Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 08-15-10

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets.

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

• List of considerations if you want to give open courseware a shot: http://bit.ly/chYol4
• Use Tech to deliver some lecture content and free up class time for better uses! http://bit.ly/bcfvJ8
• Post discusses TICAL programs, offering tech leadership training to school admins: http://bit.ly/b5Q3aY
• Appreciated this post about how some confuse Education Technology w/Technical Education: http://bit.ly/aceRkO
• “Interactive Activities about US Gov't” tools looks great for history, soc stud classes: http://bit.ly/bhVghM
• Bill Gates' post about book ‘Liberating Learning' make good reading about Ed Reform & Tech: http://bit.ly/9bGDcl
• School District launches their own Social Network, “a virtual extension of our classrooms”: http://bit.ly/c5H4qE
• Article discusses fascinating next-gen Internet knowledge engine WolframAlpha: http://bit.ly/cLL0Mg
• Article offers balanced view of technology in the classroom: http://bit.ly/cnaRyQ
• Check out Aviary, a free online digital art tool. Fun for art and Dig Media courses: http://aviary.com/
• A bunch of (free) Office templates for education/academics from Microsoft: http://bit.ly/9By0Cn
• Article discusses ways to integrate cellphones in the classroom: http://bit.ly/dxbmiS
• Online Prof Dev courses from TeachersNetwork.org: http://bit.ly/9Pi2fl

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