Teaching and ‘Teching’ Tweet Wrap, Week Ending 9/12/15

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 in the Wrap … an awesome app that lets you put together illustrated instructional videos including voice-over with ease, essential apps for the organized teacher, 10 great podcasts for teachers, checking out the news made easy with NewsMap, why kids need more play time at school, and more!

Kathy Schrock: “Paper by Fifty Three is the app I use most often for sketchnoting.”
http://blog.kathyschrock.net/2015/09/paper-by-fiftythree-for-iphone.html

The app that lets you create Khan Academy-style videos in 60 seconds!
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/09/10/app-snip-khan-402/

How I am learning to give up control and trust my students
http://teachingquality.org/content/blogs/dave-orphal/how-i-am-learning-give-control-and-trust-my-students

Love podcasts? Check out our list of 10 of the best for teachers!
http://blog.creatubbles.com/2015/09/10/10-great-podcasts-for-teachers/

Which US States Are Most ‘Future Ready’ For Digital Learning?
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-09-10-which-us-states-are-most-future-ready-for-digital-learning

Good lessons about standards, innovation, creativity, from UC Berkeley IT Directors
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/8/innovating-and-creating

Watch MIT’s Breakthrough 3D Printer Pour Molten Glass Like Honey
http://singularityhub.com/2015/09/09/watch-mits-breakthrough-3d-printer-pour-molten-glass-like-honey/

Get students excited abt #engineering w/ 15 iPad Coding Apps
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/09/15-ipad-coding-apps/

Why young kids need less class time — and more play time — at school
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/08/21/why-young-kids-need-less-class-time-and-more-play-time-at-school/

A Fast Way to Read the News: Newsmap
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/a-fast-way-to-read-the-news-newsmap/

Check out this great Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers
https://cyberlearn.hes-so.ch/file.php/1/MoodleToolGuideforTeachersEngVers.pdf

How technology is breathing new life into the education sector
http://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/fp-startups/how-technology-is-breathing-new-life-into-the-education-sector

10 Good Tools to Help Students Learn New Vocabulary Words
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/09/10-good-tools-to-help-students-learn.html

The Education Start-Up Backed by Mark Zuckerberg
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/education-start-backed-mark-zuckerberg-n425946

University of Buffalo RN researchers test ‘KWLA+R' & #flipclass model
https://news.nurse.com/2015/09/11/university-of-buffalo-rn-researchers-test-new-learning-model/

15 Essential Apps For The Organized Teacher
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/best-organization-apps-for-teacher/