10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

This past January I wrote "10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have" and I have decided to modify it for the "10 Tech Skills Every Educator Should Have". Here's my list.

Overall, educators need to understand some basics about technology and that it is not a be-all-end-all solution to everything in a classroom. Technology can help teachers differentiate and provide new experiences for their students. Technology can also help students better understand a concept and provide extra help for them. Educators need to start with good pedagogy and lesson objectives and activities and then look for technology that can enhance those lessons, improve teaching and learning, and help students learn.

The How's, Why's and Value of Educational Technology

1. Internet Search and Research - educators need to know how to do a proper internet search, using search terms and modifiers. This skill is needed for school, work and life in general. They also need to be able to teach proper internet search skills to their students, no matter what class they are teaching. They need to know where to find scholarly and peer-reviewed materials to use.

Tips on Better Searches (from Google)

Infographic on Better Searches

Common Craft Video on Web Search Strategies

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2. Office Suite Skills Productivity Apps - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation Tools, Note taking and organization apps- educators need to now how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. They need to know how to use different productivity tools as an educator and how to show students how to use them. Businesses still use MS Office for the most part, but iWorks, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, and Google Docs are all getting more popular. They all work similarly so the learning curve when switching isn't that big. Most teachers know the basics. but many don't know about the alternatives to MS Office or some of the really great features (like charts and graphs in Excel) that are helpful to them and their students. Teachers should also know how to use things like digital calendars, to-do lists, note taking apps, and more to get organized and get digital.

Evernote for Education - take notes, clip from the web, upload files, and much more

Google for Education - Docs, calendar, tasks, email, and much more

3. Self learning of tech and where to go for help - knowing how to search a help menu on software or hardware, where to go to find user forums for help, and where to find the manual for technology is a huge skill that many do not know about. I am amazed at how many educators don't know where to go for help, outside of asking another teacher. This goes along with internet search also - being able to find what you need to help you figure out how to do something.

Free Tech Tips and Help

TechEase - technology tips

Online Tech Tips - hardware, software, and more

Tech Support help

4. Finding Free Resources and Sources of Funding for Technology - budgets are constantly shrinking and teachers need to make due with less. Knowing how to find funding for technology or find free technology is very important. It's also important to look at different ways of providing technology in schools, whether it is through computer labs, 1-1 laptops, or Bring Your Own Device (students bring own tech). This skill can help teachers, schools, and districts save money in certain areas (apps and services) to have more money for other areas (hardware).

Why do schools still pay so much for software? Free alternatives to paid software and services.

DonorsChoose - get materials for your classroom project funded

Tips for saving money and finding free resources for school

5. Social Media - how to properly use social media for school and work, how to protect yourself on it, the issues of cyberbullying, connecting with others in your profession (PLN). Many educators are use social media for their personal life, but not enough are using it in their professional life. I learn so much from Twitter and Google+ because of the people and web sites I follow there. This goes along with number 3 - self learning. I get more "professional development" out of a week of participating in social media than I have in 10 years of traditional professional development. Educators need to get online as part of their profession.

Twitter, Google+, Facebook comparison

Twitter, Facebook, RSS, Email, Google+ - tips on use

Facebook and Google+ security and privacy

Common Craft Video on Social Media

Create a Personal Learning Network

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6. Netiquette  Digital Citizenship - Internet/Email/Social Media etiquette - proper way to use the internet, write professional emails, use social media in relation to your job (not complaining about the boss). Using the web and social media with students, share proper use with them.

Netiquette - Wikipedia

7. Security and Safety - antivirus, spam, phishing, too much personal information sharing, stalkers, and more are all issues they need to know about. Educators need to be aware of this for their own protection, and to teach their students these important topics.

Internet Safety Resources

Google Family Safety Center

Google Good to Know online safety and internet data

Common Craft Video on Secure Passwords

8. Hardware basics and troubleshooting - knowing what different parts of technology are called, how to make minor fixes, and how to do basic troubleshooting for WiFi, networks, OS won't load, etc.

Free Tech Tips and Help

TechEase - technology tips

Online Tech Tips - hardware, software, and more

Tech Support help

9. Backup data - with all of the data that educators create for school and work, it is important to back it up and have access to it at any time. I deal with educators all the time who have lost their flash drive or had a flash drive die and never backed up their files somewhere else. The era of the flash drive is gone. Cloud computing it where it's at.

Backup your Data - tools and resources

Google Takeout - export your Google data

10. Finding apps and software - how to find, evaluate, and use apps for school and business. Also, how to find quality, free alternatives to paid software, apps and services. Part of this for educators includes not only finding apps and software, but making sure that they aren't using these just to use technology. The lesson objectives come first and then you can look for technology that can enhance the lesson or help students.

Quixey - Search engine for apps

Free Alternatives to Paid Software

Google Apps Resources

Free Apps

On device apps/software vs. web apps

SmartPhone Experts - apps, reviews, tech tips, and more for all smartphones

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11. Copyright and Citing Sources - educators need to understand copyright laws and rules, how to cite a resource, and how to integrate someone else's work into their's properly. This is pretty timely considering that some educators have been stealing my blog work (along with other blogger's work) without following proper copyright procedures.

Taking the Mystery out of Copyright

Citation Help

100 Google Drive Tips

Google Drive provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.

 Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigate your documents and screen a lot faster when you use these keyboard shortcuts for formatting and more.

·         Ctrl+Home: Get back to the top of your doc.

·         Ctrl+B: Bold.

·         Ctrl+E: Center alignment

·         Ctrl+L: Back to left alignment.

·         Ctrl+M: Insert comment.

·         Ctrl+H: Replace.

·         Ctrl+End: Go to last cell in data region.

·         Ctrl+Home: Go to first cell in data region.

·         Shift+spacebar: Select entire row.

·         Ctrl+Z: Undo.

·         Ctrl+Y: Redo.

·         Ctrl+spacebar: Select entire column.

·         Ctrl+J: Full justify.

·         Ctrl+Shift+L: Bulleted list.

·         Ctrl+Shift+Space: Insert non-breaking space.

·         Page Down: Move down one screen.

·         Ctrl+K: Inset link.

·         Ctrl+Shift+F: Full screen.

·         Page Up: Move up one screen.

·         Ctrl+Space: Remove formatting.

·         Ctrl+: Heading style 1. Change the "1" to any number 1-6 and get the corresponding header.

Productivity Hacks
These hacks will make your Google Docs experience even more efficient and streamlined.

·         Templates: Use Docs’ 300 templates to get started on different types of documents.

·         Work offline: View and edit documents even when you don’t have access to an Internet connection.

·         Create shortcuts: Create shortcuts and bookmarks for new documents, Google Docs home and more frequently visited pages.

·         Save as different file types: Instead of converting docs to different file types, you can simply change it to HTML, RTF, PDG, ODT and more whenever you save it.

Features and Tools
Make use of features and tools like Docs Translation or CSS Editing to customize your docs and make them work for you.

·         Polyline: Draw shapes and lines in Google docs to make graphs, images and examples.

·         Docs Translation: Find the docs translator under Tools.

·         Snap to Guides: With this Edit feature, you can line up shapes in your doc automatically.

·         Reference tools: Google docs comes with access to a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia that you can use within the document.

·         CSS Editing: Change the display of your doc by manually plugging in your CSS text.

·         HTML tags: Docs supports, or partially supports, some HTML tags, shown here.

Collaboration
One of the best things about Google Docs is that you get to share and collaborate on projects with others. Learn how to make the most of these features here.

·         Shared foldersCreate shared folders and drag-and-drop items from other folders.

·         Privacy: You can choose to have documents published publicly or privately.

·         Share, don’t email: Instead of emailing docs back and forth, type in email addresses of people you’d like to share your Google document with, and they’ll be sent an editable, web copy.

·         Make changes at the same time: You and your classmates can log into the same document at the same time to make edits.

·         Share a folder: Share entire groups of documents saved in a single file with coworkers and students.

·         Invite mailing lists as collaborators: You can share a document with all members of your email mailing lists with this function.

·         Make a presentation in real-time: Invite others to view a presentation you’ve made as you see it too.

·         Data validation: Make sure everyone is entering data into the spreadsheet the same way by controlling data validation settings.

·         Allow people to edit without signing in: This means anyone, even if they don’t have a Google account, can sign in and edit your piece.

·         Remove collaborators: If you want to take someone off a project, click None next to the name of the person you want to remove.

·         Forum: If you get stuck with a docs problem, you can head over to the forums and find help from other users.

·         Change ownership: Switch ownership of Google docs as project leaders change.

Files, Folders and Filters
Find out how to use files, folders and filters for optimum organization and a clearer display.

·         View and unviewed: You can mark new shared documents as viewed or unviewed, like an inbox.

·         Create subfolders: Make subfolders for better organization. Create, then choose to move it wherever you want.

·         Drag-and-drop folders: Drag-and-drop folders and docs to spreadsheets, documents and presentations.

·         Tag: Tag items with certain keywords instead of going to the trouble of moving them to a folder.

·         Star: You can also star documents, like you would in Gmail.

·         Upload multiple files: Click "select more files" to upload multiple files in Google Docs.

Organization
These hacks are designed to organize your Google Docs, from starting a new assignment to sharing and publishing.

·         Color code folders: Color-code the names of folders.

·         Insert bookmarks: Insert a link to another part of your document, like in a table of contents.

·         Zip archive: Export Google docs, spreadsheets and presentations in a single ZIP archive.

·         Block quote: Use this setting to automatically indent and set aside a long quote in your document.

·         Minimize: Star only the docs you want to see at one time, and minimize everything in the left pane for a minimized view.

·         Annotate with footnotes: Insert annotations as footnotes to your document easily.

·         Preview templates: Preview a template before committing to it.

Edits
With these editing tools, you’ll track comments, save editing history and more.

·         Color-code comments: You can color-code live comments in Google Docs.

·         Revision pruning: When you have too many revisions, they’ll automatically collapse, or prune, but can still be viewed in revision history.

·         Track edits and changes: In Google Docs you can go back and forth between edits that you or collaborators made.

·         Revision history: View older versions of your document, and choose to "revert to this one" if you choose.

·         Find and replace: This version of find and replace lets you match cases, match whole words, find previous words, and more.

Synchronization
Make your Google Docs work with other tools too.

·         Preview docs in Gmail: You can preview Google docs attachments in Gmail.

·         Google Finance: Enter information from Google Finance into spreadsheets with this formula Syntax: =GoogleFinance("symbol"; "attribute").

·         Sync with Office Documents: With Syncplicity, you can sync Google Docs with Microsoft Office.

·         Sync with your server: To work offline, your documents will have to be synced to your server.

·         Google Mobile: Use Google Mobile to access docs on your phone.

Search
Google Docs uses Google search to find documents and more.

·         Search PDFs: There’s a search box in the upper right corner of your PDF document.

·         Search for docs using keywords: If you don’t remember the title of a doc, type in keywords from the document instead.

·         Advanced search: Find documents by selecting who you’ve shared with, keyword, title, and more.

·         Search the web: Highlight a word and search the web for matching websites and images.

·         Search operators: Search operators will help you find starred, hidden and other documents quickly. Example: [is:starred].

Presentations
Learn how to make and present projects with videos, images and more.

·         Embed a presentation in a website: Add your class presentations to your website or blog by publishing and pasting the HTML code that is revealed.

·         Insert tables: You can insert tables into Google Presentations, too.

·         Sequentially reveal objects on a slide: Bullets and text boxes will be revealed one at a time if you select this option.

·         Custom colors: You can choose custom colors to add to your presentation.

·         Hide the gray bar: In presentation view, click on the icon in the upper-right corner of the gray bar at the bottom of your screen to make it disappear.

·         Chat: Chat with your audience in view presentation mode. You’ll need Adobe Flash Player 8 or above.

·         Insert videos: You can add videos to your presentation, minimize and maximize it, and move it around your screen.

·         Hide chat: Keep everyone quiet during your presentation by clicking the left side of the chat module.

·         Organize slides: You can reorder slides, make duplicate slides, and insert new slides wherever you want.

·         Replace image and video placeholders: Depending on your presentation’s template, you can replace placeholders with an actual image or video.

Spreadsheets
With spreadsheets, you can create forms, reports, invoices, portfolios, and other docs that solve problems, save email addresses and more.

·         Google search inside your spreadsheet: Highlight a word, right click, and select Search the web.

·         Print as PDF: Choose to print your spreadsheet as a PDF if you want all formatting to stay intact.

·         Live lookup: Use the following formula in a cell to ask Google to look up quantitative information: Syntax: =GoogleLookup("entity"; "attribute").

·         Roman function: Have numbers displayed as Roman numerals with this formula =ROMAN(number, form).

·         Create forms: Google Spreadsheets has various templates for forms you can create and have people fill out.

·         Edit forms: Add section headers to make it easier to divide up forms and make them easier to fill out.

·         List view: Select list view to load spreadsheets faster, view from your mobile phone and access basic editing features.

·         Protect sheet: Select Protect sheet to prevent certain collaborators from editing it.

·         Automatically add email addresses: If you have Google Apps, the email addresses of the people who fill out the form will automatically be saved.

·         Scientific notation: Adjust spreadsheets so that cells display in scientific notation.

·         Solve: Maximize and minimize values when you solve problems in your cells.

·         Add and delete comments: You can add, delete and edit comments in spreadsheets too.

·         Freeze columns and rows: Freeze rows and columns to stop editing.

Tasks
These tasks, from printing to tracking tournaments, are examples of other ways you can use Google Docs.

·         Print as a webpage: You can print your doc so that it displays as a web page.

·         Insert mathematical equations: Insert Equation makes an equation editor dialog box appear to add an equation to your doc.

·         Google Tournament: Create brackets, and let Google automatically update data according to the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.

·         Enable offline access: You can install offline access for Google Docs to edit existing documents anywhere.

·         Track analytics: Track visits to published documents.

·         Update posts: You can republish posts that are already on your web page if you want to make edits and support an updated version.

What is the Heartbleed Bug and Should YOU be Concerned? Short answer, maybe.

As may of you know, I have quite often suggested that those who have online accounts change their passwords periodically, and also make sure that they do not have the same password for all their accounts.  Then along comes the Heartbleed Bug . . . I have changed my passwords, just to be safe.

The following article is from Mashable - Reporters who contributed to this story include Samantha Murphy Kelly, Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai, Seth Fiegerman, Adario Strange and Kurt Wagner.  

An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day, like Gmail and Facebook — and could have quietly exposed your sensitive account information (such as passwords and credit card numbers) over the past two years.

But it hasn't always been clear which sites have been affected. Mashable reached out some of the most popular social, email, banking and commerce sites on the web. We've rounded up their responses below.

SEE ALSO: How to Protect Yourself From the Heartbleed Bug

Some Internet companies that were vulnerable to the bug have already updated their servers with a security patch to fix the issue. This means you'll need to go in and change your passwords immediately for these sites. Even that is no guarantee that your information wasn't already compromised, but there's also no indication that hackers knew about the exploit before this week. The companies that are advising customers to change their passwords are doing so as a precautionary measure.

Although changing your password regularly is always good practice, if a site or service hasn't yet patched the problem, your information will still be vulnerable.

Also, if you reused the same password on multiple sites, and one of those sites was vulnerable, you'll need to change the password everywhere. It's not a good idea to use the same password across multiple sites, anyway.

We'll keep updating the list as new information comes in. Last update: April 15, 6:16 p.m. ET

Social Networks

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
Facebook	Unclear	Yes	YesYes	"We added protections for Facebook’s implementation of OpenSSL before this issue was publicly disclosed. We haven’t detected any signs of suspicious account activity, but we encourage people to ... set up a unique password."
Instagram	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"Our security teams worked quickly on a fix and we have no evidence of any accounts being harmed. But because this event impacted many services across the web, we recommend you update your password on Instagram and other sites, particularly if you use the same password on multiple sites.”
LinkedIn	No	No	No	"We didn't use the offending implementation of OpenSSL in www.linkedin.com or www.slideshare.net. As a result, HeartBleed does not present a risk to these web properties."
Pinterest	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We fixed the issue on Pinterest.com, and didn’t find any evidence of mischief. To be extra careful, we e-mailed Pinners who may have been impacted, and encouraged them to change their passwords."
Tumblr	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We have no evidence of any breach and, like most networks, our team took immediate action to fix the issue."
Twitter	No	Yes	Unclear	Twitter wrote that OpenSSL "is widely used across the internet and at Twitter. We were able to determine that [our] servers were not affected by this vulnerability. We are continuing to monitor the situation." While reiterating that they were unaffected, Twitter toldMashable that they did apply a patch.

Other Companies

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
Apple	No	No	No	"iOS and OS X never incorporated the vulnerable software and key web-based services were not affected."
Amazon	No	No	No	"Amazon.com is not affected."
Google	Yes	Yes	YesYes*	“We have assessed the SSL vulnerability and applied patches to key Google services.” Search, Gmail, YouTube, Wallet, Play, Apps and App Engine were affected; Google Chrome and Chrome OS were not. *Google said users do not need to change their passwords, but because of the previous vulnerability, better safe than sorry.
Microsoft	No	No	No	Microsoft services were not running OpenSSL, according to LastPass.
Yahoo	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began working to fix it... and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now." Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech, Flickr and Tumblr were patched. More patches to come, Yahoo says.

Email

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
AOL	No	No	No	AOL told Mashable it was not running the vulnerable version of the software.
Gmail	Yes	Yes	YesYes*	“We have assessed the SSL vulnerability and applied patches to key Google services.” *Google said users do not need to change their passwords, but because of the previous vulnerability, better safe than sorry.
Hotmail / Outlook	No	No	No	Microsoft services were not running OpenSSL, according to LastPass.
Yahoo Mail	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began working to fix it... and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now."

Stores and Commerce

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
Amazon	No	No	No	"Amazon.com is not affected."
Amazon Web Services(for website operators)	Yes	Yes	YesYes	Most services were unaffected or Amazon was already able to apply mitigations (see advisory note here). Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon EC2, Amazon Linux AMI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon CloudFront were patched.
eBay	No	No	No	"eBay.com was never vulnerable to this bug because we were never running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL."
Etsy	Yes*	Yes	YesYes	Etsy said that only a small part of its infrastructure was vulnerable, and they have patched it.
GoDaddy	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We’ve been updating GoDaddy services that use the affected OpenSSL version." Full Statement
Groupon	No	No	No	"Groupon.com does not utilize a version of the OpenSSL library that is susceptible to the Heartbleed bug."
Nordstrom	No	No	No	"Nordstrom websites do not use OpenSSL encryption."
PayPal	No	No	No	"Your PayPal account details were not exposed in the past and remain secure." Full Statement
Target	No	No	No	"[We] launched a comprehensive review of all external facing aspects of Target.com... and do not currently believe that any external-facing aspects of our sites are impacted by the OpenSSL vulnerability."
Walmart	No	No	No	"We do not use that technology so we have not been impacted by this particular breach."

Videos, Photos, Games & Entertainment

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
Flickr	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began working to fix it... and we are working to implement the fix across the rest of our sites right now."
Hulu	No	No	No	No comment provided.
Minecraft	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We were forced to temporary suspend all of our services. ... The exploit has been fixed. We can not guarantee that your information wasn't compromised." More Information
Pandora	No	No	No	No comment provided.
Netflix	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"Like many companies, we took immediate action to assess the vulnerability and address it. We are not aware of any customer impact. It’s a good practice to change passwords from time to time, now would be a good time to think about doing so. "
SoundCloud	Yes	Yes	YesYes	SoundCloud emphasized that there were no indications of any foul play and that the company's actions were simply precautionary.
YouTube	Yes	Yes	YesYes*	“We have assessed the SSL vulnerability and applied patches to key Google services.” *Google said users do not need to change their passwords, but because of the previous vulnerability, better safe than sorry.

Financial

All the banks we contacted (see below) said they were unaffected by Heartbleed, but U.S. regulators have warned banks to patch their systems.

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
American Express	No	No	No	"There was no compromise of any customer data. While we are not requiring customers to take any specific action at this time, it is a good security practice to regularly update Internet passwords."
Bank of America	No	No	No	"A majority of our platforms do NOT use OpenSSL, and the ones that do, we have confirmed no vulnerabilities."
Barclays	No	No	No	No comment provided.
Capital One	No	No	No	"Capital One uses a version of encryption that is not vulnerable to Heartbleed."
Chase	No	No	No	"These sites don’t use the encryption software that is vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug."
Citigroup	No	No	No	Citigroup does not use Open SSL in "customer-facing retail banking and credit card sites and mobile apps"
E*Trade	No	No	No	E*Trade is still investigating.
Fidelity	No	No	No	"We have multiple layers of security in place to protect our customer sites and services."
PNC	No	No	No	"We have tested our online and mobile banking systems and confirmed that they are not vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug."
Schwab	No	No	No	"Efforts to date have not detected this vulnerability on Schwab.com or any of our online channels."
Scottrade	No	No	No	"Scottrade does not use the affected version of OpenSSL on any of our client-facing platforms."
TD Ameritrade	No	No	No	TD Ameritrade "doesn't use the versions of openSSL that were vulnerable."
TD Bank	No	No	No	"We're currently taking precautions and steps to protect customer data from this threat and have no reason to believe any customer data has been compromised in the past."
T. Rowe Price	No	No	No	"The T. Rowe Price websites are not vulnerable to the “Heartbleed” SSL bug nor were they vulnerable in the past."
U.S. Bank	No	No	No	"We do not use OpenSSL for customer-facing, Internet banking channels, so U.S. Bank customer data is NOT at risk."
Vanguard	No	No	No	"We are not using, and have not used, the vulnerable version of OpenSSL."
Venmo	Yes	Yes	YesYes	Venmo sent an email to al its users, saying the company took "immediate steps to patch the potential vulnerability" and recommending them to change their password.
Wells Fargo	No	No	No	No reason provided.

Government and Taxes

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
1040.com	No	No	No	"We're not vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug, as we do not use OpenSSL."
FileYour Taxes.com	No	No	No	"We continuously patch our servers to keep them updated. However, the version we use was not affected by the issue, so no action was taken."
H&R Block	No	No	No	"We are reviewing our systems and currently have found no risk to client data from this issue."
Healthcare .gov	No	No	No	"Healthcare.gov consumer accounts are not affected by this vulnerability."
Intuit (TurboTax)	No	No	No	Turbotax wrote that "engineers have verified TurboTax is not affected by Heartbleed." The company has issued new certificates anyway, and said it's not "proactively advising" users to change their passwords.
IRS	No	No	No	"The IRS continues to accept tax returns as normal ... and systems continue operating and are not affected by this bug. We are not aware of any security vulnerabilities related to this situation."
TaxACT	No	No	No	"Customers can update their passwords at any time, although we are not proactively advising them to do so at this time."
USAA	Yes	Yes	YesYes	USAA said that it has "already taken measures to help prevent a data breach and implemented a patch earlier this week."

Other

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
Box	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We're currently working with our customers to proactively reset passwords and are also reissuing new SSL certificates for added protection."
Dropbox	Yes	Yes	YesYes	On Twitter: "We’ve patched all of our user-facing services & will continue to work to make sure your stuff is always safe."
Evernote	No	No	No	"Evernote's service, Evernote apps, and Evernote websites ... all use non-OpenSSL implementations of SSL/TLS to encrypt network communications."Full Statement
GitHub	Yes	Yes	YesYes	GitHub said it has patched all its systems, deployed new SSL certificates and revoked old ones. GitHub is asking all users to change password, enable two-factor authentication and "revoke and recreate personal access and application tokens."
IFTTT	Yes	Yes	YesYes	IFTTT emailed all its users and logged them out, prompting them to change their password on the site.
OKCupid	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We, like most of the Internet, were stunned that such a serious bug has existed for so long and was so widespread."
Spark Networks (JDate, Christian Mingle)	No	No	No	Sites do not use OpenSSL.
SpiderOak	Yes	Yes	No	Spideroak said it patched its servers, but the desktop client doesn't use a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, so "customers do not need to take any special action."
Wikipedia(if you have an account)	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"We recommend changing your password as a standard precautionary measure, but we do not currently intend to enforce a password change for all users." Full Statement
Wordpress	Yes	Yes	YesYes	Wordpress confirmed that it was vulnerable to Heartbleed and that it has patched its servers "within a few hours of the public disclosure." Wordpress is not forcing users to change their passwords, but said users "are welcome" to do it.
Wunderlist	Yes	Yes	YesYes	"You’ll have to simply log back into Wunderlist. We also strongly recommend that you reset your password for Wunderlist."Full Statement

Password Managers

	Was it affected?	Is there a patch?	Do you need to change your password?	What did they say?
1Password	No	No	No	1Password said in a blog post that its technology "is not built upon SSL/TLS in general, and not upon OpenSSL in particular." So users don't need to change their master password.
Dashlane	Yes	Yes	No	Dashlane said in a blog post users' accounts were not impacted and the master password is safe as it is never transmitted. The site does use OpenSSL when syncing data with its servers but Dashlane said it has patched the bug, issued new SSL certificates and revoked previous ones.
LastPass	Yes	Yes	No	"Though LastPass employs OpenSSL, we have multiple layers of encryption to protect our users and never have access to those encryption keys." Users don't need to change their master passwords because they're never sent to the server. But passwords for other sites stored in LastPass might need to be changed.

Reporters who contributed to this story include Samantha Murphy Kelly, Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai, Seth Fiegerman, Adario Strange and Kurt Wagner.