The EdTech Take Out

News and Updates:

Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording

Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent)

Bing AKA Sydney

• The Online Search Wars - The Daily 2.15.23

AI - Chat GPT for positive use in the classroom

Create & Edit a Timeline View - Google Docs Editors Help

Table Templates in Google Docs

Tech Nuggets:

Mindy: 

Take the background out of your iPhone pictures (iOS16)

Force captions on in YouTube: Thanks, Amber!  ?cc_load_policy=1 (embed code comes after video ‘name’)

The Achievery: Has Learning Units, essential questions, standards, grade level, video clips, and lesson plans. Thanks, Lynn!

Eduprotocols in Google Slides from @MrsGearhart

Gina: 

ScreenPal for video feedback in any textbox

Curipod - AI-powered lessons

Iorad - great for creating tutorials 

Slides Timer - Chrome extension for a timer in Google Slides

Cloze Reading Assignment with Drop Downs in Google Docs - via Eric Curts

Stacy: 

Conker - topic and grade level and will give multiple choice quiz that can go into a Google form or PDF

QR code - Canva Apps

Checkboxes in docs- can add to tasks 

About spaces and group conversations - Google Chat Help

The GWAEA Corner Booth:

Computer Science Pedagogy & Best Practices: Principles 7-12

PreK-12 teachers join us for a six-week virtual course exploring six of twelve pedagogical principles from Hello World's "The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy."

When: March 22 - April 19, 2023, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom

GWAEA & CSTA Iowa CS Pedagogy & Best Practices Course 2

Course #204370

Section # 313928

Mindy Cairney and Gina Rogers chat with Bridget Castelluccio and Corey Rogers about all things Computer Science at GWAEA. 

• State of Iowa CS Report

Our theme for today’s episode is Start, Stop, Keep. Gina and I have been using this prompt with teachers for quite a few years now–the frame is What will you start doing? What will you stop doing? What will you keep doing? We asked our team to think about this as a New Year's resolution with a technology focus and they’ve sent us some nuggets that might be helpful for you in the year ahead!

• Gina - Time Insights on Google Calendar 

So…what will you start doing, stop doing, or keep doing in 2023? We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too! 

Have a great winter break and we will see you in the new year!

In this episode of The Ed Tech Takeout, Mindy Cairney is joined by Amber Bridge, Beth Swantz, and Gina Rogers to discuss the Transformative Classrooms Tool that they developed. The conversation focuses on the throughline of collaboration and discourse and what that looks like in all three tenets of the Transformative Classrooms Tool. 

Resources:

• The Tenets of Transformative Classrooms

In case you missed it, the Edtech Takeout will look a bit different moving forward….at the end of last season, we said goodbye to Jonathan Wylie as he moved to a different position in the agency. However, the team felt strongly that the podcast needed to continue on. Our plan is to record shorter episodes in more bite-sized chunks. This episode is just a news and nuggets episode. The next episode will be more like the main course part of our original format and will have more content and conversation. This way you can look through the playlist menu and choose what looks most appetizing! 

News and Updates

• Screencastify extends free time limit

DLGWAEA Corner Booth

• Ride the Wakelet Wave (Online Course - starting October 3rd - December 16th)

Tech Nuggets 

• Emojis in Google Docs 

Well, here we are. This is our last episode before our summer hiatus and we wanted to take a few minutes of your time to talk about what The Edtech Take Out will look like when we come back in August. 

So, we hope you enjoy this episode and stick with us as we get ready to embark on a new adventure.

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at [email protected].

If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

Last but not least, THANK YOU for listening! We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

The end of the school year is approaching. Are you ready? If not, we can help! We have some tips on how to best wrap up your school year by giving you some best practice advice for the apps and services you have been using all year. 

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News and follow-up:

• Use new table templates and dropdown chips in Google Docs

Main Course: Wrapping it Up!

• Google Classroom - Eric Curts

• Archive sessions

Tech Nuggets:

• CrashCourse on YouTube

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

THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

We're back, and so is ITEC - Iowa's premier edtech conference! Mindy and I were in attendance, as were the rest of the team, so in this episode, we are going to reveal some of our takeaways from this always popular conference.

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News and followup:

• iOS version of ExpeditionsPro

Main Course: ITEC Spring Conference:

• ITEC Iowa

Tech Nugget(s)?

• Send a video to the future

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

THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

We have been wanting to have an episode like this for a long time, but we have never been able to find a good guest to talk to. All that changed when Katie Wardrobe (@MusicTechTchr) agreed to come on the show and talk about the intersection of music and edtech.

Whether you teach music or not, this was a really fun conversation with great ideas for any classroom, including TikTok challenges for students!

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News/Follow-up:

• Practice Sets in Google Classroom

Main Course: Katie Wardrobe:

• Soundtrap

• challenges

Tech Nuggets

• Pagify

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

THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

In this episode, we decided to try something a little different. We invited Micheal Cohen (aka @TheTechRabbi) to join us to talk about the implication of NFTs for students and educators. 

If you haven't heard of NFTs or web3 before, you're not alone but that's one of the main reasons why we decided to have this conversation. It will make you think differently about all kinds of things.

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News/Follow-up:

• Sharing slides as a Virtual Background in Zoom

• Introducing Pear Deck Reflect & Review!

Main Course: NFTs with Michael Cohen

• Michael Cohen on Twitter: @TheTechRabbi

Tech Nuggets

• Random Name Selector in Google Classroom Thanks to Kelly Roskopf at Solon High School

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

THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!