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**The EdTech Take Out**

The EdTech Take Out is a podcast for teachers who are looking for innovative ways to integrate technology in their classrooms. It is hosted by Mindy Cairney and Gina Rogers from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team.

Latest Episodes:

EP 112: News, Nuggets, and the GWAEA Corner Booth Feb 24, 2023

Show notes

News and Updates:

Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording

Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent)

Bing AKA Sydney

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 Jan 27, 2023

Show notes

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 Dec 21, 2022

Show notes

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 Oct 17, 2022

Show notes

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 Sep 19, 2022

Show notes

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

Please email us, podcast@gwaea.org or hit us up on Twitter @dlgwaea @TeamCairney @grogers1010

EP107: The Future of the Edtech Take Out! May 25, 2022

Show notes

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.

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! May 19, 2022

Show notes

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:

Main Course: Wrapping it Up!

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!

EP105: ITEC Nuggets But Also Reflections? Apr 25, 2022

Show notes

We're back, and so is ITEC - Iowa's premier edtech conference! Mindy and I were in attendance, as were the rest of the team, so in this episode, we are going to reveal some of our takeaways from this always popular conference.

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News and followup:

Main Course: ITEC Spring Conference:

Tech Nugget(s)?

Send a video to the future

THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

EP104: Katie Wardrobe Mar 29, 2022

Show notes

We have been wanting to have an episode like this for a long time, but we have never been able to find a good guest to talk to. All that changed when Katie Wardrobe (@MusicTechTchr) agreed to come on the show and talk about the intersection of music and edtech.

Whether you teach music or not, this was a really fun conversation with great ideas for any classroom, including TikTok challenges for students!

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News/Follow-up:

Main Course: Katie Wardrobe:

Tech Nuggets

Pagify
Toy Claw Machine Slides
Isle of Tune - lesson plan for Isle of Tune
Text Chat Animator
PineTools aka The Gateway to the Dark Web?
Incredibox
https://runwayml.com/
Beepbox

THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

EP103: NFTs with Michael Cohen Feb 18, 2022

Show notes

In this episode, we decided to try something a little different. We invited Micheal Cohen (aka @TheTechRabbi) to join us to talk about the implication of NFTs for students and educators.

If you haven't heard of NFTs or web3 before, you're not alone but that's one of the main reasons why we decided to have this conversation. It will make you think differently about all kinds of things.

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News/Follow-up: