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Feedback & Shout Outs (1:20) 2022  House of #EdTech Smackdown ! Coming in  episode 215  - Submit your entry by December 9, 2022. EdTech Thought (5:35) EdCamps Are Great! You should be attending or organizing the best professional development you can get! EdTech Recommendation (11:12) Twine - https://twinery.org/ Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don’t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes. Twine would be great for individual students in grades 5-12. Featured Content (14:38) In episode 212 , I asked if schools were listening to teachers about a number of issues related to education technology. One of my li...

Feedback & Shout Outs (1:19) 2022  House of #EdTech Smackdown ! Coming in  episode 215  - Submit your entry by December 9, 2022. EdTech Thought (3:30) Paying for Twitter Verification. Don't be a Sneetch! EdTech Recommendation (7:16) Scribe Chrome Extension Use the Scribe Chrome Extension to automatically generate step-by-step guides for any process in seconds. Spend less time explaining and more time doing. Scribe generates an interactive screenshot and text description for each step. Easily share with colleagues and students. Featured Content (8:38) When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers? (EdSurge) When your school or district decides to invest in and make a new edtech product available, the goal is to transform student learning and add value to their experiences in the classroom. But where in the process do you fit in? If you're a teacher what, if any, is your role? And how much say do you—or should you—have in edtech dec...