HyperDocs Hype: Engage

First impressions matter, and using a HyperDoc to engage your class as you begin a lesson can be the key to

• capturing their attention
• inspiring their curiosity
• and building their excitement. 

This is the piece of the HyperDoc that gets your students walking into class asking, "What do we get to do today?" And whether you're planning a whole-class experience or an individual task, clearly label your expectations at the beginning of the HyperDoc to add structure and accountability and set the tone for the rest of your lesson. This doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming; rather, it can be as simple as "Turn and Talk" or "Share your thinking with the person sitting next to you."

HyperDoc Engagement Strategies

ENGAGE TOOL: YOUTUBE YouTube is an incredible sharing platform for video and multimedia. Videos can engage students in learning by introducing an idea or concept and promoting curiosity and questioning while building the student's background knowledge of the topic.

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How to Design Find a video that inspires you and fits your lesson's objectives Link the video in the HyperDoc How to Deliver Videos can be shown to the whole group or packaged in a HyperDoc for each student to view independently. Choose parts of the video on which to pause and promote student thinking How to Collect In a blended learning classroom, students can record their responses in a writer's notebook or on paper

ENGAGE TOOL: PODCASTS When you introduce a concept as audio during the engagement phase of a lesson, students improve their listening comprehension skills while gaining important background knowledge about the topic. Use our favorite podcasts or check out Listenwise which features free podcasts focused on social studies, science, ELA, and current events. You can link to any of these podcasts in a Hyperdoc.

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How to Design Explore the topics on Listenwise's website that best align with your lesson's objectives. Link to a podcast in the HyperDoc and state your expectations for listening How to Deliver Students can listen to a podcast during class time individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. A benefit to linking to a podcast is that students can access the content and listen again at any point in the lesson. How to Collect Give students a prompt to consider while listening to the podcast so they can prepare for the subsequent class discussion and debate.

ENGAGE TOOL: IMAGES Engage students in a topic by using images to build curiosity, share background information, and generate lists of questions. Students practice their visual literacy by viewing images and answering basic questions about what they see.
21st Century Skills Communication Critical Thinking ISTE Standards Critical Thinking Communication and Collaboration SAMR Augmentation Sample HyperDoc goo.gl/u4foLH	How to Design Choose an image that relates to your HyperDoc's topic. Add the image to a Google Form and prompt students to answer questions. How to Deliver Students view the form and complete the questions. Share students' responses from the Sheet linked to the Form. How to Collect Students engage in sharing their ideas, prior knowledge, and questions about the topic during the class discussion.

ENGAGE TOOL: MEMES A meme is an image, video, or piece of text that has been imitated and then tweaked to be humorous. Using humor in the classroom is a great way to connect with students and engage them in a topic that might not be inherently interesting to them. It is also important to be culturally responsive to our learners, and memes are a fun, trendy way to communicate an idea. Meme Generator (MemeGenerator.net) is one tool you can use to create your own memes, although it is certainly not the only one.

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How to Design Once you are at MemeGenerator.net, upload your own image, search pre-made memes, or use a template to create a meme. Add text to your image, whether you have uploaded your own image or used a template. How to Deliver When used as an engagement tool, you will often see a meme at the beginning of a lesson. How to Collect You can choose to collect the student thinking during class discussion or through comments written on a Google Doc.

ENGAGE TOOL: QUOTES Sometimes we want to spark our students' curiosity and engage them in conversation. One way to do this is by putting a catchy or thought-provoking quote on a Google Slide and then soliciting your students' thoughts through AnswerGarden.

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How to Design Choose a quote. Copy the quote onto a Google Slide. From the slide, link to a reflective question posed to AnswerGarden How to Deliver Share the slide and invite participants to respond to the quote using the AnswerGarden web tool. How to Collect As the responses are posted, watch the AnswerGarden word cloud grow. Words or themes used most often stand out in a larger font, which can be a starting point to understanding the group's thinking or the content's theme.