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Kelly Interviews Apple Distinguished Educator, speaker and author, Wes Fryer about "The Learning Revolution" and more.

Dr. Wesley Fryer is an author, teacher, technology director, speaker, digital storyteller, and change agent. He is the Director of Technology for the Casady School in Oklahoma City. In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. Wesley completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas Tech University in 2011. He is the author of several books on effectively using digital technologies to communicate, tell stories, teach and assess learning. His "Mapping Media to the Curriculum" book series and digital literacy framework focuses on helping students "show what they know" with media and create digital portfolios. Wes maintains a library of multimedia-focused training and instructional videos on PlayingWithMedia.com. He leads 3 day iPad Media Camps (www.ipadmediacamp.com) teaching educators how to effectively use iPads in the classroom to create narrated slideshows, quick edit videos, and interactive writing. He also co-facilitates multi-day STEM professional development workshops for teachers. Wes became a Google Certified Teacher in 2009, was named an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2005, and a PBS Digital Innovator in 2014. He helps organize free EdCamp and PLAYDATE professional development events in Oklahoma, an annual writing conference in Oklahoma City, as well as the free, annual K-12 Online Conference each year.

Stay up to date with Wes by following him on Twitter (@wfryer), Facebook, Google+, and liking the Facebook pages he periodically updates for Playing with Media and Speed of Creativity Learning LLC. Wes also encourages you to follow the K-12 Online Conference on Twitter (@k12online) and Facebook, as well as subscribe to the conference blog.

Mentioned in this podcast:

• Support Chris Penny's JDRF charity ride to fight & end diabetes.
• Join The Wired Educator Book Club, nominate a teacher for recognition, seek promotion for your fundraiser!
• Steve Miletto interviews me on his Teaching Learning Leading K12 Podcast about my book, Along Came a Leader.
• The Top 25 Books for Educators: Wired Educator's Summer 2016 Reading List
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig

Apps: Flipboard, Nuzzle, Pocket

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Kelly Croy is an educator, author and speaker.

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Kelly interviews Jenny Grabiec about technology and curriculum.

Jenny began her teaching career as a third grade teacher in New York State. Selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2013, Jenny has spent the past five years working primarily with iPad and Mac in education. Jenny is currently the Director of Instructional Technology at The Fletcher School, a K-12 school in Charlotte, NC for students with specific learning disabilities and/or ADHD. Here she had the privilege of leading a one-to-one iPad/Mac rollout with students, faculty and staff. Her passion is inspiring students to select the best tools to support them in their learning. You can followh her on Twitter @jennygrabiec .

Mentioned in this podcast:

Jenny's website: www.jennygrabiec.com

To learn more about UDL: www.udlcenter.org

iCan with iOS a book by Jenny you can download now off of the iTunes store. Yes, and... here are more books by Jenny.

Orton Gillingham Approach to Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orton-Gillingham

Most influential book: The Dyslexic Advantage by Ben Foss

Jamf Casper: the ultimate mobile device rollout tool.

Favorite Apps: Wunderlist, BookCreator

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Kelly Croy is an educator, author and speaker.

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In this episode, Kelly interviews the founder of iPadpalooza, Carl Hooker.

Carl Hooker has been a part of a strong educational shift with technology integration since becoming an educator. As Director of Innovation & Digital Learning at Eanes ISD, he has helped spearhead the LEAP program, which put one-to-one iPads in the hands of all K-12 students in his 8000-student district. He is also the founder of "iPadpalooza"- a three-day "learning festival" held in Austin annually. He's also the author of the six-book series titled Mobile Learning Mindset, a guide for teachers, administrators, parents and others to support and embrace mobile learning in our schools.

Mentioned in this podcast:

iPadpalooza website: A festival of learning founded by Carl.

Carl's website: Hooked on Innovation: https://hookedoninnovation.com

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Sir Ken Robinson

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Sir Ken Robinson

Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education by Sir Ken Robinson

Incipio ClamCase Pro Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad 2 the best case for an iPad.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink

Apps: Slack and Trello

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Kelly Croy is an educator, author and speaker.

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Kelly interviews John Spencer the author of Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student.

John is the co-author of Launch with A.J. Juliani.

John Spencer is a former middle school journalism and computer-programming teacher who is now a full-time professor of instructional technology in Oregon. He is passionate about seeing students embrace creativity and design thinking. His work has been featured in Kappan Magazine, Edutopia, Slate, and The Washington Post and he had the honor of delivering a speech at the White House on the future of education. Spencer is the co-author of several education books, including Launch: Using the Design Thinking Process to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student. He is also the co-founder of two educational technology startups, Write About and Blend Education.

Mentioned in this podcast:

• John's book: Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student

• John's new book with A.J. Juliani: Empower.

• John's website: http://www.spencerauthor.com

• John's most influential read: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull.

• John's Startups: Write About and Blend Education.

• Seth Godin's Linchpin

• Voxer: cool communication app for the iPhone.

• Trello: cool app to organize ideas and projects.

• Miracles by C.S. Lewis

• Global Read About

Kelly interviews Class Tech Tips founder and educational author, Monica Burns.

Monica Burns is an EdTech & Curriculum Consultant, Apple Distinguished Educator and Founder of ClassTechTips.com. In her role as a classroom teacher she used iPads one to one with her students to create engaging, differentiated learning experiences. Monica visits schools to work with PreK-12 teachers to make technology integration exciting and accessible and has presented to numerous national and international audiences including SXSWedu, ISTE and EduTECH. Monica is a regular contributor to Edutopia and the author of Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom (Corwin Press, 2016.)

Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom

Monica's newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bI9rR5Monica's blog: ClassTechTips.comFollow Monica onTwitter: @ClassTechTipsMonica's Facebook Page: Facebook.com/classtechtips Monica's Pinterest Page: Pinterest.com/classtechtips

Mentioned in this podcast: • Monica's book: Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality • Into Thin Air by John Krakauer • Adobe Spark • Donor's Choose: Teacher's getting funded for their classroom projects.

In this podcast Kelly offers his best tips, strategies, suppositions, advice resources to help educators make the absolute most of their summer break.

Mentioned in this podcast:

P90X workout program.

Body Beast DVD workout program.

Coach.me app for the iPhone. Find it on the iTunes store.

Moleskine Journal: Here's the journal I use to reflect, plan, and record everything that matters. Love it!

Kayak.com and HipMunk are great tools for planning a trip. Find both on the iTunes store.

Books to read:

Along Came a Leader by Kelly Croy. What makes a better school? A better class? Leaders! This book is for you, your colleagues, and your students.

Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess: This book makes you get excited about teaching.

Freeletics app for your iPhone. Great new app for getting fit. Find it on the iTunes store.

Teacher Step: Online grad classes for teachers. Inexpensive. 9 Months to finish. Use your search engine to locate these courses.

Muse headband to practice Mindfulness. Headspace app to practice Mindfulness. Breathe app to practice mindfulness.

Rumble Roller: Pamper yourself and give yourself the gift of a massage every day.

Thank you cards. Send handwritten notes of thanks to people who helped you this past year. These are cool "chalk board" thank you cards.

Teachers Pay Teachers: upload a lesson or two. You will be happy you did.

Explain Everything app for the iPad. This is one of my favorite iPad apps. Find it on the iTunes store.

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Kelly Croy is an educator, author and speaker.

You can subscribe and listen to his Wired Educator Podcast here.

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Kelly's book, Along Came a Leader is available for purchase here.

Brad is the Dean of Students and Supervisor of Instruction for the Chester School District in Chester, NJ. He is also the Founding Partner and Chief Information Officer for Evolving Educators LLC. Brad began his career in 2001 as a Middle School Social Studies and Computer Education Teacher for the Hanover Township School District in Whippany, New Jersey. He is a 2014 ASCD Emerging Leader, Google Certified Educator, Google Education Trainer, author of All Hands on Deck: Tools for Connecting Parents, Educators, and Communitie. He has also the author of Personalized PD: Flipping Your Professional Development and the newly released 140 Twitter Tips for Educators.

Follow Brad on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bradmcurrie

Connect with Brad at his website at: www.bradcurrie.net

Mentioned in this Podcast:

Jennie Mageria's new book: Courageous Adventures. Grab it.

The two most influential books Brad has read:

• Digital Leadership by Eric Sheninger

and

• What Great Educators Do Differently by Todd Whitaker

• Brad says all teachers become a Google Certified Educator. Here's how to it. Boom!

• Brad really likes this: Flipgrid. Try it out.

Jarius Makambi is an incredible educator in the Kibera Slum of Narobi, Kenya. For the past two years our classrooms have used Skype to interact and learn. Jarius's school is one of the poorest in the world. It is situated in one of the largest slums in the world, The Kibera Slum where about 1.5 million people live.

This episode is not an interview, but rather a profile of the amazing work Jarius is doing at the Kibera Slum with the school he founded, how our classes communicate and learn, and how we can help these vulnerable students.

I really want to bring attention to Jarius's work and The Cheery Education Centre. I hope this podcast inspires you to use Skype in your classroom and perhaps even send The Cheery Education Centre a donation as i did.

Jarius feeds, clothes, and educates his students. I can vouch for their amazing character and drive to succeed. This is an amazing school. How the families and children live here is simply astonishing.

I can also vouch the amazing work of this educator. He does so much with so little.

Mentioned in this podcast:

The website for The Cheery Education Centre: http://cheerycentre.org/donations

Follow the Cheery Education Centre and Jarius on Twitter: @Cheeryeducentre

Follow the Cheery Education Centre and Jarius on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cheerycentre

You can email Jarius and send him a donation at this email address: [email protected]

Kelly interviews the founder of Breakout EDU, James Sanders. This is a fantastic interview about technology in the classroom on all levels.

James Sanders is the founder of Breakout EDU and the Chief Innovation Officer at EdTechTeam. Previously, James was White House Presidential fellow where we led the development of Future Ready Schools and the White House Film Festival. James got his start in education as a middle school history teacher in South Los Angeles where he pioneered the use of Chromebooks in the classroom. His current passion is creating daily video blogs on his YouTube Channel YouTube.com/jamestsanders

Mentioned in Kelly's Pre-Roll:

• Planbook.com: Planbook is sponsoring the hosting costs for today's podcast and giving you a free year with the promo code: FREEYEARWEP. Playbook.com is the best software for any device to create and share your lesson plans with standards and so much more. Playbook is awesome. • The Create Conference hosted by Chris Hamady: June 6 • Rumble Roller: Textured Muscle Foam Roller: Manipulates soft tissue like a massage therapist for a teachers sore feet, legs, back, neck and more.

• Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lesson for analyzing texts and Life: by Christopher Lehman • Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School by Matt Copeland

Mentioned in the Podcast:

James Most influential read: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Breakout EDU The Breakout EDU wooden Box Kit EdTech Team White House Presidential Fellow James likes the online site Socrative for the classroom. BirdBrain Technologies

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Kelly Croy is an educator, author and speaker.

You can subscribe and listen to his Wired Educator Podcast here.

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Kelly's book, Along Came a Leader is available for purchase here.

Toby Price is an autism dad and the new Principal at Richland Upper Elementary school in Richland Mississippi. He loves connecting with other parents, educators, and fans of pop culture. He spends time online tweeting about Autism, Parenting, Education, Star Wars, Comics, Puppets & other Super Serious Things. Learn more about him at about.me/jedipadmaster Follow Toby on Twitter at @JediPadMaster

Mentioned in this Podcast:

Planbook: Amazing web-based software for creating and sharing your lesson plans. Great features. Get a free year using the promo code: FREEyearWEP

Man vs. Autism: Toby's Blog.

The Last Lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch: Toby's choice as a most influential book. PuppetPals app Remind: a great and free messaging system. Educators can send group texts to students, athletes, and other educators without knowing phone numbers, etc. Dave Burgess Publishing. Great books for the summer at: www.daveburgessconsulting.com ISTE: Super-awesome technology conference for EVERYONE> Star Wars in the Classroom