Digital Learning Radio

In this episode, Kathryn (@kklaster) shares one more favorite EduProtocol, Iron Chef. If you like using the "jigsaw" instructional strategy, you'll recognize the framework because Iron Chef is a digital, gamified version of the jigsaw strategy.

Resources:

• EduProtocols website, books, #eduprotocols on Twitter, authors Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern
• Iron Chef template for Google Slides (from the EduProtocols website)
• Adventures in #EduProtocols - Iron Chef, math example
• Mix Iron Chef into Reading and Writing
• A History Teacher's Favorite Eduprotocols (and check out his Iron Chef template)

In this episode, Misty (@TrevinoMisty) shares an EduProtocol that she learned and is excited to try. The Sketch and Tell EduProtocol involves visuals, collaboration, and text, and our team discusses ways this strategy may be used in classrooms or in PD sessions.

Ideas for Sketch and Tell:

• Eduprotocols website, books, #eduprotocols on Twitter, authors Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern
• #SketchAndTell on Twitter
• brush.ninja, drawing tool/GIF creator
• AutoDraw
• Google JamBoard
• Explore feature in Google Slides
• SeeSaw
• The Noun Project for icons

Other Ideas and People Mentioned:

• Universal Design for Learning, from CAST (UDL)
• Dual-Coding 
• ISTE Standards for Educators
• Carrie Baughcum
• Sylvia Duckworth
• #sketchnoting

In this episode, Nancy (@NancyWTech) shares the next principle of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Representation. There are so many tech tools that can accommodate for leaners' preferences, and Nancy provides a quick overview of how specific tools support UDL.

Tools Mentioned:

• Immersive Reader
• TextHelp Read & Write 
• Mercury Reader
• Captions in Google Slides
• Picto4Me
• Google Dictionary
• Microsoft Translator
• Draw.io
• Graphic Organizers
• NewsELA
• Insert Learning

Learn More about UDL:

• Universal Design for Learning, from CAST
• Learning Designed
• Video: See UDL in Action
• UDL in Fifteen Minutes Podcast

Kathryn (@kklaster) talks Eduprotocols again in this episode. Today, she and Nancy discuss the Thin Slides strategy, and they share how this eduprotocol could be used in classrooms and in professional development sessions.

More about the Thin Slides eduprotocol:

• Eduprotocols website, books, #eduprotocols on Twitter, authors Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern
• Thin Slides blog post from Adam Juarez
• #ThinSlides on Twitter

How do you engage learners as the walk into the door? In this episode, Misty (@TrevinoMisty) shares ideas of what to do While You're Waiting. Her examples are for professional development, but the ideas can be applied to classrooms, too.

Resources Mentioned

• While Your Waiting Slide Template
• ColorPick Eyedropper Extension
• AutoDraw
• I Shot the Serif (Font Recognition Game)
• Google Experiments Art Pallet 

In this episode, Nancy (@NancyWTech) starts our discussion about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) by sharing information about the first principle, Engagement.

Learn More about UDL:

• Universal Design for Learning, from CAST
• Learning Designed
• Video: See UDL in Action
• UDL in Fifteen Minutes Podcast

Also mentioned:

• EduProtocols (discussed in episode 1, too!)
• Use of Google Classroom for Classy Creations (with Tony Vincent)
• Kathryn's learning log sample

Our new series focuses on one idea or strategy for each episode. In the episode, Kathryn (@kklaster) shares the Cyber Sandwich EduProtocol with Nancy (@NancyWTech) and Misty (@TrevinoMisty).

Ideas mentioned and resources:

• Fist-to-Five strategy
• EduProtocols website, books, #eduprotocols on Twitter, authors Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern
• Cyber Sandwich Template (from Kathryn, from a professional learning session)
• Cyber Sandwich Federalists vs Anti-Federalists Template (from Moler’s Musings blog)
• EduProtocol Templates and Ideas from Ditch That Textbook
• Marzano’s 9 High Yield Instructional Strategies, ASCD

Kathryn Laster (@kklaster), Nancy Watson (@NancyWTech), and Misty Trevino (@TrevinoMisty) share 20 tips, ideas, resources, and tools for the new year. If you have additional ideas or tools for us to try, please tweet us @DigLearnRadio.

Digital Citizenship Ideas

• Spotting Bots tutorial - tips on identifying social media bots
• Informable app from the News Literacy Project - helps you build news literacy skills
• Everyday #DigCit app - questions and talking points for quick digital citizenship lessons any time. Digcit.glideapp.io Contribute your ideas for the app at bit.ly/digcitideas
• Digital Citizenship online course - coming soon!

Mindfulness

• Calm app (oops, no longer accepting teacher applications)
• Headspace app (free for educators)
• The Joy Makeover from Ingrid Fetell Lee (sign up here)
• Before Breakfast Podcast, 5-minute podcast from Laura Vanderkam, which shares tips about time management
• Forest: Be focused, stay present Chrome extension

Learning Opportunities

• #ClassyCreations with Tony Vincent
• #GifADay from Jake Miller
• The Learning Scientists, website focused on research connected to learning
• Google Teacher Training Center

Random/Fun Tools

• Just a Line - An app that lets you make simple drawings with white lines in 3D space
• Jen Giffen’s blog post on creating friendmojis
• While You're Waiting slide example

Tools to Try in 2020

• Classroom Q, students virtually raise their hand to get help from a teacher, discovered from this tweet from Catlin Tucker
• Floop, tool for streamlining feedback loops, heard on the "6 EdTech Tools to Try in 2020" podcast episode from Cult of Pedagogy
• Parlay, discussion prompt/response tool, also mentioned on the Cult of Pedagogy podcast
• Shortcuts for iPhone - see the post 12 Shortcuts You Should be Using (includes video to GIF shortcut) and how to use shortcuts to dictate into notes

In this episode, the team wraps-up the Step In series by sharing personal reflections and what happens next. Nancy (@NancyWTech), Misty (@TrevinoMisty), and Kathryn (@kklaster) discuss the common themes found within the series, how they now notice and experience white privilege or heteronormative privilege, and ways they're stepping in in their roles. 

Ideas mentioned in many of the episodes: relationships, intentionality, empathy, and self-work.

Resources and additional ideas mentioned:

• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi
• This is not a joke, podcast episode from Embedded
• 3 Dimensions of Professional Learning for Equity, Learning Forward
• ISTE Standards for Leaders
• Our panel participants from a recent conference
• #CoffeeEDU tweet from Marvia Davidson (and Marvia found her image on nappy.co, which is a site of "beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people. For free.")
• UnDraw Illustrations
• Women of Color in Tech Flickr
• North Texas ITS (Region 10-11 group for digital coaches) - bring a friend to our February meeting!
• Video - Standing Up: What is calling out versus calling in?
• The Water Dancer
• Border Child
• Coaching and Culturally Responsive Teaching, ASCD EL, interview with Zaretta Hammond
• How to Address Tough Topics in Staff Meetings, Edutopia

In this week's episode, Kathryn, Nancy, and Misty discuss language equity and creating equitable systems with Katie Patterson (@hookemkatie). Katie is the Executive Director of the Richardson Adult Literacy Center, and she was a Trustee on the Richardson ISD School Board, and she shares her experiences about advocating for equity.

Connect with Katie and RALC at [email protected].

Katie mentions:

• National Center for Families Learning
• RISD Trustees Set New Standard With Equity, Diversity,  Inclusion Policy
• Jacinto Ramos, Jr. (@jaramos_jr), Ft. Worth ISD
• Dallas Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
• Welcome in multiple languages poster examples
• Katie Patterson won't run again for RISD School Board
• 3 Dimensions of Professional Learning for Equity, Learning Forward