Joe and Kristin Merrill, the InterACTIVE Class, Apple Clips, Buncee, Seesaw, BookCreator and Flipgrid!

#EduDuctTape S02-E038

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  • “We Don’t Have Time to Rush” comes from Bernard Roth’s book The Achievement Habit.
• Today’s Guest: Joe & Kristin Merrill
  • Kristin and Joe share a passion for infusing EdTech into their Fourth and First Grade classrooms. Even though they teach different grades, they share one common goal: learning needs to be interactive. The Merrills put a new spin on traditional strategies and implementing technology to meet the needs of students.
  • Contact Info: @TheMerrillsEDU on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Website: themerrillsedu.com 
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• Educational Duct Tape Question: What are some specific tech tools that educators can use to make their classroom interactive?
  • “Interactive Learning is learning that is responsive and relevant, that engages students.”
  • Responsive, not Reactive
    • Here’s a summary from this article: “Responsiveness implies thoughtful action that considers long and short term outcome in the context of the situation at hand. Reactive behavior is immediate and without conscious thought, like a knee jerk response. Reactive behavior is often driven by the emotions.”
  • Flipgrid - flipgrid.com
    • Breakouts with grid passcodes
    • Podcasting with stickers
    • Appsmashing
    •  Joe’s tweet with the President Lincoln beard & hat
  • Seesaw - web.seesaw.me
    • Making sure parents are connected
    • Analog activities can easily be shared via Seesaw
    • Changes the question of “what did you do today?” to “how did you do it?”
  • Buncee - edu.buncee.com/about
    • Can share out directly from Buncee or through something like Seesaw
    • Can add a range of content (GIFs, maps, 360 images, drawing tools, record video within, assessment questions, etc.)
    • Share out as pdf or link
    • Microsoft Immersive Reader built-in
    • Can assign Buncees and have kids submit
    • Can ask questions or build assessments within slides, kind of like Nearpod or Pear Deck
    • Combines Google Slides-like creation features along with NearPod/Pear Deck like assessment features
    • Ideas Lab
    • OneNote integration allows teacher to keep all Buncees in one location
  • BookCreator - BookCreator.com
    • The ability to share out (to parents, etc.) from the tool is important
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