Andreas Johansson + Google Forms, Sheets & Sites; FormMule, AutoCrat & FormRanger Add-Ons; VLookUp, Concatenate & other Formulas; Lean Thinking and more!
Release Date: 02/19/2020
BONUS: The Suite Talk, "Kick Of Your Lessons with Fun Activities"
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In January 2021, I had the opportunity to be on one of my favorite sources of educational technology learning: Kimberly Mattina's YouTube Live + Podcast, The Suite Talk. In this appearance, I share some of my favorite ways to kick off my class periods with smiles and laughs. I focus on Pear Deck, but the ideas can be used in other platforms, too.
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Dr. Monica Burns - Leveraging Choice & Agency to Hear from All Students
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EdTech and Curriculum Consultant and Easy EdTech Podcast host Dr. Monica Burns joins me to identify ways that we can hear from ALL of our students. Her suggestion? Select tools that can give our learners choice and agency in how we hear from them! Tune in to hear what tools she suggests!
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Eric Curts - Creative Projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets
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Control Alt Achieve author Eric Curts joins me to talk about creative projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets including Stop Motion Animation, Choose Your Own Adventure Activities, Emoji Learning Activities, Rebus Stories, Blackout Poetry, and Pixel Art! We also touch on Canva for Education, Adobe Spark for Education, Google Forms headers, flashcard makers like Quizlet and Flippity.net, and more!
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Dr. Natasha Rachell - Engaging Instruction with Student Choice and EdTech
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Dr. Natasha Rachell joins me in this episode for lots of laughs, but also to share some of her strategies for making instruction engaging. Natasha shares about student choice, choice boards, the Flipgrid Discovery Library, Microsoft Sway, Wakelet, Mentimeter, Buncee, and the awesome Minecraft Good Trouble project!
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Joe Marquez - Strategies for UDL-Friendly Learning Experiences
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Joe Marquez delivers powerful tips for designing instructional experiences that are accessible for all learners and are pedagogically effective. He also brings it with ideas for how students can process and represent their learning in UDL-friendly ways. Tune in to hear Joe's wisdom and our discussion that touches on Edji, Pear Deck, Nearpod, Flipgrid, the Record to Slides extension, and more!
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BONUS: ImprovEDCon with Meredith Akers, Elizabeth King, and Darryl Legaspi
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This bonus episode features plenty of laughs, tons of fun, and a handful of edtech tips. Tune in to hear me join Meredith Akers, Darryl Legaspi, and Elizabeth King as we have some fun, do some improv, learn about the Google Slides Master Slide, and try out one of my favorite Pear Deck activities!
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BONUS: Education Today with Scott Nunes
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This bonus episode features an episode of the Education Today podcast where I was fortunate enough to join Scott Nunes to talk about teaching during the pandemic, edtech after the pandemic, Pear Deck, Nearpod, Flipgrid, Otus, Schoology, speech translation tools, transcription tools, Adobe Spark, and more!
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James Varlack – Developing Engaging Instruction
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James Varlack says that “Engagement is developed.” So, in his interview, I asked him how he develops his engaging instruction. We discuss how James works toward each of the 3 types of student engagement--emotional, behavioral, and cognitive--in both analog and digital ways. We discuss Jamboard, Google Docs, Google Slides, Padlet, Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, Microsoft Teams whiteboard, Google Arts & Culture.
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BONUS: Teachers On Fire - EDTECH PODCASTERS Shout Out the Best Learning Tools of 2020
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This bonus episode features a roundtable discussion from the Teachers on Fire podcast about educational technology tools in 2020 and 2021. I am joined by Tim Cavey, Chris Nesi, Gabriel Carillo, Eric Guise, Scott Nunes, and Alfonso Mendoza, to talk about more than a dozen edtech tools!
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Claudio Zavala: Hearing from Your Learners with Adobe's Creativity Tools
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Claudio and I talk about hearing from our students with tools that empower them to create. Specifically, Adobe's tools Spark Video, Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro, Spark Post, Spark Page, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fresco, and Audition. Also, audience questions about sites to use for surprise inclement weather folders for elementary schoolers and a Google Sheets conundrum.
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- Today’s SoapBox Moment - “The How & The What”
- From You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- "Your job isn't to know the HOW it's to know the WHAT and to be open to discovering, and receiving, the HOW."
- Today’s Guest: Andreas Johansson
- Andreas launches rockets at Streetsboro City Schools. He's passionate about purpose, people, and problem solving. PhD student at KSU. He’s an INTJ. In his spare time, he runs in the woods with maps and a few other things...
- Contact Info:
- 2 Truths & 1 Lie
- Question #1: How can we make daily processes simpler and more efficient for staff that normally don't interface with technology?
- For some of these staff members just checking email may be difficult or inconvenient.
- Quick Links Menu for Staff
- Using the Design Thinking Process - observation, hearing feedback
- When they see you hearing & applying their feedback, it’s appreciated.
- “Go Do” - just fix it right away
- Lean Thinking - wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_thinking
- “Go to the work where the place happens to see what’s truly happening.” - the Gemba - wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba
- Question #2: Since there are still some procedures within schools that require paper by law, how can we make the process simpler?
- Bus Driver Hub (screenshot)
- Building value: Does it add value? Is it required? Create stuff that creates value.
- Mimic things that you already know work for the general public like a phone app.
- Make sure it works well on desktop as well as mobile.
- Google Sites
- Use preview mode to see what it’ll look like on different screens
- support.google.com/a/users/answer/9310269
- Keep the end-user in mind
- Pre-Trip Certification Form:
- Graphics for buttons - iconfinder.com
- Use Google Forms
- Keep in mind “How long will this process take?”
- Do you really need to collect email address? Or can you just ask them for name?
- With date questions in Google Forms click the center button to select “today.”
- Use branching with “go to page based on answer” for options that everyone doesn’t have to fill out
- Form Ranger Google Forms Add-On
- In the Google Sheets backend…
- Screenshot
- Leave the data collection sheet alone
- Use Pivot Tables (by date, by bus, etc.)
- FormMule Google Sheets Add-on - generates emails based on rules that you set - cloudlab.newvisions.org/form-mule
- Google Forms reuse a question - gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/07/import-questions-forms.html
- Standardize your data using dropdowns & multiple choice rather than open-ended questions
- FormRanger Add-on pulls a list from a Google Sheet and makes them multiple choice or dropdown options in a Form - cloudlab.newvisions.org/form-ranger
- AutoCrat Google Sheets Add-on - generates docs, pdfs or slides based on rules that you set and content in your spreadsheet - cloudlab.newvisions.org/autocrat
- VLookUp formula - Vertical Lookup pulls information from a separate tab in spreadsheet-based on content in the first one - support.google.com/docs/answer/3093318
- Lock any tabs of your Sheets that you don’t need others to edit
- Use Concatenate (support.google.com/docs/answer/3094123) & Substitute (support.google.com/docs/answer/3094215) to create URLs for things like links to Google Maps - Screenshot
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