The ed Newsstand is a weekly podcast hosted by Troy Reynolds. In each episode, Troy discusses ways to integrate educational apps, resources, and ideas usually around classroom technology. The episodes are meant to be quick idea inspiring moments that help start your journey of resource discovery or support your foundation of edtech app integration.
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Digital Magazines Publishing - how to make, publish and monetise newsstand magazines in the iTunes, Google Play and Amazon
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HELLO AND WELCOME TO THIS VERY FIRST EPISODE OF “ MAKING AND MONETIZING MOBILE APPS” MY NAME IS MAGIK AND I AM SUPER EXITED TO SHARE WITH YOU, VALUABLE INFORMATIONS ON HOW YOU TOO CAN JOIN, THE MOBILE APPS REVOLUTION AND YOU CAN DO IT FOR FREE WITH NO SPECIAL SKILLS NEEDED FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ALREADY MAKING APPS I WILL SHARE MONETIZATION AND PROMOTION STRATEGIES WHICH ARE WORKING GREAT FOR ME. STAY TUNE AND I SEE YOU AFTER THE BREAK WELCOME BACK IN THIS EPISODE I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE ...
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If you use Google Classroom there are some housekeeping tips every teacher should use to get ready for the next year. I scoured the internet to find the foremost authorities on Google Classroom clean up and I put together two lists. The first list consists of six things everyone agreed should be done with your Google Classroom at the end of the yea…
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This week I have three resources to help you get started digitally cleaning your personal and professional workspaces. TCEA.org blog titled, “How to Spring Clean: Digitally.” In the article, Andrew Roush lays out 6 Principles to get started with digital cleaning and then looks at more specific examples and describes ways your can clean up your inbo…
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A few weeks ago I put out my newsletter sharing resources to sign up for a Canva for Education account. Throughout the newsletter, I demonstrated how to set up your Canva classes, some of the classroom features within Canva, provided you with links to blogs and playlists to get you inspired, and gave step-by-step instructions you can follow to get …
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4.25: Flocabulary: New Mix & Break It Down Activities
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Recently, Flocabulary introduced a new feature to their platform. It’s called Flocabulary Mix. Teachers will choose a Skill Video to pair with a Video Text to create a Mix. In a Mix, the videos will play back to back. The Skill Video provides direct instruction on a skill the students should demonstrate when they watch the Video Text. After student…
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4.24: Tango: Step-by-Step Screenshot Maker
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I recently learned about Tango from several different creators on social media and I must say that this is going to be a game-changer for anyone that creates written directions for the internet. For example, if you need to create directions for how to navigate a website, how to turn in an assignment, or how to send an email. This website will follo…
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More and more people are discovering their love of Canva and the power it can have in the classroom. This week’s newsletter is all about Canva for education. If you don’t know what Canva is, Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom. Also, Canva is 100% free for K12 teachers and their studen…
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Book Creator is a freemium classroom tool that allows students to create multimedia ebooks. I say freemium because teachers can use the website for free but free users can only create one classroom library with up to 40 books in that library. You can archive the library and get access to a new set of 40 books. If you do archive your library, the bo…
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As I was getting the newsletter ready for this week I stumbled across a video from @adelaideed on TikTok. What you will find in this newsletter are resources for starting your journey with digital notebooks or, if you are a power user, resources for taking digital notebooks to the next level regardless of the presentation platform you use. Resource…
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Last week, I introduced Flipgrid and demonstrated how to get started with groups, topics, and some of the unique features of the camera and the effects drawer. This week's newsletter is all about ideas for using Flipgrid in the classroom. The newsletter starts by introducing the Discovery Library and how to add pre-created topics to your library. A…
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This week's newsletter is all about getting started with Flipgrid. Flipgrid considers itself a social learning platform that gives students a voice through their creativity and self-expression. Flipgrid’s mission is to “empower every learner on the planet to share their voice and respect the diverse voices of others.” Use Flipgrid to create a group…
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4.18: Valentines for Classroom Technology
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This week's newsletter is all about sharing the love of some of my favorite technologies to use in the classroom. Many of these technologies and resources I have talked about before in past newsletters and podcasts. For a deeper dive into those resources please visit my past newsletters. The Valentines I gave out to the resources and technologies t…
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This week's newsletter is all about sharing the love of some of my favorite features in SMART Notebook and Lumio. A couple of weeks ago, SMART Technologies shared 3 Sweet Treats for Your Classroom. Within the blog post, SMART shared printable Valentines for your classroom, both color and black and white Valentines, as well as engaging ready-made re…
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4.16: Immersive Reader in Lumio by SMART Technologies
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This week's newsletter is all about an immersive reader, an awesome accessibility feature new to Lumio by SMART Tech. When a student or teacher uses immersive reader, they have several different features to use. change the text size change the text spacing change the font change the theme to make it easier to see view words by syllables view parts …
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The newsletter is about resources for getting you started incrementally using Lumio and the best ways to incorporate the software into your classroom. The resources in this newsletter are the 5 Benefits of Using Lumio in the Classroom by Julie Smith, The Techie Teacher, and Lumio - Connect With Your Class by Richard Byrne, FreeTech4Teachers. There …
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4.14: Presentation Zen: Google Extensions & a Mac app
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This week's newsletter is all about Google Chrome Extensions and a Mac app you can use with some of the websites I’ve mentioned in the past few weeks. One of the resources I talk about integrates well to find the optimum hex color as you are developing a color palette for your presentation. I also have a resource to help you personalize your presen…
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4.13: Presentation Zen: Google Slides Add-Ons
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This week's newsletter is all about Google Slides add-on you can use to build the best presentation quickly and efficiently. Some of the resources I’ve talked about already as an external website, however, now I show you how you can access those same resources from within Google Slides. I have resources to help you find the perfect font for your pr…
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This week's newsletter is all about websites you can use to build a color palette. It can be difficult when it comes to finding complementary colors to each other and to the graphics you've used in your presentation. This podcast will tell you about four resources you can use to build the perfect color scheme and template for your presentation. All…
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4.11: Presentation Zen: Graphic Resource Websites
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This week's newsletter is all about graphic resources you can use to insert into your classroom projects. The resources are Creative Commons instead of students going out and pulling graphics from a Google search. I have websites with simple illustrations you can color code to the colors in your presentation, websites that will provide you with bla…
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4.10: Presentation Zen: Font Design Tools
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This week's episode is about finding the right font for your presentation. Creating graphic headers and text can make all the difference. In this podcast, you will find six resources to help you find the right font to fit any situation that might arise when you use PowerPoint, Slides, Canva, or Keynote to create a presentation. In TikTok Tech, @a_b…
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4.9: Presentation Zen: Slide Layout Template Resources
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This week's podcast is all about slide layout template resources. I want to provide you with resources to help you and your students find the best designs that can then provide a greater impact when building presentations. With these resources, you and your students can create presentations that are dynamic and interesting. As a teacher, you can us…
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This week's newsletter is all about tips from Garr Reynolds to help your students create better presentations. The idea is to get students away from creating Sliduments full of text and then reading that text when delivering a classroom presentation. The idea is to create presentations that are dynamic and interesting. Presentations where the prese…
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This video discusses how to use Kami in the classroom. The newsletter has resources for using Kami for collaboration, assessments, inclusive learning, and digital whiteboarding. If you are new to Kami or a veteran user I strongly encourage you to enroll in Kami’s free certified educator program. In TikTok Tech, I found a great resource from @newedt…
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Learn about Flocabulary, a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. The newsletter has resources for sequence of uses, best practices, implementation at any grade level, and within any area of study. TikTok Tech has tech resources from Jordan Cotten and a …
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During digital citizenship week, I thought it was important to reintroduce the 9 pillars of digital citizenship. Along with listing the 9 pillars, I found various other resources to reinforce the concepts with each different pillar. In TikTok Tech I show you how one teacher creates magnetic contact cards to share with her parents. In Tech Refresh I…
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Kami is one of the most powerful PDF annotation and digital whiteboard tools a classroom can have in this new technology-forward learning environment. This video will give you a brief demonstration of Kami along with providing an explanation of the Kami updates added over the summer. TikTok Tech explains how to begin the discussion about individual…
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Since March 2020 Nearpod has added some amazing new updates. This week's newsletter talks about those new updates and links in this week's newsletter provide resources for all those new updates. I've added a TikTok Tech Corner that covers an interesting idea in education. There's also a new Tech Refresh Corner that demonstrates tech basics. It's a …
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This week I look at some of the most important iPadOS 15 updates that were released on September 20th. Some of the simplest changes are that the App Library and Widgets have now come to the iPad. Widgets and the App Library were on the iPhone with iOS 14 and if you were familiar with them on the iPhone this will not be much of a change. I’ve talked…
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This week I look at some of the most important Google Workspace updates that were released over the summer for Classroom, Forms, and Docs. I will also discuss some of those updates that will be released very soon. A new showcase on the podcast comes from great users on TikTok who share the technology they are using in their classroom. The first res…
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3.32: Micro Credentials, Badges & Certifications
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This week’s podcast contains a list of resources and programs to help you take a closer look at the technology in your classroom and learn it at a pace that’s more favorable to how you learn. The self-paced resources contain PD for Apple, Google, and Microsoft users. There are also self-paced resources for classroom software, learning management sy…
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Raindrop.io is a really nice digital bookmarking site. The extension is very intuitive if you've used other digital bookmarks before, the resource works as an extension in any web browser, on any mobile device, and a downloadable app on any computer platform. The layout of the website can be anything from functional to beautiful, you can change the…
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Evernote is an online note-taking and digital bookmarking website that syncs across all devices. Save websites, images, audio, scan documents, upload PDFs, and take notes any way that works for you. You can also document all of the important resources in one note, tag them in a group, or put them into their own notebook. Lightning-fast searches, ap…
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Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows you to tag and group articles for better organization. You can annotate websites and PDFs by highlighting passages or adding notes. Also, add articles, annotations, and notes to an outline for more organized and comprehensive research. Finally, share and collaborate easily by creating groups of website…
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Pocket and Instapaper are two very similar digital bookmarking tools. Both resources allow you to save full website articles, videos, and other resources to read or watch later. You can take notes within the articles, share out the resources, and discover other resources curated for you based on your interests. There are subtle differences between …
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Toby is an extension for your browser that will organize and store your bookmarks into collections. You can easily open a collection with one click and share collections with your team or organization. Toby is one of the easiest and most useful organizational extensions you can install and use within your browser. Newsletter: bit.ly/edNewsstand2021…
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Symbaloo has two unique features when it comes to creating online bookmarks. First, Symbaloo organizes its bookmarks in a grid. However, that grid can be all about one subject or the grid can be organized according to smaller subjects within a larger theme of the bookmark's webmix. Symbaloo also allows educators to create learning paths for their s…
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One of the most powerful and used online bookmarking tools is Wakelet. If you are familiar with Pinterest, Wakelet is similar to Pinterest in that you can create different collections in Wakelet the same way you can create different boards in Pinterest. However, with Wakelet, you can save anything you find on the internet from websites, to videos, …
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3.24: More Whiteboard Resources: Ziteboard vs Chrome Canvas vs. Classroomscreen
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There are a lot of whiteboard resources out there for teachers working with students in-person and through distance learning. The three choices presented in this week's video have some features in common with previous whiteboards I’ve presented in other newsletters but also are very different and unique features not offered in other whiteboards. Zi…
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3.23 Whiteboard Resources: Whiteboard.chat vs Miro vs. Whiteboard.fi
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There are a lot of whiteboard resources out there for teachers working with students in-person and through distance learning. The three choices presented in this week's newsletter have some features in common but also are very different from one another. Whiteboard.chat is a great resource that allows students to each have their own whiteboard, giv…
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Canva is one of the most powerful graphic design platforms on the internet. You can use the platform to design everything from social media posts to documents to marketing templates. Now, with the ability to sign up for Canva for education, your students can get a free Canva account under your teacher account. Within the account, you can create mul…
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Explain Everything is a wonderful resource for using a whiteboard in your classroom with your students. The free version allows for a collaborative workspace that allows you an endless supply of room. You can add audio, record a video of yourself navigating the space and share it with your students, or start the whiteboard with a PDF or image. This…
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Major updates to SMART Learning Suite Online has made SMART Notebook an even more powerful tool when working with students synchronously and asynchronously. Using the whiteboard features online is just a fraction of what this software can do. Turn slides into handouts or create digital corkboard activities while annotating your current lessons. All…
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At the end of January, Nearpod introduced two new features to their computer platform. Nearpod introduced a whiteboard feature and an annotation feature teachers can use while presenting their Nearpod lesson. This podcast will tell you what the new features look like on a computer, on an iPad, and from a student's perspective on both platforms. Wee…
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This week we look at Google Jamboard. Slightly different than Google Slides, Jamboard allows for a more collaborative feel between teachers and students. This week’s podcast will give you an overview of Jamboard on a computer/Chromebook and on an iPad. There are also a lot of resources to drum up inspiration and templates to download and use for an…
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If you're looking for new ways to use edtech tools in your classroom as a whiteboard then look no further than Apple's presentation tool Keynote. This podcast will demonstrate how you can share the Keynote with your students, ways you can use Keynote as a whiteboard tool, what Keynote looks like on a Mac, in any browser, and on an iPad. Special tha…
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This week's episode brings you various design resources for your classroom presentations. A lot of the websites were presented on TikTok by classroom teachers and have to do with unique fonts you can add to your presentations, documents, or use anywhere on the internet. There is also a website that provides you with six free resources a week. Those…
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This week's episode looks at resources I've found on social media from other educators. These are websites similar to other resources you might already know or use in your classroom but with a little twist. You will find links to the websites below and a link to my newsletter. You can also find a list of the chapters in the podcast if you would lik…
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If you are looking for other resources like Kahoot and Quizizz to play with students this podcast is chock-full of resources. For some of the websites you need to set up questions and answers ahead of time, some of the websites have built-in questions and answers, and for some of the websites, you can import content from outside the site. In the ne…
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3.13: Update Student Slides in Google Classroom
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If you've ever wanted to update your students Google Slides after you've pushed out an assignment through Google Classroom or if you've ever wanted to share information with students to pace progress or help them with an assignment, this podcast will tell you how to do that. Written instructions can be found in the newsletter along with a GIF of in…
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3.12: Leverage Zoom Backgrounds into Teachable Moments
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Zoom backgrounds can be great fun but can also be used as teachable moments for students. Examples of things you can provide to your students using Zoom backgrounds are Classroom Agendas, Classroom Rules, Lesson Objectives, Lesson Activities, or play Conference Bingo. You will find resources from Zoom, Canva, Google Slides, Jeff Utecht, Shifting Sc…
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This episode will provide you with resources to engage in learning experiences for teachers, students, and parents. You will find a series of videos to help you use the built-in features of Apple products and provide some links to get you started using Augmented Reality. In the newsletter, I will talk about 30 days of creativity with students ages …
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