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 … check out the new Q&A function in Google Slides, strategies for lowering test anxiety, more excellent free higher ed textbooks from OpenStax (this is OER done right!), more award winning student success initiatives from University Business’s Models of Excellence program, using Google Docs for “silent seminar”, getting up to speed with Snapchat (the most popular “new” social media platform your students are probably using if they’re ‘tweens’ or older), a new and different search engine from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and more, more, more!
How to Schedule Assignments & Announcements in Google Classroom
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/05/how-to-schedule-assignments.html
Lower Test Anxiety & Improve Retention With These Strategies (thx @coolcatteacher!)
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/lower-test-anxiety-and-improve-retention-with-these-5-strategies/
Lots of subject-specific FLIPPED LEARNING VIDEO examples!
http://flippedlearning.org/domain/36
We Won’t Improve Education By Making Teachers Hate Their Jobs
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/22/we-wont-improve-education-making-teachers-hate-their-jobs
#FlippedLearning is a powerful tool for classroom learning, but why stop there?
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/100-videos-lessons-flipped-classroom-joe-hirsch
Virtual reality meets digital art: Google’s Tilt Brush
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-from-news/961965/virtual-reality-meets-digital-art-googles-tilt-brush
Why Zuck is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/04/comptutor/
Yes! Tap Into Brain Science to Make Learning Environments Better
http://meetingsnet.com/adult-learning/tap-brain-science-make-learning-environments-better
FlipCon16 this July in Allen, Texas! Just $250!
http://flippedlearning.org/Page/111
We Need to do Better! Research Finds Poor Outcomes For Students Who Retake Courses Online
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/04/08/473273580/research-finds-poor-outcomes-for-students-who-retake-courses-online
The Most Important Thing to Know to Prevent #EdTech Problems During a Lecture
http://www.slideshare.net/emergingedtech/practice-preparation-problem-prevention
The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/backchannel-student-voice-blended-classroom-beth-holland
MT RobertTalbert: New Google Slides Q&A feature has good potential for classroom
https://docs.googleblog.com/2016/05/slidesQA.html
The OpenStax library of easy to access & use, quality #OER textbooks for #highered keeps growing
https://www.openstaxcollege.org/books
Empower students to take charge of their well-being with this 3-part model
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/positive-brains-are-smarter-brains-donna-wilson-marcus-conyers
#FlipClass Enables Teachers to Flip Ownership of Learning to Ss
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/flipping-control-to-your-students/
100 Fascinating Facts about YouTube (imagine a world without it?)
http://www.livetiles.nyc/blog/100-fascinating-facts-youtube/
So many great success stories in University Business’s Models of Excellence Program!
http://www.universitybusiness.com/mox
How Cool is Google Image Search? Use a Pic as Search Parameter!
https://medium.com/@emergingedtech/how-cool-is-google-image-search-you-can-even-use-a-picture-as-a-search-parameter-dd59dc092075#.8qpzgu42i
Introducing Jelly, A New Search Engine
https://medium.com/the-biz-stone-collection/introducing-jelly-a-new-search-engine-47e2594ad3ff#.hlz86fxgd
Sounds like fun … Tech Tip: How to use iMotion to add new life to a lesson
http://smartblogs.com/education/2016/04/26/tech-tip-how-to-use-imotion-to-add-new-life-to-a-lesson/
Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks
https://bothsidesofthetable.com/snapchat-101-for-vcs-and-old-folks-47fbfcb29f78#.1temjw34k
Getting Students to Talk Silently: Using Google Docs for Silent Seminar
http://appedreview.com/blog/getting-students-talk-silently-using-google-docs-silent-seminar/
4 Reasons Why Online Learning Drives Residential Classroom Innovation
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/4-reasons-why-online-learning-drives-residential-classroom-innovation
So true. It’s okay to be …
Terrible
a Dreamer
an Explorer
a Self Starter
an Outcast
a Kid
https://medium.com/life-learning/how-to-stay-a-creative-genius-40e4121378a6#.l45zqbm7k
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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. 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. Walsh became the Community Administrator for the Flipped Learning Network in June of 2016. In his "spare time" he 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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