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We've got Adam Lopez back to share updates on what's happening with IVC's Esports program and how students can leverage Esports as a career pathway. If you've got a career in mind, there's a link between it and Esports. Listen in to hear about how gaming can tap into any professional field.

As conference season approaches, we take a look at what physical tech (and non-tech) you should consider bringing with you to workshops & on vacation, as well as some simple ideas for things to have for online teaching and moving between physical classrooms. Listen in to hear if you're over-packing like the rest of us!

Canvas' Gradebook has a lot of features, both hidden or underutilized, that can help you out in your work. Tim & Brent take a look through a selection of them and discuss how they might be a benefit to teachers. Listen in to get some tips on improving your gradebook game!

The conversation about ChatGPT continues, this time moving from the theoretical to the practical. Tim & Brent sit down with Irvine Valley College writing professor, Academic Senate Vice President of Equity, and Academic Senate President Elect, Rebecca Beck to talk about specific ways and reasons teachers can and should incorporate ChatGPT into their classroom. Listen in for some awesome insights about how we teach our students, the value of critical thinking, and the need to develop a classroom culture of respect, all through the lens of working with AI Bots.  As always, please feel free to share with colleagues who may benefit from listening in to this conversation. 

Tim & Brent dig into ChatGPT, Generative Text, and the implications it has for education and writing. With a topic this big, we reserve the right to change our minds!

Tim & Brent open the new year by looking at some lesser-known features tucked away in Canvas, as well as some new features recently released. Then they look at a long list of conferences that might be of interest to the HigherEdTech Podcast audience.  For show notes, please visit TheHigherEdTechPodcast.com 

If you're looking for last minute gift ideas for the techy teacher in your life (or if you just want to forward this episode to someone who knows YOU are the techy teacher), Brent & Tim explore some options for fun or for productivity. Let us know if we missed anything, and have a great break!

As the end of the semester approaches, Tim & Brent revisit some considerations before you start to wrap up your semester, and explore a few ideas on how you can get your prep on early for the spring semester. 

Class Technologies works to blur the line between synchronous online learning and the physical classroom in a way we sometimes refer to as "Zoom on steroids". With features like in-app collaboration, viewing breakout rooms without entering, student control over who can see them, and more, it works on many problems we struggled with throughout the pandemic. Tim & Brent sit down with Jason Bedford & Sagee Moyal at Class Technologies to discuss the future of online education and how Class.com has responded to the needs of teachers throughout the move to online, and during the shake out as some students return in person and others stay online. 

A recent white paper put out by professors at MIT makes suggestions for what Higher Education institutions might look like in the future. Brent and Tim walk through the good, the bad, and the in-between. 

Tim & Brent sit down with James Taylor at Pronto to discuss the chat service. They talk about the value of an embedded chat platform for building community, increasing communication, creating backchannels, and more. Listen in to hear some ideas and ways Pronto is used at IVC.

Today we're looking at how to prepare when the inevitable happens: Your Tech Dies! Whether it's a full blackout, a blown fuse, glitchy software, unreliable internet, or anything else, you're going to run into a time when your tech dies on you. In today's episode, we're looking at ways you can prepare for the inevitable to lower your stress and keep your class running (relatively) smoothly. Shownotes available at www.thehigheredtechpodcast.com 

Tim & Brent look into some ways that you can use tech to save you time, reestablish your priorities, and possibly use... less tech? Listen in to hear some thoughts on how!

Brent & Tim look at the benefits and drawbacks of different document types, and consider some ways you might think about implementing them in your work life and in your classroom. Believe it or not, there are times when Word is better than Google Docs and vice versa. Listen in if you've had a history of sending out a jpg that should have been a pdf, or tried using a PDF that should have been a Google Doc. http://www.thehigheredtechpodcast.com 

What does it take to build a training center for faculty and staff? Do you need a multi-million dollar budget, or can you swing it with spare furniture and computers that have been tucked away? At IVC, Tim built a zero-cost center with some help from colleagues around campus. Listen in to hear why you might want a training center, considerations in planning it, and how to make it happen.

After a summer away, Tim & Brent return to discuss summer work and to take a look at some of the changes or new tools we're starting to implement.

We say goodbye to the 2021-2022 school year with a brief overview of season 3. We encourage you to listen in to see if there's anything you might have missed that you can catch up on over the summer. We're taking the summer off, and we hope you can, too! We'll be back in August - see you then!

Many of us hear talk about changing our exams from the traditional, proctored setups, but how do we do it? There are options out there for all of us, and this episode we dig into some of the viable alternatives.

Tim & Brent look at some new tips for ending out your semester and prepping for fall early, as well as an overview of some useful outlook features you may not be aware of.

Tim & Brent take a look at some hardware that might help you in your classroom, whether that's on campus, or online.