TCAPSLoop Podcast

Episode 5.15

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! My guest today is perpetually dealing with white-out conditions, it’s the TechNollerGist, David Noller!  

TCAPSLoop Moment of Zen

The Agenda:

Teachers and learners need things to be available in the same way in expected patterns and in repeated contexts. Technology-mediated experiences allow us to pursue any number of opportunities online, but it is how we start those procedures and what we do with them that can build or destroy consistency and learning. 

Establishing routines: how to introduce learning, how to pursue the activity, what to do when you're finished, helps learners "place" the activity in a learning mindset as opposed to "another thing to do."

If a teacher uses warm-ups or exit tickets, establish those routines around the technology-mediated learning experiences, too. 

Where are assignments located? Keep it consistent, even if it's unique for you.

Tech Tool of the Week:

Join the Wordl Hive!

Create your own custom Wordl at: mywordle.me 

Create Wordle's of different lengths at: hellowordl.net 

In closing, you can find us on Twitter @TCAPSLoop and @TechNollerGist. 

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Episode 5.14

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Joining me on todays podcast is Stephi Luyt and the Traverse City Central High School student hosts of the "Decisively Useful" podcast, Tuesday Talks with Team 1711, Lauren and Gwen? 

Moment of Zen:

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

The Agenda:

We ask Lauren and Gwen the hard hitting questions regarding their adventures in podcasting, being on the marketing side of a FIRST Robotics team, and much more!

Thanks for listening and inspiring!

Episode 5.12

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! My first guest is refusing to succumb to temptation or bitterness, it’s Danelle Brostrom and though she often experiences finite disappointment, she never loses infinite hope, it’s Stephi Luyt!   

Moment of Zen

This weeks Moment of Zen is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”

The Agenda

Stephi joins us on the pod today to discuss putting together a Bookwalk for Martin Luther King Day and how our school district and community are partnering to encourage students to embrace the spirit of service and offer opportunities for involvement to our children. 

Tech Tool of the Week: 

Google Arts and Culture

Blob Opera

Google MyMaps

Thanks for listening and inspiring!

Episode 5.11

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Joining me after using all her multi-versal edtech abilities to bend one hour of code into a full week, it’s Danelle Brostrom and streaming in from an undisclosed location outside the Matrix, pulling all the TCAPS strings, it’s Sophie Legault-Bradly!

Moment of Zen

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility

- E. E. Cummings

The Agenda

Not since we had Thomas Paolacci on the pod have we had someone behind the scenes who is this essential to maintaining a school district. Sophie is TCAPS' Database Manager, think switchboard operator but with millions of connections to maintain at all times. She kindly lets us know how she makes the digital spaghetti that feeds the staff and students of our school district.  

Tech Tool of the Week: 

Screencastify

Thanks for listening and inspiring!

Episode 5.10

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Joining me from a construction site…in your mind, it’s the Technollergist, David Noller and Danelle Brostrom. After the holidays many schools begin Research Project season. With that in mind we revisit the ISTE Standard 1.3 - Knowledge Constructor, and it's importance in gathering and curating reliable information for student work. 

Moment of Zen

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."

• Standard #1.3: Knowledge Constructor, which has to do with how students research, determine credible sources to use, collect information and draw conclusions, and share that with others

1.3.a Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

1.3.b Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

1.3.c  Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

1.3.d Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

Tech Tool of the Week 

1. CommonSense.org list of Most Reliable and Credible Sources

Thanks for listening and inspiring!

Episode 5.9

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Joining me from TCAPSLoops' North Pole Office is our own well-read, gift giving EdTech elves, Danelle Brostrom and Stephie Luyt!  

Moment of Zen

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” –Mother Theresa

• 3 Minute Video Introduction for Teaching Books

• METS Group - Kerry Guiliano created this STEM gift guide for kids

Episode 5.8

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Virtually packed into this pods Google Meet like digital sardines is Danelle, David and TCAPS Seneschal of STEM, our Constable of Coding, it’s Heidi Skodack. All here to herald the arrival of this years Hour of Code.

TCAPSLoop Moment of Zen:

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

The Agenda:

• What is the Hour of Code?

Tech Tool of the Week:

GoOpenMichigan: Northwestern Lower Michigan STEM Career Profiles

Thanks for listening and inspiring. 

Episode 5.7

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Though autumn is her favorite time of the year because all the leaves turn from green to maize however after last weekend she may be feeling blue it’s Stephi Luyt! Joining us on this, "Getting to Know You," is possibly the most important guest we’ve ever had…because she’s my boss,it's TCAPS' Executive Director of Communications, Ginger Smith!    

TCAPSLoop Moment of Zen

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

Tech Tool of the Week

Teaching Books

Bar code scanning for adding to your booklists.

Thanks for listening and inspiring.

Episode 5.6

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast! I’m joined by TCAPS own Mentat, the Technollorgist, David Noller and special guest Mitch Heethuis, who directed TCAPS Credit Recovery Program this past summer. Mitch shares his insights on specially designed teacher created courses created on BrightspaceD2L, used for credit recovery. 

Moment of Zen

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert, 'Dune'.

The Agenda

• What was the goal when you started planning for last summer’s credit recovery courses?

Thanks for listening and inspiring.

Episode 5.5

Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Joining the pod today is the ever effervescent,  Danelle Brostrom to discuss some of the newest Google Apps for Education updates!   

TCAPSLoop Moment of Zen

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh

The Agenda

Google Chat & Spaces

Google Calendar Time Insights

Google Calendar Agenda

Google Meet Auto Exposure

Google Sites Custom Themes

Google Docs watermark and clickable checklists

Coolsymbol.com

Google Drive for Desktop

Google Forms Settings

Coming Soon! GMail Avatars

Google Profiles

Productivity Tip: Unsubscribe in GMail!

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