Episode 8: Productive, Purposeful, and Practical Tech Tools
featuring Jared and Kari Wall

SHOW DATE: October 1, 2018

SUMMARY: Now that everyone is back in full swing with the school year, we wanted to take a moment to look at tech tools that are beneficial and easily used in the classroom. Tech tools must be convenient and easy to use by teachers and students or they will not get used.

SHOW NOTES:
News and Notes:
Why so long in between podcasts? It has been a packed few months:
Getting familiar with a new school year, students, procedures, and content

Technology Tools & Trends
We continue to use Canva
Memes
Posters
Pear Deck
Add-on for Google Slides (includes templates for bell ringer/exit ticket/critical thinking questions
Add any type of question to your pre-made slide.
Formative assessment
Multiple choice
Drawings
Drag and drop
Text (for students to write out a response)
More
Updates to Google Classroom
Class Work Page makes it easier to organize your activities
Easily reuse posts or assignments across classrooms.
Assign activities to groups within your classes.
Flaws:
need ability to hide and easier reorganization.
Need to be able to have one class with multiple sections
Bitmoji (Extension in Google Chrome)
Students created an account (if they didn’t already have one) and their own avatar
Students created a comic strip that was relevant to what we were doing in class and used their own personal bitmoji as their character in their comic strip
They were able to copy and paste their bitmoji using the extension in Google Chrome
It pastes as an image, so students could crop out words or parts of the image they did not want to use
Students love seeing themselves. This gives them the opportunity.
This is something that can be used across all content for a multitude of projects or to simply add a little something to an assignment