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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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Remember the MOOC? Yes, it is still relevant (even if the media did go from a love affair in 2012/2013 to paying little attention in 2014). We’re also checking out games, Twitter, 3D printing, student-led teaching, collaboration, and much more!
Twitter: Best Practices For Educators via @edudemic
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/links/twitter-best-practices/ [3]
WizIQ Announces MOOC for Teachers to Enhance Online Teaching Skills
http://www.pr-inside.com/wiziq-announces-mooc-for-teachers-to-enhance-online-teaching-skills-r4067024.htm [4]
Making games: the ultimate project based learning experience @MindShiftKQED
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/making-games-the-ultimate-project-based-learning/ [5]
Here’s a short reflection on my year with #3dprinting in the #classroom
http://clarkbarnett.com/techcamp/?p=317 [6]
Your Cybertutor Wants to Confuse You—for Your Own Good
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/your-cybertutor-wants-to-confuse-you-for-your-own-good/ [7]
Flipped Classroom Best Practices from Clintondale High School
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/flipped-classroom-best-practices-from-clintondale-high-school/ [8]
Transformational student-led approach teaching science and literacy
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/ecm-pauline-roberts-sciracy/ [9]
Learning Objectives in #MOOCs
http://cit.duke.edu/blog/2014/06/learning-objectives-moocs/ [10]
Any.do Offers Collaborative Task Management On Any Device
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/06/anydo-offers-collaborative-task.html [11]
10 tech do’s and don’ts for every campus
http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/dos-donts-campus-742/ [12]
An Updated List Of Education-Relevant MOOCs For July 2014
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/elearning/updated-list-education-relevant-moocs-july-2014/ [13]
Spending on Instructional Tech To Reach $19 Billion Within 5 Years
http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/06/11/spending-on-instructional-tech-to-reach-19-billion-within-5-years.aspx#WtV8jEFbKrYRciTH.99 [14]
Texas Higher Education Institutions Improve Learning Outcomes Using Technology & Content Solutions
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1972663#ixzz34KNA8hLx [15]
Videos and Guides to Copyright & Creative Commons
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/06/videos-and-guides-to-copyright-creative.html [16]
Students Are The New Digital Influencers
http://www.teachthought.com/social-media/students-new-digital-influencers/ [17]
How competency is changing mainstream education
http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/competency-changing-education-358/ [18]
A 1:1 iPad Menu For Guided Reading
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/1-1-ipad-menu-for-guided-reading-apps/ [19]
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
My MOOC experience – Coursera Course Journal Week 1
3D Printing – Coming to a Classroom Near you (Sooner Than you Think)!
Massive Open Online Research: The MOOC Evolves into the MOOR [20]
About Kelly Walsh [25]
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 [26] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [27]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [28] 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]