In this video series about how to teach remotely, I'm showcasing different lesson
plans as well as free technology resources for you to use when teaching
your students online. In this video I'm going to show you some new ideas for how
to use a Google Slides Hyperdoc for remote teaching. I strongly believe that
creating a Hyperdoc with Google Slides or Google Docs is one of the absolute
best ways to create a rigorous engaging and creative independent study project
for your students to work on in distance learning. In addition to the Google Slides
Hyperdoc and Google Docs note-takers, I'll also be showing you how to use
Coggle, which is an online note-taker, as well as Book Creator which is one of my
favorite programs for having students make a creative project and then
showcasing that project to their peers. My name is Sam Kary and this is my
YouTube channel for the New EdTech Classroom.
As always, you can find all the resources that I show in this video on
my website at www.newedtechclassroom.com
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bell to make sure you don't miss any of my weekly video updates. In this video I'm
going to be showing you a distance-learning Hyperdoc that my
partner teacher, Amy Heckman, and I created last week that my students did
during remote learning. Like the other Hyperdoc that I showed in my other
video, my partner teacher and I used Google Slides when creating this
document. In some future videos I'm also going to be showing how to use Google
Docs to create a Hyperdoc as well. When I make my Hyperdocs for students, I'm
giving them a week-long lesson plan. I post the Hyperdoc to Google Classroom
by clicking File>Make a Copy so that each student has an individual copy that
they are able to use for themselves. I teach sixth grade Humanities and we're
in our China unit, so this lesson plan is going to be about the achievements of
the Han Dynasty. I do believe that all the concepts and programs that I'm
going to be showing you could be applicable across any subject at any
grade level. After the title screen you'll notice that I'm going to begin
this Hyperdoc with a link to a Screencastify video in order to provide
my students with an overview of the entire week's project. Most of my lesson
plans are made in Screencastify and at this point I'm only using live video
meetings for question and answer sessions.
I actually prefer Screencastify as a method to teach and explain a lesson
because students and families can watch it whenever they need to and can
re-watch sections if they need to. I have a whole separate tutorial about how to
use Screencastify for video tutorials that you might want to check out. Next
I'm always going to include our essential question for the week so that
students understand the main topic that they are going to be learning about. Then
I'm going to emphasize the specific learning targets that students will be
working on in this lesson. In this lesson plan, students will be researching about
the Han Dynasty and then using a program called Coggle in order to take notes.
Then they'll be applying their knowledge by drafting an argumentative paragraph
about which Han Dynasty achievements they believe are the most important.
Whether in my physical classroom or online, I almost always end the week by
having students create something to process what they've learned. In this
case, students will be using a program called Book Creator to create digital
books that they can then share in a class library for the rest of their
classmates to see. And then to wrap the week up, students are going to read each
other's digital books and then post their reactions back to Google Classroom.
I always think it's incredibly important to have students showcasing the work
that they've created with their classmates. In the case of remote
teaching, having students share their work is going to be one way to help
students maintain a sense of class community. This Hyperdoc is going to be
structured using the Five Es lesson plan, which I go over in greater depth in
another video about how to lesson plan with Google Slides. You'll notice that
I'm breaking the slides up now based on days of the week in order to really
orient my students to what they need to do on a particular day.
On Monday I'm going to start by generating some interest, so here students are going
to watch a quick video on the MrGranito channel that summarizes the Han
Dynasty in under five minutes to give them an overview. For this phase of the
lesson the note-taker is going to be really simple. In this case it's just a
t-chart about new facts that students learn and
questions that they have. You could also consider doing something like a KWL
chart here. One question that came up a lot in the previous video that I made
about how to teach remotely with a Google Slides Hyperdoc is how to deal
with document management when you include a hyperlink to a Google Doc that
you've created. The problem that comes up is that if you click File>Make a Copy of
the Google Slide, unfortunately it's not also going to make a copy of the
document that's hyperlinked. I definitely was not clear enough in
that previous video to emphasize that you're going to need to teach students
that they need to click File>Make a Copy and then share that document with their
teacher so that you're able to actually view it. You'll notice on this slide that
there's a box below where students can paste the link to the document that they
created so that when they turn this document in, it's all self-contained in
one place. If you want to bypass the issue of having students make a copy
altogether, which is something I'm trying to do to the best of my ability, you can
also just directly embed a graphic organizer onto a Google Slide and have
them type directly on it. On Tuesday, students will enter the Explore step of
the lesson which will involve them using different resources to learn about the
topic or study. Here I've included links to three excellent resources for
teachers. The first is Newsela. Newsela is a great resource because it
automatically levels text based on a student's reading level. It's also
usually not a free program but right now Newsela has been made free for teachers
to use through the end of the school year. Then I've included a link to a
history.com article about the Han Dynasty, as well as a Britannica article.
Then students are going to log into a program called Coggle in order to take
notes. Coggle is a free program that you and your students can use to make bubble
diagrams or take other types of digital notes. Here you'll see I've given
students an option to either use a pre created Coggle template that I created
for them or they can make one on their own. The benefit of using the pre created
template is that sometimes adding all the branches and bubbles can be
difficult for some students. It might also depend on the grade level that you
teach. So let's jump in and take a quick look at what Coggle is all about. When
you first log into Coggle, you'll see that you're given an option to make either a
concept map or a mind map and it really doesn't matter which one of those you
pick. When you're ready to create a diagram, go up to 'Create Diagram' and
there you'll see that you have a main idea box in the middle that you can
easily edit. So if I'm creating a template for my students, I'm going to
write 'Han Dynasty Achievements' in the middle of my diagram and then in order
to add my first main idea, I'm going to click the plus button to add a new
branch. You'll see here that the branch can be moved around, resized, and you can
also change the color to be whatever you would like. To guide my students, I'll pre
type one of the major achievements of the Han Dynasty in this box and if I
wanted to make it a little bit more interesting, I could also add an image
here as well. To do that, you're first going to need to go find your image and
then to add it to the diagram, all you'll need to do is click on the image icon,
click upload an image, find the image, and then to get the image to show up you
just need to click off of the box. In order to add additional branches so that
students are able to add specific details about that achievement all I
need to do is click on the plus button and then I can add as many supplemental
branches as I want and drag them and resize them wherever I want them to go.
So now you can see the finished example of the template that I created and
pushed out to students. To be able to access the template and then include
as a hyperlink on your slide, just go up to 'Share This Diagram', click 'Embed', then
copy that link and paste it back into your Google Slides Hyperdoc. You'll see
that there's a question that students can click on at the bottom that will
remind them of all the different commands that they would have to use in
order to do different things like deleting branches or adding new ones.
Here you can see an actual example of a Coggle note-taker that a student
completed in my class for this project. In order to submit it, all this student
had to do was go up to the Embed link on their Coggle and then paste it back into
the slide presentation. That detail might be something you would want to include
in a Screencastify tutorial or a midweek question-and-answer session that you
host with your students. As an extension, students can do additional research and
can add additional notes to their note-taker. On Wednesday, for the
explained phase of the lesson, students are going to take the information that
they just took notes on in Coggle and make an argument about what they believe
the most important achievements of the Han Dynasty were. Here I've included a
hyperlink to a graphic organizer for students to organize their writing.
You'll notice I've also included sentence frames for students. I think
it's particularly important to provide students with some sentence starters
with remote teaching so that they can get a better sense of the academic
language that they need to be using for a particular assignment. On Thursday, for
the creative part of the lesson, students will be making a digital book or an
e-book in one of my favorite programs, Book Creator. I have a whole separate
tutorial about how to use Book Creator that I've also linked here for my
students to be able to watch to remind them of how to use the major features of
the program. Notice that I've included specific
instructions about what needs to be included in their digital books and I've
also provided students with an extension option to include additional multimedia
files like audio drawing and video. So here you can see in Book Creator all the
digital books that students made and added to our class library. The student
view looks almost identical to what you see now. I love that students can click on
each other's books and read what their peers have created.
Publishing their work for the rest of the class is a great way to retain a
sense of class community and also help students feel like the work that they're
doing still really matters because it's going to be seen by their classmates.
Book Creator offers 40 free books and one library. There are upgrade options in
order to have additional books and have additional libraries. Lastly, on Friday,
for the extend phase, students are going to read each other's digital books in
Book Creator and then use academic sentence starters to post comments back
to Google Classroom about the information that was in those books. So
here you can see my students engaging in a conversation on Google Classroom about
whether they agree or disagree with the major achievements of the Han Dynasty
that their peer selected. And then to cap it off, I have students take some of the
agree comments and add them to the back cover of their books to make it a little
bit more authentically like a real book jacket. This final slide is just a
reminder for students to go back and proofread all their work to make sure
all the supplemental documents that they linked back onto the slides are shared
with their teacher and then to make sure that they hit 'Turn In' on Google
Classroom. I hope you found this video helpful and that it gave you some ideas
for how you might approach remote teaching with your students. If you have
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