Cleaning and Organizing your Digital Classroom for the Next School Year

A Guide to ISTE 2018

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at this years ISTE conference. Learn how 6 of educations top EDU Podcasters will be attending and manipulating through hundreds of hours of presentations, networking events, and vendor demonstrations and learn how YOU can connect with those on the conference floor if you are #NOTATISTE.

In this episode, we discuss:

• All About IstePlease add conference links and socials
• ISTE Tag
• #NotatISTEPlease add #NotAtISTE links and such
• Transformative Leadership Summit – online only leadership conference for all educators, not just titled leaders: theme is empowerment.
• Great Sessions not to MissIGNITE Sessions
• Top Tech Tools for Coaches
• Tips for Surviving at ISTE
• Social Events to Look Forward ToEdTech Karaoke
• Carl Hooker’s Poetry Slam
• How to conquer the Vendor FloorRecognize that it is in their best interest to talk to someone who is going to make them money. Don’t waste their time, and don’t waste your time.
• Dan’s padlet – https://padlet.com/dankreiness/tools4coaches
• #PassTheScopeEdu and passthescopeedu.com
• #NotAtISTE
• #ISTETag18
• https://sites.google.com/view/istetag18/home
• Ventra app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ventrachicago.riderapp

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Cleaning and Organizing your Digital Classroom for the Next School Year

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at 10 great ways to prepare your digital classroom for the summer.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Google Sites: Duplicate Google Sites and Start Fresh
• Google Classroom/Schoology: Archive Old Courses
• Google Drive: Cleaning Your DriveFind a spot for “Shared With Me” documents
• Google Drive: Rename files to similar names based on chapter / projects
• Google Drive: Unstar and Recolor folders
• Google Forms: Delete All Responses, Unlink, Relink
• Google Calendar: Hide Old Calendars
• Gmail: Archive Old Email
• Organize your Bookmarks
• Use Evernote to organize your thoughts

Other: Getting Some Reading Done- What School Could Be– Ted Dintersmith

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How to use Social Media to Build Your Educational Network

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we welcome Lyn Hilt on the podcast to discuss Social Media and how it has evovled over the last decade for educators worldwide.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How has Social Media evolved over the last 5-7 years?
• The evolving nature of social learning networksWhy are educators connecting via social?
• What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks?
• How does engagement in a social learning space differ in 2018 than it was ten years ago? What’s changed for the better? For worse?
• Strategies for engaging meaningfully in social networks – tips & tricks for educators
• Alternatives to open social for engagement with learning networks
• Lyn’s work with Modern Learners & as the facilitator of ChangeLeaders Community – how this community offers a unique, different perspective and opportunities for educators and leaders to engage in ways they cannot in open social

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About our Guest

Lyn Hilt is an educational leadership and instructional technology consultant who uses her experiences as elementary principal, instructional technology coach, and classroom teacher to provide educators with meaningful professional development to help make innovative and lasting growth for student success. As elementary instructional technology coach, she worked with teachers and students by providing professional development opportunities and resources to staff, writing curricula, designing learning activities, and pushing into classrooms to work with students on technology-infused project work. Prior to her coaching position, Lyn served as elementary principal for five years in the same district, and it was while serving in this leadership role that she discovered the joys and benefits of connected learning and leadership. Lyn is an avid blogger and contributor to social networks such as Twitter and has presented at various local, state, and national conferences on topics ranging from professional development to networked educational leadership. Lyn is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, Google Cloud Certified (G Suite), and Apple Teacher. Lyn provides many Google for Education trainings with the fine team at Kiker Learning.

Lyn is also the community manager for the vibrant and inspiring ChangeLeaders Community, a space dedicated to pushing the boundaries of learning created by the Modern Learners team.

Lyn teaches future educational leaders through her role as an adjunct instructor and online course designer for Cabrini University. She holds

The History of Puppets in Education: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jim Henson

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we pay tribute to the anniversary of the passing of the late great Jim Henson.

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This weeks question is:

Question: Who was your favorite muppet?

Explore these Resources

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

• http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Wiki
• https://www.henson.com/our-founders.php
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroll_Spinney
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog  
• http://www.syfy.com/jimhenson039screatureshopchallenge
• https://daily.jstor.org/how-jim-henson-changed-early-education-and-brought-puppets-back/ 

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11 Ways to Use Social Media Effectively in the Classroom

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we discuss how Social Media can be used as a positive thing in the classroom environment. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• Google I/O ConferenceNew Google Assistant can make phone calls for you
• New Gmail Features
• Is this the end of the world?
• Social Media in the ClassroomBest Practices for Social Media
• Account Creation

11 Tips for Social Media Success by Sam Patterson

1. Once a day, share something specific. Take a close up picture of one kid’s work, get their hands in there.
2. Don’t engage the current debateThat new thing everybody is ranting about? Ignore it, it isn’t important. The debate is more energy than it is worth.
3. Follow widely unfollow freelyIf you are a teacher, follow teachers. If you are running a classroom account, follow classroom accounts. Unfollow at the first sign of trouble. Never feel guilty about unfollowing. Don’t show your students the raw feed unless you have a good reason.
4. Expect your kids and parents to read your feed They won’t read all your posts, but they will see every mistake you make. Make the right ones.
5. Lift up someone else’s workShare the work of the teachers and classrooms you follow. This is an easy way to stay active and share positive.
6. Ask questions If you see a project you like, ask a question. People love to answer questions about what they shared. Everybody learns from good questions.
7. Chats aren’t required People can get really excited about Twitter chats, you don’t have to. They can be overwhelming and they are not for everyone.
8. Turn notifications off Seriously, evil corporations are reshaping your brain’s chemistry through notifications. I am not kidding, turn that crap off.
9. Use threads to tie together a group of examples Post a “Title tweet” that has the name of the assignment and then “thread” the rest of the examples as replies.
10. Interact with those who feed your practice. If you find someone’s tweet useful or inspiring, tell them. Don’t just RT it, say “thanks” it matters.
11. Never forget these platforms were built to monetize outrage and disagreement, don’t make money for them.

We left 3 important points off of this list. . . . . What are they? Let us know in the comments

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