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This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets.
(Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech [2] over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).
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Create Image-based Quizzes with ImageQuiz:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/create-image-based-quizzes-with.html#.USYXVJjyCEg [3]
Using Google Hangouts for Teacher Development:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/google-hangouts-teacher-development-ben-johnson [4]
Babson College Finds Video Success on Small Screen (60% of faculty creating teaching vids):
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/02/20/babson-college-finds-video-success-on-the-small-screen.aspx [5]
5 Useful iPad Apps For ESL Students:
http://edudemic.com/2013/02/5-useful-ipad-apps-for-esl-students/ [6]
Education Index uses Nat’l Center for Ed Stats to provide search tool for college info:
http://graduate-school.phds.org/education-index [7]
Students stuck in remote parts? There’s an app for that:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/18/distance-learning-through-technology [8]
Basic Tech Advice for Students (they aren’t all the “digital natives” we think they are):
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/basic-technology-advice-for-students/46517 [9]
The 6 Biggest Challenges Of Using Education Technology:
http://edudemic.com/2013/02/challenges-of-using-education-technology/ [10]
Schmoop Homework Help, “WD-40 for the friction-laden tracks of learning”:
http://www.schmoop.com [11]
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers [12]
How Teachers are Using Tumblr in the Classroom [13]
Why I Love and Use Learnist (and Why You Should Too) [14]
About Kelly Walsh [19]
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 [20] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [21]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [22] 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]