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TOASTEDUEp33-Are you a New Adjunct? Tuesday Tips Are for You!In this episode, Elizabeth Stuff, AFG representative, will go into detail about what Tuesday Tips are and how they can benefit the new adjunct faculty members at PVCC. In addition, Sam and Elizabeth will talk about how the AFG representative can help adjunct faculty members in general. We will conclude with a presentation of on campus Panorama accessibility assistance workshops for adjunct faculty held in November and December 2025.ToastEDU Podcast Website- https://learn.maricopa.edu/courses/1260717
2025-11-1815 minTOASTEDUEp32-Horizontal or Vertical? Which Video Format is Best?For years, when we held a camera to take video, whether it was a camcorder or when we were introduced to iPhones in 2007, we all held our phones in horizontal mode. Basically sideways. Today with the ever growing trends of sharing video on social media, such as Instagram’s Reels and Tiktok, when should you shoot video in portrait or most commonly known as vertical mode?This episode will touch on the differences between horizontal vs vertical video formats, when to shoot in them, and tips for shooting video in formats that can be used for both soci...
2025-09-1831 minTOASTEDUEp31- Leveraging the Power of Technology for EngagementIn this episode, Sam and Caron will share how the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Employee Engagement (CTLEE) at PVCC is leveraging the power of technology in order to better serve the college as a hub of innovation. Why did the newsletter go away? How are they launching on demand content with YouTube shorts? The CTLEE is letting go of the past and moving into the future by learning, changing and iterating.Books References-Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform UsSusan Magsamen and Ivy Ross...
2025-04-0733 minTOASTEDUEp30- 7 Reasons to Use Social Media in the ClassroomWith social media tools in the hands of practically everyone of your students, what are you doing to leverage this media to interact, innovate, collaborate and connect with your students?Now more than ever, we are much more connected online to content, which makes things much easier for instructors to gain a following by students using social media tools such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc.Join us today, as we go over seven key ways to use social media to enhance your classroom experience. Whether this is online instruction or face to face, these seven...
2025-02-1341 minTOASTEDUEp29- Garageband- Audio Editing at a GlanceWhat is Garageband? Yes, we know it as usually some young teens in a garage banging away and experimenting with music trying to make the dream of becoming rock stars. But in the digital media world.
Garageband originally released in 2004 by Apple, the application enabled users of all levels to dive in and create music, edit and record audio at all skill levels. This free software comes with the ability to connect instruments, make sound loops, free use of pre-made loops and beats to create all kinds of fun digital media.
So what about sound edi...
2024-11-2046 minTOASTEDUEp28- Just Take the Pic!Just Take the Pic! Camera or Phone for Travel Photography?
It’s that time of year! Vacations and traveling during the summer break! So the question is, when you are traveling on family vacations or attending a work conference, which do you prefer to use, a typical point and shoot camera or your smartphone? As summer comes to a close, this podcast will still touch on some ideology about basic uses of photography from a typical point and shoot camera vs a smart phone.
Just in the last few years, digital photography with the use of sm...
2024-09-2639 minTOASTEDUEp27- Creativity- Who Exactly is Sam?Who exactly is Sam? The TOASTEDU podcast host Sam Fraulino here at Paradise Valley Community College spends some time talking with Dr. Caron Sada in an episode dedicated to our Creativity series. Dr. Caron Sada wants to turn the tables and interview Sam and dive into his creative background, his art, and everything related to his long career here at PVCC. Caron will share how she used ChatGPT to prepare for today’s interview.
This fun and informative episode should be full of laughs and good creative and artistic storytelling, so join Dr. Sada and...
2024-05-0852 minTOASTEDUEp26- How Does an iPad Fit Into My Workflow?When we think of creative tools or workflows, we usually think of pencils, markers, whiteboards and paper. However, Apple has always been a company that prides themselves on creating computers and software for creative folks.
Over the last 10 years, the iPad and other tablets have exploded in the mainstream market. Not just for creative digital media folks, but everyone. I think it’s time we look at the iPad specifically and see what it can do and how it can improve workflows among creatives, but also how it can change the workflow of college faculty.
Th...
2024-03-2651 minTOASTEDUEp25-Creativity- Art and Science of Culture ChangeCreativity is iterative and Caron’s journey with student programming in her classes, Club Z and her hopes for organizational change in higher ed are definitely iterative and continuing to develop over time.
Today we’ll hear about where Caron’s creative journey is with regard to her new book, Learning and Doing CoCreation: Learning 31 Things We Already Know through The Art and Science of Culture Change. While we’ve talked about the model, framework and set of tools a little in a past episode, this will be the first time we’re talking about the b...
2024-02-051h 02TOASTEDUEp24-Podcast Episodes- How Long Should A Podcast Episode Be?Is a longer podcast episode better? How long should a podcast episode be? This is a nagging question that keeps a lot of podcasters, creators and online instructors up at night when worrying about the length of their content.
This could be in the form of a podcast as this episode will primarily touch on, but this can be applied to all aspects of digital media and instructional materials.Join us today, as we briefly touch on some trends and standards when it comes to podcasting or audio content that is used in online delivery. We’ll talk...
2023-11-1330 minTOASTEDUEp23- The Drop Zone! What’s New at the CTLEE?Welcome to the DropZone! Rush In, Roam In, Drag In, Drop In! What is the Drop Zone here at the Center for Teaching, Learning and Employee Engagement? The Drop Zone is a program we are offering for all faculty and staff to drop by the CTLEE and discuss technology issues, instructional strategies, all things Canvas and anything related to digital media and instruction.
This podcast episode is a short introduction with CTLEE Director Lynn McCelland and Instructional Media Developer Sam Fraulino on just what the Drop Zone can do for you. Please listen in, as they talk all...
2023-10-0439 minTOASTEDUEp22- Top Tech Gadgets for a Digital WorldIt’s time to register for that conference, or take that much needed family vacation to the beach, so book the flight, and pack up your tech gear!
This episode of the ToastEDU we are going to discuss some of the best and most useful tech gadgets you’ll need for a digital world. Whether we are traveling for work related conferences or a vacation this episode will dive into a few different tech gadgets that are a must for everyone creating content or consuming digital media content.
As we all pack our bags for upco...
2023-05-0439 minTOASTEDUEp21-Social Media Tools: Instagram in EducationSocial media has endless opportunities for educators, we just never thought of it that way. As a tool, it can help students improve digital literacy and critical thinking skills. Tools such as Instagram can also help promote your class, your college, and yourself as an instructor.
Some obstacles colleges have when dealing with technology is cost, that is the best part of social media, it's free, and a majority of students are already using the most trending and up to date social media apps on their own. Instagram is one of the most popular social media applications wo...
2023-04-1035 minTOASTEDUEp20- Creativity: Your Personal JourneyHow would you describe your journey with creativity? Join us in this podcast discussion as Dr. Caron Sada and Sam Fraulino talk about all aspects of creativity, environment choices, and insights. So if you are not in a creative journey and feeling stuck, how might you change your choices and environment to create a life and experiences that you hope for?
Creative instruction and creative instructional development go hand in hand with powerful results that can make teaching and learning much more effective as well as more fun with engaging students, collaborating efforts, and an environment where cre...
2023-02-0146 minTOASTEDUEp19- It’s RAW! JPEG vs RAW Digital Photo FormatsDigital photography has exploded over the last 20 years. With so many different formats and shooting settings, what is really best for when using your digital camera to capture memories or use it for instructional media purposes to enhance your instructional materials.
Most of us know the term JPEG, that format that allows us to send photos via text, email or post on the internet. The advantage is a compressed image that is suitable for online use and has a smaller file size.
However, in the digital photography world, there is another format that exists called RA...
2023-01-0429 minTOASTEDUEp18- Creative Tools: Adobe Creative ExpressWhen it comes to instructional technology, online creative tools, and digital media, there are hundreds of free and helpful tools to aid faculty in creating innovative and creative media.
Adobe Creative Express formerly known as Adobe Spark is just that! This online and mobile design app that easily allows all skill levels to create and share impactful visual stories. The best part, it’s free!
A brief overview of Adobe Creative Express and how it enables users to make rich multimedia content including social media posts and stories, invitations, and marketing materials like logos, flyers and b...
2022-11-2633 minTOASTEDUEp17- Oh We Are? OER- Teachers Are Going Open and Students Are Here to HelpDiscussing the growth of OER- Open Educational Resources, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of education. More faculty are harnessing the power of online tools to create a more dynamic experience for their students in the classrooms and online. There is no better time to be a student as colleges across the country continue their path of innovation.
Paradise Valley Community College began its Open Educational Resource Specialist program in the Spring of 2019. A year later, this innovative team helped faculty find resources to keep their students engaged and thriving despite losing access to on-campus resources...
2022-10-3146 minTOASTEDUEp16- Two Techies: What’s Our Favorite Gear?As we all know, the world is full of techies, gear geeks, and folks that just have to play with new technology. Well, that’s us! The TOAST EDU host Sam Fraulino and Lynn McClelland will sit down and discuss all of their favorite technology tools that can be used for creating a wide variety of creative instructional content.
Sam and Lynn have both worked with technology for many years, so between these two techies they have both have a lot of experience when it comes to media tools and tech gadgets, so this podcast will be an...
2022-10-171h 08TOASTEDUEp15- Podcasting- Four Different Types of PodcastsWhen podcasting first made its way to the iPod and phones many years ago, there was a great fear that podcasting could in fact be the death of radio. As we know that is far from the truth, but it does offer many ways of offering spoken word to reach all types of listeners.
A podcast can be in the form of a storytelling experience, an interview, crime dramas, or a casual conversation between two sports fans discussing the weekend’s football games to entertain you on a long commute.
We’ll discuss that today, we wi...
2022-10-0520 minTOASTEDUEp14- Welcome Back: Doing Things DifferentlyAs summer comes to an end, faculty, staff, and students are now trickling back to the PVCC campus for Fall 2022. Coming out of a pandemic offered many online and remote learning challenges and as well as learning to work and regaining our working relationships, it’s now time to really get back into creating projects, collaborating with others and using new digital media to enhance our courses.
This episode is just an update on the new location of the CTLEE- Center for Teaching, Learning and Employee Engagement and as well to discuss a few online tools that I h...
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TOASTEDUEp13- What is Digital Media?This podcast of the TOAST EDU, Sam Fraulino, the instructional multimedia developer will discuss digital media. So what exactly is digital media? Is it graphics you upload to your Canvas course? It’s video, audio, software, or other content that is created, edited, stored, or accessed in digital form. We know in today’s fast paced digital world as well with the rapid changes in higher education, the distribution of digital media will soon outpace the creation and distribution of standard print newspapers, magazines, and textbooks.
The main benefit of digital media in education is that it can inc...
2022-05-0327 minTOASTEDUEp12- New Media Lab ExperienceThis podcast of the TOAST EDU, CTLEE Director Lynn McClelland and Instructional Media Developer Sam Fraulino sit down for a discussion about the upcoming development of PVCC’s New Media Lab Experience. Join in on this conversation to learn about what exactly the New Media Lab Experience is, who is involved, and the many positive learning opportunities it can bring all faculty, staff, and students to enhance their digital media experience.
The New Media Lab Experience at PVCC's Creative Commons welcomes students, faculty, and staff to a space where they can create multimedia projects, collaborate with others, and...
2022-03-2143 minTOASTEDUEp11- CTLEE Newsletter: Creative ConnectionThis podcast of the TOAST EDU, is a sit down discussion with the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Employee Engagement’s Sofia Pijanowski and Sam Fraulino as they discuss the new CTLEE newsletter called Creative Connection.
Sofia will talk about the upcoming new and improved newsletter that the CTLEE has developed to create a better connection with PVCC’s faculty and staff.
We’ll be discussing what is different from this letter and newsletters past along with how and where you will be able to find this incredible resource.
Creative Connection Newsletter- https://sites.go...
2022-03-0724 minTOASTEDUEp10- Welcome Back! Spring 2022Welcome back Pumas! Spring 2022 is about to begin, as we know the beginning of a new semester brings back a fresh energy and an excitement that we all look forward to as we welcome back students into the classroom and connect with faculty and staff to create an innovative and fun learning environment both in person and online.
As we wrapped up 2021 with some new projects, a new podcast, a new video series called Puma Playback, along with an Employee Engagement Canvas resource site. We look forward to the 23rd Annual Spring Learning and Leadership Week for o...
2022-01-0614 minTOASTEDUEp09- What is Puma Playback?Bits-N-Crumbs Segment!
So in the last few weeks, the CTLEE has released a series of short videos highlighting a faculty member or staff member here at Paradise Valley Community College.
Puma Playback? What is that?
For the last few weeks, the CTLEE released a series of short videos highlighting a faculty or staff member here at Paradise Valley Community College: who they are and what they do.
Collaborating with fellow faculty and staff, these short, casual, and fun videos created by Lynn McClelland and Sam Fraulino highlight the innovative projects and p...
2021-12-1007 minTOASTEDUEp08- YouTube Videos in CanvasBits-N-Crumbs Segment!
YouTube is one of the world’s leading video hosting websites for hosting all types of online videos. From piano playing cats to educational documentaries, there are millions of videos on YouTube that can benefit student learning.
So how do you get those videos to play inside your Canvas course/content? Sure, you can paste in a long complicated URL into your page and have your students click on a link, but there is a much better way.
Embed it! Make the video that is hosted on YouTube play right inside your C...
2021-11-3005 minTOASTEDUEp07- Podcast Basics & Gear: What Do I UseThis podcast is a quick discussion and introduction to podcasting and the basics which also includes a breakdown of what audio gear I use to record, edit and publish my simple educational podcast. We’ll dig deeper into what equipment I use, settings, what types of microphones and how the TOAST EDU podcast is created from beginning to end. We will also cover hosting and the ideal place to house your podcast for easy use of sharing and listener subscribing.
What I hope faculty and staff will get out of this episode is an understanding of just how...
2021-11-1536 minTOASTEDUEp06- Impact of COVID: What Did You Learn Teaching During a Pandemic?This podcast is a discussion about what it was like to teach during a pandemic, what did faculty learn, how did some adapt and five questions to ask yourself to improve or enhance how you teach students from this point on.
As we know, for the last year in a half, students adapted to online learning and a remote style of communication with their instructor. So reflecting on my own experience, supporting a college and handfuls of faculty who never taught remotely was a significant challenge, that had both rewards and huge amounts of obstacles as well...
2021-10-2650 minTOASTEDUEp05- Art and Science of Culture ChangeThe Art and Science of Culture Change is a strength based approach to inclusion that creates a safe, welcoming and even fun environment where diverse groups of people can learn, unlearn, learn and solve problems together. With both individualism and collectivism in mind, Dr, Sada's bold vision could be described as creating better cultures for each of us and for all of us.
This podcast is focused on The Art and Science of Culture Change designed by Dr. Caron Sada. Caron teaches psychology at Paradise Valley Community College but Caron is also a social entrepreneur, artist and...
2021-09-2229 minTOASTEDUEp04- Listen Up Faculty- This Is Your Next StudentThis podcast is focused on the next generation of students coming into our college system. As each high school year ends, more young teens graduate from high school and make their way into “your” classrooms. Ready and armed with a virtual backpack of digital skills of interactive media knowledge and creation skills, online course experience such as Canvas knowledge, along with other advanced skills.
These are the students that are extremely tech savvy and will be needing much more from their instructors to keep them engaged and better learners. Sit back and listen to a conversation with a 15 y...
2021-07-1943 minTOASTEDUEp03- Club Z: Expanding Our Comfort Zones TogetherClub Z: Expanding Our Comfort Zones Together, is focused on Club Z’s culture that is based on the Art and Science of Culture Change, and what’s happening at PVCC in this new virtual world. We talk a lot about how college classes have adapted, but what about co-curricular experiences for students? Join Sam Fraulino from Paradise Valley Community College's Center for Teaching and Learning along with Dr. Caron Sada creator of Club Z and Psychology Faculty as they discuss everything Club Z. Club Z is still saying, “Everyone is Invited!” and students have led projects including Calm Talk by...
2021-02-0227 minTOASTEDUEp02- Hey Quicktime! Let's Record This!Quicktime is an Apple developed application, native with all Mac OS computers along with PC compatibility. QT is used to deliver and edit sound, video, and customizable screen recording possibilities with basic functionality. The possibilities and flexibility of this application can give instructors and edge on the basic creation of media for all types of delivery. This podcast will cover the three basic uses for Quicktime for instructional development such as movie recording, audio recording and screen recordings. For more information and in person demo, contact sam.fraulino@paradisevalley.edu
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2020-12-0310 minTOASTEDUEp01- What's So Great About Canvas?Episode 01- What’s So Great About Canvas? This episode is a look into the course management system we use here at Paradise Valley Community College called Canvas, developed by Instructure. A very basic introduction on what exactly Canvas is, and what it can do other than just be used for an online gradebook or syllabus. This podcast will go over a few of the features and a few basic benefits to using Canvas to enhance a student’s experience. Along with a summary of a few key points in the Canvas’s State of Student Success and Trends in Higher...
2020-11-1813 minTOASTEDUEp00- TOAST EDU Introduction/TrailerVisit
Sam Fraulino is an instructional multimedia developer discussing all topics of multimedia, visual design, instructional technology , and Canvas in higher education at Paradise Valley Community College.
This podcast will discuss new media strategies and techniques that can be used to enhance the student experience in and outside of the Canvas LMS. Staff and faculty here at PVCC will given strategies to enhance instructional technology skills, learn about new software, discuss and collaborate with others across the PVCC campus.
Visit TOAST EDU on the iHub at: https://www2.paradisevalley.edu/ihub/toastedu_podcast.html
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