On this special episode of the METC podcast we celebrate our community! Voices from around our community will share what has motivated them, how they engage others, areas in which they have transformed, or ways they have connected over the past year. This podcast is all about the community and we are excited to celebrate this episode with you. Let’s get started.

Be sure to connect with all of our guests from the episode! All Twitter handles are located within the Show Notes Document linked here.

Episode Overview:

In this episode I sat down with John Waters, Director of the St. Louis RPDC. We have a great conversation about technology and how it is crucial in engagement. 

Episode’s Twitter Challenge

Share a lesson, resource, tip or idea around engagement with technology. Use #METCpodcast in your tweet!

Tech ‘n’ Sixty: Watch the episode here

In this episode we share the most recent Tech n Sixty - Episode 176. We share how with the new Google Chrome you can easily create QR codes for any webpage and that can then be customized to make it more personalized.

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METC on Demand

In this METC miniPOD episode, our community guest is Christy Brooks and she shares a resource called Loop. Check it out!

Loop can be found at loophq.io. It is a free Ed Tech platform that allows teachers to get student feedback instantly. Unlimited exit tickets are free, additional question types are part of their premium package. Easy to set up and ad free. Loop is COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy) and GDPR (General Data Protection) compliant. 

Episode 20 Show Notes

Loophq.io

In this episode our guest LeeAnn Lindsey joins us and talks about the importance of Digital Well Being or Digital Wellness. She shares some great ideas and resources.

Episode's Show Notes

Twitter Challenge - Share the steps you have taken to ensure your digital wellness

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METC on Demand

In this episode of the METC Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Ted Huff to talk about engagement strategies with Distance Learning. Ted shares some over great strategies and some wonderful apps to help with engagement really in all learning environments. We close the episode by learning more about how Ted lives METC’s mission each day and recommends some great educators to connect with.

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METC on Demand Information

100th Episode Flipgrid Topic

Episode's Twitter Challenge - Share your favorite apps to engage your students within any learning environment, but especially within distance learning. Please add #METCpodcast to your tweets!

Be on a future episode of the METC Podcast or share your favorite tech tool on a METC miniPOD. Reach out to Jonathon at [email protected]

Adobe Spark is a creation tool that provides you and your students with the ability to create beautiful graphics, videos and webpages seamlessly. It is a free tool - and when deployed by districts, students and teachers have access to all the premium features. There is even the ability to set up your own Adobe classroom for students on limited release for specific Google id’s (to learn more about how to access the free version check out spark.adobe.com/edu)

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Adobe Creative Educator

After talking about great lesson design in episode 95, Dorean and I focus on the tools that you can use to Motivate, Engage, Transform & Connect all learners during your lessons.

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METC on Demand

Twitter challenge - Share you favorite tech tool to Motivate, Engage, Transform or Connect your students within your content. Add #METCpodcast or #METCpd to you-r tweet! Happy sharing!

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This is the first half of our conversation with Dorean Dow on student engagement. Within this episode, Dorean focuses on the strategic design of lessons. Before we even think about the tech, we need to think about the What, Why, How, Accessibility & Incentives. Without these key components, your lesson will no doubt fall flat and miss learning expectations for all of your students. Listen to the expert, Dorean Dow on this subject! Then tune into the next episode as we apply some great tech tools!

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Twitter Challenge - Share your virtual/hybrid instructional strategies - #METCpodcast

METC On Demand - Begins February 9th. 

Within this METC miniPOD episode our community guest is our very own Jonathon Lee. Jonathon shares about the Applied Digital Skills curriculum tool that Google has created! If you have not checked it out yet, you definitely should. Link is below but also within the show notes linked.

Episode Show Notes

Applied Digital Skills

ISTE Standards