Freshly Sharpened

Make It Easier, Make It Better - Part 3

The final part of the "Make It Easier, Make It Better" series surrounds the shortening of your stack. Looking to lighten your professional load? Shorten your stack. Looking to help engage students? Shorten their stack! Plus an all-new Whaddaya Mean You Don't?! Episode 10 is out now!

Here we are again! (after a bunch of PD events) (S04E09)

The DLCs chat about their work at a bunch of recent Professional Development sessions and conferences (Patriot Tech Camp, HMVAMC, Superintendent's Conference Day); "Whaddayamean ya don't...." use folders in Classlink? (13:10); and we play a "Fill in the Blank" game where Rick and Michael try to guess how Gemini will finish a series of sentences (15:55).

Make it Easier, Make it Better - Part 2 (S04E08)

The DLCs return with Make it Easier, Make it Better, where we will explore some ways that technology can not only help with a task, but improve it. This time - Professional Development!  The DLCs talk PD - what they have seen that works, what doesn't, and more.  Plus, upcoming Patriot Tech Camp, and a new game...Taboo!

New Year's Resolutions (S04E07)

The DLCs share their New Year's Ed-Tech Resolutions, and in "Whaddayamean You Don't..." we look into trying student-facing AI for the first time (12:10). Then _ick and _ike play a "would you rather" game called "Coffee or Running?" (19:10)

Make it Easier, Make it Better (S04E06)

The DLCs start a new mini-series - Make it Easier, Make it Better, where we will explore some ways that technology can not only help with a task, but improve it. This episode looks at how Feedback can be more timely, more targeted, and less of a burden on a teacher's time. In "Whaddayamean You Don't...", Michael takes us on a quick tour of Canva Code (23:13) and then Rick hosts a "match the tech to the movie character" game (25:45).