We are excited to share our interview with Stevie Frank for this week's investigation into HiTech. Stevie is a new friend from Twitter who offers up some insights on how she got into her role and how she imagines teaching will develop because of EdTech! She also suggests that our listeners check out Microsoft OneNote.  OneNote is a powerful tool for Microsoft institutions and it can truly revolutionize your classroom experience. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Will and Josh take on tutoring! What's its purpose in education and how do we cultivate it online learning. We think this will be the start of a series. After that, we offer up Readwise: the app for amalgamating all of your knowledge! For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Welcome to The Roastery: a place where we load up a topic and roast it! That's right, the usual niceties are put to the side, and we open up some real opinions on everyday education topics. For the first episode, we tackle a tool that Josh and Will use every day: learning management systems. After our roast, we offer up Screencast-o-matic as a tool for educators to consider. Screenshots and clips are tough to make and consolidated but Screencast-o-matic will get the job done. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Let's make it! No, this is not an episode of Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman's "Making It" (though I do recommend watching that). However, we take on the conversation around Maker Spaces and the practice of "making" for education. We hope that these ideas might inspire you and your classroom to find things to make. Also, check out Steam Head: a community and resource for making! There are so many communities out there now for making, but it's good to get connected and start learning. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Josh and Will beg the question, "does every lesson need an assessment?" If you're nodding along, excellent, join us. If you're like, "wait, what?", then we hope you'll tune in to hear how this debate plays out. This week, we bring you two apps from our Honorable Mentions category: Free Online OCR and ImageAltBot. These apps focus on accessibility, so check them out, and see how they can help you in your classroom. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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We conclude the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series by doing a panel conversation with Robin. S Jeffers herself and Dr. Justin Harbin! This longer conversation delves deep into the taxonomy and its application in the classroom. Join us for a few laughs, a lot of info, and no crap to be had! Lastly, Robin leaves us with fan.school, a learning tool designed to get students into current events with a fun twist. Listen in to find out more (and yes, their website is back up). For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Four for more! We get into our last solo conversation in the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series. Kirkpatrick's Taxonomy is simple and straightforward but that doesn't mean that Josh and Will can't extend the conversation. What are your reactions to it? Then we break the fourth wall to talk about our favorite podcasting tool: Zencastr. This product nails the virtual podcasting experience and we hope you'll consider it for your academic or personal purposes. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Episode three in the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series brings us Webb's Depths of Knowledge. The DOK taxonomy provides us some useful insights to complement Bloom's. We might be in too deep (ha!), but we're enjoying pulling these apart. After that, we open up Zotero as another research / resource management tool. Zotero compares to Mendeley pretty well, but offers up its unique features. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Episode two in the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series (it's just a joke folks: this is not a memorial plaque) takes us to Robert Gagné's 9 Events of Instruction and his general learning taxonomy. Settle in for a fun conversation on how learning relates to science and how learning science relates to humans. After that, we introduce the tool Remind which will help you and your students communicate in effective threads without the risk of exposing personal phone numbers. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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We start off the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series by investigating Bloom's Taxonomy. This foray starts with a few definitions and quickly devolves into our full list of pros and cons. Bloom's is the education standard, and yet there is so much to consider. We introduce a tool called Untools. The irony of Untools is that it provides a tools that help you think and design with handouts and examples galore. Check it out! For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us.