Edtech Throwdown

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 144 called “20 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Teachers”. In this episode, we’ll share 20 of our favorite chrome extensions for educators.  We’ve got some old favorites and some new inductees so make sure you don’t start the school year without adding these to your browser. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

• Happy summer break!
• Prepping for Canva training with secretaries and admin

Segment 2: 20 Chrome Extensions

Nick’s 10 Picks

1. Send from Gmail - Makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email.  This extension will open a Compose window in Gmail when you click any email address on a webpage. It also provides a button that will create a Gmail message when clicked, using the page title as the subject and selected page text and link address as the message.
2. Equatio (for math and sci teachers)
3. Dictation for Gmail
4. ChatSonic - Harness the power of ChatGPT, but without switching tabs.  The extension lets you craft emails directly in any tab of your chrome browser.  It can generate summarized answers to google queries, quick recaps of long email threads, and effortlessly respond to emails directly in gmail.
5. Bitly
6. Snippet Web Highlighter - Highlighter tool to annotate websites and PDF, import Kindle highlights and more.  Simply use your mouse to select and highlight text snippets on any website or PDF.  Click the "Add" button on any image to highlight and save charts, graphs or other images from all around the web. You can disable the "Add" button from the extension Options page. You can still highlight images by right-clicking on the image and choose "Add to Snippet".  Highlight screen regions by capturing screenshots directly from the extension
7. Nimbus Capture - Record and Annotate videos. Capture screenshots from screen.  Used by Several Million users on different platforms.  Screen capture whole or partial screenshots on any size of screen using our awesome screencast recorder.  Annotate and edit screenshots and screen cast in our powerful image editor and screenshot tool.  Screencasts — record video screen from your screen and webcam using the video recorder.
8. Quillbot - Improve Your Writing with QuillBot’s Grammar Checker, Paraphrasing Tool & Summarizer
9. ToDoist - Ranked as “the best to-do list right now” by The Verge, Todoist is used by 25 million people to organize, plan and collaborate on projects, both big and small.  Use Todoist for Chrome to:  Add websites as tasks: Add a blog post to your reading list. Save an item to your wishlist. Add work tasks to follow up on.  Plan your day: Quickly organize your tasks for the day right from the extension.Complete tasks from the browser: Once your tasks are done, check them off without switching context.
10. Coffeelings - A mini journal tucked into your browser.  Your own personal mini journal & mood tracker. Choose a coffee roast to match your mood, write up journal entries, and interact with a calendar that grows a little bit every day.

Guise 10 Picks

1. Google Translate
2. Print Friendly PDF 
3. Mote
4. ScreenPal

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1. Extensity
2. OneTab
3. LINER Chat GPT AI Assistant
4. Unsplash for Chrome
5. TextBlaze
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7.  Tango

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 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
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• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Episode #143: Edtech Tools and Updates for the Start of the School Year

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 143 called “Edtech Tools and Updates for the Start of the School Year”. In this episode, we’ll check out some of our favorite new edtech tools and some updates to some old favorites.  We’re sharing some of our favorite edtech choices for the start of this new school year, so this is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

• Summer Recap

Segment 2: New Tools and Updates

• Snappet: Snappet is a K-5 math program that balances hands-on learning with digital resources and adaptive learning technology. Snappet provides teachers with powerful insight into student’s learning and real-time feedback during lesson instruction. Each lesson embeds Conceptual Learning as the foundation and is designed around the CPA model (Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract) of best practices for instruction. This lesson approach begins with Student Discovery activities utilizing real-world situations to build a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts to develop lifelong learning and success.
• ALEE:  Alexandria Learning Ecosystem for Educators (ALEE) is a tech-enabled but teacher-first instructional tool that allows teachers to create rigorous lesson plans for books with the guidance of experts. We provide curated instructional content for high-quality literary works by the experts themselves: teachers.
• Recharged Virtual Bash
• https://www.rechargedfamily.com/
• Stick Together Puzzles - @bysticktogether
• Quizizz new AI integration
• Personal assistant (PA)
• Upload a document and ask for the PA to make quiz questions based on the document
• Translate the quiz into different languages
• Ask the AI PA to identify areas that students are struggling with
• Ask the AI PA to create additional questions based on the areas that students are struggling
• Idea Mapper: ideamapper is a powerful mind mapping, visual learning and writing tool, which produces well-structured documents.
• The Complete EdTech Coach (a book)
• Screenpal updates
• Embed questions into your videos
• Diffit Updates
• Lumio:  Lumio is the digital learning tool for transforming lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences that engage students on their own devices.
• Stretch
• Get ready for “Stretch,” a chatbot being designed specifically for K-12 educators.  The chatbot is the brainchild of the newly combined professional development mega organization created by the merger of the International Society for Technology in Education and ASCD.  The nonprofit organization has worked with Google and Open AI (the team behind ChatGPT) to create its very own chatbot, informed by the same kind of large language models that power ChatGPT, persona bots, and other artificial intelligence tools. The Stretch prototype is currently being tested by a select group of people and is not yet available for public use.
• Canva for Education Creator:  Canva is running a new marketplace initiative, Education Creators, with a small group of early adopters. The Education Creator program is designed to add learning resources to the Canva library through content submissions from teachers all over the world. This will ensure Canva for Education teachers and students can find resources for every subject, grade, and classroom need right from the Canva marketplace. Today, we’ll hear from a few of our early adopters to learn more about their experience in the Education Creator program.

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 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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Episode #142: 5 Tips for Maintaining High Expectations in Your Classroom

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 142 called “5 Tips for Maintaining High Expectations in Your Classroom”. In this episode, we’ll share 5 tips that will get you thinking about high expectations and the best ways to keep them elevated, in a sustainable way. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

• Happy summer break!
• Prepping for Canva training with secretaries and admin

Segment 2: High Classroom Expectations

Recent teacher conversations about degradation of expectations in class and grade inflation

An IG post from @teachergoals that listed what high expectations should not be and what they should be

Should Not Be:

• No mistakes
• No second chances
• Moving fast

Should Be:

• Doing Challenging Things
• Doing It Until You Get It Right
• Working Hard
• Asking for Help
• Our own addition:  Must Show Growth

Specific Tips:

• Doing Challenging Things
• Elevate your assessment style.  Rather than asking “who was the 5th president of the US and what was his major accomplishment?”, ask “James Monroe was the 5th president and is credited by many for the Missouri compromise.  Explain this compromise and give 3 examples of how it impacted the United States over the next 50 years.”
• Challenging rubrics (not a checklist)
• EdTech:  Use ChatGPT for this to help get started.
• Doing It Until You Get It Right
• Don’t accept sub-par work.  Nick talk about the comic strip story.
• Develop a second chance policy that works for you.  Multiple versions of assessments are not as time consuming with ChatGPT.
• EdTech: This also requires monitoring student progress and feedback. Mote, GotFeedback, and Kaizena are two awesome audio recording tools that make this fast and easy.  
• EdTech: Digital whiteboard spaces like Miro, Jamboard, and Canva allow for real time check-ins a students drag and drop.
• Video:  Why Canva is my New Jamboard
• Working Hard
• This is vague and tough to monitor
• For me, this comes down to using class time effectively, monitored with a points system.  Gamify it and reward those students who consistently use class time.  Don’t punish students who don’t, but share with them that this may restrict them from other things, like using a second chance learning attempt.
• Edtech:  Google Sheets or Flippity for leaderboard style tracking
• Edtech:  Gamify your class.  Digital stickers or badges with Canva or the noun project, freeimages.com, 
• Asking for Help
• Encourage students to ask each other, ask online, and ask the teacher often.
• EdTech: Khanmigo: Say hello to Khanmigo, Khan Academy’s AI-powered guide. Tutor for learners. Assistant for teachers.
• Showing Growth
• This could be a whole podcast unto itself.  Simply though … Pre-assess and post-asses.  On one end, you can totally rebuild your classroom grading scheme around this and go standards-based.
• Edtech: Easiest way is to take advantage of your LMS.  Popular tools for digital portfolios include Evernote, Seesaw, and website builders like Google Sites or Canva Websites.
• EdTech: Bookwidgets - BookWidgets quizzes and worksheets have various evaluation options and over 35 different question types. Questions get auto-graded, so students can learn on ...ScreenPal… Allows you to ask questions during your screencasts.

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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
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• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
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Episode #141: 10 Creative Project Ideas to Start the School Year

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 141 called “10 Creative Project Ideas to Start the School Year”. In this episode, we’ll share 10 refreshing project ideas for the start of school that will actually get your students excited about completing them. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

• Happy 4th of July

Segment 2: Project ideas that can fit in with summer assignments and opening day activities.

Summer assignments - general opinions?

Tips:

• Keep it light - let kids have a summer
• Be creative
• Allow choice
• Accessible for all

Ideas:

1. Visit a museum or gallery. Use cell phones to record a review of X pieces. Edit them into a cohesive documentary style video using WeVideo or other video editor.
2. Make the world a better place. Write a story about it using Book Creator.
3. Interview a professional. Record the audio and make a podcast. Check out our student podcasting guide for lots of great tools for this.
4. Write a movie review. Create a movie poster style version of the review in Canva.
5. Attend a conference and create a timeline of your visit using time.graphics
6. Go on a hike and collect/catalog X number of items. Plant life, animal life, etc.
7. Participate in the Getty Challenge. Recreating your favorite works of art from home using household items.
8. Curate a virtual exhibit in Google Slides. Check out this great example from Framingham Middle School.
9. Write a children's book.
10. Adventure Challenge. Create a community-based scavenger hunt at local parks/libraries. QR code centered.

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
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• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 140  called “Shownotes Summer PD, Reading, and Edtech to Try Out.” In this episode, we’ll share our summer time list of podcasts, books and edtech that we plan on learning about during our newly found free time. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

1. ISTE

• The #Edtech Throwdown: Personalized Learning Edition 
• Monday, June 26, 4 – 5 p.m.
• Location: 119AB

1. Theaiteacher.tips
2. Guise’s annual podcast blog coming out within the next month … any suggestions?

Segment 2:

Podcasts (https://gotteched.com/podcastlist2023/)

• Nick
• Control the Chaos with Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman
• The Big Ed Idea with Ryan Scott
• The Counter Narrative Podcast with Charles Williams
• Guise
• Powered Up Podcast with Ken Ehrmann and Matt Rogers
• Unlocking Unlimited Potential with Dr. Brandon Beck
• Leaning into Leadership Darrin Peppard

Books

• Nick
• Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham - Understanding is remembering in disguise
• The Hidden Lives of Learners by Graham Nuthall - Learning requires motivation, but motivation does not necessarily lead to learning
• Seven Myths About Education by Daisy Christodoulou - If you only teach pupils using the knowledge they bring to the classroom, then you will reproduce educational inequalities
• Guise
• Teach Your Class Off: The Real Rap Guide to Teaching
• CJ Reynolds
• The Road to Awesome
• Darrin Peppard
• Unlocking Unlimited Potential
• Brandon Beck

Edtech Tools and Resources

• Nick
• Photoshop AI: https://twitter.com/NathanLands/status/1662881442651869184
• Allsides.com - We use media bias ratings to provide balanced news, perspectives and issues across the political spectrum. Unbiased news coverage doesn't exist - there is
• Timetoast - Make a timeline. Tell a story. ... Timetoast is a great timeline maker for you to share the past, or even the future. Join millions of people already creating
• Guise
• TextBlaze
• Adobe FireFly
• Diffit

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 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 139 called “24 Websites Teachers Should Know About Part 2”. In this episode, we’ll share the final 12 of 24 websites that teachers can use in their classrooms to help with everything from editing your writing to finding cool sound effects. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

1. ISTE

• The #Edtech Throwdown: Personalized Learning Edition 
• Monday, June 26, 4 – 5 p.m.
• Location: 119AB

1. Theaiteacher.tips
2. Guise’s annual podcast blog coming out within the next month … any suggestions?

Segment 2:

1. Archive.org
2. Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
3. Iconscout.com
4. Create stunning designs with the world’s largest library of icons, illustrations, 3D illustrations and Lottie animations. 7000+ new assets are added daily.
5. PDFDrive.com
6. PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 84,299,149 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don't forget to bookmark and share the love!
7. Soundeffectsplus.com
8. At SoundEffects+ you find over 5000 free sound effects recorded, designed and produced by a team of our audio professionals. Our team owns the copyrights to all the sound effects on this website and you can safely to use them in your projects. Just remember to read the License Agreement. It tells you what you can and cannot do with our free sound effects.
9. Playphrase.me
10. Finds Phrases from videos
11. Alltop.com
12. AllTop aggregates all of the top news and information in real time. Our editors have carefully crafted each topic with the best sources allowing you to see what's happening quickly and from trusted sources. 
13. Simplepdf.eu 
14. Never leave the browser to edit PDF’s without creating an account
15. Hemingway Editor
16. Free paper editor and provides good feedback
17. Onlinesequencer.net
18. Create music for free
19. Buildai.space
20. Build an ai app for free
21. Huggingface.co
22. Draw or upload a picture and insert a prompt and the ai will change it based on the prompt
23. Ed.ted.com
24. Ted Talks for education

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 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 138 called “24 Websites Teachers Should Know About Part 1”. In this episode, we’ll share the first 12 of 24 awesome websites that teachers can use in their classrooms to help with everything from learning a new language to digital claw machines for random name selection. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

1. ISTE
2. Theaiteacher.tips
3. Guise’s annual podcast blog coming out within the next month… any suggestions?

Segment 2:  3:00ish

1. Memrise.com
2. Learn a language freemium
3. Moreorless.io
4. Which movie costs more to make
5. Online-stopwatch.com
6. Claw machine name picker (lots of others too)
7. Classroomscreen.com
8. Lots of widgets to present during worktime
9. Questionwell
10. Uses ai to generate questions from any text.  Then you can export them to use in any of the popular edtech gaming sites
11. Mark up Hero
12. Annotate documents and visually annotate them live and collaboratively
13. Classpoint.io 
14. Integrates name pickers, stopwatch, interactive quizzes into PPT
15. Chalk.com
16. Online Lesson Planner
17. Creative fabrica
18. Freebies and affordable Club Card Subscriptions
19. Scratchgarden
20. Really funny videos for math and english (lower levels)
21. Wordwall
22. Make interactive lessons
23. Mathmonks.com
24. Tons of free work worksheets by grade level

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 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 137 called “5 Burning EdTech Questions in Education”. In this episode, we’ll share 5 listener questions that have come in over the past few months.  We’ll cover topics such as recruiting edtech believers, edtech coaching, AI, and the post-Covid status of education. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

1. ISTE
2. Theaiteacher.tips
3. Guise’s annual podcast blog coming out within the next month… any suggestions?

Segment 2:       

1. Do you guys use all the edtech tools that you mention on the show?  How do you choose which edtech tools you will incorporate into your classroom?
2. I have to imagine myself being able to use it.  Time.graphics for example
3. As tech coaches, how do you go about recruiting teachers to use edtech in classroom?  Do you have any tips for successful implementation?
4. Your natural users will find their way there anyway, no effort needed.  You may never reach the edtech ostriches.  The middle class needs to be shown specific, concrete examples.
5. All I hear about lately is AI, even your podcast has been invaded with AI,  I have such mixed feelings about AI.  What can you say to help ease my anxiousness?
6. Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to warn people about AI
7. pessimistsarchive.org
8. In your opinion, what is the state of education post covid?  Have teacher practices been changed positively or negatively?  Do you feel teachers are experiencing edtech burnout?
9. anti-tech wave among students?  Share chem class experiences
10. Hey guys, thanks for your edtech throwdown presentation at NJECC, it is always my favorite session at that conference.  Will you be presenting the same Edtech Throwdown at ISTE?  How do you choose the tools that you present?

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 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
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• Flipped Classroom
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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 136 called “23 Websites Teachers Should Know About”.   In this episode, we’ll share 23 unique and exciting websites that can be used by teachers and students for a wide variety of classroom activities.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. ISTE Philadelphia
2. TheAITeacher.tips and The AI Teacher Podcast

1. Wonderopolis
2. Wonderopolis is an informational site that helps kids ask and answer interesting questions about the world.
3. Pessimists Archive
4. ZooMontana    
5. ZooMontana is a 70-acre wildlife park located in Billings, Montana, U.S. and is Montana's only zoo and botanical park. It currently maintains nearly 100 animals, representing 58 species. These animals all live in habitats designed to imitate their natural habitats.
6. Patatap
7. Teacher Vision
8. From thousands of worksheets and lesson plans to new PBL projects and complete teaching kits, our content adapts to your individual needs as an educator.
9. 3 Free Resources
10. RiverStyx
11. Math Learning Center
12. The Math Learning Center offers a comprehensive standards-based math program as well as innovative supplemental resources.
13. Talking Points
14. Aquation: The Freshwater Access Game
15. Choice, strategy, balance, and . . . water equity? Parts of the planet are struggling to get enough water. Use each region's wealth to build pipes, desalinate water, and conduct research to bring water where it's needed most. Monsoons, dry spells, disease, and even cursed lawn sprinklers can help or hinder your progress. Manage your wealth and water carefully to solve the world's water crisis!
16. Take actions to balance global water resources.
17. React to global events.
18. Make discoveries through research and recruit investors to share in the profits.
19. Review and reflect on your strategy.
20. Build, upgrade and use desalination plants to create fresh water
21.  Play in the classroom or at home.
22. everynoise.com
23. Every music genre, ever, under one roof
24. HHMI Biointeractive
25. Real science, real stories, and real data to engage students in exploring the living world.
26. Nandgame - Nandgame gamifies the experience of building your own computer and lets you drag components to build a PC from scratch.  There are different levels of the game. You start with a basic configuration and use it as a component for the next level.
27. Generation Genius
28. Generation Genius is a K-8 teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material and more.
29. Ncase.me - In World War 1 = soldiers across the frontlines decided to create an unlikely truce on Christmas Day and exchange gifts in peace. That act of trust in full-scale war inspired this website maker to explore how the world works with trusting and non-trusting people, and how mistakes and miscommunication can affect how we grow into trusting or paranoid humans. It’s an interactive website.
30. Data Nuggets
31. Data Nuggets are free classroom activities, co-designed by scientists and teachers, designed to bring contemporary research and authentic data into the classroom. Data Nuggets include a connection to the scientist behind the data and the true story of their research.
32. 100,000 Stars
33. Education Blueprint
34. Education Blueprint is an interactive platform where teachers like you can find, share, and rate resources that help make for better and more equitable learning experiences.
35. Orb Farm
36. Share My Lesson
37. Lesson plans and professional development to support students and your goals.
38. OSearch Shark Tracker
39. Twinkl
40. Unlimited resources. Unbeatable value.
41. New teacher-created resources added daily
42. One low-cost subscription ($7/month).  
43. Featured Free Resources
44. The Moth
45. The Moth's mission is to promote the art and craft of storytelling and to honor and celebrate the diversity and commonality of human experience.
46. Radiooooo
47. Discover Music from all over the world

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 135 called “Tips and EdTech for Student Portfolios”.   In this episode, we’ll explain some of the benefits of assessing students using portfolios.  We’ll be sharing why you should do them, the barriers that stop teachers from using them, and some of our favorite tips, tech and activity ideas to implement into your classroom!   This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. ISTE Philadelphia

Why Use Student Portfolios vs Traditional Assessments

• help your students feel proud of their achievements
• provide students with an opportunity for self-reflection
• provide a great starting point for goals setting
• increase and improve home-school communication
• provide information for evaluation
• provide information for parent-teacher conferences
• make student handover easier
• showcase the efficacy of your school programmes
• Decreased stress

Why do they get left behind?

• Very subjective to grade, Ts feel uncomfortable
• Ts fear Ss will take advantage of the freedom
• Ts question the effectiveness of the portfolio as an assessment tool (does it really work?)

Our Top Tips  

• Set goals/expectations/the focus early.  Is this for one unit of study?  The whole year?  What specific skills will it assess?  What content will it assess?  Is it to show S progress over time or just showcase S work to parents and admin?
• Decide how you will grade it.  Rubric?  Completion?  Provide this to the Ss from the beginning.
• Plan for Feedback … mechanism… when and how feedback will take place
• Consider having a another T to perform standardization checks on your grading 
• Explain to the Ss from the beginning the purpose of the portfolio.  If they know the benefits they will have more buy-in
• Provide Ss with enough edtech resources
• Class website subpage
• Wakelet
• Google Sheet List by category
• Incorporate S reflections as part of the portfolio
• Require portfolio completion for other benefits in class (retakes)
• Build in presentations

Portfolio-Based Activities

• Class Projects
• AP Review Guide (Class Project)
• Chapter Review
• Individual Projects
• Year Reflection
• Lab Collection for the year
• Summative 
• Mastery Check
• Formative 
• Collection
• Interactive CV for Jobs/College Entrance
• Showcase
• AP Art
• Music Audition

EdTech

• See-Saw
• Google Tools like Docs, Slides and Sites
• Canva Websites    41:50     pause
• Artsonia - The digital art museum for kids, Artsonia, is available on the web, iOS, and Android devices. On Artsonia, teachers can create a school page and use it to share what their students have created via galleries. These galleries can include the project description, materials used and addressed national standards. Also, teachers can ask students to complete artist statements, including specific prompts they set up. Students can use the companion app to photograph, edit, upload their work, and add the title and artist statement. Parents can easily upload their kids' artwork through the app or website. They can crop, adjust, or edit the photo and blur areas of the image as per the requirement. This app also lets students earn awards.
• Project Foundry - This learning tool allows students to plan and monitor their learning progress and assists teachers in sorting student projects and proposals effectively. The centralized collection of projects will make it easy for students to access and assemble their digital wallets, a necessary tool in the changing technological landscape.
• Evernote -  This is another practical option for creating digital portfolios. Students record their thoughts using notes then  use things such as photos, audio files, links, and attachments to further enhance these notes. Evernote provides various organizational features that enable users to effectively organize their work so it can be easily searched and accessed across different devices.
• Blogging Platforms
• Edublogs
• Glogster
• Feedback Tools
• Mote
• https://feedback.gotlearning.com/

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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