House of #EdTech

Bruce Reicher, is a television production teacher from Northern New Jersey sharing his love of WeVideo.

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Intro - The segments are a little jumbled today. Let me know what you think!

House of #EdTech Thought - Getting Your Students to be Creative

House of #EdTech Recommendation - Kami

Featured Content - Bruce Reicher, WeVideo, Middle School

House of #EdTech VIP - Laura Gilchrist

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Not every classroom or school is fortunate enough to be 1:1, or even have enough computer labs or mobile carts to go around.

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In August 2016 I had the honor of appearing on the Home Gadget Geeks Podcast!

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Chris Nesi from http://www.chrisnesi.com/  joins Jim Collison  https://twitter.com/jcollison and Mike Wieger from http://2980network.com/ for show #272 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com community.

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Feedback, Shoutouts, and Links

• Tina Monteleone left a great Apple Podcasts review!
  • Who better to spend my weekly commute with than Chris Nesi. Chris and his #HouseofEdTech fill my mind with thought provoking ideas, great new edtech tips, and teaching strategies from amazing educators from all over our country. Chris and his commentary NEVER disappoint! Thanks Chris for #keepingitreal ✌️
  
  
• PodcastPD Podcast with Stacey Lindes, AJ Bianco and I
• Tomorrow's Classrooms Today Conference

#EdTech Thought (3:50) Stay Focused and Not Be Overwhelmed by Tech

• Here are some helpful tips to keep in mind the next time you're having trouble keeping your thoughts in order: 1 - Work Within Your Brain's Natural Schedule 2 - Reward Your Mind for Staying Focused 3 - Take Breaks (Real Breaks) 4 - Forget Multitasking 5 - Find Work That Keeps You Genuinely Engaged 6 - Practice Mindfulness 7 - Chew Gum

#EdTech Recommendation (10:57)

• iLoveIMG is the simplest way to save time while working with images. iLoveIMG lets you modify images in bulk, fast! Everything you need for compressing, cropping, converting, and resizing is right here. You can even make animated GIFs in just a few clicks.

Featured Content (12:00)

This episode was inspired by George Couros's blog post, "It Is Time to Move Away from the Idea of "Tech Leads"? Here are the interesting quotes I commented on:

• For many people that have "technology" in their title, no matter the role, it means to other people "please come fix things in my classroom that use electricity".
• "Another concern is that when "technology" is in the title of a position that is not about IT, it almost forces you to find ways to use technology in a classroom setting, whether good or bad. Go to a conference and someone uses Kahoot in a session, and then suddenly you have Kahoot parties popping up all over your school. Is this leading to deeper learning, or simply using technology more in classrooms for the sake of justifying a position?"

Innovative Teaching and Learning Specialist is more the route we should go when it comes to crossing technology and curriculum. An ITL would assist teachers' integration of technology but more importantly, an ITL would work to improve instruction.

Obviously, I would love to be in this type of position and make an impact on students AND teachers.

So if you know someone who needs a guy like me send them my way!

Purchase George Couros's book, The Innovators Mindset. House of #EdTech VIP (17:10)

JULIE DANIEL DAVIS - Julie is from Chattanooga, TN where she is a wife, mom, tech coordinator, Bama fan. Julie is the Co-mod of #TnEdChat, team member of #edcampgigcity 2015 Top 50 k-12 IT Blogger Connect with Julie Daniel Davis:

• Twitter: Follow @juliedavisEDU
• Website: techhelpful.blogspot.com

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• Sully Baseball Podcast
• Dan Gallagher
• Dan Borgoff
• Stacey Lindes
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• Chris Harris
• Denis Sheeran, author of Instant Relevance: Using Today's Experience to Teach Tomorrow's Lessons
• Sylwia Denko
• Kathy Chow-Isaacs

#EdTech Thought Take Risks

• Get out there!
• Meet and engage people
• Get into the places you want to be. Surround yourself with what you want to do and be.
• Be a communicator. Allow yourself to be pushed and encouraged by others.
• Be selfless and be a giver.
• Make investments in yourself. You're worth it!
• Have the guts and tenacity.

#EdTech Recommendation

• Neocities - Neocities is a social network of 126,900 websites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. We offer free web hosting and tools that allow you to create your own website.
• W3 Schools - W3Schools is a web developers site, with tutorials and references on web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, W3.CSS, and Bootstrap, covering most aspects of web programming.The site derives its name from the World Wide Web (W3), but is not affiliated with the W3C.W3Schools was originally created in 1998 by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian software development and consulting company.

Featured Content IGNITE STEM:

With significant backing from Princeton University, Wolfram Alpha, Google Education, and more, IgniteSTEM brings together thought leaders to make the "classroom of the future" a reality. Through international series of conferences, IgniteSTEM empowers educators and provides cutting edge ideas to disrupt STEM learning environments with education technology and project-based learning.

Speakers I learned from:

Jonathan Rochelle - Product Management Director at Google Apps for Education. He managed the startup and launch of Google Classroom, Expeditions, and related Google Apps for Education. He previously worked as Product Management Director and Co-Founder of Google Docs & Drive. The company he co-founded and led as CEO was acquired by Google in 2005 to become the basis for Google Sheets.

Matthew Brimer - An entrepreneur, community builder, and instigator of creative mischief. He is Co-Founder of General Assembly, and has recently launched GA's philanthropic arm, Opportunity Fund. Brimer is also Co-Founder of Daybreaker, a global community and lifestyle brand producing conscious morning experiences around the world. Brimer also serves as an advisor to a handful of startups, including Common, Fluent City, ZZ Driggs, and Lightmatter. Brimer has been named to Vanity Fair's "The Next Establishment", Forbes "30 Under 30", Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30", and Business Insider's "Silicon Alley 100".

Mike Swift - Founder of Hacker League, the premier platform for managing hackathons, and the Commissioner of Major League Hacking, the Official Collegiate Hackathon League. He is one of the foremost authorities on organizing effective hackathons.

Sarah Shannon - Sarah is a Systemic Partnership Coach at BIE, a non-profit with a mission to promote project-based learning (PBL) in schools. As a school administrator, Sarah's experiences included visioning, strategic planning and implementing whole school improvement and change efforts. In her most recent principalship, she led the implementation of PBL at the middle school level as the first step in a district-wide shift.

House of #EdTech VIP

JENNIFER DUDA - A new listener of the House of #EdTech who currently teaches special education in a self-contained 5-8 Autistic classroom at the Mercer Elementary School.

She's inspired to do more with technology and provide an enriched experience for her students.

Connect with Jennifer Duda:

• Follow @DynamicDuda338

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We welcome the host of the House of Ed Tech podcast, Christopher Nesi, to the show! We discuss gift ideas for the kids, get Chris' take on the future of podcasting in education, and find out what show has made it into Chris' son's daily routine.

Christopher Nesi http://twitter.com/mrnesi http://www.chrisnesi.com Water Cooler: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/11/30/20-non-toy-holiday-gift-ideas-for-kids/ App/Site: Edulastic http://www.edulastic.com Follow #12DaysTwitter https://twitter.com/search?q=%2312daystwitter&src=typd Upcoming event: METC http://2016.metcconference.org District Spotlights: CB: http://twitter.com/piperclass LC: http://twitter.com/04kanaNancy ISD: http://twitter.com/youcandomore1

Lynn Smargis is BACK! In this episode, we talk about and share great tips for writing and winning your next edtech grant! Support for this episode of House of #EdTech comes from: SummerPD.com - Use Promo code: HOUSEOFEDTECH Grammarly Audible.com Domain.com Listeners Like You! Become a Patron... Complete show notes: http://chrisnesi.com/83 ** SEGMENTS ** (1:39) Intro (5:35) House of #EdTech Thought - 3 Steps to SMART Goals (8:44) House of #EdTech Recommendation - Get the Apple TV Screenscavers on your MAC - The Great War YouTube Channel - Momentum for Chrome (12:20) Featured Content - Write and Win You Next EdTech Grant! (47:15) House of #EdTech VIP - Joe Dziuba ** FEEDBACK ** Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: [email protected] Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

I present to you the House of #EdTech Final Four! My annual episode that blends education and basketball!

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Megan Forbes has a YouTube channel dedicated to encouraging and supporting teachers.

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Kerry Gallagher is an advocate for the use of Open Education Resources (OER).

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