Educational Duct Tape
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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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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 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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Show notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-53
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- This quote was covered in this previous episode.
- Today’s Guest: James Varlack
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- James Varlack is a Digital Learning Specialist with McAllen Independent School District. He has worked in education for 10 years as a middle school math teacher and in campus technology. He and his wife Dawne moderate the #RGVEduChat and have 3 lovely children, Jayden, Zara, and Jordan.
- Contact Info: Twitter: @jamesvarlack Email: [email protected]
- 2 Truths & 1 Lie
- Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I develop engaging instruction?
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- Having the content down is not enough if it’s not engaging
- Know your learning goals
- Connect with learners
- “Engagement is developed...means it has a starting place, grows and is nurtured, etc. Engagement is a work in progress”
- Greeting students, connecting with students, using names are all big for engagement
- Adding pop culture references into things like a “problem of the day”
- Using those pop culture references as backgrounds in Google Slides
- Learn about student interests with a survey (Google Forms, etc.) - “attack their interests”
- Adding students names into problems
- Hooks, reveals, challenges, brainteasers, puzzles, prodigygame.com
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- encouraging kids to work together on riddles
- Using Google Slides to create “reveal” activities
- Google Arts & Culture Puzzle Party
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- Other Google Arts & Culture "games" here
- Ditch Summit - Esther Park - talked about interaction - student-to-student, student-to-teacher, student-to-class, teacher-to-teacher
- Collaborative spaces - Jamboard, Google Docs, graphic organizers or drag-and-drop activities in Google Slides, Padlet, Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, Microsoft Teams whiteboard
- "Become the master of your tool… it’s only time to move on when you’ve mastered it." - David Carradine, Kung Fu
- "Digital gorge"
- Pear Deck
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- Complete the squiggle
- Shared teacher dashboard (allow co-teachers in)
- Engaging Instruction = attracts and maintains attention, often means students are actively involved and a part of it (engaged in it)
- Three different types of student engagement: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive - (Classcraft, Jenny Fulton)
- Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
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- Question - Adrienne Hudson
- Edulastic
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- Great Data!!!
- standards-aligned questions
- Standardized test prep
- Edulastic is great for item-analysis, mastery-based grading or standards-based grading, identifying students who need support, creating student mastery profiles that can be useful in parent-teacher conferences, and even breaking down assessment data based on a variety of factors or subgroups.
- ScratchPad
- Question Types include: Drag-and-drop, Diagram-labeling, multiple select questions, sets of multiple choice questions in a table
- questions with images, videos or audio
- Math tools include: Coordinate plane, Line plots, Fractions, Math formatting, Fraction diagrams
- Paid features: Rubrics, built-in read-aloud feature, Desmos calculator, Snapscore, Co-authoring & collaboration, Improved data
- Poll Everywhere
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- Flip phone origins!
- Question types include: multiple choice, word cloud, Q&A with upvoting & downvoting, clickable images (click on a section of an image to indicate their answer), open ended, Surveys, short answer, select on a map
- Launch from PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or Poll Everywhere’s site.
- Students can respond within any mobile or web browser, using a mobile app or with text messaging.
- Asynchronous option
- Competitions - multiple-choice games are a lot like Kahoot or Quizizz
- Paid - Show live results to participants, better reports
- Mentimeter
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- Free Version gives you Unlimited audience size, presentations, and content slides, but up to 2 question slides and up to 5 quiz slides per presentation. Presentations are public.
- Interactive presentations can include videos and images, polls, data, opinions
- great for with smart phones
- Question Slides include: Word clouds, Multiple choice, Fun Quiz competitions, Q&A (with upvote), Ranking questions, Image options, Open-ended, Scales questions, 2 by 2 grid, 100 point questions
- Mentimote remote is pretty cool
- Can put Surveys and forms in presentation
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