OTR Backup 01/25/2012

• FileSonic, fast and easy file storage.

  Looking to store your important
  files somewhere safe and secure?
  FileSonic allows you to upload and retrieve them from any computer.
  

  tags: filesharing storage sharing file upload tools

• Internet TV

  Internet Television

  tags: television internet tv

• Watch live online TV channels broadcasting on the Internet.

  WWITV: World Wide Internet TV
  Your Portal to watch live and on demand online TV broadcasts.
  
  This site is designed to enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices
  to easily find and access streaming media content over the Internet.

  tags: tv streaming television web media broadcast news watch

• Top ten computer science teaching resources | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional

  Top ten computer science teaching resources
  A pioneering head of ICT shares some fantastic routes into teaching children code and computing

  tags: computer computer science science teaching teaching resources resources teacher network blog guardian professional

• Does Microsoft Suffer from Premature Innovation? | getwired.com

  Does Microsoft Suffer from Premature Innovation?
  Posted on January 20, 2012
  From when I joined Microsoft in 1997 until I left in 2004, and even since then (but especially during the heady days of the DOJ lawsuit), accusations flew fast and furious accusing Microsoft of misusing the word “innovation”, that Microsoft couldn’t innovate, or didn’t innovate.

  tags: microsoft innovation

• Open Education Week 5-10 March 2012. Call for participation | eLearning

  Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online (www.openeducationweek.org) and in locally hosted events around the world

  tags: education march participation elearning

• Stanford AI Professor Thrun Leaves University to Start Udacity, an Online Learning Startup

  It's news that shouldn't surprise anyone that read the fine print on the registration for Stanford's Artificial Intelligence class offered last fall: Professor Stanford Thrun has announced he is resigning from the university to launch an online learning startup.

  tags: stanford professor leaves university start online online learning learning startup

• Let’s Ditch Google for DuckDuckGo — The Brooks Review

  I don’t remember when, or where, I found out about DuckDuckGo, but a quick search of this site has me promoting it first in February of 2011. It’s my go to search engine right now and I am trying to not use Google for anything. Here’s how I am making DuckDuckGo a default across my computing.

  tags: google brooks review

• Daily Mac App: AirBeam | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

  If you have an iPhone and iPad or Mac, you can set up an indoor surveillance system.

  tags: daily mac app unofficial apple weblog

• Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future — Tech News and Analysis

  Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that matters.

  tags: twitter summify curation

• 4 Reasons that the ICT Programme of Study “had” to go - Articles - Educational Technology - ICT in Education

  The fate of the ICT Programme of Study could have been predicted accurately long before Judge Gove donned his black cap and passed the death sentence. After several years of what might be justly described as a “war of attrition”, the weight of the “evidence”, such as it is, made such an outcome unavoidable.

  tags: reasons ict programme study articles educational technology technology education

• Prototyping in eLearning | Upside Learning Blog

  As Instructional Designers move away from purely being creators of content, to developers of tools and applications that assist learning and support performance, understanding the processes used by the software development industry becomes rather important.

  tags: prototyping elearning upside learning blog

• Who’s Going to Buy Apple’s New eTextbooks? | doug woods

  What I want to do, however, is take a slightly different look at the announcement; instead of looking at the hardware or software that has been announced, I simply want to ask who is going to buy the ebooks?

  tags: to buy buy apple doug woods

• How Codecademy got so hot, so fast — Tech News and Analysis

  Codecademy is on fire right now. The startup, which teaches users how to program with an interactive and social web application, has garnered more than 1 million users (including bold-faced names such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg) and made learning how to write computer code trendy with its “Code Year” program aimed at the New Year’s resolution crowd. And all this from a startup that’s only five months old, with just five full-time staffers.

  tags: tech tech news news analysis

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