Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset

Dr. Desiree Alexander of EducatorAlexander.com joins the show to talk about formative assessment with videos in the classroom. Desiree and I discuss Edpuzzle, PlayPosit, Razor Arts, Nearpod, and more! Plus, I've got a BIG announcement to share! Show Notes Also Available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-58 Soapbox Moment: We're in the 25th mile of this marathon! Today's Guest: Dr. Desiree Alexander Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning, multi-degreed educator who empowers educators to discover and amplify the intrinsic desire to become innovators in education through her positions as the Regional Director of North Louisiana for the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana and the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC. educatoralexander.com Twitter: @EducatorAlex Facebook: facebook.com/EducatorAlexander Instagram: @EducatorAlexander YouTube: youtube.com/EducatorAlexander Which of the following is less torturous? Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I ensure that my students watched required videos and understood the content that they covered? EdPuzzle - edpuzzle.com Features: Insert questions in the video, see length of interaction, assess comprehension of content, know that students have watched the video Free and Paid options 20 edpuzzle videos for free accounts (Referral code gives you more videos) Upload your own videos or pull in from YouTube Multiple-choice, multiple choice with multiple answers, extended response, notes, audio notes Pull from a shared repository of pre-made Edpuzzle videos to use as is or edit and remake. PlayPosit - go.playposit.com Multiple Choice or Check All, Free Response, Fill-in-the-Blank, Poll Discussion boards - Students can see and reply to others' posts Insert web content (like Pear Deck or NearPod) - Explore a website mid-video! Add your own screen recordings from within PlayPosit Have audio in your questions Videos can jump - allows student to skip sections based on how they answer a question Free version only gives you 100 views a month RazorArts - razorarts.com Text to Video Interactive Videos (questions, notes, audio, video, PPT, animations) Video Activities Desiree's Video on RazorArts Text to Video tool - youtube.com/watch?v=9kZMjDfQLiA Nearpod Interactive Video - nearpod.com/interactive-video Google Slides/PowerPoint Insert video in a slide and have questions after Google Forms/Microsoft Forms Insert YouTube Videos in a Form with questions after it Google Form Help - Add an image or video to a question or answer Celebration of the Adjacent Possible Cindy Moorman - Apple Podcast Review Daneen Cole - #EduDuctTape for Computer or Technology Teachers? Steve, er, I mean, Anthony Amitrano Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Upcoming Events Links: jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020 Your Homework: Find an educator with two first names, like Desiree Alexander, and tell him/her about the #EduDuctTape podcast!

Show Notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-bonus-004 In January 2021, I had the opportunity to be on one of my favorite sources of educational technology learning: Kimberly Mattina's YouTube Live + Podcast, The Suite Talk. In this appearance, I share some of my favorite ways to kick off my class periods with smiles and laughs. I focus on Pear Deck, but the ideas can be used in other platforms, too. Check out The Suite Talk here. Check out the YouTube video version of this episode here. Check out the show notes here. This episode is featured with the permission of Kimberly Mattina, host of The Suite Talk.

EdTech and Curriculum Consultant and Easy EdTech Podcast host Dr. Monica Burns joins me to identify ways that we can hear from ALL of our students. Her suggestion? Select tools that can give our learners choice and agency in how we hear from them! Tune in to hear what tools she suggests! Show notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-57 Soapbox Moment: "It's the Chili Dogs' Fault" Today's Guest: Dr. Monica Burns Monica is an EdTech and Curriculum Consultant, author and former New York City public school teacher, and works with schools and organizations around the world. Monica's website ClassTechTips.com and her Easy EdTech Podcast help educators place "tasks before apps" by promoting deeper learning with technology. Contact Info: bit.ly/MonicaBIO Twitter - @classtechtips Facebook.com/classtechtips Pinterest.com/classtechtips Instagram.com/classtechtips A new social media - Clubhouse Edsurge - "How Educators are Using the Exclusive Social Media App Clubhouse" ClassTechTips - "15 Clubhouse Tips for Educators on the App" 2 Truths & 1 Lie Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I hear from all of my students? Giving kids choice, agency, and options increases your ability to hear from everyone. What tools can assist with providing choice? Remove barriers for students by selecting tools that allow more students to participate. Ask yourself, "How can we leverage tools that my students and I already use?" Seesaw - An any age tool! Seesaw breakdown: Teachers push out activities (assignments) to students. Students can respond to an activity as directed or more open ended. Many ways for students to respond and show their work - Picture, video, draw, video of drawing, text, links, files, audio Seesaw can act as a LMS. Think Google Classroom + digital portfolio + parent communication! The Easy Ed Tech Podcast episode discusses Seesaw + Book Creator: https://classtechtips.com/2020/10/06/icons-in-early-childhood-082/ "I already have Google Classroom. Do I need Seesaw?" - It doesn't have to be an either/or. Depends on goals and learning environment. Could be used for only a couple of students for those that need more ways to respond. Lots of complementary aspects of using it. BookCreator - audio, video, picture responses for students. From Jake's Blog - 16 types of Media you can add in Book Creator! Great for a culminating project and for students publishing work, but also could also be for everyday learning note-taking or journal. Padlet Easy Ed Tech podcast - "My #1 EdTech Tip for Teachers" Google Slides is another great example of an easy tool that can be leveled up and has many uses. It depends on your intention of using it. When you try things out, we find out what direction we want to take. "You don't know what you don't know!" Celebration of the Adjacent Possible Jay Strumwasser's SpeakPipe message @Mad4CLE's Tweet button/pin maker, Legos, Magnatiles, Duct tape, cardboard, scissors, paper for makerspacey stuff, 3D printers , Robotics (ozobots, lego, Makeblock mBot Robots, Botley robot), Lego Technic motors, MaKey MaKey, Kano, LEDs, watch batteries, copper tape, Cricut, cameo, heat press, green screen, Rube Goldberg supplies, Strawbees, Osmo, Matatalab, Imagination Playground, Unruly Splats, Cubetto, Edison Robot, WhyMaker Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Upcoming Events Links: jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020 Your Homework: Find an educator named Steve and tell him about the #EduDuctTape podcast!

Control Alt Achieve author Eric Curts joins me to talk about creative projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets including Stop Motion Animation, Choose Your Own Adventure Activities, Emoji Learning Activities, Rebus Stories, Blackout Poetry, and Pixel Art! We also touch on Canva for Education, Adobe Spark for Education, Google Forms headers, flashcard makers like Quizlet and Flippity.net, and more! Show notes are also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-56 Soapbox Moment: "Quack Quack" Today's Guest: Eric Curts Eric has been in education for 29 years, and is currently a tech coach in northeast Ohio and a Google for Education Trainer and Innovator. He shares all his edtech resources through his blog at ControlAltAchieve.com and is the author of the book "Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects". controlaltachieve.com Twitter - @ericcurts YouTube - EricCurts Facebook - EricCurts 2 Truths & 1 Lie #EduDuctTape Question: How can I have my students show comprehension (or thinking) with visuals? Screwdriver Analogy - A screwdriver can be used for other things! Same mindsets with edtech tools - What familiar tools are already available that can solve your problems? Google Slides From Eric's Blog Creative Google Slides Uses for Students Stop Motion Animation w/ Slides Choose Your Own Adventure in Google Docs Choose Your Own Adventure in Google Slides Choose Your Own Adventure: Branching can be done elsewhere Docs, Forms, etc. In Slides, link to other slides. In Docs, use headings IDEA for Educators - Use Choose Your Own Adventure as differentiation or self-grading activity From Eric's blog - How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes in Google Classroom Google Docs Insert Emojis - Tools > Special Characters From Eric's blog - 5 Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs Rebus Stories From Eric's Blog - Blackout Poetry Google Sheets Not just for data, create Pixel Art! From Eric's blog - Pixel Art Activities for any Subject with Google Sheets Other Creation Tools for Educators Canva for Education Canva for Education Eligibility Guidelines Adobe Spark for Education From Eric's blog - Play the "Royal Game of Ur" with Google Slides and Drawings In summary - If your goal is... enriching learning experiences and peaking into students' heads with visuals; finding new ways to tap into understanding- Google Slides and Drawings are very capable and a fantastic option! Check out Eric's book - Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects GEGOhio - https://sites.google.com/view/geg-ohio/home Celebration of the Adjacent Possible Carmen Tatum, Speakpipe - creating a "genius hour" Google Classroom with enrichment activities. Her students' favorite was creating Google Forms header images! Cory Colby - @EffectualEdu - flashcards question Quizlet - images are in the paid version Google Slides flashcards Slides Randomizer Add-On Pear Deck flashcard factory Amy Storer - Adobe Spark flashcard maker @MrsWambold - Google Sheets Add-On, Desmos card sort Darcie Priester, @mspriester_ITRT and @edtechsara67 and @wvnomads - flippity.net Free, build in Google Sheets, use flippitynet to publish can add images if they're online, can embed videos, audio, and equatio @wilmotjason - Canva flashcards @PNWBOCES_EdTech - wordwall.net Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Upcoming Events Links: jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020 Your Homework: Find an educator who loves table top board games and tell them about the #EduDuctTape podcast!

You can also find these show notes at JakeMiller.net/eduducttape-episode-55 Soapbox Moment: "We Are Michael Jordan Playing Baseball" Contains a quote from this article by Michael Baumann from The Ringer Contains a quote from Terry Francona from Episode VII of The Last Dance Today's Guest: Natasha Rachell Dr. Natasha Rachell is a former high school science teacher, serving as a Digital Learning Specialist. She is one of the authors of The Microsoft Infused Classroom & one of the creators of the Minecraft Good Trouble lessons & believes you can live in both Google & Microsoft! Natasha is passionate about exploring your "why" & teacher self-care. Contact Info: Twitter: @apsitnatasha IG: @natashabrachell Website: www.natasharachell.com 2 Truths & 1 Lie Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I develop engaging instruction? Meet students where they are Consider using Choice boards or Student choice Linda Darling-Hammond quote: "Providing students with multiple ways to demonstrate knowledge and skills increases engagement and learning, and provides teachers with more accurate understanding of students' knowledge and skills. Alfie Kohn Quote from alfiekohn.org/article/choices-children: "When second-graders in Pittsburgh were given some choice about their learning, including the chance to decide which tasks they would work on at any given moment, they tended to "complete more learning tasks in less time." Flipgrid Discovery Library - blog.flipgrid.com/news/discovery Microsoft Sway - sway.office.com Students should be "Visualizing and verbalizing thinking" Wakelet Buncee - app.edu.buncee.com Mentimeter - 3 word response - word cloud Drive by Daniel Pink (autonomy, mastery, purpose) book, TED Talk Minecraft Good Trouble - Felisa Ford, Ken Shelton, social justice lessons, John Lewis, "good trouble" movement Education.minecraft.net - free Google teachers and students get free access to Microsoft Suite Celebration of the Adjacent Possible Jenny Ahlers's Duct Tapers Facebook Group question Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Upcoming Events Links: jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020 https://cue.org/spring Your Homework: Find an educator who loves the Black Keys and tell them about the #EduDuctTape podcast!

Show Notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-54 Today's Sponsor: Texthelp EquatIO - text.help/equatio-fft Soapbox Moment: "Granny Shots & Better Ways" The premise of this is based on an episode of Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin's Revisionist History Podcast: revisionisthistory.com/episodes/03-the-big-man-cant-shoot Today's Guest: Joe Marquez Joe is an educator, technology leader and the Director of Academic Innovation for CUE. His innovative spirit, outgoing attitude and outrageous personality has granted him the wonderful opportunity to speak, train and collaborate with educators across the world. Joe is also the co-host of the Sons of Technology Podcast. #DitchThatFear @JoeMarquez70, Youtube.com/sonsoftechnology, sonsoftechnology.com 2 Truths & 1 Lie Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I make tasks more UDL-friendly? You have to look at both the delivery and the reception How are you going to make a lesson more accessible in a virtual or hybrid instructional setting? Hybrid vs. concurrent Teacher-student bookend Joe's 3 filters: inspect, redirect, make correct Pear Deck Nearpod - audio responses are huge for UDL How are you understanding what they're understanding while they're reading - edji.it Like EdPuzzle for text Start with text (pdf, copy and paste), add in prompts & questions, highlight things… students respond with text, audio vision button allows students to see each others' highlights Flipgrid Reading is based off of writing from author's perspective and reading from reader's perspective Student end: What does the student do with it? Collect, reflect, recollect Take screenshots in Nearpod Pear Deck Takeaways Google Slides - "SlidesSnap" http://bit.ly/slidesnap Multimedia learning theory - Richard Mayer Record to Slides extension Hands on, text, video Celebration of the Adjacent Possible April Rueb McKenzie' Tweet Classkick Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out? Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Upcoming Events Links: jakemiller.net/KSUCourse2020 https://cue.org/spring Your Homework: Find an educator who loves Schitt's Creek and tell them about the podcast!

This bonus episode features plenty of laughs, tons of fun, and a handful of edtech tips. Tune in to hear me join Meredith Akers, Darryl Legaspi, and Elizabeth King as we have some fun, do some improv, learn about the Google Slides Master Slide, and try out one of my favorite Pear Deck activities! Check out the ConnectEDTech podcast here: https://sites.google.com/view/flippingoodtech/home. View the entire ImprovEDCon event here: https://sites.google.com/view/flippingoodtech/improvedcon#h.jckvrkz6rvb3. Check out Meredith Akers' work here: https://meredithakers.com/ This episode is featured with the permission of Darryl, Elizabeth, and Meredith.

This bonus episode features an episode of the Education Today podcast where I was fortunate enough to join Scott Nunes to talk about teaching during the pandemic, edtech after the pandemic, Pear Deck, Nearpod, Flipgrid, Otus, Schoology, speech translation tools, transcription tools, Adobe Spark, and more! Show Notes available at: jakemiller.net/eduducttape-bonus-002 Check out the original Education Today podcast episode here. This episode is featured with the permission of the original podcast's host.

James Varlack says that "Engagement is developed." So, in his interview, I asked him how he develops his engaging instruction. We discuss how James works toward each of the 3 types of student engagement--emotional, behavioral, and cognitive--in both analog and digital ways. We discuss Jamboard, Google Docs, Google Slides, Padlet, Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, Microsoft Teams whiteboard, Google Arts & Culture. Show notes also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-53 Today's Sponsor: Texthelp EquatIO - text.help/equatio-fft Soapbox Moment: "The One Who Keeps Score & Gives Permission to Not Take the Shot" This quote was covered in this previous episode. Today's Guest: James Varlack James Varlack is a Digital Learning Specialist with McAllen Independent School District. He has worked in education for 10 years as a middle school math teacher and in campus technology. He and his wife Dawne moderate the #RGVEduChat and have 3 lovely children, Jayden, Zara, and Jordan. Contact Info: Twitter: @jamesvarlack Email: varlack.james076@gmail.com 2 Truths & 1 Lie Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I develop engaging instruction? Having the content down is not enough if it's not engaging Know your learning goals Connect with learners "Engagement is developed...means it has a starting place, grows and is nurtured, etc. Engagement is a work in progress" Greeting students, connecting with students, using names are all big for engagement Adding pop culture references into things like a "problem of the day" Using those pop culture references as backgrounds in Google Slides Learn about student interests with a survey (Google Forms, etc.) - "attack their interests" Adding students names into problems Hooks, reveals, challenges, brainteasers, puzzles, prodigygame.com encouraging kids to work together on riddles Using Google Slides to create "reveal" activities Google Arts & Culture Puzzle Party Other Google Arts & Culture "games" here Ditch Summit - Esther Park - talked about interaction - student-to-student, student-to-teacher, student-to-class, teacher-to-teacher Collaborative spaces - Jamboard, Google Docs, graphic organizers or drag-and-drop activities in Google Slides, Padlet, Whiteboard.chat, Whiteboard.fi, Microsoft Teams whiteboard "Become the master of your tool… it's only time to move on when you've mastered it." - David Carradine, Kung Fu "Digital gorge" Pear Deck Complete the squiggle Shared teacher dashboard (allow co-teachers in) Engaging Instruction = attracts and maintains attention, often means students are actively involved and a part of it (engaged in it) Three different types of student engagement: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive - (Classcraft, Jenny Fulton) Celebration of the Adjacent Possible Question - Adrienne Hudson Edulastic Great Data!!! standards-aligned questions Standardized test prep Edulastic is great for item-analysis, mastery-based grading or standards-based grading, identifying students who need support, creating student mastery profiles that can be useful in parent-teacher conferences, and even breaking down assessment data based on a variety of factors or subgroups. ScratchPad Question Types include: Drag-and-drop, Diagram-labeling, multiple select questions, sets of multiple choice questions in a table questions with images, videos or audio Math tools include: Coordinate plane, Line plots, Fractions, Math formatting, Fraction diagrams Paid features: Rubrics, built-in read-aloud feature, Desmos calculator, Snapscore, Co-authoring & collaboration, Improved data Poll Everywhere Flip phone origins! Question types include: multiple choice, word cloud, Q&A with upvoting & downvoting, clickable images (click on a section of an image to indicate their answer), open ended, Surveys, short answer, select on a map Launch from PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or Poll Everywhere's site. Students can respond within any mobile or web browser, using a mobile app or with text messaging. Asynchronous option Competitions - multiple-choice games are a lot like Kahoot or Quizizz Paid - Show live results to participants, better reports Mentimeter Free Version gives you Unlimited audience size, presentations, and content slides, but up to 2 question slides and up to 5 quiz slides per presentation. Presentations are public. Interactive presentations can include videos and images, polls, data, opinions great for with smart phones Question Slides include: Word clouds, Multiple choice, Fun Quiz competitions, Q&A (with upvote), Ranking questions, Image options, Open-ended, Scales questions, 2 by 2 grid, 100 point questions Mentimote remote is pretty cool Can put Surveys and forms in presentation Apple Podcasts Review from guisee Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! 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This bonus episode features a roundtable discussion from the Teachers on Fire podcast about educational technology tools in 2020 and 2021. I am joined by Tim Cavey, Chris Nesi, Gabriel Carillo, Eric Guise, Scott Nunes, and Alfonso Mendoza, to talk about more than a dozen edtech tools! Check out the original Teachers on Fire podcast episode here. Check out the video of the Roundtable Discussion here. 🔥 TIM CAVEY @MisterCavey 🔥 ERIC GUISE @WeGotTechEd🔥 CHRIS NESI @HouseOfEdTech 🔥 GABRIEL CARILLO @EdTechBites 🔥 SCOTT NUNES @TNTEdTech 🔥 ALFONSO MENDOZA @MyEdTechLife This episode is featured with the permission of the original podcast's host as well as the permission of all guests.