• My Google-Knol to WordPress-Annotum Migration blog and articles

    Click link above about what Google-Knol authors should know before they make the migration to WordPress-Annotum. Thus meaning: knowing first the waters in which they jump and me also ;) I was one of the Knol-TOP10-English authors and also Author-of-the-Week in November 2009 with more than 1,4 millions of visites. Unfortunately Google Knol discontinued its services on May 2012 :( So, now I am present on WordPress...
  • My personal blogs will be available here...

    Click link above for an other blog in English about IT-Security. This blog (one of lots on WordPress) will get used to publish my posts about Education and IT-Security, most in English, but also some in French, as well as some Hobby publications... It is focused on "Learning and Teaching in 21st Century".

Visual Cyber-Security: See Attacks On Real Time

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . Introduction .In previous articles WE discussed already about the responsibility that everyone is responsible for a safer and more secure Internet, that the weakest link in the security chain is the human and I provided you also with some great FREE tools to get protected, as well that I gave you advice such […]

Cyber-Security: The Weakest Link In The Security Chain Is The Human

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . Human Behavior Vulnerabilities . WE are NOT perfect, far away from that! That is something WE need to keep in mind as WE are vulnerable through it, and this in Real-World as ALSO in Virtual-World! Through this WE become, on a certain point, even on Naivety status, especially on the Internet, check my […]

What YOU should know about Proactive Thinking

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. . What is Proactive Thinking and How To Teach it First of all, let me tell you that you need to have Critical Thinking first to be able of Proactive Thinking on its BEST! Proactive Thinking is the way to foresee things for the future! It’s not being a wizard, but to be a […]

Learn Every Day a Bit-With Curation

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. . ===> Quote: Learn every day a bit, at the end it will make a lot of bytes! [Gust MEES] <=== . What is Curation? . Let me start first, please, with an introduction to “Social Media” as “Curation” is part of “Social Media” and the “Sharing Culture“, check the video below to learn […]

PracTICE: Using Blogs for Critical Thinking and Proactive Thinking

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. . . . KEYWORDS FOR THIS FREE COURSE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: . Blog, blogging, Flow Chart, Learners Interests, Respect of the learners, Learning by Doing, Proactive Thinking, 21st Century Tools, Sustainability, motivation, engaging your learners (students), Learning to learn, respect, e-Citizen, Digital-Citizen, Copyright, Mindmapping, competencies, Professional Development (PD), Life-Long-Learning Strategies, Curation, Critical […]

Creativity: How To use it with Young Kids – the practice – Example 1

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. . Very long time ago already, in 2002 I created MAUSI, the mascotte of my working place. I did it for the pleasure of the kids who visited my courses together with their teacher(s). The idea came as I explained a whole primary class (3d year, 9 years old) what a computer is and […]

What YOU should know about Copyright

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. . Don’t Forget The Copyright Laws… . . . When working together with your students and when they are publishing content (even yourself…), please take care about the copyright, you are not allowed to copy&paste content from Internet and text from books from other persons without their knowledge and their permission… . . . […]

What YOU should know about Twitter-Chat’s

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. . What YOU should know about Twitter-Chat’s . A Twitter-Chat? ONLY chatting with 140 characters? Is this possible? And can WE make something professional out with that? That are certainly the questions I first will hear when talking about a Twitter-Chat, BUT it is possible and even a very professional way for YOUR own […]

What YOU should know about Competency

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. What is Competency and How To teach it? . To answer those questions I think the best way is not talking too much about it and reading first some of the BEST articles which I curated on my curation site on Scoop.it here. . Click the following link to access the curation ===> Competency-Curation […]

Is My Professional Development Up-To-Date?

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. Is your Professional Development Up-To-Date? I think that “Is MY Professional Development Up-To-Date?” is the first question which you need to ask yourselves! You can ONLY give BEST and QUALITY courses when knowing about the latest knowledge in a 21st Century Education. But ===> HOW TO know this? <=== That’s a question I am getting asked […]

Safer Internet Day 2013-SID2013-Participation

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. What is SID2013? Get set for Safer Internet Day 2013 Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. Safer Internet Day 2013 will be the tenth edition […]

Why (And How) Teachers and Education Should Start Learning and Teaching Cyber-Security

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Why (And How) Teachers Should Start Learning and Teaching Cyber-Security . What should get be taught and learned more in the 21st Century while using ICT? . .. Being online since 1998 and giving courses about ICT more than 10 years the practice and my online excursions show me that IT-Security (basics of Cyber-Security) and Internet-Safety are not yet taught enough. Seriously I think there is […]

Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, Merry Xmas And A Happy New Year

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. . Click here to listen: Gust’s Audio Christmas Wishes (Luxembourgish and English) in .wav format Gust’s Audio Christmas Wishes (Luxembourgish and English) in .mp3 format Gust’s Audio Christmas Wishes (German and French) in .wav format Gust’s Audio Christmas Wishes (German and French) in .mp3 format If you can’t listen the message, open QuickTime Player, Windows Media Player or…, […]

Cyber-Security Practice: Learn it in one week

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. . Read, think, learn and share over Social Media… Security is everyone’s responsibility! We are ALL responsible for the Internet’s future! . ===> “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” Marie Curie <=== . KEYWORDS FOR THIS FREE COURSE and what you will learn: “Knowledge is a treasure, […]

Naivety in the Digital Age?

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

.   . Learning from the fails of others for a BETTER more secure Internet! Keywords for this free course: . Naivety, stupidity, motivation, engagement, heroes, Security-Scouts, critical thinking, stay out of the box, adapt to new technologies, be aware of the malware, nobody is perfect, knowing the dangers and risks, responsibility, responsibility of School, […]

Learning basics of Cyber-Security

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. Why is it important to have basic Cyber-Security knowledge? . To answer that question above it is important to know the following first: . [Beginning Text from  www.informationweek.com] Cybercriminals are looking for low-hanging fruit. Their targets are companies with poor defenses, a lack of security skills, and vulnerable end users. They’re looking for unlocked […]

21st Century Learning and Teaching: Multilingual Books Recommendations

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. . Books are still necessary, even in the 21st Century . My book selection, books which I have read and which I want to share with you… . Click images to enlarge… . French language: .. Les outils d’excellence du formateur (Sophie COURAU) La boîte à outils du formateur (Dominique BEAU) Animer un stage de formation (Nicolas […]

How-To prepare for giving a quality course

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. This logo was created with Wordle. You are authorized to copy it by providing credits to this blog! . Tip: NO TIME? Read ONLY the bold! Check out also my Wordle-Logo where the main keywords are present. This blog aims to help people who start giving courses and/or would like to give courses one […]

Cyber-Hygiene: ICT Hygiene for Population, Education and Business

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . Read, think, learn and share over Social Media… Security is everyone’s responsibility! We are ALL responsible for Internet’s future! . ===> “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” Marie Curie <=== Cyber-Hygiene: Hygiene for ICT in Education and Business, sounds strange isn’t it? I will tell you […]

Bring Your Own Device: Advantages, Dangers, Risks and best Policy to stay secure

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . . Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is more complex than most people know, read further to learn… . . . Keywords for this free course: . motivation, engagement, heroes, Security-Scouts, critical thinking, stay out of the box, adapt to new technologies, be aware of the malware, nobody is perfect, knowing the dangers and […]

21st Century Education practice: Tutankhamun Exhibition in Cologne (DE)

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A cultural holiday in Cologne (Germany) in 2011. Visiting the Tutankhamun Exhibition in Cologne (Germany) in January 2011. A small report about that exhibition and about Cologne in Germany as also a bit history around it… This was a Knol created on January 30, 2011 and migrated to WordPress Annotum on June 30, 2012. . […]

How-To use Twitter with success for Education and more…

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 How-To use Twitter with success for Education and more… . . Ever wanted to use Twitter but didn’t find its utility? You tried Twitter but you didn’t have that success with it? Probably that’s what happend to you as it happend to me as well six (6) months ago, till I was learning about Twitter […]

Learning to Learn is 21st Century Teaching and Learning Challenge!

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Learning to Learn is 21st Century Teaching and Learning Challenge! In 21st Century we get that masses of information so  that it is nearly becoming impossible to follow them and especial to collect and understand them! Teachers and Educators have big problems with that and not to tell about the learners then… So, first teachers and educators […]

Not ONLY rights but also responsibility!?

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. Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners. Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give quality courses. One very important knowledge who needs to get taught is “Critical Thinking“; it brings out also new ideas and the courage to become an engager and helps to try […]

What should get be taught and learned more in 21st Century while using ICT?

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners. Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give quality courses. One very important knowledge who needs to get taught is “Critical Thinking“; it brings out also new ideas and the courage to become an engager and helps to try […]

Visual IT-Security/Worksheet-Secure Surfing-part2

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners. Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give quality courses.  Learning and teaching how-to surf by choosing safe web sites By using this web site the teaching person could use the opportunity as well to explain the learners what […]

Visual IT-Security/Worksheet-Secure Surfing

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners. Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give quality courses.  Learning and teaching how-to surf by choosing safe web sites By this video the teaching person could use the opportunity as well to explain the learners what are trusted […]

Visual IT-Security/Learn with videos

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

.. . For most people it is very difficult to understand IT-Security and also the need to apply it…. To me it looks sometimes like that people see a computer as a modern typewriter and/or a game console, but that’s not the case, I will try to explain to you a computer in a visual […]

Visual IT-Security:Your Computer As A Possible Cyber-Weapon!?

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

.. . For most people it is very difficult to understand IT-Security and also the need to apply it…. To me it looks sometimes like that people see a computer as a modern typewriter and/or a game console, but that’s not the case, I will try to explain to you a computer in a visual […]

Ideas for a more secure Internet-part3/Dangers of storage devices

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. International Days of security, which already exist and are organized by the European Commission should be more focused on practice, awareness is not enough! There is a need to do more, such as: . . . The dangers of storage media . Caution with the use of backup and/or storage media (USB drives, portable music players, flash cards for cameras, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs…)! Contrary to what most people believe, a computer is not just infectable via an Internet connection, but also through the infected storage media, without being connected to […]

Ideas for a more secure Internet-part2/IT-Security Scouts

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . International Days of security, which already exist and are organized by the European Commission should be more focused on practice, awareness is not enough! BTW: although they do a very good job! There is a need to do more, such as: . “Security Help Point” and “Security Scout” . . . Knowing that there are a lot of computers already infected, we must help these people clean up their computers and show them how to […]

Ideas for a more secure Internet-part1/National Security Day as a Family Day

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . International Days of security, which already exist and are organized by the European Commission should be more focused on practice, awareness is not enough! BTW: although they do a very good job! It is advisable to organize these days in spring when the weather is nice outside and preferably organize them as a family party, ie: . ===> These safety  and security days could well be used also for the exchange between generations … <=== . Children in clothes of virus, worm, trojan, etc.. will jump around […]

Visual IT-Security

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

. . . . .For most people it is very difficult to understand IT-Security and also the need to apply it…. To me it looks sometimes like that people see a computer as a modern typewriter and/or a game console, but that’s not the case, I will try to explain to you a computer in […]

Get smart with 5 minutes tutorials/IT-Security/Part 3: Update your Third Party Applications!

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

Hi, I start a new series of blogs with educational vocation who will be easy to follow as they take only +/- 5 minutes and by following them and by applying my advice you will become a champion in IT-Security ;) . . What we already learned in Part1 + Part2: . The browser, such as: Internet Explorer [IE], Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari + … […]

Get smart with 5 minutes tutorials/IT-Security/Part 1: browsers

Learning basics of IT-Security and Cyber-Security

Hi, I start a new series of blogs with educational vocation who will be easy to follow as they take only +/- 5 minutes and by following them and by applying my advice you will become a champion in IT-Security . . Let’s go for part 1: browsers . A bit of theory. If you […]

Work-Sheet Teachers Best Practices/HowTo

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Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners… Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give quality courses. Taking GOLD DUST as an good practice example who is an interdisciplinary and interactive 21st century textbook. It works on the basis of the “Papillon”-method- a new system of […]

21st Century HowTo Guide For Teaching-People

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. . 21st Century How-To Guide For Teaching-People (teachers, professors, educators, instructors…)… A practical guide for teaching-people (teachers, professors, educators, instructors…) on How-To teach (coach) learners on a modern way with tools from the 21st Century and also with newest 21st Century Education knowledge. Information about 21st Century Learning and Teaching. Adapting the concept of […]

For a Better World

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For A Better World Multi-Cultural Blog A multicultural effort on showing how the world could become better. This blog is an example of multi-cultural author collaboration. This world that we live in is divided into different continents and countries. We still can make it as a better world, by finding areas of common interest among […]

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