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Instructional Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 04-28-14

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This week’s collection of inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc.

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


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A fun new way to read books, tools to help students find their voices, fun with comics in the classroom and more tools, tips, and insights …

13 Very Different Tools To Help Students Find Their Voice:
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/6-ways-technology-can-help-students-find-voice/ [3]

How parents can help their children use technology to learn:
http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20140501/SHE04/305010183/Navigating-technology-together [4]

Five Fun Classroom Uses of Comics:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/04/five-fun-classroom-uses-of-comics.html#.U2Tc5lfrJNE [5]

Technology helping children with Autism Learn:
http://www.claytodayonline.com/ee/claytoday/en/component/fullstory/20140501_005_art_1/technology-helping-children-with-autism [6]

Pioneering the ‘connected’ approach:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/10799022/Pioneering-the-connected-approach.html [7]

RT @jackiegerstein: What’s In and What’s Out in Education:
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/whats-in-and-whats-out-in-education/ [8]

Don Soifer: Internet works wonders in schools –
http://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/commentary/20140425-don-soifer-internet-works-wonders-in-schools.ece [9]

Hacking the University: A Future Tense Event Recap -
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/02/hacking_the_university_a_future_tense_event_recap.html?wpisrc=burger_bar [10]

12 Ways To Share Almost Any File With Your Students:
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/12-best-ways-to-share-files/ [11]

Animoto Now Offers an iPad App:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/05/animoto-now-offers-ipad-app.html [12]

Ira Bickoff Creates a New Way to Read Books: Google BookMap -
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/ira-bickoff-bookmap/ [13]

 

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About Kelly Walsh [19]

Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester [20], in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. 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]. Walsh became the Community Administrator for the Flipped Learning Network [23] in June of 2016. In his "spare time" he also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [24] 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]