Using Flipgrid to Get to Know Your Students: Building Community and Language Skills

By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. Flipgrid Basics and Background Flipgrid is an interactive audio and video recording platform whereContinueContinue reading “Using Flipgrid to Get to Know Your Students: Building Community and Language Skills”

Integrating Pear Deck and Flipgrid for Warm-Ups & Activating Prior Knowledge

By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. App-smashing is one of my favorite instructional integrations to help support students in theirContinueContinue reading “Integrating Pear Deck and Flipgrid for Warm-Ups & Activating Prior Knowledge”

Student and Parental Engagement for Online Learning: Building Community Online through Edtech

As classes and entire schools transition online, building a community is huge to stay connected with students and parents. Students want to hear and see their teacher and stay connected with their classmates. I wanted to spend this time going over several edtech tools and strategies to help teachers stay connected with their students asContinueContinue reading “Student and Parental Engagement for Online Learning: Building Community Online through Edtech”

Implementing Instructional Strategies and Lesson Plans with Edtech and your Online Classrooms

Here is a comprehensive guide of how face to face instructional strategies and lesson plans can be integrated to online classrooms. It is a powerful conversation of how research based instructional strategies can align with edtech tools that can be used within an online classroom setting. You can begin using what is discussed in this post now to make your online class an engaging environment and equitable to your students.

Launching YouTube Channel

Purpose This project has been a long time coming but it was recently spurred by the effects of the Coronavirus on K-12 schools and at colleges/universities. For months I have been planning on developing a YouTube channel devoted to edtech tool “how-to’s” for all classrooms and data literacy tutorials to help build the capacity ofContinueContinue reading “Launching YouTube Channel”