technologies
Matt Bower, EDUCAUSE, 2015/02/10
The 2015 Typology of Web 2.0 technologies on their website published by EDUCAUSE includes 212 tools arranged into 37 categories and 14 clusters. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Next Internet Is TV
John Herrman, The Awl, 2015/02/09
"What was even the point of websites, certain people will find themselves wondering. Were they just weird slow apps with nobody in them?? Why?" This is from an article on the Awl that is making the rounds. More...
By Joshua Kim. Now that we are all back from #ELI2015 it is time to talk about what really mattered at the Conference - the gadgets. The whole world is watching the personal tech choices of the elite globe trotting opinion makers who flock each year to the glamorous global ELI confab. Today’s ELI attendee tech is tomorrow’s must own device. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. What showed up for you as the big stories of #ELI2015? This is a hard conference to get a handle on. ELI is small enough that you think you should be able to keep track of the important discussions and key sessions, but too big to actually participate in anything but a small number of the discussions and sessions swirling all around. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I love Jeff’s tweet about my piece 20 Questions at ELI 2015 on so many levels. The Jay-Z reference. That he jumped off the IHE platform, and pushed the conversation (and his critique) into Twitter. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Our people are descending on Anaheim for 3 days of geeking out at the intersection of learning and technology. Why are you attending, (or wish you could be attending), the 2015 ELI Annual Meeting? If the ELI Annual Meeting is not on your radar as a “must attend gathering”, why do you think this is so. Read more...
By Amy Cavender. Time flies. It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been four years since I first took a look at a Linux distribution called UberStudent. Back then it was in its 1.0 release, called “Cicero.” The latest release, “Epicurus,” came out in mid-January, with a version number of 4.1. More...
By Ryan Cordell. If you’re like me, when shopping for…well for almost anything…you can be paralyzed by choice. If you need a new set of headphones, there are just so many options out there, and so many blogs or forums in which experts and consumers will discuss in detail the pros and cons of any given choice. We do a bit of that here at ProfHacker, of course, and we hope our recommendations are good ones. More...
By Natalie Houston. Today marks the start of the #1ineveryclassroom public awareness campaign by the UK-based Colour Blind Awareness organization to point out the prevalence of colorblindness and the need for greater awareness on the part of educators. More...
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