Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset

This bonus episode features an episode of the Education Today podcast where I was fortunate enough to join Scott Nunes to talk about teaching during the pandemic, edtech after the pandemic, Pear Deck, Nearpod, Flipgrid, Otus, Schoology, speech translation tools, transcription tools, Adobe Spark, and more!

Show Notes available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-bonus-002

Check out the original Education Today podcast episode here.

This episode is featured with the permission of the original podcast's host.

James Varlack says that "Engagement is developed." So, in his interview, I asked him how he develops his engaging instruction. We discuss how James works toward each of the 3 types of student engagement--emotional, behavioral, and cognitive--in both analog and digital ways. We discuss Jamboard, Google Docs, Google Slides, Padlet, Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, Microsoft Teams whiteboard, Google Arts & Culture.

Show notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-53

• Today's Sponsor: Texthelp EquatIO - text.help/equatio-fft
• Soapbox Moment: "The One Who Keeps Score & Gives Permission to Not Take the Shot"
• • This quote was covered in this previous episode.
• Today's Guest: James Varlack
• • James Varlack is a Digital Learning Specialist with McAllen Independent School District. He has worked in education for 10 years as a middle school math teacher and in campus technology. He and his wife Dawne moderate the #RGVEduChat and have 3 lovely children, Jayden, Zara, and Jordan.
  • Contact Info: Twitter: @jamesvarlack Email: [email protected]
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I develop engaging instruction?
• • Having the content down is not enough if it's not engaging
  • Know your learning goals
  • Connect with learners
  • "Engagement is developed...means it has a starting place, grows and is nurtured, etc. Engagement is a work in progress"
  • Greeting students, connecting with students, using names are all big for engagement
  • Adding pop culture references into things like a "problem of the day"
  • Using those pop culture references as backgrounds in Google Slides
  • Learn about student interests with a survey (Google Forms, etc.) - "attack their interests"
  • Adding students names into problems
  • Hooks, reveals, challenges, brainteasers, puzzles, prodigygame.com
  • • encouraging kids to work together on riddles
    • Using Google Slides to create "reveal" activities
    • Google Arts & Culture Puzzle Party
    • • Other Google Arts & Culture "games" here
  • Ditch Summit - Esther Park - talked about interaction - student-to-student, student-to-teacher, student-to-class, teacher-to-teacher
  • Collaborative spaces - Jamboard, Google Docs, graphic organizers or drag-and-drop activities in Google Slides, Padlet, Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, Microsoft Teams whiteboard
  • "Become the master of your tool… it's only time to move on when you've mastered it." - David Carradine, Kung Fu
  • "Digital gorge"
  • Pear Deck
  • • Complete the squiggle
    • Shared teacher dashboard (allow co-teachers in)
  • Engaging Instruction = attracts and maintains attention, often means students are actively involved and a part of it (engaged in it)
  • Three different types of student engagement: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive - (Classcraft, Jenny Fulton)
• Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
• • Question - Adrienne Hudson
  • Edulastic
  • • Great Data!!!
    • standards-aligned questions
    • Standardized test prep
    • Edulastic is great for item-analysis, mastery-based grading or standards-based grading, identifying students who need support, creating student mastery profiles that can be useful in parent-teacher conferences, and even breaking down assessment data based on a variety of factors or subgroups.
    • ScratchPad
    • Question Types include: Drag-and-drop, Diagram-labeling, multiple select questions, sets of multiple choice questions in a table
    • questions with images, videos or audio
    • Math tools include: Coordinate plane, Line plots, Fractions, Math formatting, Fraction diagrams
    • Paid features: Rubrics, built-in read-aloud feature, Desmos calculator, Snapscore, Co-authoring & collaboration, Improved data
  • Poll Everywhere
  • • Flip phone origins!
    • Question types include: multiple choice, word cloud, Q&A with upvoting & downvoting, clickable images (click on a section of an image to indicate their answer), open ended, Surveys, short answer, select on a map
    • Launch from PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or Poll Everywhere's site.
    • Students can respond within any mobile or web browser, using a mobile app or with text messaging.
    • Asynchronous option
    • Competitions - multiple-choice games are a lot like Kahoot or Quizizz
    • Paid - Show live results to participants, better reports
  • Mentimeter
  • • Free Version gives you Unlimited audience size, presentations, and content slides, but up to 2 question slides and up to 5 quiz slides per presentation. Presentations are public.
    • Interactive presentations can include videos and images, polls, data, opinions
    • great for with smart phones
    • Question Slides include: Word clouds, Multiple choice, Fun Quiz competitions, Q&A (with upvote), Ranking questions, Image options, Open-ended, Scales questions, 2 by 2 grid, 100 point questions
    • Mentimote remote is pretty cool
    • Can put Surveys and forms in presentation
  • Apple Podcasts Review from guisee
• Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers!
• • Apple Podcast Reviews
  • FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape
  • Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape
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  • Telling your friends & colleagues
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This bonus episode features a roundtable discussion from the Teachers on Fire podcast about educational technology tools in 2020 and 2021. I am joined by Tim Cavey, Chris Nesi, Gabriel Carillo, Eric Guise, Scott Nunes, and Alfonso Mendoza, to talk about more than a dozen edtech tools!

Check out the original Teachers on Fire podcast episode here.

Check out the video of the Roundtable Discussion here.

🔥 TIM CAVEY @MisterCavey 🔥 ERIC GUISE @WeGotTechEd🔥 CHRIS NESI @HouseOfEdTech 🔥 GABRIEL CARILLO @EdTechBites 🔥 SCOTT NUNES @TNTEdTech 🔥 ALFONSO MENDOZA @MyEdTechLife

This episode is featured with the permission of the original podcast's host as well as the permission of all guests.

Claudio and I talk about hearing from our students with tools that empower them to create. Specifically, Adobe's tools Spark Video, Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro, Spark Post, Spark Page, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fresco, and Audition. Also, audience questions about sites to use for surprise inclement weather folders for elementary schoolers and a Google Sheets conundrum.

Show Notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-52

• Today's Sponsor: VIZOR for Chromebooks - vizor.cloud/eduducttape
• Soapbox Moment: Tool Time with Jake the Tool Man Miller and Bryon Carpenter
  • Bryon's Fresh Air at Five Tweet - follow him!
• Today's Guest: Claudio Zavala, Jr.
  • Claudio is a creative media consultant based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He is passionate about storytelling and empowering individuals, entrepreneurs and small business owners to tell theirs and to build their brands. He is a YouTuber, avid photographer and videographer, professional musician, a master woodworker and cyclist.
  • Instagram - @claudiozavalajr
  • Twitter - @claudiozavalajr
  • Facebook - facebook.com/claudiozavalajr
  • LinkedIn -linkedin.com/in/claudiozavalajr
  • YouTube - youtube.com/iamclaudius
  • https://kit.co/iamclaudius
  • iamclaudius.com
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I hear from all of my students?
  • "Everyone's got a story to tell."
  • "Whoever is doing the most talking is doing the most learning."
  • Adobe tools
    • Video Tools
      • Premiere Pro - high-end video editing - paid
      • Premiere Rush - YouTuber and student-focused video editing
        • Windows, PC, Android, iOS, not Chrome - free available, but paid features available
        • Can edit Rush projects in Pro as well
      • Spark Video - all platforms except Android, free in education
      • Video tools from simpler to more complex - Spark Video → Premiere Rush → Premiere Pro
    • Visual Tools
      • Spark Post or Page
      • Animation added into Spark Post
      • Photoshop - manipulate pictures - Windows, Mac, iPad
      • Illustrator - now on iOS as well as desktop
      • Fresco - mobile & tablet, digital drawings
    • Audio Tools
      • Audition - music, audio - GarageBand on steroids
    • Adobe Creative Cloud licensing gives students access to all of the products
    • YouTube
    • "Pocketful of creativity"
• Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
  • Tristan Tolle (@TristanTolle) asked "What asynchronous activities/apps/websites would you suggest for elementary teachers to use for an inclement weather day folder?"
    • Wonderopolis where each day they answer the Wonder of the Day.
    • Flipgrid Disco Library, tons of prompts from tons of sources, including Wonderopolis as well as Minecraft, the MET, Discovery Education, Epic, Lego, and a bunch more.
    • Code.org and HourOfCode.com
    • Scratch
    • CSinSF.com
    • Applied Digital Skills Curriculum
    • PBS Kids, National Geographic Kids
    • Google Arts and Culture
    • Virtual field trips (Ann Radefeld episode)
    • Prodigy
    • Dreambox
    • Just please, please, please, not CoolMathGames.
    • Books!
    • Drawing things!
    • Building things!
    • Have kids learn about something new and then report out on Flipgrid.
  • Ryan Canton, @TheSwish on Twitter: "On a list of email addresses (Ss that submitted a Form), and a 2nd list (main, all Ss email addresses)...what's the easiest way to compare the two to isolate/highlight Ss on the main list to see who hasn't submitted yet?"
    • Formula - =filter(A1:A,isna(match(A1:A,B1:B,0)))
    • Example
    • Jen Giffen - @VirtualGiff
    • "Remove Duplicates" Add-On from Ablebits
• Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers!
  • Apple Podcast Reviews
  • FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape
  • #EduDuctTape on social media
  • Telling your friends & colleagues
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• Jake's Schedule:
  • Best Practices & Tools for Learning in All Settings Online Course, Cohort 9, March-April - jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020
  • Flippin' Good Tech's ImprovEDcon - January 16 - sites.google.com/view/flippingoodtech/improvedcon
  • Fort Worth Technology Conference - January 23 - sites.google.com/view/fwtc-2021/home
  • ECOEA (East Central Ohio Education Association) Nearpod Session - January 30 - ecoea.ohea.us/workshopsevents/winterworkshop
  • Spring CUE - March 18-27 - cue.org/event/virtual-spring-cue-2021-2

In the 10th episode of Season 3, Jake is joined by Knikole Taylor to talk about formative assessments. Tune in to hear Jake and Knikole discuss the use of Pear Deck, Nearpod, Jamboard, Padlet, Mentimeter, Formative, and Classkick!

Show Notes: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-51

Today's Sponsor: Texthelp - You can sign up for a free teacher account at text.help/equatio-fft

Soapbox Moment: Teachers > Bowlers

• Seth Godin's quote about bowling taken from this episode of his Akimbo podcast

Today's Guest: Knikole Taylor

• Bio: Knikole Taylor serves as the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Life School. Through personalized support, Mrs. Taylor works with teachers and teacher leaders to craft professional goals to extend their scope of instruction and meet the needs of all learners.
• Contact Info: Twitter: @knikoleEmail: [email protected]Website: knikoletaylor.com

#EduDuctTape Question: How can I formatively assess my students?

• Pear Deck - "It doesn't feel like an assessment."
  • Available SEL Templates
• Nearpod
• Jamboard
  • students respond with or without name on a jam.
  • Knikole recommends:
    • Putting 1 question per frame
    • Using post-it colors strategically (red = I don't get it, yellow = I'm not so sure, green = I'm ready to share)
    • Discussing digital citizenship when using Jamboard
    • We discussed the lack of a revision history on Jamboard. However, it has rolled out in the time since the interview was recorded! See Alice Keeler's article about the Revision History in Jamboard here.
• Padlet - "you can do so many different things!"
  • Students can respond with text, videos, audio, images, drawings, screencasts, links.... just about anything!
  • The big issue is the limitations of their free plan. For a new user, you'll only get 3 active "walls," but you can archive, delete, or clear them.
  • Individual Pricing or School Pricing
• Mentimeter - lots of different options (polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&A, etc)
  • The big issue here is that their free plan only allows 2 question slides and 5 quiz slides per presentation.
  • Here is their education Pricing
• Formative - great for data and tracking of standards-based mastery
  • Their paid plan adds in student growth tracking
• Classkick
  • Students can add Audio
  • Teachers can jump into student slides
  • Students can help each other

The Celebration of the Adjacent Possible!

• Kathy Hulbert - Actively Learn - see her video or respond to her here

Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers!

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• Soapbox Moment: The Shortest Soapbox in Show History
• Today's Guest: Mr. Casey Hall
  • Bio: Casey is a Fine Arts Education Program Specialist at the Georgia Department of Education where he supports Fine Arts Teachers across the state of Georgia. At the time of the recording, he was the Fine Arts Support Teacher (FAST) for Fulton County School (FCS) and the Music Specialist at Wolf Creek Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia. As a FAST (Fine Arts Support Teacher), he coached and supported other music teachers across the Fulton County Schools. Most recently, he was awarded the title of 2019-2020 South Learning Community Teacher of the Year for Fulton County Schools.
  • Contact Info: @mrhallpass (Twitter/Instagram)

• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• #EduDuctTape Question: How can we implement technology in the music classroom to engage students in music-learning and music-making?
  • Casey advocates for the use of edtech in order to be culturally relevant for your students
  • Casey's question for himself: "How are my students making music each day"
  • Mobile apps to use as a tuner or as an instrument
  • NearPod
    • Initially, Casey used it all on his teacher screen
    • As time went on and Casey got access to more devices, he increased his use of its formative assessment features
    • Nearpod can still be useful if you're not 1:1, Casey has used with students in groups or in stations
    • The use of Nearpod for data collection across multiple classes and 100s of students was valuable for Casey
    • Nearpod VR allows him to present in a more rich way
      • One of the music education standards involving connecting music to other elements and showing a location relating to the music hits this.
    • Draw It slides to draw rhythms, show compositions, etc. to replace paper processes
  • Flipgrid - for Chorus auditions
  • Incredibox - premade loops
  • GarageBand - not the best in primary grades
  • Casey's advice: start small, it's okay to take small steps.
• Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers!
  • Apple Podcast Reviews
  • FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape
  • #EduDuctTape on social media
  • Telling your friends & colleagues
  • The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers
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• Certificates of Listening, Laughing, and Learning!
  • EduDuctTape.com/certificate
  • Listen to the whole show to hear the "super-secret code"!

Episode Notes Available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-49

• Episode Sponsors:
  • PolyUp.com - Fall Math and STEM Challenge - Visit PolyUp.com and click apply for a grant, or AVID schools sign up via polyup.com/c/AVIDrocks
  • TextHelp - Sign up for a free EquatIO teacher account at text.help/equatio-fft
• Today's Guest: Robert Kaplinsky
  • Robert has been an educator since 2003 as a classroom teacher, teacher specialist, instructor for the UCLA, and presenter at conferences around the world. He's the author of Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking and created the #ObserveMe movement. He's also the founder and president of Grassroots Workshops.
  • Contact Info: @robertkaplinsky on Twitter, @robert_kaplinsky on Instagram, @robertkaplinsky on Facebook, robertkaplinsky.com, openmiddle.com, grassrootsworkshops.com, [email protected]

• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: "How do I teach mathematical problem solving digitally?"
  • "We are coming from a position where we have always taught it without technology, we should give ourselves a lot of grace."
  • In-N-Out burger question
    • Find similar problems at robertkaplinsky.com/lessons
  • Desmos Activity Builder for a real-world problem
    • Desmos has pre-built classroom activities, as well as the "Activity Builder" for making your own.
    • Use drag-and-drop editing to add content to an interactive slide deck (text boxes, sketches, graphs, etc.)
    • Slides can be oneway (providing info to students) or interactive (text questions, drag-and-drop, sketch, card sorts, etc.)
    • Can see an overlay view that is similar to what Pear Deck offers
    • Teacher.desmos.com
    • Desmos Marbleslides
    • Desmos can anonymize student names and freeze student screens
    • Sliders let students explore elements of problems, patterns, and graphs (for example, changing the m or b in y=mx + b)
  • "A lot of the way that we value mathematics in the United States is on getting the right answers quickly and efficiently. As a teacher, I was really good at creating math robots who could get the answers, but really didn't know what they were talking about."
  • Focus on real-world problem-solving in mathematics → mathematical modeling
  • "It's easy to enter into, but challenging to master and that, I think, is very satisfying in general."
  • Open Middle Math
    • Find problems on https://www.openmiddle.com/
    • Learn why educators' like Open Middle problems at #WhyOpenMiddle
    • Open Middle - "Want the Google Slides?"
      • Asynchronous use of the Google Slides - a separate set of slides for each kid, but that makes it more difficult to observe their work
      • Synchronous - collaborative Google Slides
      • Level up - Google Slides with Pear Deck
        • The video of Robert using Pear Deck with an Open Middle problem is in this workshop.
        • or The Answer Pad
  • Open Middle with Desmos Activity Builder
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect - "The more that you learn, the more that you realize you don't know."
• The Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
  • Apple Podcast Review from Jated Bubbsy
  • #EduDuctTape Flipgrid Question from Andrew Nikola
    • microphones that I mentioned:
      • Samson Q2U Handheld Dynamic
      • Audio-Technica ATR2100
      • Audio-Technica ATR2100x
      • Blue Snowball
      • Blue Yeti
      • Rode

Episode Notes Available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-miniepisode-015

• Today's Guest: Brandy New
  • @MsBrandyNew - Director of Innovation in Kentucky, Google Certified Trainer, Co-owner of Shattered Glass.
  • Interview Recorded March 12, 2020, on location at the KySTE Conference in Louisville, KY

• • Skype-a-Scientist
  • To get girls excited about computer science and STEM, make your activities or content "Hands-on or hearts on."
  • Girl Scouts research
  • Udemy
  • Slack
  • Google Drawings
  • The Noun Project
• Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers!
  • Apple Podcast Reviews
  • FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape
  • #EduDuctTape on social media
  • Telling your friends & colleagues
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Episode Notes Available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-48

• SoapBox Moment: "First Drafts & Rewrites"
  • "Your favorite authors' first drafts are bad—no better than yours. However, they aggressively rewrite their first drafts." - Julian Shapiro (post)
  • James Clear's tweet: "Your favorite athlete's first workout was just as bad as yours. Your favorite chef's first meal was just as bad as yours. Your favorite artist's first work was just as bad as yours. Keep going."
• Today's Guest: Mike Abrams
  • Mike is a tech specialist at a high school in Virginia who aims to inspire teachers to design lessons to support their students. Mike is a career switcher who moved into education after 10 years in Call Center management & training facilitation. Mike is a curious dabbler who tinkers with everything. He is an EdPuzzle Coach & a Pear Deck Regional Coach. Mike has a passion for video creation, pro wrestling & all things Cleveland Browns.
  • Contact Info: Twitter: @abramstank95, Email: ([email protected])

• Which of the following is less torturous?
• Educational Duct Tape Question - As educators what strategies can we use to help students process media propaganda messages?
  • Show multiple perspectives
  • Look at examples: Instagram post about Usain Bolt having COVID-19 that actually shows a picture of Kevin Hart
  • Understanding the motive and reason that someone may post something misleading or untrue
  • Looking at similar stories from different perspectives
  • How to package a lesson where students view news videos from different sources then compare/contrast and reflect on them.
    • EdPuzzle - build in reflection questions and compare/contrast activities
    • Google Site - package all of that content into one location - even embed the EdPuzzles on the site!
  • Fake Sites to look at:
    • Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus - zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
    • Dihydrogen Monoxide - DHMO.org
    • The Dog Island - thedogisland.com
  • Be sure to combine fake sites with real sites that seem suspicious
  • History of Fake News Timeline from Common Sense Media
  • Look at historical events from 2 perspectives - American Revolution from the American perspective and the British perspective.
  • "There's two sides to every story, but the truth lies right in the middle."
  • Dragnet: "Just need the facts. Only the facts."
  • Look at sites that link out to ads or posts to fake content (Yahoo, etc.), look for use of stock photography
• Celebration of the Adjacent Possible!
  • Apple Podcast Review – Mrs. Huckaby
  • #EduDuctTape tweets of the fortnight – @TxTechChick
  • Educational Duct Tape Flipgrid Community:
    • Sarah Kiefer - Screen Monitoring - https://flipgrid.com/b5b2a174
• Show Your Duct Taper Pride!
  • Apple Podcast Reviews! #EduDuctTape! Tell a Friend!
  • FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape
  • The Duct Tapers Facebook Group – facebook.com/groups/ducttapers
  • Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers
• Certificates of Listening, Laughing, and Learning!
  • EduDuctTape.com/certificate
  • Listen to the whole show to hear the "super-secret code"

Episode Notes Available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-miniepisode-014

• Today's Guest: Jenna Drozd
  • @MrsDrozd_BMS - Technology Integration Specialist, Fab Lab Manager, Digital Photography Teacher, and Video Production Teacher for the Orange City School District in Ohio
  • Interview Recorded February 12, 2020 on location at the OETC Conference in Columbus, OH

• • Jenna had to remind students to take their photos in the Camera app, not within SnapChat, Instagram, or other social media tools
  • Students submitted their work in Google Classroom
  • Students showcased their work and growth in Adobe Spark Page digital portfolios.
  • Adobe Photoshop
    • Frankenstein Monster Project - using Photoshop to combine different body parts to create a monster
    • PhotoShop learning curve - Jenna estimates that it took her 8th graders around 1-1.5 months in her 2-day/week class to get comfortable with Adobe Photoshop, which works out to roughly 8-12 class periods
• Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers!
  • Apple Podcast Reviews
  • FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape
  • #EduDuctTape on social media
  • Telling your friends & colleagues
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