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When talking about the internet, privacy and data mining have been news for years. But in the last few, there have been more and more reports about the way companies are using the data they collect. Fortunately, there is something we can do to help protect us. Unnamed by qimono via pixabay BROWSER COMPARTMENTALIZATION Browser Compartmentalization is when you use more than one browser for different tasks on your computer. According to Fast Company , it looks like this: Users will use one browser for any and all websites they need to log in to. This browser is the one on which they’ll access their social media, banks, and shopping sites.   The big catch here is that users will never use this browser to search the web or randomly browse the internet. This browser is only used for bookmarked sites you need to log in to. Let’s call this your “accounts” browser.   Users will then use a second browser for all their web searching and random browsing. On this browser, a us

Here is an email I got that asks me for my Apple ID. Do you know how to spot a phishing email?

Schedule send is now baked into Gmail and it is a very useful tool to have - especially when you want to share an important thought at 3:00 am but don't want to wake the recipient.  1. First, click the upsidedown triangle next to the send button. 2. Next, click the "Schedule Send" button that pops up. 3.  Next, choose one of the dates given to you, or choose your own by selecting "Pick date & time". 4. Finally, choose the date and time.

Seesaw offers students the ability to annotate images in the app. But, it can be a painful process to save images and then upload them to Seesaw. This extension lets students take a screenshot and upload the image to Seesaw in two clicks. Give it a try!

Want to help your students think critically about the media they consume and create? Here's how! #medialiteracy #edchat pic.twitter.com/rHo4M733LF — Common Sense Education (@CommonSenseEd) August 12, 2019

UPDATE: This is now integrated into Google Drive. Have you ever wanted to know how to do something, but no one was around to walk you through it? There is a Chrome Extension called G Suite Training . Once you install the extension, a small button will appear in the upper right-hand corner. When installed, it looks somewhat like a help button, but it is much more powerful. When you click on it, a menu pops out. It will then talk you through the process. Here is a short clip of how it is done.

Who would have thought that formatting would come to comments before text formatting in Keep or Sites? But it did. I am sure there are more, but here are three different ways to format a comment in G Suite. Desired Effect How It’s Done The Entered Text The Outcome strikethrough dash before the word -word- word italicize underscore before the word _word_ word bold star before the word *word* word