OTR Backup 01/09/2012

• ICTmagic Show Jan 2012

  Online edition of the ICT Magic Show for January 2012

  tags: education WEB2.0 ict tools teaching resources technology edtech

• Spotzi, spot, zoom in and explore

  Spotzi shows you the world in a unique and astonishing way. It not only shows you street maps and high detail areal maps. That’s just a starter. Spotzi goes beyond any political border and zooms in to any aspect of our planet. This has been made possible by the extent data resources at NASA, the World Bank and our own data warehouse.

  tags: maps geography data geology map Mapping mapa recursos

• Collins Dictionaries | Always Free Online

  Pioneers in dictionary publishing since 1819

  tags: dictionary thesaurus English German Spanish French dictionaries collins

• Perform Everyday Tasks for Free | CatchFree

  Compare useful free products on things that matter to you

  tags: Web2.0 tools tasks productivity collaboration Tech Tools BackUp apps

• Share - Unlimited sending of videos photos and files for free - Powered by BitTorrent

  Send unlimited videos, photos and files
  to your friends – for free!
  No more storage limits. No more fees. Just simple and free file sharing

  tags: share bittorrent filesharing tools file partage

• headslinger - A new way to discover and read the day's news

  Build your list of favorites, share what you're reading and start discovering new sources...

  tags: web2.0 news tools social web collaboration search media

• The Art Story: Modern Art Movements, Artists, Ideas and Topics

  Art Movements, Artists, Theory, and the Progression of Art at Your Fingertips

  tags: artists history modern movements story modern art curriculum education

• Wiggle 3D: How To Make Animated 3D Images from Adorama Learning Center

  Have you taken all the classic steps to create a three-dimensional look in your photographs? You know, leading lines, engaging foreground, middleground, and background elements, misty skies creating aerial perspective? These timeless techniques help build the illusion of depth in the still image—be it a tromp l'oeil painting, a zone system black and white, or a large format FujiChrome. But perhaps it's time to try something new, a classic technique with a technological twist.

  tags: 3D how to Wiggle photos photography

• How Renaissance People Think | The Creativity Post

  Here's a quick test: Are you more of a rational or experiential/intuitive thinker?
  
  If you cringed as you read the question and thought to yourself "I love constantly shifting between both modes of thought", then you're on the polymath path.

• Google Chrome Finally Gets Malware Download Protection | PCWorld

  Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables, Google has announced.
  
  Reported as being on the browser's long list as long ago as April 2011, the version 17 beta includes the ability to relate known malicious websites detected using the software's Safe Browsing API, blocking downloads hosted on such domains.

  tags: google google chrome chrome gets malware download protection pcworld

• Stay on top of your social network connections.

  Cool Friends do Things Together

  tags: social social network network connections

• The Evil that Spyware Can Do | Regillo Consulting Group

  Spyware usually refers to software that is created with the sole purpose of taking partial or complete control of a person’s computer without the permission of the owner of the computer. What spyware does is that it uses the resources in your computer to report certain information to someone else that you do not know. Simply put spyware spies on you and on your computer.

  tags: spyware malware virus

• Adolescent Literacies | Scoop.it

  Adolescent Literacies
  “About adolescent literacies: print and digital”

  tags: adolescent literacies scoop

• Top 10 Ways to Break Into and Out of Almost Anything

  Whether you're stuck inside and need to break out or you've found locked outside and need to get in, having the key or password is rarely your only option. Here are our top 10 favorite tricks for breaking into and out of nearly any locked down environment.

  tags: ways anything break hack

• ’21st Century Learning’ « The Spicy Learning Blog

  21st Century Learning? Ya, I don’t really know what it means anymore either. But we forget that some people really don’t know what it means. I mish-mashed this video together for those amazing stakeholders you know who have yet to be charmed by Ken Robinson’s accent

  tags: learning spicy blog

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