OTR Backup 06/24/2012

• Tips for Blogging Successfully | Blogs Revealed

  If you want to try your hand at blogging, you may want to read these tips for blogging successfully. This will help you learn how to be the best blogger you can be and more people will want to read your blogs. Whether you are writing for fun or profit, you can be sure you’re doing it right.

  tags: tips blogging blogs revealed

• Google transforms its homepage into a Turing machine minigame | VentureBeat

  Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of computer-science pioneer Alan Turing with a minigame based on one of his “thinking” machines.

  tags: google homepage machine

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Google+ on Flipboard | Inside Flipboard

  Having just passed its first birthday, Google+ might be one of the younger social networks, but it’s brought some new concepts into the parlance of social media. Among Google+’s signature features is the +1, a way of liking something on the platform; Circles, a means of organizing and following specific groups of people; and Hangouts, video chat for up to 10 people.

  tags: wanted know google inside

• Figuring It Out: BYOD Leadership Implications

  Our school has embraced a Bring Your Own Technology/Device approach to enhancing the use of technology for our students and teachers.
  
  For the past two years we have had a soft or "organic" launch to this policy.  For this coming fall, we officially launch our BYOD initiative.

  tags: mlearning BYOD edchat cpchat

• How Much Data Is Created Every Minute? [INFOGRAPHIC]

  Next time you run a Google search, think about the fact that it’s just one of 2 million that Google will receive in that minute. In the same amount of time, Facebook users post 684,478 pieces of content. Crazier still, online shoppers spend an average of $272,070 every minute. That’s over $391 million every day — quite the chunk of change.

  tags: data infographic infographics

• 7 Free Drawing Apps for your Students and Kids ( iOS )

  Below is a set of some of the best free drawing  iOS apps for students to give vent to their imagination.

  tags: free drawing apps students kids ios

• Microsoft's Surface brings old Mac-vs.-PC war home again - latimes.com

  When Microsoft on Monday unveiled its long-rumored, arguably overdue entry to the tablet market, what really surfaced in my household was a battle that had been put to rest by the lack of true competition in tablet computing.

  tags: microsoft surface brings war latimes com

• Two Canadian Education Startups Rocked the Demo Pit at Launch in Silicon Valley - Techvibes.com

  Judges included notable personalities like Robert Scoble, Wesley Chan of Google Ventures, and Christine Tsai of 500 Startups to name a few. And it was great to see two Canadian startups rock the demo pit at launch.

  tags: canadian education startups demo pit launch silicon valley com

• Give your students the freedom to learn | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional

  Google and 3M give their employees sizeable chunks of time to work on their own projects with intriguing results... could the same idea work in schools? Yes says Matthew Bebbington and here's how

  tags: education

• Teachers Guide on The Use of Graphic Organizers in The Classroom

  Gone are the days when planning and thinking were done mainly by pen and paper.Technology have made it pretty much easier to think in different other ways.

  tags: teachers guide graphic graphic organizers organizers classroom

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