10-Rep Learning ~ Teague's Tech Treks

Learning Technology & Tech Observations by Dr. Helen Teague

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New Year Tech Checklist ~ January 2018

One of the fortunate things about a career in education is the yearly ‘Holiday Break.” This holiday break was punctuated with a prolonged cold, frigid, FREEZING weather system. For this native California-to-Texas transplant, the cold was especially menacing. After attempting many work-arounds and brave attempts at navigating in these temps, the only acceptable solution was time by the fireplace and Amazon Prime deliveries of hot chocolate.

Time by the fireplace included time with my favorite channel: The Food Network. I became a binge watcher of “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” and “Guy’s Grocery Games” which are both hosted by Guy Fieri.

After a few episodes, I was treated to the inside nomenclature of each show. It seems that, like many things in technology, the inside lingo for “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” and “Guy’s Grocery Games” is “Triple D” and “Triple G” respectively.

So, in keeping with the triple alpha lingo, here are my Triple C ideas for your New Year Tech Checklist:

C1: Check your links on your homepage, blog, and other social media: Make sure they work. Links can be hear today and gone into cyberspace tomorrow. Your homepage, blog, social media is the first greeter of your work.

C2: Change your passwords. If your workplace does not have regular password change protocols in place, please use the start of the new year to change your password, and please make your password alphanumeric/symbol without a natural language word (i.e. “daisy1). Even though all the places I work have a regular schedule of password changes, the start of the new year is the symbolic “changing of the password guard” for me.

C3: Clean out old emails. A proper digital diet of up-to-date email storage is just good cyber wellness. We use the Canvas LMS for our online courses and I receive emails regarding student attendance, announcements, updates, etc… I save these during a semester and clean them out at the start of new semesters. You probably have other email accounts and folders where emails accumulate. Deleting these emails can feel so cyber-slimming!!

So, that’s my Triple C ideas for your New Year Tech Checklist. What else should I include? Leave a comment and let me know!

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Good Habits are not made on birthdays, nor Character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.  Maltbie D. Babcock

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