The TechEducator Podcast

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at the new Google Earth, MyMaps and Google Tour Builder and share our tips for using these tools in our classrooms.

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4. Josh Gauthier @mrgfactoftheday

• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Google MyMaps
• Google Tour Builder

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The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

Alefiya believes that involved communities result in higher academic and social outcomes, stronger values, and increased future success for students. Her degree in psychology and education from Emory University, along with her training and experience as a Montessori teacher, power her passion for wide-scale education improvement. It is this passion that led her to start her company Crescerance (cris-seer-unce) in 2011.

In Crescerance’s short lifespan of just over 3 years, Alefiya has enabled over 150 educational institutions in America and throughout the world to better communicate with and engage their communities through the growing power of mobile. Alefiya is passionate about making mobile an easily available and powerful channel to thousands of schools worldwide. She is now focussing on bringing the concepts and tools of app development to students as young as the 3rd grade by enabling them to build mobile apps with the newly launched MAD-learn program. In her spare time, she enjoys touring the world, meeting new people, learning new languages, and experiencing new cultures. She is also a closet adrenaline junkie who loves the occasional sky or sea dive expedition.

Crescerance began its journey in 2011 with the simple idea of wanting to make it easier for schools to connect and truly engage with their parents, staff, students, alumni, and community at large. Through working with schools in creating their school apps (so that everyone could be connected through Mobile and have quick, easy access to the information they needed), we met students that had a keen interest in not just using the app that we created for their school, but in wanting to learn about the creation process of that app.

“How did you make our app?” was a question that we got asked through numerous in person or Skype calls from teachers wanting to bring an App Developer perspective to their students. This is where MAD-learn was born. It was born from the curiosity of our students. From their quest to know more and absorb more. From our passion to feed that curiosity.

MAD stands for Mobile App Development and MAD-learn is a program that is teaching students how to be Creators of Technology, instead of just Consumers of it. To learn more about MAD-learn, watch this video: MAD-learn.com

Interested in getting your kids coding? Http://Code.org/learn has resources to get any teacher, even one with no available tech, rolling for the hour of code.

You can even use the Hour of Code as an opportunity to build community at your school by hosting and Hour of Code family coding event. Here is a great place to get started. http://www.edutopia.org/blog/family-coding-day-hour-of-code-sam-patterson

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

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In this podcast, we take a look at our favorite web tools that help teachers and students curate the web.

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

• Evernote
• IFTTThttp://catlintucker.com/2013/08/if-this-then-that-connecting-tech-tools-saving-time/
• Pocket
• Buffer
• Google Bookmarking Manager
• Livebinders
• Symbaloo http://live.classroom20.com/archive-and-resources/category/symbaloo
• Neato 
• Pearltrees
• TweetDeck
• Diigo

In this podcast, we take a look at MacOS and learn how teachers can take advantage of its powerful features with their students.

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

Yosemite Features mentioned in this show

• QuicktimeRecord Audio
• Record Video
• Screen Capture your iOS Device
• iTunesAdd Podcasts
• iTunes Match
• Yosemite Spotlight

Recorded November 3, 2014

In this video, we learn how to use the FREE activities on HourofCode.org to engage students and teach them about computer science.

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

• Tara Linney coding in the curriculum
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gTRSQ2_Wnia22MKwdn9YoKm5DUUgbG0zzX6-ucQKaHw/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000
• Treehouse http://teamtreehouse.com/join/first-week-free?utm_source=google&cid=1027&as_clid=297355d4-6045-4844-8f45-bcbd75433c5b:treehouse%20programming:b:g:1t1&gclid=CIKfiKG9y8ECFZNbfgodSg8A2g
• lIGHTBOT https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightbot-one-hour-coding-14/id927711285?mt=8
• Vocareum  http://instructionaltechtalk.com/021-coding-classroom-vocareum/
• Tickle app https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/705926089/tickle-learn-to-code-using-scratch-to-make-iphone 
• http://www.tickleapp.com/
• Coding resources http://bit.ly/1zxiWu4

Recorded October 26, 2014

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

• Anne Jenks https://twitter.com/Ajay460
• Wes Fryer https://twitter.com/wfryer
• Grechen from Kodable https://www.kodable.com/

• KELP program: https://discover.cs.ucsb.edu/kelpcs/researchers.html
• Kodable: https://www.kodable.com/
• Hour of Code: http://code.org/educate/hoc
• Cybraryman on Coding: http://cybraryman.com/programming.html
• K12 Online Conference: http://k12onlineconference.org

Recorded October 19, 2014

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

• Natalie O'Neil @TeachNV

• Goobric
• Gmath
• Doctopus
• Goobric

The Tech Educator Podcast is a weekly roundtable discussion about current topics in educational technology.  For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

Recorded October 5, 2014