in this video i'll be giving you my top
10 list for hybrid teaching tools
the hybrid teaching model isn't likely
to go away anytime soon
so i wanted to put together this video
to show you the best tools for bringing
all your students into digital spaces
and getting them to be able to
participate in your class regardless of
whether or not they are physically in
your classroom
or whether they are coming into your
class online and all the tools i'll be
showing you in this video will also work
if you're implementing a hybrid or
blended model
in your physical classroom my name is
sam carey and this is my youtube channel
for the new edtech classroom
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the first tool on my list is classkick
which is an ideal program
if you want students to be working
independently at their own pace
and you also want to be able to give
students immediate feedback
similar to a program like nearpod
classkick is going to allow you to build
interactive lessons for your students
and see their responses coming through
in real time with class kick however
you're able to see all your students
working on their assignments in a single
grid view
and in each workspace both you and your
students can choose from any of the
interactivity tools
and there are many students can choose
to draw record
audio type drag and drop take pictures
etc and classkick offers two features
that nearpod does not
one is the ability to jump into a
student's workspace to give them
immediate feedback when in a workspace
you can choose from all the response
tools as a way to give
students feedback and you can also
access pre-written comment banks that
you've created
to automate the process without losing
the feeling of personalization
the other is that in class kick students
can also raise a digital hand to get
help
and help isn't just limited to
conversations between the student and
teacher
if you enable the function students can
jump into each other's workspaces to
help each other out
class kick does have some pre-made
content that you should definitely check
out before you make your own lessons but
class kick would also be a particularly
good choice for teachers who
already have pre-built slides or static
pdfs as part of your curriculum
and you just want to make that material
interactive the second tool on my list
is whiteboard 5. on the surface
whiteboard 5 might look
similar to classkick because they're
both essentially digital workspace
digital whiteboard type programs
they both allow teachers and students to
use a variety of response tools
and they both allow teachers to give
students real-time feedback but whereas
class kick is really ideal for
self-paced lessons
whiteboard phi works really well if you
want all students to be on the same page
at the same time if you've ever used
many whiteboards in the classroom with
your students
whiteboard 5 is essentially a digital
mini whiteboard but of course because
it's digital it's also
a supercharged whiteboard whiteboard
file works particularly well for
showing students a quick demo on your
board and then have students practice
quickly on their own boards
to apply what you just taught when
you're presenting material you can use
any of the multimedia tools to present a
lesson
and that could also just be something as
simple as adding some shapes and text
to create something like a kwl chart
after you've modeled for students you
can push your whiteboard out to student
boards as a fixed background that they
can write directly on top of
as students are responding you can see
them writing in real time and you can
click on their boards to see their work
as well as provide them with feedback
and if a student has a response you'd
like to share with the class you can
also choose to add that student's
response to the teacher whiteboard
for everybody else to see third on my
list isn't an instructional technology
program but
actually a piece of hardware and that's
the one by wacom pen tablet i always get
excited about programs that help
teachers do things that would be really
difficult to do without them
and the one by wacom definitely fulfills
that need by helping you much more
easily
write on a digital whiteboard if you've
ever actually tried to teach a lesson by
drawing with your trackpad
on a digital whiteboard then you know
what i mean when i say that it doesn't
work very well
on the other hand with a pen tablet you
can draw with nearly the same fluid
motions that you would
using a regular marker when you combine
a pen tablet with the digital whiteboard
you have a system whereby you can teach
lessons invite students to
collaborate on your board create
templates
from that whiteboard background and even
save images of that whiteboard to post
to your learning management system
all that is significantly more realistic
if you have the ability to
easily write on your digital whiteboard
and the reason why i'm recommending the
one by wacom as opposed to say an ipad
and an apple pencil
is just that it's significantly more
affordable and they're also compatible
with chromebooks
so students can use them too fourth on
the list is flipgrid
like its name suggests flipgrid is an
ideal tool for flipping your classroom
and i would argue that it's even more
effective in a hybrid teaching
environment
than it is if you're using it in a fully
in-person environment and that's because
flipgrid has students respond to prompts
and each other via video
and you can imagine that it can be
somewhat difficult to have all your
students recording videos at the same
time
in a single classroom flipgrid is
extremely popular
in the teaching community for a few key
reasons one is that it's completely
free another is that flipgrid is
continually adding new features
such as the ability to screen record
without needing to use a separate app
and flipgrid also makes a concerted
effort to bring fun
factor to their app so students can add
stickers filters
creative text etc to their videos these
features really only serve the purpose
of making their tool a little bit more
fun to use
but it's a subtle nuance that makes a
difference perhaps more importantly
though
since flipgrid is all about creating
personal video content through a webcam
it's a tool that can help you create
community and a sense of togetherness
even though you might not all be in
class together at the same time
the same is true for fully in person
classes as well you'll likely find that
a student who's reluctant to speak up in
class
is more than willing to record a video
to share with the rest of their class
so flipgrid helps you open up the ways
that students can participate
and find a sense of academic belonging i
have several videos on my channel about
how to use flipgrid as well as some
about the latest updates
and i'll be sure to link those in the
video description so you can check them
out my fifth top tech tool for hybrid
teaching is padlet
if you watch my channel regularly you
know that i'm a big fan of padlet for
its versatility the combination of board
types and the ability to add pretty much
any kind of multimedia to a board
means there's almost nothing you can't
do with padlet you can use it as a
digital workspace where you can control
the pace of your lessons
you can use it for small group work or
even for
creativity projects like digital map
making for example you can create
introductory activities where students
respond to a prompt
using the response tools that are
available in padlet or
you can even run an entire lesson out of
padlet using the shelf board
by adding new columns for each part of
your lesson and having students post
their responses below
since you can add links as posts in
padlet too
you can direct students over to other
programs such as google drawings
have them finish their work in that
program and then have them
upload their file back to padlet i also
have several videos on my channel about
how to teach with padlet including a
demo
hybrid teaching lesson in padlet and
i'll put those in the video description
too by the way if you're finding the
tips that i'm sharing in this video
useful
be sure to hit the like button and also
let me know in the comments below
what is your favorite tech tool for
hybrid teaching number six on my list
is pear deck pear deck is ideal if you
have google slides or powerpoint
presentations that you want to make
interactive
and you also want to make that
interactivity available to students
irrespective of whether or not they're
physically in the classroom with you
with peer deck you can easily add an
interactive questions to your slides
insert a link to push out to students
create a poll
or ask students to draw a response or
drag and drop
icons students access the interactive
slides by using a class code
so they can easily participate
regardless of whether or not they're
physically in your classroom
plus you can set up paradigm to be
teacher-led or student paced
which is useful if you want to use
stations in your hybrid classroom or if
you need to assign work for students to
complete
independently outside of class the
seventh tool on my list
is cami cami is a tool that's going to
help you digitize your curriculum
and it's particularly powerful if you
have a lot of static documents like pdfs
or images
that you want to make interactive just
like all the other tools on the list
students don't need to physically be in
the classroom to participate
in a cami activity some of my favorite
ways to use cami are to have students
annotate text to search for unknown
words as well as ask questions
while they are reading you can also add
a page beneath a pdf document that you
upload to add a processing activity such
as recording the main idea of an
article or even doing something like
sketching out a plot diagram
you can also assign a single document to
a group of students
so that they can work on that document
together and you can even set up
asynchronous assignments for your
students by using the internal screen
recording tool
to post your instructions visually cami
also has numerous accessibility tools
such as speech to text and text to
speech
and teachers and students can converse
with one another using audio comments or
even by recording a video
and embedding it directly in a document
if you want to learn more about how to
use cami then check out the recorded
version of my live show
i'll put that link in the video
description speaking of audio notes
the eighth tool on my list is moat
similar to what i was saying about
flipgrid
recording audio notes rather than just
leaving text comments
can help build a sense of community and
togetherness even if you aren't all
physically in the same room together
mote is incredibly easy to use
you just need to click on the extension
and then click to record your audio note
one feature that makes mode really stand
out is the ability to
save your audio note to use again in the
future
reusing common feedback can help you
automate your systems and save you time
all while continuing to provide students
with targeted feedback
that feels more personalized because
students can actually listen to the
feedback as opposed to just
reading it i also have a couple
tutorials on my channel about moat that
i'll link in the video description
the ninth tool on my list is edpuzzle
edpuzzle is another edtech tool that
helps you significantly upgrade your
instructions simply by adding checks for
understanding to videos
as students answer their questions they
can self-monitor whether or not they're
understanding the content
and you can easily see who's getting it
and who isn't
through automated grading of their
responses the other thing that makes
edpuzzle so useful is the fact that many
teachers have already created
interactive videos
and added them to the edpuzzle library
basically anytime you find a video you
want to show
students you could check to see if it's
already in the library
the last tool isn't one that individual
teachers can purchase but i think any
school that's implementing hybrid
instruction should
seriously consider getting hapara hapara
is a teacher and student workflow
management system
that helps you implement some of the
same structures and systems
that you would in a traditional
classroom but the difference is that it
gives you that understanding of
all the work students are doing as
opposed to just the work in a single
program like classkick with appara you
can pass out digital copies of
assignments to students without needing
to direct them to google classroom
you can see what students have out on
their digital desks and send students
personal messages
asking them to close unrelated tabs you
can freeze computers if you need to to
get your classes attention
focus browsing so students can't jump
over to other tabs while taking a quiz
as well as push websites directly out to
student computers
rather than relying on each individual
student manually entering a url it's
similar to classkick and that it gives
you a clear bird's eye view of what
students are working on
and you can easily jump in and give
individual students feedback
all these features work even if students
aren't physically in the building they
just need to be using a school managed
device
that summary is also really just
scratching the surface of what hapar can
do and if you're a g suite for education
school i would recommend that you
consider bringing it in as part of your
instructional technology plan thanks so
much for watching this video to the end
if you want to learn more tips about
hybrid and blended learning or
if you need to learn more about the
programs that i show in this video be
sure to watch that playlist above and if
you need some help getting started with
technology integration in general
then be sure to grab my free resource
pack and i've also put a link for that
in the video description below