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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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,   Stephanie ..read more

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 ..read more

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!  ..read more

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. 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 friend ..read more

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: Use new table templates and dropdown chips in Google Docs Control Alt Achieve: Create "Cloze Reading" Activities with Google Docs Dropdown Chips How to email from Google Docs | Zapier Breaking down language barriers with augmented reality | Google How to Create VR Tours in Expedit ..read more

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: iOS version of ExpeditionsPro Apple introduces a new version of iMovie iMovie Trailer Templates Spring Forward with Zoom Whiteboard & Gesture Recognition Main Course: ITEC Spring Conference: ITEC Iowa Resources from the @DLGWAEA team at ITEC Auto-advance slides in Google Sites add a favi ..read more

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: Practice Sets in Google Classroom Socratic by Google Schedule posts for multiple classes in Google Classroom Universa ..read more

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: Sharing slides as a Virtual Background in Zoom Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs  My EdTech Bundle is now free… Pe ..read more