Hyperdocs - the time is right for producing these items for your students

Hyperdocs

At this time of this recording, we are planning to get "back to school".  Now, the confusing part is we don't really know what that means right now.  Some classwork may take place in brick and mortar buildings, but some will clearly be online.  This tutorial shows you a unique concept for creating interactive, student-driven, self-paced lessons that can be reused, shared, and modified very easily.  They could help you with your lesson planning moving forward.

The concept is called hyperdocs.  Now, we all know what a hyperlink is, the concept of a hyperdocs is a document (Google Slides, Google Docs are commonly used) that contains hyperlinks to lost of different multimodal media for student access.  You just work your way through each page or slide of the hyperdoc and perform the linked activities and actions.

Though we may look at this as a concept only an instructor could use, think about having your students do this as an option to just writing a paper.  Have them "teach" a lesson by creating the content!

Instructional Strategy: Lecture, Digital Storytelling, Reflection

Blooms Levels= 1-2 without activity (knowledge, comprehension) 3-4 with activity (application, analysis) 

-Tutorials 
-Push content 
-Demonstration 
-Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered in the lecture 
- Replace Lecture 

-Can build in other third-party apps you may already be using (i.e. Quizlet, Kahoot!, Padlet, FlipGrid, etc.)
-Incorporating an activity can help to enforce learning as the attention span of students may be limited 
-Provides the instructor the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course to real-world experiences

Vialogues - allow for comments, questions, and replies to be inserted into an assigned video

Vialogues is a free web-based platform that allows for uploading video that you make, that you have stored on your computer, or that you can get from YouTube or Vimeo. Allow you students to watch a video, have some specific comments/questions placed in the video to get them to respond to.  Or, allow them to place a comment to reveal understanding or to call out the muddiest point for them. 





Beside the ability for the instructor and students to add comments, replying to what others have already said about a particular part of the video is available.  You can also use the tool to create a poll and collect data. All the comments and replies will appear on the right hand side of the screen and gives you a time stamp of each addition to your Vialogue. You can share with a link that is created once you build the Vialogue or have the option to use the embed code created for other sites. The size of videos you can bring into the tool maxes out at 1GB.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Reflection, Express an opinion, Justify your position, Virtual meet/greet, Reflect

Bloom's Level 3-6 (Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)

-Flipped Classroom
-Blended Learning
-Scaffold Learning
-Student Engagement
-Didactic Questioning

Kialo - a free web-based interactive way to do discussions, debating and defending a position

Kialo is a free web-based tool, requiring no downloads, works with any browser.  This can be used so students can demonstrate critical thinking in a discussion.  Students can debate, vote,  and defend a position on any topic that you create. 

You can use single or multiple theses discussion types, you can add links, images (jpeg, png 16MB or less), allow voting and feedback. You then share this work by enabling a link where students can join the discussion without even having a Kialo account.  As an instructor, you can get a pie graph of the results, as well as receive a copy of the tabulated report.

Students can be required to defend their position along with their response which adds a critical thinking component that can be shared in a 500-word limit answer.

You can have students debate a social issue, company issue, department issue, take an opinion poll, all while requiring the student to take a position and defend it to others.







INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY: Compare/Contrast Bloom Level = 3+ (apply, analysis)

-Clarify thinking
-Classify ideas
-Collaborate for one meaning
-Reflective judgment (Affective Learning)
-Highlight similarities and differences (shows student has a deeper understanding that goes beyond surface-level
-Form generalizations based on categorized items
-Debate
-Think critically
-Defend a position

Screencastify - updated for 2020

Screencastify is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to share your screen in your browser.  You can capture mouse movements, audio, and webcam, and record it all for a sharing and later playback.

There are no downloads of any software which is nice as other programs require Java, thus it works great on a Chromebook. You are limited to 5 minutes per recording but there is no limit to the number of videos you can have in your account.

Instructional Strategy: Lecture, Digital Storytelling, Reflection
Blooms Levels= 1-2 without activity (knowledge, comprehension) 3-4 with activity (application, analysis) 

Stimulate reflection
Tutorials 
Challenge the imagination 
Develop curiosity and sense of inquiry 
Push content 
Demonstration 
Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered in the lecture 
Lecture method should include the types of experiences students will be afforded and the kinds of learning outcomes expected 
Teacher-centered (unless activity is involved) 
Incorporating an activity can help to enforce learning as the attention span of students may be limited 
Lecture should not repeat the textbook but should provide additional information and examples 
Provides the instructor the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course to real-world experiences
Collaborations
Feedback
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Using Jamboard (Part II) - mobile device app

This is the second part of the two-part Jamboard tutorial, where I show how to use a mobile device with this app.  Though I show the demonstration in portrait mode you can change the orientation to landscape mode for additional real estate if needed.

Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard where people can be invited to work as a group, the work can be shared in the traditional Google product sharing mechanism and permissions available. 





INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: 

Bloom's Level: 1-6  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)

-Creativity
-Promotional
-Infographics
-Digital Storytelling
-Presentations
-Student-centered
-Visually appealing
-Whiteboard

Using Jamboard as a Digital Whiteboard (Part I)

Jamboard is a Google product that can be turned on in the G-Suite platform. You can access it at Jamboard on a laptop or desktop computer, but this app is equally usable (maybe more so) on a mobile device.  It works very well for those devices that are touchscreen, with the only parameters being your screen size real estate! If you are going to use this tool on a mobile device you will need to load the appropriate app from Google Play (Android) or the App Store (Apple IOS).

Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard where people can be invited to work as a group, the work can be shared in the traditional Google product sharing mechanism and permissions available. 

Before you are going to tell your story, it can be helpful to lay it out first. Photographers, Graphic Designers, and Videographers will often "storyboard" out the message they wish to share in the presentation.  Use Jamboard for brainstorming, teamwork (because of the sharing feature), visual storytelling, digital bulletin board, as well as storyboarding presentations.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: 

Bloom's Level: 1-6  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)

-Creativity
-Promotional
-Infographics
-Digital Storytelling
-Presentations
-Student-centered
-Visually appealing
-Whiteboard


There is the second part of the two-part tutorial, where I show how to use a mobile device with this app.  Searched the labels to the right, and click on Jamboard to access the other one.

Using Google Meet for Web Conferencing

There is a tool inside of the Google Suite that is an updated version of Google Hangouts, called Goog Meet.  If you have the Enterprise version of G-Suite, you have access to this tool - although your ADMIN may have to turn on the recording function and determine whether you will allow students or just instructors to start meetings.

Google Meet is a video web conferencing application.  You can make video calls and share your screen with up to 250 users (depending on bandwidth).  You can also enable captioning (not perfect, but it does a pretty good job) as well as record the session.  If you do record it will show up in your email later - it is actually located in your Google Drive in a folder called Meet Recordings.

Once you click "Join Now" you can share the link (the unique URL) with your students or other participants. You can post it in the classroom or share the link in an email.  Students can also phone in rather that use a device to see things - they will just be able to listen at that point.

An additional way to create a meeting, effective when you want to schedule something in the future, is to start it through Google Calendar.  Just add the virtual meeting and click on More Options to get to the Meet icon choice.  The link to the meeting will be created there as well for you to share with your students.

As a tip, if you are doing screen sharing you need to avoid the "mirroring effect" (multiple copies getting smaller and smaller, etc.).  To do this you want to use windows, not tabs!  So, open everything you want to share in your session in its own separate window (do this organization on your screen before you start the meeting). This way when you present you can choose the window instead of the entire screen which allows you to move around back and forth with ease!







The above video was the basic introduction to the tool, this Part II shows the operational aspects of Google Meet.

 



Instructional Strategy: Lecture, Demonstration
Bloom's Level = 1, 2 without activity (remembering, understanding)
                         = 3, 4+ with activity (applying, analyzing, etc.)

• Push content
• Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered
• The lecture should not just repeat textbook information but should provide additional information and examples
• Provides the instructor the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course to real-world experiences
• Provide an opportunity to demonstration process, formula, or data gathering/research methodology
• Challenge the imagination
• Stimulate reflection
• Provide feedback
• Remote tutoring
• Virtual office hours