[1]Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
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This week: stress busting secrets, a cool free tool for adding your own commentary to selected parts of YouTube Videos (excellent for blended and flipped learning!), better peer reviews, making homework meaningful, a half a million historical video clips, an update on wearable tech for the classroom, and more …
Vibby - Break YouTube Videos Into Segments With Commentary
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/vibby-break-youtube-videos-into.html [3]
Computer coding could join education’s ‘three Rs’ under NZ Labour plan
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/70641976/computer-coding-could-join-educations-three-rs-under-labour-plan [4]
Teaching Social Skills to Improve Grades and Lives
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/building-social-skills-to-do-well-in-math/ [5]
New Ed-Tech Accelerator Program Seeks Breakthroughs in K-12 Science
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/marketplacek12/2015/07/new_ed-tech_accelerator_program_seeks_to_bring_breakthroughs_in_k-12_science.html [6]
An Easy Way to Create Your Own iPad & Android Games (for pre-K through Grade 4)
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/an-easy-way-to-create-your-own-ipad.html [7]
Some Comments About Literacy and Educational Apps …
http://appedreview.com/blog/some-comments-about-literacy-and-educational-apps/ [8]
Future of #K12 tech? 5 surprising changes ahead. Check out the 2015 report
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2015/07/5-surprising-things-horizons-latest-report-future-k-12-tech [9]
Interesting (not cheap, but cool!) “MC Squares” Collaborative Dry Erase Boards
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/29/fly-or-die-mc-squares/ [10]
This is what better peer review looks like.
http://blog.chalkup.co/peer-editing-tips-for-final-papers [11]
Wearable technology in the classroom: what’s available and what does it do?
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/jul/28/wearable-technology-classroom-virtual-reality [12]
The Nerds Guide to Learning Everything Online
http://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_learning_everything_online [13]
Use Valuable #FlipClass Time For Conversation in Foreign Language Classes!
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/teaching-foreign-language-perfect-for-flipped-classroom/ [14]
Why You Might Want to Share a Tech Glossary at Your Next PD Day
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/why-you-might-want-to-make-tech-glossary.html [15]
Understanding “Managed” vs. “Faculty Developed” Online Courses & pros/cons w/each model
http://musictoolbox.org/online_classroom/ [16]
Study: It Could Be Possible To Predict Which Kids Will Struggle w/ Reading
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/15/northwestern-children-reading_n_7802242.html [17]
Research: playing video games (in moderation) can help us become better learners!
http://techu4ria.com/scientific-studies-show-why-everyone-should-play-video-games/ [18]
#IPAD TIP OF THE DAY: Make Text Bigger in iOS 8
http://www.cnet.com/videos/make-text-bigger-in-ios-8/ [19]
Tech #Flashback Early Web Browsers. Wow, remember when browsing was this ugly?
http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/say-hello-to-the-early-days-of-web-browsers-gallery/ [20]
Homework might be routine, but tech can make it meaningful
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/jul/26/homework-might-be-routine-but-tech-can-make-it-meaningful [21]
More Than 500,000 Historical Video Clips
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/more-than-500000-historical-video-clips.html [22]
REMEMBER THIS: 10 Stress-Busting Secrets of Great Teachers
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/manage-teaching-stress/ [23]
About Kelly Walsh [28]
Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester [29], 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 [30] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [31]. Walsh became the Community Administrator for the Flipped Learning Network [32] in June of 2016. In his "spare time" he also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [33] 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]