This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily preview the Virtual 4T Conference. It's this weekend, it's free, and it's a great way to get some Continuing Education Credits in your PJs! (Oh, and Emily's presenting as well. . . .) Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or ...
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This week on the aRTs Roundtable we talk about "Artsy" websites that we use in and out of our classrooms. Many are interactive or creative websites that engage the arty students to create, compose, and think using the arts. Show Host: Carol Broos Show contributors: Tricia Fuglestad, Jen Kolze and Brenda Muench Show wiki: edreach.us Leave us some feed...
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The Field Report: Dave Freeman and Amy Freeman are the leaders/ founders of the Wilderness Classroom. The last year of a three-year paddling/hiking/dogsledding journey begins in a few weeks when they drop in at Lake Superior and journey through the wilderness, down the East coast, and ultimately end up in the Florida Keys. This episode, Wilderness Dave reports from Silver Isle...
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Singer and musician Liz Smolinski joins us to discuss how she teaches students to listen to music from a fresh perspective - and then create innovative audio tracks for their videos. Liz shares some very cool lesson ideas for getting students to go way beyond just adding music tracks to a finished video - as they discover how to hear and then create amazing audio! S...
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In the 52nd episode of EdGamer, we find ourselves battling the toughest question we have faced: “What is an educational game?” To help us sort out our thoughts on this we contacted a higher power and great friend...no, not Yoda (well, sort of), Lucas Gillispie! Lucas returns to EdGamer to talk about some great new game releases and gives us his professional opinion on what...
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This week on the MacReach Show Is Apple Learning to Love the Enterprise? (or is it the other way around?) What if you had a MacMan at your desk? The rumor that won't die! What is One + One? App of the Week: Compare-a-Twist Tip of the Week Show Host(s): Meg Wilson (@ipodsibilities) Kelly Dumont (@KDumont) Here's the Show Notes Leave us some feedback! ...
...The Field Report: Dave Freeman and Amy Freeman are the leaders/ founders of the Wilderness Classroom. The last year of a three-year paddling/hiking/dogsledding journey begins in a few weeks when they drop in at Lake Superior and journey through the wilderness, down the East coast, and ultimately end up in the Florida Keys. This episode, Dave and Amy are right about to drop in ...
...I’m almost $80,000 dollars in debt. Now, that’s all from my graduate degree, and I took it on willingly and in full knowledge of what I was getting myself into. Each month, I make my income based repayment, and work my way through the 120 payments. It’s not so bad, really. I’m lucky enough to be employed in my field, and I have the added bonus of liking my job. Which I guess is wh...
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This week on the Google Educast: We talk about Hangouts On Air for everyone, Google Drive tips including how to reclaim something people thought they lost when moving to Drive, Kevin shares a great feature for teachers in Google Spreadsheets, a couple of useful free Chrome extensions. And more! Show Hosts: Fred Delventhal, Sean Williams, Kevin Brookhouser Send us yo...
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This week on LiTTech: Addie and Emily preview the Virtual 4T Conference. It’s this weekend, it’s free, and it’s a great way to get some Continuing Education Credits in your PJs! (Oh, and Emily’s presenting as well. . . .) Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us
This week on the aRTs Roundtable we talk about “Artsy” websites that we use in and out of our classrooms. Many are interactive or creative websites that engage the arty students to create, compose, and think using the arts. Show Host: Carol Broos Show contributors: Tricia Fuglestad, Jen Kolze and Brenda Muench Show wiki: edreach.us Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- artsroundtable@edreach.us
Dave Freeman and Amy Freeman are the leaders/ founders of the Wilderness Classroom. The last year of a three-year paddling/hiking/dogsledding journey begins in a few weeks when they drop in at Lake Superior and journey through the wilderness, down the East coast, and ultimately end up in the Florida Keys. This episode, Wilderness Dave reports from Silver Islet, Canada.
Singer and musician Liz Smolinski joins us to discuss how she teaches students to listen to music from a fresh perspective – and then create innovative audio tracks for their videos. Liz shares some very cool lesson ideas for getting students to go way beyond just adding music tracks to a finished video – as they discover how to hear and then create amazing audio! Show Host: Jonathan Furst, Jim Crawford Special Guest: Liz Smolinski Here’s our Show Notes Give [...]
In the 52nd episode of EdGamer, we find ourselves battling the toughest question we have faced: “What is an educational game?” To help us sort out our thoughts on this we contacted a higher power and great friend…no, not Yoda (well, sort of), Lucas Gillispie! Lucas returns to EdGamer to talk about some great new game releases and gives us his professional opinion on what constitutes educational gaming/learning. You do not want to miss his valuable insight…join us for [...]
This episode, Dave and Amy are right about to drop in with their paddles and canoes and start their journey! This is the first of Dave’s “phoned in” podcasts from the field. Exciting! We’ll learn a lot over the next many months as they explore the world for us.
I’m almost $80,000 dollars in debt. Now, that’s all from my graduate degree, and I took it on willingly and in full knowledge of what I was getting myself into. Each month, I make my income based repayment, and work my way through the 120 payments. It’s not so bad, really. I’m lucky enough to be employed in my field, and I have the added bonus of liking my job. Which I guess is why it bothers me so much [...]
This week on the Google Educast: we talk about Hangouts On Air for everyone, Google Drive tips including how to reclaim something people thought they lost when moving to Drive, Kevin shares a great feature for teachers in Google Spreadsheets, a couple of useful free Chrome extensions. And more!
This week on the EduNationCast… How do we prepare our students for the universities of the future? Videos of the week (link to the segment): Dan Rezac: Yoda: Feel the Force James Sanders: Surviving a Robot Apocalypse Jim Sill: Girl’s First Ski Jump Rushton Hurley: Next Vista Contest Winners Kern Kelly: Video Lesson: “More than a sum of its parts” This week’s contributors: James Sanders, Dan Rezac, Jim Sill, Rushton Hurley, and Kern Kelly. The complete show notes can [...]
It’s hard to believe that we are already in May and June is just around the corner. Surely many of you read this already in a state of reflection on your year, In my last post I challenged you all to help your teachers celebrate their year of professional development and growth. In part two of this series we will explore some ways to keep professional learning going for your teachers throughout the summer and truly empower your teachers [...]
This week on LiTTech: Emily is joined by Emily Flynn, cataloger at ProQuest to chat about the code behind the numbers on the spines of the books. Whether it be the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress Subject Headings, someone has to classify all the items. That person is the mysterious cataloger. Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Emily Flynn Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- littech@edreach.us
The great thing about video and my Professional Learning Network (PLN), is that as much as we may want to reinvent the wheel, there is simply no need to do so. Powerful and useful information is at our fingertips. So as I perused my latest Twitter followers this past week, I found a new site, that upon reflection, has some incredibly great video information for teachers wanting to incorporate video in their classroom. Now although these tips originate from a marketing site, [...]
This week on #EduWin Weekly: Hosts Michael Walker and Dennis Grice chat with Art Teacher, Tricia Fuglestad, about the Eduwin movement and art education. Tricia shares some of her favorite Apps for art, and how she showcases student work.
Tonight we focus on Professional Development. As many of us are preparing to head off into summer shortly we decided to take a look at how we can personally keep up with our own professional/personal development. I fully believe that if you are involved in education that you should be a lifelong learner and willing to learn even on “your own” time Show Host: Anne Truger (@atruger) Show contributors: Deb Truskey (@debtruskey) Patrick Black (@teachntech00) Here’s our Show Notes! [...]
We’re over the hill and headed back to the mines on episode 51 of EdGamer. It has been a year since we last spoke to Joel Levin (AKA Minecraft Teacher) and what a year he has had! On this episode we review all the fascinating things Joel has done with Minecraft in the classroom and talk about some of the amazing people he has worked with along the way. We continue our trend of revisiting with some of our early [...]
This week on the Google Educast: 450 New Fonts in Docs! (You don’t have to use them all.) Plus, 60 new templates, this week’s amazing Education On Air Conference, Doodle4Google finalists, A Google A Day, New Search Education Site. Docs vs Drive: convincing people it’s really kind of the same thing. Custom Letterhead (if you’re into that sort of thing), Contacts Delegation, MapsCube game, Sowash’s Chrome Tips, Evernote and Evernote Clearly. Google’s 20% Time in Brooky’s classes, and a fine farewell to Dana Nguyen as she takes her first bite out of a new career.And more!
This week on the EduNationCast… Is a teacher’s perspective on non-education topics valuable?
Mobile Reach #33 – Google, iPads and Apps…Oh My! Chad, Judi and Tammy talk more about Google Drive now that it’s been out a week. We share out some apps for use in the classroom or for school events and Chad shares a project he’s working on with 5th graders using iPads as this week’s #eduwin. Show Host: Chad Kafka (@chadkafka) Co-Hosts: Judi Epcke (@jepcke), Tammy Lind (@taml17) The Mobile Reach Show Notes Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions [...]
As we start the month of May, many special educators are embarking upon what is traditionally referred to as IEP season! Typically, a student’s Annual Review is done toward the end of the year, in an effort to see their progress and plan for the coming year. It’s during this delightful season, that many of us sit in a conference room for hours on end and talk! So in an effort to help fellow special educators with this process, here [...]
This week on the aRTs Roundtable we talk about Photo Apps. There is a thin line between art and music, the crossover is apparent in the apps we use for art and music. Photography apps have transformed how we take pictures and create new photos. Show Host: Carol Broos Show contributors: Jen Kolze and Brenda Muench Show wiki: edreach.us Leave us some feedback! Contact us with any questions or comments- artsroundtable@edreach.us
This week on LiTTech: Emily and Addie are joined by Elena Azadbakht from the University of Southern Mississippi to talk about something we all encounter every day: the librarian stereotype. Whether she’s mousy or sexy or a detective, the stereotypical librarian never ceases to arouse curiosity. Or to be completely correct about anyone in the field (starting with the fact that the stereotypical librarian is usually a “she”!) Show Host: Emily Thompson Show contributors: Adrienne Matteson, Elena Azadbakht Leave [...]
In everyday life, the Google Voice service is a way to combine all your numbers into one and to conveniently receive voice messages. ListenIn™ even helps you decide which calls to answer after the caller has started to leave a message. Teachers can use a GVoice number for parents without giving away their primary phone number. Easily created custom voicemail greetings for parents and a different greeting for students make messages personalized and relevant. Educators can put a call widget [...]
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As much as we like to think that every teacher is using RSS Readers and Twitter to get innovative news and working to build their Professional Learning Network, this is just not the case for many teachers- yet. EdReach is working to change that.
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On March 1st, the Seattle Times published an OpEd where the author argued that teachers can only teach the students who come to class motivated to learn, and that students who come to class disinterested or apathetic do not deserve the right to be called a student. In the piece, the teacher divorced himself from the idea that it is the teacher’s responsibility to teach every student in his or her class. I spent the last four years teaching middle [...]
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UDL or Universal Design for Learning is a concept based in architecture. It might seem strange that a post about educating students comes from this area, but it will make sense. By using Universal Design, architects plan, from the beginning, a space that allows access to persons with all abilities. The same can be said for Universal Design for Learning. By planning our instruction from the beginning to be accessible for all students, we will be able to reach more [...]
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After our chat with Carl Harvey, I really started to think about it. Even more so after it came up in #libchat last night. But how do we get started? Here’s what I’ve been doing to be a leader at my school, let me know if you agree or not. Find your allies. I feel pretty lucky in that everyone at my job seems to genuinely want me here, but there’s always at least one person who thinks you’re awesome. [...]
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Google Docs continues to be my number one tool for communicating and collaborating with any number of people involved in my students’ education. As a special education teacher I am constantly in contact with parents, related service providers, and other professionals like doctors and private therapists. Google Docs allows me quite a few opportunities to easily keep all parties informed and in the loop. Documents – probably the simplest way for sharing documents with my team members. The most common [...]
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Can you define the word “Grok?” InstaGrok is a developing answer-engine that is specifically designed for the education market. The mission of InstaGrok is to teach 21st Century research and curation skills in a safe, age appropriate environment. InstaGrok is commercial free and organizes search results according to themes and concepts. In a way, InstaGrok is similar to Wolfram|Alpha as it provides answers and information rather than a list of links. Using the search box, type in any term or idea that you are interested [...]
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The 20th Century Classroom is dead. You see, I know this to be true because I had the funeral for the 20th Century Classroom in like 2006. I was there- in person. It was a poignant ceremony; you should have been there with the rest of my sixth grade science students. She helped us out in the beginning of that industrial age, but she just had to be laid to rest, chalk board and all. To mark the occasion, we took our antiquated [...]
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The title of this post might seem a bit trite or obvious, but some recent #EduWin tweets caused me to reflect on how critical relationships are in education and how important it is to spend time developing them. Positive relationships are made, they don’t just happen. There are different types of relationships in these #EduWin posts, but they all demonstrate respect and trust between students and teachers. As a child, I would never have thought to contact my teacher [...]
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Moodle was launched as a pet project in 1999 by Martin Dougiamas. Since then, it has grown into an enormously popular learning platform that boasts over 57 million users who have access to roughly 5.8 million courses. Moodle is an open source, community driven learning management system that is used in traditional, blended, and fully online classrooms. Anyone can setup a Moodle server and start building online courses in a matter of minutes. Because of my interest in online learning, [...]
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Growing up computers were never scary, they were everywhere. My father came to programming accidentally, but enthusiastically. He was a programmer almost before it was really a career. And he thought that everyone should be able to play. Rather than telling my sister and I not to touch his stuff he gave us our OWN computer to mess around on. We even took a Logo class over one summer. As a result, when I did finally decide to take a [...]
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There is a great opportunity for tech-savvy leaders to reach out to their colleagues who are still hesitant to embrace digital tools for learning coming up on February 1. Digital Learning Day 2012 is a wonderful initiative intended to highlight schools, educators, and/or classrooms where digital tools are being embraced. The goal of Digital Learning Day from the organization’s website is as follows: “Digital Learning Day is a culminating event in a year-round national awareness campaign to improve teaching and [...]
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