OTR Backup 04/05/2012

• TotallyU Presentations

  Technology in the 21st Century - Web 2.0 Toolkit

  tags: presentations web2.0 education teacher tools web2.0 tools

• Photoshop Express Editor | Photoshop.com

  From party pics to vacation shots to family candids, you have lots of good digital photos. Why not use Photoshop Express Editor to make them look amazing? Quickly crop, straighten, adjust color, and fix other small flaws. Then add visual style with eye-catching filters, effects, and borders.

  tags: photoshop photos editor photoediting image adobe tools lite

• Top 10 Uses for Twitter (That Aren't Self-Indulgent)

  Since Twitter's inception, it's been looked down upon as a place for self-centered technophiles to share the mundane details of their lives. We at Lifehacker know better than that, though—here are our favorite ways to turn Twitter into a useful tool, without becoming one yourself.

  tags: twitter

• MagicReader Adds Some Touch-Free Magic To Your Reading Habits -- AppAdvice

  When I first read the description of MagicReader, I thought it was just too good to be true. A reading app for iPad that flips pages with just a turn of your head? No way. But then I remembered that the iPad has a front camera, and the app must be using it to detect faces and the necessary head movements. I was right.

  tags: adds magic reading habits

• One-Third of U.S. High School Students Now Own an iPhone - Mac Rumors

  Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today issued a report on his firm's latest semi-annual survey of U.S. teenagers, the 23rd such survey in the firm's history. The results of the extensive survey of 5,600 U.S. high school students show that 34% of surveyed students now own an iPhone, an all-time high in the survey and double the percentage seen just a year ago. Furthermore, 40% of surveyed students indicated that they intend to purchase an iPhone within the next six months.

  tags: u s high school school students iphone mac rumors

• Sync iCloud to Dropbox | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

  Mac and iOS users are going to be increasingly pushed to choose between storing their documents in iCloud or Dropbox. I expect that Apple will continue to push more and more features to iCloud that will make people want to use it, and I expect that Apple will continue to make iCloud easier and easier for iOS and Mac developers to use, so developers will want to support it.

  tags: dropbox icloud

• An introductory guide to iPads for Teachers | The Whiteboard Blog

  I’m delivering some iPad training to a school tomorrow, so thought it might be useful to collate some of the links I’ve been putting together for the session.
  The session is concentrating mainly on teachers using the iPads for their own professional use, rather than being used as a classroom resource, but a lot of the apps below will be suitable for use by students too. I’ll do another post sometime of great apps for different subject areas.

  tags: ipads teachers edtech guide via:packrati.us

• 5 Things to Do Instead of College

  The path to financial freedom is financial — not traditional — education.

  tags: things to do college

• Schools across the country bring iPads to the classroom | McClatchy

  On a warm spring morning, a pair of first-grade boys enter the computer lab at Jamestown Elementary, a traditional-looking red-brick neighborhood school that's educated generations of students.

  tags: schools country ipads classroom

• Google Street View Takes a Virtual Tour of the White House

  Fresh from a jaunt along the Rio Negro, Google is digitizing the interior of the First Family's mansion. Now you can leisurely wander around the White House without being detained by the Secret Service.

  tags: google street view takes tour white house

• Microsoft Launches New Programming Language Db.NET

  Microsoft has finally released a new programming language in addition to their current suite of languages including C#, C++ and other .NET languages. The language is called Dflat.NET or simply Db.NET. It still uses the .NET Framework as its base. Also known as vNext.NET, this new language features many enhancements that developers and database designers have been looking for in other languages but were not available.

  tags: microsoft launches programming language net

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