Katelyn returns to talk about the importance of functionality when designing an education space and respond to feedback from episode 52.   Follow Kate Nesi http://www.twitter.com/katenesi   This episode of House of #EdTech is sponsored by:   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   Complete shownotes at: http://chrisnesi.com/54   FEEDBACK Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

My very first guest, Alex Rosenwald, has returned to the classroom and the podcast to talk about how his students are taking education technology to the next level.   Follow Alex Rosenwald http://www.twitter.com/arosey   This episode of House of #EdTech is sponsored by:   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   Complete shownotes at: http://chrisnesi.com/55   **Segments**   (2:05) - Opening   (7:05) - EdTech Thought   (9:19) - EdTech Recommendation - Stories Teachers Share   (11:20) - Featured Content   (44:00) - House of #EdTech VIP - Rachel Murat http://www.twitter.com/MrsMurat   FEEDBACK Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

Teachers should be offered choices around topics, presenters, and how their PD is structured. Teachers are told time and time again to differentiate, personalize, and meet their students where they are. Why doesn’t the same ring true for professional development?   This episode of House of #EdTech is sponsored by:   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   ***** (1:20) Introduction   (11:50) Main Content: Teacher Choice   (22:23) House of #EdTech Recommendation: TelePromptor   (24:53) House of #EdTech VIP: Brent Warner   Complete show notes at: http://chrisnesi.com/56   *****   FEEDBACK Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

Get FOUR awesome #edtech recommendations in this 2016 edition of the #EdTech Final Four. This episode of House of #EdTech is sponsored by:   Grammarly   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   ** Segments **   (1:29) Introduction   (8:10) EdTech Thought - Live streaming from conferences   (11:20) EdTech Final Four - Blab.im   (14:52) EdTech Final Four - Anchor.fm   (17:50) EdTech Final Four - WallaMe   (20:40) EdTech Final Four - Versal   (25:50) House of #EdTech VIP - Jami Joshua   Complete show notes: chrisnesi.com/57   FEEDBACK Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

AJ Bianco and Adam Schoenbart guest co-host this episode and we discuss great approaches to what you can do after attending an EdCamp. We share tips and recommendations to get the most out of your unconference experience.   Follow AJ Bianco and Adam Schoenbart   Support for this episode of House of #EdTech comes from:   Grammarly   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   **SEGMENTS**   (1:36) Intro   SPECIAL LINK - Adam Schoenbart on CNN   (7:40) EdTech Recommendation - NEW Google Forms   (9:40) Featured Content: Life After EdCamp   (34:40) The Education Calendar   (37:10) House of #EdTech VIP - Bruce Reicher   Complete shownotes at http://chrisnesi.com/58   FEEDBACK Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

AJ Bianco and Stacey Lindes have broken into the House of #EdTech and taken over the show. What have they done with this opportunity? The best guest they could get? Me.   Support for this episode of House of #EdTech comes from:   Grammarly   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   ** SEGMENTS **   (1:18) Intro   (2:10) #EdTech Thought   (4:27) House of #EdTech Recommendation   (5:45) Christopher J. Nesi - unplugged!   (34:15) House of #EdTech VIP - Jamie Bianco   Complete show notes at: chrisnesi.com/59   ** SHARE FEEDBACK **   Call: (732) 903-4869   Voxer: mrnesi   Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com   Twitter: @mrnesi   Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

Jennifer Gonzalez, a fellow podcaster who hosts the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast shares a variety of #edtech tools and resources that every teacher needs to be aware of.   Follow Jennifer Gonzalez   ** SUPPORTERS **   Grammarly   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   Complete show notes at: chrisnesi.com/60   ** SEGMENTS **   (1:24) Intro   (10:45) Jennifer Gonzalez    (53:55) House of EdTech VIP - Alyssa Miller   ** SHARE FEEDBACK **   Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

Stephany Hesslein is a first-grade teacher for Middletown Public Schools here in New Jersey.    Follow Stephanie Hesslein   Support for this episode of House of #EdTech comes from:   Grammarly   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   Complete show notes http://chrisnesi.com/61   **SEGMENTS**   (1:29) Intro   (8:57 ) House of #EdTech Thought - Get it right the first time   (12:34) House of #EdTech Recommendation - MediaCore Capture    (15:20) Featured Content - Stephany Hesslein   (43:11) House of #EdTech VIP - Monica Burns   FEEDBACK Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

Meghan Davis from GoEnnounce stops by the podcast to update us on some new developments to their platform and I record LIVE from EdTechNJ 2016 in Edison, NJ.   Support for this episode of House of #EdTech comes from:   Grammarly   Audible.com   Domain.com   Listeners Like You! Become a Patron...   Complete show notes http://chrisnesi.com/62   **SEGMENTS**   (1:10) Intro   (8:57) House of #EdTech Thought - Summer Learning   (11:25) House of #EdTech Recommendation - #EdTechNJ Mini App Smackdown   (17:55) Featured Content - Meghan Davis from GoEnnounce.com   (42:00) House of #EdTech VIP - Dr. Greg Goins   **FEEDBACK**   Call: (732) 903-4869 Voxer: mrnesi Email: feedback@chrisnesi.com Twitter: @mrnesi Send a voice message from http://www.chrisnesi.com

The NMC’s ‘On the Horizon’ Report is one I  look forward to reading at the start of each year.  It’s clearly written, it’s honest and, for me, it’s a pretty good gauge of how successfully and creatively  learning technology is being used in HE. This year’s report starts big - page one proclaims that there are two long-term trends: advancing cultures of innovation and a fundamental rethink of how universities and colleges work. Those are two pretty big areas, so rather than looking at all of the trends and challenges highlighted in the report I want to concentrate on the first of these two overarching trends. ‘Innovation’ is a word that has been used repeatedly since the effects of the 2008 recession started to be felt in education. It usually boils down to ‘doing more with less’ - though if you need to produce twice the amount of ‘stuff’ with half the amount of resources / staff / money, you’re pretty much forced into being ‘innovative’ in order to survive. As a result of attending many, many faculty meetings with various employers over the past 8 years and hearing the word ‘innovation’ used in the same sentence as ‘budget cuts’ over and over again, I now wince whenever I hear it. It’s just a pretty way of saying ‘We have had our budget cut in half again, so things are going to get even harder this year.  Deal with it!’ Here’s more from the report: The Innovation Policy Platform…asserts that universities should bolster entrepreneurship courses to attract and accommodate more students, while nurturing faculty that can meet high-quality teaching standards…universities should even encourage faculty and staff to hone their own entrepreneurial skills through professional development and opportunities to participate in start-ups. The IPP recommends that training policies move beyond business development and management to emphasize the challenges of enterprise growth, risk-taking, and building strategic alliances. Let’s try to unpick what this means. If we read between the lines, is the NMC recommending that we all need to learn how to start up our own businesses so we have something to fall back on should the worst happen; or are they talking solely in the context of business-related courses? Let’s see what the report goes on to say: There is a growing consensus among many higher education thought leaders that institutional leadership and curricula could benefit from adopting agile startup models. This is a rather broad statement.  And once I’d finished dry-heaving over the term ‘thought leader’ (which scores double points in Bullshit Bingo, and sounds like something from a George Orwell novel) I found it to be a little sinister too. Business has now, apparently, subsumed education completely. Students are often referred to as clients and curricula are business models.  (Apropos of nothing, I don’t have staff any more either - I have direct reports.) I get it;  in this endless recession no job is secure (thanks George Osborne). But the students I deal with are training to be healthcare professionals - nurses, midwives, radiographers, and physiotherapists - they have neither the time nor the inclination to start learning about entrepreneurship - it’s not what they signed up for, and there isn’t much space in their timetables (because lectures form only half of their study - their medical placements form the other half).  And let’s face it - it’s hard enough to get staff to engage with embedding technology effectively into their curricula, so asking them to start teaching another subject, or find the time to participate in a startup…it’s too much, and, to be honest, it just all feels a bit sinister. Maybe I’ve missed the point entirely here.  Maybe this is a positive move, and something that I should be engaging with myself. Maybe the skills learned in ‘How to be an Entrepreneur 101’ are wholly transferable to all educational (and medical) settings - though the healthcare sector is steadily become ‘businessfied’ itself, with patients now also called service users, clients or customers.  All of this seems a little clinical (excuse the pun) and dehumanising. So what do you think?  I’d appreciate some comments about this one, as I’m not sure what this all means and may well be worrying about nothing!