Highlights from this week’s tweeted articles and tools:

• Funny parody of The Office highlights poor integration of Tech in many of today’s schools. http://bit.ly/cMO3cO
  (I embedded this video below - it really is amusing, while also being a sad commentary on the state of Ed Tech in many classrooms. Fortunately, the number of schools and instructors doing a much better job than is demonstrated in the video is growing everyday!).
  
• Nice use of blogging by 3rd grade teacher, sharing class project: http://bit.ly/cPCYFD
• Post discusses integration of blogging and other tech into Rhetoric & Composition course: http://bit.ly/c3YBIL
• Free screencasting tips & tools from ‘Screencast Profits’: http://bit.ly/aHIwW7
• Lifelong Learning is enabled by Online/Distance Education: http://bit.ly/9wJk3R
• 100+ Research Scholars use Web 2.0 Tools to hold Online Academic Conference: http://bit.ly/bpsfaB
• IBM Launches Academic Cloud to ‘Speed Delivery’ of Tech to Colleges: http://bit.ly/dDtQ0P
• eSchoolNews report about “Learning in 3D”: http://bit.ly/559FKA
• University Puts Researchers on YouTube to Stir Commercial Interest: http://bit.ly/cpTOkR

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About Kelly Walsh

Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer, and an adjunct faculty member, at The College of Westchester in White Plains, NY and is the founder and author of EmergingEdTech.com. As an education 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, periodically running Flipped Class Workshops online. His latest eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book was published in September, 2013 and is available here. In his spare time Walsh also writes, records, and performs original (and cover) songs (look for "K. Walsh" on iTunes or Amazon.com or check out his original song videos on here on YouTube ).