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It’s Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 and welcome to Episode 196 of TechTalk4Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom, and I’m Brian Poulter. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This time we discuss the end of the semester and reflect back on some of the different technologies implemented in the classroom and how they helped improve the teaching and learning process. We wrap things up with our Technology Picks of the Week. Keep on Learning!
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That wraps it up for Episode 196 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Brian Poulter, Keep on Learning!
It’s Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 and welcome to Episode 195 of TechTalk4Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom, and I’m Cindy Rich. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This time we discuss the culture of learning and how our attitudes affect the way we learn new things. Professional Development is often approached as something to be "done" to teachers instead of "with" teachers. A slight adjustment to a perpetual professional learning culture makes all the difference in the world. We wrap things up with our Technology Picks of the Week. Keep on Learning!
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That wraps it up for Episode 195 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich, Keep on Learning!
It’s Monday, October 31st, 2016 and welcome to TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Newton Key. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This time we share information about a couple of Faculty Development workshops coming up in November. Dr. Newton Key, Director of the EIU Faculty Development program is our guest. We wrap things up with our Technology Picks of the Week.
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That wraps it up for Episode 194 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Newton Key. Keep on Learning!
It’s Friday, September 30th, 2016 and welcome
to TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich. Welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This
time we share our mid-semester checkup as we near the middle of the semester.
Cindy has returned to the classroom and she shares some of her classroom
practices. We wrap things up with our Technology Picks of the Week.
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That wraps it up for Episode 193 of TechTalk4Teachers.
Show notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the
EIU ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an
email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a
comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich. Keep on Learning!
It’s Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 and welcome to TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Brian Poulter. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This time we share our back to school episode and talk a little teacher shop with combing technology and pedagogy and new possibilities for personalized learning with OneNote. We wrap things up with our Technology Picks of the Week.
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That wraps it up for Episode 192 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Brian Poulter. Keep on Learning!
It’s Saturday, July 30th, 2016 and welcome to TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. I am going solo this time with a quick summer update of the many things that are happening over the summer to improve the learning environment of our students. We wrap things up with our Technology Picks of the Week.
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That wraps it up for Episode 191 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom. Keep on Learning!
It’s Thursday, June 30th, 2016 and welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom, and I’m Brian Poulter. Welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. Cindy
is out of the office this week so we have invited Brian Poulter, long time friend
of the show, to be on the TechTalk4Teachers podcast. This time we talk about Personal
Weather Stations and the possibilities for teaching and learning. We wrap
things up with our Technology Picks of the Week.
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That wraps it up for Episode 190 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show
notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU
ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an
email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a
comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom, I’m
Brian Poulter. Keep on Learning!
It’s Friday, May 27th, 2016 and welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom, and I’m Cindy Rich. Welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. This time
we talk about our upcoming edcampEIU that will be happening on June 21st.
We also have a special guest, Lisa Dallas, talking about the Padlet app for classroom and online uses of this tool. We wrap things up with our Technology
Picks of the Week this time featuring Virtual Reality.
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Show Notes:
edcampEIU
Coming June 21, 2016
on the campus of Eastern Illinois University
1.Book
Reviews/Interactive Story Telling: highlight favorite quotes, ask
questions, discuss characters – AND/OR a story and ask students where it should
go next. Students can type their ideas into the Padlet. Take student ideas and
continue story
2.Topic
Summary: Useful for any subject from
math to earth science, Padlet can help teachers summarize a large amount of information
and present it in a visually pleasing way. Educators can put in text, photos,
graphs and other learning tools and share the image with students before a big
test or discussion. -
3."Thank
You" Wall: Have you had a
speaker come in recently to share his/her knowledge on a particular subject. sending
a group "thank you" note. Each student can post an individual message
4.Questions
Board: Students can access a
"questions" board 24/7 and anonymously post questions.
5.Opinion/Forum: Educators can post a particular topic or
issue, and students can post their opinions on the subject. This is a great
building block for teaching students how to write opinion pieces or persuasive
essays. -
6.Bell
ringer activity — Ask students what they remember from the previous day’s
lesson. The ensuing page should summarize what still needs to be taught and
should serve as a good place for students to review content.
7.Collaborative notetaking/Notes to peer presentations / staff meetings — While listening to a
presentation/meeting, students/colleagues can work together to add notes to a
Padlet to produce a resource they can refer to later.
8.Event
planning — If you’re planning a class party or a field trip, all of the
information can go on a Padlet, including photos of the destination, a list of
who’s bringing what, links to pertinent websites and more.
9.Living
webquest — Webquests have been static webpages that included links to sites
and questions. They often didn’t change. Students can create a living webquest
where new links are added continually. You can create questions at the end of
the activity to the links available at that time.
10.Exit
ticket/Student Reflections on
Learning/ Check In to Check Out — What did you learn today? What didn’t
make sense? What questions do you still have? Students can answer those
questions and refer to it later.
11.Class Communication/Document
hub — Upload important class files to a Padlet so students can go there to
download them any time.
12.Let
Students Showcase Their Work – digital portfolios, creating slideshows, or
producing videos to display all of your students’ best work on one page
13.Thinking
Maps/Flow Maps
14.K - W – L
Chart on a topic: What student Knows/
What they Want to Know / What they Learned Students post notes under each section
15.Digital
Posters - Assign students a topic and have them create quick digital
posters as summaries for review OR as a presentation. Then, share the links
with the whole class for a pain-free, classroom-wide study guide!
16.Build a
matching exercise - have students rearrange the photos and text to solve.
17.Group research: students search online
for other examples of the topic they are researching
18.Video & Topic link-show video
posted on Padlet and allow student to comment and expand the topic
19.Parent Forum – Classroom link
20.Walking Field Trip - through the
building/museum with their devices. Students were to use their device to take
pictures of various elements of art that they had been learning about -
texture, space, line, etc.
That wraps it up for Episode 189 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show
notes this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU
ITC website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment of suggestion please send an
email to techtalk@eiu.edu of leave a
comment on our TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom, I’m Cindy
Rich, and I’m Lisa Dallas. Keep on Learning!
It’s Friday, April 29th, 2016 and welcome to Episode 188 of TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology.
This episode we discuss the end of the semester and OneNote digital class notebooks, a new smartphone for Dr. Grissom and announcing edcampEIU this summer!
We will also share our Technology Picks of the "Week".
That wraps it up for episode 188 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc If you have a comment or suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Keep on Learning!
It’s Thursday, March 31st, 2016 and welcome to Episode 187 of
TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Welcome to
TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. Happy
Leap Year!
This episode we have a listener question that leads into a discussion about
digital assistances and how we remind ourselves of items of importance to us. We
mention Cortana, Siri, and Google Now.
We will also share our Technology Picks of the "Week".
That wraps it up for episode 187 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show
notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the
EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc If you have a
comment or suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a
comment on the TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I'm
Cindy Rich. Keep on Learning!
It’s Monday, February 29th, 2016 and welcome to Episode 186 of TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology. Happy Leap Year! This episode we will have a conversation about "Campfires in Cyberspace" and how designing learning environments need to have a combination of approaches to be most effective.
We will also share our Technology Picks of the "Week".
That wraps it up for episode 186 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc If you have a comment or suggestion please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Keep on Learning!
It’s Friday, January 29th, 2016 and welcome to Episode 185 of TechTalk4Teachers I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Welcome to TechTalk4Teachers the show about teaching and learning with technology.
We will also share our Technology Picks of the "Week".
That wraps it up for episode 185 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this
episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional
Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc If you have a comment or suggestion
please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the
TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich. Keep
on Learning!
