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Founded in 1996, the Texthelp Group is a global technology company helping people all over the world to understand and to be understood. It has led the way in creating innovative technology for the education and workplace sectors for the last three decades. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability or language are no longer barriers. It is focused on helping all people learn, understand, and communicate through the use of digital education and accessibility tools. With over 50 million users worldwide, the Texthelp suite of products includes Read&Write, Equatio®, WriQ®, OrbitNote®, ReachDeck® and FluencyTutor® which work alongside existing platforms such as Microsoft Office and G-suite, enabling them to be integrated quickly into any classroom or workplace with ease. In 2021, Texthelp acquired the Lingit Group, Wizkids and Don Johnston Inc. By combining capabilities and knowledge across the group, Texthelp can now provide a whole suite of literacy and numeracy support to a greater number of end-users across more geographies. Website https://www.texthelp.com./ (www.texthelp.com.) Social Media Information twitter.com/texthelp Resources Mentioned #UDLCHAT https://www.novakeducation.com/udl-now (www.novakeducation.com/udl-now) Show Sponsor The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Get a FREE e-copy of their professional journal at https://nape.org.uk/journal (nape.org.uk/journal) 

Last week we brought you Chapter 11, where Val and Garrett went to turn in attendance in the office, when they found the principal, Mr. Wolff, was feeling sick. Mr. Wolff tasked them both with drafting health rules for the school, and ended with him and Jamie going home sick. This week, we bring you Chapter 12. Our sponsor, Texthelp, will be featured before and after this week's episode. Texthelp, the makers of WriQ, is establishing a new revolution for student writing achievement. Join a growing community of students and teachers and try WriQ for free today. Visit: text.help(forward slash)stories.

GotTechED the Podcast Episode #48 - Flipped Classroom Practices with Flippinggoodtech.com In this episode of GotTechED the Podcast we discuss: What is the flipped classroom? What are the advantages of the flipped classroom? What are some examples of projects for the flipped classroom? If you are a new listener to GotTechED the Podcast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our (https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c7y4d2) and let us know how we can help you today! Introduction of our guests:Elizabeth King A little about Elizabeth  @elizabethking88 (https://twitter.com/elizabethking88?lang=en) Darryl Legaspi A little about Darryl @edtechlegaspi (https://twitter.com/edtechlegaspi?lang=en) Tell us about: Flippingoodtech.com (http://flippingoodtech.com/) ConnectED Tech Podcast (https://sites.google.com/view/flippingoodtech/connected-tech-podcast) Where did you get started? The llama obsession Segment 1: What is the flipped classroom?How does Flipped Classroom differ from traditional teaching? Methods of best practice/Advantages of Flipped Classroom Video length 1 minute per grade maximum 10th grade = 10 minutes maximum Guided notes Strategies or styles? (station rotation, flipped, etc) Segment 2: What are some edtech tools that support the flipped classroom?Ways to introduce the content in a Flipped Classroom YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/) Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/) Edpuzzle (https://edpuzzle.com/) Screencastomatic  (https://screencast-o-matic.com/) Loom (https://www.loom.com/)   Screencastify (https://www.screencastify.com/) WeVideo (https://www.wevideo.com/) Ways to create content in a Flipped Classroom Google Apps (https://gsuite.google.com/) Thinglink (https://www.thinglink.com/) Hyperdocs (https://hyperdocs.co/) Ways to communicate  An LMS  Google Classroom (https://classroom.google.com/) Sophia (https://www.sophia.org/) Edmodo (https://www.edmodo.com/) Video  Zoom (https://zoom.us/) Skype (https://www.skype.com/en/) Hangouts (https://hangouts.google.com/) Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/solutions/facebook-live) Ways to assess and provide feedback in a Flipped Classroom Formative Assessment with instant feedback Gimkit (https://www.gimkit.com/) Quizizz (https://quizizz.com/) Quizalize (https://www.quizalize.com/) Quizlet (https://quizlet.com/) Kahoot (https://kahoot.com/) Summative Assessment Online Portfolios New Google Sites (https://sites.google.com/new) Google Docs  (https://www.google.com/docs/about/) Providing Feedback E-comments (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/e-comments/dccccbckfnndplihkaeiekggmeicbhgj) (extension) WriQ (https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/wriq/) Segment 3: Reflection of the Past Year & New Year’s #edtech ResolutionsMaybe reflections about your podcast and where you would like to take your podcasts  Reflections on the edtech tools used and what tools you would like to try. Music Credits:The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/ (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds https://www.bensound.com/ (https://www.bensound.com/) Subscribe to our Podcast Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/7zyzfCkSDNHkKdqxmh9XLB?si=YhSdMa6BQVmcLHbSrYxE9Q) Google Podcasts (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y)    Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched)    YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber)    Twitter (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED)...

In this episode, Nick and Guise talk about their favorite take-a-ways from the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia.  They review the latest improvements to their favorite edtech tools as well as introduce a few new tools. GotTechED Episode 36:  Flipgrid (https://flipgrid.com/) Updates Shorts Wakelet (https://wakelet.com/) Integration Pals Immersive Reader Smaller changes: Rearrange videos Mass action download Google Updates 2.  Google Forms (https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/) Now has the ability to copy questions from quiz to quiz Applications Google Expedition (https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/) feature Summer 2019 available on Chromebooks (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/google-to-launch-a-chromebook-app-hub-for-educational-apps-and-lesson-ideas/ https://chromebookapphub.withgoogle.com/ideas) Where in the world is carmen santiago  Web and mobile versions of Google Earth (https://www.google.com/earth/) Screencastomatic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/blog/screencast-o-matic-chrome-browser-extension/) accepted on the Chrome store Adobe Spark (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiFn4exj5TjAhUVtsgKHeyYDf8YABAAGgJxdQ&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESEeD2hCDuGVDm9Usm0LwbHDJR&sig=AOD64_3TXBFjMwErlBbFSQL5RIGhvttOaA&q=&ved=2ahUKEwi5hP-wj5TjAhXvguAKHerMCekQ0Qx6BAgQEAE&adurl=) Collaboration option (https://kahoot.com/) More room to write questions Response timer has been extended to 4 minutes Drag and drop questions into a new order Autosaving your work 10. GimKit (https://www.gimkit.com/) New Feedback options 11. WriQ (https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/wriq/) Keeps track of writing, grammar, customizable rubrics WriQ is an extension for Google Docs that automatically grades papers digitally. It’s faster, more accurate and consistent than traditional manual and subjective grading – giving students, parents and teachers clear visibility of writing progress over time against peers and standardized norms. Social Media: Guise on Twitter  @guisegotteched (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter  @nickgotteched (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter  @wegotteched (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds (https://www.bensound.com/) Other Relatable GotTechED Episodes: Summer Professional Development (https://gotteched.com/episode10) Teacher Creativity, EdTech Round-table, and PD Badge System (https://gotteched.com/episode16) PLC’s vs. PLN’s, Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps, and Education Statistics (https://gotteched.com/episode19) Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! (https://gotteched.com/episode20) The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics (https://gotteched.com/episode22) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts  (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher  (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube  (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter   (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook    (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)    

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Google News and Updates Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time How the Dynamic Learning Project is building teacher confidence Smarter sharing of files with updated Google Drive Access checker Featured Content Kaizena (voice comments) (kaizena.com) Leave voice comments for students Discuss student work in an online hub Reuse commonly use comments Track and rate student progress Highlight tool Highlight a document in different colors Pull highlighted text from a document and sort in a table at the end of the document DocSecrets Hides and reveals text in a document Use a password to reveal hidden text WriQ WriQ is a new Add-on from Texthelp that helps teachers score and keep track of students’ spelling, punctuation and grammar errors so you can focus on the things computers can’t score. WriQ auto-scores your students’ docs and tracks the following measures over time: Time spent writing Text Maturity Spelling error rate Grammar error rate Punctuation error rate Percentage error free Correct Word Sequences score The teacher dashboard gives you a clear graphical view of your students’ writing activity, and let’s you track their progress over time. Video overview Read&Write for Google Chrome Technically a Chrome extension but can use in Docs (and web) Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including: Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type Collect highlights from the text in documents or the web for summarizing and research Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting FREE for teachers Easy Bib Add-On The Bibliography Creator by EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper. Automatically cite books, journal articles, and websites just by entering in the titles or URLs. Format citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and over 7K other styles. When you're finished creating your bibliography, click Generate Bibliography and we'll alphabetize your citations and add them to the end of your paper. BONUS: Equatio (chrome extension) Easily create mathematical equations, formulas, and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn. Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag Renee Johnson (Oakhurst, CA) - ctrl+z - to add to another location in Drive … Add student work samples to PD folder for teacher training. Craig Klement (Garland, TX) - Same three questions on student forms: First name, last name, class period (drop down) … Spreadsheet: right click on awesome box, sort range (by class period, then by last name) Differentiate forms: three dots, section based on answer (if correct: to next question, if incorrect: YT vid, article, picture, do over or similar question) How to Differentiate Questions in Google Forms On The Blogs Matt - Creating a low-cost, printed school yearbook with Google Slides Kasey - Teachers Deserve #Respect [shortcode-variables slug="signature"]

Ariel Sacks, author of Whole Novels for the Whole Class, shares five reasons to try a whole novel approach. She also explains how this approach works and some advantages for teachers. www.coolcatteacher.com/e185 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Dan Brown talks about practical things we can do to help build grade teachers. From best practices to policy, Dan shares what works (and some of what doesn’t.) If you’re in preservice education or work with teacher professional development, this podcast episode has some fantastic tips. www.coolcatteacher.com/e184 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Laila Sanguras, author of Grit in the Classroom, defines grit, shares the misinformation about grit, and talks about developing it in our students. www.coolcatteacher.com/e183   Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Alfred Thompson talks about the trends in teaching Computer Science. Topics include: How to get kids moving as you teach programming What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science How to engage young women in Computer Science Programming Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Aaron Hogan shatters myths about teaching. Empower yourself as a teacher with the knowledge you do not have to be perfect. Learn how to build collegiality and support other teachers. www.coolcatteacher.com/e181 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Dr. Felicia Durden shares methods behind having a powerful morning meeting in special education classrooms. From routine to celebrations, we talk about how to start the day well in special education classrooms. www.coolcatteacher.com/e170 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Anne Collier helps us understand the statistics on bullying and cyberbullying. We talk about targets, those who bully and how to respond when helping those embroiled in this situation www.coolcatteacher.com/e169 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Lee Ann Yonker helped start the #MiniGoogleMasters movement in her school in K-3rd grade, demonstrating littles can be tech savvy too! Now having moved to 5th grade, Mrs. Yonker is continuing her tech encouragement with the #MakingGoogleMasters. We talk about what students of all ages can do. She also shares her micro-credential badging approach. www.coolcatteacher.com/e168  Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Special ed teacher Melissa Mann shares six of her favorite edtech tools for the special education classroom. From collecting data to parent communications to taking care of yourself, Melissa has something for every classroom (as well as a pretty cool pep talk!) www.coolcatteacher.com/e167 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Rushton Hurley, author of Making Your Teaching Something Special: 50 Ways to Become a Better Teacher, gives us ideas to build rapport, review for tests, and improve our teaching that will help us be better teachers. www.coolcatteacher.com/e166 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq