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Bytes & Bits

by Tasha Penwell

Welcome to Bytes and Bits where I talk about what I learn and learn while I talk. This podcast will focus on observations and opportunities that I come as a teacher and a student.

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Episodes

  1. trying something for offline access

    trying something for offline access

  2. Practice for house

    This is practice only. No intent to sell on this.

  3. This is a practice run

    This is a practice run for an idea that I’m working on and how we realtors can utilize Alexa and voice user interface as well. This is not for real and it’s not been edited for sound so there’s noise from vehicles and my dogs. Ignore that

  4. New things happening

    A short introduction to what’s been happening in the past couple weeks and what’s gonna be happening in the next few months and beyond. Specifically focusing on The Pretty Nerdy digital marketing and prepping for the next AWS certification.

  5. Open to New Opportunities

    Sharing about new opportunities that have come my way during the past couple of months of working on social media campaign for a candidate in the local primary election and expanding my services to other businesses for website development, social media and content marketing. It's something I've...

  6. What Education IS NOT and what it IS (S1, Ep14)

    In this episode I share my beliefs on what education is not and what it is (or at least should be). My article on how Education is Not Memorization can be found at https://medium.com/@bytesabits/education-is-not-memorization-8f4150c6b603?source=friends_link&sk=3e9dbd2910105818de73ad90ed26babb The...

  7. I’m back!!

    After being gone for a couple of months due to illness and a pandemic, I’m back! In this episode I talk about getting back into the swing of things, changing my teaching style, and how to keep students motivated by bringing in guest speakers.

  8. Playing to Learn and Learning to Play

    This week I attended the OETC2020 conference. I was a judge for the Drones in School contest and I also had my Playground event where I focused on Playing to Learn. Here I share my insights from what I’ve learned from others and what I’ve been inspired to do next.

  9. February 10: Fun with IDE’s

    In this episode I talk about today’s experience as a volunteer at Trimble high school. When given the choice of doing something drag & drop vs hard coding they choose hard coding. Students are engaged in the process of learning - which is awesome!

  10. February 5: Awesome Wordpress Meetup and taking learning and oppooutside of the classroom

    We attended a meet up, a WordPress meet up today at IHOP in Athens. We is myself and one of my second year students. A lot was learned By both me and my student. The timing was perfect because she just got hired on to redo a wordpress website.

  11. Brain fog, Webflow , SEO

    The migraines were gone but there was brain fog today. It was still a good day. I had fun visiting a high school and showing them about Webflow. I also share why are using tools like this help developers become better in their trade by being able to focus more on SEO.

  12. February 3: My migraine didn’t kill me and inspired from a podcast I heard this morning

    So today’s topic is mainly about two different things and I kind of rambled on. The first one that I had a migraine but it didn’t kill me so that’s an awesome thing. Fingers crossed that my migraine doesn’t return tomorrow when I do a school visit. Super excited to show the kids Webflow! Finally…

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  13. TILTing My Way to Become a Better Teacher

    Making a quick podcast episode so Alexa will accept my Flash Briefing RSS feed (but that's another story)... I actually meant to do this podcast last night talking about TILT framework that I've been learning more about as a way to provide a better learning experience to the students and make me…

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  14. Happenings and Projects

    Last week was full of PD, grants and learning. This week it’ll be AWS, PWA, and finishing up a couple of web sites.

  15. Don’t Trip, Don’t Drown - Do What Works for You

    Discussion this evening after finishing my run and how it’s important to make smarter choices to help ensure long term success. The same also goes for learning to code. Don’t try to drink from the fire hose to learn all there is at once. Take it one sip at a time to learn one or two things at a...

  16. My Certification Failed & It’s Great!

    I received the results of my latest Alexa Skill Certification submission and it failed. I honestly wasn’t surprised and it’s great because they are telling me where I went wrong!

  17. Find What You Love Then Fail At It

    Discuss my process and progress with creating an Alexa ISP skill for the Devpost Hackathon. Failure is a good thing.

  18. Grow recklessly and Go

    Living recklessly can be a good thing. Letting go and letting God can lead to results you we never dreamed of.

  19. Kick in the Butt to Reach a Goal

    After completing and learning results of HBDI analysis I learned I was high on the analytical and planning side and mediocre on goal setting and taking risks. After being a little offended I thought about it some more and decided to take some steps out of my comfort zone.

  20. Learning Through Play

    I share some insights on the power of play that I’ve seen with my students this week.

  21. Girls Who Rock & Code: Has pendulum swung too far?

    More interest in CSFirst with Google classes has me wondering if pendulum for girls in STEM swung too far.

  22. Girls Who Rock & Code - Week of 10/7/19

    Talking about Grace Hopper, sizes of a computer over the years and augmented reality

  23. Learning to Learn

  24. Don't Dis My Ability

  25. Roller coaster and life

    Choosing to get in the line of the roller coaster and not having any regrets

  26. Good Karma

  27. You're never going to be ready-start anyways

  28. Episode 1

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to Bytes and Bits where I talk about what I learn and learn while I talk. This podcast will focus on observations and opportunities that I come as a teacher and a student.

HOSTED BY

Tasha Penwell

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education

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Welcome to Bytes and Bits where I talk about what I learn and learn while I talk. This podcast will focus on observations and opportunities that I come as a teacher and a student.

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