One of our favorites! Engaging our students with effective technology. Much like advertisements, the tools and methods out there are ubiquitous: gain your students attention; keep them engaged; five ways to improve your students' quiz grades through engagement practices. This week, we tackle some of the assumptions behind engagement and offer up the Nearpod tool as one simple solution to help. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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The conversation focuses on the variety of educational models today: online education, hybrid teaching, and the traditional face to face experience. Then, Josh and Will introduce MathWhiteBoard and its many, magical features. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Will and Josh talk about... talking! This episode finds the duo discussing the value of and challenges around online discussion forums. Then, they look at Parlay as an idea for changing your online discussion forums. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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We digest the ideas of digital annotation and the impact it can have on learning. Then, we talk about a big player in the digital annotation movement, Perusall. This idea and tool is not only good for your students but good for all folks who are trying to improve their comprehension of reading materials. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Josh and Will sit down with James Crosby, CEO and Co-Founder, from Coggle to discuss the product, its background, and their thoughts for the future. The conversation takes fun twists and turns with submarines, small-but-big company approaches, and insights into what it takes to make Coggle so great! For more info, check out the episode page here.

Make sure to listen to our original episode on Mind Mapping & Coggle.

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Josh and Will open up the conversation on multimedia video lectures and sort through some of the difficulties and benefits of the idea. After that, Josh brings us some great info on Loom, a tool that might help in your effort to create excellent video lectures. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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New style, new edits! Welcome to a fresh new episode format. In this episode, we dig into the idea of Interactive Syllabi: what they are, and why you might use them. Then we think about how Google Slides, and the Google Drive suite, can operate as a Content Management System. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Josh and Will define and describe the idea of "Freemium" to help you with your EdTech decision-making. Then, they talk about the tool that saved education from COVID-19: Zoom. Tune in to hear their take! For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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This week, Josh and Will dig into assessments and how to use them to monitor your students and eventually provide the grade. Thereafter, they look at how AnswerGarden works as a tool to get formative feedback from your students, making several points about how the tool is also more about the technique. For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Enter into a conversation with Josh and Will as they dig into the idea of Third Spaces and how to cultivate them in online education, potentially even using the Discord app to do so. For more information on these tools and 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.