In this episode, Mindy and Gina interview their new teammate Shalyn Huber.    News: Kahnmingo is coming to Canvas: Kahnmingo is an AI tutor that was developed by Kahn Academy.  Seesaw - Computer Science Activities and English Language Explorers: Newcomers Teach AI Toolkit Catch up with the team from ITEC: bit.ly/DLGWAEAitec2023   Nuggets: Reader Mode in Chrome Text FX with Google: Suite of tools to support figurative language generation.  Twee - AI aid for teachers who use text and much more. Generate reading questions. Generate dialogue around topics.  Searching Tabs in Chrome with @Tabs in Omnibar, search tabs with carrot Ghostwrite: ChatGPT Email Assistant  Office Hours for Seesaw   We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on X @DLGWAEA or send us a message on Facebook or Instagram! You can always use our #EdtechTO and share your thoughts with us too!

Mindy and Gina explore some Jamboard replacement tools. Figjam Get verified as a Figjam educator Eric Curts Figjam for Schools Webinar. Miro Miro education templates Miro for Teachers (Video) Canva Whiteboard Getting started with Canva Whiteboard video series

In this episode, we are jumping back into Universal Design for Learning or UDL and brought our resident experts Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio in to share more about this topic. We’ve talked about UDL in the past, but it is such an important topic, we wanted to bring it back to the forefront again. 6 Myths about Universal Design for Learning - UDL UDL in the ESSA MTSS: What Is a Multi-Tiered System of Supports? | Understood Lesson Planning with UDL CAST UDL Guidelines Katie Novak’s website Zooming in on MTSS (Katie Novak) - learning session at GWAEA GWAEA “Foundations of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)” microcredential 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!

Welcome back to the Edtech Takeout–this is episode 114. This episode is a fan favorite – News and Nuggets!  A little fun fact: This week we reached our 100,000th download!   News and Updates: Canva: Magic Draw, Magic Eraser, Magic Write What’s New Wednesday Webinar - April (Canva)  Newsela: Moving to Newsela Lite, access to four articles at a time with five different reading levels, teacher can access student quiz scorers and writing prompts Seesaw: Add frames (in drawing template) and student responses snap into the frame so no sizing is necessary, Present to Class 5 Chromebook Updates for Students and Teachers Voting Chip in Google Docs - watch for this in the coming months! Tech Nuggets: Mindy:  How to Differentiate Texts Using ChatGPT Convert Your Doc in Canva into a Slide Deck in One Click  (convert button)  Example  made from this The Juice: delivers five articles a day to grades 5-12 students. Followed by vocabulary and comprehension checks, each student is assigned a specific reading level by the teacher. Teacher dashboard that shares data. 30-day free trial Gina:  #FilterTheNoise - News Literacy Course/Resources - Jonathan Ketchell Deep Fakes - Can You Spot Them? MIT Test yourself. Research project. Sutori for Playlist Like Wakelet with built-in polls and checks for understanding Pricing - 30 days all features free, free level, and $120 for a single teacher for a year. Department/Grade level pricing.  Sutori Video Beth: Genially - Nice alternative to Thinglink Teachflix - Teacher currated video repository Canva - Vertical videos with background removal example Remove background in Canva video - tutorial   The GWAEA Corner Booth: Student Engagement Through Classroom Discussion One-day Workshop for Instructional Coaches May 5, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at GWAEA in CR 6th Street Course number 205152   Tenets of Transformative Classrooms (Online) Online course for teachers, instructional coaches, administrators Section 315455: Starts June 19th - Ends October 6th Section 315456: Starts August 1st - Ends November 30th   GWAEA Professional Learning Institute June 26 - June 30, 2023 Find more information here.   Iowa AEA’s CS PD Week June 12 - June 16, 2023 Find more information here.   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!

Join Mindy, Gina, and Corey for a conversation with AI education expert Charlotte Dungan from AI Edu.  Show Notes: MarI/O - watch AI learn to play Mario. This is a great example of machine learning. ChatGPT - Generative AI that creates written content. Content Detector AI - Detector that used AI to recognize AI-generated content. Kahnmingo AI Tutor - Kahn Academy AI tutor AI Edu - Resource for educators interested in teaching more about AI. Includes AI snapshots mentioned by Corey. These are great bell ringers or discussion starters around the topic of AI.

News and Updates: Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent) Bing AKA Sydney The Online Search Wars - The Daily 2.15.23 The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast. - The Daily 2.17.23 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

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

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!

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

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  Emojis in Google Docs  Video Recorder in Canva Classroomq  Schoolytics Please email us, [email protected] or hit us up on Twitter @dlgwaea @TeamCairney @grogers1010