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Welcome back this week for a great episode of #dcsdtransforms. This week, we are highlighting Make Badges (click here for the website). It's a simple and easy to use tool to make badges for your classroom. Not sure what badges are? Then please listen to learn more! I even made our podcast episode cover photo using it (shout out to our AP, Mr. Greg Johnson for the use of his twitter picture). Our shout out goes to Julie Townley (maybe Townlin, we'll let you decide which it is) and Tanya Bunn at Darlington High School for the work their students did creating an iBook. Thanks for joining us!

YES!  You read that correctly!  Carla is an ADE!  For those that don't know much about it, this is one of the most sought-after recognitions in the edtech world, and in the education world in general.  It is the highest certification Apple can give a teacher.  Please take a moment to send her a congratulations email if you can!  Aside from this amazing news, we also have our usual tool and shout out to share with you.  The tool this week is highlighting one aspect of Quizlet called Quizlet Live which is a neat tool that lets you take the lessons you've done in Quizlet and put students in competition (on teams) with each other.  Students learn to work collaboratively and have more motivation with the competitive nature of Quizlet Live.  Our shout out goes to Suzie Goodwin of Brockington Elementary for her creative use of Pic Collage for vocabulary lessons!  This is a vocab intensive episode for sure!  Thanks for listening!

What does that title even mean?  I'm glad you asked, Loyal Listeners!  It means that Carla and I finally hit the 10-minute mark for an episode!  WOOOHOOO!  Free cars for everyone (I also have a bridge for sale if interested)!!!!!!  Please join us this week as we highlight a Google Forms add-on called Choice Eliminator Lite.  Our shoutout this week goes to Hanna Hanlin at Pate Elementary school for what she is doing with the Book Creator app.  Thanks for listening!

Hello Everyone and thank you for joining us!  Have a great episode, especially for anyone who teaches math grades K-12 and English in middle and high school!  This week we are spotlighting www.yummymath.comfor K-12 math. It's a fantastic site that offers tons of real world math application problems.  Our shout out this week goes to Blaire Goodson an english teacher at DHS for her iMovie project on tone. We thank you for sharing your time with us and hope you enjoy the show!

Hello listeners and thank you for joining us for another episode of THE BEST ten-minute edtech conversation you'll hear all week!  This week we are highlighting PrepFactory.com, which is a great tool to help kids prepare for the ACT and SAT.  Our shout-out this week goes to Toni Sellers at the district office.  Wait, a non-teacher getting the shout-out?!  How is this even possible?!  Please join us to find out the really cool way she integrated tech into her work!  As always, we appreciate your support!

Hello and welcome back to another fun episode of #dcsdtransforms.  This week, we have a really neat tool called Quill (check out quill.org for more info).  It's a great tool for helping students in K-12 to become better writers.  Our shout-out this week goes to Hanna Hanlin from PES.  Thanks for joining us, and hope you enjoy the show!

Hello Everyone and thank you for joining us this week for another sub 15 minute episode!  That's right, Carla and I are really getting this time thing down when we put our minds to it.  This week we are going to share a bit about Google Slides new feature that allows you to insert video from Google Drive (instead of only from youtube.  Our shoutout this week goes to Julie Hanlin and Michelle Grantham at Carolina Elementary School for their work with BreakoutEDU!  Hope you enjoy the show!

OK, OK, OK, so it is a 1/2 truth for all those that are looking at the time. Sure, it shows up at 11 minutes and 15 seconds, but the actual time for the discussion of the podcast (removing outtakes, intro, etc) is actually 9 minutes and 54 seconds! We did it loyal listeners! And we couldn't have done that without your support and relentless sarcasm about how long our episodes are, so for that, we thank you! In all seriousness, we are trying to be more respectful of your time, so hopefully you will stay with us for years to come! This week, we are highlighting the Grammarly extension in Chrome - a super useful spelling and grammar checker for those things you do online that don't have a good spelling / grammar checker built in (like Schoology, for example). Our shout out this week goes to Paula Alvarez from HHS for the neat things she is doing with makerspaces. Hope you can join us this week!

Hello, Wonderful Listeners!  Thanks for tuning in for another episode of #dcsdtransforms - the best 10-minute edtech conversation you'll hear all week!  This week we are highlighting Know Recorder (click here to learn more).  It's a great white board app for your iPad to record, annotate, and share lessons with your students and colleagues.  Our shout-out this week goes to Janet Davis at Thornwell School for the Arts because she is blogging with her SECOND GRADERS!!! Wow!  And in the out-takes, you'll learn all about Carla getting bifocals and Rhett's "Dad of the Year" award.  Hope you enjoy this week's episode, and thanks for listening!

OH NO!  So sorry, loyal listeners! We were doing really well with getting our episode lengths so close to 10 minutes, and then poof! We went and shattered the longest episode mark by 15 minutes! But we have good news for you - while it may be long, we think you are really going to enjoy this episode. This week, Carla and I have the privilege of sitting down with some amazing people in DCSD so that they could share their thoughts with us. We have Mr. Josh Bastean, one of the instructional technology specialists, Mrs. Diane Sigmon, the director of technology, and Dr. Eddie Ingram, our superintendent. Together, they will be sharing their thoughts with where we have been over the last year and a half (the time it took us to reach 50 episodes) and where we are going with regard to technology in the district. We also have a shoutout to Heather Dyar at DHS.  Please join us this week for a great conversation!