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

The Edtech Take Out Podcast

EP86: Virtual Conferences

2/2/2021

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News & Followup

  • Fun with Pear Deck and AsciiMath
  • Enable offline support for Google Calendar on web from your computer
  • JAMBOARD TEMPLATES, TIPS, AND TRICKS!
  • SeeSaw Block Boards
  • Block Boards PDF
  • ​​Expeditions Pro - VR Tours: App
  • ISTELive 21 - Edtech conference | June 26-30

Main Course: Virtual Conferences

  • 10 tips for attending a virtual conference

Tech Nuggets

  • mote | faster, friendlier commenting
  • Bouncy Maps
  • Obs.ninja
  • Bad Calculators
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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EP85: A Big Box of Xmas Nuggets

12/20/2020

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News & Followup

  • Take Your Students on Virtual Expeditions (With Peardeck)
  • Pear Deck and GoGuardian have merged
  • Introducing the Pear Deck Shared Teacher Dashboard!
  • New WeVideo feature: Collaborate & edit videos in real time
  • Custom backgrounds for Jamboard are here!
  • Jamboard version history is here
  • Flipgrid Updates

Main Course: Nuggets!

  • Cult of Pedagogy
  • The Differentiator from Byrdseed
  • Blooket
  • Jamboard
  • Whiteboard.chat
  • Perusall:One-pager
  • Pixilart - Free Online Art Community and Pixel Art Tool
  • Hummingbird Remote Robots
  • Add chapters to a progress bar in YouTube
  • Custom Cursor and Confetti Cannon 
  • Google Forms
  • Pear Deck Smore
  • Google’s Santa Tracker
  • Mmhmm
  • Canva Zoom Virtual Background Templates
  • Sadie's Design Studio for Educators Wakelet
  • Canva.com/colors andcolor.adobe.com
Special thanks this week to Stacy Behmer (@sbehmer), Beth Swantz (@betswan), Amber Bridge (@abridgesmith), Gina Rogers (@grogers1010), Corey Rogers (@corey_rogers), and Dianna Geers (@dianna_geers) for contributing to this episode.

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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EP84: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

12/3/2020

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(Bad) News & Followup

  • Updates to Expeditions and Tour Creator
  • Expanding Google Arts and Culture with Expeditions
  • Tour Builder FAQ

Main Course: Hour of Code 2020

  • Hour of Code website
  • 2020 Hour of Code Blog Post from DLGWAEA
  • Hour of Code Resource Landing Page
  • CodeBytes
  • Take a Code Break
  • Activities for Social Distanced Classrooms
  • Activities for Hybrid Classrooms
  • Activities for Virtual Classrooms
  • Activities for #CSforGood & #CSforSocialJustice
  • Follow Shaina Glass on Twitter for Hour of Code & general CS resources & info - @SvicGlass
  • #CSforGood, #CSforSocialJustice#CSforGWAEA, #CSforIA, #CSEdWeek, and #HourOfCode
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​Follow Corey Rogers on Twitter at @corey_rogers

Tech Nuggets

  • Creator Studio
  • CodeSpark Academy
  • Computer Science in 60 Seconds
  • Illustrations by Undraw
  • TeachingBooks | Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education
  • ​Miro.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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EP83: The 2nd Great Google Tips Episode

11/19/2020

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News & Followup

  • Replace your background in Google Meet
  • Citations in Google Docs
  • Adobe add lessons to Flipgrid Discover library
  • Wakelet notifications

The Great Google Tips Episode: Part 2

Round 1: Docs
  • Find and Replace
  • Bookmarks
  • Translate a document or write in a different language
  • Mention users in a doc
Round 2: Sheets
  • Conditional formatting
  • Alternating colors: Format > Alternating colors
  • Use drop-downs
  • Explore Smart Charts
Round 3: Forms
  • Use the templates
  • Import questions from other Forms
  • Add a confirmation message
  • Change the theme or font of your form
Round 4: Keep
  • Add a Keep note to your Doc
  • Google Keep Chrome Extension and App
  • Bulleted lists (asterisk, space, item, enter)
  • Double click on an image to annotate it
  • Indent checklists for hierarchy
Round 5: YouTube
  • YouTube Video Editor
  • Adblocker extensions for YouTube ads - uBlock Origin, AdGuard, and more
    • ​Or sites like safeshare.tv and viewpure.com
  • YouTube Dark Mode
  • Playlists

Tech Nuggets

  • https://www.quill.org/
  • Fall Virtual Field trips
  • edit.screencastify.com
  • Grant Wood AEA Instructional Materials
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EP82: The Great Google Tips Episode - Part 1?

10/29/2020

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News & Followup

  • The new integrated Gmail
  • Add/manage citations
  • Loom Education
  • ​Text Comments in Flipgrid

Main Course: Google Tips

Round 1: Gmail
  • Create calendar event from an email
  • Experiment with Inbox types
  • Snooze
  • The right-click button

Round 2: Calendar
  • Speedy Meetings
  • Desktop notifications
  • Virtual Assistants

Round 3: Drive
  • Google Drive shortcuts
  • Priority Drive
  • Don’t add everything that’s shared with you--star it.
  • Annotate PDFs Collaboratively Using Google Drive

Round 4: Slides
  • Using Guides to Align Content in Google Slides
  • Create a table of contents
  • Change edit to present in url

Round 5: Classroom
  • 3 easy strategies to organize your Google Classroom
  • HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM NOW!
  • Online Discussions in Google Classroom (Video)

Tech Nuggets

  • What is CNN10?
  • Nadine Gilkinson’s Hyperdocs
  • Closegap.org
  • Boclips
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.

Special thanks to Timbre for the boxing bell sound file found on freesound.org.
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EP81: Perfect Pear Deck Presentations!

10/16/2020

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News & Followup

  • Google Workspace - Everything changes, only not really...
  • Animotica for Education - All schools get Animotica PRO for free!
  • Live captions in Zoom
  • Rearrange and pin multiple Zoom windows and host controlled multi spotlight
  • Web App Weekly Planner template for slides or PPT via Beth Swantz
  • ​Another example from Greg Kulowiec with video walkthrough

Main Course: Pear Deck

  • Pear Deck power up Chrome Extension
  • Template Gallery and online templates
  • Publish take aways
  • Flashcard Factory
  • This or That PE lesson
  • More templates for the arts & also for School counsellors
  • Newsela & Pear Deck integration
  • The DLGWAEA Pear Deck Handbook
  • Pear Deck Orchard

Tech Nuggets

  • Zoho Annotator Chrome Extension
  • Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox
  • Using PDFs in Slides by Devin Shoening
  • Register for FETC for free
  • ​Don't Let COVID Kill Creativity Season 6: Episode 1
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.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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EP80: What Does Asynchronous Learning Look Like?

9/23/2020

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News & Followup

  • Google Meet Background Blur Restrictions
  • Removing students from a Meet call
  • Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days starting on October 13, 2020
  • Folder sharing in shared Drives is here
  • Zoom updates!
  • New iPads are here!

Main Course: Asynchronous Learning

  • Executive Functioning Resources
  • Ruby Payne’s book: Research-Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under-Resources Students
  • NewBoCo Agile - Contacts: Nate Adams & Jennifer Murphy
  • https://www.agileclassrooms.com/
  • Jen Manly’s CSTA Presentation Slidedeck & Agile Toolkit
  • Pomodora technique
  • Pomodora timer
  • ​Sample Email Auto-Reply with FAQ and links to get synch help

Tech Nuggets

  • Modifications for Common Teaching Practices
  • Active Learning While Physically Distanced
  • Ice Breakers from Philadelphia Outward Bound School
  • Iriun...because webcams suck...also see DroidCam
  • A PSA for tad addicts - Tab Hare
  • ​Computational Thinking Puzzles
  • Amber Bridge’s Google Classroom Workbook
  • ​Breakout Room Graphics: Have you guys seen these? Example
You can follow Corey (@corey_rogers), 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.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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EP79: The Power of Playlists

9/16/2020

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Hot Topics

  • How to Stop cheating on Google Forms
  • Students should be required to have their webcams turned on for video calls

Main Course: Playlists with Beth Swantz

  • Beth Swantz - @betswan
  • Hyperdocs
  • Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
  • Smore: choice board examples
  • Playlists: A Path to Personalization

Tech Nuggets!

  • IPEVO’s Mirror Cam Via Kathy Schrock
  • Free NY Times to High School Teachers and their students
  • ClassHook
  • Web Paint Extension
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.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
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