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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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Announcing Flip Your Classroom Day: A Global Initiative -
http://flippedlearning.org/Domain/43 [3]
Back-to-School Guide for Teachers & Admins Building One-to-One Classrooms:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/beyond-technology-education-reveals-5-steps-to-prep-for-one-to-one-2013-08-22 [4]
Bill Gates invests in program to help teachers discover and share education technology:
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/bill-gates-great-teachers-replaced-strictly-online-experience/ [5]
Open Textbooks Advocate Circles Back To Tech:
http://www.informationweek.com/education/online-learning/open-textbooks-advocate-circles-back-to/240160294 [6]
Education Technology Trends – Part I – Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs):
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/08/22/education-technology-trends-part-i-massive-open-online-courses-moocs/ [7]
Microsoft offers ad-free Bing for the classroom to battle Google:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/net-us-microsoft-bing-education-idUSBRE97K0E620130821 [8]
Learning English in ‘virtual classrooms’:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/08/21/learning-english-virtual-classrooms [9]
Active Textbook - Turn PDFs Into Multimedia Documents (Free):
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/08/active-textbook-turn-pdfs-into.html#.UhieMWPbCSp [10]
WizIQ Offers Free Membership Worth $690 to K-12, College and University Teachers:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wiziq-offers-free-membership-worth-690-to-k-12-college-and-university-teachers-220360761.html [11]
Meet your child’s new teacher - the iPad:
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/1876320/report-meet-your-child-s-new-teacher-the-ipad [12]
McAllen ISD: Using technology to transform physical education -
http://www.yourvalleyvoice.com/news/article_3d6dea12-08de-11e3-8b4f-0019bb2963f4.html [13]
Tablets in the Classroom: Finding a Balance
http://www.longisland.com/news/08-13-13/tablets-in-the-classroomfinding-a-balance.html [14]
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
Flipped Classroom Panel Discussion Provides Rich Insights into a Powerful Teaching Technique
iPad Educator Professional Development – The Three R’s
For-Credit MOOCs a Growing Trend [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]