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.

21st Century Skills Communication Critical Thinking ISTE Standards Creativity and Innovation Critical Thinking Research and Information Communication and Collaboration SAMR Augmentation Sample HyperDoc goo.gl/S9vSxe

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.

21st Century Skills Critical Thinking ISTE Standards Critical Thinking SAMR Augmentation Sample HyperDoc goo.gl/ttdQuv

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.

21st Century Skills Communication Critical Thinking ISTE Standards Critical Thinking Communication and Collaboration SAMR Augmentation Sample HyperDoc goo.gl/iQEAhe

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.

21st Century Skills Communication Critical Thinking ISTE Standards Critical Thinking Communication and Collaboration SAMR Modification Sample HyperDoc goo.gl/O5KSxU

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.

HyperDocs Hype: Basic HyperDocs Template

HyperDocs offer teachers the opportunity to design learning with a focus on fostering 21st-century skill development, shifting the way we teach with technology. Transformative and interactive, a HyperDoc is so much more than simply a document with some hyperlinks.

From the HyperDocs website:

• Creators deliberately choose web tools to give students opportunities to Engage • Explore • Explain • Apply • Share • Reflect • Extend the learning.
• Digital collaboration is choreographed to give every student a voice and a chance to be heard by their classmates.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills can be developed through linked tasks.
• Students have an opportunity to create authentic digital artifacts to show what they know, and connect with a wider audience.

Make a copy of this Basic HyperDoc Lesson template to get started designing your own HyperDoc.

Up Next--Engage: Learn how to hook your students through digital engagement strategies.

HyperDocs Hype: Testimonials

Me: "Want your own Chromebook Cart?" 

Teacher A: "I would love one, but I don't want to do all that extra work."  

Teacher B: "I don't have time to take that class." 

Teacher C: "I teach math."   

Me: 😭

What if I told you that learning how to create a HyperDoc could transform your entire career?


Don't just take it from me...check out some testimonials from teachers across the country who have re-invigorated their careers by designing learning through HyperDocs.

• Lisa Guardino, Teaching with HyperDocs
• Matt Miller, 9 Reasons Why HyperDocs can Transform your Class
• Heather Marshall, My #HyperDoc Journey
• Jennifer Gonzalez: How HyperDocs can Transform your Teaching

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HyperDocs Hype

Get Hyped!

Over the summer, I immersed myself in learning more about HyperDocs, a pedagogical strategy for fostering 21st-century skills by designing learning that puts all aspects of the learning cycle in the hands of students and getting out of their way as they consume content, demonstrate learning, and interact with you and their peers at their own pace. From the HyperDocs website:

HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. With strong educational philosophies built into each one, HyperDocs have the potential to shift the way you instruct with technology. They are created by teachers and given to students to engage, educate, and inspire learning. It’s not about teaching technology, it’s about using the technology to TEACH. Over the next few weeks, I will be blogging about designing HyperDocs lesson plan. In the meantime, check out the resources below to learn more about HyperDocs.

HyperDocs Overview

And We're Off!

Welcome Back! 

We had a very productive summer in terms of professional learning opportunities as well as new equipment available for teachers to use. Some numbers at a glance:

• 18 face-to-face workshops
• 5 online classes
• 200+ workshop attendees
• 200+ digital badges issued
• 48 ActivPanels installed
• 50+ Chromebook Carts wired and ready to roll

Barb Ritch and I are excited to build upon this momentum. You are ALWAYS welcome to contact either one of us to support your efforts.

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My goals for this year include two new initiatives: promoting HyperDocs and WG Toilet Tech.

HyperDocs

Think of HyperDocs as a pedagogical strategy for "packaging" all components of the learning cycle into a single Google Doc, Slide, or Site to put your lesson directly in the hands of students. I'll be blogging more about this during the school year as well as offering professional development to help you learn how you can leverage HyperDocs to foster 21st-century skill development among your students. Check out this link for more information about HyperDocs. For secondary teachers, learning how to create your own HyperDoc lesson plan is your gateway to having a classroom set of Chromebooks in your room. I'll be offering an online embedded professional learning class in late September. More information will be coming soon via email.

WG Toilet Tech

Let's face it...everyone needs to use the restroom at some point during the day. What better way to reach a captive audience than posting short instructional documents in the places where you'll be likely to see them?! I actually can't take credit for this idea--I learned about it on Twitter when I came across the hashtags #learningontheloo and #pottypd. You'll see updated ToiletTech documents each week in a restroom near you! If you want your own copy, you are welcome to take a picture of each week's ToiletTech tip. See below for t-issues 1 & 2--feel free to right-click and "save image as" to save a copy to your computer.

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June 26, 2019: Superintendent's Conference Day

Another school year will soon be in the books. Please take a moment to review the agenda for the June 26th Superintendent's Conference Day and register for any professional development sessions appropriate to your role to ensure that you accrue CTLE credit. Click here to view the agenda.

Have a great summer!

Humblebrag Challenge

What are you most proud of this school year? Feel free to toot your own horn with the Humblebrag Challenge! By definition, a humblebrag is a modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.

So what are you proud of? Have you pushed yourself to incorporate new instructional technology tools into your teaching repertoire? Have you tried new pedagogical strategies that are having a positive impact on your students' learning? To participate, simply log-in to the Instructional Technology Flipgrid embedded below using your WG Google account to share your Humblebrags. Once you are logged in, click the big green plus sign and allow Flipgrid to access your computer's microphone and camera. You will have up to 2 minutes to create a video in which you discuss your proudest teaching moments to date for the 2018-19 school year. Once you have posted your video, feel free to view your colleagues' posts and reply back with a video response.