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).

• IT as a Game Changer (in Education):
  http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume47/ITasaGameChanger
• Free, branded online programs could be the best of all worlds:
  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/free-branded-online-programs-could-be-the-best-of-all-worlds
• Project aims to remove barriers to open textbooks:
  http://www.ecampusnews.com/current-issue/?pagenumber=56
• An Instructional Design Toolkit and Strategies for the Community College:
  http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/06/06/an-instructional-design-toolkit-and-strategies-for-the-community-college.aspx
• Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum honors educators impacting student lives through tech:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/teachertech/archive/2012/06/01/finalists-chosen-for-the-microsoft-partners-in-learning-2012-us-forum.aspx
• Students take both sides on Kindles in classroom:
  http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/06/04/students-take-both-sides-kindles-classroom
• 10 Reasons Why Students Aren’t Using eTextbooks:
  http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/06/10-reasons-why-students-arent-using-etextbooks/
• Changing the Economics of Education (great interview w/Stanford Pres. J. Hennessy & Sal Khan):
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303640104577440513369994278.html
• USDOE’s Culatta Discusses Latest Ed Tech Developments (Virtual Schooling, Universal Design):
  http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/06/07/usdoes-richard-culatta-discusses-latest-education-technology-developments-randas-core-edu
• More College Disciplines Join the Digital Dance:
  http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/workforce-of-tomorrow/archive/1969/12/more-college-disciplines-join-the-digital-dance/

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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. As an education and instructional 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, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com and have a listen!

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