in this video i'll be showing you how to use a program called satori satori is basically a
program that allows you to put together learning materials for students to present lessons to them
and you can also create templates that they can then use to complete work as well what
makes satori stand out and the reason why i think it merits giving a look is the fact that you can
embed pretty much any type of media into a satori presentation and that also means that you can
embed assignments that you create in other ed tech programs in a satori lesson so instead of making
a hyperdoc where you're pushing students out through hyperlinks to all these different programs
you can just embed all those different activities in a single satori lesson i also really appreciate
that satori uses the four c's as a lens when they're creating their templates so
the pre-created templates in satori are designed to help students build skills in critical thinking
collaboration communication and creativity so that students aren't just consuming the technology but
actually creating and making things with it so stick around and i'll show you what satori is
all about my name is sam carrey and this is my youtube channel for the new ed tech classroom
in the first part of this video i'll show you how you can use satori to put together
learning resources for students how to set them up to be actual lesson plan templates
and then also show you how you could use satori for project-based learning before we get started
let's talk for a moment about pricing here so when you first sign up for an account you'll get access
to the satori unlimited account so like most tech programs satori is a freemium program so they have
some free features and then some features that are also behind a paywall when you first sign up for
satori you'll have access to the unlimited version so that'll give you a chance to check it out and
see if you want to use it now in this tutorial everything that i'm going to be showing you is
with the unlimited version so it is important to know that a lot of the features that i think makes
satori stand out and really worth using are going to be part of satori unlimited just like any other
program give it a trial run see what you think and then you can base your decision about whether
you actually want to purchase it from that first let's look at how to use satori to pull together
learning resources for your students here's an example of a social studies lesson built in satori
about the aztecs presentations in satori are called stories and you can see that when this
story is in present mode that it resembles a digital textbook with text images and videos
but in addition to those more traditional media features you can also add interactive features
like an embedded quizlet flash card set or quiz with most apps you'd have to send students over to
quizlet on a separate page so being able to embed it here just makes for a much more fluid learning
experience and then in addition to these quizlet flash cards you can also do things like embed a
quick formative quiz as a check for understanding to help students self-monitor and help you better
understand what students know and don't know so tori also has an embedded flashcard tool that will
help students practice what they're learning and process and make meaning of that information let's
take a look at another example here of a satori story for an art class in this presentation you'll
see that the teacher is using the native comment function as a way to facilitate quick online
discussion about different topics you'll also notice that this teacher is using satori to post
class instructions assignment due dates and links to zoom again like i mentioned in the beginning
of this video this is how satori works a lot like a hyperdoc though instead of pushing students out
to programs you can just embed them directly into satori so that students don't have to worry about
link management and you don't either now let's take a look at the assignment templates in satori
although you could create an assignment completely from scratch you don't have to because satori has
an archive of assignment templates that you can take and edit and use as you'd like for
example teachers can make use of this lab notebook template which provides students with a framework
where they can post their notes comments and multimedia as they proceed through the different
phases of an experiment satori also has templates for ela teachers such as this biography template
which walks students through the process of creating a biography about a famous person
that they've studied and this is something you could use as a creative alternative to
a more traditional book report in addition to content-based templates satori also has community
building templates and social emotional learning templates such as this all about me template
which you can use as a way to have students share more about themselves as well as learn
about the program because it asks them to use different multimedia such as text videos and gifs
although the templates are structured they still encourage students to process what they've learned
in novel ways so rather than just regurgitating text back after reading the text they have to use
different multimedia types and show what they've learned creatively all of those presentations i
showed you can be individual or collaborative and there's no limit to the number of students
that can get into a single satori story satori can also be an effective tool for implementing
project-based learning there are lots of pre-made templates that will guide students through a
logical linear flow of learning information and eventually applying it it also just functions as
almost like an organization system where students can keep all the information that they're working
on for a particular project for example you can see with the science project how the lesson is
set up to gradually engage students in the topic before teaming up with a group to create their
own infographic and lastly it sets them up to go out and collect evidence before designing
and developing their own prototype so you can see that one benefit of these pre-created
templates for you and your students is that it takes care of some of the design elements
so that your students can focus more on the content but they also still have flexibility
to express themselves creatively now that we've seen some templates that show you how you could
use satori in your classroom let me show you how you can build one entirely from scratch
first you'll want to go to satori.com where you can create your free account once you've created
an account you can add students by going to the students tab and then clicking invite students
here you'll see that you have the option to invite students via google classroom or clever
or you can just give them a direct access code you want to make sure that you add students to
your satori account because this is going to allow you to easily see the work that your students have
completed as well as provide them with feedback you'll also be able to see stats on how students
are performing such as time spent on a particular story or their responses to one of the formative
quizzes and if you do end up deciding to upgrade your account then your students would all also be
upgraded with you i get this question a lot so i do just want to let you know that satori is gdpr
ferpa and copa compliant so they're not selling student data to third parties of course it's
always best practice to check in with your school and make sure that they approve the programs
you're using as well now to create your own satori story you're going to go to the stories tab
and then click create first story there you'll see a bunch of different templates for activities
graphic organizers and lessons for ela history math and science you can check out the templates
by clicking on them and then to share the template with students you can either invite them directly
to the satori story or you can push the link out through your learning management system and
of course you could also just copy and paste the link and share it directly with students make sure
that when you do share the story with students that you've set the share settings correctly
based on your needs now to create a template entirely from scratch you'll want to click
blank first add a title and description to your story and then create your first heading so if
i were creating a lesson that spanned multiple days i might label this based on the day of the
week or the part in the lesson sequence so i could label this engage here for example then
beneath the header click on the blue add button to continue to add new items your first choice is to
add text which you can of course customize to be bold italics different fonts etc and you can also
click add media to add an image to accompany the text here you can choose a picture from unsplash
or you can just upload an image from your computer in addition to text you can also embed videos the
best way to do this is to find the video that you want on youtube and then copy and paste the
direct link in although you can embed videos this way there's an even better way to do it by making
those videos interactive and i'll show you how to do that in just a moment you can also add audio
directly to a satori story by clicking on the voice recorder and then recording what you want
to say this could be an effective way to vary the way that you present materials to students or to
make that material more accessible then when you click file you can upload files from your device
or from google drive so you can embed things like a google doc or a google slides here the link
option is going to allow you to copy and paste the direct url to a webpage and then embed that web
page directly in but in addition to embedding web pages you can also embed the activities from other
edtech programs that you're using so for example you could embed a padlet board a flip grid video
an ed puzzle video a kahoot game and a lot more i've said it before but it merits repeating
that it's this feature this ability to embed different activities and lessons from other
programs directly into a satori presentation is really what makes it stand out remember that i
said that rather than just bringing in a static youtube video it would be better to bring in one
that's interactive so the way that you would do that would be to go to edpuzzle you could copy and
paste the direct link from an ed puzzle assignment back into your satori story then you could use
this option to expand the frame so that it takes up the full width of the story and now you'll see
when the video pulls up that there are interactive questions in it that students would have to answer
so that they can self-monitor to see whether or not they're making sense of the information or not
in addition to embedding external quizzes you can also click the multiple choice option
in order to add a native quiz that's directly embedded in satori and then matching quiz is
going to allow you to create another way to have students practice making sense of the information
that they've learned simply create the correct answers and the corresponding words and it will
set up a matching game for you the did you know option works similarly to text in that it allows
you to add additional supplemental information and then the forum option will allow you to directly
embed questions that students can answer they can also see each other's responses and interact with
each other in the form then choosing bibliography is going to just populate a list of cited sources
that you can put at the end of your story now this lesson is getting a little bit long with a lot of
resources so to break it up i can go back up here and add a new header once i add that new header
you'll see that it's also going to create a table of contents and when i click on the different
items in that table of contents it will take me directly to that part of the satori story now
when i click on present you'll see what it looks like if i were to present this lesson to students
now to share this lesson with students you're going to want to click on the blue share button
there like i mentioned before you'll have the option to invite students directly to the lesson
to embed it in your learning management system or to share the link directly with them
and if you use a class website or an lms that requires an embed code you can also access that
but you will need to set this up as a public story in order to be able to use that feature
lastly if you have resources in the story that students are going to need individual copies of
they can just go up to the three dots and then select make a copy and that will make a copy
of the entire presentation or assignment for them so that they can use the individual copies within
the satori story thanks so much for watching this video to the end if you found it helpful
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that you can take and use in your classroom thanks so much and i'll see you in the next video