Ask The Tech Coach

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan discuss the Tech Coach Live virtual conference that happens on Saturday, August 15, 2020. They go over the list of sessions that will include numerous panelists with tech coaching experiences. We hope you will join us for the Virtual Conference over on YouTube on our TeacherCast channel. https://youtu.be/D0OgVEaVjRE

Tech Coach Live Sessions

• Introducing the "NEW" Google Certified Tech Coach
• Hire me: How to Get Your First Tech Coach Job
• What Do Tech Coaches Do?
• Relationship Building: Winning Over Your Staff in those First Faculty Meetings
• Step Up your Instructional Coaching Data Game
• First Weeks of School: Interacting With Staff
• Engaging and Relevant PD Sessions
• New Teacher Orientation: How much do you give to new teachers ... what do you give to new teachers ... how do you not overwhelm them?
• How do we ease teachers into a new school year?
• Helping teachers prioritize and focus on what needs to happen to help students?
• How to Have Effective Communication With Your Administrators
• PD for students ... how does it work?
• Creating Awesome Lessons for our Adult Learners
• What is a Future Ready Coach?

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• Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
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The TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network, is a dynamic Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches.

• 3 Distinct Professional Learning Networks designed to help you grow for network other Coaches and Digital Learning Leaders
• Free Downloadable Templates and Coaching Resources that can be used in your district ... tomorrow!
• Direct access to Jeff Bradbury and all of​f his "offline" content that he creates during the school year.
• Exclusive TeacherCast and "Ask the Tech Coach" podcast episodes directly relating to the questions that YOU ASK in our PLN groups.
• Weekly email check-ins to stay connected and discuss your Instructional Coaching program!
• Monthly invitations to TeacherCast Instructional Coaching Meetings and Webinars
• ... and more!

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan discuss our favorite Video Solutions for Tech Coaches and discuss Pro's and Con's for each application. If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today.

In this episode, we discuss:

Virtual Meeting Applications episode link to debate episode.......

Google Meet

• Pros
  • Many features are free
  • Easy to use ... people are familiar with the platform
  • Connects to Google Classroom
  
  
• Cons
  • Many features might end up being Enterprise overtime
  • Doesn’t have many features that other platforms have
  
  

Microsoft Teams

• Pros
  • Extremely feature rich
  • “Free” with Microsoft package
  • Connects with additional apps both Office and non-Office
  
  

Zoom

• Pros
  • Many teachers know how to use Zoom basic features
  • Educational / Premium version allows for more security features
  • Breakout Rooms on the Premium version
  
  
• Cons
  • Like other applications, premium features are now back to being premium
  • Free meetings are only 40 minutes
  
  

Cisco

• Pros
  • Free for up to 100 participants for up to 50 minutes
  • Unlimited number of meetings
  • Premium versions allow for cloud mp4 recordings
  
  
• Cons
  • Many times can be difficult to install and setup depending upon the device being used
  
  

SchoolTube Virtual Classroom

• Pros
  • Free Video hosting for K12 students and teachers
  • Branded educational environments
  • Unlimited accounts & Video Uploads
  • Only $2 / person to go ad-free
  
  

Video Creation Applications

WeVideo

• Pros
  • Multi-use tool
    • Screencasting
    • Voice Recording
    • Editing
    • Publishing
    • Collaborative
    
    
  • Robust feature set
  • Green Screen
  • Works well with mobile application
  • Cost is very reasonable because it covers the need to pay for several other applications
  
  
• Cons
  • Free version is limited to 5-min video
  
  

Screencastify

• Pros
  • Works seamlessly in conjunction with Google Drive
  • Easy sharing options for creating shareable link, downloading, and posting to YouTube
  
  
• Cons
  • Free version is limited to only 5 minutes
  
  

ScreenCast-o-Matic

• Pros
  • This app now offers a chrome extension that makes access and recording more user-friendly than before
  • Free version allows up to 15 minutes
  • Allows local uploads as well as to YouTube and Google Drive
  • Low cost (under $2.00 per month) premium version gives you drawing tools, editing tools, unlimited recording time
  
  
• Cons
  • Watermark on free version
  
  

Camtasia

• Pros
  • Very robust screencasting and video editing suite
  • Tons of features and resources for creating professional videos ... quickly
  • Publish to several great platforms
  
  
• Cons
  • Not easily purchased for every student due to the price
  
  

Loom

• Pros
  • Free Chrome Extensions
  • Saves easily onto Google Drive
  
  

PowerPoint

• Pros
  • Feature Rich
  • Complete Video Solution
  • 3D Animations
  
  

Video Storage

• YouTube
• SchoolTube
• Vimeo
  • Pros
    • Great for livestreaming needs
    
    
  
  
• Microsoft Stream

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan talk about organizing this school year that is looking more and more different by the day. If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is your school district doing to prepare? Susan talks about the first day of school at one of their campuses as they transition back.
• What precautions is your school district/buildings taking with returning to school face to face or using a hybrid approach?
• How does / will your tech coaching day look different?
• How has planning PD changed?
  • Different approach to PD for teachers and staff
  • Serving families whose children are learning at home through a hybrid/blended model
  • Dealing with conversations in addition to technology in areas such as social/emotional, etc.
  
  
• How are you protecting yourself and keeping healthy and safe?
• What organizational strategies are you using to keep your schedule and to-do list straight? Meeting - face to face vs. virtual?
  • Google Keep
  • Evernote
  • Pencil/Paper Planner
  • MS Planner
  • Calendly
  • Google Hangouts Chat
  • Zoom
  • Microsoft Teams
  
  

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The TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network, is a dynamic Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches.

• 3 Distinct Professional Learning Networks designed to help you grow for network other Coaches and Digital Learning Leaders
• Free Downloadable Templates and Coaching Resources that can be used in your district ... tomorrow!
• Direct access to Jeff Bradbury and all of​f his "offline" content that he creates during the school year.
• Exclusive TeacherCast and "Ask the Tech Coach" podcast episodes directly relating to the questions that YOU ASK in our PLN groups.
• Weekly email check-ins to stay connected and discuss your Instructional Coaching program!
• Monthly invitations to TeacherCast Instructional Coaching Meetings and Webinars
• ... and more!

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Sue sit down with (title) Sandy Paul to discuss what administrators really think about the Tech Coach Position.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why does a School District need a Tech Coach?
• What qualifies someone to be a Tech Coach?
• What do you look for when interviewing Tech Coaches?
• What does a Tech Coach Resume look like?
• How do you prepare your staff for having a Coach on staff?
• How do you prepare your staff for the concept of being “Coached” by another staff member?
• Why is it important to think of a Tech Coach as “Instructional” rather than IT support?
• What advice can a Tech Coach take away from today's episode?

About our Guest:

Presently Director of Information Technology and Operations. Past Senior Instructional Technologist at Rutgers University. Previous Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for the Sayreville Public Schools. I have 22 years of experience as a Director and prior was a Computer Science and Business Education teacher for 5 years. I was awarded administrator of the year by NJASL in 2007, a finalist for the 2014 Bammy Awards for Support Staff, named in the Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and Trailblazers 2015 and named in the Top Most Social K-12 Tech Leaders on Twitter. Contributor to New Media Consortium Horizon report for several years, #EdTechChat podcast, Tech and Learning Media, Edsurge, etc. Keynote speaker, conference presenter/workshop, conference organizer, ed-tech and librarian/media specialist advocate. Doctoral candidate. Chairperson for Ed Technology Advocacy, a member of the Emerging Technology Committee for CoSN, organizer for EdcampNJ, member of ISTE, CoSN, ASCD, AASA, NJ GMIS, NJECC and Chairperson for CoSN-NJ.

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• 3 Distinct Professional Learning Networks designed to help you grow for network other Coaches and Digital Learning Leaders
• Free Downloadable Templates and Coaching Resources that can be used in your district ... tomorrow!
• Direct access to Jeff Bradbury and all of​f his "offline" content that he creates during the school year.
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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan continue the “Tools For Tech Coaches” discussion throughout this month of July. Today we talk about Wakelet and how you can “Catch the Wakelet Wave” as we welcome Bruce Reicher to share his many experiences and how he has used Wakelet for his own productivity, coaching teachers, and with his students.

Topics Discussed

• What is Wakelet and curation?
• How do you use it for your professional development and for your classroom?
• What are some interesting ways you have seen Wakelet used?
• How can students use Wakelet too?
• My PD Wakelet - www.wakelet.com/@reicher
• My School Wakelet - www.wakelet.com/@breicher
• PD Google Site - https://sites.google.com/view/brucereicherpd/home
• Susan’s Wakelet Collections - https://wakelet.com/@sv314dws

10 Ways to Catch the Wakelet Wave

• Curate resources on like topics
• Curate resources to check out later
• Create student choice boards
• Create interactive tutorials and instruction sheets
• Team/Class Collaboration
• Parent Communication
• Presentation Template/Digital Storytelling
• Lesson Planning
• Data Monitoring
• Digital Breakout Games

About our Guest: Bruce Reicher

Bruce Reicher has been an educator for 25 years. He’s currently a technology teacher in Upper Saddle River, NJ at Cavallini Middle School. Reicher teaches Digital Leadership, Python Coding and Video Production. His 8th grade students have produced a live daily newscast for the past 12 years. The CTV student show passed the 2,000th show mark this year. Reicher is also a level 1 & 2 Google Teacher and an Ambassador for - WeVideo, Wakelet, Brainpop and Codesters. Reicher is also an author who’s written the book with educators Randy Tomes and Paula Neidlinger called “Scripted - An Educator’s Guide To Media In The Classroom”. The book's publisher is Edumatch Publishing. Reicher is also a proud member of the Hawthorne, NJ BOE for the past 8 years.

Social

• Twitter - www.twitter.com/breicher
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bruce.reicher
• LinkedIn - www.linked/in/breicher
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/breicher10/

Scripted - An Educator’s Guide To Media In The Classroom.

This book is written by three media educators who are Paula Neidlinger, Randy Tomes and Bruce Reicher. The premise of the book is that all teachers and students can create media on a small budget. The book provides every step of creating a vibrant media program in a school at every level K-12. The book includes sections written by WeVideo, Wakelet and Backbone Radio. We can’t wait to see what educators and students create after using the book. Here’s a link to keep updated on the release of the book on August 11, 2020 - https://forms.gle/tLnhNFT3rMy9e7Vy7

• Twitter - www.twitter.com/scriptededu & #ScriptedEdu
• Facebook - www.facebook.com/scriptededucators
• Instagram - www.instagram.com/scriptededu
• Wakelet - www.wakelet.com/@scriptededu
• Website - www.scriptededucators.com

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The TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network, is a dynamic Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches.

• 3 Distinct Professional Learning Networks designed to help you grow for network other Coaches and Digital Learning Leaders
• Free Downloadable Templates and Coaching Resources that can be used in your district ... tomorrow!
• Direct access to Jeff Bradbury and all of​f his "offline" content that he creates during the school year.
• Exclusive TeacherCast and "Ask the Tech Coach" podcast episodes directly relating to the questions tha...