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

Google Forms - NEW and Improved!

Google Forms is the latest Google App to be updated!  Google makes changes to its line of applications on a regular basis, some without a lot of fanfare - you just open the app and find it looks different than it did the last time you were there.






Google Forms is the latest Google App capable of a number of different things!  You can do a survey, create an invitation, gather data, and build a quiz.

This tutorial focuses on the new look to the Google Forms app by providing a walk through of building a survey, while identifying the various tool bar accessories of the platform.

To learn more about Google Forms and functionality, see the other tutorials in this guide.

How to access the Blackboard Clickable Rubrics - A Student Perspective

How does a student view a Blackboard Clickable Rubric? 

Instructors are taking advantage of grading rubric to provide timely, meaningful feedback to students. Blackboard has a building block tool called "clickable rubric" that seamlessly links the assigned rubric to the appropriate Grade Center column.

Students sometimes don't know how to access the rubric for review before submitting the completed work. Sometimes instructors don't know how a student does it either, so can't help them.


This brief tutorial shows, from the "student view" how to access and view two different types of clickable rubric.

1. When an assignment is submitted to an Assignment Link

2. When there is no Assignment Link associated with turning in the assignment (assignment is turned in during class, engagement, participation, speech/oral presentation, etc.)

Formative: free app used for live audience response and formative assessment

Formative, is a free, live (real-time) formative assessment tool which can be great for formative assessment activities.

The instructor creates a digital classroom, and placed one or more assignment that can contain content, activities, interactions and formative assessments.  The students view the instructor's screen on their devices, and move through the assignment at their own pace.  

Access this application at GoFormative.com to create your account and get started!

The instructor can create multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and "show me" (demonstration) type questions; can add content and add documents which require the students to interact right on the document.  All this information is captured, auto graded or manual graded, depending on the instructor needs.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Didactic Questioning, Critical Thinking, Lecture, Presenting, Evaluation, Interaction

Bloom's Level: 2-5  (Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, and Evaluating)

Formative is a free, real-time audience interactive response system.  It is a web-based tool which means students can access from a smartphone, tablet, or computer.  A great way to keep students engaged, check for understanding, have students interact with images, graphs, charts, etc. - as well as provide a anxiety-free forum for live interaction in the class as content is being explained.

-Flipped classroom

-Blended Learning

-BYOD ideas

-Formative assessment

-Live discussion

Other similar apps:

Socrative
Go Soap Box

FlipQuiz

Nearpod: Interactive Lesson Creator

Nearpod is a free web-based interactive presentation tool.  Students can participate on any device: PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone!  There is no download required for students, just an individual access code the instructor shares.   

The instructor creates a presentation that can contain content, activities, interactions and formative assessments.  The students view the instructor's screen on their devices, and in some cases can move through the presentation at their own pace.  Other presentations can be imported into Nearpod to build a powerful learning experience.  Images, videos, polls, quizzes and drawing tools are some of the activities possible with this app.






INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Didactic Questioning, Critical Thinking, Lecture, Reflection, Presenting

Bloom's Level: 1-5  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, and Evaluating)

Nearpod is a free, web-based platform for creating presentations with interaction and formative assessment pieces that can be presented live.  You can use a presentation your build yourself or one you import - starting with PowerPoint or Keynote slides.   

Students can access your completed Nearpod on smartphones, laptops or tablets and you can determine whether students can see the responses of everyone live, or let everyone respond and you can then share the results.

- Flipped Classroom
- Blended Learning
- Formative Assessment
- Learner centered
- Reflection
- Live discussion
- BYOD uses

Using Pear Deck to engage your audience

Pear Deck allows you to build or use existing slide presentations to engage your students with the content.  You can embed interactions for formative assessment purposes, and reuse these presentations for that same course again, without starting over.





INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Didactic Questioning, Critical Thinking, Lecture, Reflection, Problem-Solving

Bloom's Level: 1-5  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, and Evaluating)

Pear Deck is a free, web-based platform for creating presentations with formative assessment pieces that can be presented live.  You can use a presentation your build yourself or one you import - starting with PowerPoint or Google Slides, you can add various audience response slides for feedback, reflection and formative assessment purposes.

Students can access your completed Pear Deck on Smartphones, laptops or tablets and you can determine whether students can see the responses of everyone live, or let everyone respond and you can then share the results.

- Flipped Classroom
- Blended Learning
- Formative Assessment
- Reflection
- Live discussion
- BYOD uses

Go Soap Box: Audience Response System; great for formative assessment

Go Soap Box is a web-based platform for an audience response system (i.e. "clickers") with some nice built in features for not only formative assessment quizzes, but polling, discussion board, and a platform for social media (back channeling).

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Didactic Questioning, Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, Lecture, Reflection

Bloom's Level: 1-5  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, and Evaluating)

Go Soap Box is a free, real-time audience interactive response system.  It is a web-based tool which means students can access from a smartphone, tablet, or computer.  A great way to keep students engaged, check for understanding, as well as provide a anxiety-free forum for live interaction in the class as content is being explained.

- Flipped Classrom

- Blended Learning

- Formative Assessment

- Live discussion

- Back channeling

- BYOD uses

LINO - digital bulletin board

Lino - a web-based and mobile device app which allows the user to create a digital bulletin board and collaborate with others for a digital storytelling experience.

Lino is free to users allowing for some creativity in hosting a meeting with break-out sessions where you want the groups to have the ability to add their "poll results" or "brainstorming" session information for all to see and collaborate with.  Lots of different uses with this tool, and a very short learning curve.






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

Help your students improve writing and grammar with NoRedInk

NoRedInk

A great web application to help students practice, and improve writing and grammar - NoRedInk allows the instructor to provide formative and summative assessments on many writing and grammar areas and access reporting on student results.

You can create Assignments which are formative assessments students can take, see what they did wrong, try again, and get help and hints along the way.  Then you can release quizzes that are summative assessments to gauge your student's growth.

If, when grading a student's paper you notice many writing or grammar issues, you can actually create a very quick tutorial for the student and give them access to it for additional practice on that subject.

-Provide additional learning experiences for writing and grammar. 
-Develop assignments for practice with a few easy clicks of the mouse.
-Release quizzes that will auto-grade for you.
-Provide students with unlimited help whenever and on whatever they need it for.
-Track growth; view results of student attempts

Instructor creates a free account and can establish a class or multiple classes, as well as multiple exercises/practices in that class.

Student creates a free account, and using the class code (randomly generated for each class) accessing the learning experience.

Google Forms & Flubaroo - assessment tool

Google Forms is a great app to use for surveys for gathering information or as an assessment tool to check learning.

It can be used for both formative and summative assessments to gather data.

Flubaroo is an add-on to Google Forms for the specific purpose of auto grading the quiz or pretest you created in Forms.

Blackboard Clickable Rubrics

Blackboard Clickable Rubrics
(New process, check the last video)

For use in assessment, Blackboard has a rubric creation tool built right in.  Build a rubric, link it to a grade center column, and use it to easily grade your students and provide feedback with great efficiency.

-The first video walks you through creating a clickable rubric in Blackboard.

-The second video shows how to use the clickable rubric to grade your students.

-The third video walks you through exporting from one class and importing into another class, a clickable rubric in Blackboard.

NEW INFORMATION:  As of September 3, 2015, there is a new process to use clickable rubrics to grade.  Below is a tutorial.