Great Resources from this show include…

Booking Resources

Simply Book Me – paid online booking

Setmore – free online booking (good for booking computer labs)

Tools you can use tomorrow with no tech experience and no money:

Quizlet for vocabulary

Nearpod for controlling student screens and delivering content

FlipGrid for student engagement

                Alternatives are Recap and VoiceThread

Presentation Tools

Screenleap for screen sharing

In-Focus JTouch boards – alternative to SMART or Promethean

Wait! I want to know more about…

We went deep down the rabbit hole of Apple’s research, Google Duplex, building an online identity, and the benefits and drawbacks of phones in class. No links here, but if you’re viewing these show notes to remember what we discussed, these are a few topics that we thought you might wanted to be reminded of!

This episode features an eye-opening conversation with Ms. Laura Schubert, CTE teacher at Graham Park middle, about how Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality can be used to give students a more impactful experience.  Ms. Schubert covers a lot of ground and talks about a number of websites and apps including:

Apps for AR:  Quiver  Merge Cube  Merge Cube apps  Metaverse

Apps for VR:  CoSpaces (this is not currently approved by PWCS, so obtain permission before creating student accounts)

You can contact Ms. Schubert at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @Schubelm

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Here’s a quick summary of what all of these amazing ITCs shared!

Peggi Knight – Leesylvania ES

Use YouTube in Internet Explorer

Add “ss” before youtube in a URL to download “www.ssyoutube...”

Semi Tseggai – Kyle Wilson ES

One-to-one with laptops and tablets

Smart tables

Green Screen and stop motion animation

OneNote

Netia Elam – Bull Run MS

Hybrid and Digital Breakouts using Google

For more on how to create your own hybrid breakout session, you can check out SRN 20171800110257 in the ERO!

Brooke Levecchi – Bellmont ESand Kerrydale ES

One-to-One with 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade

Using 365 products

Sarah Willey – Henderson ES

Collaboration with Wixie and VoiceThread

Cheryl Phillips – Saunders MS

PowerPoint

Sara Ross – Covington Harper ES

Microsoft Teams for Science Interactive Notebooks

Cynthia McFadden – Mullen ES

Coding Club

Sean Ward – Antietam ES & Valaina Maher – Bennett ES

Give little kids a chance! They will amaze you with what they can do!

Carrie Gahagan – Osbourn Park HS

Classroom app on iPads

Collaboration Space

Jim Sample Westridge ES

Wixie for miniature stores

Sheryl Roberts – Vaughn ES

BeBots, Ozmos, and Spheros for Title 1 Reading Night

Online Coding Course together

Joy Moller – Victory ES

Escape Rooms

Katie Fielding – Woodbridge SHS

Digital Citizenship Nights

Leanne Thomas -Mary Williams ES

One-to-One with laptops or tablets

Michelle Dunphy – Fitzgerald ES

FlipGrid

Jeanie Ingram – Garfield HS

Digital Breakouts using OneNote

Marsha Jeans – Enterprise ES and King ES

Coding for kids and staff

Ozobots and Osmos

Scratch Jr

Vickie Dunlap – Hampton MS

Google Expeditions

If you’re interested, you can request a visit at this link

Gail Charnick – Swan’s Creek ES

Wixie

Michelle Elliott – Kilby ES and Terry Guiffre – Mountain View ES

Teams

Patent/trademark office with 3d printing, IP for apps, Scratch

Digital Breakout Sessions – Register to attend in the ERO with SRN

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Diane mentions several websites over the course of this interview. We’ve done our best to link to them all here.

VoiceThread

Sway

Discovery Education

VSTE

Conference proposals

Blog

ISTE

Conference proposals

FETC

Conference proposals

If you’re interested in learning more about the 4C’s, you can read about them at this link, or as Diane says, “Let me Google that for you.”

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In episode 2, we talk about what you can do to keep digital learning alive in your classroom when school resources are tied up for testing.

Post-production note: In this episode, Biz talks about a website called qbbuzzer.com which is not as user-friendly as she initially thought. If you're willing to get creative, it's worth looking into, but if you're looking for a simple tool, this is probably not the right one for you.

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In our introductory episode, Biz and Brian discuss what happened at their schools during Digital Learning Day in February. 

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