Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
This week’s wrap is tip-tastic! Tips for keeping gifted students engaged in mixed-ability classrooms, tips for managing your teaching career, tips for using PowToon, tips for motivating e-learners, tips for helping students develop e-portfolios, tips for teaching teens, … quite a tip-off if I do say so!
This proposed framework for microcredentials, etc., could be a game changer!
http://www.edcentral.org/national-dialogue-credentials/
Moving Up? 4 Tips For Managing Your Career As A Teacher
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/moving-up-tips-for-managing-your-career-as-a-teacher/
Newswordy - Short Lessons About News Buzzwords
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/06/newswordy-short-lessons-about-news.html
Going 1-to-1: What to budget for beyond iPads…
http://www.educate1to1.org/mobile-learning-11-budget-hidden-costs/
Digital Learning Games Must Be More Than Skinner Boxes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-t-wright/digital-learning-games-must-be-more-than-skinner-boxes_b_7547020.html
5 EdTech Tips Using PowToon (@Powtoon truly is Awesome!)
http://www.gpb.org/blogs/education-matters/2015/06/09/top-5-edtech-tips-powtoon
Game Changer: 4 Reasons Digital Learning Thwarts Feelings of Failure http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ossa-fisher/game-changer-4-reasons-di_b_7546780.html
E-Learning Motivation Made Easy: How To Keep Learners Engaged
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/blogs-post/e-learning-motivation-made-easy-how-keep-learners-engaged/188874
Fascinating! MT @NewYorker: Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress, higher self-esteem:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier
Ambulo is Gamifying #Entrepreneurship
http://tech.co/ambulo-gamifying-entrepreneurship-2015-06
Business Schools Fight To Keep Pace With Digital Innovation
http://www.businessbecause.com/news/mba-distance-learning/3307/bschools-keep-pace-with-digital-innovation
Can Digital Badges Help Encourage Professors to Take Teaching Workshops?
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/can-digital-badges-help-encourage-professors-to-take-teaching-workshops/56901
Things Parents and Teachers Should Know About Teens
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/7-things-parents-and-teachers-should-know-about-teens-maurice-elias
The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 – So Far
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/06/07/the-best-fun-videos-for-english-language-learners-in-2015-so-far/
Teaching Strategies for Gifted Students in Mixed Ability Classrooms (#Video)
https://vimeo.com/129981366
Ways To Help Students Develop Digital Portfolios
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2015/06/response_ways_to_help_students_develop_digital_portfolios.html
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!
[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]
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