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HiTech Podcast

The HiTech Podcast is a conversation between two friends who love talking about tech with a heavy dose of nerd lore and interests. Join us as we learn how to integrate tech into our work and hobbies. Head to hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages and more info about the pod! We"d love your support at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HiTechPodcast!

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104 | Mark at FabuLingua

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/06/20

Back with another interview! Josh and Will chat with Mark Begert of FabuLingua. This platform aims to revolutionize language learning in the elementary learning space, and hopefully beyond. Utilizing leading language acquisition theories, and real-life experience, Mark and Leslie Begert co-founded the FabuLingua after seeing the technique behind it revolutionize language learning for their children. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website

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00:45:41

103 | Productivity Tech Tips & Atomic Search for Canvas

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2023/06/13

Josh and Will love tech. We use it in almost everything we do. Tune in for some quick tips and general tomfoolery about your every day tools that could be better. Like, copying and pasting: did you know there's an even better way to do it? Tune in! Then, Josh offers up Atomic Jolt's tool Atomic Search for Canvas. It's pretty much installing Google directly into your Canvas instance. Find anything, anywhere. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our

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00:42:48

102 | The Roastery: Articulate & kanopy

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2023/06/06

Turn the temps up: time to roast! On the grill this time is Articulate, the premier provider of eLearning software. They have tools like Rise 360 and Storyline 360. After our roast, we offer up kanopy on a silver platter. This platform provides free movies to higher education institutions and libraries. It's a great tool to provide real cinema to your learners without any fees or legal concerns. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website

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00:52:20

101 | Is Higher Ed Dying? & Research Rabbit

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2023/05/30

Well, the title's the question: is higher education dying? We're post-pandemic, we're remote friendly, we're Zoom-crazed, and we're YouTube saturated. Do we need the traditional format? Do we need student loans? Bring the questions and the fire. Then, we talk about a new favorite of ours, Research Rabbit. This platform helps you perform deep and effective research into a topic by using AI to find similarities across research articles. Listen in and give it a try! For more on our

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00:50:28

100 | ExtravaCanva Event!

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/05/23

Season 4 starts with a bang! In our first episode, we talked about Canva and how it works for education. To celebrate the podcast's milestone, we've returned to Canva and brought along a couple of new friends: Christie Thompson and Renee Dawson. We interview both of them to learn a little bit more about how Canva is being used in the classroom. We hope you enjoy the insights! For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website at hitechpod.us for all of

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00:06:53

Season 4 HYPE

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/05/16

Here's what's coming in Season 4! AI and #ChatGPT, #Roastery episodes, new guests, new, new, new! Josh and Will have a special announcement for the future and growth of the pod. Blog posts and new connections with the Education Podcast Network. So much to see, hear, read, listen, do, experience, subscribe! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hitechpod/message

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00:57:18

099 | Community of Inquiry & Visme

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2023/04/25

Will and Josh detail the Community of Inquiry and its impact on online and traditional education. The relationship between Cognitive, Teaching, and Social Presences helps us identify where we can build inquisitive community in our classrooms. Then we review Visme - the digital media studio. Create stunning media and access tons of excellent stock footage with their platform. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website at hitechpod.us for all of our episode

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01:05:27

098 | Nick at Arguflow

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/04/18

What happens when you correlate arguments, logic, debate, reasoning, and the internet? An app to help train us in the process of reasoned debate: Arguflow. We talk to Nick at Arguflow to find out why we need an app like this (and we at HiTech certainly believe we do), and how we can use the Arguflow experience to improve our logic and reasoning. In a world that fights over the color of a dress, we need more methods to improve our discourse. For more on our conversation, check out the episode

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00:53:23

097 | GK at Brain Racers

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2023/04/11

This interviews find us with GK from Brain Racers, the fastest and funnest (yeah, I said it) learning tool for your classrooms. Pairing excellent music, challenging gameplay, and automated content production (thanks ChatGPT and similar language models), Brain Racers puts learners in a side-by-side race to see who can answer questions about the world around us. GK's motivation comes from a deep love for learning, and we hope you'll enjoy the conversation! For more on our conversation, check

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00:48:57

096 | Interpersonal Communication Skills & Slack

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2023/04/04

Josh and Will played a game called Hot Takes, and it spawned a podcast episode. The question came up about social media and its impact on interpersonal communication skills. We take this entire episode to play the idea out and see just what we think. After a bit of waxing poetic, we chat about Slack and how it can serve the purpose of teaching with social media without it being so social. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website at hitechpod.us for all

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00:42:33

095 | Ungrading: Where Do I Start? & Explain Everything

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2023/03/28

We wrap up the ungrading series with a new beginning. Where do you start with ungrading? Listen in for a few easy ways to start small while aiming big! We leave you with a great tool for creating learning assets and feedback loops for your students: Explain Everything. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. Head over to our website at hitechpod.us for all of our episode pages, our Twitter, our YouTube, our connection to Education Podcast Network, and to see our faces (maybe

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01:00:52

094 | How Do You Assess Ungrading? with Dr. Timothy...

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/03/21

Dr. Timothy Shea joins us for episode 4 in the ungrading series to discuss HOW we even assess ungrading. Isn't the point not to assess? Wrong. Assessment and feedback are key to learning, but numerical/alphabetical grades are not. Listen in for how Dr. Shea has been doing this for decades! He also leaves us with an oldie but a goodie: Twitter for Education. He still uses Twitter for his professional purposes and trains students how to effectively engage in social media tools. For more on our

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00:56:58

093 | Ungrading in an LMS & TechSmith's Snagit

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/03/14

The series continues with an informational how-to: setting up ungrading in an LMS! Now, this is not a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough for every LMS. This is more of a general guideline for what it takes to do ungrading in an LMS. There are a lot of settings that can get in the way, so tune in to get a sense for what you need to watch for when doing ungrading in your course. We also leave you with TechSmith's Snagit, a fantastic tool for all image and video capture. Josh uses it for his teaching,

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01:03:48

092 | Why Do Ungrading? with Dr. Justin Harbin &...

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2023/03/07

Long-standing friend of the podcast, Dr. Justin Harbin, returns to help us establish the rationale for ungrading. What's its purpose? Is it "good?" Should we be doing it or is it a fad? Answer all of these questions and more when you tune into episode 92. And then, Justin leaves us with an excellent tool called Research Rabbit. This tool can help automate the discovery of new materials, making literature reviews and all levels of research that much easier. Even better: they operate on an open-source

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00:47:04

091 | What Is Ungrading? & Adobe's Frame.io

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/02/28

Starting a new series on Ungrading! Hear our two cents on the subject and join us for the series where we'll have some folks speaking to how they've used it in their classrooms. AND, we are excited to discuss Frame.io: a collaborative video critique software. Upload your video, send your link out, and start annotating the video! It's pretty dang awesome. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our

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00:54:47

090 | Dr. Charles Illingworth: Online Acupuncture? &...

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/02/21

We're joined by Dr. Charles Illingworth (Will's big brother) to talk about how in the heck they managed to continue teaching acupuncture during the pandemic. Join us for a few laughs, some awesome stories (stay tuned for Moonlighting as a Photobooth Operator), and insights into a fascinating field of study. Dr. Illingworth leaves us with A Manual of Acupuncture as an example of apps that meet the need for niche fields. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. For all of our

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00:54:38

089 | Justin Phillips: Teaching Art Online & Google...

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/02/14

We are joined by Justin Phillips, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Justin and Will met over a bagel, and the rest was history! Listen to Justin's story about pivoting into the pandemic and learning tremendous lessons about how to reach students across barriers: whether they're technological or learning interferences. He leaves us with the wonderful tool, Google Jamboard, as an example of one that's helped him teach art online and even impacted his

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00:48:04

088 | Motivating Your Students, pt. 2 & Sutori

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/02/07

Part 2 on motivation! What does it take to design motivational elements into your curriculum or an activity? We think there are a few key pieces to consider and reflect on some examples of how to get this done. Then, we jump into Sutori and how it can work for building timelines and visual presentations. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us. --- Send in a voice

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00:43:50

087 | Motivating Your Students, pt. 1 & Asana

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/01/31

Part one of a two part conversation on motivation. This episode focuses on underlying motivation theories as well as the relationship between motivation and emotions. We hope you find it motivating. After that, we investigate Asana and its power as a project management tool. There are tons of applications for education: how do you use it? For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at

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00:51:53

086 | Plagiarism Pandemic: ChatGPT & Diigo

HiTech Podcast ·

2023/01/24

That's right, folks! We're tackling the hot topic of OpenAI's ChatGPT. What is a chat bot? Are these things new? Why does everyone care so much? We answer these questions and more as we reminisce about SmarterChild, address the issue of plagiarism, and hope for a better world. And then, we dig into Diigo, the educationally-centered bookmarking and organization tool. This app will bring your classroom together around portfolio activities, shared knowledge corpuses (corpi?), and data sharing. For more

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