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

Grade Proof - a proofreading add-on for the Google Chrome browser

Use the GradeProof add-on for proofreading and improving your writing submissions.

This is a free web-based application that is a Google Chrome browser add-on.  This is not an extension so you will not find it in the Google Chrome store, but get it through the add-on tool on the menu bar when in Google Docs.





This Google Chrome add-on is a free tool which allows you to take any written document, load it into Google Docs and instantly get feedback on that writing.  You will get feedback on grammar, spelling, and word usage along with various statistics about word count, sentences, and other information which could be helpful.

You are alerted to the errors with a color-coded key which alerts you to the type of errors and how many of each are in this writing.  Clicking on the error alert, gives you suggestions for how to fix it.  When you have made all the adjustments, just apply the changes and you are good to go with that paper!

Great tool for students to use, and Instructors may want to share this tutorial with students who could use some help.

Using Google Docs Add-Ons for increased functionality

Using Google Docs and a tool available when you open a doc, you can gain access to many apps which can increase the functionality of the Google Doc app.

Some of the Apps to consider:

• Consistency Checker
• Mind Meister
• Document Merge
• Twitter Curator
• Open ClipArt
• Template Gallery
• Google Translate
• Google Maps
• g(Math)

You can access these and many more from the toolbar in Google Docs!

There are also Add-Ons available for Sheets, Slides, Forms, etc.

Google Tools:  Drive, Docs & Search

See how they integrate and work together.

Google has many tools, add-ons, and extensions that increase the functionality, performance and integration of these tools.

See how you can do inline research of a topic as you are working on the document, preview the research, link the research, and cite the research.


Sometimes Google changes things a bit with little or no warning. Recently, it changed how to do what is shown in the first video. Now it is CTRL+K (CMND+K on a Mac).