Q: How do I manage passwords securely?

Question : How do I manage passwords securely? Answer : I mainly use a password manager/generator where I can store all of my password for different websites. The one I use is LastPass as it also has a Chrome extension that I can easily install in my Chrome browser. This is a must for security purposes. Though it has a free version, what I use is the basic plan and pay approx. $4/month (billed annually). If you are using the same password for everything, or easy to guess passwords, you are putting yourself at risk. LastPass helps you by generating new passwords and saving them for you. Here is a short segment from my chrome extension training video where I discuss about LastPass. How to add LastPass to Chrome: Go to the Chrome Web Store. Search "LastPass" in the search box. Select "LastPass: Free Password Manager." Click "Add to Chrome." Click "Add extension" in the pop-up confirmation window — you should get a confirmation message once it's been installed. If you have any struggles or have any feedback(good or bad) to this FAQ or any others, please let us know as they are always welcome. This will also help the entire team to continue to improve and upgrade the quality of this support documents library. To learn more, visit DotComTruths.com Thank you! The Dot Com Truths Support Team

Question 1

What is Citations and Citing Your Work?

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Papers and articles are often a mix of ideas from different sources. By thinking through where ideas originate, we can understand what needs a citation. This video guides viewers through three types of ideas found in papers and explains how to use citations responsibly. It teaches:

Why common knowledge and the writer’s ideas don’t often require citations
Why other people’s ideas deserve special treatment and often require citations
Why citations matter and what role they play in writing and research
How in-text and full citations often work together to make reading easier
Why citations are a service to readers who may want to learn more

Video Transcript:

If you think about it, much of the information that goes into a paper or article can be organized into three groups: “common knowledge” “my ideas”, and “other people’s ideas”. By understanding these groups, we can see why citations matter in our work.  

Let’s start with common knowledge, which consists of well established and reliable facts. For example, George Washington being the first US president is an established fact found in a variety of reliable sources. A year having 365 days is also considered common knowledge.

Next, let’s consider “my ideas”. This group consists of your personal thoughts, opinions, conclusions, and analysis of your topic. If you are conducting your own original research, it would also fall into this category.

And finally, there are other people’s ideas - and these deserve special care. When we research a topic, we’re likely to find and borrow helpful information and discoveries that came from the work of specific individuals or organizations whose work was published in reputable books, journals, articles and websites.  “Other people’s ideas” also include quotes from other writing that support or debate points that you’re making. A paper or project may include all three types of information.

While common knowledge and your ideas don’t usually need special treatment, when other people’s ideas are included in your paper, readers do need to know. This can be done with citations. Using citations shows you’re responsible. You’ve done the research, given credit to the right people, provided the reader with resources for more learning and avoided plagiarism.

A citation consists of two parts that work together. These are the in-text citation and full citations. Here’s how they work…

When you use someone else’s ideas, the reader needs to know, but adding the required information into the middle of your paper would be annoying and hard to read.

So, we need a quick way to indicate when a section is based on someone else's ideas. This is done with an in-text citation. It’s a brief notification within the body of the text that specific words, ideas, figures, or images were taken from other sources.

Often, full citations have all the information needed to find the original publication. These include author names, titles of books or journals, publishers, publication dates, page numbers and more.

Let’s look at two common ways to cite your sources in a paper:  Imagine that you use an idea from a book in your paper and need to cite it.

An in-text citation could might include the author’s last name and year published, author’s last name and page number, or simply a number. These connect the reader to the full citation, which may be in a bibliography at the end of the paper, or in a footnote at the bottom of the page.

Using citations is part of being a responsible student and researcher, but it’s also a service to others. They acknowledge the people whose work helped establish what is known about the world and provides a way for your readers to dive even deeper into your subject.

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Question 2

What is Piracy Online?

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Piracy, on the open ocean or online, is illegal because it is a kind of theft. By understanding different types of online piracy and why it’s illegal, we can start to see how piracy impacts the artists we love and represents a risk to us as individuals. It teaches:

What piracy is online
Why artists often depend on copyright laws for income
How piracy breaks copyright laws and impacts artists
Why pirated software is a risk
How to avoid pirated software

Video Transcript:

We’re all familiar with pirates. Most often, these are criminals known for raiding merchant ships and stealing the goods the ship is carrying. This kind of piracy obviously breaks the law.

But piracy is not just limited to bands of criminals on the open ocean. Today piracy happens via computers on the open Internet. Instead of boarding ships, people use computers to pirate software, music, movies or other digital goods. This means they access, download, copy and distribute files without payment or the owner’s permission.

And unlike piracy on the seven seas, this kind of piracy might seem less risky, more anonymous, and maybe even justifiable to the pirate.

Whatever you believe about online piracy, the fact remains that it breaks the law and by understanding why, piracy may start to look a little bit different.

Think about it this way… in order for creators to keep making the products you love, they need a system that helps them earn a living from their talents. In most countries, that system is based on copyright law.

When someone creates something like a song, computer program or photograph, that creator automatically owns the copyright and has the right to control how it is used and by whom.

Online piracy is illegal because it breaks copyright law and prevents the creator from having control over what they create. But it’s not simply a matter of rights and laws.

Let’s consider the music industry. It may seem like piracy only hurts big corporations, but in reality, it also hurts the artists who make the music. For example, a song may have a songwriter, producer and performer. Often, the sales of a song or album are directly linked to the income of the artist who created it. When music is pirated, sales often suffer and with it, the incomes that support the artists’ work. Without income, your favorite artists may not make music in the future.

Software is another target of piracy. Like music, piracy threatens the software industry, but the biggest risk is using software that’s made by pirates. Here, criminal organizations copy and sell counterfeit software often at a huge discount. It may seem real, but pirated software may work poorly or not work at all. Further, compared to authentic software, it may lack support systems that keep it up-to-date and protected from viruses and criminals. If something goes wrong, support may not be an option.

To avoid pirated software, buy from trusted stores and websites and look for official packaging.

The bottom line is that piracy on the internet is illegal and could have serious consequences. But there’s more to it. Piracy is also a threat to the systems that help creators earn a living and keep our computers safe, supported and secure.

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Question 3

How do I manage passwords securely?

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Question: How do I manage passwords securely?

Answer: I mainly use a password manager/generator where I can store all of my password for different websites. The one I use is LastPass as it also has a Chrome extension that I can easily install in my Chrome browser.

This is a must for security purposes. Though it has a free version, what I use is the basic plan and pay approx. $4/month (billed annually).

If you are using the same password for everything, or easy to guess passwords, you are putting yourself at risk. LastPass helps you by generating new passwords and saving them for you.

Here is a short segment from my chrome extension training video where I discuss about LastPass.

How to add LastPass to Chrome:

Go to the Chrome Web Store.
Search "LastPass" in the search box.
Select "LastPass: Free Password Manager."
Click "Add to Chrome."
Click "Add extension" in the pop-up confirmation window — you should get a confirmation message once it's been installed.

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Question 4

What is World Wide Web?

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This video introduces the system that makes up the World Wide Web, including explanations of browsers, code packets, servers and links. It teaches:

Where the information that appears on the screen "lives"
How the browser acts as a translator of packets
How servers are connected to create a web
How links connect computers to unique addresses

Video Transcript:

Have you ever wondered, when you visit a website, where those words and images come from?

These days, as long as we have an Internet connection, using the Web is pretty easy. We can visit billions of pages on things from pet alligators to the weather in Holland.

To help figure out how it works, let’s pretend we can get really small, follow the wires and explore what makes the Web work. In order to get to the Web, we need a connection from our home or business to the rest of the online world. This usually happens through the phone or cable lines, or even satellite. This connection means that information from around the world can reach our computers.

If we could see the connection, the information coming through it would look like little packets of code. It doesn’t make sense to most people. We need a translator, something that turns the packets of code into the words and images we see on a website.

For this, we use a web browser. It translates the information and makes it useful to us. But that code has to come from somewhere, right? If we could follow it to its home, we’d see that it’s coming from another computer. Not a regular computer, but one that’s built to make web pages available.

It’s called a “server.” The words and images that appear on our screen live here in the server. If there was only one server this would be simple. But there are millions of servers and web pages. We need a way to find a specific page on a specific server.

We do this with web addresses. Each server and website has a unique one. As long as we have the right web address, we can visit a page on any server on the Web.

The reason we call it a “web” is that all the servers are connected. We can easily jump from one to the other using addresses via our web browser. And we don’t have to remember all the addresses.

Web pages use shortcuts or “links” – words and images we can click, that direct us to page after page. These links create a web of connections that are easy to navigate.

Together, this system makes up the World Wide Web. So, let’s sum it up.

To visit a website, we type in a web address or click a link. The information for the website lives on a server. Itcomes to us as little packets of code, and our web browser translates this code into words, photos, music, videos, and links that help us get things done. Yaaay!

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Question 5

What is ConvertKit?

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Convertkit is an email marketing software (or an email service provider) that is specifically built around the needs of bloggers, writers, podcasters, course creators, YouTubers, content creators and others who are working to build an audience.

The platform helps you to increase your email subscriber list and automate email marketing with drag-n-drop email sequences, workflow automation rules, landing page templates, custom opt-in forms, and more.

It has all the basic functionality you expect from an email marketing software.

Autoresponders (email sequences)

It has segmentation options so you have multiple lists and trigger different responses based on people's engagement with your email.

I have personally used ConvertKit and it is a great software to use. I have been on their free plan, and that's mainly what I use (limit of 1000 subscribers). I am not a paying subscriber.

I did a video review on ConvertKit showing you the inside. You can check it out here.

Question 6

What is a Computer Software

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This video introduces the role of software in making computers useful. It focuses on different kinds of software and software's roles in computers and other tools we use every day, including:

The role of software as a translator
How operating systems cover the basics
How software programs help to customize computers
The role of software outside of computers

Video Transcript:

It’s easy to think of computers as just machinery – buttons, screens and parts that work together. But the magic of computers comes from something that makes them unique to you.

The problem with computers is that most of us don’t speak their language. We need a translator, something that can understand our needs and put the computer to work for us. The translator is called software and it makes computers useful.

Look at it this way. Like a typewriter, a computer without software is just a lifeless machine. By adding software, the computer becomes more alive, easy to use, and built for you. Most computers have two basic kinds: The operating system and software programs.

If you’ve ever used a computer, you’ve used an operating system. From saving files, to using a mouse or fixing problems, the operating system covers the basics. Operating systems come with all new computers and do a lot of same things. You’ve seen them called Windows, Mac and Linux.

But the operating system is only part of what we need. To make them personalized and more useful, we can add software programs. For example, if you need to edit a photo you can add a software program that is built for that purpose. If you need to design a house, you can add a software program that lets you see the house from all sides.

By adding and removing software programs, you can make the computer fit with exactly what you want to do. And adding most software programs is easy. You can get them from a computer store or download them from the Internet. No computer nerds required.

Once a program is on your computer, opening it is as easy as clicking an icon.

But what is a software program? What’s really happening when you open one? Think about it this way. Computers are really good at following instructions. And a software program is essentially a set of instructions that tells the computer exactly what to do.

When you open a program, the computer goes to work, completing the instructions until the program is ready for you to use. The ability to add and remove software programs means that everyone’s computer can be different and unique to them.

So, to review. We’ve talked about operating systems that take care of the basics, and software programs that make computers personalized. It’s this combination that makes computers so useful. But it’s not limited to computers on your desk.

Consider your cell phone. Just like a computer without software, it’s a lifeless machine that doesn’t speak our language. Thankfully, cell phones have software that bring them to life.

The same thing is true for many cameras, music players, and even our cars. Every day we rely on software to bring machines to life and make them personalized and useful.

The next time you use a computer or cell phone, think about software’s role in translating your needs into instructions that put the machine to work for you.

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Question 7

What are Online Basics - Digital Lifestyle?

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This video is part of our Online Basics series designed for people who are getting started with the Internet. It explains the benefits of the digital lifestyle through the story of Angie, who discovers how the Internet can connect her to communities of people and help her find new opportunities. The video also explains a few of the basic tools and services she needs to get started. It teaches:

Why a normal lifestyle limits her ability to communicate and work with others
Why a digital lifestyle is different from a normal lifestyle
The role her online identity plays in her digital lifestyle
How Angie uses social networking to connect to friends and family 
How Angie uses social media to share what she creates online

Video Transcript:

Not long ago, before the Internet, we lived a limited kind of lifestyle where location mattered more. To communicate with friends and family we needed to be near a phone, or see them in person. To learn about the news, weather and sports, we needed to find a newspaper, television or radio.

Finding communities of people, activities and opportunities was more difficult because they were far away and hidden from view.

Today, things have changed and now it’s now possible to live a more digital lifestyle that takes advantage of computers, smart phones and the internet. Using these tools, you can reach far beyond your local area and find new opportunities to be more informed and productive.

Consider Angie’s story. For most of her life, she wasn’t that interested in technology. Her world was limited and she felt like she was falling behind. But now that she is using the internet and a smart phone, her lifestyle has changed for the better.

Now Angie is part of a digital community, just like her friends and family. By using technology, she is more engaged and informed than ever before. She can now learn about news and weather any time she wants.

But more than that, she’s able to connect to events and people who are working to make her community better. Angie’s digital lifestyle means that her reach has grown to include opportunities she never saw before.

There are a few things that make this digital lifestyle work for Angie. First is her online identity. This is how others know who she is online. Her online identity makes many things possible.

Second is social networking. Using websites and apps, Angie is able to create a personal account and connect to people and organizations that interest her.

These connections mean she has access to online communities of people and a constant supply of news and information that motivates her and helps her make more informed decisions.

Third is social media. Using her computer or phone, Angie is able to easily create and share her own digital media, like photos, videos, audio and articles.

She loves creating media and sharing it on her social networks for friends, family and peers to see and acknowledge. Today it’s hard for Angie to imagine what it was like before her digital lifestyle. Now, thanks to technology she has more opportunities and connections than ever.

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Question 8

What is an EPP code?

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It is a generated passcode required to transfer an Internet domain name between domain registrars.

Depending on your current host, you can access or request for this through the settings.

Note: As there are multiple web hosting companies, they'll have different ways so you may need to contact their respective support team to assist you on how to do it.

Here's a video you can watch to know more about this process:

Question 9

What is Clear Communication in Email?

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Every day, emails are sent that don’t get results. Part of the reason is that people aren’t receiving the information they need. This video explains the problem and how to fix it by asking three simple questions. It teaches:

Why writing effective emails can be difficult
What prevents recipients from seeing or responding to email
How to get the recipient’s attention
How to respect the recipient’s time
How to get the results you want from email

Video Transcript:

Think about it this way… When you speak with someone in person, you can tell a lot about them. You can see if they are happy, sad, or in a hurry. This information helps you adjust what you say and how you say it. For example, if someone looks confused, you might try using different language or examples.

With email it’s difficult to make these adjustments because you can’t see the recipient. And if your message doesn’t account for their needs, it could be ignored.

That’s why it’s important to write emails in a way that’s very clear and helpful for the recipient.

You can do this by answering a few basic questions for them. What is this about? Why am I receiving it? Is there anything I need to do?

When your email appears, this busy person will quickly need to decide if it’s a priority.

Next, your recipient will wonder why they are receiving the message. In the beginning, quickly explain the situation. You might write, “I’m writing to update you on the project.” or “I’d like to schedule a call.” Be specific and direct and they will notice.

Lastly, they will wonder if they need to act. Be sure to state your request clearly. This might be a request for a response, a link to a website to review or a number to call. Consider using bold font to be sure your request is noticed.

By considering these three questions, you can communicate clearly, get results and respect the time and attention of those who receive your emails.

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Question 10

What is Project Based Learning?

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Education can be more interesting and effective by focusing students on work that matters. Project Based Learning focuses on involving students in projects that teach a variety of skills. Key points in this video are:

How critical thinking, collaboration and communication help everyone in the real world
How PBL helps develop these skills in students
An example of a teacher who uses PBL in the classroom to get students involved in asking questions, doing research, collaborating and communicating
The impact of learning a subject in-depth via PBL and presenting the results to others

Presentation Note: This video is courtesy of BIE.org and includes a title slide at the end of the video.

Video Transcript:

You remember what it was like in school. IT WAS BORING! You sat in class, memorized as much as you could and tried to pass a test at the end. But is that good enough? These days school can be more interesting and effective by focusing students on work that matters.

Most adults live in a world of projects. Whether it’s a job assignment, home improvement or planning a wedding, we need to actively solve problems. But unfortunately, schoolwork looks more like this than this.

Let’s take a look at this Project Based World. Meet Claire. She was recently presented with a challenge. Her company, Super Suds, makes soap and it was up to her to find the most earth-friendly way to produce it in the future. Her boss gave her a budget and a few requirements - and it was up to her to come up with a solution. She organized and managed a team who researched the options and created materials summarizing the issues. Claire’s team asked for feedback and presented their findings to the boss.

Claire came out of the project looking like a rock star and she learned a lot about green products. If you look closely, Claire’s success involved critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Things that aren’t often taught in traditional classrooms.

The world needs more Claires. So how do we get them?

The answer is Project Based Learning or PBL. By focusing students on a project, teachers put them on a path that deepens their knowledge and builds skills they’ll need in the future.

Here’s what I mean. Mr. Simmons has always been a good science teacher and his students do well on Fridays’ tests. Unfortunately, what they learned was gone by Saturday morning. That wasn’t good enough for him. Soon he learned about Project Based Learning and decided to give it a shot.

Mr. Simmons got the idea for his first project on microorganisms when nearly half of his students were suddenly absent with the flu. He asked his students why they thought so many of their classmates got sick at the same time. That lively discussion produced a lot of good questions and a list of things the kids wanted to know. Mr. Simmons then announced their project was to help elementary schools kids understand - How can we not get sick?

After dividing the class into teams, he got them started on the project. It was up to the students to ask questions, research, collaborate, give each other feedback and figure out the best ways to make their points clear to children. One team chose to make an educational video on the connection between hand washing and avoiding the flu. Another chose to create posters to show how viruses spread.

The project teams showed off their final work to an enthusiastic audience of parents and their children at a nearby elementary school. Sitting in the front row was our good friend and local rock star Claire, who saw a bit of herself in the students. It was clear that the project was a success for the students, the audience, and Mr. Simmons.

His students practiced critical thinking, collaboration and communication. The project wasn’t about memorization, but learning in-depth about viruses and how to prevent spreading disease - A lesson they will never forget.

At the end of the presentation, Claire introduced herself to the students and told them that they were rockstars, and that the world needs more people who can think like them.

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