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).

• Apple Launches Digital Textbook Service called iBooks 2: http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/apple-launches-digital-textbook-service-called-ibooks-2/
• Educational Technology Experts Skeptical About Apple’s iBooks: http://www.fastcompany.com/1809743/apples-announcement-the-educational-technology-world-reacts?
• “Roadmap For Reform” from Digital Learning Now: http://digitallearningnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Roadmap-for-Reform-.pdf
• “Digital Learning Day” Cometh: http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhorn/2012/01/17/digital-learning-day-cometh/
• Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-16/ebook-textbook-sales/52603526/1
• Technology shapes learning curve, schools find new, better ways to connect: http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/school-37638-embedded-central.html
• History Class Loses The Books, Goes Digital: http://www.wptz.com/news/30234976/detail.html
• 3 institutional characteristics that limit progress w/emerging tech in education: http://hapaziz.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/the-deceptive-attraction-of-emerging-education-technologies/
• An Idea Whose Time Has Come (HS Principal shares key BYOT success elements on Huff. Post): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-sheninger/digital-learning-schools_b_1206426.html
• 5 Colleges to Test Bulk-Purchasing of e-Textbooks: http://chronicle.com/article/5-Colleges-to-Test/130373/
• Teachers ‘flip’ their lectures, homework to reach more students: http://bit.ly/xuzckw

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About Kelly Walsh

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. 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 online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here. Walsh became the Community Administrator for the Flipped Learning Network in June of 2016. In his "spare time" he also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com 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]