• Code Café (lessons learned)
  • Don't assume a challenge area will be used by a certain age group. Our Kinders went to the most challenging areas and thrived.
  • Need more devices
  • A Plus-Students were training each other
  • shared story of student sick at home but wanted to come to school anyways because it was her turn in the Code Café
  • Rainy days
  • Sharing apps between grade levels-erasing progress, restarting app,
• Questions from the mailbag- Ascension Reyes-Technology Resource Teacher-De Anza Magnet School-El Centro Elementary
  • How do you like Office365 and all of its features Onenote class notebook, Sway, Skype in the classroom, Forms, Microsoft classroom etc. in comparison to Google Apps for Education & Google Classroom? 
  • What does your district use?
• podcasts we are listening to
  • check this out-Ryan and Brian long but has gems.
  • learn with John Eick quick and to the point, and I love his excitement and sound effects
  • Drunks and Dragons, Dark Secret Place special interest
  • Cult of Pedagogy-Jennifer Gonzalez
  • Ridgelife Podcast-Kyle Anderson
• Different styles and purposes of podcasts.
  • long format conversational
  • short format tips and tricks
  • interviews
  • tips and news
  • edtech focus or not
  • different audiences- tailor your propose to that

CUE news updates (Tom-Vista) We first went to Vista RockStar in June 0f 2016. I believe we did a review of this conference back on Episode 19.

Digital Formative Assessment Options

1. Microsoft Forms review (added quizzes) recently Microsoft Forms has added quizzes along side their survey.
2. https://quizlet.com/teachers review. https://quizlet.com/livedemo
3. https://getkahoot.com/ review.
4. EdPuzzle- make video quizzes and get reports, free for teachers!
5. Quizziz- easy and simple way to integrate tech
6. Plickers with giveaway

Sunkist Elementary Code Cafe Special. Tom and Mike go on assignment and talk to the students, teachers and admin responsible for making the Code Cafe dream a reality!