HiTech Podcast

Will makes his best effort to put his tinfoil hat away, but Josh eggs him on. Is anything new? We talk about the impact of the LMS on higher education with all of the data it contains. How do we use this data for pedagogy and not for policing? Our app for the day is Mentimeter: an app for live-classroom engagement or for asynchronous online content. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us.

Josh and Will (and their surprise cohost?!) start a conversation off on cognitive dissonance. This topic proves a little fuzzy for them to agree on, but they work through the ideas that might impact your classroom experiences. After, that they gather around for a conversation on... Around. Around is a new video conferencing tool that focuses on the mood and experience of a virtual call. Most importantly, they make hybrid calls even better by cancelling out echo from any other devices that you're in the room with. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us.

This week we chat with Robin Jeffers, one of Josh's colleagues, about Instructional Design: what is it, why, who, what, and all of the fun info. Robin's newer to the field, so it's a refreshing perspective of someone who transitioned from K-12 instruction to the Higher Education Instructional Design world. Then, she leaves us with some info on the wonderful Gimkit (Gim pronounced like Gimli not gym). For more information on these tools and our conversation, check out the episode page here.

For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us.

We start a long conversation on a short topic: micro learning! It's a trendy topic and we all engage with it at some level in our lives these days. So, how can we do it better? What's the benefit to this over traditional methods? Tune in for our thoughts and the introduction of a tool to get this job done. EdApp is a learning management system for mobile and micro learning. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us.

What is college good for? We open up the conversation on whether college and academia should be for learning or workforce development. The implications are vast, and our opinions are fit to match. Then, our app is a worldwide favorite platform: LinkedIn. We suggest that this might be the best portfolio app that's ever been made. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us.