I know that a lot of you out there might be in a position where you're going to
need to start to teach lessons remotely. Of course it's important to learn about
different tech programs that will facilitate distance learning, but I
wanted to start with teaching you how to make a Hyperdoc because I think that a
Hyperdoc can be the centerpiece for how you approach remote teaching.
Even if you don't end up teaching remotely adding a Google Slides Hyperdoc to
your toolkit as a teacher is one of the best ways to create an authentic,
self-directed, learning experience for students. My name is Sam Kary and this
is my YouTube channel for The New EdTech Classroom. On this channel I share tips
and tricks for how to use education technology to personalize learning,
increase engagement, promote creativity, as well as teach students 21st century
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in this video I'm going to show you a Google Slides Hyperdoc that I recently
created for my students. I'm going to put it up on my website at www.newedtechclassroom.com.
y=You're welcome to download it and edit it as you need to use it for
your own classroom. First of all, a Hyperdoc is basically a document that
includes links to additional websites, instructions, or resources for students. A
well-crafted Hyperdoc, however, is much more than just a series of links. An
effectively constructed Hyperdoc is essentially a self-contained independent
study that students can work through at their own pace. Google Slides is my
preferred medium for creating a Hyperdoc because it allows you to embed all
different types of multimedia. So let's jump in and take a look at a hyper doc
that I recently created for my students! As you're going to see when I walk you
through this Hyperdoc, you can make this assignment as high-tech or low-tech as
you want. At bare minimum you're going to want to post this Slide Deck to Google
Classroom, post it on another digital classroom platform, or email it
to your students. And if you want to embed all sorts of different tech
programs into your Hyperdoc, you can definitely do that!
In this Hyperdoc, I am going to link to some external tech programs, the majority
of which you can access for free. You can see here that I have started the Hyperdoc
with a title, and an image to make it clear to my students what we're going
to be working on. I'm always going to start my Hyperdoc with all the
different learning targets that are going to be touched on, and you're going
to notice that throughout the slides presentation I'm going to include the
different learning targets on individual slides to remind students of the
specific skill that they're working on at that time. In the next slide I will
point my students to our essential question in this case, "Was Emperor Qin an Effective Leader?"
And now you're going to see that I'm going to start to follow
the 5Es Lesson Plan. If you want to explore a little bit more about the 5Es,
you can check out my other video on lesson planning with Google slides, or
just Google 5Es lesson plan to see the different types of activities that you
would do for each of the Es. The first E is to Engage students, so here I'm going
to draw on their background knowledge and I'm going to ask them to think about
what they already know about the word "controversy" as well as what
controversies they already know about themselves. You'll notice that I've
included a link for students to click on so they can post their answer on a class
Padlet. When they click on that link you'll see that it directs them to a
bulletin board where they are able to post their answer to the question that I
posted. Using a bulletin board when remote teaching is a great way to have students
feel like they're still engaged with their classmates because they'll be able
to comment on each other's posts, if you choose that option. So you can see here
what a classroom bulletin board on Padlet would look like after students
have posted a bunch of different responses. Another great thing about
using this bulletin board on Padlet is that you as the teacher can also monitor
what students are posting, and you can also respond to what they're posting in
order to stay engaged with your class, and provide them with some quick
feedback. After students have tapped their background knowledge and posted to
Padlet, they're going to start to explore the content. Here on the first link you
can see that I've pre created a note taker on Google Docs that they're going
to use when they're doing their research about Emperor Qin's accomplishments.
Next, you'll see that I've included several different links that will take my
students to additional resources where they're going to go learn more about
Emperor Qin and then take notes in their note-taker. The first link is going to
take students to a Newsela article and if you have a school account with
Newsela it's going to auto=differentiate that article to be exactly at my
students reading level. Even if you don't have access to a Pro Newsela account,
students can still read a bunch of the articles on Newsela for free. Next, you'll
see that I've linked to a couple different YouTube videos that my
students can also use to learn about Emperor Qin. This second video is from Ted-ed. They're a great resource for reliable education videos and of course
they're posted on YouTube for free. Lastly, you'll see that I've included a
hyperlink to an external slide deck with additional reading. All I did here was
take screenshots of my text, and then drop it into a Google Slides
presentation for them to be able to read. For the explain phase students are now
going to process the information that they just gathered to make a claim about
whether or not they think Emperor Qin was an effective ruler. Here,
I pre created a Google Doc and then hyperlinked it into my Google slides so
that students can start to outline their thinking. On this Google Doc I have some
more specific instructions for this segment of the assignment and I provided
my students with some sentence frames to help them get started. In this part of
the lesson students will be introduced to a new skill in order to extend their
thinking. Here, I've chosen to include a hyperlink to an ED puzzle that another
teacher already created to teach students about counterclaims and
rebuttals. EdPuzzle has a lot of pre- created content and the great thing
about EdPuzzle is that you can create your own custom questions to a video
that students have to answer in order to progress through the video lesson. Of
course there are other options you could use to teach them a mini lesson here.
You could use Screencastify to make your own video tutorial. You
could arrange a Google Hangouts with your students, or it might be appropriate
to link to a program like Khan Academy or Freckle in order to teach your
students about a particular skill. After students learn about counter-arguments
they're going to reopen the graphic organizer that they already started to
work on and they're going to reflect on what they learned in the video, as well
as start to prepare their own counterclaims and rebuttals in
preparation for the debate. In the evaluate step of the lesson students are
going to post their response to Google Classroom and then use the same graphic
organizer in order to review and paraphrase their peers responses, and
then use counterclaims and rebuttals that they will post as a
comment on their peers responses.You'll see that I've also included some
sentence starters to help my students out if they're having trouble getting
started. I mention Google classroom in this video because I think it's a really
easy way to have a classroom debate another great resource for having an
online debate with your students. There's also free is a program called Kialo. I'm
not going to go over how to use Kialo in this video, but if you're interested in
using a different tool than Google classroom to have students have a
structured debate around the topic, I definitely recommend that you check out
Kialo. For the final part of this assignment I'm going to have students
extend their learning by creating either a propaganda poster in support of
Emperor Qin, or a wanted poster against Emperor Qin. In this case I'll give
students the option to either hand draw the poster or create a graphic using
Adobe Spark. I'm planning to make another video solely dedicated to using Adobe
Spark, but the point here is that you can integrate a creativity app in order to
extend your students thinking. You could have students process what they've
learned by having students use a variety of different creative the apps like
Storyboard That, We Video, they could create a Digital Book, or their own
Google Slides presentation. There are tons of different options that you could
use to have students end this project by making creative piece that showcases their
learning. The benefit of creating the Hypder is that students can work on
it independently at their own pace, and you can embed as many other activities
and tech programs as you want to make the project whatever you can imagine it
to be. If you're looking for some additional inspiration or even just free
Hyperdocs that you can download and modify yourself I also recommend that
you check out the Hyperdocs website. there you'll see under the resources tab
that you have access to file folders full of Hyperdocs that have already
been created about a ton of different topics. You may have to modify them
slightly to fit your needs, but already having a template with a
bunch of different ideas is a great place to start when you're creating your
own remote learning lessons. In my upcoming videos I'm planning to show you
how to use some other great remote learning tools like Flipgrid
and Google Hangouts. If you have any questions about how I'm preparing for
remote learning or if you have any ideas yourself about best instructional
practices for teaching your students from a distance, I'd love to hear about
them in the comments below!I hope you found this video helpful if you find
yourself in the position of needing to create independent study projects for
your students that are still engaging and rigorous, and even if you're not
doing remote learning I recommend you just try using a Hyperdoc in your
classes at some point. Students really enjoy it and it opens up your time to be
able to circulate and support students as well as pull students into small
groups. Thanks so much for watching my video to the end! If you appreciated the
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great week!