My EdTech Life
June 3, 2022

Episode 120: Get Techie! From Classroom to EdTech

Amber Trout, M.Ed. has been in education for the past 11 years as a teacher, coach, and administrator. She formerly held roles as a K-8 educator, STEM Computer Coding Teacher, and Instructional Coach in Colorado, but now she ...

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June 1, 2022

Episode 119: Get unStandardized! Student Intellectual Immersion Smoth…

Chad Pettit is a high school English teacher, Army veteran, fiction author, and poet. He has a master’s degree in English with an emphasis on rhetoric and composition. As a father and teacher, he has witnessed his children an...

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May 28, 2022

Episode 118: Get Techie! Leveraging Technology for Personal & Profess…

Steve Martinez is a passionate social science teacher with a fervor for Edtech. He empowers his students through Flipped Classroom and Project-Based Learning. Steve holds his M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction. CUE awarded hi...

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May 27, 2022

Episode 117: Get Developed! Let Your Light Shine: Talent Development

Coral specializes in creating and facilitating engaging learning experiences for in-person, blended, and virtual settings. She has facilitated training and spoken at conferences and events from the local to international leve...

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May 26, 2022

Episode 116: Get Fried! EdTech Professional Development

Amy founded, friEdTechnology (fried Technology) serves educators across the United States with the best edtech professional development available. When you learn with Amy and her team, you’ll understand why “friEdTechnology,”...

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May 25, 2022

Episode 115: Get Eduprotocoled! Support Learners Through Adaptive Lea…

Jon shares, speaks and leads educational professional learning for educators internationally. Jon has been named a County Teacher of the Year, 2019 Top 100 Educational Influencer, an NBSA 20 to Watch Educator, an Apple Distin...

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May 22, 2022

Episode 114: Get Innovative! Strategies for Personal & Instructional …

Jorge Valenzuela is an education coach, author, and advocate. His work focuses on improving teacher preparation in instructional innovation, project-based learning, STEM pathways, and SEL integration across the curriculum. Jo...

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May 20, 2022

Episode 113: Get Badged! Ignite Your District's Professional Developm…

Katie serves as the Director for Curriculum & Technology Integration at Forward Edge in Cincinnati, Ohio, working closely with district leaders to help them identify the needs of their staff, plan professional development (PD...

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May 14, 2022

Episode 112: Get STEAMed! Steam Programs to Support Student Success

STEAMed Drones' CEO, Stevenson Demorcy, believes high expectations trump all obstacles. As a young learner, Stevenson participated in STEAM programs to help him transition from ESL/ELL to Special Education, General education,...

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May 13, 2022

Episode 111: Get Fungible! From Product Development to NFT Founder

Leslie Weitz is an NFT Project founder and always looking for ways to share family-friendly content in the cryptocurrency space with parents. Join me as I interview Leslie about why this matters so much. Connect on Twitter! h...

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May 7, 2022

Episode 110: Get Inspired! From Preschool to Prosperity

Each year, millions of preschoolers walk into classrooms for the first time excited about learning and elated to start their journey of education. By their freshman year in high school, those same students dread attending sch...

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May 6, 2022

Episode 109: Get Passionate! Innovative Ways to Leverage Technology

In this episode, Stacey Roshan discusses how to use technology in the classroom to help engage students and get them passionate about learning. We will explore a variety of ways that teachers can use technology to help their ...

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May 4, 2022

Episode 108: Get Coding! Computer Science & Culture

What does culture have to do with coding? Victor Hicks will share how computer science and culture intersect. Victor will also share some great tech tools he is using to help kids develop computational thinking skills. Connec...

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April 30, 2022

Episode 107: Get Badged: Professional Growth & EdTech Badges

In an ever-changing digital world, it's more important than ever for educators to keep up with the latest trends and technologies in order to provide the best possible learning experience for their students. Join me as I chat...

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April 22, 2022

Episode 106: Get Creative! Inspire Creativity in the Classroom

In this show, Jacie Maslyk inspires creativity in the classroom by giving examples of how to get creative with teaching methods. Students will enjoy learning in a fun and innovative environment with these ideas! Connect on Tw...

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April 16, 2022

Episode 105: Get Inspired! Real life Educator & Edupreneur Stories

Meet Dr. Sarah Thomas, a real-life educator, and edupreneur who will share how she turned her passion for teaching into a successful publishing business. Connect on Twitter! https://twitter.com/myedtechlife Visit the My EdTec...

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April 8, 2022

Episode 104: What’s Your Story? The Power of Personal Branding for Ed…

What's your story? In this episode, I talk with Vernon Wright about the importance of personal branding for educators. Your story is what makes you unique and it's what will set you apart from other educators. Vernon will sha...

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Dec. 23, 2021

Episode 103: Life on the Border and Bilingual Education

Dr. Edith Treviño, also known as “Dr. ET” is a professional education consultant. Dr. ET is also a dynamic storyteller, collector of stories, author, advocate of language, wife, mother, and passionate educator who lives and t...

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Dec. 21, 2021

Episode 102:The Future of Learning With Augmented Reality

Steve Grubbs is the founder of VictoryXR, an education metaverse company. Working with higher education and K-12, VXR is creating synchronous learning classrooms in all subject areas. Connect on Twitter! https://twitter.com/m...

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Dec. 20, 2021

Episode 101: What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming An Instructional Desi…

Dr. Luke Hobson is a Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager at MIT, an Online Instructor for SNHU, and the Founder of Instructional Design Institute. I’m also the author of the book, What I Wish I Knew Before Becom...

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Dec. 16, 2021

Reflecting on 100 Episodes

Thanks to the support of my #PLF (Personal Learning Family), I have reached a podcasting milestone. It is an honor to be able to share with you some of my reflections and most memorable moments from the show. In addition, I a...

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Dec. 9, 2021

Episode 100: How To Create Meaningful Change?

George Couros is a worldwide leader in the area of innovative teaching, learning, and leading, and has a focus on innovation as a human endeavor. In his 20 plus years in the field of education, he has worked at all levels of ...

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Dec. 2, 2021

Episode 99: Universal Design for Learning & Multi-Tiered Systems of S…

Katie Novak, Ed.D., is an internationally renowned education consultant, author, graduate instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a former Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts. With 19 years of exper...

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Nov. 26, 2021

Bonus Episode: Feedback Builds Community

Josh is a Title I Specialist in Mesa, Arizona. He is also the CRO (Chief Riffin' Officer) and co-host of the Punk Rock Classrooms Podcast. Josh believes that the punk rock mindset is perfect for education and the ideas of PA...

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