#EdTech Chat Radio

In this summary of the 9/16/13 Edtechchat we discuss best practices for using social media in the classroom and modeling those practices.

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Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne. Sharon Plante is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Katrina Stevens, a former teacher and administrator, is an education consultant with the Tuscany Group.

This week's chat on focused on the books being read and recommended by #edtechchat participants. The discussion yielded many great suggestions. Listen in as we review the books everyone is reading.

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Katie Regan is a high school English educator and technology integration specialist and one of the #ladygeeks from lady geeks.org where she co-hosts a web show and podcast all about technology every Thursday night. Tom Murray serves as the Director of Technology and Cyber Education for the Quakertown Community School District in Bucks County, PA. Sharon Plante is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne.

This week's chat on focused on the books being read and recommended by #edtechchat participants. The discussion yielded many great suggestions. Listen in as we review the books everyone is reading.

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Sharon Plante is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Alex J Podchaski serves as the Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ. Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne.

This week's chat on Web 2.0 tools identified connection, collaboration, creation of an authentic audience, and a more compelling way have students demonstrate the learning as some of the benefits. In this segment we explore the pros and cons and how to identify the most useful tools.

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Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne. Sharon Plante is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Katrina Stevens, a former teacher and administrator, is an education consultant with the Tuscany Group.

The New Media Consortium's Horizon Report is an annual study that identifies the emerging technologies,trends and challenges set to impact K-12 education in the next five years. In this segment of Edetechchat Radio, we provide highlights, projections and commentary on the report gleaned from last week's #Edtechchat.

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Alice Keeler is a teacher on special assignment at ACEL charter high school, adjunct professor California State University Fresno, Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator, curriculum designer, consultant, speaker, presenter. Alex J Podchaski serves as the Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ. Samantha Adams Becker, Senior Director of Communications for the New Media Consortium (NMC), is the lead writer and researcher for the NMC Horizon Report series, which documents the emerging technologies, trends, and challenges that vastly impact all education sectors across the world.

In this segment we recap last week's edtechchat on Google Apps for Education. We discuss many of the unique tools and how they an be applied in classrooms as well as cover how to become a Google Certified Trainer.

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Sharon Plante is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Alex J Podchaski serves as the Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ. Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne.

In this segment we recap last week's first "open chat" where the topics surfaced Edcamp style from the participants in real-time. The result was a spike in participation, great ideas and a round up of great tools... listen to the summary.

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Alex J Podchaski (@ajpodchaski) serves as the Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ. Sharon Plante (@iplante) is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Susan M. Bearden (@s_bearden) is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne.

In this segment we discuss we tea with two educators from the Flipped Network to talk about flipping your classroom, the best technologies to use and low tech ways to flip.

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Karl Lindgren-Streicher teaches 9th and 10th graders, mostly about world history and is on the edcampSFBay organizing team. Cheryl Morris has taught English, History, and Physics in California public schools for ten years. Alex J Podchaski serves as the Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ. Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne.

In this segment we discuss highlights from the July 8th #Edtechchat on avoiding summer learning loss.

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Sharon Plante is Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport in Southport, CT. Alex J Podchaski serves as the Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ. Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne.

In this segment we discuss the this week's edtechchat on how to make the best of the summer break.

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Susan M. Bearden is the Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne. She is a contributing author to the Huffington Post and was ranked #9 on their list of “The 50 Most Social CIOs on Twitter.” Katrina Stevens is a former teacher and administrator and is currently an education consultant with the Tuscany Group.