in this video i'm going to show you how
to use a google chrome extension
called insert learning to make any web
page
interactive typically if we were to
assign students to go visit a web page
to read an article or to get information
we wouldn't really have any way of
knowing whether or not they actually
went to that web page
and we also wouldn't really know if they
made sense of what they found there
insert learning completely changes that
this ability to take
any web page and transform it into an
active learning experience for students
is a clear way that we can use education
technology
to enhance our instruction my name is
sam carey and this is my youtube channel
for the new edtech classroom
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regardless of whether or not we're
teaching in person or online
it's important for us to embed small
checks for understanding
in all of the work that we assign to
students programs like edpuzzle and
nearpod now allow us to take any video
content and add custom questions to it
but there haven't been a lot of ways for
us to take any website
and turn that into an interactive
experience as well
so that's where the chrome extension
insert learning steps in
and let's jump in and take a look at
what it's all about first in order to
get this extension
you'll need to go to the chrome web
store once you're in the chrome web
store
search for insert learning click add to
chrome
then click add extension there you'll be
asked to sign up with either google or
microsoft
and then select whether or not you're a
student or a teacher one option is to go
ahead and create a class here
but if you're a google classroom user i
would suggest you just skip this step
for now
because i'll also show you how you can
bring your google classroom roster in
you'll fill out some basic information
about your role as an educator
and then hit submit now before we get
any further there's a couple of
important things for you to know
the first is that in order for students
to use this program
they're also going to need to do the
same process that we just did
that means that students will need to be
able to add chrome extensions to their
browsers
often students are blocked from doing
this so we may have to request from our
administrators that those extensions are
pushed out to student browsers similar
to a lot of other programs the free
version
limits the amount of lessons you can
store so with the free version you'll be
allowed
to store up to five lessons and then if
you want to have unlimited storage
you can pay eight dollars a month or
forty dollars for the entire year
all right first i wanna show you the
classes tab here if you chose to create
that class when you first signed
in you'll see your class show up here
and you'll also see a class code that
you could give to your students
in order for them to be able to join
your class and if you click on the three
dots you'll also see that you have an
option to invite a co-teacher here as
well
if you're a google classroom user
another option is to go up here to new
class
and then you could sync your google
classroom rosters and create classes
that way
and there are also some pre-created
lessons here so to access those
go to the public library tab and then
you could search for some interactive
web content that other teachers have
already made
so to create a lesson totally from
scratch what i'll do here
is go to a web page that i want to
assign to my students
and to turn it into an interactive
lesson i'll first click on the chrome
extension
and then i'll see a menu pop up on the
left hand side of the screen
the first option is to assign this
assignment
the second is to highlight text then you
can insert questions
as well as discussion prompts so let's
start with the highlight tool which is
pretty straightforward
if you click on the highlight icon that
will allow you to highlight
any portion of the text so what you
might do here is choose to highlight a
part of the text
and then select the sticky note option
click on that same paragraph where you
inserted the highlight
and add a note to students about why you
highlighted that particular section
in addition to just text you can also
include
links in these sticky notes as well so
let's just say that i found this other
video
on the same topic on youtube that i want
my students to reference
what i can do here is copy the link to
the video
then open up a new sticky note and then
when i paste the link to the video
you'll notice that it will directly
embed the video on that page
and if you click the play button it's
playable right there so it's not even
going to bounce students back to youtube
and then i might add another sticky note
underneath the video to explain
why i included it so in addition to
highlights and sticky notes we can also
directly embed questions on the webpage
to do this click on the question icon
select the part of the page where you
want to add the question and then you'll
see this question box pop
up if you want to grade it you can edit
the point value of the question
and then you can either write your own
question or select from one of these
pre-written question stems
you can either leave that as an open
response question or you can click here
in order to turn that question
into a multiple choice question by
adding all of the different answer
choices
and if you do this just make sure that
you've selected which answer is correct
but i'm just going to go back here and
select one of the pre-written questions
and leave it open-ended you'll see this
in a moment but when students log
in they're also able to use a
highlighter function
as well as sticky notes so here i'll add
a sticky note that's going to prompt
students to highlight keywords in the
text
and then i'm going to scroll down to the
bottom of the page here to add a
discussion prompt
to add that prompt click on the dialog
bubble
then just like we did with the others
select the part of the page where you
want to add that prompt
and the difference between the question
and the discussion prompt
is that students will also be able to
see each other's answers to the
discussion
and respond to each other as well now to
assign this to students click
on the top icon here you'll need to
select the class that you want to assign
the web page to
click the blue assign button and then
the way you share it with students will
depend on whether or not you manually
created the class
or if you're using google classroom or
microsoft teams
so let's say that i want to assign this
to google classroom
i can go down here to click the google
classroom icon
i'll have to sign into my account and
then that will pop up a box
allowing me to select which classes i
want to assign this assignment to
select the class where you want the
assignment to show up and then when you
go back to google classroom
you'll see that the assignment has been
posted and you can edit it however you
need to
and if you're not using google classroom
another choice would just be to create a
class manually
and then give them the class code and
they can sign in with that as well
so now let's just look at what this
assignment would look like from the
student end
you could either share the direct link
with students or if students go to
google classroom
they could click on the link to access
that assignment if it's their first time
using
insert learning it's going to prompt
them to add the chrome extension
after they've gone through the process
of doing that it will take them
directly to the interactive page you
just created
when they scroll down they'll be able to
see the highlights you made
as well as the sticky notes you posted
and you'll see again when they get to
the video
that they could click on it and watch it
directly inside
of that webpage and when a student
scrolls down to the paragraph where you
ask them to highlight keywords
they can select the highlight icon then
drag their mouse over the words they
want to highlight
that will highlight the words for them
and then they can also click on the add
button below
in order to add a comment you'll see
here that the student can also write
their response to the question that you
posted
and then when they scroll down to the
bottom of the page and get to the
discussion prompt
they can write their answer there as
well and click post
when they're ready for it to show up and
then to indicate to their teacher that
they've finished the assignment
students just need to click on the il
icon
and then select mark as done and you'll
see here as well that if another student
logs into the assignment
and scrolls down to the discussion
question they'll be able to see the
previous student's response
and respond to that student directly on
the web page as well and then back on
the teacher interface
in order to see student responses just
click on the lessons tab
there you'll see the lesson that you
created click on it
and then when you scroll down to the
part of the page where you ask questions
you'll be able to see your students
responses
here click view all responses and then a
box will show up that has all of your
students answers in a single place
you can give them immediate written
feedback and you can also score their
response
when you scroll down to the discussion
question you'll also be able to see your
students responses
and if you click on the drop down menu
that will allow you to see
responses from just a single class or
from a single student
and later if you want to go back to see
how your students responded to the
questions
go back to your dashboard click on the
grades tab
then select the assignment you're
looking for and there you'll be able to
see all of their responses
as well when we combine a tool like
insert learning that makes web pages
interactive with other tools that make
text interactive
and video interactive we can piece
together a whole suite of content that
has
built-in check for understanding
questions so that we can make sure that
our students are actively engaged with
their learning
i'm really excited about this extension
i hope you find it helpful
and if you have any questions about how
i use it please ask in the comments
below
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