Undrcaff3inatED Podcast

Melody McAllister @mjmcalli on Twitter or @redwhiteandbluecheese on Instagram

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Virtual Field Trips - What are virtual field trips? An outstanding way to bring the world to your class when you can’t take your class to the world. How have you used virtual field trips in the past?

Erin - They can integrate various subjects for a great project based learning activity. 6th graders were studying Ancient Greece, so I have them go to a series of tourist websites in Greece that offered virtual tours as a way to encourage people to book their vacations through their company. The students then had to plan a vacation with their budget based on where they wanted to stay and what they wanted to see.

https://eduscapes.com/tap/topic35.htm

https://ditchthattextbook.com/20-virtual-field-trip-ideas-and-activities-for-your-classroom/

https://www.discoveryeducation.com/community/virtual-field-trips/

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/about/virtual-tour

https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/virtualtrips

https://www.google.com/earth/

https://artsandculture.google.com/

https://explore.org/livecams

https://www.tripsavvy.com/virtual-field-trips-for-kids-3129414

http://www.teachhub.com/how-plan-virtual-field-trip

Joelle - Whether taking my class to the base of Chichen Itza or outside St. Basil’s Cathedral in Russia, we have explored the world from the comfort of our class. There is a great resource called Learn Around the World. There are scheduled virtual field trips that you can join. We have participated in visiting Abe Lincoln’s home as well as explored Mayan temples in Tulum and Tikal. All you need is a web connection and a webcam. I love virtual field trips because they generally are free, don’t require extensive paperwork, and allow you to bring your students around the world in a short amount of time.

Ashley - Virtual Field Trips in a Virtual World

Build suspense - send out an invite ahead of time

Give clues along the way

Create a KWL chart

Build some background knowledge

See the person, animal, or place live

Refer back to KWL chart

Themed activities

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flipgrid/id756972930

Google app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vidku.app.flipgrid&hl=en_US

What is it? According to Kayla Engle who wrote a blog entry for Flipgrid, she explained it as follows: AR stands for augmented reality, or the ability to “place” virtual elements in the physical world. With FlipgridAR, you can “stick” any Flipgrid video wherever you want by printing the video’s QR code and then scanning the QR code with the Flipgrid mobile app.

Don’t have the Flipgrid mobile app? Just use the camera on any smartphone and scan the QR code. It will open the video in a web browser, just without the AR components.

What are some classroom ideas?

Community nights: students can record facts and families can view them as they walk through the halls

Gifts for parents

Student reflection

Digital Citizenship: constructive feedback, positive feedback

Show off awesome dance moves: just sayin’ PE or dance parties

Asking questions

Scavenger Hunt - scoot: Students record the questions or the answers depending on how you approach it.

What exactly is oneword? Many people have New Year’s resolutions, but how many of us really honor them for 365 days? The idea behind the one word movement is you choose one word that encapsulates or embodies your goals for the upcoming year. It can be for your professional goals, personal goals and of course a hybrid of both. It helps to focus or guide people as a reminder, and many have found success with identifying just one word.

Joelle’s word: purposeful Erin’s word: why Ashley’s word: to be decided

The idea came from watching baking competition shows that my husband likes to watch

Deconstructed desserts

And watching Joelle transform her classroom repeatedly

I was wracking my brain because I want to think of something fun and creative that I could share

Then I started thinking about what it would look like if I did a classroom transformation

I don’t feel confident so I was thinking what if I had kids do the classroom transformation

This is where the deconstructed concept comes in

Teacher picks the theme

Allows for building background or focus on main topic

Students break into groups

Within group discussion on:

Learning target for standards/content area

Create the learning activity

Day of transformation, students rotate through learning activities and can participate in the activity they created or not

Students want to be engaged in their learning

Students want their friends to like the activity they planned

Teacher doesn’t have to pick the theme necessarily, but ensure that the theme is age-appropriate

Sam Fecich @sfecich

Tell our listeners a little bit about yourself

Prof of Edu at Grove City College

Great education program

Great outlets for shopping

Teach preservice teachers

Ed Tech

Special Education

Oversee Special Education Student Teaching

EduMagic and EduMagic Shine On author

EduMagic podcaster

Mom of 3 year old, Summer, who loves Frozen

What made you want to start podcasting?

A need for preservice teachers

Inspire, encourage, challenge, and support them

Shine a light on the great stuff they are doing

How do you integrate or do you integrate your podcast into your classes?

Use the podcast to “Flip” the lesson

Supplemental pieces that add to preservice and student teachers

How long does it take you on average to produce an episode?

Solo episode: 2 hours (includes all the pieces - social media, graphics, edits)

Guest episodes: 4-5 hours (includes all the pieces - social media, graphics, edits, blog posts and/or resources)

What is your go-to podcast to listen to?

Education based

10 minute teacher podcast with Vicki Davis

House of EdTech with Chris Nesi

Not Education based

Goal Digger

Amy Porterfield

When it’s not pumpkin spice season, what is your caff3inated drink of choice?

Pike Place - 2 creams 2 sugars

All the things we need to know about Techmas:

12 slides, 1 released each day with tech tools, resources, implementation ideas, etc.

How the Twelve Days came to be:

Holly King made up the 12 Days of Techmas a few years ago and this year asked me if I wanted to collaborate. YES! So we’re sharing slides and creating our own based on the needs of our staff.

How can we signup to see all the tech-goodness?

DM me on Twitter @ebgtech or the link is already posted on Instagram @ebgtech

DM Holly on Twitter @hollysking

Erin:

Job hunt

Focus on the “fun” stuff

12 days of techmas

Book

Podcast

I did my nails!

Audiobooks for inspiration

Stopping at Starbucks

WDW pass

Ashley:

Just make it through the day!

Coffee/Tea

Turning my computer/email off

Disconnecting from social media

Joelle:

Concerts in my car

Permanent smile that those who know me would know is faker than fake

Pushing myself to do engagement strategies like room transformations to keep MY excitement going

Read an atlas to plan dream trips

Getting to sleep at a reasonable hour

John Martinez @jmartinez727

Dad to Daniel and Karina and married to Sonia

Taught in Elem K-6

Admin for the last 12 years

*How did you get into podcasting?

John Staumont and John Martinez would listen to podcasts and discuss

John Staumont wanted to do a podcast

John Martinez was a dream crusher

CUE 2018 in Palm Springs...they decided to do it!

*Walk me through an episode? Do you know what you’re going to talk about ahead of time? How do you decide when you will get together? What does your tech look like?

Frequency: aim for 2x a month, but it depends on schedules

Topics: Focus on The “Why”, Leadership research - not necessarily just admin but leaders, journey of specific schools, technology, spin off show - Difference Makers

*What is one tip you could offer someone who is looking to develop their own podcast?

Number 1 thing is don’t stress about all the tech stuff. Just jump in and go. You’ll learn and figure things out as you go along, over time learn and grow and improve.

*How do you juggle principaling and being dad and podcasting and the commute that I know you have?

Each person needs to determine what balance looks like

Give yourself grace

*What is your guilty pleasure?

Television: binge watching TV until way too late/early

Our trio takes some time to share what we’re thankful for. In addition, we have some friends and colleagues share what they are thankful for as well.