Tuesday Tech Tips

Tuesday Tech Tips is a weekly blog that contains interesting technology tips, articles, and videos.

Important Reminder:

Please be aware that over the last few weeks two school districts in Somerset County have had network issues due to phishing emails. Additionally, over the last 24 hours, there has been an increase in spear-phishing attempts against our franklinboe.org domain.

These are targeted attempts directed at specific recipients. The spear-phishing emails are crafted to look as if they are from a legitimate source and deceive the user into clicking on a link that then asks for personal information such as bank information or their franklinboe.org username and password.

Recently, some school districts in NJ were hit with a ransomware attack whereby outside actors were able to lock the district's network and data and demanded large sums of money to unlock it. This situation is so serious that state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, are involved in the investigation. The majority of these attacks are facilitated by staff who opened attachments they shouldn't have, or clicked on a link and supplied username and password information.

If you receive any emails and are unsure of the source PLEASE DO NOT click on the links. delete the email and feel free to contact Help Desk

Direct from Apple Education: Build Confidence with Apple Teacher — iMovie - Click to Sign Up

Next Session: Wednesday, April 21, 2021

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (EDT)

Online

We’re excited to announce Build Confidence with Apple Teacher for Mac series—designed to help you make the most of your Apple products for teaching and learning. Join colleagues and local Apple team members to go through the steps to sign up for Apple Teacher, explore new program resources, and work to earn badges to become a recognized Apple Teacher.

In these sessions, you’ll build foundational skills on Mac 
that directly apply to activities with your students. Learning more about how to use a variety of Apple apps will also help you become more effective and efficient with research, planning, communication, and other multitasking skills that have become so important in teachers’ lives.

You’ll leave each session with new skills and ideas, implementation resources, and a connection to a community of peers who share a common purpose. Follow @AppleEdu, #AppleTeacher, and #EveryoneCanCreate on Twitter for 
more tips and inspiration from champions of creativity around the world.

That's it for now!

Enjoy the Tuesday Tech Tips!