#CatholicEdchat Archive
CatholicEdChat is a twitter chat. Topics focus on discussions around educational issues for Catholic Educators and topics beneficial to Catholic Schools. We look forward to continuing to connect Catholic Educators online to discuss education and teaching with faith in our schools. The chat takes place on Saturday mornings. Time 9am EST.
Saturday April 2, 2016
Good morning! My tweets for the next hour will be devoted to
Good morning - sunny day today here in Nashville.
Casual chat this morning! Still recovering from the
Tweeting for today Welcome to!
morning! Don! Sunny in Omaha too.
Hi Nancy! So great to see you this week in San Diego!
Good morning ! Br Christopher from Kansas checking in
Good morning all! Gearing up for more snow (!!!!!) here in RI.
Good Morning I'm settling in at home after a wonderful time at
Morning, , greetings from Rainy NJ. Baseball Season is upon us! No more snow + heavy rain, please! Chance of Snow, Monday...
Good morning from Peabody, MA
Good morning from Southern CA!
Good morning Marcie from New Orleans
Sunny here in KS, cold start to the day. how was NCEA?
Ugh. Yes. Only 1-3 inches MAYBE, but I'm being dramatic. April's too late for snow! :(
Would love to hear what you enjoyed most at the
I was so glad that I could follow Thanks so much for tweeting your experiences!
the best part of was meeting up with my !
For some reason it happens every year somewhere in Northeast... Snow in April + 33 inch Jan. storm
you bet! Loved sharing the funny lines too.
Good morning! I have to miss AGAIN to get car recall fixed. :( Miss you guys!
Good morning! Settling in at home after awesome time at
good early morning to you! Did I hear you won something at the TweetUp?
I enjoyed the time with my PLN. Learned more sitting around the table talking than anywhere else
Good morning from CALIFORNIA!
Best part was being able to follow via periscope and the tweets from a large PLN . Couldn't go this yr.
morning! So nice to meet you IRL at the
good early morning to you!
morning! Next year is a must!
Good morning! Yes, I won a cool "car" wireless mouse!
Good morning from chilly Ohio...esp after being in Florida for a week!
I thought the snow last week was the end! Bah!
I had the cleaning people come yesterday- Made recovery much easier
morning! So sorry I didn't give you a proper good bye!
Good morning from rainy and dreary Baltimore
Would love to go. I got to go when I was at Creighton, but not since. Funding and time are real issues!
Agreed! I learned the most from our conversations
hello! So sorry I didn't get to meet your friends IRL. He did make the final movie, tho.
Good morning ! Great to meet you at
Still?? That must have been a crazy time.
Good morning Beth! Did you pick up your prize?
Good morning from San Diego Great to meet many of you IRL this week
Q1 Our topic today is App Smackdown - what apps do you use daily as a teacher/educator?
morning! Florida sounds wonderful!
same here! I think my brain is still tired!
What time and day is it there?
Would love it if were 2take place in the summer. School year just doesn't work
No worries Barb! Thanks for your support as they prepared to get to
still enjoying the sun I see!
some of us didn't get home till between 8 and 10 pm last night
A1, Twitter, Edmodo mobile app, New favorite for presentations is emaze, better than Prezi by far imo.
Good morning Christie! Yes, I won a cool car wireless mouse at
I know it won't be a year till I see you again
Agreed! Summer has its own difficulties. Missing 3-4 days of school is too much.
ha! Actually, caught a bug on the last day, flying home was not that fun. ;-(
A1 to manage classroom website
It's now Sunday morning at 12:12am, though we end Day Light saving at 2am.
A1: I use socrative, and Google Apps daily.
a1 cont. classroom as well!
A1 Notability and all apps Google
Good morning. Ann from NJ
A1 Teacher Pick instead of popsicle sticks to pick names
Good to know about this chat. Br. Manu from Tucson
Ughh... flying sick is no fun.
A1 Tweetdeck, Google docs, Classroom
I am going to be in Australia next year at this time! Can't wait!
Welcome Br Manu! Great to see another religious here!
GAFE is incredible- Socrative became one of my go to's recently.
welcome! So nice to meet you at and coming to our sessions!
Ohhh this sounds good. My kiddos aren't fans of the popsicle sticks
A1 All Google apps...cant live without them!
A1: Students use Book creator and iMovie quite a bit, too!
morning Ann. So good to see you this past week!
morning! Ann, had fun documenting my trip home with
My ss need to do more with iMovie! 4th quarter goal!
9 pm for me - great trip!
Oh yes- forgot about Socrative!
A1 GAFE, ChatterKid, Showme, Kodable, Foos, OneNote, Dropbox, QRReader, iMovie, Feedly, iRosary
A1 Google drive, FB pages app and Twitter!
a1: Tweetdeck (sad to see the freestanding Windows app goes away April 15 - browser only after that)
A1 got a new app at from teachers - fun photo collage app and website.
Holiday, family catch up or just a great place to come to?
How could I have forgotten Google Drive?!?!?! It has made my life so much easier!
Good morning all! A little lurking today but happy to join in. Glad to see so many of my PLC this week.
And how can I forget about iMovie! uses Explain Everything and Book Creator
A1 I am going to try EdPuzzle this week . Also love Today's Meet.
Our Ss just did a cool project creating Newscasts w/GreenScreen using Greek&Latin words
Now, if only I could remember what was in Drive, , , and stored locally...
I'm saving this one. I need to create a year end photo collage for kids- thx https://t.co/xm4t5ccc16
A1 got a new app at from teachers - fun photo collage app and website.
Joining late. Still in San Diego. Forgot it's a different time here :)
A1 Google Drive helps me share files with all the teachers I coach
morning! I understand! It's hard to chat at 6:00am.
We are starting to use Touchcast a lot too in my class
edpuzzle has become a favorite for quite a few I work with especially since it ties to Classroom
Just reading that list has put my brain on overload.!
a1: I get a lot of good news content from Nuzzle newsletters showing up in my email.
Definitely - used it a lot this week to record and retrieve info
Can't wait to try BeFunky. Thanks
Q2 - What photo or creativity type apps do you use most often?
So good to finally meet you in person! Thanks for coming to my session
I am excited to try it with Google Classroom
I want to start using . Restructuring class to catch time for that
All of teachers have twitter accounts and use to share out the day on Twitter and newsletters
A1: I still like Inspiration. Let's me be visual with my task lists, project planning, organizing, story-boarding
A2 PicCollage and Canva - both great!
A2: I like Paper 53 is a creative app along with Book Creator, DoInk, iMovie, & Explain Everything. Lots of app smapshing
A2 Love Scratch for creating digital stories. Students amaze me with their imagination.
morning! Great to see you today!
We just got an IT that will work on iPads, need to start using those more often!
I am helping many teachers use Seesaw as a digital portfolio Very user friendly especially for primary Ss Ts LOVE it!
actually up to go eat and head to airport. Thought I'd check Twitter. Found it by chance:)
I've heard so much about SeeSaw lately.
A2 - Instagram, Snapseed, Piccollage, Wordswag
Mentor teacher from where I student taught is helping me w/ Wix portfolio I love the software, but a little tricky to use.
MT I am helping teachers use Seesaw -digital portfolio -user friendly especially for primary Ss Ts LOVE it!
Love the fact that all of those deal with creating!! Too much curating on iPads - I can do that on paper.
We use and it has a digital portfolio feature built in!
Used to live there so taking my daughter for her college grad present
Safe travels, Monika - so great to meet you in person!
RT We use and it has a digital portfolio feature built in!
Here is our wonderful principal she opened her account this week and tweet like a pro!
A2: is my go to for creativity. Ss have been using & iMovie
One of those mornings where my head is spinning from all these apps- why I love
If you have iPads you should be creating daily and curating in Google drive
grateful it didn't hit me until Friday. So glad I was fine during the actual convention.
These are all bit hits with the Ts I work with Couldn't agree more
You can do almost anything on Explain Everything!I love that one, too!
..said the preacher to the choir. Agreed! Culture in classrooms is finally shifting that way.
Me too! Love how easy it is too.
Q3 What apps do you use to backup to the cloud? Photos, files, etc
Will have too add that to my list. Blackboard does as well but not as powerful
I think I met her on Thursday at the
RT One of those mornings where my head is spinning from all these apps- why I love
We added this year, and they have great portfolio tools.
A3. OneDrive crashed on me during my Final Exams Freshman Yr of College. Switched to Google Drive and NEVER LOOKED BACK.
This is a favorite of mine.
A3 Google Drive and Dropbox
Good morning from Chicago, more APRIL foolishness! A1 GAFE, Notability, Explain Everything, iMovie https://t.co/9HVleBzbK2
I use those too - Anyone using Flickr to save and tag photos?
a3 is my go to for organizing files, Drive for files to share with students, for web clips
, is dynamite- used it couple summers for classes, its been great. Ez.
We live on Google Drive. Love apps that allow for Google login too. Much easier for Ss (and Ts)
A3 Dropxbox and Google Drive
Flash Drive, double backup to a Terabyte.... Apps are secondary
Good morning, Jan - great pic!
A3: We use Google Drive to back up files and YouTube for videos. I just learned how to make channels.
looks great! Just realized it was your site I used for the prayer to bless our doors!
Good Morning...just checking in for the first time on a Saturday morning. Great meeting folks at NCEA.
good morning! It was a great convention! Welcome to
Google Drive is great because it shares items & not just folders, can be very specific w/ what's shared.
Good morning Jan. Why aren't we somewhere warm?
It will be great to see how much it's changed-hoping to connect with Catholic educators there
Love Google Drive when you're in the moment. Still need the backup .... Think future.....
Not a Microsoft fan AT ALL!
Welcome. does a great job with this chat.
Plus, wifi outages will happen at worst possible moment, local storage still a must!
I love it for that reason, too! And you can allow editing or just viewing priviliges.
Look on the Bright side, Cubs baseball starts on Monday and the Sox are eliminated from Postseason nxt wk.
With all the advertisement did we get anybody new on this morning's chat?
a3 Google Drive, and network backs up to local backup appliance, which in turn backs up to cloud.
don't forget ! She took a 9 month hiatus to work with the World Meeting of Families
Agreed! I was able to easily share resources with my mentee but not overload her
Don't know how I got up in the morning before Google Drive!
I'm not a Catholic School teacher anymore, but I still love this chat!
Q4: What paid apps have you found worthwhile? Which do you use most often?
good! We're constantly developing ideas. Very visual and thoughtful. Keep coming back and make suggestions
a4 um... I'm so used to jury-rigging to get by, I never think to ask to purchase apps! If it ain't free, I don't have time!
Here I am, Marcie. This sure is a busy tweet site.
those days are over! Tic prices up 40%. Knocked down MCD & 7-11 too!
I think the excitement of the is still with us!
yes it is. One of the best groups around!
We are in our 4th year of A great group effort by all attendees and guests!
A4: I would say Explain Everything, Notability, and Book Creator are worth the cost.
Yes! I discourage ss from using Microsoft. Too many options, distracts from task.
Good morning--Really enjoyed learning with you this week!
Along with those still grasping on to it with an almost death-grip!
LOL! You are forgiven! The used a lot of energy. Need to recharge now.
A4 Book Creator, the free version you can add stories with more pages but the paid version each story is it's own book
so nice to see you this week!
A4 many of my schools are using OSMOs the apps are free but the manipulative cost well worth it
also harder for us as educators to track, and glitches w/ it happen more, imo.
Joining late. Good morning.
DM me about it and dates. Term 1 next year in NSW ends 7April. Easter is 16 April.
good point! Once you use the free copy, it's no good. Have to have the paid version.
Except Excel is still preferred tool for business office (& corp world)
Have Twitter lists for Cath elem & HS, supers, & Dio Cath Ed offi. -more clever, don't know how to post links
A4 Explain Everything is main paid app we use. Worth it!
I think Google slides is a good alternative. I do use Keynote also to embed video
I actually like Powtoon, if anyone's heard of it. I use it to create video/tutorials for projects for students.
morning Chad! So nice to meet you IRL at the Tweetup!
A4 huge usage. Lesser for Zaption & Nearpod pro. some like those premium accts. What to do next year is Q.
We hear how Ss have to learn Microsoft, Why? Learn how tech works not programs
Glad we got a quick visit in!
Agreed Paid version well worth it
not easy to learn initially, but once getting the hang of it- get a lot of great stuff.
and their buy one give one program was great!
have to post using your laptop. Click on your picture, profile and settings.
a4: I still need Dreamweaver to do website updates, though if you have a good platform, built in CMS that's less of a need.
I've heard of this, but haven't used it. Is it free?
Also , as cheesy as name is- works well with paid version- $15 for year is worth every penny.
Q5: What apps do you use for assessment or grading?
Agreed, but we can teach Ss basics in Google Sheets. Formulas are same
Ah, oh that thing I learned 20 years ago! Lol! I'm on my iPad - wasn't thinking. Oh my!
Students find it an engaging hook when I start a new project with a cartoon animation
initially free, but grows in cost w/ better stuff- next step up from free is well worth it.
Overslept! Or slept exactly as needed. Hope you all are well. Catch you next time :-)
Nope! They rarely use i.e. In college unless they are some sort of business major.
A5: Love rubrics. Grade anything w/ them - including presentations. They save & tie to state standards
other caveat is a lot of Universities still use it- SHU is one of them, to my chagrin.
Sparked my interest! I will have to try this one! Thank u!
One you start really using Sheets you won't look back.
Eating, so I'm just lurking :)
loved seeing your glowing smile! Keep shining!
A5 Use Google forms, flubaroo, We use for grading
A5: Our Ss love Kahoot used as an assessment. We also use Socrative and Google Forms w/Flubaroo.
A5 Socrative and Blackboard
Q6: What apps do you use for your own schedule, fitness, health, etc...?
A5 all of our grading is in student management system called Sycamore
another wonderful week! One year I hope yo actually be able to make a Tweetup!
I need to see how many Google Forms we've created. I think it's around 4 million (give or take)
We also us RedikerSoftware.... Simple, cost-effective....
I used when I taught math as well. Admin didn't like, but couldn't argue with the data I got!
Thank you for this list!!
A6: We created a family Gmail account and share the calendar w/ grandparents. All kids activities on everyone's phones
A6 Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, MapMyWalk, Pandora for walking music
My Ss like it but I've never used it
is now trending in USA, ranking 35
A6. Google Calendar is my go-to, Runkeeper (which does more than that) and Gmail- can get every email under one, ezier.
Heard a great deal of excitement re from first time conventioneers !
Do you know of thinglink? I didn't see it mentioned. It lets you add video or references,text to one main image.
I just started to play around with this and I like it! Thanks!
That is good. We have to keep being excited about Catholic education!
We are transitioning to STAR. How do you feel about it?
Have you tried GoFormative? It's web based and I've started using that a lot
Our Ts started using live before break. AMAZING! The engagement of Ss is off the charts. Need paid acct.
what a great way to stay connected, aware in the grandkids days!
A6: I'm going old school, as it were, on this: I use Notes as a place to journal and play with ideas. Key for my leadership.
not sure! We will know we are really trending with Spam hits the chat!
Just woke up. Good morning everyone. It was great to see so many of you at
Yes! Have used several times. Much fun!
will have to take a look at this one...
A6 Fitbit, Map My Walk. Want to use Couch to 5K but haven't yet.
Hi Nick! It was great to see you at
yet my school still has calendar meetings...
I have not, I will give it a try.What do you like about it?
I started playing with Google Keep- love that I can send things right into a doc- makes brainstorming easy
Ts can create free website and embed calendar, or post share link with parents. Let me know if you need any help.
Right! Setting up is one thing, my struggle is keeping it up!
I didn't see Zaption mentioned. Anyone using it?
learned Kahoot from a Professor- students loved it. Competition got a little intense 2 begin.
I like STAR when used in conjunction with AR.
I also started using Videoscribe for doing video lessons- it's pretty cool!
A6 Google Calendar & Keep, Google drive, Apple Watch for fitness
And a lot easier than making 5 phone calls about rain-outs (or snow-outs)
Ts have used Kahoot before as meeting opener. Much fun!
any walking is good walking --the is helpful!
good morning! Was good to meet you at
I use notes, as well. I used it to jot down ideas from and
What?? A Catholic school teacher who has too much on his plate & wears too many hats?
welcome!
Amazing what a google search can yield. I should find the author and thank them!
I need to give it a second try.
you can input all kinds of questions- even has a whiteboard feature so Ss can show their work
I find it's easiest to use on my phone
Thanks for a great chat this morning! Have a super week!
We used it to follow up on a teacher training during inservice. Ts like fun competition!
Awesome chat and a lot of great apps to explore. Thanks everyone!
have you worked through it and run a 5k? I hate running but I typically walk 5k now.
Found your lists of chrome apps -- its fantastic! Thanks for curating and sharing.
