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Ask The Tech Coach - Microsoft SWAY: 5 Ways To Be Creative In the Classroom With Your Students

Microsoft SWAY: 5 Ways To Be Creative In the Classroom With Your Students

07/06/20 • 27 min

Ask The Tech Coach
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome Scott Bricker as we kick off the month of July focusing on Tech Tools for Tech Coaches. Scott will share ways to use Microsoft SWAY to create dynamic presentations as you train teachers and show them best practice tools to use with students.

5 Ways to use Microsoft SWAY in the Classroom

  1. Weekly newsletter
  2. Flipped Classroom
  3. Reimagining curriculum & textbooks
  4. Portfolios & Assessment
  5. Groupwork & Collaboration

About our Guest: Scott Bricker

Scott is the Director of Educational Technology at Santa Margarita Catholic High School and is charged with leading the school's Ed Tech Program for its 1650 Students and 115 Teachers. SMCHS is a proud Microsoft Showcase School and Scott is enjoying his 6th year as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIEE) and his second year as an MIEE Fellow, connections which have all been instrumental in fostering Scott’s passion for growing and inspiring the appropriate use of technology in the classroom. An experienced presenter and public speaker, Scott loves presenting ideas to audiences everywhere and motivating attendees to focus on identifying the “WHY” behind everything they do. He has recently presented on the pedagogy & best practices behind Blended Learning, and is also creating a series of sessions on using brain research to guide teaching methods and practices. He hopes to continue being a changemaker in the world of Education as our industry evolves significantly over these next months and years.

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Join the TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network!

  • Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
  • Are you searching for support in your position?

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 welcome Scott Bricker as we kick off the month of July focusing on Tech Tools for Tech Coaches. Scott will share ways to use Microsoft SWAY to create dynamic presentations as you train teachers and show them best practice tools to use with students.

5 Ways to use Microsoft SWAY in the Classroom

  1. Weekly newsletter
  2. Flipped Classroom
  3. Reimagining curriculum & textbooks
  4. Portfolios & Assessment
  5. Groupwork & Collaboration

About our Guest: Scott Bricker

Scott is the Director of Educational Technology at Santa Margarita Catholic High School and is charged with leading the school's Ed Tech Program for its 1650 Students and 115 Teachers. SMCHS is a proud Microsoft Showcase School and Scott is enjoying his 6th year as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIEE) and his second year as an MIEE Fellow, connections which have all been instrumental in fostering Scott’s passion for growing and inspiring the appropriate use of technology in the classroom. An experienced presenter and public speaker, Scott loves presenting ideas to audiences everywhere and motivating attendees to focus on identifying the “WHY” behind everything they do. He has recently presented on the pedagogy & best practices behind Blended Learning, and is also creating a series of sessions on using brain research to guide teaching methods and practices. He hopes to continue being a changemaker in the world of Education as our industry evolves significantly over these next months and years.

Links of Interest


Join the TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network!

  • Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
  • Are you searching for support in your position?

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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Simple Tips for Creating Video in the Classroom

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome an awesome panel of tech coaches to discuss using video with training teachers and teaching students. We discussed what we have learned, what our teachers have learned, and ideas for best practices.

Topics Discussed

  • What have we learned about creating video to instruct our teachers?
  • What have we learned about creating video to instruct our students?
  • New Teacher Orientation
  • What advice do we have for “newbies?”
    • Camera angle at or a bit above eye level
    • iPhone back camera is higher quality
    • Interesting background helpful
    • Light on your face
    • Stay closer to your audio source.
    • Be sure to look at your camera lens and not at yourself. Put an interesting picture/photo above your camera to focus on to look up at the camera.
    • Amazing New Drawing Tool:
    • Making Great Looking Backgrounds


  • Have an idea of the look you want
    • Google Slides, other slides apps to add shapes, colors
    • Unsplash.com; Pixabay.com - images, videos that are copyright friendly to make backgrounds
    • The Noun Project - Starburst and Swirl icons to create alternate looks
    • Zoom - 16:9 dimension
    • Look in specs for platform you are using to determine background size


Join the TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network!

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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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10 Ways to use Wakelet to Organize your Classroom and Tech Coaching

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


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.

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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

Join the TeacherCast Instructional Coaches Network!

  • Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
  • Are you searching for support in your position?

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...

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