Kevin Brookhouser

A recent article in Business Insider has many people on the internet justifiably concerned. In essence, if you're logged into Facebook, Facebook is collecting your browsing data. To be fair, many web services do this as well, but among all of the corporations who do, Facebook is the one I trust the least. If you don't want Facebook collecting your data, there are two very simple solutions.  This guy is in charge of the company that is watching you. Photo by Elaine Chan and Pricilla Chan released with a Creative Commons License Don't use Facebook. According to The Onion, only four people in the world actually enjoy using Facebook . If you're like me and you're not yet ready to quit Facebook, then here's a very simple way to prevent Facebook from collecting your browsing data.  Download Chrome . With Chrome open, click "File" > "New Incognito Window." Log in to Facebook.  Keeping Facebook in a separate incognito window...

Google Docs and I had a great thing going. I have been a user since its beta release in 2006. Later I began to experiment with its use in the classroom. Then I attended the Google Teacher Academy and was convinced that I would go completely paperless with all future papers I would assign. It didn't go well. See why Google Docs and I briefly broke up and why we're back together. [Update]  Aaron Slutsky  commented on Google+   I've had some teacher screencast their comments to the students. Think it could be done as efficiently as making comments? Screencasting paper comments may be even faster. I'll have to think about that.