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The Edtech Take Out Podcast

Episode 50: Live at ITEC 2018

10/15/2018

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Main Course: ITEC Featured Speakers

Kristina Ishmael
  • https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/prek12-oer-in-practice/
  • @kmishmael

Manuel Herrera
  • http://alearningmanuel.weebly.com/
  • @manuelherrera33

Digital Learning Team Resources from ITEC
  • dlgwaea.org/itec
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, podcast@gwaea.org.

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Episode 49: Future Ready Librarians

10/4/2018

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News & Follow-up

  • Mixtapes from Flipgrid
  • Media Balance and Well Being Lessons in Common Sense Media via Heather Callihan
  • Mac OS Mojave released
  • Everyone Can Create Curriculum from Apple now available
  • Apple Podcasts supports chapters, and so do we!
  • Smart Compose in Gmail now available for G Suite

Main Course: Future Ready Librarians


Guest: Lynn Kleinmeyer (@THLibrariZen)
  • Future Ready Librarians
  • Future Ready Schools
  • Future Ready Librarian Framework
  • Future Ready Librarian Padlet
  • Sharing Our Stories blog from Grant Wood AEA
  • National hashtags: #FutureReadyLibs, #ISTElibs & #MWLibChat
  • GWAEA hashtag: #gwaealibs on Twitter and Instagram
  • ISTE/Future Ready Crosswalk

Tech Nuggets

  • Ear Machine App
  • New Screencasting Option in Mac OS Mojave (Cmd+Shift+5)
  • Toy Theater
  • Create-a-graph
  • Siri Shortcuts
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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Episode 48: Screencasting For The Win!

9/19/2018

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News & Followup

  • Teachers can now add Materials to Google Classroom
  • The YouTube Video Editor is back...kind of
  • Google is discontinuing Inbox in March 2019
  • Google Sites Updates:
    • New Section Layouts
    • Add Buttons for Links 
  • Signing into FlipGrid with QR Codes
  • Curriculum for Cue: Applied Robotics
  • Sphero Bolt
  • iOS 12 is out

Main Course: Screencasting for the Win!

See the slideshow below for the tips and tools we share in this part of the podcast. Click here to access the presentation in a new window.

Tech Nuggets!

  • PDF Candy via Leslie Fisher
  • Switcher Studio for your journalism classes via ISTE this summer
  • Green Screen Workshop Lessons by Tricia Fuglestad
  • YellKey from Tony Vincent
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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Episode 47: Summer Learning Nuggets

8/28/2018

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A Big Box of Tech Nuggets

  • 9 Updates for Google Classroom from Eric Curts
    • What to do about the missing About page
    • Create a Forms quiz and lock it with managed Chromebooks
  • CoSpaces AR Tool now available
  • Flipgrid is acquired by Microsoft and all features are now free!
    • Educator guide to Flipgrid volume 3
  • Google Tour Creator
    • Richard Byrne Tutorial Video
  • Soundtrap Teacher Snapshots Padlet board - for cross curricular ideas on using audio
    • The Innovator’s Compass to Podcasting
      • The Innovator’s Compass
      • Mapping steps from different processes
  • 3 Things You Should Know about Scratch 3.0
    • The Scratch Bit
  • Embed codes in Book Creator for Chrome
    • The ultimate student portfolio?
    • New simplified student portfolio system by Ramsey Musallam
  • The BBC Micro:bit
  • Headliner app for creating shareable podcast audiograms
  • Seesaw Activity Library
  • Wakelet - The new Storify
    • 12 Curation Ideas for students and teachers with Wakelet
  • Minecraft EDU for iPad arrives in September
    • How to purchase licenses
  • Gifnote
    • Stacy's #gifnote of Jonathan
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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Episode 46: Rewiring Education

6/19/2018

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News & Followup

  • ANOTHER new padlet feature - Catscan
  • Transfer classic google sites to new google sites
  • You can also make a copy of new Google Sites
  • Apple had their WWDC conference

Main Course: Interview with John Couch

  • Guest: John D. Couch
  • Book: Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential
  • Website: http://rewiringeducation.com

Tech Nuggets

This is a first for The Edtech Take Out...no Tech Nuggets this week! :(
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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Episode 45: Art, Technology & Education

5/21/2018

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News & Followup

  • Google releases "Pretty Please" mode for the Google Assistant
  • Tony Vincent calls out an app developer...
  • Michal accepts the challenge

Main Course: Michal Finegold

  • Michal Finegold
  • http://www.shmonster.com/
  • @MichalFinegold (Twitter)

Tech Nuggets

  • Heather Callihan’s ICYMI Summer Learning opportunities
  • Keynote iPad Updates
    • Draw on slides with a variety of tools
    • Animate drawings with a Build action
    • Change slide sizes (4:3, 16:9, 3:4, square or custom)
  • Snooze Tabby
  • GiF Keyboard (and/or GIPHY)
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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Episode 44: Cheating Every Day

5/17/2018

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News & Followup

  • Adobe Creative Cloud for EDU for $5
  • Autodesk Sketchbook free for all devices
  • Google Updates
    • New user interface for Google Drive 
    • Offline Gmail in Chrome
    • Insert Slides into Docs
    • Six "New" Features in Google Forms

Main Course: Cheating Every Day (ft. Gina Rogers)

  • Rewiring Education by John Couch
  • A Google A Day
  • I Cheated All Throughout High School (The Atlantic)
  • PhotoMath
  • CyMath

Tech Nuggets

  • The DLGWAEA 4Cs Summer Camp
  • TED ED Lessons
  • Google VR Tour Creator
  • YouCanDoTheCube.com
  • Oculus Go
  • Dremel 3D Printer
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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Episode 43: Interview with Joe Crozier

5/1/2018

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News and Followup

  • The new Gmail is here...
  • Today’s Meet is going away on June 16
    • Here’s the reason why…
    • TodaysMeet Is Shutting Down - Six Alternatives to Try
      • Richard Byrne podcast on the way...
  • Google offers access to virtual 3D models of ancient monuments
  • New version of Pages on iOS has a teleprompter via Tony Vincent
  • Chromebook Tablets are here… ($329 with a stylus)
  • Checkboxes in Google Sheets. Are you excited yet?!?!
  • CoSpaces announces they will release an AR creation tool at ISTE
  • Scratch gets an update

Main Course: Joe Crozier (GWAEA Chief Administrator)

  • Joe Crozier, Chief Administrator at Grant Wood AEA (@jcrozier57)
  • Joe's Favorite Books
    • Good to Great by Jim Collins 
    • The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
    • Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
    • Great By Choice by Jim Collins
    • Start With Why by Simon Sinek
    • The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan
    • Coherence: The Right Drivers for Schools, Districts & Systems by Michael Fullan
    • Gen Z @ Word by David and Jonah Stillman
    • The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath
    • Eat Move Sleep by Tom Rath
    • Making Hope Happen by Shane Lopez
    • Grit by Angela Duckworth
  • Top "10" Professional Reading List for Educators - 2018 Version

Tech Nuggets

  • Emoji Scavenger Hunt
  • Wheel Decide: Try it.
  • Kids Invent Stuff YouTube Channel
  • https://www.timeline.ly/ via Larry Ferlazzo
  • My Computer My Way from Nestle

Quick podcast pick for kids:
  • Pants on Fire
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, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes, the Apple Podcasts app, or in Google Play Music. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without you!!
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