EDT125 Courtney Watson, Scribe, iorad, Bite-Sized Tech Instructions, BookCreator, Padlet, NotebookLM

What do Scribe Canva and Adobe Express have in common? They all help us do one thing better: make clear, concise, short instructions for tech tips. In this episode, I chat with Courtney Watson from Fried Technology about building bite-sized directions for tech tools so students and teachers can learn how to do something on their computer and learn it quickly. Plus, I've got some updates on new features in Bookcreator, Padlet and NotebookLM. Let's get into it. Welcome, welcome in.

I am good. How are you? I'm so excited to be here,

I am doing great. I'm glad to have you on. I, you and I have known each other, ran into each other at conferences for, I don't know, five or six years maybe. So it's, it's great to see, to, to connect and finally have you on the podcast.

I finally made it.

Finally made it. You are, this is the season of fried technology because you are, I think, the third fried tech person to be on the podcast. that's when you know you've got an amazing team, right?

Hey, I'll take it.

You guys are doing,

I love those girls.

yeah, you guys are doing the stuff over there. Don't leave Darryl out. You love those girls and Darryl

you're right. Don't forget about Darryl.

Those girls, and Darryl , but you guys are doing great stuff over there. How long have you been with Fried Tech

Uh, this is year four.

year four Nice.

up on my anniversary in June.

Okay. Nice. Well, happy, happy anniversary.

we are.

By the time this is airing, it's almost anniversary week. I hope they all have a big celebration for you. There's a whole countdown.

I'll make sure I send that to Boss Amy and

Yes. Boss, boss, Amy. Jake says we need a fourth anniversary celebration. Um, buy me a car.

Yes. There we go. Let's do it.

Let's do it. I will take a Land Rover, please.

Sure. I love games.

Nice. Okay. We are gonna start with a game of two truths and one lie. Uh, as listeners to the show know, you will give me three statements. I will get confused about what I have guessed and what I have not guessed. I'll get it wrong. I'll not realize I've gotten it wrong. I'll botch the game in all sorts of ways, but I'll tell you what, it's definitely gonna be smoother than when your friend Shantel was on from Fried technology.

Not on purpose, but yes.

I think she said that she had driven herself to Florida, but she meant to say California or something like that. I don't even know. I was like, how did you mix up the state? She's like, I don't know.

Yeah.

So you'll beat Shantel for sure, but Shantel had so much wisdom to share in the episode, so we give her a free pass on that one. Okay. Are you ready with your statements?

I am ready.

right, here we go.

Alright, so I went with, 'cause this was, you know, it's hard to get down to these and so I'm like, what can I say on a podcast? And it won't. Anyway,

Okay.

here's what we decided on. One of my current coworkers served me drinks AKA was my bartender, um, at Cheddar's in Beaumont, Texas. Um, my dog, Cute black Cocker Spaniel, is named after a famous luxury brand chanel, because I'm so obsessed with the brand

Okay.

and I think I'm gonna go with, I started my teaching career, at the same school that I attended middle school

Oh

with the same principal and many of my same teachers.

That would be impressive because like, I feel like middle school's, principals, they're like, after five years they're like, I'm out.

Yes,

do this anymore. I'm out. I'm done. Um, I had a cocker spaniel growing up and he was all black. His name was Black Star. He was the best dog. No, I don't tell, don't tell him. My current dog, that Black Star was the best dog. I just have such fond memories of Black Star as a puppy. They're like shaggy ears.

Mm-hmm.

And everything on a Cocker Spaniel? Cocker Spaniel's are so cute.

Super cute.

Um, okay, my, if you, if you maybe do, who knows? Um, my guess is that is the, is the last one is a lie. Your, um, you, you might have worked at the same middle school, but there's no way that principal was still there.

All righty. And that would be incorrect.

Oh, no way.

Indeed, Mr. Hardiman was my sixth, seventh, and eighth grade principal, and then he actually hired me for my first teaching job

Wow. Wow. Um, do you know how long he was principal there?

Oh, golly. Oh, more than more than 15 years.

Yeah. At least. Yeah. Um, and then what did you teach? Middle school.

Uh, English. English and reading.

Nice. Okay. All right. And, uh.

words and dyslexia

All things words.

That's always my introduction.

Okay. All right. So that's not the lie. Okay. But we learned a little bit about Courtney, so that's good. That was beneficial. Um, I don't think your dog is a cocker spaniel. I think it's a, I'm gonna go extra specific for, this is bonus points, if I guess the correct breed. Um, I think it's a Pomeranian.

All righty. So, no. I do have a Cocker Spaniel

Okay.

is black,

Okay.

his name is not Chanel.

okay.

His name is Louis V.

Another luxury brand.

And that, so that piece was the lie. Um, and the reason I love it is 'cause the story behind it is my husband thinks he's very clever. And, uh, so for my birthday, Louis just turned three.

Okay.

three years ago, my birthday's in April, um, we had been to the Louis Vuitton store. He, my

No.

saw a

know where this is going.

Yeah, I saw a purse and he, he said something about it

Okay.

Um, a little bit of time goes by, he said, oh, yeah, I ran into so and so, um, in Market Street at Louis Vuitton, and I, in the back of my head, I didn't out hear the rest of that story. I'm like, oh, he went back to the store. This is, I'm getting my purse.

Okay.

he had to go out and pick it up. We did brunch that day and then, um, he had to go pick up my gift, I should say.

Mm-hmm.

And so, uh, he came back home and he walked in the door and I'm looking for my little gold bag. And he walks in holding a little cocker Spaniel. I said, what's that? And he is like, it's your birthday gift. And a black cocker spaniel, like the black purse I thought I was getting. His name is Louis V. Thank you.

That's not the right Louis V

Yeah, I did get my purse by Christmas that year

Thank you. That was my next question.

but, and also I do love that, I mean, I love Louis more than probably most people.

I'm sure

like dogs, dogs have that way of converting you.

so, so much better than a purse. I would prefer to have a cocker spaniel over a purse for sure.

Here's what should have happened. Get the dog, put him in the purse. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday. That now that's a gift right there. All husbands right now are taking notes like Uhhuh Uhhuh. Okay. All right. I'll, I will do that now when he's in trouble, do you call him Louis?

Uh, no, but he does get his full name.

He gets his full name.

Louis V. Watson.

Louis V. Watson, that isn't middle initial. I love that. his full name isn't Vuitton, Louis Vuitton. It's Louis V.

No. Yeah.

That's awesome. He sounds adorable. And what was the first one? What was the one I missed?

was my current coworker served me drinks or was my bartender.

who was that?

and that's Amy.

No way.

why I always say boss Amy. 'cause you know, I call, uh, Amy Storer is my work

Work wife. Okay.

boss Amy, and work and wife Amy. But yeah, so Amy and I are from the same area.

No way.

area. We're uh, uh, kind of like east Southeast of Houston.

Okay.

but at any rate, we graduated high school around at the same, you know, same year

Okay.

worked at Cheddar's. I lived in Beaumont, like I said, I taught there for the, my first six years and we went to Cheddars a lot.

Mm-hmm.

We decided that it has to be true that she was my bartender because she worked there with her twin sister, um, for several years. So, yeah.

I'm not sure if I've been to a Cheddar's in Texas or not before. I'm trying to remember if I've ever been there. I definitely never had Amy as a bartender. I think I would know if I, because I, because I wasn't going there before she was doing the whole fried technology thing. So if I walked in and fried tech amy was back there behind the bar pouring me my tall draft. I'd be like, what?

go. Whatcha

That, that would be my two truths and one lie statement for sure right there. Uh, that's amazing. That's fun. Um, yeah. Crazy. All right. So now that we know who at Fried Technology is a former bartender and the name of your dog, and all of these super important things, we're going to get into some actual educational technology, which I like to think is what the listeners tune in for. They might be tuning in to hear the guests play the game. I'm not sure. Or me mess up the game and get it wrong.

You did.

30 to 40-second clips of like, this is how you, I don't know, share a file in Google Drive. Right? Because that was the kind of things we had share about back then. So I always call those bite-sized instructions. I liked that somebody didn't have to watch a 10 minute or 20 minute long video to learn something. They saw it in like 40 seconds. So I've always liked bite-sized instructions like that.

Exciting.

and you wanna go like, here's a one minute instructions for you. How are you sharing those one minute instructions?

so a couple different ways, but the first way that comes to mind, probably one of my favorites is scribe.

Aha. Okay. I'm glad you brought this one up because I have seen Scribe around, but I haven't used Scribe, so I'm really interested to hear you talk about 'em.

So, and similar to the, like the way you said you were making your EduGIFs,

Mm-hmm.

was doing the same thing. I was that person. I wasn't just like, it's not like I knew any kind of magic. I just didn't mind clicking around and trying things out. So people would always come and ask me questions and so how do you, how do you, and so I'm like, you know what? Instead of me having to go and show this every single time, I would open up Google Slides. And then open up. If I was showing them how to sign into canvas, let's say

Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna open Canvas, take a screenshot, paste it over into Google Slides, add a text box, type in the instructions, and then rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

Yeah.

It would take, not, not a long, long time, 'cause I didn't mind it like, you know, 30 minutes, maybe an hour depending on how long, but I made so many of those little tutorials

Yeah.

that's where Scribe comes in and it wow's people's brains,

Yeah.

if they have to do something like that. If you're in charge of sharing things with, whether it's teachers or students, um, what I used to do in 30 minutes or an hour, you can do in scribe, literally less than a minute or two,

Yeah.

So you open. Whatever I wanna show. I said I was gonna show you how to sign into Canvas.

Okay.

say that because that was our LMS. You open that up. Scribe is a, Chrome Extension

Yeah.

So you click on Scribe, it lives right beside you. Now it just stays, opens up an open a little sidebar, and you click record. then you just go through your steps. You don't have to talk by default. I talk out loud

Yeah.

an only child. It's, it's just what I do.

Here.

to

Here you go. Courtney. You're gonna click over here, Courtney, and then go ahead and type it in right there, Courtney. Right.

But yeah, so it's like you click here, you open this, da, da, da. So, but as you are clicking scribe, it is just recording what you're doing.

Nice.

just go through the 5, 6, 10, 12 steps and then click end, and it's gonna open up a Google Document

Mm-hmm.

That has screenshots and written instructions, little highlighted pieces on, if you clicked on file, it's gonna have a little circle highlighting file.

Nice.

You can edit the instructions if you need to, or you can leave them as is

Right?

I use the free version. Lemme go ahead and throw that out there. It is one of those freemium options, but I've only ever used a free version. And the one, the one limit for us that we found with the free version is you cannot edit the images that it takes. But if it one of the steps you don't need, I can hit delete. That's totally fine. like I said, you can change, edit those instructions at the top. It'll even tell you how many, like how long it took you.

Mm-hmm.

12 clicks. 34 seconds to make

Mm-hmm.

you get a share link, and then you can share that out

Nice.

add it to, you can embed it anywhere. So like, again, if you use the LMS, if you're making instructions for students or whatnot, you can embed it on a page in your LMS too.

Now, does that share as a Google doc then? is it a doc or is it like on their website?

it lives on a little page.

Hmm. Okay.

page. Mm-hmm. I

So.

in a Google Doc, I guess it's not technically a Google Doc,

It has that feel.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

here's what I really like about that. So I like to say, when I created these gif back in the day, it probably was very similar to your process with creating those Google slideshows that had the screenshots and stuff.

Exactly.

Yeah. That's nice.

just, I just, I get a little happy feeling in my heart when I think about it and when I share it with people, because I just like, you know, the time that it would take, to make it happen. And you just went like, click, click, click, click, tada!

Ta. Here it is. And they're like, Courtney, you're a genius. And you're like, I know

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

I am. That's amazing.

That's another,

before?

one that we'd like that we in Iorad, uh, we used before we, before Scribe.

Mm-hmm.

Um, we got that one from Darryl.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and the difference, I think with, I say difference, but it doesn't make it better. But Iorad, you can, make it like video. you can do that voice piece with it if you want to. So it's a, but it's another go. And it works is it works very similarly as just as you just kind of go about the process of what you would normally do, and it's just kind of recording your screen as you're making those things happen.

Yeah. What I like about iorad is that. You can, if I remember correctly, once you're done, the viewer can look at it in a couple different ways, right? They could go through like a clickable, like it's called like a, kinda like a slideshow tutorial that's not truly slides, but you like click the next arrow to get to the next step or see it all in one or see it kind of as a video, right?

Yeah, you're right, I'd forgotten about that version where you can, um, it, you have to do the steps. So it's like if , in my instructions, if I was gonna say click file, then click next, they will have a, a stopping point

Yeah.

button they have to physically click. They

Oh

click next, but if they click anywhere on the screen, it would do it. But the idea is they

yeah.

motions of doing it and then they can leave your tutorial and go into and do it themselves.

Yeah, I remember that. 'cause they have to actually kind of mimic doing it. So it's kind of like an interactive tutorial. Yeah. Which is cool. The issue with Iorad, this is not a big problem, but the free version, everything you make is public, on the free version. So if you want it to be private and only have it go to the people you want it to go to, then you have to be on a paid version. I do know that's an issue with it. Not a huge deal.

Um, we still use both.

Okay.

so at fried we do, professional development in person face-to-face, and we also have Fried online asynchronous. Courses. And so for the asynchronous courses, I think, Iorad is still used a lot and it's super helpful. Again, just because you get that, that I actually get a chance to kind of walk myself through the steps. For me personally, I just happen to like scribe because it creates these great big images. and like I said, it has little, just short, here are the steps.

Yeah.

I noticed that a few people. I feel like I had to remind people over and over again, you're not actually doing it. So if it was the, if this was, I opened up one of my scribes to find one, so I did one on How do you upload documents from Google Drive directly into Canva?

Okay.

if I had done that in Iorad and put it in a training.

Yeah.

Somebody's gonna click on the Iorad and then they're like, my document's not in there.

Yeah.

didn't actually do it, you were just going through the steps. And so I just, I found myself saying, no, no, no, that's just a practice one. So now go do those same steps in your own account.

This isn't my document. I know it's my document.

and it's not in your, it's not in your drive. Okay. Alright.

All right. Okay. Nice. I think that's it's good to mention that. It doesn't really matter which one you use between the two of 'em, it's which one addresses your goal better. sometimes you gotta get in there, experiment with them and decide which one's a better fit for you and the audience that you're sending this out to , and the format that's gonna work best for them?

'em, you know, we tend to call things by food names, but it's those little nuggets,

Little nuggets.

to folks. Right. Just really quick, clear, right to the point. if you need a little bit more, then you know, come on over. We

Yeah.

we

Yeah. More?

you know, we can, we can dig in,

Yeah.

we can get a chicken sandwich, but sometimes you just need a chicken nugget.

Okay. I want to go to Chick-fil-A and get nuggets and a sandwich. I actually want both because they're just different somehow.

yeah, yeah,

What's your preferred dipping sauce for your nuggets?

Uh, at Chick-fil-A, I need, uh, the sweet and spicy sriracha, the Chick-fil-A sauce. 'cause I do a little mixture of them both and I need a little barbeque sauce for my fries.

Oh, okay. I did not know that that was gonna be such an interesting answer

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

I took a little aside. Um, yeah, I think it depends on where I'm at. Like, I, like my kids are really into cane's. Cane's is okay. I think the cane sauce is pretty good. Normally

the cane sauce is what sells Canes.

that's what's cane's? Okay.

That's about it.

Other, other.

And I love a good crinkle fry.

Crinkle. They do have good crinkle fries. Yeah. Um, otherwise I go in ranch normally.

Mm-hmm.

Honey mustard's okay. In a pinch. Um, I, I'm really going deep on this. If I'm at Zaxby's, I think I probably want maybe Buffalo.

See, and we don't have as, I don't have a zaxby's close by me, and so

We don't either.

it once. I'm a ranch girl too,

Yeah.

not for. Not for my chicken, not for my chicken. Not for my nuggs.

Not very chicken. Okay.

McDonald's old school, just to throw it out there, because a few months ago, I don't go to McDonald's that often.

No.

I go every now and then. And I said, you know what? I think I want some nuggets. I just wanna be like a little kid, gimme a happy meal. And I asked for my hot mustard.

Yes, that's

don't sell that anymore.

don't.

And I, and they, now, this was this one location. I was

Hmm

So

hmm.

I didn't go back.

They don't.

just recently went this week and I said, and again, I was like, okay, well I guess I'll do barbecue sauce. I said, what other sauces do you have? And he started to list them and he, I said, hot mustard.

That's the one right there.

but

Yes, hot,

it.

hot mustard is the one there. I also don't, don't typically go to to McDonald's, but if I was getting some nuggets at McDonald's hot mustard for sure,

Has to be.

that'd be the way to go. But yeah, I've actually got a bottle of the sweet and spicy Sriracha, Chick-fil-A sauce upstairs.

really?

nah, that's some good stuff.

too, it's again, I told you I just had a birthday. It is, it's hitting me kind of hard, so I can't have too much of the spicy. I heard you, you asked like, do I do 'em at the same time? So I don't like swirl them

Mm. Okay.

want a little bit of the spicy, sweet and spicy. And then I'll give my Chick-fil-A sauce. We

I see.

in here. You, like you said, we did go deep

We sure did. That was a little.

information. If you ever wanna take either of us to Chick-fil-A, you have

You need to know what sauces are you getting? Jake and Courtney need these sauces. They're gonna know exactly what to order for. I can't wait for somebody to take us to take us to Chick-fil-A.

we go. This is happening.

we're gonna realize it's Sunday. And we don't even get Chick-fil-A. Oh no, we gotta go somewhere else. We gotta go to McDonald's. They better have hot mustard sauce. Okay, so let, so if we're making nuggets of technology wisdom, we're either using Scribe or we're using io a. Any other options you'd throw in there?

Um, I would, of course you can't go wrong too. We're just a little quick like. say TikTok style video.

huh.

and so for those I probably would lean towards like either Canva or Adobe Express video I have the apps on my phone. and of course, like we mentioned, doing a quick little screencast, which is just gonna take a little more time on your end

Yeah.

to create it, but so the making a little short video, using one of those kind of one of those tools, Canva, Adobe Express video or a Loom or a Screencastify to make it happen, but shortening it down. I think what it is, I joke that the longer you teach, the more you get to be like the students.

Yeah,

so it has to be short.

yeah.

I think about, my husband was outta town and we needed the light, I don't know what it's called. The little light came on, it was time to officially switch the filter,

Mm-hmm.

um, in the refrigerator, and I was like, I can do this. So I went to YouTube, I'm searching for videos, and the first one I found with my, you know, refrigerator type and everything was 10 minutes long.

Nope.

I, I do not need, it will not take me 10 minutes to be a refrigeration repair woman.

No, you can do it. You need three,

minute

three minutes max.

like, I can do this. So yeah, I just think, but we've, I think we all have, you know, the, those shorter attention span. So it's gotta be something, like you said, a little 30 second, one minute clip, that'll walk people through. So, yeah, so

Yeah, so I think if you're doing, if you're doing it in something like Screencastify or Loom, that if you're in the free version, you don't really have an editor option. Like if you're in paid versions in the, well, in Loom you might have an do you know in Loom if you're in the free version, you have an editor.

you used to, because Loom had the education version

Yeah.

so I think. I think so. I think you're good in

Yeah. So somebody hit us up and let us know. you gotta tell us what's your favorite sauce for nuggets and can you edit videos in the free version for Teachers of Loom? But I, if you can't, I, my point was, if you can't edit it, that means you gotta practice first, right? You've gotta, you've gotta essentially run the Screencast without pressing record two or three times to get it, really get yourself really fine tuned in there so you could be quick and then you could record it, right?

That's how you used to have to do

Yeah.

And so, but now my version, 'cause the other side of this too, especially talking to teachers and wanting them to be comfortable. It doesn't have to be a production.

Yeah.

nine times outta 10. Your students would rather see you and and hear your voice 'cause we, you think like, oh my gosh, I sound so weird

Mm-hmm.

I look, I look weird. I said, I clicked that part doesn't matter.

Yeah.

more when it, when they see you versus even if you found a great little tutorial on YouTube

Yeah.

they relate more to you. but it doesn't have to be a production. So we have to get out of our heads.

Mm-hmm.

I'll take one of those screen casting tools, but I don't record the voice.

Okay.

So I just go ahead and , record the screen, record the clicks, and then that's where, so it's, you kind of double up and then that's where the Adobe Express video comes in.

oh, okay. So if you're using Adobe Express, where are you recording first?

I will record, if I record, I'm saying if I use Screencastify or Loom

Yeah. Yeah.

I'll just, I'm recording my tutorial on, how do you resize a Google slide.

Okay.

So I'm gonna just open up my Google slide, open up Screencastify, hit record.

Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna record myself going through the steps,

Mm-hmm.

export my video, and then drop it over into Adobe Express,

then you just talk over it.

now's got a record your voice with your camera if you want it, but then I have the editor piece in there so I can go and I, I, I click something wrong. Boop, cut it out.

Yeah,

So,

a good tip, A good pro tip there. So if you're using Canva or Adobe Express, because they're such similar tools, you are most likely recording somewhere else, or is that just one of the ways you, you'd approach that? Just of

the ways, especially if I need the Screencast piece,

Yeah.

I will record somewhere else and then drop it over there.

Yeah.

if I'm recording and just kind of walking through some steps, or if I'm using like a slide deck or something I've created and just kinda walking through the steps, I can just, I'll do it right there and start with program.

right? Yeah, right there in the program. It's, it's crazy how many options we have nowadays, like nowadays.

So many!

Yeah, I remember back in the day, you know, like early on in the days of this podcast, for example, talking about screencasting, and it was like, well, you could use this one, this one, or this one. That's it. And I could even say like, if you have this kind of computer, use this. If you have this browser, use this. But nowadays, it's like there's so many things like use what you like, which is great. Your choice is good.

And the other thing I just thought about that I, meant to mention too, even just your phone, like again. You're not trying to be a YouTuber so I told you I was an English teacher but I also got out for a little while and I was a CTE teacher.

Oh, okay.

so I was back in a, we were in a computer lab. I had, 30 kids

Mm-hmm.

and most of our things were kinda like projects that they were doing on the computers. And so even though we did the same things over and over

Mm-hmm.

miss, how do I turn this in on Canvas? How do I do? So what I wanted to do was make little short videos, throw them into a place where they could always go and get those. we call it cloning yourself.

Yeah.

So instead of me having to say it 30 times, I just made a video: go watch me over and over again.

Go watch that video. Yeah.

but it, again, I don't, I didn't have to be sitting at my desk. You can. This little trusty,

Yeah.

phones that we have, right? one of my, if you will, my, my YouTube moments, my TikTok moments, one of my most viewed tiktoks is a style where I just held my phone up and recorded myself, you know, clicking. I did a little bit of editing,

Yeah.

know, inside of TikTok. But then, boop, there we go.

Yeah.

And so

Yeah, that's, that's a good point. I think, so I'm a bit of a perfectionist. and that's hard, that's hard for me to do. but the thing we have to keep in mind is anytime with technology is like, what's your actual goal? Um, and if your actual goal is just to explain how to turn in that project on Canvas, you don't need a perfectly edited video. You just need it to be short enough that they could watch it quickly so they don't tune out. Your goal is.

You don't have to be fancy,

you just have

to be helpful.

don't have to be fancy to tell. What if We wanna be fancy and helpful though.

You can, there are times for it. There are times,

I'm just a little bougie. Okay. I just wanna be fancy sometimes.

That's when you get, then that's when you get to go play with like a cap cut and add in some

Yeah. Oh yeah.

and things like that. And,

Yeah.

sorry, I cut you off. You were gonna say, I'm

No, that's good. I, no, I love it. That's a good point. But I think, yeah, we have to remember, you don't, it doesn't ha unless you want it to be perfect for some reason, you, it doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be effective. That's all that matters.

Yep.

that matters. Well this is a lot of great wisdom, so, okay. So we could use Scribe or iorad, which are gonna kind of automagically, turn it into a, something for our audience or our viewers or our students to look at. we could use a thing like, Screencastify or Loom. and record there and share straight from there, which is super nice. we could hold our phone up and record directly from our phone. Maybe edit that video. Maybe not. Maybe just drop it in Google Drive and send it out from there.

Plenty of options. And then the other, the how do you share it?

Right.

That's my thing.

Yeah.

we said, yes, I can throw it in an email. but I was all about housing it in one good place.

Mm-hmm.

So if you have an LMS, here's the how-to page . I used to use Wakelet.

Yep.

I use, I use one link,

Yep.

and then one of my favorites that I I miss it so very much. I was a potty pd, girly. And, um, it's, it's not gross, I promise. We had sheet protectors and things like that, but that was another way to get out that bite-sized little tip

Yeah.

for lack of a better description, you had a captive audience. Uh, were, and I say, I always tell people, if you've ever been to a restaurant and they have like that calendar. On the back of the door. And if people are like, oh yeah, I was like, see, it works.

You know when the Beatles cover band is playing at that restaurant you saw while you were in the bathroom?

have to come back in two weeks. So, so that was another, but that's the same way. So I wouldn't make these little short videos. we had, like my old district, we were a district, so we had a canvas campus page, but we had a page where everybody knew they could go back. But if they had seen something on potty pd, there were, there might be a little bit longer fancier version. If they went into the the Canvas page where I

Right? Yeah.

Maybe gave the steps on the low potty pd.

Yeah. I wonder too, like the first two tools, iorad and Scribe, you probably could print those and even just hang those up in, in the, in the stalls. The bathroom stalls. While people are stalling,

and you know, there's copier or potty PD where, you know, where teachers tend to hang one of those places, so you can do copy if, if you feel a little bit better, you can always do Copier PD

you feel feel awkward about the potty PD or learning on the loo? I've heard people call.

Yeah. Who is it? I think uh, I think it was Kathi. I always mess up her last name, so I call her

Oh, okay. Kathi K, yeah. Kersznowski. I believe I'm, I've never pronounced it in front of her face for her to tell me it's wrong, so I'm guessing it's Kersznowski.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think she was the one that kind of got that going. But I used to love it. It was, I'll say this, be careful with your potty PD again, I, I mentioned I'm an only child

Okay.

but, um, so I tend to use myself as examples with like pictures and things,

Okay.

And so when I first was showing remove.bg, so

Okay.

a while

Yeah.

um, I used a picture of me sitting on a couch and I went and got the actor Idris Elba, who's gorgeous, and I removed the background so he could be sitting on the couch next to me. And a coworker, uh, was like, Hey, Courtney. It's a little bit awkward handling my business, and I look over and I see your face. I said, I didn't think about that. I apologize. I'm so sorry.

Listen, I can see a screenshot of Canva while I'm in the bathroom. That's fine, but if my colleague's face is there, that's gonna bother me.

it's a little bit too much. I'm, I said Okay.

Okay. so noted, noted. I will no longer put pictures of myself in the bathroom stalls

So funny.

Idris Elba. Okay, fine. He could be there, but you can't Courtney,

we don't, I don't know him in person

right?

So yeah.

He, he's not silently judging me while I'm in the bathroom.

So

are some great tips, Courtney. Thanks for all of this. So I, I love that we've got a lot of different Angles. We could take this approach depending on what we think is gonna work best with our staff and what works best for us to create the content and I think now you've taught us that we all need to go check out your TikTok to see the videos that you're posting there to see some of these samples. So folks that the, link to Courtney's TikTok is in the show notes, as are all of her other.

Well, thank you for having me. I'm again, I was trying not to say Super excited. but

Super excited. It was super exciting. Thanks for being with us. I had a great time having Courtney on the show. I hope that you enjoyed it as well. She had so much wisdom to share. I did not know anything about Scribe, to be honest and very little about Io Rad. And she taught me more about both and her ideas about using some of the other tools like Adobe Express and Canva. Uh, really awesome as well. So I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned a lot. I hope that you're gonna go follow her.