Across the Hall with Cade Somers and Michelle Shelton - HoET109

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• TodaysMeet is shutting down
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Replacements for TodaysMeet…

• Tozzl is a chat platform that allows you to quickly create private, password-protected message boards as well as public boards. To get started visit Tozzl and select “create a new Tozzl.” Then you can name your message board and set a privacy password (optional). Tozzl assigns a new, unique URL to each message board. On your message board, you can add sections for a chat, file sharing, to-do lists, and YouTube videos. You can also import the feed of a Twitter hashtag into your Tozzl boards. NO LONGER AVAILABLE // February 2020
• Padlet, in its recent update, added a backchannel feature so this would be used more than ever with TodaysMeet going away.

Let me know what you’re replacing TodaysMeet within the comments below!

Featured Content

Cade Somers and Michelle Shelton are both English teachers from Oxford High School (Alabama). They are the co-hosts of the Across the Hall Podcast and in our conversation, they provide insight into their use of education technology in the English classroom.

Cade’s a corny-humored transplanted Hoosier who loves spending time with his wife and three sons. He enjoys playing basketball, running, and playing front-yard Wiffle ball where he amazingly never strikes out. He’s been sucked into the world of podcasting to now crave every learning opportunity it provides (and every moment of torture his second-hand-hearing children endure). His current top 5: Ask Pat, Under the Influence, House of EdTech, Wired Educator, and The Art of Manliness.

Michelle has taught English for over seventeen years. Over the course of her career as an educator, she has taught at both the junior high and high school levels.

Resources Mentioned:

• Tinkercad
• Minecraft
• StoryboardThat
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Fortnite
• Kami
• ClassroomQ
• The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast
• Rich Czyz – 4 O’Clock Faculty
• Michelle Shelton’s Blog
• Cade Somers’ Blog

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JESSICA LEMMO – Striving to build a generation of young people with the skills, knowledge, and understanding to succeed in college, careers, and community, upstanding digital citizens and learners. Working to provide support to school personnel and Curriculum and Instruction staff in integrating technology into the activities of the school to improve instruction and student achievement.

Connect with Jessica Lemmo:

• Twitter: @JessicaLemmo
• Website: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MrsLemmoEdTech