This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets.

(Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).

• $2 Billion Opportunity for Affordable Textbooks and How Colleges Can Make the Most of It: http://huff.to/eotqnQ
• Next Gen Learning Grant RFP’s, Wave 2 (“Building Blocks for College Readiness”): http://bit.ly/fr7FEU
• Should students be allowed to attend class via webcam? http://bit.ly/gxFPYq
• The US National Archives - a great resource for history teachers bookmark: http://bit.ly/fTKFz9
• Podcast: IT’s Role in the Library of the Future - http://bit.ly/ewQNud
• “Dollars + STEM Education = Job Creation” http://bit.ly/gVXyhT
• Microsoft Is Now Accepting Submissions For 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum: http://bit.ly/fcRWJ6
• Just learned of this new Higher Ed Teaching & Learning Portal, worth checking out further: http://hetl.org/
• Study of Preschools Using Whiteboards Shows Significant Gains in Literacy, Math Skills: http://bit.ly/fjUhXt
• Open Source LMS/CMS Instructure could offer new competition to Moodle and Sakai: http://bit.ly/eVDhwC
• How to Create a Facebook Group for Your Classes: http://bit.ly/aIAefz
• “Schooling in the classroom without walls” http://bit.ly/dVpcMi
• The “Yuckiest Site on the Internet” is actually a pretty cool site for learning about biology: http://bit.ly/hyp5zU

To readers/visitors who attended yesterday’s Webinar from OpenTextbookAdvocateTrainers (and anyone else who wants it), click here to access the PowerPoint slide deck. This slide deck was used in a presentation providing an introduction to “5 fun, free photo and image editing applications for the classroom”. Stop back Sunday (or any time after) to check out a recorded tutorial based on this that I’ve decided to put together as next week’s feature post (might as well make the best of the work I did to create the presentation, right - there’s only so many hours in the week!).

Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
100 Ways to Teach With Twitter
Education Technology Twitter Post Weekly Summaries

About Kelly Walsh

Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com and have a listen!

[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]