OTR Backup 05/01/2012

• The MintChip Challenge

  The Royal Canadian Mint is challenging software developers to create apps for MintChip, the evolution of currency.

  tags: currency digital canada challenge MintChip web

• Online Solutions Hosted in the Cloud - Office 365 - Microsoft

  Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing.

  tags: online solutions hosted cloud office microsoft

• 5+ Fabulous Sites For Free Google Plus Covers | Tech18

  5+ Fabulous Sites For Free Google Plus Covers

  tags: sites free google plus covers tech

• instaDM - Home

  Direct messages for instagram users

  tags: instagram dm messages direct messages

• 7puzzle blog | Home of the daily Maths Challenge

  Great collection of daily math puzzles

  tags: puzzle blog daily maths challenge

• pechaflickr

  Can you really improv? Enter a tag, and see how well you can make sense of 20 random flickr photos, each one on screen for 20 seconds. See advanced options to chose different number of slides or timing.

• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

  The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.

  tags: programming learning education development philosophy software article computers

• Does "Mastered for iTunes" matter to music? Ars puts it to the test

  Apple's push to increase the quality of songs distributed via iTunes has been formally realized in the company's Mastered for iTunes program—but does it really make music sound better?

  tags: itunes matter music ars test

• Tech Integration VS Tech Classes « Mister Norris

  Currently I teach at a school where we have dedicated technology lessons for all students from kindergarten through to Grade 7. Each class gets 40 minutes a week in a lab with a technology teacher, me!I know of other schools that address technology the same way. Some schools have this approach and I guess it’s down to the schools philosophy on education as well as it’s philosophy on technology as to how technology is used in and out of the classroom.

  tags: tech tech integration integration classes

• Free Tools to Easily Record and Share Audio Messages with your Students

  Sharing audio messages with your students on your blog or classroom website is an effective way to maintain communication with them and their parents

  tags: free tools record share audio messages students

• Secret Underground Bunker Is Full of World War Weapons and Military Vehicles

  The world is full of hidden, forgotten treasures. Like this gigantic bunker excavated in a forest, buried in a secret location. It's full of weapons from the first World War, as well as modern military vehicles. And mushrooms.

  tags: secret underground full world war weapons military vehicles

• How to Use Google Drive on the iPad

  There are a number of ways to use Google Drive on the iPad while we wait for an official Google Drive iPad app.

  tags: Google ipad GoogleDrive

• 30 Specialist (and Super Smart) Search Engines

  Google is widely (and rightly) recognised as the mother of all search engines. But, if you need to drill down your searches by more specific details, do you trust Google to give you what you need every single time?

  tags: specialist super search search engines engines

• The Nerdy Teacher: Sharing with QR Codes

  My students spent a few weeks on Gothic Literature a bit ago and I was very impressed with some of the stories the students created on their own. I had always been frustrated in the past when I felt students did a great job, but had no way of really sharing what they did with the rest of the school.
  

  tags: nerdy teacher sharing qr codes codes

• Which programming language should I learn first? | Pixelstech.net

  Recently I saw somebody asked a question in a forum, the question is "Which programming language should I learn first?". Then someone answered this question. His answer:

  tags: programming language net

• Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters - Thinking about Discipline – Part 1

  My first encounter with discipline problems was in my very first year of teaching – untrained, naive, ignorant as I was, I had to deal with two major crises:

  tags: tefl matters thinking discipline part

• 4 Quick Web 2.0 Ways To Learn Another Language | Edudemic

  In today’s world, we count on technological advances to allow us to stay connected with the rest of the world. The Internet is perhaps the most useful tool we have for that purpose.

  tags: quick web ways language

• Download: Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

  Microsoft Mathematics provides a graphing calculator that plots in 2D and 3D, step-by-step equation solving, and useful tools to help students with math and science studies.

  tags: download microsoft mathematics center details

• Get Set For Microsoft 365 Webinar

  On Thursday, May 10 Avanti will be presenting Microsoft 365 Webinar. This event will run from 2pm to 3pm Easter Standard Time.

  tags: microsoft webinar

• How to use Vialogues | Lucacept – intercepting the Web

  Hopefully, the above screencast explains Vialogues well enough to encourage you to have a go.

  tags: how to web

• Vialogues : Meaningful discussions around video

  Talk about the conversation tool that gets you talking!

  tags: collaboration tools vialogues web2.0 discussion talk sharing communication

• Cloudfogger - Free File Encryption for Dropbox and the Cloud

  Secure File Encryption

  tags: free file encryption dropbox cloud

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