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10/11/20 • 64 min
MTT046| iCivics, Building Civic Knowledge in a fun way - Neil Wrona
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It’s an election year! Do your students understand the complexities of our government workings? What a great time to learn about how our system works, while the subject is in the news every day! Join us as we speak with Neil Wrona, a 7th grade teacher at an alternative school tasked with teaching these young people how their government works and how they can make a difference. All in a very easy to understand and fun way!
Neil Wrona is a 7th year teacher who has taught at every level in the school system and every subject other than English. Neil’s undergrad was in Communications and Rhetorical Studies, and it wasn’t until his junior year, and a class that doubled as community service, that he realized he wanted to teach. Of course, by then he thought it was far too late, so he floated around for a few years after graduation, looking for jobs where I could teach, until he finally decided to get the credits he needed and enrolled in a Masters in the Arts of Teaching program. Over the years, Neil has fallen in love with civics education and everything it can provide for students: a way to understand how decisions are made, an avenue to understand how power is wielded, and, most importantly, something that can make his students feel powerful. Once students understand that the government works FOR them, they realize that if they want change, they can make it happen. With the population Neil teaches, it’s not always easy to convince them of that, but iCivics has helped with 2⁄3 of that goal.
Contact: Neil Wrona
Twitter: @neilwrona
Email: [email protected]
Items mentioned in Episode 46:
I’m just a Bill - School House Rock
My Tech Toolbelt - Nearpod Episode
Example Lesson Plan from Neil Wrona
The Firm, Fair, Facinating Facilitator by Robert Ward
#remotelearning #distancelearning #icivics #podcastedu #podcasting #government
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MTT044| Podcasting with your Students - Brian Briggs
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06/09/20 • 50 min
MTT044| Podcasting with your Students - Brian Briggs
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Have you thought about podcasting with your students, but don’t know where to start? Join us today as we speak with Brian Briggs, the Director of Innovation and Instructional Technology for Plumas Lake Elementary School District in California. Brian shares with us why podcasting with your students is so beneficial and just how easy it is to get started.
Brian Briggs is the Director of Innovation and Instructional Technology for Plumas Lake Elementary School District. Brian enjoys working with teachers and students teaching, training and learning alongside them with new and exciting topics in Educational Technology. He loves the use of coding and robots, and has always been a nut for hands-on science. Brian is most excited about STEAM, the creation of projects, and getting students engaged. He also loves seeing the excitement of students and teachers working together as teams to create or complete a desired goal. On top of the teachable moments, Brian lives for the ooo and aahh moments that happen during instruction.
Contact: Brian Briggs
Twitter: @BriBriggs
Email: [email protected]
Items mentioned in Episode 44:
John Samuelson Techlandia Podcast
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
This Week In Tech Podcast with Leo Laporte
#remotelearning #distancelearning #nowlistening #podcastedu #podcasting #studentpodcast
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MTT043 Bonus| Seesaw with Distance Learning - Megan Madden
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05/15/20 • 56 min
MTT043 Bonus| Seesaw with Distance Learning - Megan Madden
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In Episode 43 - Seesaw in the Classroom, Megan Madden shared with us how she has been using Seesaw in her classroom with great success. Just a short time later, the whole world was shutting down due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Everything escalated very quickly, and teachers, districts and students found themselves having to transition to Distance Learning almost overnight. In this Bonus episode, Megan shares with us the obstacles she faced in the transition, and how she returned to one of her favorite tech tools in her toolbelt, Seesaw, to help her with her students. Find out why this was the perfect fit once again. If you haven’t listened to Episode 43 yet, make sure you listen to that one as well to hear how she used Seesaw in her classroom.
Megan Madden is a Bay Area native and enjoys learning, community, and creating new ways to engage and excite my students. She attended Saint Mary’s College of California and earned my B.A in English Literature and minored in Theatre Arts. She continued at Saint Mary’s and went on to earn my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. Megan began her teaching career at a Montessori Elementary School in Pleasanton, CA where she learned the art of hands-on exploration and differentiation. She then transitioned into the traditional classroom and continued to teach at a Catholic School in the Oakland Diocese. Megan’s desire to continue offering my students a tailored learning experience and an environment prepared for learning and exploring and began incorporating technology in order to balance the needs of her students within the constraints of the traditional classroom. She enjoyed watching her students thrive in this blended learning environment and was inspired to go back to school to earn her Masters in 21st Century Learning and Technology from Brandman University. Megan has a passion for integrating technology into her pedagogy and hopes to inspire others to explore new ways to teach and make an impact on students everywhere.
Contact: Megan Madden
Twitter: @MyAppyClassroom
Email: [email protected]
Megan Madden’s Seesaw Slidedeck (with QR code for a free Premium month): MM Seesaw Slidedeck
Instagram: MyAppyClassroom
Items mentioned in Episode 43 Bonus:
Seesaw website
The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong
#remotelearning #distancelearning #nowlistening #podcastedu #seesaw #digitalportfolio #seesawchat
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MTT043| Seesaw in the Classroom - Megan Madden
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04/29/20 • 52 min
MTT043| Seesaw in the Classroom - Megan Madden
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It’s so great when each of your students have their own devices. But what happens when you have 31 student projects on 31 devices? It means a lot of time on the Teacher collecting, grading, distributing, and managing both the projects and the devices. Join us today as we speak with Megan Madden, a 3rd Grade Teacher from California. Megan shares with us why Seesaw works so well for her and her classroom. Also, listen in to how much the parents love it as well. One more thing, this episode will be a short series on Seesaw. This is the “Seesaw in the Classroom” episode, our next one coming up will be “Seesaw with Distance Learning”, so be sure to subscribe to our podcast because you don’t want to miss that one!
Megan Madden is a Bay Area native and enjoys learning, community, and creating new ways to engage and excite my students. She attended Saint Mary’s College of California and earned my B.A in English Literature and minored in Theatre Arts. She continued at Saint Mary’s and went on to earn my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. Megan began her teaching career at a Montessori Elementary School in Pleasanton, CA where she learned the art of hands on exploration and differentiation. She then transitioned into the traditional classroom and continued to teach at a Catholic School in the Oakland Diocese. Megan’s desire to continue offering my students a tailored learning experience and an environment prepared for learning and exploring and began incorporating technology in order to balance the needs of her students within the constraints of the traditional classroom. She enjoyed watching her students thrive in this blended learning environment and was inspired to go back to school to earn her Masters in 21st Century Learning and Technology from Brandman University. Megan has a passion for integrating technology into her pedagogy and hopes to inspire others to explore new ways to teach and make an impact on students everywhere.
Contact: Megan Madden
Twitter: @MyAppyClassroom
Email: [email protected]
Megan Madden’s Seesaw Slidedeck (with QR code for a free Premium month): MM Seesaw Slidedeck
Instagram: MyAppyClassroom
Items mentioned in Episode 43:
Seesaw website
The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong
#nowlistening #podcastedu #seesaw #ipad #ChromeBooks #Chrome #digitalportfolio #seesawchat
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MTT042| Creating with Chrome - Ryan O'Donnell
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02/20/20 • 55 min
MTT042| Creating with Chrome - Ryan O’Donnell
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Are you at a school with a lot of Chrome Books? How are you using them? Are your students consumers or creators? Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your student’s creative side and see where it would lead them? Join us today as we speak with Ryan O’Donnell, a high school Video Production teacher from California. He shares with us so many creative ways to have your students Creating with Chrome in no time. And just wait until you check out his unbelievable templates that he is sharing with you!
Ryan O’Donnell is currently a Video Production teacher at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California. Before teaching video, he was a TOSA and social studies teacher and has been in education for 20 years. Ryan’s passionate about professional development for teachers with a focus on using tools, techniques and strategies in order to help students become more engaged and connected. Along with being a full time teacher, he is a podcaster, co-hosting the ed tech podcast, "Check This Out" as well as a presenter at various workshops and conferences throughout the country. You can connect with Ryan and find all his resources on his website www.creativeedtech.com
Contact: Ryan O’Donnell
Twitter: @creativeedtech
Email: [email protected]
Website: CreativeEdTech.com
YouTube: Ryan O’Donnell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3vw2FXs7n1eBOLHsUTm_g
Items mentioned in Episode 42:
Mike Rowe - Speaking to Congress video
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
#nowlistening #podcastedu #googleslides #ChromeBooks #Chrome
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MTT041| Digital Design Strategies - Martin Cisneros
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12/20/19 • 70 min
MTT041| Digital Design Strategies - Martin Cisneros
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could customize information that you want to give your students so that every student could understand at their reading level? What about being able to show websites to your class without pop-ups and advertisements? These are just a couple of the tech tools that are shared by our guest, Martin Cisneros.
Martin Ricardo Cisneros (@TheTechProfe & TheTechProfe.com) is a Modern Learning Specialist, speaker, GeekDad, TechJedi, and SuperMariachi, from Silicon Valley! In his position at the Santa Clara County Office of Education (Innovation.sccoe.org), Martin develops and facilitates professional learning experiences on the most current educational trends to improve teaching and learning through innovative processes. He has developed many blended curricular programs some of which have been adopted by districts, universities, and others that have rolled out country-wide. Martin has experience teaching students and professionals at all levels including elementary, secondary, and higher education while working in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
Contact: Martin Cisneros
Twitter: @TheTechProfe
Email: [email protected]
Website: TheTechProfe.com
LinkedIn: MartinCisneros
YouTube: TheTechProfe https://www.youtube.com/user/thetechprofe
Additional Websites: innovations.sccoe.org & bit.ly/sccoebadges
Items mentioned in Episode 41:
TLDR
ELL Teacher’s Toolbox by Larry Ferlazzo
EduPprotocols by Marlena Hebern and Joe Corippo
#googleextension #googleslides #collaboration #CommonCore
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11/21/19 • 47 min
MTT040| Pear Deck, Creating Classroom Conversations - Kristan Morales
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Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck. Join us as we speak with Kristan Morales and how she uses Pear Deck in her math classes to get responses from her students, either named or anonymously.
Kristan Morales is a High School Math Teacher in Temecula, California. Instructional Leadership Corps with CTA and Stanford, CTA Liaison to CA Math Council, Temecula Educators Association Instruction and Professional Development Chair, Southwest Riverside County Think Tank Facilitator for Institute for Teaching, CUE Conference Planning Committee and Volunteer Coordinator, CUE Rockstar Faculty.
Contact: Kristan Morales
Twitter: @kristanmorales1
Kristan’s 3-Act Math presentation
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Items mentioned in Episode 40:
The Growth Mindset by Annie Brock
What’s Math Got to Do With It? by Jo Boaler
EduPprotocols by Marlena Hebern and Joe Corippo
Routines for Reasoning by Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta and Susan Janssen Creighton
Closeline Math by Chris Shore
#peardeck
#googleslides
#collaboration
#RichMathTask
#CommonCore
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10/11/19 • 42 min
MTT038| Assistive Technology Part 3, Dive Into UDL - Luis Perez & Kendra Grant
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Luis Perez joins us again with co-author, Kendra Grant, of the book “Dive Into UDL”. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing instruction that meets the needs of every learner. They discuss an overview of UDL, showing how to offer flexibility in methods of presentation, student participation and expression to support high achievement for all students, including those with disabilities or limited English proficiency.
“Dive into UDL” shows K-12 educators how to incorporate UDL in their instructional design and engage in continuous professional growth. The book also appeals to those in coaching positions and to administrators seeking to support their staff. The book offers three modes of entry to allow educators to “start where they are” in their understanding of UDL and how it applies to their areas of instruction; shows educators how to enhance and transform their instructional practices by applying a UDL lens to analyze and redesign lessons; illustrates how to design accessible materials and use technology to provide more options for learners; and highlights how UDL is foundational to inquiry-based, project-based and constructivist hands-on learning.
Luis Perez
Luis Pérez is a technical assistance specialist for the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials. In this role, he promotes the creation, delivery and use of high quality accessible educational materials and technologies to support equitable learning opportunities for all students. He holds a doctorate in special education and a master’s degree in instructional technology from the University of South Florida. He was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) in 2009, and as a Google in Education Certified Educator in 2014, and he is the current President of the Inclusive Learning Network of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), which named him its 2016 Outstanding Inclusive Educator. Luis has published three books on accessibility, mobile learning and UDL: Mobile Learning for All (Corwin Press), Dive into UDL (ISTE) and Learning on the Go (CAST Publishing). His work has also appeared in publications such Teaching Exceptional Children, Closing the Gap Solutions, THE Journal, and The Loop Magazine. In addition to his work in educational technology, Luis is an avid photographer whose work has been featured on Better Photography magazine, Business Insider, the New York Times Bits Blog and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Contact: Luis Perez
Twitter: @eyeonaxs
Instagram: Luis Perez Instagram
Email: [email protected]
Kendra Grant
Kendra Grant has held many roles in education, including teacher, district special education coordinator and assistive technology (AT) specialist in a large school district. She currently works with Quillsoft as director of professional development and learning, and was formerly co-founder and chief education officer for a professional learning company delivering large-scale technology implementation across North America. Grant holds a master’s of educational technology from the University of British Columbia with a focus on professional learning, eLearning (K-20) and the application of UDL to both. She is a past president of ISTE’s Inclusive Learning Network.
Contact: Kendra Grant
Twitter: @KendraFGrant
Items mentioned in Episode 38:
Three principles of UDL
Multiple Means of Engagement
Multiple Means of Representation
Multiple Means of Action and Expression
National Center on Accessible Educational Materials
Twitter: AEM_Center
Luis Perez’s TED Talk for ISTE
MTT036| 360 Math Remix - Ed Campos Jr
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06/27/19 • 60 min
MTT036| 360 Degree Math Remix - Ed Campos Jr
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Looking to step up you game in the classroom? Turn your math class into a fun and engaging atmosphere where your students don’t feel like they are an island, but are in a community.
Ed Campos Jr. Ed currently works for Brown University as a Program Manager for the Brown Computer Science Department’s “Bootstrap” Computer Science curriculum that integrated CS into Core Content areas like Math, Science and Social Science. He also works as a Lead Learner for CUE and does professional development under his own Consulting, “Mathletic Performance.” He’s taught high school Math and Computer Science for over 14 years in the San Joaquin Valley and was instrumental in creating a model 21st century math learning space that allows his students to express themselves, present, and teach their peers in a multitude of ways. Ed was also named the Central Valley CUE Educator of the Year in 2014. He has a passion for travel, technology, and for empowering students and colleagues with the skills and knowledge that make the classroom more fun and effective because they deserve it.
Contact: Ed Campos Jr.
Twitter: @edcamposjr twitter
Instagram: @edcamposjr
Facebook: Eddie Campos Jr.
Blog: EdCamposJr.com
Items mentioned in Episode 36:
The Space: A Guide for Educators, by Robert Dillon and Rebecca Hare
Mathematical Mindsets, by Jo Boaler
Go Write whiteboards, bit.ly/GoWriteWB
www.geeo.org (global exploration for educators organization)
#VNPS - Vertical Non Permanent Surfaces
#360Math
#Math360
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MTT047| Flipgrid and Keeping Students Engaged Remotely and latest updates - Ann Kozma
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01/01/21 • 79 min
MTT047| Flipgrid and Keeping Engaged Remotely - Ann Kozma
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Imagine a tech tool that works for everyone from Pre K to PhD and beyond! Not only that, but you have complete flexibility and complete control at the same time! Flipgrid can be as simple or as sophisticated as you want it to be, and there is no right or wrong way of doing it. Join us today as we speak with Ann Kozma from Flipgrid as she tells us the new and exciting enhancements coming up. If you would like to see the video portion of this podcast, you can see the video here.
Ann Kozma loves to explore, share, and contribute and has spent 19 years dedicated to transforming education as a classroom teacher, Innovation & Instructional Support TOSA, and as an Educator Innovation Lead on Team Flipgrid at Microsoft. Believing that “Play is our brain’s favorite way to learn,” Ann loves to bring the fun and is passionate about helping others learn how to meaningfully integrate technology into teaching and learning. She is a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2015 and Leading Edge Certified as a Professional Learning Leader.
Contact: Ann Kozma
Twitter: @annkozma723
Flipgrid Twitter: @Flipgrid
Items mentioned in Episode 47:
Flipgrid website
Yaritza Villalba Flipgrid Creator page
Yaritza Villalba Flipgrid Blog
Matt Jenkins Flipgrid Blogpost about Technology Enhances Deaf Education
The InterActive Class - Joe Merrill
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta Hammond
Pass The Baton by Kathryn Finch and Theresa Hoover
BONUS Flipgrid video on the My Tech Toolbelt YouTube Channel
#remotelearning #distancelearning #flipgrid #podcastedu #podcasting #studentconnections #flipgridforall
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How many episodes does My Tech Toolbelt have?
My Tech Toolbelt currently has 48 episodes available.
What topics does My Tech Toolbelt cover?
The podcast is about Tech, Podcasts, Edtech, Technology, Education, Homeschool and Teacher.
What is the most popular episode on My Tech Toolbelt?
The episode title 'MTT046| iCivics, Building Civic Knowledge in a fun way - Neil Wrona' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on My Tech Toolbelt?
The average episode length on My Tech Toolbelt is 55 minutes.
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Episodes of My Tech Toolbelt are typically released every 14 days.
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The first episode of My Tech Toolbelt was released on Feb 27, 2018.
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