PODCAST · education
#EdTech Minute
by BAM Radio Network - The Twitterati Channel
#EdTech Minute is an educator's guide to education apps, teaching tools and digital resources. The show is hosted by Michael Boll, Jamie Wilett and Chris Carter.
Episodes
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An Extended Edtech Minute with Car Quiz Math
This is our sponsored review of CarQuiz, a math game for kids, where the player races around a track solving math equations. The game builds math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division while promoting fun, thematic environments. As the player accumulates tokens, they earn...
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An Extended Edtech Minute with Sungard IEPPLUS
Individual education plans are at the heart of our special education management.. Sungard's IEPPlus software allows district staff and teachers to build, track, and edit IEPs — this ensures each student is getting the instruction and services they require. Site:...
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An Edtech Minute with Tabtor Math
Kids are naturally attracted to electronic devices like tablets and computers, so it's no surprise that using tablets might help them learn math better. Tabtor Math is a tablet solution that leads to greater learning. https://www.tabtor.com/how-it-works.html Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Kahoot
If you are wanting to gamify your classroom but aren’t feeling like going hardcore quite yet, Kahoot might be the perfect tool for you. Kahoot is a game based classroom response system. It’s simple to use and allows you to create discussion boards, quizzes or surveys. The students or group you…
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An Edtech Minute with Geoboard
This tool is awesome for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Just like with the actual Geoboards, students stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions,...
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An Edtech Minute with ChronoZoom
Chronozoom is a timeline creation and sharing resource that is exquisitely suited for use in Big History classrooms, and also works well for teachers and students with some technical knowledge and willingness to build timelines. Alternatively, you can simply access timelines already populating…
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An Edtech Minute with Padlet
Padlet is a great way to allow a group to quickly collaborate using a variety of media. When you begin your Padlet, you are given a blank space where anyone who is working on the project can drag and drop images, comments, video, etc. into the space to be shared. Site: http://padlet.com...
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An Edtech Minute with FreeTech4Teachers
FreeTech4Teachers is a daily blog concerning all things Ed Tech. Richard Byrne, curator, goes to significant lengths to investigate the various apps, resources, and sites. He posts what he believes to be the best of them. If you are in to Ed Tech, then you would benefit from subscribing to his...
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An Edtech Minute with Hopscotch
Hopscotch is programming designed for anyone. It’s an easy to use app that teaches the basics of computer coding and programming. Bring your younger students into the world of programming with ease! Site: http://www.gethopscotch.com Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Learning List
Learning List employees a team of reviewers and professionals and selects standards aligned resources for your school or district. They take the hassle of out deciding what resources are appropriate for your school. Site: https://learninglist.com/ Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Dig It Games
Math Slide is a multiplayer game that helps kids understand place value and basic math facts. In the place value app, players learn by sliding tiles into the center to match an answer, equation or image. The player who slides their tiles first wins. The same game is used for the basic math facts...
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An Edtech Minute with MathSlide
Math Slide is a multiplayer game that helps kids understand place value and basic math facts. In the place value app, players learn by sliding tiles into the center to match an answer, equation or image. The player who slides their tiles first wins. The same game is used for the basic math facts...
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An Edtech Minute with Quizlet
Quizlet is a fantastic app and website that allows your students to create flashcards on nearly any topic. Not limited to just text Quizlet allows for image flashcards as well. Students are able to work collaboratively to build the list and teachers can create a free account to facilitate that...
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An Edtech Minute with Visme
Visme makes data pop through the use of eye-catching graphics. Visualizing data is finally getting the attention that it deserves, and Visme is a leader in turning numbers into the art of understanding. . Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Symballoo
Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool that makes it simple and fun to organize the best of the web. You have all your favorite websites at your fingertips. With an account you can access your bookmarks from everywhere with any device and share your online resources with others. Website:...
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An Edtech Minute with SelfControl
SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you…
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An Edtech Minute with XtraMath
A free web program for students, teachers and parents that helps kids master their basic math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
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An Edtech Minute with Swivl
Swivl is a robotic mobile accessory, app and connected cloud services made to help you improve skills and organizational performance with video. Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with GoNoodle
In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them
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An Edtech Minute with Popplet
In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them
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An Edtech Minute with Hyperlapse
Create amazing time lapse videos with Hyperlapse. Using Instagram’s in-house stabilization, Hyperlapse shoots polished time lapse videos that were previously impossible without bulky tripods and expensive equipment. Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Drawp
Drawp is, in many ways, your typical, cute drawing program for the iPad. However, it has one big difference, it removes the difficulty younger students encounter when they try to share their drawings with teachers, parents and more. Students using Drawp are able to simply drag their completed...
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An Edtech Minute with Tagboard
Tagboard uses hashtags to search for and collect public social media within seconds of being posted to networks like Twitter and Facebook. Robust tools offer the power to select specific posts to feature on websites, in broadcast TV, and on large displays. Website: Tagboard.com
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An Edtech Minute with Canva
Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more. www.canva.org Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Video Class
VideoClass's mission is to better educate the world through the VideoClass knowledge sharing community with the ease of modern day technology.Learn by using their videos for today’s subjects or submit a video of your own to share. Website: videoclass.com Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Adobe Voice
Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming — just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact....
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An Edtech Minute with Hour of Code
The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 30 languages. No experience needed.Ages 4 to 104 Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with PhotoMath
PhotoMath reads and solves mathematical expressions by using the camera of your mobile device in real time. It makes math easy and simple by educating users how to solve math problems. Check it out here: Photomath.net
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An Edtech Minute with BeeBot
Award winning programmable floor robot, the Bee-Bot's simple and child friendly layout is a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language and programming to young children. Website: http://www.bee-bot.us/
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An Edtech Minute with NetRef
NetRef is a tool designed to help teachers and parents manage internet access. Built by a group of concerned parents and passionate technologists NetRef is an outstandingly simple-to-use technology for teachers to help kids focus their online activities at school, and for parents to protect their...
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An Edtech Minute with NoRedInk
Help your students improve their grammar and writing skills -Create assignments and quizzes without doing any grading -Target Common Core skills using your students’ interests -Provide students with unlimited help whenever they need it -Track growth using our color-coded heat maps URL:...
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An Edtech Minute with Graphite
Common Sense Education welcomes you to Graphite, a platform created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games, and websites for the classroom. URL: https://www.graphite.org/ Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Edshelf
A discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning. Edshelf let’s you see and share what other teachers like you are using today. Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Udemy
The world’s online learning marketplace, where 4 million+ students are taking courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography and much, much more. Each of the 18,000+ courses are taught by an expert instructor, and every course is available on-demand, so students can learn at their...
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An Edtech Minute with Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an organization on a mission with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with WikiSummarizer
Wiki Summarizer trawls the internet’s wiki pages looking for key words associated with a core search term. Used in this way researchers can find the number of wiki pages containing both the core search term and related terms, access those sites, and immediately build up a group of search terms...
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An Edtech Minute with Credly
Credly is a powerful web service and a universal framework for issuing, earning, displaying and rewarding achievement in the form of digital credentials and badges. http://www.Credly.com . Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with ClassCharts
ClassCharts is a web service that is both an interactive seating chart and student behavior tracker. The logic of the site is that student location, both vis-à-vis the teacher and specific other students, has a significant impact on that student’s ability to focus on the content and skills being...
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An Edtech Minute with Think Through Math
Think Through Math is based on the notion that meaningful teacher-‐ student interaction is at the heart of increased student achievement in math. TTM empowers the classroom teacher with SaaS-‐based mathematics learning solution. www.thinkthroughmath.com Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Zaption
Welcome to An Edtech Minute, where practicing teachers and education technologists bring you reviews and commentary on the edtech apps, tools and web site resources of the day. www.zaption.com Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with News-O-Matic
Built by dedicated journalists, educators, and entrepreneurs, Press4Kids (P4K) is a publisher of daily news applications for young readers. http://press4kids.com Follow:@bamradionetwork
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An Edtech Minute with Fishtree
Fishtree is an adaptive learning platform for K12 and Higher Education. Teachers can build aligned lessons from millions of resources, aligned to any standard and adapted to every student, in minutes and view performance of every student and class, intervening in real time. fishtree.com...
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An Edtech Minute with BetterLesson
BetterLesson is a website that archives over 10,000 Common Core aligned lessons created by over 130 master teachers. Each lesson addresses specific Common Core standards, and veteran teachers vet each lesson. http://betterlesson.com/ .
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An Edtech Minute with Plickers
Using this tool, educators can poll students, even when classrooms are limited to one tech device. After students respond by raising a physical card, teachers can use one mobile camera or webcam to record the responses, which Plickers compiles onto a teacher dashboard. www.plickers.com...
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Preparing Teachers for a Hyper-Connected Classroom
How does your teaching have to change when your students are connected to all the knowledge in the world with powerful tools to collaborate and create? Follow:@web20classroom, @jaymelinton@bamradionetwork Jayme Linton serves as Director of Teacher Education at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory,...
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Chromebooks, Macbooks or Tablets: Get One? Get All? What's a School District to Do?
Some school district have mostly Chromebooks, while others have mostly Macbooks. Now tablet use is proliferating. Which is best for you school district. The answer may surprise you. Follow:@web20classroom, @kylepace@bamradionetwork Kyle Pace is an Instructional Technology Specialist for the Lee’s...
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Second Thoughts About the Value of Ed Tech Conferences
Two passionate, savvy, education conference attendees/presenters take a sober look at the current trends in education conferences and ask some tough questions about what's working and what may not be. Follow:@web20classroom, @tomwhitby@bamradionetwork Tom Whitby is contributing Editor at...
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So What's Wrong With Flipping the Classroom? Lots...
Welcome to episode #2 of EdTech Radio with Steven Anderson. In this segment Steve looks at the downside of flipping the classroom and explain why he is not a fan of flipping. Follow:@web20classroom,@bamradionetwork Marty Creech, M.A. Instructional Media, is a District Instructional Technologist…
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Can Flipping the Classroom with a Twist Close the Gap?
Welcome to the first episode of EdTech Radio with Steven Anderson. In this segment Steve invites a teacher who is flipping the her classroom in a creative way and getting impressive results. Follow:@web20classroom,@bamradionetwork Kelly Morgan, Ph.D., is a nationally known author and presenter. A...
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Cell Phones in the Classroom: Distraction or Undervalued Teaching Tool?
While some educators see cell phones and digital devices as distractions and sources of attention deficit, others say these are wonderful, undervalued teaching tools. Do we need to suppress the use of cell phones in classrooms or bring today's teachers up to speed on how to teach with this new...
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