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Let’s Have Some Digital Choice Board Fun!

Please access this presentation: https://bit.ly/2WDmnPU

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While we wait: On Slide 2, you’ll find a “Silver Linings” digital choice board. Click on the link(s) and complete one task (or more!) that interests you. (Videos will be viewable by other participants.)

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You can use the Flipgrid app on your phone! Simply scan the QR Code:

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“Silver Linings” Digital Choice Board

Google Camp 2020

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30 points

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50 points

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During this pandemic, I hope you’ve experienced a few silver linings. Please share them and hopefully we can bring more light and joy to each others’ lives.

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Task: Earn 100 points by Friday, July 24

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Agenda for Digital Choice Boards via Flipgrid

  • 5 min: Opening: “Silver Linings” digital choice board (experience choice boards as a learner)
  • 2 min: Welcome and Session Goals
  • 8 min: Discussion (in breakout rooms; document discussions)
  • 5 min: Share Out from Discussions
  • 3 min: Planning for Student Success
  • 3 min: Crafting the Student Experience (considerations for setting up your Topics)
  • 2 min: Product + Process (prompts for hearing students’ thinking)
  • 3 min: Considerations for Creating Your Digital Choice Board(s)
  • 5 min: Steps to Get Started
  • 10 min: Your Turn (Share and Feedback Option)
  • 5 min: Closing

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Welcome and Session Goals

About Me:

Angela Milversted: wife, mom of 3 kids

Twitter: @AMilversted

Chino Valley Unified School District

Elementary Instructional Coach - 6 years

Classroom Teacher - 12 years (K, 1, 4th, 6th)

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Session Goals:

Best practices for choice boards

Flipgrid videos (adding process to product)

Design elements for digital choices boards

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Discussion Questions for Breakout Rooms

In Your Breakout Rooms

  • What are the strengths of providing choice boards to your students?
  • What are some of the challenges of choice boards?
  • What are your ideas for solutions to the challenges?

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  • Begin by introducing yourselves with your name, role in your school district, and a silver lining from this “new normal.”
  • Assign the following three roles: facilitator/time-keeper; recorder (will type onto slide); reporter (answer prompts for their group)
  • You will have 8 minutes to discuss and record your answers: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_Z2IsV_Ho-fyc9h7nxRGptSB7ZbfUbv7H5xGshGvmoQ/edit?usp=sharing

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#BetterTogether

Whip Around:

When your group number is called, we’d like the reporter to share one thing from their group’s discussion.

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Supporting ALL Learners with Diverse Needs

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Setting Up A Topic (Task)

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Product + Process

Here are a few elementary-level products. What prompts can we give students that will help us see the process or illuminate student thinking?

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  • Practice writing your name.
  • Record yourself reading a book to me.
  • Write as many number sentences (equations) as you can with the number 20.
  • Fill out your reading log with your daily reading.
  • If you were a lizard, which habitat would you live in and why?
  • Write a diary entry as if you were a Native American at a California mission.
  • Create a presentation that shows how the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

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IMPORTANT TO NOTE:

FIRST: Students create video

THEN: Attach link to online content

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Product + Process

How students attach links

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Teacher View

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Optional: everyone can see on “Active” videos

Leave a reply that everyone can see.

View link that the student submitted.

Make a compilation of videos (called a Mixed Tape).

Record video feedback, visible only to the student.

Use rubric levels to give numerical scores.

Write comments visible only to the student.

Students can view their feedback while in Flipgrid; however, you can send links to your feedback as well.

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Share video with other people (staff, parents, etc)

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Examples of Design Options

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Steps to Creating a Digital Choice Board via Flipgrid

Set Up Your Digital Choice Board:

  • Craft your tasks. Create a range of choices that will align with the goals of the unit.
  • Decide on requirements, point values, etc. (Examples: must complete five activities, must earn a total of 20 points, must complete one activity in each row, etc.)
  • Create your slide with the tasks well-organized (list, grid, etc) and the expectations clearly written on the slide (or a video of you stating the expectations :) )

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Create Your Flipgrid Topics

  • In Flipgrid, create a Grid (group of topics) for the Digital Choice Board (give it a thematic name).
  • Make decisions about the controls for each task (if you want videos/tasks turned in to be hidden from other students, allow students to video-reply to each other, rubric criteria, etc).
  • Create a Topic for each task. Include engaging images, videos, etc, and be sure to give clear directions of what students will be turning in (video proof, video reflection, links to online files, links to websites, etc).

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Create Hyperlinks

  • Copy the links to each Topic and insert them as hyperlinks.
  • Double check your links before you publish the slide.

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Helpful Flipgrid Document:https://blog.flipgrid.com/gettingstarted “The Educator’s Guide to Flipgrid:” http://bit.ly/357UpOd

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Sharing is Caring

As time permits, feel free to begin working on a digital choice board that you can use with your students for the beginning of the year.

Ideas:

  • Tasks for a story they read (or one you read to them)
  • Tasks regarding the first math chapter
  • Tasks regarding thematic/seasonal learning
  • Tasks to build classroom community at the beginning of the year (ex: get to know you activities)

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Please visit the collaborative slides from this

presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_Z2IsV_Ho-fyc9h7nxRGptSB7ZbfUbv7H5xGshGvmoQ/edit?usp=sharing

On the last slide, provide a link to your work-in-progress

(consider giving us a “can comment” link).

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Additional Resources

Video for Immersive Reader and Translate features: http://bit.ly/376eYw1

Video for Recording Videos and using Tools (showing topic, notepad, stickers, etc): http://bit.ly/2pjilcz

Video for Whiteboard - AWESOME for everything, especially math: http://bit.ly/33Oulrd

Video for Creating Criteria for Rubrics: http://bit.ly/3750Wul

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Angela Milversted

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Chino Valley Unified School District

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angela_milversted@chino.k12.ca.us

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@AMilversted

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