Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 10-10-10

by K. Walsh on October 15, 2010

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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).

  • Gates Foundation announces $20 million in educational technology grants: http://bit.ly/dsJjx9
  • Nice piece on the fundamental dilemmas presented by mobile tech and the ‘Net in the classroom: http://bit.ly/bpV9cJ
    (Remember, even if we can control hard wired Internet access in the classroom, we can’t really control wireless access!)
  • Popular EmergingEdTech post is subject of Vancouver Observer news article: http://bit.ly/aUCFLf
  • Wired Campus asks, “As Textbooks Go Digital, Will Professors Build Their Own Books?” http://bit.ly/ca5OzL
  • ProfHacker suggests “blog audits”, to enhance learning value of student blogging : http://bit.ly/dA5h4v
  • VoiceThread has published documentation for integrating into Moodle 1.9: http://bit.ly/d4TuZS
  • Houghton Mifflin using Tech to combat National Literacy Gap for Boys in US: http://bit.ly/9EwgzT
  • Thanks for the tips about free picture editing tools, keep ‘em coming! http://bit.ly/bx742t
  • Fun chemistry experiment video from ThisWeekinEdTech (via FreeTech4Teachers!): http://bit.ly/bem7sX

Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
100 Ways to Teach With Twitter
Education Technology Twitter Post Weekly Summaries

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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, adjunct faculty member, and online educator, periodically running Flipped Class Workshops online. His latest eBook, the Flipped Class Workshop in a Book was published in September, 2013 and is available here. Walsh also 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 ).

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