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Hey Loyal Listeners!  We're back in 2019 with all new episodes.  Like every year, we are doing our annual new year, new tech, new you episode.  The point of it is to challenge you to try something new and different.  The tools themselves are not necessarily new, but they might be new to you (meaning you've never used them in your classroom).  We have 5 creation tools to share with you as well as some additional fun things to consider for your 2019.  One thing mentioned in the show is a podcast challenge hosted by NPR.  After listening to the show, if you are interested, click here and check out the requirements for the challenge.  Please let Carla ([email protected]) or Rhett ([email protected]) know how we can help you get started with any of these tools!  See you next week for our regularly scheduled programming!

Hey Loyal Listeners!  We invite you to enjoy our 4th annual Christmas edition.  It's all about getting you in the spirit of the season with apps that can help you plan, cook, play, and make memories for a lifetime!  We also have a surprise superstar guest, so please listen to hear who it is!  Happy Holidays from all of us at #dcsdtransforms!  We wish you a joyous season, a happy New Year, and we'll see you in 2019!

Check out this great edition of #dcsdtransforms!  We have shoutouts going to Mrs. Ewing and Mrs. Matthews of Carolina Elementary.  Our tech tool is a great resource for learning currency in elementary and in special education classes.  ANNNNDDDD check out where Carla got to go recently!  We'll see you again next week early with a Tuesday release of our annual Christmas special!  Thanks for listening!

Hey Everyone!  Thanks for joining us this week!  We are showcasing a GREAT free resource for art teachers, but something that could also be used by english and history teachers.  Our shoutout goes to Ms. Chenethia Brown, an ELA teacher at DMS.  Hope you enjoy the show!

Welcome back!  This week we are highlighting a great tool called Storyboard That which creates comic strip style products but you can also make greeting cards out of your storyboards!  Our shout out goes to Michelle McCall at HMS for the amazing work she did with her students using Google Drawing on a computer.  It's unreal the portraits the students could draw by just using A MOUSE!!!!  See the cover art for this episode for some examples!  And stick around for the outtakes for another special edition of "words is hard" by Carla Jefferson!

Greetings Loyal Listeners!  Hope you are having a great week!  We are dropping this episode early so that it can get to you in time for Thanksgiving.  In this episode, we give thanks and share some tools for Thanksgiving!  From our homes to yours, Carla and Rhett wish you a most wonderful Thanksgiving!  Thank you for being a loyal listener!

Loyal Listeners...I just can't wrap my head around the fact that we just released our 100th episode of #dcsdtransforms.  100.  I mean, seriously.  One.  Hundred.  That's a lot of time editing, ya know?  haha!  In all seriousness, this is a really special episode, particularly for DCSD staff, parents, and students.  In this episode, we have Mrs. Diane Sigmon, Executive Director of Technology for DCSD, Mrs. Carlita Davis, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for DCSD, and Dr. Tim Newman, Superintendent of DCSD.  We were so fortunate that all three could put a time on their schedule for us to meet together and record this show.  And we are most appreciative of their willingness to be on the show, and the time they set aside for us!  Each person is going to address the idea of edtech in DCSD, but each person will have a slightly different take on it.  Mrs. Sigmon will be discussing where we have been as a district with technology in the district.  Next, you'll hear from Mrs. Davis about where we are now and how the tools are being used to enhance learning in our district.  Finally, Dr. Newman will be discussing the future of technology in DCSD.  While we know this is a longer episode, it had to be!  Why?  Because do you have any idea the extent of amazing things happening across our district?  It's incredible, and we wanted to share all of that with you!  Thanks for tuning it!

Hello Loyal Listeners! This week we have a great show, mostly because Rhett gets the teacher shout out.  Only took him 4 years to get there, and he is quite grateful to his amazing co-host for the shout out!  haha!  In all seriousness, all credit goes to the amazing students in the Darlington High School Journalism class who created the podcast and got published!  Also, we are highlighting a really great tool that DCSD high school teachers have called Study Mate through the Respondus Lockdown Browser.  Hope you enjoy this show.  We are going to be on a bit of a hiatus as we prepare our 100th episode!  It's gonna be great, so please bear with us as we take a break to prepare for that show. Thank you!  If you want to hear the student podcast, you can currently (as of 5:00pm on 11/1/18) find it on Spotify and Google Podcast by searching for "Falcon Pod".  Also, you can listen by clicking here.  Go ahead and follow us so you can get all the great episodes that come out this year!

Well that's not entirely true, but what we do have for you Loyal Listeners is our SHORTEST SHOW EVER!  That's right!  About 7 min and 15 seconds of glorious gadget goodness!  Check out this week's episode on a cool tip about sharing your documents in Google Drive - bet it's something you had no idea existed and might prove really useful in your classroom or professional world.  Our shoutout this week goes to Hunter Britton of Hartsville Middle School!  Thanks as always for joining us!

Loyal Listeners!  Welcome back!  This episode is filled with all sorts of cool stuff:  First, we have a web resource / tool for elementary teachers and middle / high science teachers.  It's a TEDEd talk on the flu vaccination.  And our shoutout this week goes to Ms. Tomlinson and Ms. Dudley at Darlington High School for their cross-curricular project-based learning activity they did on the podcast Serial.  If you are a fan of the show Serial, you absolutely have to listen to this podcast and then listen to what the students created.  If you are interested in hearing a great example of project-based learning, then please tune in this week and listen.  Below are the two links that you will hear Rhett mention in the show.  As always, thanks for listening!  

Click here for the TEDEd lesson on the flu shot.

Click here for the student project on Serial.