This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 86 of the Cult of Pedagogy

Podcast. In this episode I'm going to share six ed tech tools you should try in

2018.

Around October of every year while teachers are way steep in curriculum kids are

thinking about what they're going to be for Halloween and retail stores are

already gathering steam for Christmas. I am thinking about one thing, technology.

That's because every January I put out a fresh version of the teacher's

guide to tech, my uber fabulous directory of tech tools. All year long I take

notes on new tools I hear about from teachers I talk to in conversations on

Twitter and by paying really close attention at conferences. Then from October

through early January I start figuring out which ones are going to make it

into the guide. This year I added 60 new tools and I'm so excited to share them

with you. As I have done every year since 2015 I'm going to shine a spotlight on

six of the tools I added to this year's guide. They're not all brand new but I

think each one of them can make a real difference in the way your students

learn or the things they produce. One of them is super trendy right now but it

deserves the attention. One of them takes you into the past in a way that can

be breathtaking. Three can be used in a dozen different ways and in all subject

areas and one I would bet money on this you're going to want to try right away.

Before we get started I want to thank this episode sponsor, Kiddom. Kiddom is a

free platform that allows teachers to plan, assess and analyze student work and

now more teachers are using Kiddom to collaborate with each other. Using Kiddom's

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