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Will you take the #edupodcastchallenge?

9/27/2018

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In May of 2018 I launched my first ever, very own podcast, The Bits & Bytes of Education. Producing a bi-weekly podcast has been an exciting challenge for me. Between finding guests, coming up with original content, and trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about, I have learned so much and pushed myself to try new things share my voice in a new way. 


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Introducing The Bits and Bytes of Education

5/27/2018

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post sharing my work with my edtech colleagues and friends on the Edtech PodSquad podcast. Well, I'm at it again!  This week I launched my own podcast called The Bits & Bytes of Education. 
I've been working towards launching this podcast for a while now. While the show is still in its infancy, I'm excited to share it with you all today. Each episode will range from 25-40 minutes in length  and be released about ever other week.

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YOUR Work Matters

5/27/2018

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​I talk to many teachers who tell me that I have their dream job: coaching teachers, leading PD, and modeling effective use of technology in learning spaces around my school district for teachers, students, and administrators. I always smile and say the same thing: I'm very lucky. I had the best job in the world as a high school ELA teacher, and now I also have the best job in the world serving my school district as the Instructional Technology Coordinator. I have always felt lucky to do what I feel is incredibly meaningful work.

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Trying out #Tryazon

5/8/2018

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In March of 2018 I was attending a computer science and coding workshop hosted by Patricia Brown. During one portion of the workshop. Patricia discussed methods for funding STEM projects and tools.  She mentioned the obvious curriculum ties and grant funding through Donors Choose and other funding sources. In addition, she recommended a service that I had never heard of before, Tryazon.  Tryazon is a service that gives individuals the opportunity to host a free party focused around one of a variety of products to generate interest and awareness in the partner product. 
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This sounded like a great idea and a perfect fit for me. After quickly scanning Tryazon's website I saw that they were looking for hosts for upcoming Ozobot parties. I quickly signed up for the service and applied to host a party. After a few weeks, I received word that I had been selected to host one of their Ozobot parties, and then the real fun began!

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Introducing the Edtech PodSquad Podcast

4/26/2018

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For the past few years, I've been using podcasts as one of my main vehicles for consuming content. I still love learning by reading books, participating in Twitter chats, and reading blog posts written by educators in my learning network. Listening to podcasts, though, has been a great way for me to stay connected and learn on my own time, even when I can't have a screen in front of me. As I have been listening to some of the amazing educational podcasts like Dads in Ed, The House of Edtech, Note to Self, among many others, I started to wonder 
how valuable my voice would be  in Google Play or Apple Podcasts.  Do I have enough stories to share to create a podcast? Is my message valuable enough to be piped through educators' ear buds and car speakers? I just wasn't sure...

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Increase parent communication with student grade reflections

3/27/2018

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It's no secret to educators that strong school to home communication is one of the secrets to student success. But, how can educators develop and maintain a strong line of communication when they have hundreds of students and dozens of responsibilities in addition to planning, leading learning, and grading? I've 
written before about using the power of Google Sites and Google Drive to create magical, automatically updating class websites. However, a class website is only one part of a communication strategy. What else can we add to this to give parents a way to talk to their children about their grades, their work, and most importantly, their learning? Thanks to Google Forms and the Google Sheets add-on autoCrat, parents can get a glimpse into their child's grades with a little up front work by the classroom teacher, some reflection on the part of the students, and the automating powers of Google Forms, Sheets, and the Google Sheets add-on autoCrat. ​

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Observe dozens classrooms at once with a district Twitter challenge

3/14/2018

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Recently, my school district's District Professional Development Committee (DPDC) hosted its third annual #C6Learns Twitter Challenge. I love everything about the few weeks out of the year that we facilitate this Twitter challenge, but most of all, I appreciate the opportunity to peak into classrooms that I might not get to visit regularly. One of the great bits of learning I had a chance to peak in on this year was teachers sharing how they are currently using Google tools with their students. ​

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My #OneWord2018

1/29/2018

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On the most recent episode of The House of #EdTech, a podcast hosted by New Jersey educator Chris Nesi, Chris shared his One Word for 2018 (#oneword2018). One Word is a way to get rid of lengthy, unrealistic resolutions and give yourself a single word to guide your personal and professional growth throughout the year. This episode got me thinking about all the times I have resolved to do things in January only to see myself forget all about those resolutions by the second week fo February. 
#oneword2018
Use the player above to listen to episode 101 of the House of #Edtech podcast. Then click here to subscribe.

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JPPrezz.com - Best of 2017

12/28/2017

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2017 was such an exciting year for me both professionally and personally. One of my proudest accomplishments of the year (besides welcoming Gabriel Paul into the world) was restarting my blogging journey.  While I didn't blog nearly as often as I would have liked this year, when I did, I shared some of my favorite classroom activities, discussed my ideas for sharing with my #edtech message with my 
district, and shared how my team and I were able to be productive when my district was shut down for a week at the end of the school year due to a major flood. In between,

Below, take a look back at the five most popular posts on jpprezz.com from 2017. ​

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Reflective Rubrics in Google Classroom

11/14/2017

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Recently I was helping a group of high school teachers get started with Google Classroom. One of the participants asked about an easy way to fill out scoring guides when using Google Classroom. When she asked that, I thought for a few seconds and showed her how to add her scoring guide as an attachment in a Google Classroom assignment. She was happy with that solution, so for the time being, I moved on to the next question.  The more I thought about it, though,  I realized that  while this was a great way to substitute technology for paper and make grading a more efficient process, that we could modify the activity and work flow to get students to engage with their work 
and the teacher on a deeper level. ​ I went back to my office, looked at the rubric that teacher shared with me and modified it by adding a column for self-assessment and a row for student comments. Those two small modification transformed this ordinary rubric into a reflective tool that can be used to springboard conversations about student work between the student and teacher. 

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