TCAPSLoop Podcast

Topic for the Week:  Virtual Experiences

There's nothing quite like a field trip: That day when permission slips grant students golden tickets to an experience outside the classroom.

Although virtual field trips don't physically bring kids to new locations, they make use of the web and video to amplify online learning in an experiential way. Virtual field trips can be informative and inspiring.  They are inclusive because they don’t depend on funding from PTO (that may or may not be there), grant applications, etc.  All the ones we are going to talk about today are FREE.

So where do you start? You might already have a topic in mind, which will narrow your choices. However, you'll also want to consider what type of virtual field trips to try. 

Livestreaming - means students watch a live feed from a camera in another location. 

Interactive exploration offers students a multimedia experience that's usually more hands-on and open-ended.  This might look like a 3d online tour.

Video visits take kids to a location (by video) where a host or narrator provides information.

Scheduled and guided virtual field trips feature a live guide or museum docent -- often on-site -- who takes students through the experience virtually. The Run Down:

• (02:04) Danelle's big ISTE announcement
• (04:40) This weeks topic: Virtual Trips
• (05:59) Types of Virtual Experiences
• (7:49) Advice for picking a Virtual Trip for your class
• (10:25) Google Arts & Culture

All the Links:

Livestreaming or Live Cams - 

• Live Cameras | San Diego Zoo
• Webcams | Smithsonian's National Zoo 

Virtual Field Trips/Tours - 

• National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours 
• American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
• Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants 
  • Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringByTheSeat 
• Take a Virtual Visit to a National Park
• Educator Resources - Teachers (U.S. National Park Service)
• Virtual Field Trips - The Nature Conservancy
• Programs | National Air and Space Museum
• Field Trip Opportunities | NASA
• HistoryView    

Google Offerings:

• https://www.google.com/maps/about/treks/#/grid 
  • Great Barrier Reef one is AWESOME 
• Google Arts & Culture and National Parks

https://artsandculture.google.com/ if you have VR in your school

Tech Tool of the Week:

• (12:30) Remember that MACUL grants are open!!

(01:16) Moment of Zen:

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

― St. Augustine

Hosts: Danelle Brostrom, Larry Burden Um and Ramble Editing: Larry Burden

Topic for the Week:  Virtual Experiences

There's nothing quite like a field trip: That day when permission slips grant students golden tickets to an experience outside the classroom.

Although virtual field trips don't physically bring kids to new locations, they make use of the web and video to amplify online learning in an experiential way. Virtual field trips can be informative and inspiring.  They are inclusive because they don’t depend on funding from PTO (that may or may not be there), grant applications, etc.  All the ones we are going to talk about today are FREE.

So where do you start? You might already have a topic in mind, which will narrow your choices. However, you'll also want to consider what type of virtual field trips to try. 

Livestreaming - means students watch a live feed from a camera in another location. 

Interactive exploration offers students a multimedia experience that's usually more hands-on and open-ended.  This might look like a 3d online tour.

Video visits take kids to a location (by video) where a host or narrator provides information.

Scheduled and guided virtual field trips feature a live guide or museum docent -- often on-site -- who takes students through the experience virtually. The Run Down:

• (02:04) Danelle's big ISTE announcement
• (04:40) This weeks topic: Virtual Trips
• (05:59) Types of Virtual Experiences
• (7:49) Advice for picking a Virtual Trip for your class
• (10:25) Google Arts & Culture

All the Links:

Livestreaming or Live Cams - 

• Live Cameras | San Diego Zoo
• Webcams | Smithsonian's National Zoo 

Virtual Field Trips/Tours - 

• National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours 
• American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
• Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants 
  • Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringByTheSeat 
• Take a Virtual Visit to a National Park
• Educator Resources - Teachers (U.S. National Park Service)
• Virtual Field Trips - The Nature Conservancy
• Programs | National Air and Space Museum
• Field Trip Opportunities | NASA
• HistoryView    

Google Offerings:

• https://www.google.com/maps/about/treks/#/grid 
  • Great Barrier Reef one is AWESOME 
• Google Arts & Culture and National Parks

https://artsandculture.google.com/ if you have VR in your school

Tech Tool of the Week:

• (12:30) Remember that MACUL grants are open!!

(01:16) Moment of Zen:

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

― St. Augustine

Hosts: Danelle Brostrom, Larry Burden Um and Ramble Editing: Larry Burden

TCAPSLoop Pod Topic: Large-scale Classroom A/V update district-wide. (Large scale Tech Projects in general) The Run Down:

• (01:50) Tackling a major project 
• (06:12) Keeping up with technology
• (08:00) Where do you start
• (16:20) Making sure it's manageable
• (19:30) Replacement cycles
• (21:00) Involving teacher and students
• (25:00) When is good, good enough

Tech Tool of the Week:

• (27:37) Wireless Projectors

(01:00) Moment of Zen:

“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”

Lyndon B. Johnson, Former President of the United States of America

Hosts: Evan O'Branovic, Larry Burden Um and Ramble Editing: Larry Burden

TCAPSLoop Pod Topic:  Apps & Extensions We Love - Join us for a fun discussion of the apps and Chrome extensions we love! Chrome Extensions We Love:

• (02:23) Library Extension 
• (05:03) Toucan (learn a language while you browse)
• (07:48) https://coolors.co/ - Coolers has a Chrome extension!
• (09:38) For students especially - Block Youtube Feed

Apps We Love:

• (11:19) Headspace Meditation App - FREE for educators!
• (12:08) HiHello - virtual business cards

Tech Tool of the Week:

• (15:18) NameDrop.io - Pronounce names correctly

(01:00) Moment of Zen:

“The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.”   - Philip Pullman

Bonus content from Danelle on the Patreon...wait, we don't have a Patreon:PD Opportunity - Abbott Elementary TV Series Study - https://michiganvirtual.org/course/abbott-elementary-tv-series-study/

Hosts: Danelle Brostrom, Larry Burden Um and Ramble Editing: Larry Burden

TCAPSLoop Pod Topic: FREE EdTech Tools to Try Now!

• (4:08) Chat GPT - use AI as a teacher to give kids examples, and help secondary students figure out how to use it as a starting point to expand from.

• (10:43) Canva - A free-to-use online graphic design tool for schools!  https://blog.tcea.org/student-podcasting-canva/

• (15:13) Talking Points - allows teachers to more easily communicate with families who don’t speak english as a first language 

(17:46) Tech Tool of the Week: WIREDTC site!! Wiredtc.net

Keynote Announcement! Alexis Dahl will be the 2023 WiredTC Keynote Speaker! Check out her amazing YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AlexisDahl 

(00:37) Moment of Zen:

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”

― Arnold Bennett

Hosts: Danelle Brostrom, Larry Burden

Production: Larry Burden

Greetings and Welcome to another potentially useful TCAPSLoop EdTechPodcast!! Today's episode focuses on the future of Artificial Intelligence in education, specifically the updates to the OpenAI ChatGPT. While we discuss the concerns and drawbacks of AI there is also a realization that it's not going anywhere and will only increase in prevalence. David and Danelle provide possible uses and solutions for using it in an educator's practice. We highly recommend checking out this great resource: Chat GPT & Education - Dr Torrey Trust

"I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it" – Morpheus

Canva text to image feature

"Picture This" AI informed plant identifier mobile app 

Greetings and Welcome to another potentially useful TCAPSLoop EdTechPodcast!! Today's episode focuses on the future of Artificial Intelligence in education, specifically the updates to the OpenAI ChatGPT. While we discuss the concerns and drawbacks of AI there is also a realization that it's not going anywhere and will only increase in prevalence. David and Danelle provide possible uses and solutions for using it in an educator's practice. We highly recommend checking out this great resource: Chat GPT & Education - Dr Torrey Trust

"I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it" – Morpheus

Canva text to image feature

"Picture This" AI informed plant identifier mobile app 

Greetings and Welcome to another potentially useful TCAPSLoop EdTechPodcast!! Today's show features Larry Burden, the ed-tech twitter famous, Danelle Brostrom, and a Lake Woebegon expatriate, Stephie Luyt.   

“The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.” – Frank Newman 

Digital Citizenship Week has passed but TCAPSLoop just won't give it up. Danelle and Stephie present the EdVolve Framework for discussion and get into a deeper discussion regarding the difficulties of implementing digcit lessons into a districts curriculum.

Killer Underwear Invasion by Elise Gravel 

"This middle grade graphic nonfiction is an ingenious introduction to media literacy for kids." 

Greetings and Welcome to another potentially useful TCAPSLoop EdTechPodcast!! Today's show features Larry Burden, the ed-tech twitter famous, Danelle Brostrom, and a Lake Woebegon expatriate, Stephie Luyt.   

“The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.” – Frank Newman 

Digital Citizenship Week has passed but TCAPSLoop just won't give it up. Danelle and Stephie present the EdVolve Framework for discussion and get into a deeper discussion regarding the difficulties of implementing digcit lessons into a districts curriculum.

Killer Underwear Invasion by Elise Gravel 

"This middle grade graphic nonfiction is an ingenious introduction to media literacy for kids." 

Episode 6.2

Greetings and Welcome to another potentially useful TCAPSLoop EdTechPodcast. Pod guests include the TechnNollerGist, David Noller, and TCAPS Director of Technology, Evan O'Branovic. We usher in Digital Citizenship week with a discussion around a recent study out of the University of Colorado, Boulder regarding "screentime" and it's effects on our children. The study has some surprising conclusions that may change how we pursue digital citizenship and digital literacy.   

TCAPSLoop Moment of Zen: