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Cloud Education: Teacher's Edition

by Tasha Penwell

In this podcast I'll be sharing information on what is happening w/ AWS Educate and other resources that can be used to learn about the AWS Cloud.

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Episodes

  1. S3: E9 - Recap from #GTechSummit2021

    Next week, we'll discuss my exam for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification but this week let's focus on the GTech Summit experience. I had the opportunity to speak at the GTechSummit last week on how Snapchat and developing AR experiences can bring a new learning experience into the...

  2. S3: E8 Learning How to Learn AWS

    In today’s episode I share my thoughts and struggles as I prepare for my next exam to receive my AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification. Part of it is understanding and realizing that my past study styles and methods may not work for this. I have to change my learning style due to...

  3. S3: E8 Being a Teacher and a Student with Amazon Sumerian

    In today's episode, I share my experiences and struggles to teach in computer sciences fields. As teachers in this subject, we must also be come students as well to help ensure we're teaching our students skills that are relevant and in demand for today's changing technology fields. Amazon…

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  4. S3:E7 Why Volunteering is Important

    This week’s episode focused on volunteering. This episode was actually recorded in between volunteering at the Women in Analytics Conference in Columbus Ohio this past week. There are benefits to volunteering that I’ve discussed before, such as free entrance into the conference, swag, looks good…

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  5. S3: E6 - Perseverance for the Remote Job Search

    In today's episode, I discuss an interesting video from We Work Remotely's career fair in April 2021. The takeaways I found most interesting are He applied to work with Automattic four times before he was hired. (How many times do we stop at one?) He knew this was a company that had values and a...

  6. S3: E5 The Love of Learning Keeps Us Running Towards Our Goals

    Today's episode was inspired by Nike's Run Coach as he talked about his method to coach was to help his runners to remember their love of what they are doing. I thought that was a great topic to cover as we learn new technologies like AWS services. Is reasonable and realistic for us to love it…

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  7. S3 E4: Recap from STEAM Camp at Hocking College

    We recently hosted STEAM camp at Hocking College. Students from local high schools were able to learn about careers and activities related to robotics, art, cybersecurity, ethical hacking, augmented reality, and more. For my session, we covered augmented reality and use cases for this emerging...

  8. S3: E3 - STEAM camp at Hocking College

    This week we hosted STEAM camp at Hocking College and I am excited to share the world of augmented reality (AR) and digital marketing (well at least as much as possible in two hours😉). Snapchat filters are built using free software called LensStudio. One of the nice things about diving into AR...

  9. S3: E2 - Motivation Can Help Get Past the Hard

    In this episode I share about my personal health journey and sometimes my motivation to keep with my routine is the external surroundings of being by the river. The water - whether it be the Gulf Coast, the Ohio River, or a local lake is my happy place. It's my calm when things are turning like a...

  10. S3: E1 - New Season Starting with COSI Science Festival!

    It's been a busy few months. I've been taking classes to earn my Real Estate license along with AWS courses so the podcast has been a little dormant lately. Now that the classes are complete (and AWS learning never stops) here's to trying to get back into the swing of things. Today's episode is a...

  11. S2: E11 Job Search Techniques to Make Use of Those Skills

    In this episode, we review how to find that job to put into use all those skills that we are learning. I'm referring to an article from The Muse at https://www.themuse.com/advice/reinvent-online-presence-job-search. The six things we cover is advice on the following: How to Google yourself…

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  12. S2: E10 - Something new with AWS AI and ML to give us Media Intelligence Solutions!

    AWS Media Intelligence Solutions is a new service offered by AWS. If you enjoy creating content and want to have a higher ROI and create better, safer content for your audience this is something cool to check out. As promised, below are the links to the articles I mentioned....

  13. S2: E9 Takeaways from the COABE and Google Professional Certifications

    Three of the best practices of advice I would recommend for any college looking into bringing the Google IT Professional Certification into their offerings as part of a class or stand-alone course is as follows: Require participants to complete an orientation. When we started our course it was in...

  14. S2: E8 No Code, Low Code & Honeycode

    The advantage of no code/low code tools is that it opens up a door of possibilities for both the coders and the non-coders to become developers. While developing a website or application does require coding - it's actually much more than that. There's the user interface (UI), user experience…

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  15. S2: E7 Augmented Reality Taught Today for Tomorrow's Jobs

    While listening to Techmeme's podcast from February 1 I heard (again) about the rising popularity of augmented reality(AR). Whether it's for instruction, for training, for marketing, or simply for fun - AR has definitely seen a rise in popularity partly due to quarantine and partly due to…

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  16. S2:E6 - Teaching the Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs

    As an educator and lifelong learner myself, I'm always on the lookout to learn about the new skill sets in need and the resources to learn them. The skills that an article from Financial Express titled Are you job-ready for the new normal?...

  17. S2:E5 - Learning about Robotics and Get a Badge (Part 2)

    We're continuing to learn about resources that help us bring robotics into the classroom virtually using the AWS Educate platform. AWS Educate has new digital badges focusing on robotics and Robotic Operating Systems (ROS). Check out AWS Educate to learn more about RoboMaker digital badges and…

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  18. S2:E4 - Learning about Robotics and Get a Badge

    AWS Educate has a great platform to learn about robotics and ROS. They've recently released three new digital badges to support the study of robotics using the AWS platform. If you haven't signed up for AWS Educate it's open to all educators and students. All you need to do is apply and be sure…

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  19. S2: E3 - NASA Contest for K12 and Using AWS

    NASA Glenn Research Center Office of STEM Engagement has issued a contest to help support collaboration of higher education and K12 to support STEM. My proposal includes a focus on robotics utilizing the resources to learn about robotics and ROS (Robot Operating System) on AWS Educate platform.…

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  20. S2: E2 - AWS Educate Digital Badges

    AWS Educate is a platform specifically created for K12 and higher education institutions. AWS Educate has recently released several new badges onto their platform. Badges will be reviewed for use cases and how to get the most out of AWS Educate platform whether you're a teacher or a student. If…

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  21. S2:E1 - It’s Not a Failure Until You Quit

    It’s been a couple months since I’ve had the chance to put out an episode. Trying to find a balance that’s realistic to provide quality and quantity to my audience.

  22. Introduction to DeepComposer and AI on AWS

    In this episode I complete an introduction to DeepComposer as a fun platform that teachers and students can explore AI technology and new techniques for machine learning. It's completely web-based with no downloads required which makes it ideal for working on Chromebooks. YouTube video can be…

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  23. AWS Startup Competition

    AWS is having a competition for various start ups to compete and to enter and to win prizes that includes cash prizes and AWS credits. It is available for faculty students and staff that are associated with US higher education institutions. Competitions like these are fun to get motivated and to...

  24. Decomposer and GAN for the AI Future

    Today’s episode we start talking about DeepComposer and AI technology. There’s a huge demand for this field and teachers, students and anybody who wants to adopt mentality of a lifelong learner can start learning how to use AI technologies on AWS with the DeepComposer. See the infographic on...

  25. How the NFL is using AWS and Your Class Can Too!

    This episode is focusing on how the NFL is using AWS sources to compile data to produce information for the players, teams and more. What makes this even more interesting is that this is an open competition for anyone interested in pursuing their own adventure of using data for the NFL. Check out...

  26. Toyota Racing Development is using AWS tools - and so can your classroom!

    Toyota Racing Development has started using analytics to help their race team win. AWS provides tools and resources where teachers and students can learn about analytics, machine learning and reinforcement learning to get students ready for internships or careers of their dreams....

  27. Real Life Use of AWS IoT

    In this episode I share about about Carrier Global Corporation and the strategy to build the Lynx Digital Platform for refrigeration solutions. Utilizing AWS Carrier is creating the Lynx Digital Platform and IoT data to collect information to ensure that the precious cargo of food, medicines,...

  28. AWS Educate Connection in the United States

    In this episode I share about the AWS Grand Challenge happening in India and while this particular challenge isn't available in the United States there is an excellent opportunity to match up employers and students (high school and college level) through AWS Educate. If you'd like to learn more...

  29. Building a video streaming app using GitHub , VS Code, and AWS Educate

    Last week we created a landing page this week we are customizing the landing page and we are deploying it on Amplify. Next week will be focusing more on kinesis. These are all great tools with an AWS Educate!

  30. Amazon Career Day Can Serve as the Carrot on the Stick

    I share about how Amazon Career Day can be the motivation for students to find the drive to complete some assignments if they are not sure of the particular field that they want to go into.

  31. A New School Year - Plan A to Z

    In this introductory episode I talk about a new school year in the "Year of whatever". We approach the Fall 2020 school year a little more prepared but still uncertain on what plans will work and what won't. This series focuses on AWS Educate and other AWS tools to learn about cloud computing and...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

In this podcast I'll be sharing information on what is happening w/ AWS Educate and other resources that can be used to learn about the AWS Cloud.

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Tasha Penwell

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