EdTech Unpacked

Ep 13: Creating Award Winning Student Films

This is a special episode where Desmond shares his journey of how he learned how to create videos but more importantly how he taught his students to do the same. Four of his students join the podcast to talk about their experience in creating a short film, showing it at the Sonscreen film festival where they won best high school film.
Thank you to Versacare for the grants.Award winning student film His BlessingDesmond's first video To Be SuaveTeaching From Home 3 MethodsHow to Write a Group Bible StudyRichmond Academy's Student Led Weed of Prayer 2023 and Student Led Week of Prayer 2024What We Believe - JudaismSurviving The Holocaust Halina Zimm's Story

Ep 12 Extend Hour of Code - Free and Easy

Hour of Code is great but now that your students enjoyed it, do more! We discuss how to use physical activities like ThinkFun's Code On The Brink, Blue, Ozobot, and Lego Spike.Then we dive into more free and engaging lesson for grades k-12 from code.org. We also discuss Khan Academy, Code Academy, and CodeHS. And as always we celebrate and bless great teachers.

Ep 11. Chromebooks Vs iPads Debate‽ Which is better for your school?

Chromebooks and iPads are both great options to use in your classroom but which one is better. Listen as Aaron and Desmond debate to help you choose which one is best for your classroom. Here are some resources that we mentioned in this episode.
Google Workspace for Education 
GoGuardian 
IdeaPad Slim 3i Chromebook Plus
iPads
Reddit - Chromebook Vs iPad throw down 

Ep 10. What Technology Does Your Classroom Really Need?

Join us as we discuss all things related to classroom technology infrastructure! Things have really changed in the last few years, and we give specific input on what exactly we would be if outfitting a classroom today! From audio to visual needs and everything in between! If you're planning to update your classroom, you won't want to miss this episode. We even take a walk down memory lane and explore some of our preview classroom implementations, what they cost, and how we raised the money! Yep, we even cover fundraising in this episode. So join us as we unpack the tech!
Thank you Tyler Rettler for being our guest
IT Director at Mile High Academy and the Rocky Mountain Conference of SDA
AETech Team representative
We talked about
MakeSpace as inspiration for classroom design
99pledges.com as a fundraising platform 
Classroom Improvement Plan Framework
CDW.com as a purchasing option
bhphotovideo.com as a purchasing option for A/V needs and more
bhphotovideo OMNIA is an added education purchasing discount option
OETC as a hardware and software purchasing option
Adobe Education

Ep 9 Free Images, Music, Videos, and Even Lessons For Teachers and Everyone

We discuss Copy Right Law and how teachers have a good amount of fair use exceptions. But then we explore Public Domain, Ai generated images, and Creative Commons. We talk about sources where you and your students can find a lot of really great free to use images, audio, and videos.
Great resources that we referenced and used in this episode:
What is Copyright https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright
U.S. Copyright Office Guide on Common Copyright Issues for Librarians: Classrooms & School Libraries https://guides.loc.gov/copyright-for-librarians/school
Copyright and FairUse Guidelines forTeachers https://www.scoe.org/blog_files/copyright_chart.pdf
Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/
Wikipedia https://www.wikipedia.org/
Flickr https://www.flickr.com/
Nasa Images https://www.nasa.gov/images/
Google Images https://images.google.com/
Met Museum images https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search
Open Verse https://openverse.org/ 

Ep 8. This Teacher Made an AI Clone of Himself, and Easier Ways To Use AI

We talked with Gregory Ratter who used Chat GPT to make an AI clone of himself that help tutor his students and answer all sorts of questions. While we were blown away with his use of AI, we also talk about more practical tools and advances in AI.
Chat GPT Pro
Notebook LM
MagicSchool AI
Sora
Veo 2
Whisk
Follow us on X 
Follow us on Bluesky
Greg's Book Recommendations:
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

Ep 7. Classroom Assessment Platforms

Join us as we dive into the topic of classroom assessment, highlighting the role an LMS such as Google Classroom can play. Then, we take a deep dive into Pear Assessment and explore how a powerful assessment platform such as that can greatly enhance your ability as a classroom teacher to create better assessments that effectively measure and report student learning and mastery. You'll certainly walk away from this episode with a clearer understanding of what a critical role a high quality assessment platform can play in making you more effective as a teacher.
Pear Assessment 
Google Classroom

Ep 6: Less Than a Minute, Turn Your Paper Assignments Into Google Docs

We talk about how to quickly and easily turn that your paper assignments and resources into Google Docs. We also talked about why you might want to do this. Fewer trips to the copy machine, easily editable, quickly share and assign.
Paper 2 Docs from Desmond's Website: https://signify.one/paper2docs/
Course on how to turn Paper assignments in to digital ones: https://www.adventistlearningcommunit...
PDF Candy: https://pdfcandy.com/ "