OTR Backup 02/11/2012

• 9 Ways Students Can Use Social Media to Boost Their Careers

  If you’re a Generation X-er or older, you likely use social media to cut it in the real world. You may also use social networks for personal reasons, but it’s always with the understanding that you’re a professional.

  tags: ways students social social media media careers

• Critical Thinking Index Page

  The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

  tags: Critical Thinking criticalthinking education thinking teaching critical critical_thinking resources learning

• ThumbScribes - Collaborative Writing Community - Login

  ThumbScribes is a platform for creating collaborative content.
  
  Co+Create haiku, poems, short stories, flash fiction, novellas, exquisite corpse and songs, real time or asynchronously with your computer, tablet, cell phone or even IM.

  tags: writing haiku collaborative Collaboration web2.0 english poetry literacy interactive

• http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/flash/spelling.swf

  Flash activity to support spelling

  tags: spelling game simulation

• Automate your Dropbox

  Cloud application to automate things around your Dropbox

  tags: dropbox automate automation iftt disco duro convert tools

• Six Strategies for Differentiated Instruction in Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  Project-Based Learning (PBL) naturally lends itself to differentiated instruction. By design, it is student-centered, student-driven and gives space for teachers to meet the needs of students in a variety of ways. PBL can allow for effective differentiation in assessment as well as daily management and instruction.

  tags: pbl differentiated instruction learning Differentiation project-based learning edutopia edchat pblchat

• Everstudent Student Planner - Apps on Android Market

  Easily manage your academic tasks & assignments and sync them into Evernote.
  Everstudent lets you keep track of your daily academic tasks with a simple yet elegant planner interface, while synchronizing with the greatest note-taking software, Evernote®.

  tags: apps evernote student planner

• The State of Digital Education [INFOGRAPHIC] | kevin CORBETT

  The State of Digital Education [INFOGRAPHIC]

  tags: infographic digital education

• Math Equation Renders a Heart Shape in Google Search Results

  This Valentine, Send your Loved One a Google Search Query

  tags: math equation heart shape google search results

• Is public school enough to master a language? | A journée in language.

  Is public school enough to master a language?

  tags: public public school school enough master language journée

• Everstudent – A Student Planner Within Evernote

  Everstudent is a student planner that integrates with Evernote. Using Everstudent, students can keep track of assignments and due dates for all of their courses.

  tags: student planner android evernote

• 5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

  Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You’ll find quite a few smart social media monitoring tools, but what if you can’t afford them?

  tags: analytics socialmedia spreadsheet

• Windows 8 'Borrowed' Features From Linux

  Microsoft in its blog “Building 8” explained their new native USB 3.0 stack. The news was no doubt greeted but along with comments that Linux has been doing that for three years.  

  tags: windows features linux

• Microsoft Will Launch Kinect For Workplace Next Month

  Microsoft wants its popular Kinect to be a game changer for more than just video games.

  tags: microsoft will launch kinect workplace month

• Teaching with Google+ | Edutopia

  Google+ Parts
  Google+, as you likely know, is Google's own foray into social media.
  
  As much the digital overlap of Google Search, Docs, Calendar, and Gmail software as it is a response to Facebook, Google+ has strong potential application in formal learning environment. First, a look at what makes Google+ tick.

  tags: education Google+

• TechLearning: SCHOOLCIO : BYOD Strategies

  Proponents of “bring your own device” (BYOD) programs like them for a lot of reasons: budgets keep dwindling, students already bring devices to school, and technology isn’t getting cheaper. “People are saying ‘It’s happening in the real world. Let’s mirror that in our schools,” says Lucy Gray, project director ofthe Leadership for Mobile Learning (LML) initiative at CoSN, the Consortium for School Networking.

  tags: techlearning strategies

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