The EdTech Take Out

Amber Bridge and Jason Marshall join Mindy and Jonathan for a special makerspace edition. Learn more about the Think Make Innovate YouTube show, our upcoming makerspace conference and a host of great people to follow online for #makered inspiration. Even the tech nuggets have a makerspace flavor so be sure to stay tuned for those.

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, [email protected]. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.

Until next time...

Follow Up:

• #classroomclips for edu examples of Apple Clips app

• The Mevo camera now broadcasts to YouTube Live & Periscope, as well as Facebook Live

• 15 Ways to Use Flipgrid in your Classroom by Karly Moura

• I’m going back to paper AND staying digital By Matt Miller

• Use Parrot drones with Swift Playgrounds - bit.ly/swift_drone
  

New menu items:

• Apple makes iWork and iLife apps free for all devices

• Find and insert free pictures with the Pixabay Google Docs Add-on

• May 2, Microsoft is having an EDU event centered around Windows Cloud devices

• Wunderlist is being retired and will be replaced by Microsoft To-Do - boo! :(

Main Course: #FormativeTech with Monica Burns

• ClassTechTips.com

• #FormativeTech Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment With Technology

Tech Nuggets!

• Tackk via Richard Byrne
  • 20 Ways to Use Tackk in the Classroom

• iCivics free lesson plans and games for learning civics

• https://www.peanutgalleryfilms.com/

• Auto Draw from Google
  

Jonathan's Catch of the Day

• Listen Learn Lead Podcast from Andrew Fenstermaker & Scott Stimmel

• The Grift from Maria Konnikova

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us, [email protected]. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.

Follow Up:

• #classroomclips for edu examples of Apple Clips app

• The Mevo camera now broadcasts to YouTube Live & Periscope, as well as Facebook Live

• 15 Ways to Use Flipgrid in your Classroom by Karly Moura

• I’m going back to paper AND staying digital By Matt Miller

• Use Parrot drones with Swift Playgrounds - bit.ly/swift_drone
  

New menu items:

• Apple makes iWork and iLife apps free for all devices

• Find and insert free pictures with the Pixabay Google Docs Add-on

• May 2, Microsoft is having an EDU event centered around Windows Cloud devices

• Wunderlist is being retired and will be replaced by Microsoft To-Do - boo! :(

Main Course: #FormativeTech with Monica Burns

• ClassTechTips.com

• #FormativeTech Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment With Technology

Tech Nuggets!

• Tackk via Richard Byrne
  • 20 Ways to Use Tackk in the Classroom
  
  

• iCivics free lesson plans and games for learning civics

• https://www.peanutgalleryfilms.com/

• Auto Draw from Google
  

Jonathan's Catch of the Day

In this episode Mindy and Jonathan talk about the new iPad and a few other Apple anouncements that are pretinent to educators. They talk coding in the classroom with Samatha Dahlby (@dahlbys) from NewBo Co. and roundup the episode with some fresh tech nuggets and top podcast picks!

Followup:

New Menu Items

Main Course: Coding With Samantha

Tech Nuggets

Podcast Picks

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.

Until next time...

In this episode Mindy and Jonathan talk about the new iPad and a few other Apple anouncements that are pretinent to educators. They talk coding in the classroom with Samatha Dahlby (@dahlbys) from NewBo Co. and roundup the episode with some fresh tech nuggets and top podcast picks!

Followup:

New Menu Items

Main Course: Coding With Samantha

In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by tech coaches and instructional coaches from local schools to discuss life as an educational coach. New tech nuggets are included in this episode, and so are Jonathan's podcast picks.

Followup

• CoSpaces adds camera and export, iOS creation

• Video options for YouTube videos in Slides, just like for Drive Videos

• Spiral Clip - another great addition to the Spiral suite of formative assessment tools

• EngageNY Math Curriculum

New Menu Items

• Symbaloo Learning Paths

• Sideways writing in spreadsheets

• Google Keep is integrated into Docs and is now a core service of gSuiteEdu

• New iPads coming soon...?

Main Course: Coaching Conversations

A BIG thank you to Anna, Andrea, Jeff, Andrew and Frank for taking the time to talk to us on this special episode of the Edtech Take Out. Follow these guys on Twitter if you want to learn more or continue the coaching conversation.

• Anna Upah (@AnnaUpah)

• Andrea Townsley (@townsleyaj)

• Jeff Vaughn (@JeffSixth)

• Andrew Fenstermaker (@a_fenstermaker)

• Frank Slabaugh (@FrankSlabaugh)

Tech Nuggets

• Striving Readers Website

• https://kupiter.org

• Instructables

• Flipgrid

Wylie's Podcast Picks

• 20 Thousand Hertz

• Instructional Coaching Corner

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.

Until next time...

In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan are joined by tech coaches and instructional coaches from local schools to discuss life as an educational coach. New tech nuggets are included in this episode, and so are Jonathan's podcast picks.

Followup

• CoSpaces adds camera and export, iOS creation

• Video options for YouTube videos in Slides, just like for Drive Videos

• Spiral Clip - another great addition to the Spiral suite of formative assessment tools

• EngageNY Math Curriculum

New Menu Items

• Symbaloo Learning Paths

• Sideways writing in spreadsheets

• Google Keep is integrated into Docs and is now a core service of gSuiteEdu

• New iPads coming soon...?

Main Course: Coaching Conversations

A BIG thank you to Anna, Andrea, Jeff, Andrew and Frank for taking the time to talk to us on this special episode of the Edtech Take Out. Follow these guys on Twitter if you want to learn more or continue the coaching conversation.

• Anna Upah (@AnnaUpah)

• Andrea Townsley (@townsleyaj)

• Jeff Vaughn (@JeffSixth)

• Andrew Fenstermaker (@a_fenstermaker)

• Frank Slabaugh (@FrankSlabaugh)

Tech Nuggets

In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan recap on the results of their iPad Challenge and spend some time talking to Josh Allen to talk about open educational resources. New tech nuggets are included in this episode, and so are Jonathan's podcast picks.

Followup

• Toontastic 3D works on SOME Chromebooks

• Keyboard shortcuts for the iPad

New Menu Items

• Add video to Google Slides

• YouTube Live Coming to Mobile Devices Soon

• Enhanced Google Expeditions

• Book Creator is Coming to the Web

• Scan QR Codes with Chrome for iOS

• Version 4 of Flipboard now available

Main Course: Open Educational Resources (OER)

• GoOpen website

• What GoOpen looks like for Josh Allen's District

• EngageNY Math Curriculum

• Georgia Math Standards & Curriculum

• OER Commons

• Amazon Inspire

• CK-12 textbooks

• GoOpen Regional Summit in Council Bluffs

Tech Nuggets

• Pixabay iPad app (note this is a 12+ app)

• Recite.com

• CommonLit

• Sharalike

Wylie's Podcast Picks

• The 10 Minute Teacher Show

• The Way I Heard It

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.

Until next time...

In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan recap on the results of their iPad Challenge and spend some time talking to Josh Allen to talk about open educational resources. New tech nuggets are included in this episode, and so are Jonathan's podcast picks.

Followup

• Toontastic 3D works on SOME Chromebooks

• Keyboard shortcuts for the iPad

New Menu Items

• Add video to Google Slides

• YouTube Live Coming to Mobile Devices Soon

• Enhanced Google Expeditions

• Book Creator is Coming to the Web

• Scan QR Codes with Chrome for iOS

• Version 4 of Flipboard now available

Main Course: Open Educational Resources (OER)

• GoOpen website

• What GoOpen looks like for Josh Allen's District

• EngageNY Math Curriculum

• Georgia Math Standards & Curriculum

• OER Commons

• Amazon Inspire

• CK-12 textbooks

In this episode, Mindy and Jonathan predict the edtech trends that they think are going to make a big impact in classrooms this year. They talk about whether we still need a desktop operating system, and make plans for an iPad challenge. A box of six tech nuggets are also included at no extra cost!

Hot Topic: Do We Still Need Desktop Operating Systems?

• Stop Using a Laptop in 2017; It’s Time to Use a Tablet

• Tim Cook does 80% of his work on an iPad

• The Gear You Need to Make Your iPad Your Only Computer

Main Course: Our Top Edtech Trends for 2017

1. Virtual Reality

Tech Nuggets

• Pineapple Charts

• Toontastic 3D

• Knight Lab Projects

• ReadWorks Digital

Jonathan's Podcast Pick

• The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on iTunes or Google Play Music.

Until next time...