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The ed Newsstand
by Troy Reynolds
The ed Newsstand is a weekly podcast hosted by Troy Reynolds. In each episode, Troy discusses ways to integrate educational apps, resources, and ideas usually around classroom technology. The episodes are meant to be quick idea inspiring moments that help start your journey of resource discovery or support your foundation of edtech app integration.
Episodes
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5.14: Brisk's New Features: Prompt History, Create Anything, and Feedback
This episode introduces Brisk's several new features to its platform. One notable addition is a prompt history, allowing users to revisit and reuse previous prompts. The "create anything" button enables users to generate content for Google Docs, Slides, or Forms, offering flexibility in designing...
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5.13: Nearpod's AI Create Tool
This episode introduces Nearpod AI Create, a new AI-powered question generator for educators. AI Create helps teachers quickly create formative assessments, such as quizzes and games, by generating multiple-choice questions based on specified learning objectives or topics. The episode provides…
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5.12: Brisk Teaching Guided Notes
This podcast describes Brisk Teaching, a tool for educators to rapidly generate interactive guided notes for classroom resources like articles or videos. The process involves selecting a resource, using a browser extension to create a fill-in-the-blank document in Google Docs, and customizing the...
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5.11: Open with Kami Button in Canva
This podcast describes how to use the "Open with Kami" button in the web version of Canva to transform Canva creations into interactive learning resources using the Kami extension for Chrome. Both platforms provide pre-made templates, but Kami adds interactive elements to your designs and those...
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5.10: Quizizz Google Slides Add-on
This podcast explains how to use the Quizizz Google Slides add-on to enhance presentations. The add-on allows educators to integrate interactive quizzes directly into their slides, creating engaging lessons and assessing student understanding in real time. Features include AI-generated questions,...
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5.9: Brisk Boost
Brisk Boost is a new feature within the Brisk Teaching extension that allows teachers to create interactive and trackable learning activities for their students. Boost can generate various engaging activities, such as quizzes, simulations, and problem-solving exercises, and provides a chatbot to...
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5.8: Brisk Teaching Redux
Brisk Teaching is a Chrome browser extension that offers a variety of tools designed to streamline teachers' workflows and enhance student learning. The extension includes features for creating resources, providing feedback, inspecting student writing, adjusting reading levels, and translating...
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5.7: Kami Updates 2024
Kami is a platform for collaborative whiteboards that has recently undergone a major redesign, featuring a cleaner interface, improved touch capabilities, and an updated dashboard. The redesign also includes enhancements to Class View, providing teachers with real-time metrics and personalized...
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5.6: Digital Citizenship Resources
The newsletter provides resources and ideas for teaching students digital citizenship, highlighting the importance of this topic and emphasizing the role of technology in modern education. The newsletter presents a comprehensive list of resources from various organizations like Common Sense…
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5.5: Kami Templates
Kami is an online tool that allows teachers to create and share learning materials with their students. Users can access a free library of Kami templates, which are pre-designed resources that can be customized and assigned to students. The templates can be used online or downloaded for offline...
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5.4: Quizizz Strike vs. Shield Game Mode
This episode focuses on the Quizizz platform, a tool for educators to create engaging Quizizzes for students. The article specifically highlights the Strike vs. Shield game mode, which adds an element of competition to the classic Quizizz experience. Students can either try to steal points from...
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5.3: Quizizz Resources
The podcast is an overview of the educational platform Quizizz, highlighting its various features and resources for teachers. It details the benefits of using Quizizz for assessment, differentiation, and gamification, while also explaining its integration with other educational platforms like...
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5.2: Quizizz AI Instructional Suite
This podcast discusses the expanded capabilities of Quizizz, a popular online assessment platform, now functioning as an all-in-one instructional suite. The podcast highlights key features like the ability to create interactive lessons from uploaded documents or websites, generate questions from...
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5.1: Canva Superhero Trading Cards
This episode describes how to create superhero trading cards using various online tools. It highlights the use of Microsoft Designer for creating superhero images, SchoolAI for generating superhero names, and Canva for designing the trading cards. The newsletter also encourages readers to explore...
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4.28: Google Classroom Spring Cleaning
If you use Google Classroom there are some housekeeping tips every teacher should use to get ready for the next year. I scoured the internet to find the foremost authorities on Google Classroom clean up and I put together two lists. The first list consists of six things everyone agreed should be...
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4.27: Digital Spring Cleaning
This week I have three resources to help you get started digitally cleaning your personal and professional workspaces. TCEA.org blog titled, “How to Spring Clean: Digitally.” In the article, Andrew Roush lays out 6 Principles to get started with digital cleaning and then looks at more specific...
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4.26: Canva Tips & Tricks
A few weeks ago I put out my newsletter sharing resources to sign up for a Canva for Education account. Throughout the newsletter, I demonstrated how to set up your Canva classes, some of the classroom features within Canva, provided you with links to blogs and playlists to get you inspired, and...
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4.25: Flocabulary: New Mix & Break It Down Activities
Recently, Flocabulary introduced a new feature to their platform. It’s called Flocabulary Mix. Teachers will choose a Skill Video to pair with a Video Text to create a Mix. In a Mix, the videos will play back to back. The Skill Video provides direct instruction on a skill the students should...
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4.24: Tango: Step-by-Step Screenshot Maker
I recently learned about Tango from several different creators on social media and I must say that this is going to be a game-changer for anyone that creates written directions for the internet. For example, if you need to create directions for how to navigate a website, how to turn in an...
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4.23: Canva for Education
More and more people are discovering their love of Canva and the power it can have in the classroom. This week’s newsletter is all about Canva for education. If you don’t know what Canva is, Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom. Also,...
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4.22: Book Creator
Book Creator is a freemium classroom tool that allows students to create multimedia ebooks. I say freemium because teachers can use the website for free but free users can only create one classroom library with up to 40 books in that library. You can archive the library and get access to a new…
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4.21: Digital Interactive Notebooks
As I was getting the newsletter ready for this week I stumbled across a video from @adelaideed on TikTok. What you will find in this newsletter are resources for starting your journey with digital notebooks or, if you are a power user, resources for taking digital notebooks to the next level...
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4.20: Flipgrid in the Classroom
Last week, I introduced Flipgrid and demonstrated how to get started with groups, topics, and some of the unique features of the camera and the effects drawer. This week's newsletter is all about ideas for using Flipgrid in the classroom. The newsletter starts by introducing the Discovery Library...
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4.19: Flipgrid: Getting Started
This week's newsletter is all about getting started with Flipgrid. Flipgrid considers itself a social learning platform that gives students a voice through their creativity and self-expression. Flipgrid’s mission is to “empower every learner on the planet to share their voice and respect the...
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4.18: Valentines for Classroom Technology
This week's newsletter is all about sharing the love of some of my favorite technologies to use in the classroom. Many of these technologies and resources I have talked about before in past newsletters and podcasts. For a deeper dive into those resources please visit my past newsletters. The...
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4.17: SMART Technologies Valentines
This week's newsletter is all about sharing the love of some of my favorite features in SMART Notebook and Lumio. A couple of weeks ago, SMART Technologies shared 3 Sweet Treats for Your Classroom. Within the blog post, SMART shared printable Valentines for your classroom, both color and black…
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4.16: Immersive Reader in Lumio by SMART Technologies
This week's newsletter is all about an immersive reader, an awesome accessibility feature new to Lumio by SMART Tech. When a student or teacher uses immersive reader, they have several different features to use. change the text size change the text spacing change the font change the theme to make...
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4.15: Lumio by SMART
The newsletter is about resources for getting you started incrementally using Lumio and the best ways to incorporate the software into your classroom. The resources in this newsletter are the 5 Benefits of Using Lumio in the Classroom by Julie Smith, The Techie Teacher, and Lumio - Connect With...
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4.14: Presentation Zen: Google Extensions & a Mac app
This week's newsletter is all about Google Chrome Extensions and a Mac app you can use with some of the websites I’ve mentioned in the past few weeks. One of the resources I talk about integrates well to find the optimum hex color as you are developing a color palette for your presentation. I…
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4.13: Presentation Zen: Google Slides Add-Ons
This week's newsletter is all about Google Slides add-on you can use to build the best presentation quickly and efficiently. Some of the resources I’ve talked about already as an external website, however, now I show you how you can access those same resources from within Google Slides. I have...
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4.12: Presentation Zen: Color Palettes
This week's newsletter is all about websites you can use to build a color palette. It can be difficult when it comes to finding complementary colors to each other and to the graphics you've used in your presentation. This podcast will tell you about four resources you can use to build the perfect...
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4.11: Presentation Zen: Graphic Resource Websites
This week's newsletter is all about graphic resources you can use to insert into your classroom projects. The resources are Creative Commons instead of students going out and pulling graphics from a Google search. I have websites with simple illustrations you can color code to the colors in your...
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4.10: Presentation Zen: Font Design Tools
This week's episode is about finding the right font for your presentation. Creating graphic headers and text can make all the difference. In this podcast, you will find six resources to help you find the right font to fit any situation that might arise when you use PowerPoint, Slides, Canva, or...
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4.9: Presentation Zen: Slide Layout Template Resources
This week's podcast is all about slide layout template resources. I want to provide you with resources to help you and your students find the best designs that can then provide a greater impact when building presentations. With these resources, you and your students can create presentations that...
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4.8: Presentation Zen
This week's newsletter is all about tips from Garr Reynolds to help your students create better presentations. The idea is to get students away from creating Sliduments full of text and then reading that text when delivering a classroom presentation. The idea is to create presentations that are...
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4.7: Kami in the Classroom
This video discusses how to use Kami in the classroom. The newsletter has resources for using Kami for collaboration, assessments, inclusive learning, and digital whiteboarding. If you are new to Kami or a veteran user I strongly encourage you to enroll in Kami’s free certified educator program.…
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4.6: Flocabulary
Learn about Flocabulary, a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. The newsletter has resources for sequence of uses, best practices, implementation at any grade level, and within any area of study....
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4.5: 9 Pillars of Digital Citizenship
During digital citizenship week, I thought it was important to reintroduce the 9 pillars of digital citizenship. Along with listing the 9 pillars, I found various other resources to reinforce the concepts with each different pillar. In TikTok Tech I show you how one teacher creates magnetic…
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4.4: Kami Updates
Kami is one of the most powerful PDF annotation and digital whiteboard tools a classroom can have in this new technology-forward learning environment. This video will give you a brief demonstration of Kami along with providing an explanation of the Kami updates added over the summer. TikTok Tech...
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4.3: Nearpod Updates
Since March 2020 Nearpod has added some amazing new updates. This week's newsletter talks about those new updates and links in this week's newsletter provide resources for all those new updates. I've added a TikTok Tech Corner that covers an interesting idea in education. There's also a new Tech...
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4.2: iPadOS 15
This week I look at some of the most important iPadOS 15 updates that were released on September 20th. Some of the simplest changes are that the App Library and Widgets have now come to the iPad. Widgets and the App Library were on the iPhone with iOS 14 and if you were familiar with them on the...
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4.1: Google Workspace Updates
This week I look at some of the most important Google Workspace updates that were released over the summer for Classroom, Forms, and Docs. I will also discuss some of those updates that will be released very soon. A new showcase on the podcast comes from great users on TikTok who share the...
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3.32: Micro Credentials, Badges & Certifications
This week’s podcast contains a list of resources and programs to help you take a closer look at the technology in your classroom and learn it at a pace that’s more favorable to how you learn. The self-paced resources contain PD for Apple, Google, and Microsoft users. There are also self-paced...
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3.31: Raindrop.io
Raindrop.io is a really nice digital bookmarking site. The extension is very intuitive if you've used other digital bookmarks before, the resource works as an extension in any web browser, on any mobile device, and a downloadable app on any computer platform. The layout of the website can be...
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3.30: Evernote
Evernote is an online note-taking and digital bookmarking website that syncs across all devices. Save websites, images, audio, scan documents, upload PDFs, and take notes any way that works for you. You can also document all of the important resources in one note, tag them in a group, or put them...
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3.29: Diigo
Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows you to tag and group articles for better organization. You can annotate websites and PDFs by highlighting passages or adding notes. Also, add articles, annotations, and notes to an outline for more organized and comprehensive research. Finally, share...
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3.28: Pocket vs. Instapaper
Pocket and Instapaper are two very similar digital bookmarking tools. Both resources allow you to save full website articles, videos, and other resources to read or watch later. You can take notes within the articles, share out the resources, and discover other resources curated for you based on...
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3.27: GetToby.com
Toby is an extension for your browser that will organize and store your bookmarks into collections. You can easily open a collection with one click and share collections with your team or organization. Toby is one of the easiest and most useful organizational extensions you can install and use...
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3.26: Symbaloo
Symbaloo has two unique features when it comes to creating online bookmarks. First, Symbaloo organizes its bookmarks in a grid. However, that grid can be all about one subject or the grid can be organized according to smaller subjects within a larger theme of the bookmark's webmix. Symbaloo also...
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3.25: Wakelet
One of the most powerful and used online bookmarking tools is Wakelet. If you are familiar with Pinterest, Wakelet is similar to Pinterest in that you can create different collections in Wakelet the same way you can create different boards in Pinterest. However, with Wakelet, you can save…
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The ed Newsstand is a weekly podcast hosted by Troy Reynolds. In each episode, Troy discusses ways to integrate educational apps, resources, and ideas usually around classroom technology. The episodes are meant to be quick idea inspiring moments that help start your journey of resource discovery or support your foundation of edtech app integration.
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