This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 60 of the Cult of Pedagogy

Podcast. In this episode I'm going to share my picks for six Ed Tech tools you

should try in 2017.

For the past two years I have written and published something I call the

Teachers Guide to Tech. I think of it like an Ed Tech encyclopedia, a catalog of

tools designed to help take the overwhelm out of technology. All the tools are

grouped into categories so the assessment tools are all together, the flipped

learning tools are all together and so on. For every tool that I feature I give

you a screenshot of the tool in action. I link you right to the tools website. I

give you a complete description in plain English and I link you directly to a

video that demonstrates how the tool works and because the whole thing is

packaged up in one single interactive PDF you can click from section to

section at lightning speed. It's something you can keep on your work

computer, your home computer and even on all your devices so you can look

things up quickly no matter where you are. To keep the guide fresh every year I

go in and update it. I add some new tools that have come along I omit tools

that have faded away and I make sure that all the links and information are

still accurate. It is a crap ton of work. I'll tell you that right now but the

end result is pretty phenomenal and now my 2017 guide is ready. It's fully

redesigned this year to make it even easier to use and I have added over 30 new

tools and a few new categories like math, special ed, content libraries,

makerspaces and comic strip creators. I think you're absolutely going to love it.

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