The EdTech Take Out

Ep: 115 - Universal Design for Learning with Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio

In this episode, we are jumping back into Universal Design for Learning or UDL and brought our resident experts Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio in to share more about this topic. We’ve talked about UDL in the past, but it is such an important topic, we wanted to bring it back to the forefront again.
6 Myths about Universal Design for Learning - UDL
UDL in the ESSA
MTSS: What Is a Multi-Tiered System of Supports? | Understood
Lesson Planning with UDL
CAST UDL Guidelines
Katie Novak’s website
Zooming in on MTSS (Katie Novak) - learning session at GWAEA
GWAEA “Foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)” microcredential
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!

Ep 114: News, Nuggets, and the GWAEA Corner Booth

Welcome back to the Edtech Takeout–this is episode 114. This episode is a fan favorite – News and Nuggets! 
A little fun fact: This week we reached our 100,000th download!
 
News and Updates:
Canva: Magic Draw, Magic Eraser, Magic Write
What’s New Wednesday Webinar - April (Canva) 
Newsela: Moving to Newsela Lite, access to four articles at a time with five different reading levels, teacher can access student quiz scorers and writing prompts
Seesaw: Add frames (in drawing template) and student responses snap into the frame so no sizing is necessary, Present to Class
5 Chromebook Updates for Students and Teachers
Voting Chip in Google Docs - watch for this in the coming months!
Tech Nuggets:
Mindy: 
How to Differentiate Texts Using ChatGPT
Convert Your Doc in Canva into a Slide Deck in One Click  (convert button)  Example  made from this
The Juice: delivers five articles a day to grades 5-12 students. Followed by vocabulary and comprehension checks, each student is assigned a specific reading level by the teacher. Teacher dashboard that shares data. 30-day free trial
Gina: 
#FilterTheNoise - News Literacy Course/Resources - Jonathan Ketchell
Deep Fakes - Can You Spot Them? MIT Test yourself. Research project.
Sutori for Playlist
Like Wakelet with built-in polls and checks for understanding
Pricing - 30 days all features free, free level, and $120 for a single teacher for a year. Department/Grade level pricing. 
Sutori Video
Beth:
Genially - Nice alternative to Thinglink
Teachflix - Teacher currated video repository
Canva - Vertical videos with background removal example
Remove background in Canva video - tutorial
 
The GWAEA Corner Booth:
Student Engagement Through Classroom Discussion
One-day Workshop for Instructional Coaches
May 5, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at GWAEA in CR 6th Street
Course number 205152
 
Tenets of Transformative Classrooms (Online)
Online course for teachers, instructional coaches, administrators
Section 315455: Starts June 19th - Ends October 6th
Section 315456: Starts August 1st - Ends November 30th
 
GWAEA Professional Learning Institute
June 26 - June 30, 2023
Find more information here.
 
Iowa AEA’s CS PD Week
June 12 - June 16, 2023
Find more information here.
 
We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!

EP 113: AI Edu with Charlotte Dungan

Join Mindy, Gina, and Corey for a conversation with AI education expert Charlotte Dungan from AI Edu. 
Show Notes:
MarI/O - watch AI learn to play Mario. This is a great example of machine learning.
ChatGPT - Generative AI that creates written content.
Content Detector AI - Detector that used AI to recognize AI-generated content.
Kahnmingo AI Tutor - Kahn Academy AI tutor
AI Edu - Resource for educators interested in teaching more about AI. Includes AI snapshots mentioned by Corey. These are great bell ringers or discussion starters around the topic of AI.

EP 112: News, Nuggets, and the GWAEA Corner Booth

News and Updates:
Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording
Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent)
Bing AKA Sydney
The Online Search Wars - The Daily 2.15.23
The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast. - The Daily 2.17.23
AI - Chat GPT for positive use in the classroom
Create & Edit a Timeline View - Google Docs Editors Help
Table Templates in Google Docs
 
Tech Nuggets:
Mindy: 
Take the background out of your iPhone pictures (iOS16)
Force captions on in YouTube: Thanks, Amber!  ?cc_load_policy=1 (embed code comes after video ‘name’)
The Achievery: Has Learning Units, essential questions, standards, grade level, video clips, and lesson plans. Thanks, Lynn!
Eduprotocols in Google Slides from @MrsGearhart
 
Gina: 
ScreenPal for video feedback in any textbox
Curipod - AI-powered lessons
Iorad - great for creating tutorials 
Slides Timer - Chrome extension for a timer in Google Slides
Cloze Reading Assignment with Drop Downs in Google Docs - via Eric Curts
 
Stacy: 
Conker - topic and grade level and will give multiple choice quiz that can go into a Google form or PDF
QR code - Canva Apps
Checkboxes in docs- can add to tasks 
About spaces and group conversations - Google Chat Help
 
The GWAEA Corner Booth:
 
Computer Science Pedagogy & Best Practices: Principles 7-12
PreK-12 teachers join us for a six-week virtual course exploring six of twelve pedagogical principles from Hello World's "The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy."
When: March 22 - April 19, 2023, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom
GWAEA & CSTA Iowa CS Pedagogy & Best Practices Course 2
Course #204370
Section # 313928

EP 111: Computer Science at GWAEA

Mindy Cairney and Gina Rogers chat with Bridget Castelluccio and Corey Rogers about all things Computer Science at GWAEA. 
State of Iowa CS Report
CS PD Week (June 12th - 16th)  Interest Survey
Secondary Computer Science Endorsement (Grant Funded) Interest Form
Iowa Statewide AEA Supports for CS
GWAEA CS PD and Events
GWAEA CS Website

EP 110: Start, Stop, Keep

Our theme for today’s episode is Start, Stop, Keep. Gina and I have been using this prompt with teachers for quite a few years now–the frame is What will you start doing? What will you stop doing? What will you keep doing? We asked our team to think about this as a New Year's resolution with a technology focus and they’ve sent us some nuggets that might be helpful for you in the year ahead!
Gina - Time Insights on Google Calendar 
Amber - managing notifications
Corey - using Pear Deck to keep learners engaged, use as a formative assessment
Lynn -  snoozing emails, emails as tasks 
Stephanie -  one-click, Britannica ImageQuest
Mindy - unsubscribing and deleting accounts. Go to Google Preferences, Autofill, Password Manager on Chrome
So…what will you start doing, stop doing, or keep doing in 2023? We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Twitter @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too! 
Have a great winter break and we will see you in the new year!

EP 109: Collaboration and Discourse in Transformative Classrooms

In this episode of The Ed Tech Takeout, Mindy Cairney is joined by Amber Bridge, Beth Swantz, and Gina Rogers to discuss the Transformative Classrooms Tool that they developed. The conversation focuses on the throughline of collaboration and discourse and what that looks like in all three tenets of the Transformative Classrooms Tool. 
Resources:
The Tenets of Transformative Classrooms
Project Zero Thinking Routines
1, 2, 4, All
Accountable Talk
Register for The Tenets of Transformative Classrooms Online Class (Iowa Educators Only) Start date: January 9, 2023

EP 108: News, Nuggets, and Introducing the GWAEA Corner Booth

In case you missed it, the Edtech Takeout will look a bit different moving forward….at the end of last season, we said goodbye to Jonathan Wylie as he moved to a different position in the agency. However, the team felt strongly that the podcast needed to continue on. Our plan is to record shorter episodes in more bite-sized chunks. This episode is just a news and nuggets episode. The next episode will be more like the main course part of our original format and will have more content and conversation. This way you can look through the playlist menu and choose what looks most appetizing! 
News and Updates
Screencastify extends free time limit
Seesaw What’s New?: One app for all, inbox gets a facelift, try lessons for a year
Pear Deck: News-o-Matic and Boston Museum of Science
Flip
Read Along Online
DLGWAEA Corner Booth
Ride the Wakelet Wave (Online Course - starting October 3rd - December 16th)
Firm Goals, Flexible Means: Honoring Your Learners (UDL) (November 1 - December 16)
Designing Instruction with Pear Deck (November 28 - January 20)
Transformative Classrooms Online (January 16th - April 14th)
Tech Nuggets 
Emojis in Google Docs 
Video Recorder in Canva
Classroomq 
Schoolytics
Please email us, podcast@gwaea.org or hit us up on Twitter @dlgwaea @TeamCairney @grogers1010

EP107: The Future of the Edtech Take Out!

Well, here we are. This is our last episode before our summer hiatus and we wanted to take a few minutes of your time to talk about what The Edtech Take Out will look like when we come back in August. 
So, we hope you enjoy this episode and stick with us as we get ready to embark on a new adventure.
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org.
If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
Last but not least, THANK YOU for listening! We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!
 

EP106: Wrapping it Up!

The end of the school year is approaching. Are you ready? If not, we can help! We have some tips on how to best wrap up your school year by giving you some best practice advice for the apps and services you have been using all year. 
Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:
News and follow-up:
Use new table templates and dropdown chips in Google Docs
Control Alt Achieve: Create "Cloze Reading" Activities with Google Docs Dropdown Chips
How to email from Google Docs | Zapier
Breaking down language barriers with augmented reality | Google
How to Create VR Tours in ExpeditionsPro
Wakelet + Mote
Desmos joins Amplify
Library button added to homescreen in Seesaw
Main Course: Wrapping it Up!
Google Classroom - Eric Curts
Seesaw End of year guide
Pear Deck
Archive sessions
Export student answers
Google Takeout
Out of office or vacation responder in Gmail
10 end of year templates to help students thrive
Three Tools for Quickly & Easily Creating End-of-Year Slideshow Videos
Namecoach
Tech Nuggets:
CrashCourse on YouTube
Textomap
Activity Hero
PocketTube via Katie Wardrobe
You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team tweets at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, at podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show, please share it with your friends and colleagues and leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.
THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!