MTT017|Soundtrap, global collaboration through music, podcasts and communication - Meredith Allen

MTT047| Flipgrid and Keeping Engaged Remotely - Ann Kozma 

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Imagine a tech tool that works for everyone from Pre K to PhD and beyond!  Not only that, but you have complete flexibility and complete control at the same time!  Flipgrid can be as simple or as sophisticated as you want it to be, and there is no right or wrong way of doing it.  Join us today as we speak with Ann Kozma from Flipgrid as she tells us the new and exciting enhancements coming up.  If you would like to see the video portion of this podcast, you can see the video here.

Ann Kozma loves to explore, share, and contribute and has spent 19 years dedicated to transforming education as a classroom teacher, Innovation & Instructional Support TOSA, and as an Educator Innovation Lead on Team Flipgrid at Microsoft. Believing that “Play is our brain’s favorite way to learn,” Ann loves to bring the fun and is passionate about helping others learn how to meaningfully integrate technology into teaching and learning.  She is a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2015 and Leading Edge Certified as a Professional Learning Leader. 

Contact: Ann Kozma

Twitter: @annkozma723

Flipgrid Twitter: @Flipgrid

Items mentioned in Episode 47:

Flipgrid website

Flipgrid - Apple app

Flipgrid Blog

Flipgrid YouTube Channel

Yaritza Villalba Flipgrid Creator page

Yaritza Villalba Flipgrid Blog

Matt Jenkins Flipgrid Blogpost about Technology Enhances Deaf Education

The InterActive Class - Joe Merrill

Andrew Easton

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta Hammond

Pass The Baton by Kathryn Finch and Theresa Hoover

BONUS Flipgrid video on the My Tech Toolbelt YouTube Channel

#remotelearning #distancelearning #flipgrid #podcastedu #podcasting #studentconnections #flipgridforall 

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MTT046| iCivics, Building Civic Knowledge in a fun way - Neil Wrona

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It’s an election year!  Do your students understand the complexities of our government workings?  What a great time to learn about how our system works, while the subject is in the news every day!  Join us as we speak with Neil Wrona, a 7th grade teacher at an alternative school tasked with teaching these young people how their government works and how they can make a difference.  All in a very easy to understand and fun way!

Neil Wrona is a 7th year teacher who has taught at every level in the school system and every subject other than English. Neil’s undergrad was in Communications and Rhetorical Studies, and it wasn’t until his junior year, and a class that doubled as community service, that he realized he wanted to teach. Of course, by then he thought it was far too late, so he floated around for a few years after graduation, looking for jobs where I could teach, until he finally decided to get the credits he needed and enrolled in a Masters in the Arts of Teaching program. Over the years, Neil has fallen in love with civics education and everything it can provide for students: a way to understand how decisions are made, an avenue to understand how power is wielded, and, most importantly, something that can make his students feel powerful. Once students understand that the government works FOR them, they realize that if they want change, they can make it happen. With the population Neil teaches, it’s not always easy to convince them of that, but iCivics has helped with ⅔ of that goal. 

Contact: Neil Wrona

Twitter: @neilwrona

Email: lnwrona@gmail.com

Items mentioned in Episode 46:

iCivics Website

I’m just a Bill - School House Rock

My Tech Toolbelt - Nearpod Episode

Example Lesson Plan from Neil Wrona

The Firm, Fair, Facinating Facilitator by Robert Ward

#remotelearning #distancelearning #icivics #podcastedu #podcasting #government

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MTT045| Ozobot, Mighty Little Robots to code and create - Nikki Jones

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Have you seen Ozobots, perhaps in a STEAM lab or at a conference, moving around the floor or table, but didn’t understand what it was doing or how you could use it with your students?  Join us today as we speak with Nikki Jones, a 3rd Grade teacher from Virginia that loves technology, especially Ozobots.  Find out how Nikki uses the Ozobots, not only for coding, but how she also uses them for math, social studies and science!

Nikki Jones, a thirteen-year veteran educator values creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education from SUNY Fredonia and obtained her master's degree in Special Education from George Mason University in Virginia. She currently teaches third grade at Chris Yung Elementary in Bristow, Virginia. Nikki has taught 1st grade and worked as an Instructional Technology Coach. She has presented at Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) and numerous conferences, served as a lead mentor for new teachers and as team leader for the past four years. Technology plays a major role in her classroom as it is used daily to help facilitate learning and engage students. As an Ozobot Certified Educator she shares innovative lessons and her experiences taking risks to integrate the Ozobots and computer science into core content areas. She is a life-long learner who continues to reinvent herself. She is passionate about sharing her love for technology-integrated education and committed to helping other educators to feel comfortable using technology in their classrooms.

Contact: Nikki Jones

Twitter: @mrsjones72812

Email: mrsjones72812@gmail.com

Items mentioned in Episode 45:

Ozobot

Donors Choose

Seesaw

Project Based Learning

Nikki’s Ozobot Learning Library

#remotelearning #distancelearning #ozobot #podcastedu #podcasting #ozosquad #letthekidslead #ozosquad

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MTT044| Podcasting with your Students - Brian Briggs

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Have you thought about podcasting with your students, but don’t know where to start?  Join us today as we speak with Brian Briggs, the Director of Innovation and Instructional Technology for Plumas Lake Elementary School District in California.  Brian shares with us why podcasting with your students is so beneficial and just how easy it is to get started.  

Brian Briggs is the Director of Innovation and Instructional Technology for Plumas Lake Elementary School District.  Brian enjoys working with teachers and students teaching, training and learning alongside them with new and exciting topics in Educational Technology.  He loves the use of coding and robots, and has always been a nut for hands-on science. Brian is most excited about STEAM, the creation of projects, and getting students engaged. He also loves seeing the excitement of students and teachers working together as teams to create or complete a desired goal. On top of the teachable moments, Brian lives for the ooo and aahh moments that happen during instruction.

Contact: Brian Briggs

Twitter: @BriBriggs

Email: bbriggs@plusd.org

Check This Out Podcast

Items mentioned in Episode 44:

Joe Sanfelippo

Online Voice Recorder

Anchor FM

Soundtrap

John Samuelson Techlandia Podcast

Brent Warner Podcast

The Way I Heard It Podcast

Listenwise

TOSAS Talking Tech Podcast

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

This Week In Tech Podcast with Leo Laporte

The Rewatchables Podcast

#remotelearning #distancelearning #nowlistening #podcastedu #podcasting #studentpodcast

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MTT043 Bonus| Seesaw with Distance Learning - Megan Madden

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In Episode 43 - Seesaw in the Classroom, Megan Madden shared with us how she has been using Seesaw in her classroom with great success.  Just a short time later, the whole world was shutting down due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.  Everything escalated very quickly, and teachers, districts and students found themselves having to transition to Distance Learning almost overnight.  In this Bonus episode, Megan shares with us the obstacles she faced in the transition, and how she returned to one of her favorite tech tools in her toolbelt, Seesaw, to help her with her students.  Find out why this was the perfect fit once again.  If you haven’t listened to Episode 43 yet, make sure you listen to that one as well to hear how she used Seesaw in her classroom.  

Megan Madden is a Bay Area native and enjoys learning, community, and creating new ways to engage and excite my students. She attended Saint Mary’s College of California and earned my B.A in English Literature and minored in Theatre Arts. She continued at Saint Mary’s and went on to earn my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. Megan began her teaching career at a Montessori Elementary School in Pleasanton, CA where she learned the art of hands-on exploration and differentiation. She then transitioned into the traditional classroom and continued to teach at a Catholic School in the Oakland Diocese. Megan’s desire to continue offering my students a tailored learning experience and an environment prepared for learning and exploring and began incorporating technology in order to balance the needs of her students within the constraints of the traditional classroom. She enjoyed watching her students thrive in this blended learning environment and was inspired to go back to school to earn her Masters in 21st Century Learning and Technology from Brandman University. Megan has a passion for integrating technology into her pedagogy and hopes to inspire others to explore new ways to teach and make an impact on students everywhere.

Contact: Megan Madden

Twitter: @MyAppyClassroom

Email: megan.n.madden@gmail.com

Megan Madden’s Seesaw Slidedeck (with QR code for a free Premium month): MM Seesaw Slidedeck

Instagram:  MyAppyClassroom

Items mentioned in Episode 43 Bonus:

Seesaw website

Seesaw Twitter

The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong

#remotelearning #distancelearning #nowlistening #podcastedu #seesaw #digitalportfolio #seesawchat

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MTT043| Seesaw in the Classroom - Megan Madden

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It’s so great when each of your students have their own devices.  But what happens when you have 31 student projects on 31 devices?  It means a lot of time on the Teacher collecting, grading, distributing, and managing both the projects and the devices.  Join us today as we speak with Megan Madden, a 3rd Grade Teacher from California.  Megan shares with us why Seesaw works so well for her and her classroom.  Also, listen in to how much the parents love it as well.  One more thing, this episode will be a short series on Seesaw.  This is the “Seesaw in the Classroom” episode, our next one coming up will be “Seesaw with Distance Learning”, so be sure to subscribe to our podcast because you don’t want to miss that one!

Megan Madden is a Bay Area native and enjoys learning, community, and creating new ways to engage and excite my students. She attended Saint Mary’s College of California and earned my B.A in English Literature and minored in Theatre Arts. She continued at Saint Mary’s and went on to earn my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. Megan began her teaching career at a Montessori Elementary School in Pleasanton, CA where she learned the art of hands on exploration and differentiation. She then transitioned into the traditional classroom and continued to teach at a Catholic School in the Oakland Diocese. Megan’s desire to continue offering my students a tailored learning experience and an environment prepared for learning and exploring and began incorporating technology in order to balance the needs of her students within the constraints of the traditional classroom. She enjoyed watching her students thrive in this blended learning environment and was inspired to go back to school to earn her Masters in 21st Century Learning and Technology from Brandman University. Megan has a passion for integrating technology into her pedagogy and hopes to inspire others to explore new ways to teach and make an impact on students everywhere.

Contact: Megan Madden

Twitter: @MyAppyClassroom

Email: megan.n.madden@gmail.com

Megan Madden’s Seesaw Slidedeck (with QR code for a free Premium month): MM Seesaw Slidedeck

Instagram:  MyAppyClassroom

Items mentioned in Episode 43:

Seesaw website

Seesaw Twitter

The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong

#nowlistening #podcastedu #seesaw #ipad #ChromeBooks #Chrome #digitalportfolio #seesawchat

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MTT042| Creating with Chrome - Ryan O’Donnell

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Are you at a school with a lot of Chrome Books?  How are you using them? Are your students consumers or creators?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your student’s creative side and see where it would lead them?  Join us today as we speak with Ryan O’Donnell, a high school Video Production teacher from California. He shares with us so many creative ways to have your students Creating with Chrome in no time.  And just wait until you check out his unbelievable templates that he is sharing with you!  

Ryan O’Donnell is currently a Video Production teacher at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California. Before teaching video, he was a TOSA and social studies teacher and has been in education for 20 years. Ryan’s passionate about professional development for teachers with a focus on using tools, techniques and strategies in order to help students become more engaged and connected. Along with being a full time teacher, he is a podcaster, co-hosting the ed tech podcast, "Check This Out" as well as a presenter at various workshops and conferences throughout the country. You can connect with Ryan and find all his resources on his website www.creativeedtech.com

Contact: Ryan O’Donnell

Twitter: @creativeedtech

Email: ryan@creativeedtech.com

Website: CreativeEdTech.com

YouTube: Ryan O’Donnell  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3vw2FXs7n1eBOLHsUTm_g

Items mentioned in Episode 42:

Check This Out Podcast

Screencastify

Camtasia

Snag It

Mike Rowe - Speaking to Congress video

Carol Dweck

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

#nowlistening #podcastedu #googleslides #ChromeBooks #Chrome

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MTT041| Digital Design Strategies - Martin Cisneros

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could customize information that you want to give your students so that every student could understand at their reading level?  What about being able to show websites to your class without pop-ups and advertisements? These are just a couple of the tech tools that are shared by our guest, Martin Cisneros.

Martin Ricardo Cisneros (@TheTechProfe & TheTechProfe.com) is a Modern Learning Specialist, speaker, GeekDad, TechJedi, and SuperMariachi, from Silicon Valley! In his position at the Santa Clara County Office of Education (Innovation.sccoe.org), Martin develops and facilitates professional learning experiences on the most current educational trends to improve teaching and learning through innovative processes. He has developed many blended curricular programs some of which have been adopted by districts, universities, and others that have rolled out country-wide. Martin has experience teaching students and professionals at all levels including elementary, secondary, and higher education while working in the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Contact: Martin Cisneros

Twitter: @TheTechProfe

Email: TheTechProfe@gmail.com

Website: TheTechProfe.com 

LinkedIn: MartinCisneros  

YouTube: TheTechProfe https://www.youtube.com/user/thetechprofe

Additional Websites: innovations.sccoe.org & bit.ly/sccoebadges

Items mentioned in Episode 41:

CUE Bold

ISTE

Mercury Reader

Crafty184.com

Resoomer

SummarizeBot

TLDR

Smmry.com

Google Translate

DeepL.com

Read&Write

ELL Teacher’s Toolbox by Larry Ferlazzo

EduPprotocols by Marlena Hebern and Joe Corippo

#googleextension #googleslides #collaboration #CommonCore

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MTT040| Pear Deck, Creating Classroom Conversations - Kristan Morales

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Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck.  Join us as we speak with Kristan Morales and how she uses Pear Deck in her math classes to get responses from her students, either named or anonymously.

Kristan Morales is a High School Math Teacher in Temecula, California.  Instructional Leadership Corps with CTA and Stanford, CTA Liaison to CA Math Council, Temecula Educators Association Instruction and Professional Development Chair, Southwest Riverside County Think Tank Facilitator for Institute for Teaching, CUE Conference Planning Committee and Volunteer Coordinator, CUE Rockstar Faculty. 

Contact: Kristan Morales

Twitter: @kristanmorales1

Kristan’s 3-Act Math presentation

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Items mentioned in Episode 40:

CUE Bold

Pear Deck

3 Act Math

Quizlet

The Growth Mindset by Annie Brock

What’s Math Got to Do With It? by Jo Boaler

EduPprotocols by Marlena Hebern and Joe Corippo

Routines for Reasoning by Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta and Susan Janssen Creighton

Closeline Math by Chris Shore

#peardeck

#googleslides

#collaboration

#RichMathTask

#CommonCore

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MTT039| Empatico, Connecting Classrooms Around The World - Wendy Turner

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Empatico gives teachers and students the tools they need to explore the world through experiences that spark curiosity, kindness, and empathy.  Empatico combines live video with activities designed to foster meaningful connections.

Wendy Turner teaches 2nd grade at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington, Delaware in the USA. She is passionate about connecting learning in the classroom to the real world in all areas of study.  Deeply committed to social-emotional learning, she guides her students to embody respect, empathy, resilience, citizenship, and growth mindset through dynamic classroom experiences. She advocates for educating the whole child, trauma invested learning environments, equitable school breakfast practices and is committed to high quality science and STEM education. An associate with Education Hall, she provides professional development and training on social emotional learning and trauma invested learning environments.

Wendy was named a Compassion Champion by the Governor’s office in 2019. She is the 2017 Delaware Teacher of the Year, a 2016 Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Teaching Science, and a 3 time Empatico Empathy Project Fellow. She is also a 2018 NEA Foundation Excellence in Education Award Recipient, a 2019 NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow and a No Kid Hungry School Breakfast Fellow, Wendy is a regular contributor to education blogs and positive conversations about education on Twitter. 

Contact: Wendy Turner

Twitter: @mswendymturner

Wendy Turner’s Delaware Teacher of the Year 2017 Facebook Page

Items mentioned in Episode 39:

Schoolinka.ng

Global Goals

Rubber Bracelets

Daniel Lubetsky NEA Foundation talk

Rita Pierson TED Talk

Fostering Resilient Learners by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall

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