Brent & Tim start the new year and the new semester by sharing a number of conferences that might be of interest to EdTech minded professors. Next, they look at some tips for how to start your new semester smoothly.
Tim gives an overview of the recent DET/CHE (Directors of Educational Technology / California Higher Education) Conference, and then both Brent & Tim share some end of semester tips.
Tim & Brent discuss how quickly you should be responding to your students in the age of instant gratification. Is there such thing as time for yourself anymore? Then they move on to share some techniques for customizing your Canvas Courses to better appeal to your students.
Brent and Tim share some ideas for holiday gifts that may or may not be reasonably priced, and Cheryl Bailey returns to share about the Online Education Task Force, what it does, and how it can help teachers.
For a short Thanksgiving episode, Brent & Tim share some useful Google Plugins that can help save time and productivity for teachers with busy schedules.
Tim shares the IT side of things when teachers grumble about safety and security requirements, letting us know why certain systems are in place, and how to best deal with these rules when we can’t stop them.
We then talk about using Poll Everywhere for various polling and temperature gauging purposes to have a better understanding of your class, what they do and don’t understand, and where they need more help.
Brent and Tim bring their gear into the Carolina Kussoy’s Social Media Marketing Class to share how podcasting works with students, and then to hear from them about what they do and don’t like when teachers integrate tech (or fail to do so) in the classroom.
This episode features short Q&A sessions with current Irvine Valley College students who give real feedback about what they think about their classes.
We then pull professor Kussoy aside to share her thoughts on using technology, getting better with it, and understanding student needs and expectations.
Please share this special episode with teachers to hear what students really think about what does and doesn’t work in the modern classroom.
In this episode, Brent reviews his experiences and highlights at the Fall CUE conference in Sacramento and explains more about what the organization does and aims to achieve.
Next, Brent and Tim interview Jeff Mills of Grackle Docs, a Google / Gsuite add on that helps ensure accessibility in all of your documents. Jeff explains how accessibility doesn’t have to be a mountain to overcome, but that it can be an easy part of your document design process. You can find out more at grackledocs.com
Happy Halloween! For our spooky 13th episode, Tim and Brent talk about the horrors of when technology goes wrong, including highlights from the twitterverse!
In the second segment, we focus in on better utilizations of discussion boards for higher engagement.
Stay scary out there!
Today we look at what Google Add-ons are, and how you can use them for your own classroom needs. We also look at a variety of techniques you can use with presentation software like PowerPoint and Google Slides in order to be more effective and to avoid the dreaded “Death by Powerpoint”.