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Bite-Sized Technology Tips for Teachers with Mindy Cairney & Jonathan Wylie

The Edtech Take Out Podcast

EP96: Esports with Jess Lubinsky

9/19/2021

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News & Followup

  • Screencastify’s new FREE features!
  • CommonLit 360 Curriculum
  • New Apple devices
  • Design your own custom themes in new Google Sites
  • New Google Tasks logo!!
  • Forms settings are now easier to navigate

Main Course: Esports in Schools

  • Chance the Rapper on SNL
  • Tweet from Mike Washburn
  • The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming (book)
  • readylearner.one
  • jesselubinsky.com
  • partial.credit

Tech Nuggets

  • Live Text in iOS 15
  • Wheel of Names | Random name picker via Tony Vincent
  • PackBack
  • Webinar Series: Four Tenets of Blended and Personalized Learning
  • Sesame Street Fighter
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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EP95: Universal Design for Learning

9/9/2021

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News & Followup

  • Flipgrid Live Events
  • Spreading Screencastify (SWAG alert!)
  • Save Tab Groups is coming soon?
    • Top Chrome Tab Tips
  • Safer learning with Google for Education
  • Better understand how you’re spending your time in Google Calendar
  • Find and share GIFs in Google Chat
  • And finally…​

Main Course: Universal Design for Learning

  • UDL Guidelines
  • What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
  • Seeing UDL in the Classroom (video)
  • Divergent by Design podcast
  • Lynn Kleinmeyer (@THlibrariZen on Twitter)

Tech Nuggets

  • Workflowy
  • HyperRubrics
  • Turn and Learn could be used with Flipgrid too
  • Add Voice to Google Forms using Mote
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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EP94: Make Math Moments

6/10/2021

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News & Followup

  • Easel by TPT
  • Canva Creator Program via Tanya LeClair
  • Google Docs will let you overlay text on images like it's 1997
  • “Master” view in Google Slides renamed to “Theme Builder”
  • How do I annotate a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
  • iCivics Unveils New – And BIG – Primary Sources Site
  • Friendly reminder: Do NOT delete your Seesaw class
  • End-Of-Year Google Classroom Clean-up Tips​

Main Course: Make Math Moments

  • Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr
  • MakeMathMoments.com
  • Desmos
  • KnowledgeHook
  • Special thanks to Janet Greene for being a guest co-host!

Tech Nuggets

  • Tech Integration Updates - Math from Eric Curts
  • OER Project Home
  • Use your omnibox to search your Google Drive
  • Kentucky Center for Mathematics
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
​
THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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EP93: Teachers Pay Teachers

5/13/2021

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News & Followup

  • Mote for Docs
  • How to create digital stickers using IconsMania
  • Zoom's Immersive View puts up to 25 people inside one virtual background
  • SeeSaw Update: Progress
  • Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M

Main Course: Teachers Pay Teachers

  • Teachers Pay Teachers
  • The Battle Between Teachers Pay Teachers and OERs
  • Rachel Lynette Is a Million-Dollar Teacher
  • ReadWriteThink
  • ShareMyLesson
  • OER Commons
  • What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers
  • Why I've Stopped Using Teachers Pay Teachers
  • Teachers Pay Teachers Has a New Anti-Racist Initiative. But There's Still Racist Content on the Site

Tech Nuggets

  • Literacy Shed
  • Verse by Verse - Google via Larry Ferlazzo
  • Helperbird
  • Kialo Edu - The tool to teach critical thinking and rational debate
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
​
THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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EP92: Joe Dale is Here!

4/26/2021

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News & Followup

  • Pixlr EDU free for students and educators
  • Public permissions for Flipgrid have changed.
  • New layout and features for Google Meet
  • New Apple products announced

​Main Course: Joe Dale

  • Guest: Joe Dale
    • @joedale
    • https://mfltwitteratipodcast.com/
    • TILT Webinars from Joe
  • Whiteboard.fi
  • Spiral.ac
  • Flipgrid
  • Qwiqr
  • Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French

Tech Nuggets

  • CS + Social Studies Bundling/Crosswalk
  • Pile of Words Strategy
  • gifcap
  • Visual organizer platform with circles | CirclyApp
  • GitMind​
  • Remove.bg
  • ​Unscreen.com
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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EP91: Carissa Cabrera is Here!

4/19/2021

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News & Followup

  • Miro Education accounts
  • Try TickTick
  • Whiteboard.chat has handwriting recognition in 50 languages
  • IconsMania
  • #WCCS21
  • Chrome 90 will let you share links to highlighted text
  • Google Earth time-lapse feature

Main Course: Carissa Cabrera

  • Email Carissa: carissacabrera1@gmail.com 
  • https://www.theconservationistcollective.com/ 
  • https://www.instagram.com/carissaandclimate/ 

Tech Nuggets

  • WindowSwap
  • VN Video Editor
  • https://www.challenginglearning.com/learning-pit/ 
  • SplashLearn
  • National Geographic Learn at Home
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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EP90: Eric Curts is Here!

4/1/2021

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News & Followup

  • New Toolbar: More Fun, Effective, and Flexible | The #1 Screen Recorder for Chrome
  • Google Meet Transcripts Automatically Saved as New Google Docs
  • Leaders Coaching Leaders on Apple Podcasts
  • My Perfect Presentation
  • Highlander Institute is offering a Spring Learning Series: COVID Clarity

Main Course: Eric Curts

  • Guest: Eric Curts (@ericcurts)
    • Control Alt Achieve (website)
    • Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects (book)
  • ITEC Spring Conference - Register today!
    • Making and Taking Tours: Google Earth
    • Hipster Google
    • Holy Sheets
    • Awesome Uses of Google Drawings in the Classroom
  • Thinglink
  • Feedly

Tech Nuggets

  • Textanim
  • CopyClip clipboard manager (Mac), or Win+V on Windows 10 and the Chromebook clipboard will now support last 5 items copied
  • Chrome can now caption audio and video
  • Chromebook screen recording
  • Record to Slides
  • Threadit
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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EP89: Jen Giffen is Here!

3/22/2021

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News & Followup

  • NEW: Wakelet Schools Program
  • New to us...Wakelet templates
  • New presenter toolbar in Slides
  • ​This interesting email from Pear Deck

Main Course: Jen Giffen

  • Jen Giffen (@VirtualGiff)
  • Shukes and Giff podcast
  • ITEC Spring Conference - Register today!
    • Sketchnoting 101
    • Student Voice & Flipgrid
    • Wicked Workflows
    • Podcasting with Chrome

Tech Nuggets

  • Mission to Mars AR on iOS and also on Android!
  • Translate with Interpreter Mode
  • ToDoist for Teachers
  • Mindful March Calendar
  • Clubhouse
  • What the Font
  • Desk Drumming
  • I don't care about cookies
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
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