OTR Backup 05/06/2012

• Responsible Digital Citizenship | Scoop.it

  “Information relating to the responsibility to conduct ourselves appropriately online and encourage others to do the same.”

  tags: digital citizenship citizenship scoop

• Smart Notebook App for Ipad Announced | The Whiteboard Blog

  Rumours of this app were leaked last week, then it all went quiet, so its good to see that there’s now an official announcement on the EdCompass blog. From this summer, teachers and students will be able to use SMART Notebook software on an iPad using the SMART Notebook app.

  tags: smartboard

• What We Didn't Learn In College - Need for Air

  Albert Wenger is right: we are woefully prepared for internet age job market. The three of us graduated in Computer Science in college, following a solid engineering cursus. But during the numerous courses we took we never heard of Github nor StackOverflow. People attending creative and artistic formation don’t hear of Etsy neither.

  tags: college learning education computer science

• What America Can Learn From Ontario's Education Success - Michael Fullan - National - The Atlantic

  In the last decade, the Canadian province dramatically improved its education system to become one of the best in the world. Its innovative strategy can provide a blueprint for U.S. reform. 

  tags: ontario education success

• Turn your iPad into a scanner, copier, and fax with Scanner Pro | ZDNet

  This inexpensive app turns the iPad (iPhone too) into a full-featured scanner that connects to the cloud. It prints to make copies and can fax documents cheaply over the web.

  tags: ipad scanner copier fax pro zdnet

• Do I get a C? « What Ed Said

  The government likes us to rate each learner as A-E on their semester reports, so that parents know where their children stand in relation to an arbitrary set of expectations. A ‘C’ means the student is ‘performing at the expected standard’ for that grade level.

  tags: evaluation education

• How To Learn What You Don’t Know

  In order to reach the next level of success in your career, it’s worth making an effort to uncover what you don’t know and/or what you may not do as well compared to others. I guarantee there’s something even if your job appears to be going smoothly. Here are four ideas to get you started:

  tags: how to know

• Smart Education: How Lynda.com Hit $70M In Revenue Without A Penny From Investors | TechCrunch

  Higher ed institutions struggle with the cost of expanding to meet demand. Yale, for example, recently decided to add 250 students to its incoming class, which came with a price tag of a quarter of a billion dollars.

  tags: education lynda revenue techcrunch

• Are Your Organization’s Learning Opportunities Outdated?

  Is your organization offering learning opportunities that are based on an outdated model?
  
  Or have you positioned your organization to offer learning opportunities that are proven to be successful today and align with your participants’ learning?

  tags: organization learning opportunities

• How To Install The nVidia Linux Display Driver 295.49 Under Ubuntu 12.04/11.10

  The nVidia Linux display driver has been updated to version 295.49, which comes with more new features and some bug fixes. Here are some of the key features in this latest release:

  tags: nvidia linux display driver ubuntu

• Microsoft Puts 'Windows Live' Brand Out to Pasture [Updated] | Webmonkey | Wired.com

  Microsoft is getting ready to ditch the “Windows Live” moniker for the company’s suite of online services like mail, messaging, syncing and account management. The changes to Microsoft’s cloud offerings will be more than skin deep though; the revamped Windows Live services will be tightly integrated into the coming Windows 8 operating system.

  tags: microsoft windows windows live brand updated wired com

• For secondary schoolteachers - CAFOD

  Explore our easy-to-download assemblies, quizzes and schemes of work to challenge and inspire your pupils to take action for global justice. Our resources help you embed the global dimension into your curriculum. We can also visit your school to support assemblies, class work, and enterprise or citizenship days. Click here for our Primary School resources

  tags: secondary

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