Weekly EdTech and Teaching Tweet Post Wrap for 09-19-15

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.

This week in the Wrap … meaningful ways to use Twitter in the classroom, checking out the new U.S. college scorecard, explore the Jurassic period or fly through space with new Augmented Reality tools coming in the near future, great free alternatives to costly Photoshop, 3 easy ways to explore flipped learning, a great YouTube playlist covering iPad apps across different academic subject areas, an excellent EdTech Glossary, and more!

Facebook and Summit’s Public Schools K-12 Education Project
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/09/introducing-facebook-and-summits-k-12-education-project/

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/how-technology-has-changed-education/

The Best Free Photoshop Alternatives
http://instructionaltechtalk.com/best-free-photoshop-alternatives/

Microsoft expands global YouthSpark initiative to focus on computer science
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-expands-global-youthspark-initiative-to-focus-on-computer-science-300144592.html

U.S. DOE Announces Adviser to Expand Access to Open Digital Resources in Schools
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-announces-first-ever-adviser-expand-access-open-digital-resources-schools

Central IT Support: Closing the Instructional Gap
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/9/central-it-support-closing-the-instructional-gap

Walk With Elephants in Google Street View
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/09/walk-with-elephants-in-google-street.html

CMU's Open Learning Initiative (OLI) courses more effective than MOOCs
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/cmu-lin091415.php

Help Students Get Organized with My Study Life
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/09/help-students-get-organized-with-my.html

3 #FlipClass Hacks: A Cheat Sheet for Getting Started
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/getting-started-with-flipped-classroom-easier-than-you-think/

Great Ed Tech Glossary from ChalkUp
http://glossary.chalkup.co/home

President Obama's New ‘College Scorecard' Is A Torrent Of Data
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/12/439742485/president-obamas-new-college-scorecard-is-a-torrent-of-data

How VR and AR Will Reinvent Consumer Electronics, #Education, and Other Fields
http://singularityhub.com/2015/09/14/how-vr-and-ar-will-reinvent-consumer-electronics-education-and-retail/

Twitter With Meaning? 5 Authentic Roles For Twitter In Your School
http://www.teachthought.com/social-media/twitter-with-meaning-5-authentic-roles-for-twitter-in-your-school/

University of Buffalo RN researchers test ‘KWLA+R' & #flipclass model
https://news.nurse.com/2015/09/11/university-of-buffalo-rn-researchers-test-new-learning-model/

Just found this great YouTube Playlist of “iPad Apps Across the Content Areas”
https://www.youtube.com/user/TechEdge01/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=10&sort=dd