EdTech Unpacked

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
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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/ "

Ep 5: Typing

Join us as we talk about the importance of teaching typing and how to easily do it well in your classroom. We have fun seeing how fast we type and then we feature three different services you can use with your students. We feature Typesy, Yeti Academy, and Typing club.
We featured:
- typesy.com
- yetiacademy.com and typingagent.com
- typingclub.com
- nitrotype.com
- typethealphabet.app

Ep 4: Document Cameras: Many Uses and Best Options

Join for this episode us as we explore the best uses for and features of document cameras built with the classroom teacher in mind! We'll dive into the features, and even hear directly from three of the top vendors (Ipevo, Hovercam, and Elmo) and learn a bit about what makes each one unique. And of course, we share our input to help make your visioning and decision-making flow like a seasoned classroom pro!
We talked about:
- Use cases for document cameras
- Some of the options on the market
- Elmo: https://www.elmousa.com
- Hovercam: https://www.hovercam.com
- Ipevo: https://www.ipevo.com
- Key features and price point of document cameras

Ep 3: Generative AI is Changing Your Classroom

Join us as we explore all things AI! Like it or not, AI has come for your class. There is no doubt that AI can be a scary new technology, but it can also bring exciting new ways of teaching and learning! Your students are and will be using it a lot. As a teacher you need to know how to equip your students to use it properly. In this episode we talk about some of the risks but also the transformative things you can do with generative AI. Our guest Lorin Koch is an experenced teacher and has been equiping other teachers to use the power of AI in their instruction. From his current role at Pedagogy.Cloud, Lorin has gained further insight into the ability of AI to empower teachers. On this eposide, we include discussion about ChatGPT, Google's Bard, Bing Chat, Pedagogy.Cloud and a new course on AI avaialable for free on www.AdventistLearningCommunity.com entitled "Empowering Education with AI: Text and Image Generation Tools in the Classroom".
We talked about
- Chatgpt (https://chat.openai.com/auth/login)
- Bing Chat (https://www.bing.com/)
- Google Bard (https://bard.google.com/)
- Pedagogy.Cloud (https://pedagog.ai/)
- Course: Empowering Education with AI: Text and Image Generation Tools in the Classroom (https://www.adventistlearningcommunity.com/courses/gpt-ai)

Ep 2: Learning Management Systems: The Power Tool of Teaching

Join us as we explore Learning Management Systems, discuss what they are, how teachers can improve workflow and student/teacher/parent interactions, and take a deep dive into several use cases. Ever though of using a classroom website as an LMS? Our guest Kimberly Christianson shares how her classroom website serves as a basic LMS and central communication point. On this episode we also highlight Google Classroom, Google Sites, and Schoology as three great options to consider in the world of Learning Management Systems.
Guest: Kimberly Christianson teaches grades 3&4 at Richmond Academy
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