OTR Backup 04/26/2012

• 10 Tumblrs Serving Up the Best Animated GIFs

  10 Tumblrs Serving Up the Best Animated GIFs

  tags: gif animations

• Book Creator | In the classroom

  Perfect for all ages, from Kindergarten to Professors. Book Creator is simple to use, leaving you free to achieve outstanding results.

  tags: book creator classroom

• Mindomo - Tools

  Mindomo Bookmark for Chrome, Firefox and Safari
  Find & Collect ideas from the web.
  A simple but efficient researching tool for your mind map. Add links, text or pictures to your map in seconds.

  tags: tools

• TED-Ed Launches its New Platform with Customizable Teacher Tools

  It seems that nearly every week we report on groundbreaking news from TED, the global nonprofit known for its “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Today, it announced its latest efforts in the education space: a dynamic TED-Ed site with new teacher tools for customized learning experiences.

  tags: launches platform teacher teacher tools tools

• 10 Changes to Expect from the Library of the Future | Online Universities

  Libraries have acted as community cornerstones for millennia, and every April marks School Library Month, celebrating how they promote education and awareness in an open, nurturing space.

  tags: Future

• Dr. Seuss’s ‘Yertle the Turtle’ deemed too political for B.C. classroom - The Globe and Mail

  A Prince Rupert elementary teacher has been told a quote from Dr. Seuss’s Yertle the Turtle is a political statement that should not be displayed or worn on clothing in her classroom.

  tags: seuss turtle classroom globe mail

• Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared -- Engadget

  Sometimes a table says a thousand words. Now that Google has finally announced its cloud service, Google Drive, we're sure more than a few of you are crunching the numbers in your head in an attempt to figure which is the best deal.

  tags: google dropbox storage cloud

• How Students Can Use Social Media To Actually Learn Real World Skills | Edudemic

  Owing to the present difficult economic situation, financial literacy has turned out to be one of the hottest topics of discussion in the media. Being economically savvy is extremely important for making the type of smart money decisions, that’s essential for having a good standard of living.

  tags: students social social media media world skills

• How One App Uses Digital to Empower Education

  Create and share digital portfolios of students’ work quickly and easily.

  tags: app uses education

• iPads In Education: Special Edudemic Magazine Issue Now Available! | Edudemic

  Looking for dozens of apps to use in education? What about an easy-to-use ‘spectrum’ of how to use iPads in your classroom? Worried about the future of Apple? Most people aren’t… but maybe they should be.

  tags: ipads education magazine

• 5 Awesome Prezis And 5 Ways To Use Them In Your Digital Classroom

  I am just going to put it out there and say that Prezi is one of my all time favorite tools for work and for play. Simple, fun, free and with an endless number of uses in the digital classroom, the tool is now a favorite of many teachers around the globe.

  tags: prezi

• TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing

  TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform.

  tags: lessons sharing

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