The TeacherCast App Spotlight

Jeff sits down with Corstiaan Hesselink to learn why Reflect.io is the perfect companion to your Evernote account.   About Reflect.io Reflect makes it easy to remember the important stuff in your Evernote account Using simple and effective flashcards, Reflect regularly reminds you what you’ve saved. The more you review, the more you remember. This learning technique trains your memory to absorb information on a deeper level, to be recalled and used at any time. Some call it spaced repetition — we call it reflection. Take your pile of ever-growing notes stored in the cloud, and let Reflect turn it into an archive of knowledge stored in your mind. Use Reflect for memorising e-book clippings, reviewing lecture notes, keeping ideas and thoughts fresh in your mind. Links of interest * http://www.reflectapp.io/ * https://twitter.com/getreflect * https://www.facebook.com/pages/Reflect/1732752033616524 * https://reflectapp.uservoice.com/forums/266054-general/filters/top About our Guest Corstiaan Hesselink dabbled around with codes since the age of 16. After starting a web development studio during college (CS BA, Cultural studies, MA) and running a publishing company a few years after graduation, he got back to the web full-time to build useful, elegant and simple tools. Reflect is the first project of his new company Fluxmatix Ventures. Corstiaan is an avid Amazon Kindle reader, as well as an Evernote user. He was saving all his Kindle highlights into Evernote and over time, he had over 2800 individual highlights saved in Evernote. This evidently was way too much to casually scroll through every now and again unless one knows exactly what they are looking for and thus can accurately search for it. “I needed a tool that would throw a tiny bit of this data back at me, on a schedule that was convenient for me and that adapted to my rhythm. A tool that would help me uncovers all the hidden value in my Evernote cloud. When I did not find this I decided to build it myself. After some initial test among very early users, I decided to turn it into something decent. That’s what has resulted in Reflect”, says Corstiaan.   Share the Love * If you enjoyed the show, please rate us on iTunes and write a brief review. That would help tremendously in getting the word out and raising the visibility of the show. * Please join the TechEducator Podcast LIVE every Sunday night at 7:00 P.M. EST on http://www.TeacherCast.tv Learn How To Launch Your Very Own Podcast! * Are you interested in learning how to podcast? Do you want to share podcasting with your students or perhaps create a podcast from your own home?  Jeff is available for one-on-one consulting to help you learn how to bring your podcasting ideas to life. * * Email: info@teachercast.net * Voice Mail: http://www.TeacherCast.net/voicemail * Check out our Educators Guide to Podcasting today! | Video | 

Jeff sits down with Chris Hull,Larry Kelly,Ida Fiore, and Sam Spitz to learn how they have transformed their classrooms from the stone age into the digital age . . . for FREE! About Otus As teachers, we believe in harnessing the power of technology to create a more effective and efficient learning experience for students. At the same time, we know that sorting through thousands of education apps can be overwhelming for even the most tech-savvy of us. That is why we created Otus, an easy-to-use mobile learning environment that brings all the best classroom tools together into one secure location. Otus is designed by teachers for teachers looking to get the most out of their 1:1 classroom experience. Links of interest * http://otusplus.com * https://www.facebook.com/OtusPlus * https://twitter.com/OtusPlus * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSHH9-5b4JY About Our Guest Chris Hull is a 7th grade social studies teacher, early EdTech adopter, and co-founder of Otus Mobile Learning Environment. Ida Fiore is 20-year veteran teacher at Elm Place Middle School in Highland Park, Illinois, who recently transitioned to a 1:1 environment in her science classes. Larry Kelly is a clinical professor of teaching, learning, and culture at Texas A&M University. He specializes in helping future teachers learn the best practices for tech integration. Learn How To Launch Your Very Own Podcast! * Are you interested in learning how to podcast? Do you want to share podcasting with your students or perhaps create a podcast from your own home?  Jeff is available for one-on-one consulting to help you learn how to bring your podcasting ideas to life. * * Email: info@teachercast.net * Voice Mail: http://www.TeacherCast.net/voicemail * Check out our Educators Guide to Podcasting today! | Video | Slideshare Presentation   Please contact TeacherCast with any Questions or to become a guest on the show * Host: Jeff Bradbury @TeacherCast * Email: info@teachercast.net * Voice Mail: http://www.TeacherCast.net/voicemail * YouTube: http://www.TeacherCast.net/YouTube * iTunes: http://www.TeacherCast.net/iTunes Watch LIVE: http://www.TeacherCast.tv | Broadcasting Schedule (http://www.teachercast.net/showcal) TeacherCast Broadcasting Community: http://www.TeacherCast.net/broadcastingcommunity Interested in starting your own podcast? Check out our Educators Guide to Podcasting today! | Video | 

Jeff sits down with Stephan Rudolph to discuss how Mentoring Minds is giving students the critical thinking skills to succeed, not just in the classroom, but also in life. About Mentoring Minds Mentoring Minds, the Critical Thinking for Life Company, is a national K-12 publisher that develops affordable, effective learning tools that give students the critical thinking skills to succeed, not just in the classroom, but also in life. Experienced educators create award-winning K-12 print and online resources and mobile applications that integrate effective practices for instruction, assessment and learning for students. With offices throughout the United States, Mentoring Minds meets the instructional needs of teachers and students at a rapidly growing number of schools and districts nationwide. For more information about Mentoring Minds and its educational resources, call 800-585-5258 or visit mentoringminds.com. Links of Interest * www.mentoringminds.com  * Google+ * Facebook * Twitter * Pinterest About our Guest Stephan Rudolph joined Mentoring Minds in 2014 as the Texas Sales Manager. Before accepting his current position, he was a Regional Vice President of Sales for Voyager Expanded Learning. Stephan joined Voyager in 1999 as an Inside Sales Executive and during his 14-year tenure took on increasing positions including Sales Manager, Director of Business Development, and Executive Director of Sales. Stephan has been married to his wife, Gina, for 20 years and is a father of two children: Hayley, 15 and Grant, 12.  He and both of his children are rock climbing enthusiasts and enjoy the outdoors.

Jeff sits down with Jeff Thiel from Metria Learning to discuss how the Master Teacher Edition helps teachers create standards-based lessons and assessments. About Metria Learning Metria is dedicated to helping K-12 educators deliver rigorous, data-driven, personalized instruction. We envision a world where teams of teaching professionals work together effectively to ensure that each student reaches their academic potential. We started this work because we saw that schools need better tools to manage a collaborative approach to delivering personalized instruction. We observed that teachers spent much more time figuring out how to collect and manage timely data about student progress against standards than they spent using the data to determine how to improve their instructional practices. Metria recently released the “Master Teacher Edition” (MTE), which has the best tools available today to help individual educators create standards-based unit and lesson plans, conduct formative assessments, plan and manage interventions, and monitor student academic growth. Metria’s “School Improvement Edition” (SIE) extends the MTE to help teams of educators conduct planning, assessment, intervention, and analysis of student academic growth. The SIE is available now for a limited number of pilot sites. For a limited time, try the MTE for free at www.metrialearning.org! Links of Interest * Master Teacher Edition Tutorial videos: * Creating year-long Common Core courses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHk_9jvWCI * Adapting your plan based on classroom experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JFmqzqvPn8 * Keeping students on track to standards mastery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqxVqBBeUk About our Guests Jeff Thiel is an experienced executive and entrepreneur who has built and launched new products and services in industries ranging from PC software to financial services, health care, and K-12 education. Jeff joined Metria Teaching and Learning Technologies because he is passionate about improving K-12 education.  He comes from a family of educators, and hopes that he can help educators by delivering tools that will make it easier for educators to implement instructional best practices every day. Prior to Metria, Jeff co-founded companies in financial services and health care services.  He worked for 10 years at Microsoft where his team was instrumental in the launch of multiple versions of Windows, including Windows 95.  He began his career at Bain and Company, a leading business strategy consulting firm.  He has degrees in Economics and History from the University of Washington, and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business.

Jeff sits down with Hayley Brooks and Raphael Menko to discuss how Learn2Earn is engaging students through the love of reading! About Learn 2 Earn “Learn2Earn motivates children to read every day. Our social learning platform connects educators, students and families to inspire a love of reading and fundraise for education. The small startup is located in sunny San Diego and is excited to see what the future holds.” Links of Interest * https://www.facebook.com/l2eorg * https://twitter.com/Learn2EarnOrg * http://instagram.com/learn2earnorg * http://www.pinterest.com/learn2earn/ * https://plus.google.com/+Learn2earnOrg123/posts * https://www.linkedin.com/company/learn2earn-org * http://blog.learn2earn.org/infographic-year-reading-learn2earn/   About our Guests Hayley Brooks is co-founder and CEO of Learn2Earn, a growing EdTech startup based in San Diego. After graduating from Williams College in 2012, Hayley returned to the west coast to create this social learning platform that connects educators, students and families to inspire a love for reading and fundraise for education. In her free time, Hayley likes to make veggie drinks, go backpacking, and read non-fiction. Raphael Menko is co-founder of the San Diego-based education startup Learn2Eearn. Raphael and his co-founders were struck with the idea for Learn2Earn while they were seniors at Williams College in Massachusetts and he has loved watching it grow into the powerful platform it is today. He's passionate about empowering children to reach their full potential through innovative educational technology. Since moving to the west coast, Raphael has been trying to become a competent surfer and is taking all of those missed waves in stride.

Jeff sits down with Mik Tholfsen and Ari Schorr to discuss how Microsoft OneNote is being used in classrooms to help teachers and students stay digitally organized.   About Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. It is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies. Links of Interest OneNote Main * http://www.onenote.com – Free copy of OneNote on any platform, any device Social *  OneNote in Education Blog: http://blogs.office.com/onenote/education * OneNote Twitter: http://twitter.com/msonenote * OneNote Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OneNote * OneNote Blog: http://blogs.office.com/onenote * OneNoteEDU@microsoft.com Training * http://www.onenoteforteachers.com – Bite-sized interactive Teacher Training for OneNote in Education * OneNote and Learning Styles pamphlet: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24895 * OneNote Toolkit for teachers – an interactive OneNote notebook designed for teachers on OneNote best practices in the classroom * OneNote for School Administrators and Staff – interactive training OneNote Class Notebook Creator * OneNote Class Notebook Creator blog: http://blogs.office.com/2014/12/09/onenote-class-notebook-creator-updated-top-educator-requests-new-language-support/ * OneNote Class Notebook Creator interactive guide: http://aka.ms/OneNoteEDUGuide * Install the app on O365: https://store.office.com/onenote-class-notebook-creator-WA104371260.aspx *  IT Admin instructions: 

Jeff sits down with the creators of TouchCast, an AMAZING app that allows you to create awesome video projects on the iPad! About TouchCast TouchCast is the leading interactive video platform, selected by Apple as “App of the Year” for 2013. TouchCast is an authoring app for the iPad and PC desktops that thousands of educators and students have used since we launched in June 2013. It is a great content creation tool for teachers that elevate the flipped classroom concept, active learning and online learning to a new level. Different from prior examples, a TouchCast is not just a static video of a lecture. It offers a simple way for the teacher or the student to include a wealth of related content and interactivity within the video itself. A five minutes video turns into a one-hour session when the viewer interacts with the supplemental material such as webpages, images, pdfs, polls, quizzes, and much more. Educators and students around the world can now easily create comprehensive and engaging interactive videos and have fun doing it, using it for communication, active learning, and engaging instruction. You can find lessons plans aligned with the Common Core Standards, teachers training presentations, and an educator guide with examples of many best practices here: www.Touchcast.com/education About our Guests Charley Miller is a New York City-based game designer, software producer, and part-time teacher and consultant with a focus on helping non-game products develop long term user engagement strategies. He has led design and production on games that range from reimagining toys like Nerf Hoops, to 3D iPhone experiences, to training simulations, to urban games, to tabletop games. His projects have included work for Hasbro, the New York City Office of Emergency Management, and the Center for Health and Learning. His urban games have been featured in The New York Times and he was commissioned by New York University for their “No Quarter” Exhibition. Twitter: @Superfection @TouchCast Email: charley@TouchCast.com Dr. Ayelet Segal is Head of Education at TouchCast. With over 20 years experience in exploring problems in the realm of Cognitive Psychology, Education and HCI (Human Computer Interaction). Dr. Segal holds a Master and PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Education and Technology from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Master of Arts in Interactive Media from Middlesex University in London. Dr. Segal is the co-author of the chapter Embodied Cognition and Learning Environment Design of the book Theoretical foundation s of student- centered learning environments. (New York: Routledge. By D. Jonassen and S. Lamb). Her research on Learning with the iPad was recently published at Journal for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Twitter: @AyeletSegal @TouchCastEdu Email: ayelet@TouchCast.com Here is an example of a GREAT video created using TouchCast

Jeff sits down with John Sessler from PBSLearningMedia to discuss this years Digital Innovators program and also learn how more than 1.5 MILLION educators and students are using their amazing FREE resources. About PBS LearningMedia As America’s largest classroom, teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life. PBS LearningMedia, a partnership of PBS and WGBH Educational Foundation, is a free media-on-demand service offering educators access to the best of public media and delivers research-based, classroom-ready digital learning experiences to engage students in exploring curriculum concepts that align with National and Common Core State Standards. Nationwide, more than 1.5 million teachers have registered access to more than 87,000 digital resources available through PBS LearningMedia. More information about PBS LearningMedia is available at www.pbslearningmedia.org or by following PBS LearningMedia on Twitter and Facebook. Links of Interest Website/Social media: * www.pbslearningmeda.org * https://www.facebook.com/pbslearningmedia * https://twitter.com/PBSLrnMedia About our Guests John Sessler serves as the Manager of Program Engagement for PBS LearningMedia, an award-winning and trusted destination for educators that aggregates the best of public media for the classroom. John designs professional development and engagement activities to support educators who are integrating technology and digital media into their teaching. Prior to joining PBS, John spent ten years teaching and managing literacy and arts programs that partnered with schools throughout the Midwest. John's graduate coursework focused on the design and implementation of blended learning environments and digital curricula for pre-K – 12th grade students. He holds an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.S. from Northwestern University.      

Jeff sits down with Patricia Hillyer and Richard Ginn of BlackRocket to discuss how BlackRocket is helping students create amazing video games and learn the art of coding! About Black Rocket This year Black Rocket served almost 20,000 students nationwide through their unique Creative Technology Programs offered during school, after school, and through summer enrichment. Engaging every student, easy enough for any teacher Black Rocket's new universal game-based learning software is in use in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Ohio and beginning in January in California. For any student, any subject  any grade and any ability, the company's co-owner Richard Ginn, a teacher of the year award winner from a recent “Number One School in America” according to US News and World Reports, says: “If you can engage a child you can teach them anything. And if you can't engage them it doesn't matter what you are trying to teach.” Empowering students to write their own video games about the learning goals their teachers establish is based on three decades of research from leading edge Stanford University and is the epitome of individualized learning as much as standardized testing is not. With six levels of assessment built in, this new software makes teachers lives easier! Imagine that. “Every student improved” according to the first teacher to use the software with her students, JoAnn Devito. For more information, visit www.blackrocket.com/edu or email bill@blackrocket.com. Links of Interest * @BlackRocketLLC * www.blackrocket.com * www.blackrocket.com/edu * thegrid.blackrocket.com About our Guests About Richard Ginn Black Rocket's president, Richard Ginn, is a former teacher of the year from High Technology High School in Monmouth County, NJ. US News and World Report recently ranked “High Tech” as America’s number one high school, and as a school known for integrating technology. Richard is also a former administrator in Freehold. Today, Richard leads the company's highly regarded Professional Development arm which specializes in mainstreaming Technology, Innovation and Game-ification into today's classroom so that it is easy for the teacher to use and students to leverage. Richard recently returned from speaking to VTEAA, the Virginia Technology Educators Association which represents every Tech Coordinator in Virginia with high marks and he is scheduled to speak to leading California Superintendents in the Fall. Email Rich via rich@blackrocket.com<mailto:rich@blackrocket.com>. About Patricia J. Hillyer Patricia has been in education for over 25 years. She received her Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University-Madison and went on to receive her Masters of Arts in Teaching from Monmouth University. Currently, Patricia is teaching seventh-grade science at Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School, where she has been instrumental in training teachers in technology as well as in the forefront of bringing new technology to the classroom for her students.  Patricia has been performing physics and engineering research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for over 20 years. Patricia models her teaching by using project-based learning. She has presented her best practices at the New Jersey Science Convention, NJEA convention and at the National Science Teachers Con...

Jeff sits down with Jason Carroll and Martin McKay of TextHelp to discuss how their Google Extension, Read&Write is helping students in all grades and subject areas. Visit: http://www.teachercast.net/texthelp for a limited time offer after viewing our program. About Texthelp Texthelp software solutions provide reading, writing, research, and studying tools –Read&Write Gold's customizable toolbar integrates with familiar desktop applications,Read&Write for Google makes Google Docs, web, PDFs, and ePubs accessible in Google Drive on PCs, Macs, and chromebooks, and iReadWrite helps struggling readers and writers on the iPad. Links of Interest Website: http://www.TextHelp.com Twitter: @TextHelpUS About our Guests Jason Carroll is the Product Marketing Manager for North America at Texthelp, an industry leader in literacy support software. He has trained thousands on the effective use of Assistive and Instructional Technology throughout the United States and beyond since his start with Educational Cooperatives over a decade ago. His focus is on bridging the gap between operation of technology and actual implementation and is a popular speaker nationally and internationally on these topics each year. Jason is a graduate of the Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program (ATACP) from California State University at Northridge, holds an MBA, is a Google Educator, and Authorized Google Education Trainer.  He is a published author, has taught at the University level, and served as an independent consultant prior to his position atTexthelp.  @jkcarroll +Jason Carroll Founder of Texthelp Systems, Martin McKay has led a team of developers to create assistive technologies for use in education, workplace, and at home. Early products focused on solutions for people with severe mobility and communication difficulties. The product focus has since evolved to literacy and language learning software. Since 1994, Martin has led the development of core computing linguistic Intellectual Property in the following fields: Phonetic Spell Checking, Word Prediction, Homophone Detection, Word Syllabification, and Pronunciation Tutoring. Additionally, Martin has filed patents in the areas of Text-to-Speech implementation in Public Access Terminals, Text-to-Speech UI Design, Talking eBook Design, and Talking eBook Creation tools.  @martinmckay +Martin McKay

Jeff sits down with Torsten Stauch from AppShed to discuss how school districts and classrooms can create amazing mobile apps for their communities. About Mobile App Building AppShed allows people to become creators of technology, not just consumers. AppShed is a free online app-creation tool where users design, create and publish mobile apps. Everyone gains a huge sense of achievement, having been able to produce something tangible they can share with others. The app-building environment is intuitive and adaptable to your needs. Apps can be tested in real-time either on a mobile device or in a browser. Creative Apps Generation Using AppShed anyone (with no technical knowledge) can generate their own smartphone apps. Advanced students can take it much further using web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) or programming (PHP) to create fully interactive high-level apps. We are all part of the “creative apps generation”. AppShed is delighted to be equipping people for an exciting future in our digital world. AppShed Academy AppShed Academy is a versatile and comprehensive online tool to facilitate student development of apps in education. Intuitive, step-by-step learning allows teachers to include app development in the ICT curriculum without the need for an in-depth understanding of the app creation. This exciting technology allows students to express their creativity through a powerful app building tool which can be tied in with school projects and assignments as well as extra-curricular activities like sports teams. Featured Links * AppShed Homepage * AppShed on Twitter * AppShed on YouTube   Featured Guest Torsten built his first computer game at age 12 and has gone on to start 3 companies and build a wide variety of software products. He is a popular speaker in the ed-tech sector with a strong focus on creativity and entrepreneurship. Torsten is the CEO of AppShed. AppShed was started in 2009 as a content management system for native apps, targeting the SME market. It pivoted during 2011 to become an ed-tech company focusing on the use of app development as an education tool. Torsten has helped grow AppShed to almost 100,000 users and thousands of schools & colleges, both in the UK and abroad. AppShed is the most versatile free tool available for students to create mobile apps. Students can easily create using a wide range of tools and then deploy their projects as web-apps in a matter of minutes. The next hot product is AppShed Academy – an in-line learning environment to facilitate student development of apps. Intuitive, step-by-step learning allows teachers to include app development in the classroom without the need for an in-depth understanding of app development. Teachers have the ability to create their own e-learning content and distribute it across all mobile and desktop platforms. Torsten is also a founder and technical director of Red C, a 12-year-old digital consultancy based in London’s Tech City. Red C boasts many large corporate clients including Thames Water, The Independent, Mitsubishi Securities, Société Générale & Fabergé. Torsten oversees the technical solutions and product development with a primary focus on the financial services sector. As a developer Torsten built a variety of web and app products including “Plug and Play CMS” (a web-content management system) and Bus Guru which provides 100k+ London bus users with real- time bus information.

Jeff sits down with Peter Do and Andrew Rowland to discuss how Classkick is helping teachers share awesome lessons on the iPad and gain invaluable student feedback. About Classkick The Classkick Team seeks to understand the most fundamental needs of teachers, students and parents in education. In doing so we can build extremely focused and impactful technology that demonstrably increases student learning and development. Classkick is founded by teachers and engineers Links of Interest * Website: http://www.getclassskick.com Blog: https://medium.com/@getClasskick Twitter: @classkick Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/classkick YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvSxM9KpTDE Mobile App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classkick/id909904332 About our Guests Andrew Rowland Andrew obsesses over finding ways to increase student achievement. After teaching high school math on Chicago's West side, Andrew worked at Google and YouTube launching products on devices around the world.  He has a background in mathematics, economics, and computer science from UC Berkeley.  Now Andrew is excited to focus on his passion building products that make a lasting difference on student learning and development. Peter Do Peter studied mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and most recently developed algorithms that find energy waste in buildings. He has been an elementary and middle school tutor and had the privilege of mentoring two amazing youth (hi Cesar and Devante!). He has founded an award winning chapter of Engineers Without Borders, built trucks at Toyota and rocket nozzles for the space shuttle. Peter is now honored to work with teachers and thrilled to help increase student learning.

Jeff sits down with Dan Adiletta to discuss how ExitTicket is being used worldwide to track student progress and gather powerful feedback. About ExitTicket ExitTicket is more than just a simple voting/polling clicker or interactive student response system. ExitTicket was created by Leadership Public Schools (LPS) in the San Francisco Bay area to address a critical issue facing many schools in America: too many students are entering high school substantially below grade level. In LPS's case, a high number of 9th graders enter at a 4th and 5th grade comprehension level. To stack the odds against an LPS student even higher: California ranks 49th in spending per pupil and 79% of LPS's students qualify for free and reduced lunch with many coming from low-income urban neighborhoods. 85% of LPS students have parents who've never attended college.  In order to overcome this problem, LPS started with a hybrid mix of various technologies and approaches, including using ‘clicker' based voting/polling systems. It wasn't enough, and only yielded an average 1.5 year gain. In order to get them to ‘college ready,' LPS had to accelerate a student's education by 8 years within their four years of high school.The ExitTicket concept was created from the simple need to massively kickstart and accelerate student growth. To solve this problem, the ExitTicket design team parked themselves in a classroom for 6 weeks and developed ExitTicket directly with teachers and students in real time. ExitTicket then expanded to more teachers, classrooms and more schools across the LPS network. At the end of two years of intense research and development, LPS students were benchmarking an average MAP 2.6 grade level gain in a single year by using ExitTicket. This substantial achievement paved the way to make the pivotal change from a “College Ready” focus, to a “97% College Bound” result for all LPS students. How does LPS and ExitTicket do it? ExitTicket’s power lies in its tight integration between real time student response technologies and impactful instructional strategies. It teaches students that wrong answers lead to learning and that micro-successes lead to mastery, empowering them to own their academic progress. It empowers teachers by giving them real-time data to realistically do what they have always wanted – differentiate instruction and provide immediate intervention for all students. It changes teaching because it has been designed directly by teachers to greatly reduce grading and give them more time to invest in planning high quality questioning and differentiated support.  Links of Interest http://twitter.com/exittickethttp://facebook.com/exittickethttp://exitticket.org/toolkitAbout Us VideoWhy We Created ExitTicket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6xnqmuYDw&list=PL_JS5ztwk2L9mJpvMH68U078RU99nVQpn&index=2 About our Guest Daniel Adiletta is a licensed teacher with experience implementing 1:1 programs. While guiding an iPad initiative and teaching Computer Science, Adiletta went through numerous response systems until he found ExitTicket. It was exactly what he was looking for and he told his colleagues about it via YouTube. Now he's a part of the ExitTicket team.  

Jeff sits down with Jenna Kleine from ClassDojo to discuss the great new features available for teachers in the 2014 school year.  One of these great features is called Class Dojo Messenger, a brand new application for your desktop and mobile devices that allows you to send both private and public messages to your students parents.  Teachers now have the option of sending a text message to all of the parents in their classes, or sending an individual message to a single parent which they can then reply to. About Class Dojo ClassDojo aims to help students learn great behaviors and skills for lifelong success.  ClassDojo has built ways for teachers to give positive feedback in realtime to students and let parents review this activity from home. They have also released ClassDojo Messenger — a standalone app which helps teachers instantly communicate with parents using one-way broadcasts as well as two-way private messages. Links of Interest * https://twitter.com/classdojo * https://www.facebook.com/classdojo * https://www.tumblr.com/blog/classdojo * http://www.pinterest.com/classdojo/ * http://community.classdojo.com/

Jeff sits down with Donna Stoering and Peter Maud from Listen for Life to discuss how the standards based "Travels with Music" curriculum can be used by students in all subject areas and classrooms. About Listen for Life™ and Travels With Music™ Founded in 1998 by internationally renowned musician and social entrepreneur, Donna Stoering, Listen for Life is a global non-profit music-media organization dedicated to reviving the power of music worldwide. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Listen for Life has affiliate studios/production facilities in 45 countries worldwide, and has thus far amassed more than 400 hours of proprietary, fully rights-cleared video content of Master Musicians from around the globe performing original music compositions on instruments native to their cultures, and being interviewed in their native languages about their culture, their customs, their inspiration, and their way of life. Travels With Music, a production of Listen for Life, leads K12 classrooms and homeschoolers on an interactive exploration of 15 world cultures, with Master Musicians as their guides. Students experience the richness and diversity of our world's cultures through 300 video and audio segments, arranged in 30 Units (two Units per culture), comprising a total of six hours of course content. For more information about Travels With Music, visit www.TravelsWithMusic.com. You can also connect with Travels With Music on Facebook and BuzcastTV. Links of Interest * https://www.facebook.com/listenforlife * https://www.facebook.com/TravelsWithMusic * https://twitter.com/listenforlife * http://www.pinterest.com/listenforlife/ * https://www.youtube.com/user/ListenForLife1 * http://instagram.com/listenforlife * https://www.linkedin.com/company/listen-for-life-foundation * http://listenforlife.tumblr.com/ About our Guests Donna Stoering is the Founder, Artistic Director, CVO & Board, and President of Listen for Life. She is an internationally-known musician, performer, producer, educator and entrepreneur. She has compiled numerous honors and awards to date including being named “Woman of Legacy 2013” by Powerful Women International (PWI), a Grammy Award nomination in the recording artist category, and Honorary Board member of numerous music schools and arts series. A Marshall Scholar, Donna completed her B.A. and M.A. degrees by age 19. An experienced educator, she has taught at the K-12 and university level. Furthermore, she has guest-lectured and taught at music schools worldwide, including Julliard. She was the creator, designer, artistic director, and co-producer of Listen for Life’s multimedia program, TravelsWith Music. Additionally, she is a published author, leads music-based spiritual retreats throughout USA and abroad, is an international keynote speaker, and a founder of music festivals and concerts series on three continents. Peter Maud is the executive director of Listen for Life. In the past, he has served as director of business development for Sibelius, USA, a leading music software company.Peter headed the company’s U.S. launch of digital sheet music in 2000, and continued through Sibelius’ acquisition by Avid.