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• House of #EdTech was featured in the October 2020 issue of Podcast Magazine!

#EdTech Thought

Have y’all ever heard of #PassTheScopeEDU? 

• #PassTheScopeEDU (www.PassTheScopeEDU.com) was an idea that posed a question, what would happen if educators came together to share their thoughts and viewpoints on a single topic using the Periscope app?
• It was started back in the Spring of 2014 via discussion in the EduMatch (@Edu_Match) Voxer group and the first scopes happened on April 21, 2014, and it’s seen some amazing growth as well as a bit of a slow down in recent times.
• I was lucky enough to be a part of the initial 5 scopers who decided to get this crazy idea started, along with Valerie Lews (@iamVLewis), Dr. Sarah Thomas (@SarahDaTeechur), Knikole Taylor (@Knikole), and Dr. Toutoule Ntoya (@ToutouleNtoya)
• Every 3rd Thursday of the month
• A topic is discussed in the  #PassTheScopeEDUVoxer chat, which any educator can ask to join
• Anyone can sign up for a chance to scope on the #PassTheScopeEDU spreadsheet

This is one of the most amazing communities I have been privileged to be a part of and I know you can also gain from watching the scopes and joining in on the discussions. For more information, search on Twitter or Periscope for  #PassTheScopeEDU or visit their website at www.PassTheScopeEDU.com.

#EdTech Recommendation

• Originality Reports tool in G-suite and Google Docs
  • Helps teachers to see how original the student work is, a plagiarism checker tool

Featured Content

Jared Covili has been an educational technology trainer at Utah Education Network in Salt Lake City, Utah for over a decade. He specializes in teaching strategies for classroom integration of technology such as Google learning tools, geospatial learning, social media, and digital devices. Jared’s background is in secondary education where he was a Language Arts teacher. He received his Bachelors’s degree in English and his Masters’s degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the University of Utah.

Since 2006, Jared has worked as an adjunct faculty member for the College of Education at the University of Utah, where he teaches technology integration classes to undergraduate students. Jared also served as the President of the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) in 2011-2012. Jared’s first book Going Google: Powerful Tools for 21st Century Learning was released in March 2012 by Corwin Press. In October 2016, the second edition of Going Google was published. His second book, Classroom in the Cloud, was released in November 2015, also by Corwin Press.

• Involvement with UCET & related projects
  • UCET Board
  • #UTedChat
  • Edcamps in Utah
    • EdcampUT
    • Edcamp St George
    • Edcamp Wasatch South (EdcampWASO)
    • EdcampUT Digital
• UEN Projects (@UENnews)
  • Professional Development Training (@UENpd)
  • UEN Homeroom Podcast
• What has been your biggest takeaway from working with EdTech and helping other teachers learn?

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Valerie Lewis – Valerie is a former Special Education teacher and currently an Assistant Principal in the Atlanta suburbs. Valerie is the inspiration behind and founding member of #PassTheScopeEDU (PassTheScopeEDU.com).

Val is an incredible person who is full of personality and energy and is always trying to find ways to help move education along.

She is a devoted wife and a wonderful mother. 

Connect with Valerie Lewis:

• Twitter: @iamVLewis