Edtech Throwdown

Episode #134: 15 Canva Activities Templates for Student-Centered Projects

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 134 called “15 Canva Templates for Student-Centered Projects”.   In this episode, we’ll share 15 Canva templates that you can use for your next student-centered classroom project.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

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1. About Me Introductory Activity
2. Developing a Class Brand
3. Logo Design
4. Professional Headshots
5. Social Media Cover Art and Profile Pics
6. Design a School or City Flag
7. Coloring Book Project
8. Infographic Project 1: Checklist
9. Infographic Project 2: Timeline
10. Infographic Project 3: Maps
11. Picture Quote Wall
12. Calendar Design
13. Comic Strip
14. Editorial Cartoon/Content-based Joke
15. Stationary Design Project

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• EdTech Throwdown
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• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 133 called “How does EdTech Support Personalized Learning”.   In this episode, we’ll define personalized learning and go over some of the many pros, cons, barriers, and benefits to this methodology.  We’ll also give several ideas for implementing personalized learning with the help of edtech.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

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Personalized Learning:  

• An educational approach that tailors instruction to meet the individual learning needs, preferences, interests, and abilities of each student. 
• UDL

Pros of Personalized Learning:

1. Customized Learning: Students can learn at their own pace, receive targeted feedback, and work on topics that interest them the most.
2. Improved Engagement: Personalized learning can boost student engagement and motivation by allowing them to take more ownership of their learning and pursue their interests.
3. Flexibility: Personalized learning can be delivered through a variety of methods, including online courses, project-based learning, and one-on-one instruction, allowing for more flexibility and adaptability in the learning process.
4. Better Outcomes: Personalized learning has been shown to improve student outcomes, including higher academic achievement, increased graduation rates, and better preparation for college and career success.

Cons of Personalized Learning:

1. Implementation Challenges: Personalized learning requires a significant investment in technology, resources, and teacher training, which can be challenging for some schools and districts to achieve.
2. Equity Concerns: Personalized learning can exacerbate existing inequities in education, particularly for students who lack access to technology or quality instruction.
3. Standardization: Some critics argue that personalized learning can lead to a narrow focus on specific skills and knowledge, rather than a broad and diverse education.
4. Privacy and Data Security: Personalized learning relies heavily on data collection and analysis, which can raise concerns about student privacy and data security.

Barriers to Personalized Learning:

1. Limited Resources: Many schools and districts lack the necessary resources to implement personalized learning effectively, including technology, staffing, and funding.
2. Teacher Training: Teachers require extensive training and support to implement personalized learning effectively, including how to use technology, how to differentiate instruction, and how to monitor student progress.
3. Cultural Resistance: Some educators, parents, and students may resist personalized learning because it represents a significant shift in traditional educational practices.

1. Curated list of Guides
2. How to use Canva for creating awesome presentations?
3. Canva Tutorials
4. Canva Design School
5. Other edtech that you like to use
6. List of YouTube Videos
7. Inspod
8. Give students choice!  Choice boards are an easy way to build in small and large scale personalized learning.  A simple 3x3 grid in a google slide is a good place to start.  Slidesmania and dforlearning.com have some awesome templates to help you get rolling as well.
9. Develop a website that is used!

Feedback

1. Self-reflection: Encourage students to reflect on their own learning progress and provide feedback to themselves. 
2. Journaling
3. Blogging
4. Canva Sites
5. Google Sites
6. WordPress Free
7. self-evaluation checklists/rubrics
8. self-assessments
9. Peer feedback: 
10. Invest time into modeling this
11. Build a sense of community
12. Slides
13. Teacher feedback:
14. Individual conferences
15. Written comments
16. Rubrics
17. Edtech Tools
18. Mote
19. Comments in Google
20. Presenters Notes
21. Kami
22. Floop
23. Technology-based feedback: 
24. Instant feedback through online formative assessments
25. Google forms
26. Quizizz
27. Quizalize
28. Blooket
29. Kahoot!
30. Gimkit
31. Goal setting:
32. Encourage students to set goals for their learning and provide feedback on their progress towards these goals. This can help students stay motivated and engaged in their learning.

Creativity-Based Learning

1. Project-based learning using AI.  Teach students how to use AI correctly by building it into a project.  Use an image generator like DALL-E to have each student in the class generate a random image.  Print them out, hang on the board and move them around in such a way that they can be connected with a story.  Students must agree on an order as a large group or in multiple small groups.  They then write a story THEMSELVES (no more AI) based on this order of images.
2. Turn a typical assignment like an essay or a lab report into something visual.
3. Use Canva to create a lab report using only pictures.  
4. Use Adobe Spark to create a 5 paragraph essay using a series of 5 instagram reels.

Game-Based Learning

1. Not everyone games the same way and edtech tools are starting to account for that.  
2. Kahoot for example, offers various modes of game play.  You can play a large scale game in class AND assign the game so that students can play on their own at a slow pace.
3. Have students design the game or work together to make one large scale classroom-wide scavenger hunt.
4. Flippity.net has a cool digital board game creator that would allow students to collab on questions and make one classwide game.
5. QR themed scavenger hunt using Google docs or slides and the built in Chrome QR creator.

Other Personalized Learning Activities

• Chemistry Connections Podcast
• Bioethics project
• Passion Projects

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• EdTech Throwdown
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• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
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• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 132 called “12 AI Powered Tools that Make a Teachers Life Easier”. In this episode, we’ll share 12 edtech tools that are powered by AI and can make your day a little simpler. We’ll also share our thoughts on how these tools can be implemented in your classroom. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

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1. DeepL Translator: Translate texts & full document files instantly. Accurate translations for individuals and Teams. Millions translate with DeepL every day.
2. Resume.io
3. Use AI to help write an amazing resume
4. Otter.ai - Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to empower users with real-time transcription meeting notes that are shareable, searchable, accessible and secure.
5. Beta.tome.app 
6. Presentation Maker
7. https://tome.app/invite/ericguisehvrsdorg-cleim4ffn06iggs309g8b8ogl
8. Conker - 
9. Fast and easy to use tools for creating quizzes and formative assessments in a flash.
10. https://mindgrasp.ai/ 
11. Mindgrasp instantly creates accurate notes and answers questions from any Document, PDF, YouTube Video, Zoom Meeting, Webinar Recording, Podcast and much more!
12. Voicemaker - Online Text to Speech converts text into very human-like natural sounding AI voices. You can download your voices in MP3, WAV audio format.
13. Textblaze

1. Text Blaze is an auto text Chrome Extension to insert snippets, templates and macros in Google Chrome. Speed up your work and type faster with this text ...
2. D-ID - D-ID's Generative AI enables users to transform any picture or video into extraordinary experiences. Our technology is used by creators, leading marketing …
3. Figma
4. Figma is a collaborative interface design and prototyping tool. It allows multiple users to work together in real-time on the same project. It offers a range of features, including drawing and vector tools, a library of components, and integration with tools like Sketch and Adobe XD.
5. Wordtune Read - Wordtune Read is an AI reader that summarizes long documents so you can understand more, faster.
6. Milanote
7. Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards.

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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 131 called “Edtech Tools to Support “Hot Topic” Questions in Education”. In this episode, we’ll dive back into the GotTechEd Inbox as we answer some of our favorite listener questions of the past few months. We’ll discuss a variety of topics including AI, creativity tools, video resources for schools, and community engagement. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

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1. AI is a hot topic in education right now. What are your thoughts or concerns about AI in education?
2. ChatGPT
3. Checkforai.com
4. Curipod
5. Last episode was all about CANVA, are there any other creative tools that you use?
6. Visme
7. DALL-E 2
8. https://vocalremover.com/fetc fet
9. https://www.midomi.com/
10. https://copychar.cc/
11. Teachers are hellabusy and in my mind this sometimes leads to teachers missing out on opportunities to engage their students. What is one form of teaching that you feel is underutilized?
12. https://www.theachievery.com/
13. EdPuzzle - often has full length videos (put one question at the end that requires Ss to watch the whole thing)
14. SchoolTube - not blocked by school’s safety filters
15. ClassHook
16. TeacherTube
17. TeachFlix
18.  What are ways to engage students in a larger school community?
19. Photo Contest  
20. School Wide Points-Based Game
21. Public Service
22. Choose a non-profit to support
23. I’ve got a lesson coming up on important Cold War era figures that is so boring. What is a creative way to engage students and make this seem relevant and important?
24. Google Slides or Canva trading cards (design the template, force copy to students, brief presentations. Make it sports themed or anime themed, offer both. Include things that typical cards have like XP, special skills, attack/defense/speed/intelligence ratings. Not all have to make sense.
25. Mystery Person Party- Give students a list of people to research. Secretly assign each student one person to portray. Host an in-class party where students try to guess who the person is. Each student gets to ask another student one yes or no question per round and then guess the name of the person.

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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 130 called “Should We Embrace Canva Taking over the Eduverse”. In this episode, we’ll share some of our favorite things about Canva - the web based design tool that is taking over education. We’ll explain Canva Docs, Canva Webpages and 14 Apps that can enhance your designs and classroom projects. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

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Scott Nunes Canva Connection: [email protected]

Canva Docs - Canva tries to break into the document creation space with the Canva alternative to google docs.

Webpages

Did you know that Canva has an ever-growing collection of apps that can enhance your designs in some pretty cool ways?

1. Text to Image - type out a description and it will generate an AI style image
2. IconDuck - hundreds of thousands of icons
3. BitMoji - same old bitmoji, just in canva now
4. Character Builder - avatar creation
5. Pexels - access to more background images
6. Pixabay - like pexels
7. QR code generator  
8. Giphy - bring in gifs from this popular gif creator
9. Stipop - digital stickers
10. Google Keep
11. Bulk Create - bring in data from a csv file to populate a canva template
12. Used for - student ID badges
13. Charts - line graphs, pie charts, bring in data from excel or other csv
14. YouTube - embed YouTube videos in a design
15. Google Drive - connect your google drive to import images and videos
16. Smartmockups - Convert any image into various product mockups

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 129 called “ChatGPT and 2 Free Tools that Identify AI Written Text” In this episode, we’ll share our take on ChatGPT and other AI apps that can write and think for you. We’ll also share 2 edtech tools that help teachers identify when text has been AI generated. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

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1. General intro to chatgpt and other ai that inspired this episode
2. New Tech Rant: Use technology to enhance the way we learn… remember the same hesitancies when 
3. Computers
4. the internet came out
5. Calculators
6. Works Cited Generators
7. Photo Math 
8. Wikipedia
9. Google Translate
10. ChatGPT
11. Negative Uses in Education
12. Essays being written for students
13. Disrupts the creative process
14. Can be out of date (Runs off of a scan from 2021)
15. Incorrect information
16. Bias
17. Positive Uses in Education
18. Pen and paper back in session?
19. Brainstorming ideas
20. Ask GPT to come up with lists or introductions to topics where students can research beyond the AI
21. Gamify your classroom… 2 Truths and a Lie becomes 2 of my and 1 of AI or Human vs AI
22. Have AI help with summarizing/Note-taking
23. Generation of prompts or tasks
24. Other AI Writing Apps
25. Wordtune
26. Grammarly
27. Forbes Article Link
28. Tim Cavey’s
29. GPTZero
30. I ran through two samples. One that was written by a student and one by ChatGPT. I copy and pasted the results into these two documents:
31. Text Report 1
32. Get GPTZero Result
33. Your GPTZero score corresponds to the likelihood of the text being AI generated:118.7305572913241
34. Your text is likely human generated!
35. Text Report 2
36. GPTZero has finished analyzing your text!
37. Your GPTZero score corresponds to the likelihood of the text being AI generated:24.142793104246635
38. Your text is most likely to be AI generated!
39. GotTechED’s YouTube Video on GPTZero
40. Checkforai.com
42. Feedback

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• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
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• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 128 called “4 Lesson Activities for Teachers to Try in 2023”   In this episode, we’ll play a lesson design game using our brand new Wheel of EdTech and share some of our New Year’s resolutions.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Happy New Years
2. NJECC Conference is March 7th (Tuesday in person) and March 8th (Wednesday remote)

Guise: 

1. Professional Goal:  Add more creativity into my lessons
2. More exploration of Canva
3. More Improv learning
4. Personal Goal:  Simplify Life

Nick:

1. Gamification and game elements in class and with staff
2. Organize workflow

Wheel of Edtech Link

1. Blended Learning, Summative assessment, History, 3 edtech tools
2. Veterans service project
3. Google Forms, Google Slides, Google Sites
4. Flipped Classroom, Formative Assessment, Art, 2 edtech tools
5. Cameo in PowerPoint Attach video
6. Creativity Based Learning, Introduction, World Language, 2 edtech tools
7. Narrative, Running, thinglink, book creator
8. Gamification, Conclusion, ELA, 1 edtech tool
9. Baamboozle
10. Scattergories game based on readings

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• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 127 called “The 12 Days of Edtech” In this episode, we’ll give some sneak peeks into our upcoming release of the 12 Days of EdTech for 2022. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Happy Holidays
2. NJECC Conference is March 7th (Tuesday in person) and March 8th (Wednesday remote)

1. 2023 Teacher’s Guide to Student Podcasting Version 3.0
2. Get Your FREE Copy Here
3. Nicks: Cameo Feature of PowerPoint
4. Video
5. 5 Google Chrome Productivity Hacks to Know in 2023
6. Post
7. Nicks: 3 Unique Canva Templates
8. Video
9. 4 Edtech Tools for Teachers that Promote Student Creativity
10. Video
11. Post
12. Nicks: 3 EdTech Tools for Better Writing
13. Video
14. Why Canva is My New Jamboard
15. Video
16. Nicks: 3 EdTech Tools for Math/Sci Teachers
17. Video
18. 5 Google Chrome Productivity Extensions for Teachers to Know in 2023   
19. Video
20. Post
21. Nicks: 2 Online Timeline Generators
22. Video
23. 3 Narrative-Based Activities to Capture the Interest of Students
24. Video
25. Nicks: 3 YouTube Hacks for Teachers
26. Video

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Episode #126: The Blended Learning Breakdown: Practices, Models, and Edtech

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 126 called “The Blended Learning Breakdown: Practices, Strategies, and Edtech” In this episode, we’ll share best practices and models of Blended Learning and the edtech tools that enhance your blended classroom. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Happy Thanksgiving
2. NJECC Conference is March 7th (Tuesday in person) and March 8th (Wednesday remote)
3. Upcoming 12 Days of EdTech

1. What is Blended Learning?
2. What are the advantages of Blended Learning?
3. The focus shifts to the acquisition of knowledge rather than its transmission.
4. Deeper understanding of content
5. Increases student engagement through collaborative experiences
6. Collaboration allows students to hear/see many viewpoints of the content
7. Creates an opportunity for more meaningful learning experiences
8. Student autonomy
9. Allows the educator to help students that need 1 on 1 interactions
10. Allows for personalized small group/individual feedback opportunities
11. Allows teachers to strategically prescribe groups
12. Allows students to work at their own pace
13. How can blended learning be implemented into the classroom?
14. Many of the best practices from Episode 124 Personalized Learning still apply to Blended Learning
15. Get to Know the Learners
16. Everyone is a student but has the ability to be a learner (autonomy is their learning)
17. All learners are different
18. Special Education Considerations
19. Gifted Education Students
20. SEL Students
21. ESL Students
22. Multiple Intelligences
23. Use UDL or Flipped, give options for assignment completion
24. Design a Personalized Learning Environment
25. Help Students Set Goals
26. Learn the art of questioning
27. Professional Development
28. Podcasts
29. YouTube
30. Online Asynchronous PD Opportunities
31. Asking your PLN

1. Flipped Classroom
2. How will you share video content? Many options 
3. EdPuzzle
4. PlayPosit recently purchased by WeVideo
5. Screencastify
6. Screencastomatic
7. ScreenPal
8. YouTube
9. Google Drive - interactive video lessons! 
10. Station Rotation
11. Need to provide feedback as students work through stations … 
12. Mote
13. GoFormative
14.  Floop
15. Other Tech
16. Edji
17. QR Codes
18. CanvaEDU 
19. GoSoapBox (GoSoapBox is a web-based clicker tool used by educators around the world to keep students engaged and gain real-time insight into student comprehension)
20. Playlists
21. Flippity (large variety of uses from grouping to games)
22. Prodigy (Prodigy unlocks game-based learning · Students reported an average of twice the level of math enjoyment in just a few months)
23. Choice Boards

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As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can customize a workshop that meets your organization’s unique time and content needs. While no topic is out of bounds, GotTechED is best known for sessions on:

• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is episode 125 called “12 EdTech Tools to be Thankful For”.  In this episode, we’ll talk about some of the things that we are thankful for, including new tech tools, old tech tools, and some people, places and things that keep us inspired.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

• Fresh Air at 5
• www.twitter.com/BryonCar
• Teach Better Podcast Network
• Josh Stamper
• Experiences we are thankful for  

3 Old Tools - Nick

• Canva
• Edit PDF
• Video
• Audio
• Single-page websites
• Screencastomatic
• ScreenPal
• The Noun Project

3 New Tools - Nick

• AllSides.com - News articles categorized as left, right or center and shown from various perspectives.  Building a better democratic society
• ePals - internet supported penpal service
• TimeToast - sleek, easy to build timelines

What is a change to your teaching practice that you feel has made a difference?

3 Old Tools - Guise

• Mote
• Flippity.net
• Iorad

3 New Tools - Guise

• Cooltext.com
• Listen Notes
• Cleanpng

What is a change to your teaching practice that you feel has made a difference?

• Creativity-based learning

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10. Tell your friends about www.gotteched.com

• The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/
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• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Google Podcasts  
• Stitcher  
• YouTube  
• Twitter   
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• Guise on Twitter @guisegotteched
• Nick on Twitter @nickgotteched
• GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter @wegotteched

Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our Facebook Group Page.   

As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can customize a workshop that meets your organization’s unique time and content needs. While no topic is out of bounds, GotTechED is best known for sessions on:

• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning