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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 02-04-13

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

(Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech [2] over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).

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American Council on Education Recommends 5 MOOCs for Credit:
http://chronicle.com/article/American-Council-on-Education/137155/ [3]

Samsung K-12 ROI Gift Programs (grants, scholarships, contests):
http://www.samsungk-12.com/ [4]

Free educational games for ages 5 and over:
http://bestschoolgames.com/ [5]

School Technology: The Driver for Reimagining Learning -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-r-krueger/school-technology-the-dri_b_2617253.html [6]

Three-quarters of teachers surveyed link educational technology to growing list of benefits:
http://www.infodocket.com/2013/02/04/survey-looks-at-technology-usage-by-teachers-in-the-classroom/ [7]

Educational technologies impacting curriculum in profound ways:
http://stories.illinoisstate.edu/2013/02/colleges/college-of-education/annual-report/educational-technologies-impacting-curriculum-in-profound-ways/ [8]

Importing PowerPoint Slides in Prezi:
https://prezi.zendesk.com/entries/22428817-importing-powerpoint [9]

Nice list of 20 Ed Technology Tools to be aware of:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-steinberg/education-tools_b_2567342.html [10]

Competitions Connect Tech. Startups With K-12 Educators:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/01/30/19competition.h32.html [11]

Connect a Million Minds- a $100M commitment to connect youth to ideas, people & opportunities:
http://www.facebook.com/ConnectaMillionMinds [12]

 

Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
Education Technology Twitter Post Weekly Summaries [13]
Facebook in the Classroom. Seriously. [14]
100 Ways to Teach With Twitter [15]

About Kelly Walsh [20]

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 [21] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [22]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [23] 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]