We talked with Gregory Ratter who used Chat GPT to make an AI clone of himself that help tutor his students and answer all sorts of questions. While we were blown away with his use of AI, we also talk about more practical tools and advances in AI.

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Join us as we dive into the topic of classroom assessment, highlighting the role an LMS such as Google Classroom can play. Then, we take a deep dive into Pear Assessment and explore how a powerful assessment platform such as that can greatly enhance your ability as a classroom teacher to create better assessments that effectively measure and report student learning and mastery. You'll certainly walk away from this episode with a clearer understanding of what a critical role a high quality assessment platform can play in making you more effective as a teacher.

We talk about how to quickly and easily turn that your paper assignments and resources into Google Docs. We also talked about why you might want to do this. Fewer trips to the copy machine, easily editable, quickly share and assign.

Join us as we talk about the importance of teaching typing and how to easily do it well in your classroom. We have fun seeing how fast we type and then we feature three different services you can use with your students. We feature Typesy, Yeti Academy, and Typing club.

We featured:

- typesy.com

- yetiacademy.com and typingagent.com

- typingclub.com

- nitrotype.com

- typethealphabet.app

Join for this episode us as we explore the best uses for and features of document cameras built with the classroom teacher in mind! We'll dive into the features, and even hear directly from three of the top vendors (Ipevo, Hovercam, and Elmo) and learn a bit about what makes each one unique. And of course, we share our input to help make your visioning and decision-making flow like a seasoned classroom pro!

We talked about:

- Use cases for document cameras

- Some of the options on the market

- Elmo: https://www.elmousa.com

- Hovercam: https://www.hovercam.com

- Ipevo: https://www.ipevo.com

- Key features and price point of document cameras

Join us as we explore all things AI! Like it or not, AI has come for your class. There is no doubt that AI can be a scary new technology, but it can also bring exciting new ways of teaching and learning! Your students are and will be using it a lot. As a teacher you need to know how to equip your students to use it properly. In this episode we talk about some of the risks but also the transformative things you can do with generative AI. Our guest Lorin Koch is an experenced teacher and has been equiping other teachers to use the power of AI in their instruction. From his current role at Pedagogy.Cloud, Lorin has gained further insight into the ability of AI to empower teachers. On this eposide, we include discussion about ChatGPT, Google's Bard, Bing Chat, Pedagogy.Cloud and a new course on AI avaialable for free on www.AdventistLearningCommunity.com entitled "Empowering Education with AI: Text and Image Generation Tools in the Classroom".

We talked about

- Chatgpt (https://chat.openai.com/auth/login)

- Bing Chat (https://www.bing.com/)

- Google Bard (https://bard.google.com/)

- Pedagogy.Cloud (https://pedagog.ai/)

- Course: Empowering Education with AI: Text and Image Generation Tools in the Classroom (https://www.adventistlearningcommunity.com/courses/gpt-ai)

Join us as we explore Learning Management Systems, discuss what they are, how teachers can improve workflow and student/teacher/parent interactions, and take a deep dive into several use cases. Ever though of using a classroom website as an LMS? Our guest Kimberly Christianson shares how her classroom website serves as a basic LMS and central communication point. On this episode we also highlight Google Classroom, Google Sites, and Schoology as three great options to consider in the world of Learning Management Systems.

Guest: Kimberly Christianson teaches grades 3&4 at Richmond Academy

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Join us as we explore the power of screen recording to better connect with and instruct your students. Screen recording offers the ability to share your instruction 24/7 with students in sync with their schedule and in their moment of need. Learn about the power of great tools such as Loom, Notability and EdPuzzle and how each of them can impact your instruction in a powerful way! And for the most ambitious teachers, our guest Rozaleth Tenga casts a vision for how screen casting can be the breakthrough tool to allow for a fully asynchronous classroom where students learn at their own pace!

Send us feedback and access resources at https://edtechunpacked.com

https://www.loom.com/education

https://notability.com

https://edpuzzle.com 

Join Aaron and Desmond as they inspire and equip you to use educational technology to be an effective teacher. Each episodes features great technologies and their practical uses for instruction. We believe that you are an amazing teacher and we want to empower you on your jouney to keep growing your impact.