Angela Wojtecki, eBooks, BookCreator, John Green’s Crash Course, Boom Writer, StoryBird, Google Slides Yearbook, Digital/Media Literacy, BrainPop, Common Sense Media, Databases, American Association of School Librarians
Release Date: 02/13/2019
Kasey Bell - Dynamic Blended Learning from Shake Up Learning
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Kasey Bell, host of the Shake Up Learning Podcast, and author of 3 books including Blended Learning with Google, joins me to talk about making blended learning meaningful and dynamic. We hear about her 5 “beyonds” of blended learning and her tips for using choice boards in the classroom.
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Dr. Desiree Alexander - Formative Assessment in Videos
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Dr. Desiree Alexander of EducatorAlexander.com joins the show to talk about formative assessment with videos in the classroom. Desiree and I discuss Edpuzzle, PlayPosit, Razor Arts, Nearpod, and more! Plus, I’ve got a BIG announcement to share!
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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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- GIF-a-Day
- Sign up for more info about the GIF-a-Day tech learning opportunities at JakeMiller.net/gifaday - visiting the site is not a commitment, it’s a way of stepping up and saying “I want more information about these opportunities!”
- Opportunity 1 - Spring 2018 - GoogleSheets - will be comprised of 25+ GIFs, sent out 1 per day, only to paying participants. These GIFs will not be shared elsewhere (not on Twitter, not on my website). At the end, participants will receive an eBook with all of the GIFs.
- Jake’s Soapbox
- “This made me realize that the creation of the roster was an event that I couldn’t control, but the way that I responded was something that I could control. And by doing that, I could change the outcome.”
- Jake’s old student-paced course - sites.google.com/site/millerstem8 - most of the links no longer work; the purpose of sharing it is so that you can see how it was set up.
- Today’s Guest: Angela Wojtecki - Angela is the district library media specialist and tech integrationist for Nordonia Hills City Schools located in NE Ohio. She helps co-teach the district's long-term professional development series program for teachers and also is the host and producer of the Nordonia Hills City Schools' Podcast series titled Nordonia Innovators.
- You can follow Angela on Twitter at @AngelaWojtecki
- or contact her at [email protected]
- Check out the Nordonia Podcast series: nordoniainnovators.podbean.com
- 2 Truths & 1 Lie
- Question #1: How can students create eBooks?
- BookCreator.com - iOS or web-based, works on Chromebooks now
- StoryBird - storybird.com/educators - free educator accounts, great for poetry, April - national poetry month, magnetic poetry activity
- BoomWriter - boomwriter.com
- Google Slides for eBooks
- Examples at bit.ly/flipgridebook3 and bit.ly/wakeletebook
- Jennifer Scott - slidesyearbook.com
- Jennifer’s Google Slides tips - slidesyearbook.com/slides/googleslides
- Question #2: Information and media literacy skills are essential skills that our students need to have in order to find the most accurate and current information on the web. What are some website evaluation resources or lesson ideas you can incorporate in your curriculum that can help students when it comes to building information and media literacy skills?
- CRAAP Method - researchguides.ben.edu/source-evaluation
- BrainPop Resources
- Media Literacy - brainpop.com/english/studyandreadingskills/medialiteracy
- Online Sources - brainpop.com/english/studyandreadingskills/onlinesources
- CommonSense Media Resource
- "5 Ways to Spot Fake News" - commonsensemedia.org/videos/5-ways-to-spot-fake-news
- Eric Curts’ “4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation” Post - controlaltachieve.com/2016/02/fake-sites-teach-website-evaluation.html
- Research Databases
- National Geographic database
- How do we help students feel more willing to use databases rather than just trusting a Google search?
- Gale Database on opposing viewpoints - gale.com/c/opposing-viewpoints-in-context
- Petaluma High School Library - Are These BOGUS? - phslibrary.info/c.php?g=77436&p=500322
- Buzzfeed News “Most Americans Who See Fake News Believe it, New Survey Says” - buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-news-survey
- John Green
- Crash Course Youtube Video Series - youtube.com/user/crashcourse
- Navigating Digital Information (grades 6-12) youtube.com/watch?v=L4aNmdL3Hr0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
- The American Association of School Librarians Best Websites for Teaching and Learning (annual list of best websites vetted by School Librarians): ala.org/aasl/standards/best/websites
- EdShelf - Edshelf.com
You can follow Angela on Twitter at @AngelaWojtecki or contact her at [email protected] And check out the Nordonia Podcast series link: nordoniainnovators.podbean.com
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