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This week, we share a series of “Small Talks,” e.g. short recordings (less than 15 minutes) about a single topic of interest with guests Amy Mayer, Judy Schoonover, Remi Moran, and Tiffany Zaugg! Before the Small Talks, Rachel discusses presenting ant an online autism summit about some of the fundamentals of AAC. Meanwhile, Chris shares about recording some trainings on the “specific language system first approach” with some groups in Israel, including a presentation at the ISSAC Israel Conference where participants watched a prerecorded video, then did a live Q&A over Zoom. Small Talks This Episode: Amy Mayer: Question Slips - Sometimes, as a teacher, it gets overwhelming constantly being asked questions that are about trivial things, like using the bathroom or which color pen to use, and Question Strips are a strategy that can help! You put students in teams, and they are given slips that allow them to ask a question. The trick is, there are a limited number of slips, and all members of the group must sign off that this is what they want to ask. This dramatically reduces irrelevant question. Since students often want to save the slips for another time, they collaborate and solve their problems themselves! Judy Schoonover - Favorite Purchases from the Dollar Store: Something as simple as a pool noodles can be used as a pencil grip, as adaptive seating, converted into a foot fidget, made into a whisper tube, and more! Similarly, the Dollar Store sells thin kitchen rugs (18 x 24) are velcro sensitive, so when you fasten velcro dots to something, it will stay and not move! Tips on uses for Dollar Store cookie sheets, plastic protectors, plastic plates, and push lightsare also shared! Remi Moran: Creating a 50 Inch Touchscreen out of a TV - Remy bought an infrared frame that goes around his TV. The frame acts as a mouse pointer, essentially converting the TV into a large touchscreen. Remy shares how he puts videoes at the top and practices using AAC with his daughter at the bottom. Tiffany Zaugg: DebriefScape - UCF has a tool called debrief scape that allows you take video you have and tag certain moments on the video. you want to discuss. You can also tag lots of different spots on the video. This tool can be really useful for providing coaching and feedback when teaching someone about AAC using video, as recommended in programs like SMORRES. Links from This Episode:: Pool Noodles as Assistive Technology: https://blog.therapro.com/pool-noodle-as-assistive-technology/ Dollar Store Hacks for the Classroom https://www.weareteachers.com/50-dollar-store-hacks-for-the-classroom/ Writing Wizard: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/writing-wizard-school-ed/id631446426 Word Wizard: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/word-wizard-for-kids-school-ed/id447312716 DebriefScape: https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~ceh/EDGrants/DScape/
Maurie and Jim sit down with Amy Mayer, the owner of FriEdTechnology, a large provider of educational professional development. Amy is also a renowned speaker and the author of a new book titled "Beyond Worksheets." Listen as we find out not only how she personally uses AI every day but also how she sees the future of AI in education.
This week, we share Chris's interview with Amy Mayer! Amy is the founder and CEO of friEdTech (https://friedtechnology.com/), a company that provides educational technology (EdTech) professional development for educators. Amy talks about her recent book, Beyond Worksheets, which provides resources for teachers to utilize EdTech tools and to inclusively redesign education for everyone! She and Chris discuss the impact of AI on education and writing, ideas for creating meaningful professional learning experiences, and more! Before the interview, Rachel updates Chris about one of her clients, including how a fun collaborative creative writing exercise led to improvements in both his writing and spoken language! Key Ideas This Episode:
The Iron Horse Regional Trail runs more than 30 miles through the San Ramon Valley. But many folks who walk or ride their bikes along this paved path may not know it used to be a railroad line. This week, reporter Amy Mayer rides the rails through locomotive history in the San Ramon Valley to learn how the trains may have shaped the surrounding cities. Additional Reading: This 30-Mile East Bay Trail has Roots on the Railroad Read a transcript of this episode Take our audience survey Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Amy Mayer. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.
This time on The Children's Hour, the Kids Crew get aboard the JOIDES Resolution, virtually, while the ship is at sea off the coast of Portugal. We meet Amy Mayer, the Onboard Outreach Officer for the JOIDES Expedition 397, and research fellow Saray Sanchez.
Bay Curious listener Isabel Guajardo has long wondered what the Bay Area would have looked and felt like before European colonization. Specifically, she's curious to know what animals would have thrived here and what happened to them. It's a story of how attitudes about wildlife and land management practices profoundly influenced habitats. Additional Reading: Wolves, Bears and Jaguars: The Lost Animals of the Bay Area A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California by Laura Cunningham As Big Basin Finally Reopens, Indigenous Stewardship Key Among Plans for Park's Rebirth Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by donating to KQED! This story was reported by Amy Mayer. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font and Brendan Willard. Our Social Video Intern is Darren Tu. Additional support from Kyana Moghadam, Jen Chien, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.
Today on The Chrome Cast podcast, we have an interview episode with Amy Mayer, CEO and Founder of FriED Technology, an organization that offers EdTech-focused professional development and training services. FriEd Tech is a Google for Education Partner that offers a wide range of services for educators around Workspace for Education, Google Certifications, Blended Learning, and more, so Amy clearly knows her stuff and was the perfect guest to wrap up our EdTech series that we are doing in partnership Logitech. This episode is presented by Logitech, who we've partnered with for this 3-part podcast series and for our biggest giveaway yet! Educators & Schools, we're giving away 30 ChromePacks to outfit an entire classroom! CLICK HERE to learn more and enter to win! This giveaway is open to all currently employed K-12 school or district-level faculty, IT staff, and leadership. Ends July 31, 2022. Show Links: friEDTech Professional Learning & Development Organization Jefferson Parish's Online Transition Plan with Google Tools friEDTech YouTube friEDTech Twitter friEDTech Facebook Logitech ‘Works with Chromebook' portfolio Logitech EDU solutions Logi Pen Logitech ChromePacks --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chromeunboxed/support
Most folks are familiar with the saying "opposites attract." Well, in the case of this episode, we explore what happens when "entrepreneurs attract." Please join as we chat with Amy Mayer, founder of Little Green Kitchens and wife of co-host Mike Mayer. From growing up surrounded by entrepreneurs (Amy's father and grandfather both started their own businesses) to starting a family with one, Amy has been immersed in entrepreneurship for the majority of her life. We discuss Amy's perspective on business and explore the world of luxury kitchen reselling and renovating on this week's episode of The CEO Next Door!
Kindergartner Caleb Whan is fascinated by whales. He wants to know all about what they eat and where they live. We've got answers for him and for another Bay Curious question asker, Ellea, who wonders why more whales have been washing up dead on Bay Area beaches in recent years. Additional Reading: More Whales Are Washing Up Dead on Bay Area Beaches. Why? The Biggest Whales Can Eat the Equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs in One Day Sign up for Bay Curious Trivia December 8, 2021! Reported by Amy Mayer. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Lina Blanco, Christopher Cox, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Jenny Pritchett.
Join me, Heidi Ana OT, as I talk with Dr. Amy Mayer about her business and path to creating online content that can be accessed by the public and clinicians. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We've been flirting with exceptional drought on and off in California for many years now. Bay Curious listener Nicholas Hardy is wondering if it's time to call it a megadrought. That got us wondering: what is a megadrought and are we in one? Additional Reading: Is California In A Megadrought? (Transcript) Megadrought Conditions Not Seen For 400+ Years Have Returned to the West, Scientists Say Reported by Amy Mayer. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Kevin Stark, Katie McMurran and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Jenny Pritchett.
We discuss the intersection of beetles, bobcat research, and land conservation with two scientists from the University of Rhode Island- entomologist Dr. Lisa Tewksbury and research associate Amy Mayer. URI BioControl Lab: https://web.uri.edu/biocontrol/ Find the Fisher study at https://www.lakenganoe.com/meet-ri-fishers.html Westerly Land Trust's Voices of the Land is dedicated to telling a rolling story of land conservation from all angles and perspectives, and educating the public on why WLT's mission is beneficial to the community and to the environment. Listen to find ways to help you connect more with nature!
In this episode of Texthelp Talks, our host Mark Schwartz sits down to chat to some leading experts on the art of writing. Amy Mayer, founder and CEO of friEdTechnology, is a nationally known speaker and trainer as well as a veteran public school educator. Chris Bugaj is a founding member of the assistive technology team for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia. Chris co-hosts the Talking with Tech podcast featuring interviews and conversations about augmentative and alternative communication, and has hosted award-winning podcast featuring strategies to design educational experiences. They explore effective writing strategies for students, and share some tips for inspiring students to write more.
As harvest season winds down, one farmer in north Iowa is collecting data from his first year experimenting with a combination of crops and livestock. He calls it “stock cropping.” In today's Signature Story, Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer introduces a man trying to improve upon old traditions wit...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - Six school buildings in Grand Forks are the most recent North Dakota additions to the National Register of Historic Places. Here to talk about that list, the new additions, his hopes for listing other North Dakota sites, and a historic preservation survey that’s underway is Zachary Lechner, historic preservation specialist at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. ~~~ In an excerpt from the Conversations on HealthCare podcast, Dr. Sara Goza, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics discusses how pediatricians can help inform the tough decisions families are making to keep kids safe while sending them back to school. ~~~ During the summer, schools and other community sites that offer children free meals saw soaring demand. Now that school’s in session, meals remain free for all kids. That’s because the federal government has extended pandemic support… for now. Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer reports.
During the summer, schools and other community sites that offer children free meals saw soaring demand. Now school’s in session, and this term, at least, meals remain free for all kids. Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer reports that’s because with tens of millions of children relying on school meals,...
Climate change and the environmental damage caused by large-scale agriculture have researchers searching for ways to increase productivity without furthering harm. Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer looks at a network of research sites across the country that, over the past decade, has started combini...
Thursday, June 25, 2020 - Prairie Public contributor Meg Luther Lindholm has created a new podcast called “Uplifted.” It’s a look at personal/global problems through a spiritual (non-religious) lens. She joins us to introduce the series and we share one of the episodes. ~~~ Climate change and the environmental damage caused by large-scale agriculture have researchers searching for ways to increase productivity without furthering harm. Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer reports. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here for another episode of Main Street Eats. Today’s topic is pineapple weed, or wild chamomile. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay titled “Homesteaders Lament.”
Pork processing fell nearly 40 percent following temporary closures at meat packing plants across the Midwest last month. That’s created a backlog of market ready hogs. But Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer reports that’s not causing the problems some feared.
African swine fever has been infecting its way through the pig herds of Asia. The disease, which took officials in China by surprise, could kill up to a quarter of the world's pig population. Harvest Public Media's Amy Mayer reports that while the disease isn't here, the U.S. pork industry is preparing for a possible crisis.
On the fourth episode of ConnectED Tech, co-hosts Elizabeth King and Darryl Legaspi engage in more tomfoolery and skylarking with caps, gowns, and llamas. BUT the highlight of this episode is our interview with ed-tech and Google guru, Amy Mayer of friED Technoloyg talking with the ConnectED Tech Crew on all things Google! Want to know more about ConnectED Tech? Visit our website flippingoodtech.com, follow us on social media @flippingoodtech, and subscribe to our flippingoodtech YouTube channel! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/flippingoodtech/message
There's a difference between advice and feedback, and there are ways to work smarter not harder. In this episode, Amy Mayer, a nationally known speaker and Google professional development guru, shares her secrets to quickly providing feedback that is personally relevant to students.
There's a difference between advice and feedback, and there are ways to work smarter not harder. In this episode, Amy Mayer, a nationally known speaker and Google professional development guru, shares her secrets to quickly providing feedback that is personally relevant to students.
What does the government have to do with the price of milk? Turns out – everything. For decades, government subsidies have tried to balance supply and demand for a commodity that is produced every day, at least twice day, everywhere – and has only hours to go from the cow to the store shelf. This week, Amy Mayer of Iowa Public Radio and Harvest Public Media explains how that support has changed and what the farmers think about it.
Celebrities, politicians, and scientists have fiercely debated the safety of using genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, in food. It remains to be seen whether GMO labeling becomes mandatory in the United States, but there’s no doubt that the “GMO-free” sticker is garnering the prestige and premium prices already reaped by the labels “organic” and “gluten-free.” But what’s the big fuss? And how did this great GMO debate begin?To find out Distillations goes to the soy and corn fields of Iowa where reporter Amy Mayer hears the perspectives of a few Midwesterners, including two farmers who have found a lucrative niche for the GMO-free crops they’re growing. Then, we’ll talk with plant geneticist Pamela C. Ronald and organic farmer Raoul Adamchak. Together they wrote Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. And they’re married—to each other.
This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes , in which we talk about important issues related to food production. President Obama is scheduled to sign the long-overdue Agriculture Act of 2014, the new farm bill, into law on Friday afternoon. Many people will be sighing with relief. That includes farmers, of course, as well as advocates for food stamps. As Harvest Public Media’s Amy Mayer explains, these two groups have been wedded together politically to generate urban and rural support for the farm bill. But it’s been a rocky road.
Amy Mayer works full time in Huntsville ISD as the Director of Staff Development and District Initiatives. She is also a Google Certified Trainer and Teacher.
Jamestown celebrated its 400th anniversary last year. Many people may know that it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, but less commonly known is that Jamestown was also the birthplace of the American chemical enterprise. SHOW CLOCK 00:00 Opening Credits 00:32 Introduction 01:16 Mystery Solved 04:00 Element of the Week: Strontium 06:24 Visiting Josh Simpson’s Glassblowing Studio 10:13 Quote: Captain John Smith 10:23 Closing Credits CREDITS Special thanks to Robert Hicks and Amy Mayer for researching this show. Additional credits available at chemheritage.org/distillations.