The EdTech Take Out: Recent Episodes
Grant Wood AEA
The EdTech Take Out is a podcast for teachers who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology in their classrooms. It is hosted by Jonathan Wylie and Mindy Cairney from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team.
Mindy and Gina are back with our final championship round of AI Madness. In this episode, Mindy and Gina take a deep dive into Brisk Teaching and School AI. Join them as they put these two AI tools against each other in completing similar tasks and reveal the good, the bad, and the truly amazing about both of these tools. Curious to know which tool wins? Take a listen to find out!
Brisk Teaching
- Plans - Free for teachers. Paid version with additional features/tools for schools.
- Become a Certified Brisk AI Professional
- 20-minute course for 45 days of premium Brisk feature
School AI
- Free for teachers. School Plan available - book a call to learn more.
In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken the idea of bracket play into the AI world. In the last episode, we shared eight tools within the four categories of productivity and communication, lesson planning, scaffolding, and assessment and feedback. In this episode, we narrowed those eight tools down to four to face off in head-to-head competition.
- Ghostwrite
- Cost: 15 emails a month, unlimited for $10/mo
- Integrations: Outlook, Gmail, Zendesk
- Student Use: Age restricted to 18 and up, but you could use as exemplar emails
- No additional uses besides email generation.
- School AI
- Cost: teachers get a freemium account, otherwise purchase as a district (schedule a call)
- Integrations: download or copy the output
- Student use: sidekick, bellringer, exit ticket, historic figure chatbot: spaces
- Students do not need accounts.
- Additional features: rubrics, text leveler, performance tasks, syllabus
- Built-in chatbot assistants for teachers: field trip planner, co-teacher, curriculum coach
- Eduaide
- Cost: Freemium: 15 generations/mo, limited feedback bot Pro account: $6/mo, school and districts accounts
- Integrations: download or copy output
- Student use: Age restricted to 18 and up
- Additional features: Different categories for instructional use: planning, information objects, independent practice, cooperative learning, gamification, questions
- Brisk
- Cost: Freemium or District Purchase
- Integrations: works with Google docs, but integration into comments is for purchase
- Student use: Students 13-18 can use Brisk teaching, however the educational institution has to reach out directly to Brisk to authorize the accounts.
- Additional Features: Creates many different types of content on the fly (quizzes, decodable texts, lesson plans. Releveling on texts. Inspect writing by using the Replay tool in Brisk to see a time-lapse video of the writing being generated.
Join us next week for the AI Madness Final!
In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken this idea of bracket play into the AI world and have come up with four different categories for AI tools. Within those four different categories, we have chosen two tools that we feel fall into that category to match against one another. To compare these two tools, we will share the cost, what integrations the tool has, and usability of the original output.
For the next two weeks, we will advance tools through the bracket and we will share more in-depth analysis of these tools.
Main Course: Elite Eight
Bracket 1: Productivity and Communication:
- Ghostwrite (Mindy)
- Cost: 15 emails a month, unlimited for $10/mo
- Integrations: Outlook, Gmail, Zendesk
- Usability of Original Output: built into your email composer, choose tone, style, length, very little need to revise.
- Goblin Tools (Gina)
- Cost: Free
- Integrations: Download as a file, copy and paste
- Usability of Original Output: Simplistic, choose tones to communicate, choose level of tone
Bracket 2: Lesson Planning
- School AI (Mindy)
- Cost: teachers get a freemium account, otherwise purchase as a district (schedule a call)
- Integrations: download or copy
- Usability of Original Output: easy entry point for teachers getting started with AI, provides structures for completing a robust prompt, helps teachers get to a response that they want, sparks some ideas and provides a flow to a lesson
- Cuirpod (Gina)
- Cost: freemium, $7.50/mo individual account, school license or district license $4000/yr
- Integrations: NA (link sharing for adding students to a lesson)
- Usability of Original Output: Many of the lessons that are generated are a good “starting point” however, a teacher would want to go through and add additional information and perhaps adjust some of the questions or interactions that Curipod automatically creates with AI.
Bracket 3: Scaffolding
- Eduaide (Gina)
- Cost: Freemium: 15 generations/mo, limited feedback bot Pro account: $6/mo, school and districts accounts
- Integrations: NA
- Usability of Original Output: Good starting point for ideas, but doesn’t actually create differentiated artifacts.
- Diffit (Mindy)
- Cost: Free up to 2500 words, $15/mo or district license
- Integrations: Print or Download (with free version), paid Google integrations
- Usability of Original Output: generates content, paste in text for easy leveling, grade leveling of text can be challenging to decipher–its really about student level so worth a professional eye.
Bracket 4: Assessment and Feedback
- Brisk (Mindy)
- Cost: Freemium or District Purchase
- Integrations: works with Google docs, but integration into comments is for purchase
- Usability of Original Output:, generates feedback with the click of a button: glow and grow, rubric criteria and next steps
- Class Companion (Gina)
- Cost: Freemium, free for teachers and students, paid school/district account integrates Class Companion into LMS (Schoology and Canvas, with additional features)
- Integrations: LMS integration with school or district plan.
- Usability of Original Output: Teachers have access to the content library on the free teacher plan. They cannot create a library of their own content. The AI is useful in coaching student and providing them just in time feedback and they are writing. It is transparent to all (students and teachers) they are getting feedback from AI and there is a place where students can dispute feedback they get from the AI. Geared towards an older audience so elementary teachers might not find this as useful.
News and Updates:
- Google BardAI is now GeminiAI
- Google Doodle contest
- Seesaw has instructional templates: Seesaw Library=> Daily Routines => Instructional Templates
- Pear Deck adds additional tools with its new name, Pear Deck Learning: Pear Assessment, Pear Deck Tutor, and Pear Practice.
Main Course: National Educational Technology Plan
What it is: This 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) examines how technologies can raise the bar for all elementary and secondary students. It offers examples of schools, districts, classrooms, and states doing the complex work of establishing systemic solutions to inequities of access, design, and use of technology in support of learning.
Why it’s important: It addresses three main components: the digital use divide, the digital design divide, and the digital access divide. It also provides actionable recommendations to advance the use of technology in teaching and learning in these three areas.
- Digital Use Divide: Inequitable implementation of instructional tasks supported by technology. On one side of this divide are students who are asked to actively use technology in their learning to analyze, build, produce, and create using digital tools, and, on the other, students encountering instructional tasks where they are asked to use technology for passive assignment completion. While this divide maps to the student corner of the instructional core, it also includes the instructional tasks drawing on content and designed by teachers.
- Digital Design Divide: Inequitable access to time and support of professional learning for all teachers, educators, and practitioners to build their professional capacity to design learning experiences for all students using edtech. This divide maps to the teacher's corner of the instructional core.
- Digital Access Divide: Inequitable access to connectivity, devices, and digital content. Mapping to the content corner of the instructional core, the digital access divide also includes equitable accessibility and access to instruction in digital health, safety, and citizenship skills.
Tech Nuggets:
- Caffeine for Macs - Mac app to prevent your Mac from going to sleep while presenting.
- Stickity - Cool online stickers for feedback.
- School AI - Create customized chatbots (Sidekicks) for students to interact with for specific assignments.
These are a few of our favorite Google Updates:
Gifs and stickers in slides - Insert >> Image >> Gifs and Stickers (Gina)
Customize notification settings in Google Docs - Tools >> Notification Settings
Insert Emoji in Google Docs - Insert >> Emoji
There are a few of our favorite new tools:
GirlJams
Revision History - Extension to see how long you have written for, copy and pastes, deletions, etc.
MyLens.AI - Generate different timelines quickly. Download timeline as a PNG.
You can now export YouTube questions from MagicSchool.ia into Google Forms with the new MagicSchool.ai
GW Corner Booth:
Student Engagement Through Metacognition: A Instructional Coaches Workshop - course #226291
Two Dates:
January 19, 2024 or
February 23, 2024.
AI in Education (Course or two stand alone workshops) - Dates: February 13th and March 5th.
Full Course for recertification #226303
Day one only workshop #226304 - “What is AI?” workshop
Day two only workshop #226305 - “Integration of AI in Teaching and Learning”
Both courses will be held in-person at Grant Wood AEA.
Don’t forget to take care of you:
https://twitter.com/TCEA/status/1733835712003186920?s=20
In this episode, Mindy and Gina interview their new teammate Shalyn Huber.
News:
Kahnmingo is coming to Canvas: Kahnmingo is an AI tutor that was developed by Kahn Academy.
Seesaw - Computer Science Activities and English Language Explorers: Newcomers
Teach AI Toolkit
Catch up with the team from ITEC: bit.ly/DLGWAEAitec2023
Nuggets:
Reader Mode in Chrome
Text FX with Google: Suite of tools to support figurative language generation.
Twee - AI aid for teachers who use text and much more. Generate reading questions. Generate dialogue around topics.
Searching Tabs in Chrome with @Tabs in Omnibar, search tabs with carrot
Ghostwrite: ChatGPT Email Assistant
Office Hours for Seesaw
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on X @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Mindy and Gina explore some Jamboard replacement tools.
Figjam
- Get verified as a Figjam educator
- Eric Curts Figjam for Schools Webinar.
Miro
- Miro education templates
- Miro for Teachers (Video)
Canva Whiteboard
- Getting started with Canva Whiteboard video series
In this episode, we are jumping back into Universal Design for Learning or UDL and brought our resident experts Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio in to share more about this topic. We’ve talked about UDL in the past, but it is such an important topic, we wanted to bring it back to the forefront again.
- 6 Myths about Universal Design for Learning - UDL
- UDL in the ESSA
- MTSS: What Is a Multi-Tiered System of Supports? | Understood
- Lesson Planning with UDL
- CAST UDL Guidelines
- Katie Novak’s website
- Zooming in on MTSS (Katie Novak) - learning session at GWAEA
- GWAEA “Foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)” microcredential
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Welcome back to the Edtech Takeout–this is episode 114. This episode is a fan favorite – News and Nuggets!
A little fun fact: This week we reached our 100,000th download!
News and Updates:
Canva: Magic Draw, Magic Eraser, Magic Write
- What’s New Wednesday Webinar - April (Canva)
Newsela: Moving to Newsela Lite, access to four articles at a time with five different reading levels, teacher can access student quiz scorers and writing prompts
Seesaw: Add frames (in drawing template) and student responses snap into the frame so no sizing is necessary, Present to Class
5 Chromebook Updates for Students and Teachers
Voting Chip in Google Docs - watch for this in the coming months!
Tech Nuggets:
Mindy:
How to Differentiate Texts Using ChatGPT
Convert Your Doc in Canva into a Slide Deck in One Click (convert button) Example made from this
The Juice: delivers five articles a day to grades 5-12 students. Followed by vocabulary and comprehension checks, each student is assigned a specific reading level by the teacher. Teacher dashboard that shares data. 30-day free trial
Gina:
FilterTheNoise - News Literacy Course/Resources - Jonathan Ketchell
- Deep Fakes - Can You Spot Them? MIT Test yourself. Research project.
Sutori for Playlist
- Like Wakelet with built-in polls and checks for understanding
- Pricing - 30 days all features free, free level, and $120 for a single teacher for a year. Department/Grade level pricing.
- Sutori Video
Beth:
Genially - Nice alternative to Thinglink
Teachflix - Teacher currated video repository
Canva - Vertical videos with background removal example
- Remove background in Canva video - tutorial
The GWAEA Corner Booth:
Student Engagement Through Classroom Discussion
One-day Workshop for Instructional Coaches
May 5, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at GWAEA in CR 6th Street
Course number 205152
Tenets of Transformative Classrooms (Online)
Online course for teachers, instructional coaches, administrators
Section 315455: Starts June 19th - Ends October 6th
Section 315456: Starts August 1st - Ends November 30th
GWAEA Professional Learning Institute
June 26 - June 30, 2023
Find more information here.
Iowa AEA’s CS PD Week
June 12 - June 16, 2023
Find more information here.
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Join Mindy, Gina, and Corey for a conversation with AI education expert Charlotte Dungan from AI Edu.
Show Notes:
MarI/O - watch AI learn to play Mario. This is a great example of machine learning.
ChatGPT - Generative AI that creates written content.
Content Detector AI - Detector that used AI to recognize AI-generated content.
Kahnmingo AI Tutor - Kahn Academy AI tutor
AI Edu - Resource for educators interested in teaching more about AI. Includes AI snapshots mentioned by Corey. These are great bell ringers or discussion starters around the topic of AI.
News and Updates:
Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording
Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent)
Bing AKA Sydney
- The Online Search Wars - The Daily 2.15.23
- The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast. - The Daily 2.17.23
AI - Chat GPT for positive use in the classroom
Create & Edit a Timeline View - Google Docs Editors Help
Table Templates in Google Docs
Tech Nuggets:
Mindy:
Take the background out of your iPhone pictures (iOS16)
Force captions on in YouTube: Thanks, Amber! ?cc_load_policy=1 (embed code comes after video ‘name’)
The Achievery: Has Learning Units, essential questions, standards, grade level, video clips, and lesson plans. Thanks, Lynn!
Eduprotocols in Google Slides from @MrsGearhart
Gina:
ScreenPal for video feedback in any textbox
Curipod - AI-powered lessons
Iorad - great for creating tutorials
Slides Timer - Chrome extension for a timer in Google Slides
Cloze Reading Assignment with Drop Downs in Google Docs - via Eric Curts
Stacy:
Conker - topic and grade level and will give multiple choice quiz that can go into a Google form or PDF
QR code - Canva Apps
Checkboxes in docs- can add to tasks
About spaces and group conversations - Google Chat Help
The GWAEA Corner Booth:
Computer Science Pedagogy & Best Practices: Principles 7-12
PreK-12 teachers join us for a six-week virtual course exploring six of twelve pedagogical principles from Hello World's "The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy."
When: March 22 - April 19, 2023, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom
GWAEA & CSTA Iowa CS Pedagogy & Best Practices Course 2
Course #204370
Section # 313928
Mindy Cairney and Gina Rogers chat with Bridget Castelluccio and Corey Rogers about all things Computer Science at GWAEA.
- State of Iowa CS Report
- CS PD Week (June 12th - 16th) Interest Survey
- Secondary Computer Science Endorsement (Grant Funded) Interest Form
- Iowa Statewide AEA Supports for CS
- GWAEA CS PD and Events
- GWAEA CS Website
Our theme for today’s episode is Start, Stop, Keep. Gina and I have been using this prompt with teachers for quite a few years now–the frame is What will you start doing? What will you stop doing? What will you keep doing? We asked our team to think about this as a New Year's resolution with a technology focus and they’ve sent us some nuggets that might be helpful for you in the year ahead!
- Gina - Time Insights on Google Calendar
- Amber - managing notifications
- Corey - using Pear Deck to keep learners engaged, use as a formative assessment
- Lynn - snoozing emails, emails as tasks
- Stephanie - one-click, Britannica ImageQuest
- Mindy - unsubscribing and deleting accounts. Go to Google Preferences, Autofill, Password Manager on Chrome
So…what will you start doing, stop doing, or keep doing in 2023? We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!
Have a great winter break and we will see you in the new year!
In this episode of The Ed Tech Takeout, Mindy Cairney is joined by Amber Bridge, Beth Swantz, and Gina Rogers to discuss the Transformative Classrooms Tool that they developed. The conversation focuses on the throughline of collaboration and discourse and what that looks like in all three tenets of the Transformative Classrooms Tool.
Resources:
- The Tenets of Transformative Classrooms
- Project Zero Thinking Routines
- 1, 2, 4, All
- Accountable Talk
- Register for The Tenets of Transformative Classrooms Online Class (Iowa Educators Only) Start date: January 9, 2023
In case you missed it, the Edtech Takeout will look a bit different moving forward….at the end of last season, we said goodbye to Jonathan Wylie as he moved to a different position in the agency. However, the team felt strongly that the podcast needed to continue on. Our plan is to record shorter episodes in more bite-sized chunks. This episode is just a news and nuggets episode. The next episode will be more like the main course part of our original format and will have more content and conversation. This way you can look through the playlist menu and choose what looks most appetizing!
News and Updates
- Screencastify extends free time limit
- Seesaw What’s New?: One app for all, inbox gets a facelift, try lessons for a year
- Pear Deck: News-o-Matic and Boston Museum of Science
- Flip
- Read Along Online
DLGWAEA Corner Booth
- Ride the Wakelet Wave (Online Course - starting October 3rd - December 16th)
- Firm Goals, Flexible Means: Honoring Your Learners (UDL) (November 1 - December 16)
- Designing Instruction with Pear Deck (November 28 - January 20)
- Transformative Classrooms Online (January 16th - April 14th)
Tech Nuggets
- Emojis in Google Docs
- Video Recorder in Canva
- Classroomq
- Schoolytics
Please email us, podcast@gwaea.org or hit us up on Twitter @dlgwaea @TeamCairney @grogers1010
Well, here we are. This is our last episode before our summer hiatus and we wanted to take a few minutes of your time to talk about what The Edtech Take Out will look like when we come back in August.
So, we hope you enjoy this episode and stick with us as we get ready to embark on a new adventure.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org.
If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
Last but not least, THANK YOU for listening! We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
The end of the school year is approaching. Are you ready? If not, we can help! We have some tips on how to best wrap up your school year by giving you some best practice advice for the apps and services you have been using all year.
Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:
News and follow-up:
- Use new table templates and dropdown chips in Google Docs
- Control Alt Achieve: Create "Cloze Reading" Activities with Google Docs Dropdown Chips
- How to email from Google Docs | Zapier
- Breaking down language barriers with augmented reality | Google
- How to Create VR Tours in ExpeditionsPro
- Wakelet + Mote
- Desmos joins Amplify
- Library button added to homescreen in Seesaw
Main Course: Wrapping it Up!
- Google Classroom - Eric Curts
- Seesaw End of year guide
- Pear Deck
- Archive sessions
- Export student answers
- Google Takeout
- Out of office or vacation responder in Gmail
- 10 end of year templates to help students thrive
- Three Tools for Quickly & Easily Creating End-of-Year Slideshow Videos
- Namecoach
Tech Nuggets:
- CrashCourse on YouTube
- Textomap
- Activity Hero
- PocketTube via Katie Wardrobe
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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We're back, and so is ITEC - Iowa's premier edtech conference! Mindy and I were in attendance, as were the rest of the team, so in this episode, we are going to reveal some of our takeaways from this always popular conference.
Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:
News and followup:
- iOS version of ExpeditionsPro
- Apple introduces a new version of iMovie
- iMovie Trailer Templates
- Spring Forward with Zoom Whiteboard & Gesture Recognition
Main Course: ITEC Spring Conference:
- ITEC Iowa
- Resources from the @DLGWAEA team at ITEC
- Auto-advance slides in Google Sites
- add a favicon to a Google Site
- 3D animal AR search in Google
- wordsift.org
- Use vector images, converted into google drawings to make it a moveable image
- Collabracam
- TweetShelf
- add a hint to a Seesaw template
- Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Google Translate
- JigSpace
- Using Google Sheets to Map Addresses
Tech Nugget(s)?
- Send a video to the future
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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We have been wanting to have an episode like this for a long time, but we have never been able to find a good guest to talk to. All that changed when Katie Wardrobe (@MusicTechTchr) agreed to come on the show and talk about the intersection of music and edtech.
Whether you teach music or not, this was a really fun conversation with great ideas for any classroom, including TikTok challenges for students!
Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:
News/Follow-up:
- Practice Sets in Google Classroom
- Socratic by Google
- Schedule posts for multiple classes in Google Classroom
- Universal Control for iPad and Mac
- Apple announces new coaching program for educators
- Designing student activities in Canva
Main Course: Katie Wardrobe:
- Soundtrap
- Bandlab
- GarageBand
- Flipgrid
- QR Codes in the Music Classroom
- Finneas O'Connell on Jimmy Fallon
- Andrew Huang
- TikTok
- challenges
- duets/collaboration
- harmony builder
- Midnight Music
- Music Tech Teacher Podcast
Tech Nuggets
- Pagify
- Toy Claw Machine Slides
- Isle of Tune - lesson plan for Isle of Tune
- Text Chat Animator
- PineTools aka The Gateway to the Dark Web?
- Incredibox
- https://runwayml.com/
- Beepbox
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, we decided to try something a little different. We invited Micheal Cohen (aka @TheTechRabbi) to join us to talk about the implication of NFTs for students and educators.
If you haven't heard of NFTs or web3 before, you're not alone but that's one of the main reasons why we decided to have this conversation. It will make you think differently about all kinds of things.
Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:
News/Follow-up:
- Sharing slides as a Virtual Background in Zoom
- Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs
- My EdTech Bundle is now free…
- Pear Deck Updates You Might Have Missed
- Introducing Pear Deck Reflect & Review!
- Be Internet Awesome — Pear Deck
- Follow up on Mindy’s Video Comment Request…
Main Course: NFTs with Michael Cohen
- Michael Cohen on Twitter: @TheTechRabbi
- NFTs 101 — A Beginner’s Guide
- 'The Sky Is the Limit:' How NFTs Are Revolutionizing the Art Market
Tech Nuggets
- Random Name Selector in Google Classroom Thanks to Kelly Roskopf at Solon High School
- Video Candy
- Tract courtesy of Beth Swantz (@betswan)
- Solvemoji
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week we have a great interview with Page DeLozier from TalkingPoints, an excellent edtech service that offers free communication and translation services for teachers and parents.
We also have some Wordle news and the usual helping of Tech Nuggets!
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Originality reports are now available for Google Slides files
- Seesaw Templates in Canva (new to us)
- Canva Partners with Book Creator
- …and Giphy, Bitmoji, and Google Drive
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express Monthly Challenge; January
- Introducing WeVideo Classroom for educational multimedia creation
- How to Use the YouTube Picture-in-Picture Mode
Main Course: Talking Points
- https://talkingpts.org/
- Talking Points iOS App
- Talking Points Android App
Tech Nuggets
- Rasterbator
- Open Middle Slide Decks (openmiddle.com)
- Make Your Own Wordle
- …and seven more Wordle type games from Tony Vincent
- SandboxAR on the App Store
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this, the first episode of 2022, we thought we would look back at some of the most interesting education research from 2021, courtesy of the fine folks at Edutopia.
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Animated Drawings by Meta AI Research (Beware!)
- Twitter is rolling out automatic captions for videos - The Verge
- Don Johnston Tools Joining the TextHelp Family of Products
- Controlling slides shared by another participant – Zoom Support
- 2021 Teacher Spending Study
- 20+ Free Tech Tools for Teachers
Main Course:
- The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2021
Tech Nuggets
- Volley for Education
- The Sounding Out Machine
- Ziplet
- Increase the size of captions on YouTube
- Shift + ? for all YouTube Keyboard shortcuts
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this landmark episode, we are dispensing with the usual format and just piling on as many tech nuggets as we can fit into one episode. No news, no main course, just lots of tech nuggets! Let's dig in! 😋
Here are the links for all the tech nuggets:
- Radio Garden
- Hark
- Emoji Maker
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express
- Google’s Santa Tracker
- Template Preview Hack
- Toucan
- Grammarly
- SmartPass
- Transpose.Video
- Mote
- Daily Journal Template and a video of how to use it with Mote
- Solo.to
- Chrome Tab Groups
- Modern Wikipedia
- IFTTT
- Digital lesson plan creator
- Free Premium Accounts for Teachers
- Thin Slides
- This or That by @showell24
- Tech Nuggets Newsletter
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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For our 99th episode, we return to one of our favorite topics - student engagement! We have the ideas, resources, and tools you need to keep your students invested in your content. We also have some Googley updates and the usual smattering of tech nuggets!
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- the universal @ menu
- Chrome Actions
- Gimkit goes free
- Flipgrid Background Templates in Canva
Main Course: Student Engagement Revisited!
- Katie Martin's Blog Post
- 7 Ways to Increase Student Engagement
- UDL Guidelines
- Playlists One-Pager
- Contribution Checklists
- Placemat Discussion Activity
- Balance with Blended Learning
- Student portfolio template
Tech Nuggets
- Stooa: The online fishbowl tool
- What is a fishbowl?
- Tweet from Nicholas Ferroni
- I used Apple's AirDrop to troll strangers with photos of space sloths
- Simple Wikipedia
- Tyler Tarver
- How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, we are joined by Corey Rogers (@corey_rogers) and Bridget Castelluccio (@B_Castelluccio) to talk about the new K-12 Computer Science requirements for Iowa schools! There is a lot to talk about but these are the people in the know so we made sure to get them on the podcast to share their knowledge and expertise.
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Get approvals on files in Google Drive
- Educators receive a free Premium license from Brilliant, for free
- AEM Center: The Accessible Learning Experience Podcast
- Canva Create!
- Zoom's Auto-Generated Captions Available to All Free Users
Main Course: Computer Science in Iowa!
- Iowa Computer Science Standards
- CSTA Glossary
- CS Ed Week
- Contact Corey: crogers@gwaea.org
- Contact Bridget: bcastelluccio@gwaea.org
Tech Nuggets
- Mind Your Decisions
- Clarity Notes
- Join CSTA & CSTA Iowa (or your local chapter)- bit.ly/JoinCSTAIowa
- Cleanup.pictures
- Free Icons
- Big Book of Computing Pedagogy
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week, our catch of the day is Jamboard - Google's collaborative online whiteboard. We have tips, tricks, and templates to help you get the most out of this popular tool. We also have some news and your usual helping of delicious tech nuggets.
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Live translated captions in Google Meet are available in beta
- Meet updates are here (link) also hand raising
- Create meeting notes in Google Calendar
- The Present button in Slides is now the Slideshow button?
- Zoom focus mode
- ExpeditionsPro
- Top 40 Edtech Apps
Main Course:
- Jamboard Templates eCollection #1
- Jamboard Templates eCollection #2
- Jamboard Templates eCollection #3 (modeled off the Harvard Project Zero Thinking Routines)
- 10 Jamboard templates for distance learning
- Create Jamboard Math Activities with Equatio - examples
- Create Google Jamboard Backgrounds in Google Slides – Jake Miller
- GIF Timers
Tech Nuggets:
- 360schools
- Cloud Stop Motion via Tim Bleazard (@idletim) on Twitter
- Seesaw Icons
- How do I lock the size and shape of items in a student template?
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Hold on tight because we are sailing into the uncharted waters of Esports in schools this week. Thankfully, we have an expert at the helm, Jesse Lubinsky from Ready Learner One, who is going to navigate us safely through these stormy seas!
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Screencastify’s new FREE features!
- CommonLit 360 Curriculum
- New Apple devices
- Design your own custom themes in new Google Sites
- New Google Tasks logo!!
- Forms settings are now easier to navigate
Main Course: Esports with Jesse Lubinsky
- Chance the Rapper on SNL
- Tweet from Mike Washburn
- The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming (book)
- readylearner.one
- jesselubinsky.com
Tech Nuggets
- Live Text in iOS 15
- Wheel of Names | Random name picker via Tony Vincent
- PackBack
- Webinar Series: Four Tenets of Blended and Personalized Learning
- Sesame Street Fighter
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Our guests for this episode are Lynn Kleinmeyer and...uh...Jonathan Wylie? Don't worry! All will be revealed as we dive headfirst into the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines and show you why you need them in your classroom.
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Flipgrid Live Events
- Spreading Screencastify (SWAG alert!)
- Save Tab Groups is coming soon?
- Top Chrome Tab Tips
- Safer learning with Google for Education
- Better understand how you’re spending your time in Google Calendar
- Find and share GIFs in Google Chat
- And finally…
Main Course: Universal Design for Learning
- UDL Guidelines
- What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
- Seeing UDL in the Classroom (video)
- Divergent by Design podcast
Tech Nuggets:
- Workflowy
- HyperRubrics
- Turn and Learn could be used with Flipgrid too
- Add Voice to Google Forms using Mote
For this special episode, we are joined by Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr from MakeMathMoments.com. We also have Janet Greene, one of our GWAEA Math Consultants, as a guest co-host. It's a great conversation and includes all kinds of great nuggets that truly transcend math and just make for really good instructional practices. We hope you enjoy it!
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Easel by TPT
- Canva Creator Program via Tanya LeClair
- Google Docs will let you overlay text on images like it's 1997
- “Master” view in Google Slides renamed to “Theme Builder”
- How do I annotate a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
- iCivics Unveils New – And BIG – Primary Sources Site
- Friendly reminder: Do NOT delete your Seesaw class
- End-Of-Year Google Classroom Clean-up Tips
Main Course:
- Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr
- MakeMathMoments.com
- Desmos
- KnowledgeHook
Tech Nuggets
- Tech Integration Updates - Math from Eric Curts
- OER Project Home
- Use your omnibox to search your Google Drive
- Kentucky Center for Mathematics
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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It's time to talk about Teachers Pay Teachers. We have made comments about it in the past, but we decided to get it all out in the open and just have an honest conversation about it. Be sure to stick around for the tech nuggets!
Here are some links for what we talked about...
News & follow-up:
- Mote for Docs
- How to create digital stickers using IconsMania
- Zoom's Immersive View puts up to 25 people inside one virtual background
- SeeSaw Update: Progress
- Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M
Main Course: Teachers Pay Teachers
- Teachers Pay Teachers
- The Battle Between Teachers Pay Teachers and OERs
- Rachel Lynette Is a Million-Dollar Teacher
- ReadWriteThink
- ShareMyLesson
- OER Commons
- What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers
- Why I've Stopped Using Teachers Pay Teachers
- Teachers Pay Teachers Has a New Anti-Racist Initiative. But There's Still Racist Content on the Site
Tech Nuggets
- Literacy Shed
- Verse by Verse - Google via Larry Ferlazzo
- Helperbird
- Kialo Edu - The tool to teach critical thinking and rational debate
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, we are fortunate to be joined by Joe Dale, a foreign language and technology consultant, who talks to us about the intersection between technology and modern foreign languages. Here's what we talked about...
News & followup:
- Pixlr EDU free for students and educators
- Public permissions for Flipgrid have changed.
- New layout and features for Google Meet
- New Apple products announced
Main Course: Joe Dale
- Guest: Joe Dale
- @joedale
- https://mfltwitteratipodcast.com/
- TILT Webinars from Joe
- Whiteboard.fi
- Spiral.ac
- Flipgrid
- Qwiqr
- Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French
Tech Nuggets
- CS + Social Studies Bundling/Crosswalk
- Pile of Words Strategy
- gifcap
- Visual organizer platform with circles | CirclyApp
- GitMind
- Remove.bg
- Unscreen.com
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week we are joined by Carissa Cabrera to help us celebrate Earth Day and explore some of the ways that we can use technology to help bring awareness to these issues in the classroom. Here's what we talked about...
News & Followup:
- Miro Education accounts
- Try TickTick
- Whiteboard.chat has handwriting recognition in 50 languages
- IconsMania
-
WCCS21
- Chrome 90 will let you share links to highlighted text
- Google Earth time-lapse feature
Main Course: Carissa Cabrera
- Email Carissa: carissacabrera1@gmail.com
- https://www.theconservationistcollective.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/carissaandclimate/
Tech Nuggets:
- WindowSwap
- VN Video Editor
- https://www.challenginglearning.com/learning-pit/
- SplashLearn
- National Geographic Learn at Home
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode we talk to one of our favorite #edtech people, the Google Guru himself, Mr. Eric Curts (@ericcurts)! Get a sneak peek at his sessions for the ITEC Spring Conference, and stick around as Eric joins us for Tech Nuggets!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/90
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode we talk to someone we have wanted to have as a guest for a long time, the fabulous Jen Giffen (@VirtualGiff)! Get a sneak peek at her sessions for the ITEC Spring Conference, and stick around as Jen joins us for Tech Nuggets!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/89
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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On this episode we are joined by Annie Nash from the Google Education Team in Chicago. She walks us through everything you need to know about the latest updates for Google Workspace for Education and tells us what's it's like to work on the education team at Google. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/88
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week we are joined by Mike Taylor, (@tmiket), to talk about learning design, content curation, and what workplace training looks like when it is done well. There are a LOT of new Google updates to talk about, and our usual helping of tech nuggets are ready to serve.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/87
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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It's 2021, the pandemic is still here, so in this episode we are taking a look at the pros and cons of virtual conferences. Have you attended one? Have you presented at one? We have some thoughts. We also have some tech nuggets and some useful news and followup.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/86
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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For our last episode of 2020 we brought the whole team together to share some of our favorite tech nuggets of the year. There is something for everyone in this episode, so let's get started!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/85
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Our friend, colleague, and all-round great human being, Corey Rogers, joins us again as a guest co-host to talk about this year's Hour of Code. What does that look like in a pandemic, and what are the best resources for you to take advantage of? Corey has the answers!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/84
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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We're back with MORE tips from your favorite Google Workspace apps. This time we are talking Docs, Sheets, Forms, Keep and YouTube. Feel free to reach out and let us know your favorite tips for these apps!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/83
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Join us for a Google-themed episode where we share some of our favorite tips from our favorite Google Workspace apps. Gmail, Calendar, Slides, Drive and Classroom are on the docket today, but so are tech nuggets and a look at the new integrated Gmail.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/82
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this exciting episode of the Edtech Take Out we discuss Google's rebranding of G Suite, and dive head first into the Pear Deck orchard to help get you up and running with this great interactive presentation tool. We also have a great tip about how to attend FETC for free this year!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/81
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Corey Rogers (@corey_rogers) joins us this week for a feature packed episode that dives into the sometimes mysterious world of asynchronous learning. Everyone does that a little bit differently, so what could, (or should), that look like? We also have Google Drive updates, Zoom updates, and iPad updates to talk about, as well as the usual big box of tech nuggets.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/80
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode we talk to our friend and colleague Beth Swantz about playlists and how they can be used to enhance learning in face to face or virtual learning environments. Are playlists the missing piece in your instructional strategy toolbox?
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/79
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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On this episode we are lucky to be joined by Marshall Escamilla from the Tumble Science Podcast for Kids. We talk about science, teaching, podcasts and podcourses. It's a great conversation and one you won't want to miss! We also have a ton of Google and Seesaw updates to share and a tasty selection of tech nuggets!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/78
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, we put Zoom and Meet head to head in a battle for the best online video conferencing tool! Spoiler alert: there is no loser, but only if you set up your meetings properly so that they are secure and your participants stay engaged in the learning. We have ideas to help with that regardless of which tool you prefer.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/77
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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I love it when a plan comes together, don't you? This week we talk about some of the ideas the Grant Wood Digital Learning Team put together to help schools transition to online learning environments. Our continuous learning plan was specifically designed to help educators take the steps they need to establish a fully functional online classroom. In this episode, we talk about those steps and what they mean for teaching and learning.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/76
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This episode is going to be a little different from our normal routine, simply because these are not normal times. To try and prevent the spread of COVID-19, schools in Iowa are closed for a four-week period, and so is Grant Wood AEA.
In this episode we got the whole team together to talk about the challenges of working from home while parenting and home schooling our kids. We also talked about some ideas we had to help others do the same thing. We hope you find the conversation useful. Please let us know if you have tips or ideas of your own to share because we don't have all the answers. No one does at this point, but we are looking forward to the time when schools re-open and life gets back to normal.
Until then, stay safe, stay indoors, keep washing your hands and practice social distancing. Together, we can beat this. Together, we will persevere. Together, we will prevail.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode we tackle student engagement. Are digital devices a distraction? Are there ways that we can get students to be more absorbed their learning? Well, we might not have all the answers, but we do have some suggestions that you can try in your classroom. We also have some nuggets, more nuggets than we normally do, so get that dipping sauce ready!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/74
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week's episode is brought to you courtesy of Stella Pollard, an Edtech Take Out listener who wanted to hear an episode about using Makey Makey in the classroom, so we asked our resident expert, Amber Bridge, to join us again and share some of the things she has seen as a Makey Makey Ambassador!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/73
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode we finally get to talk in depth about our favorite design tool, Canva! Learn more about the free Canva for Education program and all the great features that are available to educators. We also have some great tech nuggets, and a chance for you to win an Amazon gift voucher!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/72
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Amber Bridge is back for the first episode of 2020 to help Mindy and Jonathan get their heads around the latest changes that YouTube is making and how that might affect teachers and school districts. Screencastify got a big update, and so did Book Creator. There is also a healthy serving of tech nuggets, including something special for emoji fans!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/71
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This is the last episode of 2019, and it's been a great year for using technology in the classroom, so Mindy and Jonathan round up some of their favorite edtech picks of the year. They also talk about some of your favorites too!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/70
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Reading is an important way for educators to grow and expand their thinking, so in this episode, Mindy and Jonathan share some of the things that they have been reading recently and reflect on what that has meant to them. They also have some new tech nuggets that hot, fresh, and ready to share!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/69
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by Amber Bridge to talk about flipped learning. Are people still flipping classrooms, and if so, what are some tools and ideas you can use to flip your classroom in 2019?
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/68
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Mindy and Jonathan are just back from another ITEC Fall Conference in Des Moines. In this episode, they reflect on that experience and give some tips for edtech conference attendees. Jonathan brought a baloney nugget, but we don't judge on this podcast, right?
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/67
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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It's International Podcast Day and Mindy and Jonathan are celebrating by talking about some of their favorite podcasts for teachers and also podcasts for students. There wasn't supposed to be any tech nuggets, but Jonathan brought some anyway. We hope you enjoy the episode!
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/66
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan talk to everyone's favorite EdTech presenter - Leslie Fisher! Find out how she got started in education, and learn what excites her today about the state of EdTech and learning in our schools.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/65
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Mindy and Jonathan are back and well rested after their summer break. This week they are joined by Lynn Kleinmeyer and they are talking teacher productivity. How do you get things done in your classroom, and what are your strategies for dealing with email, calendar and to-do lists. They don't have all the answers, but they do have some! :)
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/64
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, Gina Rogers joins Mindy and Jonathan to have a conversation with Professor John Hattie about his work on effect size and instructional strategies for the classroom. It's a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation that has actionable advice on how to make a difference with the students you work with.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/63
This is our last episode before the summer break, but please keep in touch if you have ideas or suggestions for future shows. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week, Mindy and Jonathan tackle typing. Who should teach typing, when should you start, and what should you use? Do you have ideas? If so, we would love to hear them. There is also a bonanza of G Suite Updates to talk about as well as some tasty tech nuggets.
Show notes and links for everything discussed in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/62
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week Mindy and Jonathan recap on some of the "latest" edtech news and then dive head first into the world of freemium EdTech services. What's worth paying for? When should you consider buying a subscription service, and who should pay for it? Find out in this feature packed episode. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/61
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined Marisa Dahl from Heartland AEA to talk about screen time and the use of social media by both kids and adults. Are there any good solutions? Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/60
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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This week's episode is that last of our 4-part series on using the 4Cs in the classroom. Join Jonathan and Mindy as they dive deeper into how to infuse more creativity at school and the tools (or mindset) you need to help support that. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/59
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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The 4Cs bonanza continues with part 3 of our 4 part series: Critical Thinking! Discover resources you can use in your classroom to get kids thinking critically while working on math, coding, science, PBL and more. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/58
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Mindy and Jonathan continue their weekly 4Cs series with a look at how teachers and students can be successful when collaborating. There is some quick news and followup, and even some time for The Nugs. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/57
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In a bid to get ready for Digital Learning Day on February 28, Mindy and Jonathan embark on a weekly podcast blitz to start some conversations around the 4Cs. This week is all about Communication. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/56
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In the first episode of 2019, Mindy and Jonathan look back at some of the biggest educational research from 2018 and discuss how it might affect classrooms in 2019. They have lots of Google updates to share, and have a handful of new tech nuggets that are hot and ready to eat. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/55
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In the last episode of 2018, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by Maggie Pickett to talk about the importance of AEM for all students. There are some interesting news items, and your usual helping of "fresh" nuggets too. Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at dlgwaea.org/podcast/54
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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The amazing Corey Rogers (@corey_rogers) joins Mindy and Jonathan as they all gear up for this year's Hour Of Code. Learn about Iowa's new Computer Science Standards, and get the resources and ideas you need for a successful Hour of Code event in your school. Also, the weather might be cold, but the tech nuggets are hot! Links for everything we talk about in the show can be found at dlgwaea.org/podcast/53
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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It's time to celebrate National (Tech) Nugget Day...again! So, join Mindy and Jonathan as they roll out some of their favorite apps and tools for the classroom and explore ways that those can be used to enhance teaching and learning. Links for all the nuggets can be found at dlgwaea.org/podcast/52
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan talk about the new Apple devices, explore the new FlipGrid guest mode, and delight in the new closed captions for Google Slides. They also try to bust some edtech myths, and serve up your usual helping of delicious tech nuggets. Show notes are available at dlgwaea.org/podcast/51
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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Mindy and Jonathan celebrate their 50th episode at ITEC, Iowa's premeire edtech conference. In this episode, they talk to two of the featured speakers to find out more about what they will share in their sessions.
First up is Kristina Ishmael, (@kmishmael), the Public Interest Tech & Ed Policy Fellow for @NewAmerica. Kristina is an OER expert and has lots of great ideas to share about how OER can be implemented successfully. Their second guest is Manuel Herrera, (@manuelherrera33). Manuel is the Innovation Coordinator and Design Space Facilitator for the Affton School District in St. Louis. Creativity is his passion, and a big part of what he shares on the podcast.
Links and resources from Kristina and Manuel can be found at dlgwaea.org/podcast/50.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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For this episode, Jonathan and Mindy are joined by the amazing Lynn Kleinmeyer (@THLibrariZen) to talk about the role of Teacher Librarians and the work they do to support the learning process in schools. As always, tech nuggets round up the rest of the episode, and show notes are available at dlgwaea.org/podcast/49
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Mindy and Jonathan start with a healthy dose of edtech news and followup, and then dive in to talk about screencasting. Hear their top tips for instructional videos and get ideas for screen recording tools for every device. New tech nuggets round up the rest of the episode, and show notes are available at dlgwaea.org/podcast/48
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Mindy and Jonathan return from their summer break with a whole bunch of new learning. This nugget-tastic episode is packed full of new tools to try and updates to learn about from all your favorite edtech apps and services. Show notes for this episode are available at dlgwaea.org/podcast/47
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan talk to John D. Couch, Apple's former Vice President of Education and the co-author of Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential. It's a fascinating conversation with lots of great ideas on how schools can ensure children are provided with access to relevant, creative, collaborative, and challenging learning environments that ensure success both today and in the future. Show notes for this episode are available at dlgwaea.org/podcast/46
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan talk to Michal Finegold, an app developer and advocate for the role of art in education. She talks about how it enhances her work as a programmer, and explains some interesting ways that teachers can incorporate more art into their curriculum. Your usual helping of tech nuggets are also included, but we know you would expect nothing less! Show notes for this episode are at dlgwaea.org/podcast/45
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
In this episode we talk about cheating. What is cheating and how has technology impacted our ability to cheat? It's a tough topic, and we knew there were no easy answers, so we invited Gina Rogers (@grogers1010) along to help us out. Show notes for this episode are at dlgwaea.org/podcast/44
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan talk to Joe Crozier, the Chief Administrator at Grant Wood AEA, about education, the role of technology in schools, professional learning, and the challenges of working with multiple generations in the workplace. Show notes for this episode are at dlgwaea.org/podcast/43.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan take some time to talk to Dr. Ryan Wise, the Director of the Iowa Department of Education, to get his views on what is working well in Iowa schools and what the challenges are for the days to come. Show notes for this episode are at: dlgwaea.org/podcast/42
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan flex their creative muscles with the able assistance of the incredible Tony Vincent. Together, they talk about the role of graphic design in the classroom, share some of their favorite design tools, and look ahead to the upcoming Apple education event. Show notes with links for everything in this episode are online at dlgwaea.org/podcast/41
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without all of you!!
Until next time...
This week, Mindy and Jonathan call upon the help of Kari Bullis and Ryan Gotto to help discuss ways that technology can be used in PE by both teacher and students. Jonathan gets wisdom teeth removed and Mindy is still listening to crime podcasts. Show notes at dlgwaea.org/podcast/40
News & Followup
-Checkmark Chrome extension gets customizable comments -Book Creator for Chrome adds real time collaboration -Twitter launches bookmarks, a private way to save tweets -ViewPure now offers curated playlists
Main Course
PE and Technology with Kari Bullis (@BullisKari) and Ryan Gotto (@RGottoLM).
-Google Forms -Formative.com -Sworkit Kids -GoNoodle -Jammin Minutes -MakeGif Chrome Extension -thepegeek.com -voxerpe.com -The PhysEd Google Drive folder: ift.tt/2kkkfMK
Tech Nuggets
-carrd.co -Mystery Doug -Microsoft Soundscape -Merge Cube
Podcast Picks
-Akimbo by Seth Godin -In the Dark
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
Until next time...
In this episode Mindy and Jonathan finally find some newsworthy edtech items to talk about, and unpack what it takes to make a podcast. (Hint, it's less than you think). They also have the usual helping of tech nuggets. Extra ketchup this week!
News & Followup * 7 New Ways to Post on Padlet + Draw + Voice + Film + Snap + Google + Map + Padlet in a Padlet * Twitter for Mac is discontinued * CoSpaces EDU
Main Course * Podcast image requirements * Podcasting Microphones Mega Review * Podcast Audio Hosts + Podbean + Libsyn + Blubrry + SoundCloud + Podiant * Audio Editors + Audacity (Mac or PC) + Adobe Audition (Mac or PC) + Garageband (Mac and iPad) + Logic (Mac) + Ferrite Recording Studio (iPad) * Zencastr * Submit a podcast to iTunes * Submit a podcast to Google Play Music
Tech Nuggets * Insert Learning * TCEA iOS App Recommendations * AndThenIWasLike * PromptSmart
As always, thanks for listening. Feel free to reach out on Twitter to Mindy (@TeamCairney) or Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) if you have any followup, questions, comments or ideas. Feedback is awesome! :)
The Chromebook Challenge has come and gone, so how did it go? And what about Inbox by Gmail? Is that any good? Jonathan and Mindy also discuss Chromebook Creativity in this episode, and serve up their usual serving of delicious tech nuggets.
News & Followup
- The Chromebook Challenge
- My Week With Inbox by Gmail
Main Course: Chromebook Crisis?
- An American Chromebook Crisis: new report shows sad trends of how students are using the devices
- Based on a GoGuardian report that analyzes the aggregate device usage of 5 million K-12 students across the country.
Tech Nuggets
- Screencast-o-matic is now available for Chromebooks
- MakeBeliefsComix
- Quick shout out for
- https://newseumed.org
Podcast Picks
- The EdVantage Podcast
- Someone Knows Something
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
Until next time...
In the first episode of 2018, Mindy and Jonathan try to get productive by breaking down their workflow for dealing with the influx of email they get every day. How do you deal with email? Join them as they dig into Gmail's myriad of settings and uncover some little known features that are designed to make your life that little bit easier.
News & Followup
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Podcast LOVE!! (see below)
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ISTE | Top 16 edtech podcasts
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20 great podcasts for educators [and how to get them] | Ditch That Textbook
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Control Alt Achieve: 11 Great EdTech Podcasts
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Insert > Image > Camera has returned to GSuite apps! H/t Matt Miller on Twitter.
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Jonathan’s Chromebook Challenge is on! (next week)
Main Course: Getting Jiggy With Gmail
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Getting Things Done by David Allen
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How to enable Gmail Labs
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Create Rules to Filter Your Emails
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Please add a profile picture for Mindy 🙏
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Inbox by Google
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Undo Send for the Win!
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Add multiple accounts to Gmail online or in the mobile app
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Enable email notifications
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Add a photo to your inbox background
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Advance search options
Tech Nuggets:
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Seeing AI
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Checker Plus for Drive
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Tricider
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FutureMe
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
Until next time...
This week, Mindy and Jonathan are celebrating the return of the Hour Of Code so join the fun and learn about the latest technology resources for your classroom. Here are the links for this week's show:
News & Followup
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SeeSaw Followup - Share Activities with other teachers, schedule activities
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Apple Classroom for parental controls at home!
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Drag and Drop for Docs, Sheets and Slides on iOS
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Ditch Summit
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The 25 Best Inventions of 2017
Main course: Coding With Samantha Dahlby...Again!
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How do you do an hour of code?
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Hour of Code FAQ
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Computer Science Fundamentals (grades K-5)
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Computer Science Discoveries (grades 6-10)
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Computer Science Principles (grades 9-12)
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Printable Scratch Coding Blocks
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Thimble Online Code Editor
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Code Pen Online Code Editor
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Code.org App Lab
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MIT App Inventor
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Circuit Playground
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Jewel Bots
Tech Nuggets:
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How to Access Lynda Courses for Free
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Iorad tutorial builder
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Bonus: Foxified
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Undo Send (Gmail): Settings > General > Undo Send
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Thinglink Calendar
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
Until next time...
This week, Mindy and Jonathan are taking some time out to thank some of the people who influence them and help them learn and expand their thinking. So, have your smartphones or computers at the ready because they are all great people to follow and connect with.
Main Course: So Thankful For...
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Dr. Wesley Fryer @wfryer and speedofcreativity.com
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Jason Neiffer @techsavvyteach and neiffer.com
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Craig Badura @mrbadura and craigbadura.com
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Jen Carey @TheJenCarey and https://indianajen.com/
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Pernille Ripp @pernilleripp and http://pernillesripp.com
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Richard Byrne @rmbyrne and freetech4teachers.com
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Julie Freed @jfreedAT and GWAEA AT
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent and learninginhand.com
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Matt Miller @jmattmiller and DitchThatTexbook.com
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Sylvia Duckworth @sylviaduckworth and sylviaduckworth.com
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Eric Ewald @EricEwald_Iowa and ericewald.blogspot.com
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Shaelynn Farnsworth @shfarnsworth and shaelynnfarnsworth.com
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Cindy Moss @stemboss and discoveryeducation.com
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Eric Curts @ericcurts and controlaltachieve.com
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Lynn Holverson @iabwaholverson and https://about.me/LynnHolverson
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Stephanie Roberts @RobTechMISD
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The DLGWAEA Team!
Tech Nuggets
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Build-a-moji
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gwaealibs
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iPad as Teacher’s Pet
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Compliments Board
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
Until next time...
It's National Nugget Day...or at least we think it might be. So, here are the links to this week's extra large helping of tech nuggets.
Quick followup from the last podcast with Jarod…
- Next Level Learning Podcast with Jarod Bormann & Brea Baxter
Jonathan
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Elink
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Spreaker & Spreaker Studio or Podiant for Opinion replacement
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Desmos
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IFTTT
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TechSmith Capture
Mindy
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Google Voice
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Mercury Reader Chrome Extension
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Google Art and Culture
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Scratch Task Cards
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Figment AR
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Yummy Math
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app or in Google Play Music.
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan talked with Jarod Bormann (@jbormann3) about redefining professional devleopment to be a more meaningful and personal experience for everyone. Sounds easy right? Tech nuggets are here as always and some podcast picks are included for those of you who are looking for some new shows to add to your collection.
Main Course: Professionally Driven
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www.professionallydriven.com
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Professionally Driven: Empower Every Educator To Redefine PD (the book)
Tech Nuggets!
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Be Internet Awesome
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CheckMark from EdtechTeam
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Boomerang for Gmail via Jake Miller
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Autocrat
Podcast Picks
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Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
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The Mindshift Podcast
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Crowd sourced podcast directory of recommendations
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app or in Google Play Music.
Until next time...
In this episode, Jonathan and Mindy are on their best behavior because they are joined by (their boss) Stacy Behmer (@sbehmer) to talk about Google Keep and all the ways in which it can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. New podcasts for kids are shared and so are the usual helping of tech nuggets. Here are some links to all that they talked about.
News & Updates
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Seesaw Activities Library
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Padlet Now Has Voting and Grading Tools
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Discovery Library on FlipGrid
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- The Educator’s Guide to Flipgrid by Sean Fahey and Karly Moura
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Windows adds a replacement for Movie Maker in Windows 10 Update
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G Suite EDU Updates:
- Google Classroom: You can now import grades from Google Forms Quizzes directly into Google Classroom.
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- Google Forms: You can now copy and paste charts from Google Forms into your slides and emails.
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- Science Journal app comes to iOS: also on Android. Use the built-in sensors on your device to measure things like acceleration, brightness, decibels and more.
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- Google Slides: You can now drag and drop your notes from Google Keep directly into Slides. Check out more recent updates with Google Slides.
Main course served piping hot: Google Keep
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Link to Stacy’s Slides: http://tinyurl.com/keepstacy
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Vicki Davis- Researching Using Keep
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Eric Curts - Using Google Keep for Grading Comments in Docs
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Heather Calihan- A Day in My Life with Google Keep
Tech Nuggets!
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Follow Mindy on Snapchat. =) 🤳
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@madewithARKit 📱
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Checking out kids’ podcasts: 🎙
- The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel 👀
- WOW in the World 🌎
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Kiddom: Curriculum development, assessment, gradebook, and messaging all in one place 🎓
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app or in Google Play Music.
Until next time...
Mindy and Jonathan are back on the road and recorded this episode live at the ITEC Fall Conference in Des Moines. While they were there, they managed to persuade Tammy Lind and Tony Vincent to join them as guests on the show. Tammy and Tony talk about some of their favorite tech tools and ideas for learning...and they even reveal their favorite take away food! 🍔
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Follow Tammy on Twitter at @Taml17 and find her online at www.tammylind.com
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Follow Tony on Twitter at @TonyVincent and find him online at www.learninginhand.com
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
Mindy and Jonathan are joined by Lynn Kleinmeyer, (@THLibrariZen), the newest member of the Digital Learning Team. They talk about one of Lynn's favorite tools - Flipgrid, and share their latest tech nuggets.
New menu items: News & Updates
- iOS 11 is out: Should you upgrade? Go to Settings > General > About > Applications to find apps that won't be compatible in iOS 11
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Minecraft: Education Edition brings The Oregon Trail Into The 21st Century
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Podcasters Roundtable: Kids and Podcasting
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Opinion Podcasts
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work—Building a Successful Blended Learning Program
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Update to Osmo Words app
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ISTE proposals due September 29!
The Main Course: #FlipgridFever
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Flipgrid.com
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Flipgrid on Twitter
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FlipgridFever
Tech Nuggets!
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AR Measurekit
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Google Keep
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Making images accessible for people on Twitter
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Bitmoji in Snapchat
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
Mindy and Jonathan are back from their summer break with some new tools and updates that you might have missed while school was out. They talk about what they think are the best ways to integrate technology meaningfully, and share their latest tech nuggets.
New menu items: News & Updates
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SeeSaw Updates
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Kahoot Studio
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New in iOS 11
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Osmo iPhone Base
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Alternatives to the YouTube Editor from Richard Byrne
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New look for YouTube
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Think Make Innovate
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A Guide to using GIFs in the classroom
The Main Course: What Does Good Technology Integration Look Like?
- Slideshow of main points
Tech Nuggets!
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Class Intercom 🎙
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Time Toast ⏰
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Write the World 🇺🇸
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Stop Motion Animator via Richard Byrne 🎥
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Emoji keyboard on Macs - Ctrl, Cmd + Space
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
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The Think Make Innovate Conference at GWAEA (links & resources)
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Conference hashtag: #HaveFunMaking
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Follow Krissy Venosdale on Twitter (@krissyvenosdale), on Instagram (@krissyvenosdale) or at her website www.krissyvenosdale.com.
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10 New & Innovative EdTech Products Announced at ISTE 2017
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The ORIGINAL BBC Micro
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Book Creator for Chrome Open for Beta Testing
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...have a great summer and be sure to keep in touch if you have new ideas or topics you want us to talk about in the Fall :)
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by Beth Swantz, (@betswan), the newly appointed Blended Learning Coordinator at Grant Wood AEA. They talk about how to get started with blended learning as well as the opportunities for experienced teachers to take it to the next level. Tools, tips, strategies and more are covered in this practical, in-depth discussion on the role of blended learning as a pathway to personalized learning.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
New menu items: News & Updates
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Seesaw added Drive integration
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New version of Google Earth for the web?
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Fidget Spinners on Thingiverse
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Free Premium Membership for Educators at Instructables.com (normally $35)
- Free vs. Paid comparison
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Padlet updates
- New Padlet Layout - Shelf
- New Padlet Layout - Canvas for mindmaps, flowcharts and more
- Grid Layout posts can now be re-arranged with drag and drop
- Focus mode for better collaboration
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Book Creator 5.1 Update, publish your books online
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Osmo Coding Jam (now available)
Main course served piping hot: Digital Notetaking
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Capture, Organize, Research and Review digital notetaking with Julie Freed (@jfreedAT)
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See more of Julie's notes/ideas in our show notes at dlgwaea.org/podcast
Tech Nuggets
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20 of the best YouTube Channels for Math Teachers
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Record Video Straight into Google Classroom
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https://www.scribblemaps.com/ h/t Amber Bridge (@abridgesmith)
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https://www.classhook.com/ via Shannon Miller (@shannonmmiller)
Podcast Catch of the Day
- Canvas from Relay FM with Fraser Spiers and Federico Viticci
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
Amber Bridge and Jason Marshall join Mindy and Jonathan for a special makerspace edition. Learn more about the Think Make Innovate YouTube show, our upcoming makerspace conference and a host of great people to follow online for #makered inspiration. Even the tech nuggets have a makerspace flavor so be sure to stay tuned for those.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
Follow Up:
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classroomclips for edu examples of Apple Clips app
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The Mevo camera now broadcasts to YouTube Live & Periscope, as well as Facebook Live
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15 Ways to Use Flipgrid in your Classroom by Karly Moura
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I’m going back to paper AND staying digital By Matt Miller
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Use Parrot drones with Swift Playgrounds - bit.ly/swift_drone
New menu items:
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Apple makes iWork and iLife apps free for all devices
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Find and insert free pictures with the Pixabay Google Docs Add-on
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May 2, Microsoft is having an EDU event centered around Windows Cloud devices
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Wunderlist is being retired and will be replaced by Microsoft To-Do - boo! :(
Main Course: #FormativeTech with Monica Burns
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ClassTechTips.com
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FormativeTech Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment With Technology
Tech Nuggets!
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Tackk via Richard Byrne
- 20 Ways to Use Tackk in the Classroom
- The Tackk EDU Blog
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iCivics free lesson plans and games for learning civics
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https://www.peanutgalleryfilms.com/
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Auto Draw from Google
Jonathan's Catch of the Day
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Listen Learn Lead Podcast from Andrew Fenstermaker & Scott Stimmel
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The Grift from Maria Konnikova
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
In this episode Mindy and Jonathan talk about the new iPad and a few other Apple anouncements that are pretinent to educators. They talk coding in the classroom with Samatha Dahlby (@dahlbys) from NewBo Co. and roundup the episode with some fresh tech nuggets and top podcast picks!
Followup:
- The New $299 iPad for Schools
New Menu Items
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Clips - A New Video App from Apple
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Apple acquires Workflow app
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Apple Classroom 2.0 adds new features
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Google now lets you add students without gSuite Education Accounts
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Hour of Code Org Developing New, Free CS Course
Main Course: Coding With Samantha
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CS Fundamentals
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CS Discoveries
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Computer Science Discoveries
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CoderDojo
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Squishy Circuits
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Snap Circuits
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Little Bits
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Dojo Pros
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Cubetto
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Hello Ruby
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MathScienceMusic.org
Tech Nuggets
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Flippity
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Sutori and How to Create a Sutori Story
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iBrainstorm
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Nimuno Loops (Lego Tape!)
Podcast Picks
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The Edtech Situation Room
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Clockwise from RelayFM
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by tech coaches and instructional coaches from local schools to discuss life as an educational coach. New tech nuggets are included in this episode, and so are Jonathan's podcast picks.
Followup
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CoSpaces adds camera and export, iOS creation
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Video options for YouTube videos in Slides, just like for Drive Videos
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Spiral Clip - another great addition to the Spiral suite of formative assessment tools
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EngageNY Math Curriculum
New Menu Items
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Symbaloo Learning Paths
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Sideways writing in spreadsheets
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Google Keep is integrated into Docs and is now a core service of gSuiteEdu
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New iPads coming soon...?
Main Course: Coaching Conversations
A BIG thank you to Anna, Andrea, Jeff, Andrew and Frank for taking the time to talk to us on this special episode of the Edtech Take Out. Follow these guys on Twitter if you want to learn more or continue the coaching conversation.
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Anna Upah (@AnnaUpah)
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Andrea Townsley (@townsleyaj)
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Jeff Vaughn (@JeffSixth)
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Andrew Fenstermaker (@a_fenstermaker)
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Frank Slabaugh (@FrankSlabaugh)
Tech Nuggets
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Striving Readers Website
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https://kupiter.org
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Instructables
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Flipgrid
Wylie's Podcast Picks
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20 Thousand Hertz
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Instructional Coaching Corner
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan recap on the results of their iPad Challenge and spend some time talking to Josh Allen to talk about open educational resources. New tech nuggets are included in this episode, and so are Jonathan's podcast picks.
Followup
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Toontastic 3D works on SOME Chromebooks
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Keyboard shortcuts for the iPad
New Menu Items
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Add video to Google Slides
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YouTube Live Coming to Mobile Devices Soon
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Enhanced Google Expeditions
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Book Creator is Coming to the Web
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Scan QR Codes with Chrome for iOS
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Version 4 of Flipboard now available
Main Course: Open Educational Resources (OER)
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GoOpen website
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What GoOpen looks like for Josh Allen's District
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EngageNY Math Curriculum
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Georgia Math Standards & Curriculum
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OER Commons
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Amazon Inspire
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CK-12 textbooks
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GoOpen Regional Summit in Council Bluffs
Tech Nuggets
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Pixabay iPad app (note this is a 12+ app)
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Recite.com
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CommonLit
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Sharalike
Wylie's Podcast Picks
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The 10 Minute Teacher Show
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The Way I Heard It
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan predict the edtech trends that they think are going to make a big impact in classrooms this year. They talk about whether we still need a desktop operating system, and make plans for an iPad challenge. A box of six tech nuggets are also included at no extra cost!
Hot Topic: Do We Still Need Desktop Operating Systems?
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Stop Using a Laptop in 2017; It’s Time to Use a Tablet
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Tim Cook does 80% of his work on an iPad
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The Gear You Need to Make Your iPad Your Only Computer
Main Course: Our Top Edtech Trends for 2017
- Virtual Reality
- Online Learning
- Makerspaces
- Learning Spaces
- Open Educational Resources
- Blended Learning
Tech Nuggets
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Pineapple Charts
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Toontastic 3D
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Knight Lab Projects
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ReadWorks Digital
Jonathan's Podcast Pick
- The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.
Until next time...
Join Mindy and Jonathan as they take an extended look at 12 of their favorite tech nuggets from 2016. How many of these top tools have you tried in your classroom? We would love to know. Email the show, or send a voice memo to podcast@gwaea.org, and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music. We would very much appreciate that!
Until next time...
Mindy and Jonathan get by with a little help from their friends in a special holiday edition of the podcast. They interview their colleagues on what they think is truly worth paying for in the world of edtech products and services. Hear what they have to say, as well as what Mindy and Jonathan want from Santa, in this fun roundup of our favorite tech tools.
Email the show, or send a voice memo to podcast@gwaea.org, and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show and would like to leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play, we would very much appreciate that!
In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan review a number of online sites that are aimed at helping improve classroom communication with parents. Remind, Class Dojo, Fresh Grade, Bloomz and more were discussed. The new Google Sites is here and there is some new follow up for Skype & YouTube. This week's spicy tech nuggets include asessment apps, a book, and an educational YouTube channel for elementary kids.
Email the show, or send a voice memo to podcast@gwaea.org, and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show and would like to leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play, we would very much appreciate that!
There was a lot to talk about this week, including more updates to Google's Explore feature and new tweaks to Twitter. Learn how to amplify student voice (and choice) with Choose Your Own Adventure Stories and discover the tech tools that Mindy and Jonathan recommend for making the most of this exciting medium. Finally, there is an extra large helping of tech nuggets for you to chew on.
Email the show, or send a voice memo to podcast@gwaea.org, and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show and would like to leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play, we would very much appreciate that!
Join Mindy and Jonathan live from Des Moines, IA as they take the show on the road and record a live episode at the 2016 ITEC Fall conference. This episode celebrates connected educator month, unpacks #GoOpen, and has the usual helping of tech nuggets. What more could you want?!
Email the show, or send a voice memo to podcast@gwaea.org, and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show and would like to leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play, we would very much appreciate that!
In this exciting episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by the incomparable Gina Rogers to talk ELA tools for tech savvy K-12 teachers. They debate the merits of typing practice at school, and share their favorite tech nuggets.
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you would like to leave us a review on iTunes, we would very much appreciate that!
Round 1: Mindy and Jonathan go head to head on the topic of screen time. Round 2: Student blogging options are discussed along with reasons why you should try blogging in your classroom. Round 3: The tech nuggets this week include Podbay, Relay, MySimpleShow & Libraries of Life.
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you would like to leave us a review on iTunes, we would very much appreciate that!
It's back to school time so Mindy and Jonathan use this episode to reflect on their summer learning. Discover what they saw at ISTE & iPadU, learn about their hands-on experiences with Google Expeditions, and revel in Mindy's new status as a SeeSaw Ambassador!
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
The green screen episode is finally here so join Mindy and Jonathan as they talk about how (and why) you should green screen in the classroom with students. Part 2 of the must read education blogs is revealed and is that a basket of tech nuggets I see? I think it is! :)
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
In this episode, Jonathan and Mindy explore options for creating a virtual presence with telepresence robots, virtual field trips, video conferencing and more. The top 5 this week include some of their favorite educational blogs and your usual helping of tech nuggets are well worth checking out.
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
Stacy Behmer joins Mindy and Jonathan to talk about all kinds of Google tips and tricks for the classroom. The top 5 this week rounds up some of the best #edtech conferences in the Midwest, and the tech nuggets are just as juicy as ever. Oh, and there is an important update on Nessie :)
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
Julie King joins Jonathan and Mindy to talk about the role of assistive technology in the classroom. The top 5 this week revolves around the best tools for your makerspace, while the tech nuggets are a visual feast for your eyes.
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
This episode was recorded live after the Iowa 1:1 Institute conference in Des Moines Iowa. It features the entire Digital Learning team and is a quick roundup of what we learned while presenting and attending the conference. It's a break from our usual routine, but we hope you like it all the same :)
Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
In this episode, Jonathan and Mindy get creative with some of their favorite apps for iPads and other devices. They share five top websites for learning coding, and Ryan Gosling shows up among the tech nuggets for this week. Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast. You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA.
Have you thought about podcasting with your students? Learn how to do it, and discover the best ways to be successful integrating podcasting in your curriculum. Jonathan and Mindy also share their top 5 websites to support reading and writing, and have some awesome tech nuggets! Email the show at podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast.
Join Jonathan and Mindy for some updates on their latest professional development offerings at schools and discover new ways to use some exciting formative assessment tools. Feedback and followup from previous episodes are also discussed along with your usual helping of Tech Nuggets! Email the show - podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links from this episode at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast.
In this episode, Jonathan and Mindy have some followup on the Voice Memo app from the last episode, they pick the 5 #edtech tools that they love, and Amber Bridge joins the podcast to talk about sketchnoting. Email the show on podcast@gwaea.org and see show notes with all the links at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast.
Jonathan and Mindy give you a behind the scenes look at the Apple Education Trainer program, and explore the many benefits of using Twitter as an educator. There is so much more than you might think! They also have some great Tech Nuggets to share. For show notes and more information, please visit www.dlgwaea.org/podcast.
In this episode of The Edtech Take Out, Jonathan and Mindy introduce the show and talk about their hopes and dreams for this new adventure. They also dive in to YouTube and talk about ways in which it can be used safely and effectively in the classroom. Show notes and additional information can be found at www.dlgwaea.org/podcast.