Welcome to episode 461 of Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer, from March 18, 2018. This podcast features an introductory overview about instructional coaching and technology integration coaching specifically, drawing on the author’s experiences in this role with teachers since the late 1990s. In addition to defining instructional coaching, keys to successful instructional coaching experiences for mentor teachers as well as coaches are highlighted, as well as “lessons learned.” The second part of the podcast features an interview with middle school French teacher Blake Pardue, who has been connecting his students to “pen pal” classrooms of French speaking students in Europe and in Africa for several years. The past two years, Blake’s students have used the iPad app “Explain Everything” to create media-rich introductions of themselves and practice their French skills with their pen pals. This interview was a reflection with Blake Pardue and Wes Fryer about this year’s iteration of the Explain Everything project, which utilized the new “cloud based” and collaborative version. They discuss project procedures and lessons learned. Refer to the podcast shownotes for links to referenced apps and resources from the show.
Shownotes:
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- Learning Showcase of Yukon Public Schools (Oklahoma)
- Learning Showcase of Casady School (Oklahoma)
- Show with Media: What Do You Want to CREATE Today?
- CNAME Change for Blogger websites on GSuite Domain
- Folio Collaborative (platform for faculty goal setting, mentorship and growth)
- Explain Everything (@explainevrythng)
- Seesaw (@seesaw)
- This podcast was normalized before publication on Amazon S3 with Auphonic
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Source : Podcast461: Instructional Coaching, Middle School French Class and Explain Everything for iPad
