Benjamin 25 EdTech Snack Time

In this episode, we share some highlights from our experience at IDEAcon 2025 and discuss your successes and challenges with building relationships with your students. This is a long episode, so we'll leave some chapter times below if you want to break up your listening: 00:00 - Intro, staff shout-out, a main takeaway from IDEAcon, and introduction of the importance of building relationships with students07:41 - How you have gotten to know your students (ideas and challenges from teache...

In this episode, we have shout outs to staff members, an update on our Google MFA rollout, and a discussion about Nearpod, which everyone in the district can use!

In part 2 of our resilience toolbox check-in, we focus on the supportive roles people play in your life.  We have more staff shout-outs and more desserts, too, with some special guest voices!

In this episode, we revisit your resilience toolbox from a presentation that was shared with some staff last year through a learning meeting.  You can follow along with the podcast and jot down your ideas or even just think about what your responses are for each category we explore.  This episode will be followed by part 2 next week, when we focus on the people in your resilience team.

In this episode: This episode is all about breathing!  We discuss different kinds of breathing and the benefits of focusing on our breathe.  We also have a couple of clips of experts talking about breathing and multiple dessert items for you!

In this episode: Staff shout outs, a couple tech updates, extensions from the previous episode, SEL in our Classrooms, and a discussion about how SEL connects with Digital Citizenship.

In this episode:  Shout outs to our new staff members, a few reminders for prepping for substitutes, and a conversation about Social and Emotional Learning in our classrooms.

Just in case you missed it!  In this episode:  Some special staff shout outs, tech reminders for the end of the school year, and our very first guest!  We talk to Betty about artificial intelligence - specifically, chatbots.

In this episode: Some special staff shout outs, tech reminders for the end of the school year, and our very first guest!  We talk to Betty about artificial intelligence - specifically, chatbots.

In this episode: Quite a few staff shout outs, a reminder to make sure you have switched all your email subscriptions to your benjamin25 address, and our own musings about connections we have found between education and gardening.  We have a couple podcast recommendations for other gardeners out there and ponder the power of vocabulary.

Staff shout outs, reminders and tips for IAR testing, a nod to 6th grade STEM and Dr. Fitzgerald for the St. Patrick's Day parade, and an appropriate quote to get you through these next couple weeks.

In this episode:  An introduction to this podcast, staff shout outs, a song from Evergreen, some ideas to think about when returning to school in April, and planning some fun for spring break.