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Hello everyone!

My name is Audrey Cella and I am the creator of Tech Talk with Audrey. I have a Master of Science in Education, specializing in Instructional Design and Technology and have a Foundational Mathematics Teaching Credential. While completing my Masters, I have completely fallen in love with Instructional Technology and designing engaging, tech filled lessons. I also completed my student teaching in a fully virtual learning environment. This has helped me learn to create technology rich lessons and resources that help students succeed in the classroom.

I am a Google Certified Educator, with a Level 1 and Level 2 certification. I am currently working towards becoming a Google Certified Trainer. With these certifications, I specialize in G-Suite for Education and using Google Tools throughout my classroom and technology rich lessons.

I have created this blog to share everything I have learned about instructional technology with you! My goal is to make instructional technology accessible and relevant to k-12 educators. I hope that you can use this blog as a resource when designing your own engaging, technology filled lessons.

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Two Ways to Have Interactive Images in Your Lessons

When people think about interactive multimedia, their first thought usually goes to videos or web pages with built in links. One of my favorite types of interactive multimedia is actually based in images. We can use images like digital anchor charts or infographics as the foundation for interactive, digital lessons. I love using interactive images to house all of the information that I want to share with students in a lesson. This gives students the opportunity to work at their own pace and minimizes the number of "clicks" that are needed to complete a lesson. Today, I am going to share two of my favorite ways to create interactive images that are easy to make and share with students. Thinglink Thinglink is one of my favorite discoveries from my grad program! Thinglink allows you to upload an image, place hotspots on it, and add links, videos, images, or text that appear when students hover over or click on the hotspot. The free version of...

Three Easy Ways to Create Digital Anchor Charts

If you are like me, you love using anchor charts as a visual aid when teaching your lessons. Anchor charts are a great way to display relevant content, group important information, and display learning strategies to support students. Anchor charts are also a great way for teachers to get creative and design things for their classrooms. Paper anchor charts are great when you are building them with students or want to post them on the walls throughout your classroom. However, these anchor charts can be hard for students to access when they are outside of the classroom, hard to used in blended and digital lessons, and can be damaged over time if they are not stored properly. Lucky for us, anchor charts are really easy to create in a digital format! Here are three easy ways to create digital anchor charts. 1: Using Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Publisher is a great app to use if you want to create anything in a "document style." Everythin...

Using Google Forms to Design "Choose Your Own Adventure" Lessons

Am I the only one that remembers those "choose your own adventure" books? I remember reading them over and over again so that I could see what would happen with every possible scenario. I recently learned that the "choose your own adventure" format is a great way to create engaging, interactive lessons for your students. You could use this to design your own educational games, teach students while comparing and contrasting different topics, and create many different types of review assignments that give students immediate feedback. The "choose your own adventure" format is also a great way to allow students to work at their own pace and develop their self-directed learning skills. You can use Google Forms to create these online for your students. When you start creating a "choose your own adventure" assignment, it is a great idea to outline each of your questions, the responses for each, and how you plan to connect them to previous question...

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