OTR Backup 10/29/2011

• Free teaching resources for special education

  Nice collection of resources - don't forget to share with parents for home use.

  tags: new content resources sen teacher site updates teaching

• Bloom's Taxonomy for 21st Century Learning | Scoop.it

  Bloom's Taxonomy for 21st Century Learning
  “Resources for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy for 21st Century Learning”
  
  ***Use with some caution - just because someone else categorized something some way doesn't carve it in stone.

  tags: bloomstaxonomy web2.0 taxonomy bloom's blooms education bloom ipad

• MuMu Player

  MuMu Player is a free online music space that lets you and your friends listen to music together.

  tags: music audio podcast player social collaboration

• SMARTBoard for Schools

  Huge collection of resources for the use of SMART Boards in the classroom.

  tags: smartboard resources interactive iwb technology

• Toporopa: Geography of Europe

  Everything geography about Europe.

  tags: geography europe maps interactive history game toporopa education

• Home Page : SEN Teacher ~ Free teaching resources for Special Needs.

  SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities. Many resources here may also be of use to educators of primary and elementary students.

  tags: resources education printables tools sen teaching Special freeware

• The Best Of Social Media | Scoop.it

  The Best Of Social Media
  “The best resources of using social media in education”

  tags: social media education media-literacy

• The Best Of Storytelling | Scoop.it

  The Best Of Storytelling
  “The best resources of storytelling in the classroom”

  tags: storytelling story digital

• Higher Ed’s Ultimate Guide To Cloud Computing - Edudemic

  Higher education is jumping into the cloud with both feet. According to a new report by the Campus Computing Project, 89% of higher ed currently uses or is actively consider cloud services. I found that figure quite startling as I hadn’t thought that many schools were moving into the cloud just yet. 

  tags: cloud cloud computing

• 10 Unique Lesson Ideas for BYOD and BYOT | Getting Smart

  Bring your own device (BYOD) and bring your own technology (BYOT) policies are growing in education and the workplace. Teachers are taking advantage of mobile devices for “m-learning,” putting those mini computers in kids’ backpacks and pockets to use. Here are 10 lesson ideas for BYOD and m-learning in the classroom.

  tags: BYOT BYOD technology mobile learning M-learning

• IBM Canada K-12 Education | iGeneration - 21st Century Education | Scoop.it

  iGeneration - 21st Century Education
  “Teaching and learning in the 21st Century - meeting the challenges of digital learning and the iGeneration”

  tags: ibm canada education scoop

• Pluss.es - Your Google+ powered blogging platform.

  +Plusses is a hosted blogging platform that does all the work for you. We recognise that you have spent a lot of time creating content for the Google+ platform and believe that you shouldn't have to waste time rewriting it for your traditional blog.

  tags: blog google plus googleplus google+ g+ google

• TeachPaperless: BYOC: Bring Your Own Context

  A lot of discussion recently over the pros and cons of BYOD -- Bring Your Own Device. Some folks have been quite adamantly in favor or against.
  
  
  For all the hub-bub, I think it's worth thinking about devices not just in relation to what kids do with them in the classroom, but rather how they relate to the connection those devices represent for them in the real world.

  tags: BYOD wireless access

• 600,000+ compromised account logins every day on Facebook, official figures reveal | Naked Security

  New official statistics revealed by the social networking giant reveal that 0.06% of the more than billion logins that they have each day are compromised.
  Put another way, that's more than 600,000 per day - or, if you really like to make your mind melt, one every 14 milliseconds.

  tags: account logins facebook official figures security

• GreatSummary - Just the Highlights

  How GreatSummary Works
  GreatSummary uses a patent pending algorithm to identify the major topics in a document.

  tags: summarizing greatsummary tools resources web2.0 writing education summary

• Zunal WebQuest Maker

  The easiest way to create a WebQuest with more than 130.9 thousand users
  Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes.

  tags: webquest webquests web2.0 tools Education Resources zunal maker

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