Blended Learning Strategies

hey everybody welcome to today's show i  am your host sam carey this is the new   ed tech classroom live we go live on youtube  facebook and periscope every thursday at 4 p.m   and one of the benefits of coming to a live  show is that you can put your questions   in the comments and i will try my best to pull  them in and answer them throughout the show   today's show is going to be about blended learning  strategies we'll talk about that in just a moment   before we get started do just want to make  a couple of quick announcements so first   announcement is that on sunday i put out a video  on my channel this video is called top tech tools   for teachers in 2021 if you have not yet checked  out that video there is a link in the video   description for this show and the reason i bring  it up is because uh some of the programs that   are shown in that video would be really useful if  you are in need of some blended learning programs   so there are several programs in that video that  i haven't covered yet on my channel that i highly   recommend and you should definitely check it out  and another announcement that i'm excited about is   that i have partnered with the bureau of education  and research to host an all-day workshop about   increasing student learning with education  technology and they're going to be two full   day workshops in april and two full day workshops  in may there's information about those workshops   in the video description the dates are april uh  4th and 5th and may 3rd and may 4th and those are   also workshops that you can get professional  development credit for as well as continuing   education credits so definitely check that  out i would love to see you at those workshops   and then also just want to invite everybody  to click on the link in the video description   to join my mailing list i send out a weekly  newsletter and in that newsletter there are   updates about news that's going on if i've been  say featured in an article or have 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half of the week and  then other students were going to be doing this   asynchronous learning at home so the tips that  i showed in that video i'm going to share again   here they do still apply but i know that a lot of  us are facing a different situation right now so   there's a lot of people out there right now who  are needing to do concurrent blended learning   where you actually have students physically in a  classroom and then you also have students who are   attending class but they're attending that  class virtually i actually volunteer in a   makerspace class that is like that um and  have been doing that for quite a while now   and i have been getting a lot of questions  about how do you address that particular issue   so this show is really going to be focused on  that question how do we implement blended learning   when we have some students who are physically in  the classroom and we have students who are coming   into the class but they're virtual and we have  to teach them at the same time now i know this is   something that is stressing people out rightfully  so i do think however that there are some really   clear tangible things that we can do that don't  have to involve buying a bunch of extra equipment   and you know wearing a lapel mic and doing all  kinds of things that would be really involved and   potentially expensive we can still use a lot of  the same techniques and strategies that i already   talked about on this channel in my show and all  my tutorials with technology integration i'm going   to show in this show different examples of how  you might organize groups how you might organize   your classroom and different ways that you could  think about how you could approach this question   all right um so yeah i'd love to hear people  already putting in the chat whether or not you   are facing this situation so i would love to hear  that and actually that can help i can even talk to   some specific situations throughout the show  are you hybrid are you doing concurrent hybrid   right now are you fully remote are you fully in  person that would be great to hear from people   just so i can see what's going on in different  people's classrooms okay so in the video that   i mentioned i did give five tips and those five  tips still apply so i want to just mention them   very briefly before we get into the show today  and the first tip that i gave in that video   was to post everything to your learning  management system so this is very important   because essentially you're digitizing your  curriculum you're making it accessible so that   it a student's ability to access information is  not dependent on them physically being in class   they can still predictably access anything  by going to your learning management system   and the next is to prepare to flip your  instruction now i'm going to be talking more about   flipped instruction in this show today but the  general idea with flipping instruction is that   students are learning independently asynchronously  and it actually doesn't have to necessarily mean   at home this could be happening in class but  they're learning through other mechanisms then   say you're just giving direct instruction that  might be watching a video tutorial that you've   made it might mean going through and watching some  interactive videos reading interactive articles   going through a hyperdoc that you've constructed  so that you're going to open up your time by doing   that to be able to do other types of activities  so we'll be talking about that and what that   might look like today and the third tip was to  ensure that all of your lessons particularly   your synchronous lessons are interactive i'll be  showing a couple of examples of this today this   is really where you're going to make sure that  you meet the students who are coming in remotely   where they're at and you give them an equitable  learning experience so that whatever they're doing   on their device is exactly the same as what every  other student is doing on their device as well   and they can participate just as equally as  anybody else in class because you've made all   of your lessons interactive the fourth  tip which we'll also talk about today   was to focus on lesson design and i say  focus on lesson design as opposed to   lesson delivery and so what i mean by that is  there's a bigger emphasis on planning up front so   you might be constructing a hyperdoc that is well  thought through that a student could potentially   do on their own in a self-paced lesson there's  more planning up front more thought that has   to go into the planning but then in class you're  freeing up your time making yourself more flexible   and we'll look at some models for what that would  look like and then my last tip in that video was   to ensure that you're also teaching tech skills  and embedding some tech skills instruction into   your lessons so that the technology doesn't become  a barrier which you don't want to find is that the   students particularly if they're remote are unable  to move forward because they didn't know how to do   a particular thing or action that you're asking  them to do on the computer so it's important that   we're really thinking through what technology  skills will student need in order to access a   particular part of this lesson and make sure we're  embedding that into our instruction so these tips   still apply but i know that there are different  challenges challenges that come up when we have   computers in the room with students on those  computers and physical students in the room   that's kind of a different situation hybrid  learning and hybrid teaching has been around   for a while but that is something that's that's  different and relatively unique to this situation   um and yeah i'm looking through the comments  now and it looks like there are a lot of people   who are in that situation as well where they're  doing some simultaneous remote and in-person   teaching also some fully remote and even if  you're fully remote right now a lot of the   techniques that i'm going to talk about even the  ways that i'm talking about organizing your day   would still apply so uh that will still be helpful  for you okay let's get into talking about a few   different models of instruction so i'm going to  emphasize three different models of instruction   and some of this work is based on some of  catelyn tucker's work on blended learning   if you're not familiar with her definitely check  her out she's a leading thinker on how to create   effective blending learning environments  has written a couple of books about them   and i really like the way that she talks about  thinking about planning your day and so i'm going   to talk use some of her language in this show and  so one of the ways that she talks about planning   instruction is with the term vertical planning  now vertical planning is a type of planning that   is perhaps more traditional instruction where we  would have students proceed essentially linearly   through a lesson so we might have something for  example like a do now then we would provide direct   instruction to students we would have them  engage in some kind of whole group practice   and then do some independent practice move into  an exit ticket now i know that a lot of people are   trying to kind of mimic this model of instruction  when doing hybrid teaching and they're having   some difficulty with it it's turning into you know  some people trying to live stream teaching hooking   themselves up with a mic so they can do a live  lot of live instruction now we're going to talk   about a different model but in a moment but there  are some ways that we can still take this model   and just make it into a more effective means of  teaching students if we're doing this strange   kind of hybrid uh model of kids coming in on the  computer which i've represented here with the   kids torso sticking out of the computer that  means that the student is is remote whereas   these are the physical students in person so in  this particular model if you want to continue   this uh means of instruction this model of  instruction where you're really vertical planning   your vertical teaching then that's really going  to be dependent on having one-on-one devices so   you're going to still want to have every student  on a computer and this is where having those   interactive lessons is going to be really  important now a program i know that a lot   of people are familiar with and have probably used  a lot uh in this past year is nearpod nearpod is   effective for that so you know essentially what  you would be doing in a nearpod lesson you would   be having all the students participate at the same  time so you would launch this as a live lesson   doesn't matter if a student is remote doesn't  matter if the student is physically important   in person they're still going to be able  to participate to answer these questions   to take the polls to do the different activities  in an earpod lesson now nearpod is awesome but   nearpod also has certain limitations for example  it's it doesn't it's not always the best for   being able to really give feedback to  students and being able to get a clear window   into what they're doing so there are some other  programs that you might want to look at that are   going to essentially create digital workspaces for  students and again it doesn't matter whether or   not the student is remote or in person they still  would have the digital workspace in front of them   you as the teacher can be in class observing  those digital digital workspaces classkick will   allow you to do this formative whiteboard fi and  a program that is in that video that i referred   to the top tech tools for teachers in 2021 is  whiteboard chat i'm going to show whiteboard chat   right now because what i like about whiteboard  chat is the fact that it is kind of absorbed a   lot of the different feature deficiencies or i  should say it has addressed a lot of the feature   deficiencies of other online whiteboard programs  other online white space whiteboard space programs   and it's built them into their platform and it's  also 100 free so whiteboard chat will allow you to   build essentially lessons uh within a a  whiteboard but it also doesn't limit you to   a single page so if we're kind of thinking here  for example again about our vertical planning   what we can do is pre-build a lesson in  whiteboard chat so we can ask students to   do things like let's say for example this is a  lesson about summarizing and learning how to write   an effective summary we have a do now question  that they're all going to do at the same time   where they're going to be describing their  favorite movie in 10 words or less see   what how they can do we're gonna have a discussion  about that post an image about uh their movie and   then i'm basically going to proceed through a  lesson with them so i will i have some of this   preset up i'm going to be live doing some direct  instruction here where i will be writing out some   steps and doing some modeling filling in a graphic  organizer showing how i would fill in the main   idea of my own favorite movie some key details and  then i could do a model summary in front of them   so again just following that sort of linear path  of direct instruction where the students are just   observing essentially what i'm doing then we could  have an activity where students are going to watch   this video which i love teaching this true  story of the three little pigs told from the   wolf perspective and then they're going to  practice now applying this right where they're   going to do the main idea key details and then  on the next page they will apply that learning   by writing a summary right so you can imagine  i'm essentially walking them through this they're   doing this all at um at the same time so we are  all doing the same parts of the lesson together   now a couple things that i want to show you  about this program so this is a student account   and you can see here for example when  a student does something like adds some   text so let's just say for example that  they start writing my favorite movie   and as the teacher now when i go back to the  teacher end i can go to grid view and this is   going to allow me to see all of the students  workspaces here so you can see here this is my   demo student you can imagine i have all of my  kids i'm you know at potentially my desk or uh   or at my teacher stand and i can see everybody's  workspaces it doesn't matter if they're remote   it doesn't matter if they're in person i can  click on those workspaces we can showcase them   so the showcase is going to push that  board out to all student devices so that   students could see that as a model or for a  means of discussion and one thing i really   like about this program is that you can also  join those whiteboards so i can actually get in   i can join the students whiteboard i can see  the work that they are doing in there you know   as they are doing the next parts as well i can see  that work that they're doing and i can give them   feedback and with this program you can give them  feedback in all kinds of ways you can even record   a video of yourself through your webcam leaving  them feedback you can you know obviously very   quickly just leave them a little piece of text  feedback on here as well but it's just a really   effective tool for being able to see what students  are doing on their screens and it has all these   other functions that i really like like the  ability to do things like freeze the board and   things like that um that are really useful so i  definitely recommend that let's see free up here   i am where am i okay um so definitely recommend  that you check out uh this program and again this   concept um is really important when we're thinking  about how to create an equitable space so that   it doesn't matter if the student is coming in  remotely doesn't matter if they are in person   i can still see all the work that they are  doing on that grid view and i can still jump in   i can still give them support and we can actually  paste this lesson all together at the same pace so   that's one way to do it you can continue the model  of vertical planning by using these programs that   give you these virtual workspaces now that's going  to work for some lessons but we are also going to   need to start thinking a little bit outside the  box about how we organize our lessons in order to   really make this effective right so i've got that  we'll go up there actually i can't it's i have   my little canva logo up there canva is also an  awesome program that i'll talk about in a moment   that that could help out um as well so i will talk  about that actually later um so an another idea   that um that catelyn tucker talks about is how to  shift away from vertical instruction and instead   start looking at how we can plan horizontally  and do stations based instruction so i'm going   to show some examples of this in a moment so  that we can see exactly kind of what this means   and what this would look like but the basic idea  is that we would still have a whole group check-in   um at the beginning of class this could be a do  now it could be a kick-off uh where you're giving   an explanation of the learning objectives for the  day and uh perhaps talking about what the final   outcome is going to be but then students move in  uh into stations and i'll talk about how you could   potentially group these in a moment stations in  this model are essentially uh flat so they're no   longer dependent on linear progress so whereas in  this model in order to do the group practice you   really needed to have had the direct instruction  you can't do the independent practice without   having the preceding activities in this model  you're going to set up different activities that   could happen at the same time and it doesn't  matter the order in which they take place   you can follow up your stations based activities  with independent work with collaborative work and   then you can close out class again by coming  all back together with a whole group checkout   now when you're thinking about  organizing stations and actually   i'd love to hear in the comments if people have  done stations before if this is a model that   you're familiar with if you've used stations in  your class if you've been trying this out already   um that would be would be great to  hear um i want to give some ideas   here for how we might think about organizing  groups for stations based learning so one   possibility is that you essentially create  homogeneous groups where you're going to have   groups of students who are remote and then you're  going to have groups of students who are in person   okay that's one option another option is that you  are going to have groups of students where you   actually have some students who are physically  physically in the class and then they're joined   by their peers who are on the computer right and  another that might need to happen if you have to   do social distancing and you actually cannot have  students in groups you're not allowed to do it   is that you still do stations rotations but you  do them with individual students and i'm going   to talk about that in just a moment and so each  of these are different possibilities for how you   could combine students and then as the teacher  you have some different options so you can either   park yourself at one station and students could  move to you so that all of these stations are   independent workstations of some kind and this  is your direct instruction station or as the   teacher you could float so you could essentially  move around to each of the different stations   and support students okay now let's look at what  this would actually look like in a real model so   let's say that we're teaching math and you need  to have students practicing fraction problems   you might open class by still having a whole  group activity that's again at some type of   digital workspace padlet will work for  this as well we're going to have them   all practice fraction problems as a whole group  and then you're going to set up these stations   which again maybe are all students together or  you have mixed groups of students who are remote   and students who are in person or you do this  where you actually have students do stations but   they are sitting at an individual desk if you're  not allowed to group students and the way that   that would work is you would essentially time  these and then you would let students know okay   move to your next station and they would do that  but they would be doing that at their own desk   so what you might do for these stations you might  have one set up where it's a personalized learning   station um so here you might have students on  a program like st math like ixl where they're   just moving through some math problems that are  practicing math at their own pace and regardless   of the subject you teach having some elements of  this personalized adaptive instruction is really   important for differentiating instruction meeting  students at their level doesn't matter if we're   doing fully in person remote blended building in  some personalized learning is an important part of   the day then you could have for the actual grade  level content the work that you're doing that day   you could do something like a near pod self-based  uh self-paced fractions lesson so that's not   too dissimilar right from some of what we  talked about with the vertical plan it's just   that students will be doing that on their own  in a self-paced lesson and then you could also   have a different station where you're doing some  gamified learning so if you are a math teacher   a game like prodigy is a fun game it's  free that students like to play that's also   adaptive so it's also personalized and so each of  these are essentially activities that students can   really just do on their own right and then again  one option if you're using this kind of park the   teacher in a station idea is that when you either  rotate to the group or students rotate to you   that's where they're getting some small group  instruction so that's going to be a lot more   feasible if you say even have you want to do some  live instruction and even if you want to have it   where on your end it's not tech based you're doing  something on a whiteboard or you know behind you   or a mini whiteboard you could do that you could  do that in front of just a handful of computers or   in front of a physical group of students or a mix  of those students and then students on computers   and then after that station's rotation is  done you can have students all still move   into a type of independent activity potentially  collaboration if you're able to do collaboration   where they're working on some application  of that knowledge so doing something like   making a fractions recipe digital book or  something like that then you could close out   the lesson with a whole group checkout now i know  i just want to show really quickly i mentioned   prodigy so prodigy is this really cool  game and the thing one of the reasons why   i want to show this now is because there are  actually a lot of games that are like this so   this uh it has all this music i'm going  to turn the music doesn't play here but   um you'll see it's very engrossing so students  can basically play this role-playing game looks a lot like zelda and might be hearing the mic the idea is that  you know students are playing this character they   get to even pick what the character looks like  pick the character's name they proceed through   this whole game and what they're doing in here  is answering math problems and the game starts   to learn their level so it becomes adaptive um  and they you know play this role-playing game   so these types of activities you know are  activities that students can do entirely   on their own and their building skills in a really  fun engaging way for students right so here now we   can see that this is where they're actually having  to do some math practice now if this type of thing   is interesting to you to figure out how how  might i set up one of the stations to be a game   i would recommend that you go to common sense i  know i've mentioned this on some live shows before   common sense education has edtech reviews and  if you search games you'll see all kinds of   games you can see which ones are free if you  teach on tablets which ones are for ipads or   android tablets and there's all kinds of  games that you can set up that are educational   a lot of them are adaptive now so they're  going to be directed right at students level   and that could be a really effective station to  put together that students could do again at home   or that students could be working on if they  were physically in the classroom with you now   the last one that i want to show here is how you  could set up your classroom to be self-paced for   a group of students in the class and and this  is going to be a much larger group of students   and then also deliver some small group instruction  or flexible support so you may have heard of   flexible teaching flexible teaching is essentially  the idea that students can move in and out of   a small group for support if they need it and  so what that would look like is that you have   all of the students set up on some self-paced  lessons and i believe that the best way to do this   is by constructing a hyperdoc which i'll show  in a moment and all of these different programs   would be really ideal for this  type of self-paced lesson now again   this goes back to that idea that i mentioned in  the beginning about really emphasizing lesson   design so if you spend a lot of time up front  you really focus on constructing a meaningful   well-sequenced lesson that puts together some  different programs in intentional ways you   could have students go through an entire lesson  sequence essentially on their own they could   either come over to you in a small group that  you determine so you could pull small groups   to do some review of some drafts that they're  working on or do some skill building in that   small group or you could have that small group be  flex support so that if students need some support   they essentially are able to either physically  come over to you or using one of the programs   be able to request help and actually  that's something i forgot to mention   with a lot of these programs like classkick and  whiteboard chat is that students can raise digital   hands things like that to show you um as the  teacher that a student needs help so that's why   those programs were able to have those digital  workspaces are really useful for this now   some of these programs already mentioned  where you're going to essentially have   students move through lessons and engage in some  interactive content i showed an example that with   near pod which again you could have students  proceed through on their own or do it live in   this case it would obviously be self-paced some  people i've seen in the chat have been mentioning   uh pear deck pair deck would be a good option  for this as well and then you can also start to   build all this interactive content actively learn  is great for interactive websites and articles and   videos edpuzzle as you probably know a great  program for interactive videos you can make   tutorials which i know we all know about now with  screencastifyloom where you're giving instruction   you're actually uploading it into a program  like edpuzzle to make it interactive   and students are not only learning from your  instruction but they're also getting little   checks for understanding embedded in that video  because you uploaded it into edpuzzle or nearpod   and made it interactive and then when it gets  to having students apply what they've learned   these programs i mentioned canva before and i  did my show about canva last week you know really   great programs for having students apply learning  in creative meaningful engrossing ways and again   if you build out something like a hyperdoc you can  have students do that as essentially entirely on   their own at their own pace because you would  be strategically putting in some tutorials for   them to learn how to use those programs again  if they need help they jump over to get that   flex support or maybe you're teaching them some  skills over here as well flipgrid as we know can   be effective for that for having students make  videos to share what they've learned via video   i think particularly a good idea if you have a lot  of students doing remote instruction can help them   feel connected and making videos is also something  that's sometimes easier to do actually remotely   and quizzes gimkit are also other types of  gamified learning other ways that you can   have students engage in engrossing exciting  games to practice what they've learned   now i want to show an example of a hyperdoc here  that i used with my students and did exactly this   essentially and what we did was when i taught  this hyperdoc was a flex model except we were   fully remote so essentially i did a whole group  kickoff quick whole group kickoff where we all   normed on what essentially where we were and what  needed to happen i gave some direct instruction   then students moved into some self-paced work on  their hyperdoc and the ultimate product was that   they were using soundtrap to make a podcast which  we eventually published to our class website that   got published to the whole school and then we  had flex support now all this flex support was   happening remotely at the time but we essentially  had office hours and some students were required   to come if we noticed that they were falling  behind or students could just come and stay   right after our whole group meeting to get some  additional support so you can still implement on   this kind of flex help even if you're fully remote  so what something like this might look like is   that you have essentially pre-set up this entire  lesson and i'll make sure oh but if you this   is a good note if you sign up for my mailing  list this is one of the resources you can get   as a free lesson or free resource for  signing up is this self-contained hyperdoc   about how to basically go from almost knowing  nothing about podcasting to publishing a podcast and again this is designed so that a student  can move through this essentially at their own   pace and uh you can give them all the pieces  of a lesson like this up front and you know   they can go right i sometimes i hear people  saying well what if they move um far ahead   and i know sometimes i've had that fear in the  past like what if they're moving too far ahead   i mean if they're moving too far ahead then i  we can give them some other challenge activities   that shouldn't be too much of a  concern i would give it to them and   see what they can do so you can see here that  students are given a type of engage question   they're going to answer what they already know  about a podcast and then i'm going to start to   use this hyperdoc to push them out to other links  so they're going to start poking around listening   to a couple of sample podcasts and this  particular podcast uh the topic was   this was right after we went into shelter and  play so they were going to do a podcast either   interviewing a family member or just a monologue  about their experience and at the time kqed had   just released a student podcast with some high  schoolers on this topic and so they uh listened   to that and we just narrowed down closer and  closer to the actual subject matter that they were   learning about so that they could learn and see  an example of what their final example would look   like they took notes about what they learned and  then they started to uh build their topic right so   i'm giving them some sentence starters and these  also by the way were different things that i was   explaining say as the kickoff for the beginning  of the lesson so it's not that it was entirely   on their own we took you know a little bit of  time to explain this so that they knew what they   were doing and then basically students just went  through they followed these different links to   other websites that gave them some guidance for  how to compose the podcast uh watched tutorials   about how to get high quality audio recordings and  then we had different tutorials in here teaching   them how to actually record it how to edit  their podcasts in soundtrap all the way through   the process of titling it giving it a brief  description even creating a graphic design for it   and eventually publishing their podcast so this  type of lesson is obviously something where you   have a a much greater emphasis on lesson design  if you do a lot of upfront planning but then once   you explain it to kids you can mostly let it  run as a self-paced lesson and then use this   model to either strategically pull the groups  so you could pull them to give them feedback   about their drafts for example before they  actually record or just open yourself up right   to be able to provide support so those are three  models that i think we could potentially even   shift back and forth between when we're thinking  about how do we address this issue of needing to   teach students who are coming in remotely students  who are physically in the classroom so again we   could continue to use our vertical planning model  in this case we're going to want to have students   all on one-to-one devices we are going to paste  the lesson together we're going to use programs   that ideally allow us some visibility so that  we can see what's going on uh near pod will   give us those immediate reports class kick  formative whiteboard fi whiteboard chat all   allow us to pace that lesson see those student  boards give feedback in those student boards   so rather than being up say lecturing i'm still  teaching from my computer in some ways maybe   similarly to how you might teach if you're fully  remote right and then the other option is to do   this horizontal planning where it's no  longer linear planning instead you're   thinking about how you can break students up  into strategic groups you're either moving around   between those groups or you're parked at one  group and most of those groups unless you're   there are going to be some sort of self-paced  learning as well and again i did also mention that   those groups could potentially just be or  they could potentially be stations that happen   as an individual so if you are in a situation  where you can't group students i know that some   people are in that situation understandably then  you can still move students through stations   or give them even choice for which stations they  would move through you can still do stations even   without having students be in groups or actually  physically moving and then the last uh the last   strategy is this self-paced learning for a large  majority of the class if not the entire class   and then you're providing flex support  or you're strategically pulling groups   while the rest of the class works on a self-paced  lesson that you've designed ideally doing   something like a hyperdoc and making sure that  you have interactive pieces that you have some   higher application of learning with some of  these creativity apps if you're going to do   more typical assessments you still make those fun  with quizzes and [ __ ] kits and things like that   all right so i am going to jump into the  q a and i see that there are a lot of   people who have dropped in some  different comments and questions   and if you do have a question you asked one  earlier and you want to drop it in now then i can   try to get to it so it's a little bit easier  to see if you put it in now okay why is that   let's see here um trying to figure out what's  going on with that background one second okay so   this question is about whether or not i have built  um a hyperdoc in whiteboard chat um so yes you can   essentially build a hyperdoc in whiteboard chat um  you could also build a hyperdocument program like   wakelets or google slides google docs so you kind  of saw what i did here where i had built out the   lesson where i was pushing students essentially to  do different activities and even potentially doing   things like embedding videos into whiteboard chat  or embedding things uh like you can also bring in   websites as well so you can really you know  build essentially very similar experience   to a hyperdoc in here as well really the most  important thing with a hyperdoc it's not that   it is pushing students out to a lot of different  programs is that it's an intentionally sequenced   lesson um so yes i think you can do that in  whiteboard chat you just got to be a little bit   creative about it okay um let's  see next question i have um so this question about uh how how does  support students are falling behind on   a whatsapp platform so i'm actually not  that familiar i rose with teaching through   whatsapp um if you could just clarify then maybe  i can help you with that question okay um so   this question bonnie thank you need ideas for  a small group when you need to social distance   how do you physically do it with in-person kids  i guess it depends on whether or not so what the   physical distance looks like and in in the case  i'm going to assume that you might be able to   um still have groups but they need to be further  apart potentially i would make the group work less   reliant on maybe verbal conversation and more  on interacting in these platforms so there are   lots of programs where they can get in there right  and they're able to oh sorry about that that that   was my prodigy game music i apologize for that  that was playing in the background thank you for   for letting me know that's that's the beauty  of prodigy game okay sorry about that um so uh   yes you um it it really depends it's gonna depend  on how far apart students need to be um and   you can still virtually group students so with  all these programs you can virtually group them   they don't necessarily need to be um physically  together in a group um so something to keep in   mind you may also have to have the groups be say  smaller groups potentially um and like in this   model you may only be able to you know you may set  this up and then your group might just have to be   two kids that are kind of far apart um  from one another so it's going to depend   on exactly how many students are in  your class and what the space is like   um obviously you know going to depend  pretty dramatically for different situations   okay um what other games are available besides  quizzes and uh prodigy so actually one that   i really like that i talk about in my top tech  tools for teachers in 2021 is uh gimkit and gimkit   it works similarly to quizzes and kahoot and  that you have questions and you have answers   but uh the difference is that it turns it into  a game that's a little bit more like prodigy   it's less sort of like a character moving  through a space but much more engrossing   and involved than some of those other quiz  games and there are lots of different game   choices that you can choose from and they also  have pre-made questions and answers so there's   all kinds of stuff about different subjects  that um you might teach so definitely worth   checking out gimpkit and  again i do show gimkit in that   video that i showed in the beginning my  uh top tech tools for teachers in 2021. y'all have to check this out bloomer i have not  heard of bloomer but thank you i will definitely   look into bloomer um and yeah sorry i and thanks  got your uh got your fix there it's no problem   making mistakes all the time we're all we're  all doing it so no not a big deal at all um   but so yeah i will check out um oh block ah okay  i have heard of um is it blue kit or block it i'm   not actually sure i've heard of it but i'm not  familiar with it um so i'll check it out thank   you for the recommendation um and patricia if  you also want to drop in the chat for others um   what that game is about that would  be awesome if it's for a particular   subject okay so this is a great question  as well this is about a smart board   so how to best use a smart board  in a hybrid synchronous setting so   my assumption with the smart board is that  you're still able to project you know it's   not an assumption you're able to project  whatever it is that you have on your computer   onto the smartboard so for example uh if you are  using a program like jamboard whiteboard chat   nearpod you can project that onto the smartboard  so i would look at that as that's the tool for   students that are in person to be able to see  that smart board but i would de-emphasize the   smart board the physical smart board and i would  emphasize the online whiteboard the online smart   board essentially use that as your primary tool so  that the students who are remote aren't dependent   on you know trying to look through the camera and  see what you're doing on the white on the smart   board and the other thing about that is that they  likely won't be able to interact with it right um   so if uh if they can't interact with it then you  need to think about whether or not it's useful to   use if they can interact with it then you know you  might want to show them the physical whiteboard   but i would de-emphasize the physical  one and emphasize the virtual whiteboard spaces yeah this is a great question one i've been  thinking about as well thank you erica about tools   um to learn english as a second language so um  you know a lot of the tools that people use for   interactivity for accessibility are are very much  applicable to learning a language right flipgrid   could be a great example of actively practicing  speaking a language doesn't you know have to be   remote or hybrid you know would be a great option  for in-person learning just because there's so   few really ways or opportunities for students to  be practicing the speaking and listening standards   and particularly important if they're learning a  language so flipgrid is a great program for that   uh if you need students to learn uh read and  learn about english you know through reading   texts actively learn is is really effective for  that because the the text is fully interactive   so they can get definitions they can translate  words it helps make the reading more accessible   but any of the tools that have students share in  different ways i think are also good for language   building so that those are sort of general tools  in terms of just functionality but again like i   showed before i would also definitely check  out common sense so you know search in the   search box for what you're looking for and  you're going to also find here some content   specific tools that would apply for for you and  for your content area that um you know other   people might not know about who don't teach that  content area so definitely would check that out   yeah brain pop um thanks for the suggestion yeah  different you know brain pop is a great program   there's there's going to be lots of programs  like you know brain pop uh flocabulary different   engaging videos but you know the the whole idea is  just visu that's visual content right and that's   something you can get with edpuzzle just make sure  you know well with edpuzzle obviously it's going   to do this but you're embedding some questions in  there so rather than say having them watch a video   and just answer comprehension questions they  could answer questions pertaining to language   so you can really make those programs i  think work for for really any content area   um yes definitely kathy so uh hyper doc  lessons that are already designed absolutely so   actually if you go to hyperdocs.co which  i will put and it's not com it's dot co   and i'll put that here that is the hyperdocs  website and their whole thing is teachers give   teachers so they have loads of free lessons on  there and archives of hyperdocs if you also sign   up for my mailing list i have a bunch of free  uh hyperdocs that i give away as well that's in   the video description but yeah hyperdocs.com all  subject areas they basically will give you access   to like a google drive where you can download a  bunch of different hyperdocs so check them out all right um so janet thank you best app  for high school ela arts remote learning   live streaming teaching in the classroom at  the same time this is a tough question i i   hesitate to say best apps for anything um i  so i'm i'm excited about a lot of programs   i do really like a lot of the activities that  they have in canva education now you can make any   worksheet in canva education interactive and they  have a lot of higher level ela type worksheets   in there now of course if you're looking more for  like reading type resources newsela is an amazing   resource for ela as is actively learn which allows  you to make any text interactive i just put out a   tutorial about actively learn on the channel  that you might want to uh to check out and uh   thanks eric yeah i appreciate it uh finally hit  my one video million views about google jamboard   if you haven't checked that one out definitely  check that out i appreciate it eric thank you all right um so still uh have a few minutes  to answer questions i know a lot that   a lot of uh people i've put some questions  up top but there are lots of comments today   so if you have a question that you want me to  get to then uh please make sure you drop it in   now um purpose games as well yeah there's so  many thanks patricia i gotta check out some   of these games you're recommending there's  so many awesome games um and yeah i think   gamifying learning particularly this time of the  year is such a great way to kind of re-engage   students and get them interested and it's a it's a  really effective activity to have students do for   independent learning you know in in  one of these models we're talking about   where you need to have students just kind of  working on their own on something engrossing   so you can pull a smaller group and be  able to effectively teach those students um   you know who are mixed remote mixed in person  and yeah ed you could play as well uh definitely um yeah so thanks thanks rose oh sorry thanks  rose i yeah i'm not familiar uh thanks for the   recommendation with live worksheets i'm i'm  assuming it you know if it's makes allows   you to make a worksheet interactive works in a  similar way to what i showed last week in the show   with canva education where you can lock certain  boxes kind of like a master slides and then have   students just fill in particular parts or make  drag and drop worksheets and things like that um   so those are those are really good ideas or good  options as well if you have a collaborative group   of students some of them are you could have you  know particularly this issue where uh you can't   have a physical group because of social distancing  well you could have a group where one of the kids   is in in person one of the kids is remote but  they're collaborating on an interactive worksheet   maybe doing a project planner and something  like that and then ultimately doing a project   they could do that all in a hybrid situation  where they're never actually face to face a lot of different ideas for digitizing worksheets  and things like that i appreciate that and you're   welcome karen uh for drawing on google slides  yeah i actually use that uh annotate extension   briefly in the show if you're not familiar uh  with that would recommend you check that out i   also have a video about that about how to draw on  google slides so cool extension and yes class kick   so class kick is one of the ones that i referred  to in the beginning of the show when i was talking   about some different programs here that would be  good particularly if we want to kind of continue   this vertical planning model and be able to see  workspaces classkick is really effective for being   able to jump in give students feedback also pair  students up so they can actually give each other   feedback create drag and drop worksheets things  like that so yeah very much like class kick yeah this is a problem thanks kathy that a lot of  people um are having right now the extension is   uh not working or it's no longer available as a  lot of people have have uh found um try hitting   command or control minus i know that's not the  best solution but it's at least going to change   the your screen so that you should be able to  see more students but i know that um that's   not always the most ideal but yeah go try command  or control minus when you're on the screen that   should change the dimension of the screen  so that you can see them a little bit better   yeah thanks avril for the question about  um noise so yeah in fact in general um   i is a great question because this is this is  like the logistics issue that you really got   to deal with in general um you want students to  who are working on computers to have headphones   because they're going to be watching videos and  you know doing all kinds of things it really   doesn't work that well without headphones so um  we actually had some uh you know really cheap just   year over headphones that um you know plugged into  the computer but i always ask students if they had   them to bring their own headphones most students  do but something that your school might need to   invest in for sure definitely need headphones now  microphones uh yes uh avril if you can get them   to have headsets with microphones that's  also better particularly i'm sure a lot of   us if you use programs like flipgrid you're going  to find doesn't actually pick up the sound all   that well from the computer especially if you're  just using a chromebook and sometimes students   don't talk loudly but then if they do talk  loudly it picks up in everybody else's computer   so if you could get headsets with microphones that  would be ideal um so you know i don't recommend as   much that the teachers are necessarily miking  themselves up and and live streaming and things   like that i'm not i'm not convinced that that's  the most effective way to deal with this situation   but i do think having students have the headphones  and microphones is is a good solution for sure   all right um thanks karen yeah for the  recommendation for for the course as well   i really appreciate it all right everybody it is  five o'clock thank you so much for the engagement   and for the questions if uh you have not yet  signed up for my weekly newsletter there's   a link in the video description that will  give you access to 20 plus free resources   and you'll also get email updates about events  and live shows and videos that i post um so check   that out in the video description below and i  will see you next week a lot of uh people in   today's show were expressing interest in gamified  learning next week's show is going to be about   gamified learning so i'm excited to present  some of these different tools and i got some   different ideas in today's show from some of the  participants for different game tools to look   into so thank you very much shout out patricia for  giving me a lot of those ideas i will definitely   check them out ahead of next week's show all  right everybody have a great evening or morning   depending on where you are great rest of your  week and i hope to see you next week on the show

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Published: Thu Mar 04 2021