About the Author

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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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...

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...

My Virtual Student Teaching Experience

During fall of 2020, I spent 13 weeks student teaching in a virtual learning environment. I taught Integrated Math 2 during the student teaching process. I was placed at the high school I attended and had the opportunity to work with a wonderful mentor teacher. Due to the safety protocols in our district, I was not able to work in the classroom with my mentor teacher and did my student teaching from home. Although this was not the student teaching experience I was expecting during my credential program, I am still so grateful for the experience. My Setup Since I was student teaching from home, I had to develop a mini classroom for myself to work in. Thankfully, my parents graciously loaned me the alcove in their room to teach from and use as my "classroom." My laptop did not want to work with our Wi-Fi and regularly kicked me out of video calls, so I had to borrow my mom's laptop to stay connected to my classes. I used an old TV that my par...

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