Tuesday, October 25, 2011

PC Maintenance and Security


     I have watched the following three tutorials: Setting up search preferences in Google, Customizing your folder buttons and following a PC maintenance checklist. I have learned a lot from the tutorials.
     One thing that I will definitely share with the others is the safe searching filter in Google. You need to click on “search preference” in Google, and in the “safe search filter”, you can choose “strict filtering” to block all the text and images containing sexual, violent contents. I think this will be every helpful for teachers. When I do in class research with kids, I am always worried if something not appropriate would show up. By applying this filter, this problem will be solved.
     There are two pieces of information that surprised me. First, you can actually customize folder button to help edit or move folders. Second, I was surprised to learn that, no matter how safe your computer is, you will always need to back up in case the hard drive dies. I never thought this would happen, and I will begin to back up important files and pictures now.

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