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Students in Mrs. Heringer's 2nd grade did a fantastic job publishing their opinion writing pieces using PicEdu, Apple Clips & Seesaw. The results are creative, engaging videos that tell their opinions and give voice to their stories. Keep reading to see how they did it! Mrs. Heringer's students worked on their opinion writing pieces and drafted their writing on paper. Students used a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts, using the Step Up to Writing method, then wrote finished drafts onto lined paper. Because students' writing was organized into four groups (first, next, then, last), we had them use the app PicEdu to create four illustrations for their stories. We allowed them to use web search, drawing, stickers or the camera to create their illustrations - our main focus was that students created illustrations that made sense with the words they wrote. Once illustrations were done, we showed students how to use the app Apple Clips to finish their projects. If

This was a digital literacy lesson I did with Year 4 last week: I have also posted a more in-depth step-by-step tutorial for what we did and how we did it exclusively for the supporters of my Facebook page. You can access this and everything else on MrPICT.com by clicking the picture below:

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BitLocker, the encryption technology built into Windows, has taken some hits lately. A recent exploit demonstrated removing a computer's TPM chip to extract its encryption keys, and many hard drives are breaking BitLocker. Here's a guide to avoiding BitLocker's pitfalls. Note that these attacks all require physical access to your computer. That's the whole point of encryption—to stop a thief who stole your laptop or someone from gaining access to your desktop PC from viewing your files without your permission. Standard BitLocker Isn't Available on Windows Home While nearly all modern consumer operating systems ship with encryption by default, Windows 10 still doesn't provide encryption on all PCs. Macs, Chromebooks, iPads, iPhones, and even Linux distributions offer encryption to all their users. But Microsoft still doesn't bundle BitLocker with Windows 10 Home. Some PCs may come with similar encryption technol

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I. REGISTER VPS SERVER VULTR First we access the homepage of Vultr. Create a VPS account Here you need to enter email information to create an account on Vultr, select  Sign Up . Then open the mail to click on the link to confirm the completion of the VPS registration. II. PAY Signing up for an account is simple, but buying a VPS is another thing, because Vietnam is often "scrutinized" very carefully because of using tricks to create multiple accounts to receive more promotions. If the correct information, you will be immediately transferred to the payment interface. Vultr supports payment via Credit Card (Visa / Master) and Paypal. If I use Techcombank's Visa card to register without any difficulty, do not try to create multiple accounts to prevent mass block. You will be charged $ 1 to verify the bank account will be refunded after completing registration. Enter the card information, note the minimum deposit amount is $ 5. Next choose Make a Payment to complete the VPS

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The wait is over! Teach Your Monster to Read is free to download across all app stores this week! From today (Monday March 4th) to Sunday March 10th, you can download the app completely free. Once downloaded, there is no subscription cost or in-app purchase after the free download period ends. Are you ready to go on an adventure? Three, two, one... let's go! apple.co/2s8oX0b   (iPad & iPhone) http://bit.ly/2cohkeR   (Android) http://amzn.to/2lNa0xS   (Kindle Fire)  K-2 BPS teachers, submit a help ticket to have this app installed on your classroom iPads!

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I think Social Media is a tool for good. Unfortunately, at the minute not everyone is using it positively. It comes down to choices. In 2019, we don't have a choice about using social media, the choice we make is how well we do it. Just this week the DFE announced that lessons around mental well-being linked to the internet and social media will be compulsory next year.  I have been saying this needs to happen for the past few years. I do think education is crucial to prevent the issues we are seeing around mental health, screen addiction and relationships. Over the past few weeks, I have been working with my year 4 class to learn more about some of the social media apps they are aware of. I wanted to cover both the positives and negatives and make children aware of how to stay safe and act responsibly when they are old enough to use these tools. The genre in English was non-chronological reports and the children looked at three subheadings of: What is it? What are the dangers/risk