Ed Tech Talk
By Chris Zirkle
Ed Tech Talk Apr 27, 2020
Episode 4: Course Design
Teachers us Canva for Education of Adobe Express to design elements for their Canvas courses. This podcast discusses both digital tools.
Canvas: Multiple Courses
Do you have more than one subject? Do you want to have one course or more than one? We will discuss this in this episode.
Canvas: Home Page
Pages are powerful. This podcast episode discusses home pages and how to use a button to get your banner to disappear.
Canvas: Conceptualizing Canvas
Canvas may be new to you. When you look at it you may not grasp what you see. This podcast compares Google Classroom to Canvas to help you begin to understand the concept of Canvas in relationship to Google Classroom.
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Publishing a Podcast
This talk with share two was to publish your podcast.
Editing a Podcast
This stage of the challenge is one that can be done in a wide variety of ways.
Recording a Podcast
This audio track shares a bit about ways to record a podcast.
The Student Workflow
This audio recording will walk you through the student workflow process.
Podcasting Challenge: Podcasting 101
This is the introduction to the Podcast Challenge we have developed.
Digital Whiteboard Import Entire Slideshow
Show Notes - to access the show notes please visit mrzirkle.com.
This episode looks at the file import options for the digital whiteboard application, Explain Everything.
Math Whiteboard Demonstration
Math Teachers, calling all WCPSS Math teachers. This Friday April 24th at 1:00 we will demonstrate how to use a whiteboard app to create engaging and impactful math screencast videos for your students. This app will work with your new touch screen laptops and stylus.We will have time for questions and answers. Join the Google Meet meeting by clicking on this link to get the nickname to join. You will not want to miss this demonstration. Contact czirkle@wcpss.net to officially be invited to the demonstration.
Anchor App & Thoughts About Remote Learning
We have been recording our podcast episodes remotely. We would meet online in a Google Meet meeting. I would screen cast the meeting, then I would edit the audio in Adobe Premiere Pro. I would then upload the audio back to Anchor. The problem is that the quality of our audio was of poor quality. Some of us have external microphones and our audio was acceptable. Others were using the internal microphones on our laptops. Our audio levels did not match and there was a dramatic difference in the quality.
There is a solution to this issue. The Anchor app has features that the browser versions does not have. The phone and tablet app allows you to invite guests to your recording. The guests do need Anchor accounts. When the guest join the recording starts. If all of you use your phones, the audio levels will be at similar levels and the quality will be acceptable. I still edit my audio to level the audio level to -6 decibels.
The app also has a few other features that the browser version does not have. I recommend you install the app on your Apple or Android tablet to explore them. The following tutorial demonstrates how to invite guest into your recording.
Seesaw's Digital Whiteboard
Show Notes
Some teachers are wanting to use their new touch screen laptops and the stylus. I have been researching various digital whiteboard applications, testing them, and noting the features each one has. Teachers can create screencast videos of their lessons using a digital whiteboard to house the content of their lesson. Teachers can then deliver their lessons to their students via the LMS they are using. Students can then access the lesson at their convenience.
In my school district, Seesaw is approved to be used by students k-2. Third-12th grade teachers can not use Seesaw with their students. The following video tutorial demonstrates how to use the digital whiteboard in Seesaw to create screen cast videos. Seesaw has some attractive features, you can import backgrounds, add text,add images, and create movable/drag-able images and graphics.
Video Meetings: Best Practices for Students and Teachers
Show Notes
Teachers across the world are meeting online with video conference tools like Google Meet. These meetings are not intended to be used to deliver instruction to students. The deliver of the instruction occurs asynchronously for a variety of reasons. Live/synchronous meetings with students are intended to be utilized to check in with students, facilitate discussions, answer questions students may have about the instruction that was delivered asynchronously, and provide students with feedback.
This episode features best practices for video meetings and they were developed by the Wake County Public School System.