OTR Backup 01/05/2012

• The Ultimate English Language Test | Edudemic

  If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labor to reading six lines aloud.

  tags: ultimate english language test

• Google Disciplines Itself in Chrome Browser PageRank Controversy | PCWorld

  Google is giving itself the digital equivalent of 100 lashes by downgrading the search result ranking of the company's own Web browser, Google Chrome, for 60 days. The decision came after recent reports that a marketing company working for Google encouraged bloggers to write about Google Chrome for compensation. The practice of creating sponsored posts with the primary intent of gaming search results runs afoul of Google's website quality guidelines.

  tags: google disciplines chrome browser pagerank controversy pcworld

• Wikihood World Browser

  Community created world browser

  tags: Maps geography Wikipedia Wiki encyclopedia google googlemaps Social Studies

• Using WebNotes and Diigo Annotation Tools for PR

  Diigo is over-engineered, WebNotes is simple and dull. This is just to state, from the start, that I am not taking sides. I am simply reviewing two somewhat similar tools, both potentially effective for PR use.

  tags: Diigo Webnotes

• HOT FREE BOOKS • 20,000+ full-text free books!

  More than 20,000 full-text free books.

  tags: ebooks books reading classics English Literacy library libros

• projeqt \ how great stories are told

  an artful way to create, present and share real-time stories

  tags: storytelling presentation tools SlideShow multimedia portfolio presentations design

• 5 Ways Technology Has Changed One of Education’s Most Traditional Subjects: History | Edudemic

  There’s no denying that the influence of technology is everywhere in today’s classrooms. From the fifth grader using an iPad to the professor projecting digital renderings onto the screen, from the student working in a genome lab to the one getting a degree from onlinedegree.com, the broad reach and applicability of technology has forever altered the way we learn, instruct, explore, and think.

  tags: history technology education

• TCEA 2012 Convention and Exposition

  You are invited to attend the 32nd TCEA Annual Convention & Exposition with a week full of astounding professional development, hands-on and peer-to-peer learning opportunities, exploration of new trends through interactive learning environments, in-depth presentations from educational technology experts, and inspiring keynotes. TCEA’s five-day convention is one of the largest educational technology conventions in the nation and the largest in Texas. 

  tags: convention exposition Texas TCEA

• Palmetto Educators Network: Resources: Testing and Accountability

  PEN is a nonpartisan advocacy network dedicated to universal public education and to bridging the discourse among the public, the political, and the scholarly in South Carolina and throughout the U. S.

  tags: educators network resources testing accountability

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