Joe and Kristin Merrill, the InterACTIVE Class, Apple Clips, Buncee, Seesaw, BookCreator and Flipgrid!
Release Date: 03/04/2020
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 - “We Don’t Have Time to Rush + Microwaveable Teaching”
- “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.
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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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