OTR Backup 10/11/2011

• Twitter to Wrap All URLs With T.co

  Twitter announced Monday that it will soon begin reformatting all links posted to its service with t.co, regardless of length.

  tags: T.co Twitter wrap urls

• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

  Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes.

  tags: digitalstorytelling storytelling education digital_storytelling multimedia resources digital storytelling digital

• Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup | Edutopia

  Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and resources on cyberbullying, netiquette, and internet safety.

  tags: cyberbullying netiquette cybersafety digital citizenship digitalcitizenship edutopia internet_safety resource

• Create A Graph

  Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world.

  tags: graph

• Database.com

  Custom APIs and data feeds for building efficient, robust mobile apps

  tags: database cloud cloudcomputing salesforce hosting development

• Can Microsoft Web Matrix 2.0 lure developers to Azure? — Cloud Computing News

  Microsoft hopes to use the company’s Web Matrix 2.0 tool–now in beta–to lure new-age web developers to Azure, its cloud-computing platform-as-a-service.

  tags: microsoft web matrix developers azure cloud cloud computing computing news

• Clever-Software - simple web notes

  Clever Notes is a random notes and memo manager. It allows you to store any information just one click away. Easy to use and free. Take unlimited notes, organize them on boards and share with other users! 100% FREE.
  Register in 31 seconds.

  tags: notes web2.0 tools web software simple

• Q&A: Teachers Need to be “Provisioned” for Emerging Technologies & Assessment | Getting Smart

  Dr. Mazur is interested in the ways that digital game-based learning, emerging technologies and visualization improve curriculum and assessment in education. She is also a faculty associate at the UK Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments and a director of the P-20 Digital Learning & Design Innovation Lab at the College of Education.

  tags: teachers emerging technologies assessment getting

• Dart: a language for structured web programming - The official Google Code blog

  Today we are introducing an early preview of Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications. Dart’s design goals are:Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming.Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn.Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution.Dart targets a wide range of development scenarios: from a one-person project without much structure to a large-scale project needing formal types in the code to state programmer intent. To support this wide range of projects, Dart has optional types; this means you can start coding without types and add them later as needed. We believe Dart will be great for writing large web applications.

  tags: programming dart google language

• Digital library aims to expand kids' media literacy – USATODAY.com

  On the ground floor of the city's main library, an odd experiment is taking place, one that could determine what your neighborhood library looks like in 10 years.

  tags: USATODAY.com digital library library kids media media literacy literacy

• How to be funny in 140 characters or less - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety

  Twitter: Not just for talking about mind-blowing soup. Comedians of all stripes have taken to the micro­blogging service, and the Internet is funnier for it.
  "It's essentially cowardly stand-up," says "Childrens' Hospital" creator Rob Corddry (@robcorddry)."I can write a joke in the comfort of my underwear and get the equivalent of laughter. Or not -- that happens a lot, too." Here are some rules for success:

  tags: how to funny characters entertainment news technology media variety

• Report: Steve Jobs Left Behind Plans For Four Years of Apple Products

  Interesting...will the plans unfold?

  tags: apple products behind daily mail report steves jobs

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