OTR Backup 11/29/2011

• SMART Board Goodies » Blog Archive » Facebook & Twitter Guides for Educators

  A few weeks ago, I was asked to create Facebook and Twitter guides for educators in my district. They were released this week so I wanted to share them with you all! Click below to download them.

  tags: facebook twitter educators

• Celebrating innovative education with Microsoft Partners in Learning > Microsoft Europe

  Throughout the year, the Microsoft group Partners in Learning (PIL) hosts a series of professional development events and competitions for teachers and school leaders culminating in the Partners in Learning Global Forum, which this year took place in Washington, D.C. from November 7-10, 2011. Microsoft PIL is a global program focused on improving teaching and learning through the effective use of technology in the classroom.

  tags: education microsoft partners learning europe

• The Awards for Excellence in Education

  2010/2011 Winners of the Awards for Excellence in Education

  tags: awards excellence education

• Your Browser Matters

  This site was created to show you how your browser helps keep you secure online.

  tags: browser matters

• Microsoft calls out Firefox and Chrome for security weaknesses | ZDNet

  In a move that’s sure to raise hackles in Silicon Valley, Microsoft today debuted a new web site designed to raise awareness of security issues in web browsers.
  
  When you visit the site, called Your Browser Matters, it allows you to see a score for the browser you’re using. Well, if you’re using IE, Chrome, or Firefox—other browsers are excluded. Not surprisingly, Microsoft’s latest release, Internet Explorer 9, gets a perfect 4 out of 4:

  tags: microsoft calls firefox chrome security zdnet

• TES iboard

  Choose to sort the presents in different ways as they come off the conveyor belt. How many did you put in the right sacks?

  tags: sort mathematics smartboard

• How To Future-Proof Your Education | Edudemic

  How do you future-proof your education? A fantastic and immersive Prezi (embedded below) by Maria Andersen shares the key skills needed: flexibility, interactivity, learning, explaining, analyzing, and focusing. 

  tags: education future future-proof

• Top Twitter Analytics Tools

  With hundreds of add-on tools, Twitter certainly has plenty of ways you can analyze its data. I set out to find the best tools that I would recommend for you to track and compare your own Tweets, as well as examine the growth of followers and when you actually send out your 140-character missives.

  tags: analytics tools Twitter

• Download Microsoft Office Starter 2010

  Microsoft Office 2010 is available in different editions just like the Windows operating system. There is Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 or Office Professional 2010 for instance. And there is at least one version that is only available to OEMs: Microsoft Office Starter 2010. This version is usually only available for users who purchase a computer system at manufacturers who add it as one of the installed software programs that the system ships with.

  tags: Microsoft

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