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Plugging into Student Engagement with Tech

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D155 Summer Camp

2022

What is filling your bucket today and what’s draining it?

Draining

Filling

Share TWO highlights of summer so far!

This session will be divided into four sections…

Tools for Talking

Tools for Creating

Tools for Assessment

Tools for Reflection

Learning Targets: Today we will...

• Add new tools to our teacher tool belts.
• Find new ways to for students to engage with content using technology.
• Utilize technology to enhance the learning experience.
• Recognize when to use what tools (no-tech to all-tech).

PD Norms

• This session is about you and what you need.
• It is okay to take your own path.
• Consider what will work for your classroom and your students.
• Ask questions.
• Work on lessons/ideas for next year.
• Share what you discover! We are all learning together and can learn so much from each other.

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Today, my hope is that you walk away with…

• A goal related to innovation, technology, or student engagement for the 22-23 school year.
• One strategy for talking, creating, assessment, and reflection that can help you achieve your goal (action step, implementation).

A word about tech tools…

• If it can be done better/more efficiently/more effectively on paper, do it on paper.
• Don’t be afraid to fail or try something new. Modeling this practice for our students is powerful.
• Use tech purposefully. Consider your why before you pick your what.

Tools for Talking

Flip

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• Flip is a video platform in which students can participate in asynchronous discussions, deliver presentations, and share creative video projects.
• Students can record their reactions to a lesson while the lesson occuring.

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Flip

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• Students can share reactions that can be used to spark a deeper discussion after the lesson is completed.
• Students may create videos during the lesson that either students can or a teacher can review and respond to after the lesson has ended.

What are some of your favorite ice breaker questions?

By using tech to get students talking…

• Remember that discussions and interactions can occur asynchronously and synchronously.
• Students can share before, during, or after a lesson.

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• Benefits include:
• Wait time for students who need more time to process.
• Learning is visible.
• Everyone has a voice.
• Collaboration can occur in a variety of ways.

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Chatting with Canvas

Homepages:

• Embed daily agendas or unit overviews.
• How do you first communicate with students when they walk in the room?

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Chatting with Canvas

Homepages:

• Put the homepage on their to-do list.
• Have students mark pages that you want to read as done.

Chatting with Canvas

• Announcements
• Treat an announcement as an ungraded discussion thread to encourage discussion.
• Allow students to post/reply to announcements.

Chatting with Canvas

Announcements

• Do you have an idea or insight? Share it on this announcement thread. The announcement section is a great place to share quick pieces of information and also encourage students to ask questions or insights as well.
• Located at the top of the homepage, announcements are hard to miss!
• Expert tip: Announcements can be scheduled to appear at a specific time. Pre-set an announcement to appear at the end of the period or even the end of the school day.

Canvas Discussion

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• Make learning visible through discussions.
• Challenge students to post videos, slides, images, and more!
• Discussions can be synchronous or asynchronous.
• Create smaller discussions by using the Canvas groups feature.

Chatting with Canvas

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Complete the discussion.

• How have you used Canvas discussions in your classroom?
• If you have not used Canvas discussions, how might you in the fall?

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Vocaroo

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• Vocaroo is a fast and easy way to give voice and tone to your messages to students.
• Vocaroo is simple to use, save, and share.
• This tool can be used to give feedback, increase accessibility, and students can use it in creative ways.
• Vocaroo recordings can be embedded into Canvas and Google Workspace products.

Padlet

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• Padlet is a digital corkboard in which students can share files, links, comments, add pictures, upload videos, draw, and more.
• Students can make their learning visible by publicly posting their ideas and work!
• Students can demonstrate their learning, collaborate and share ideas, curate research and artifacts, and even demonstrate mastery.

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Use Padlet as…

• An exit or entrance slip
• Brainstorming doc
• As a chat facilitator

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STOP! Take 15 minutes to play with these tools. Create or adapt a lesson or activity to foster talking or engagement in your classes.

Share out what you’ve explored, learned, or adapted for your classroom about

tools for talking.

Tools for Creating

Creative Cloud (Adobe)

• Sign up for a free educator (enterprise) account.
• Create infographics, posters, presentations, worksheets, or projects using the free templates.
• Challenge students to make their learning visible!

Canva

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• Sign up for a free educator account.
• Create infographics, posters, presentations, worksheets, or projects using the free templates.
• Challenge students to make their learning visible!

Infographic CHALLENGE

• Using one of the infographic templates. Create an ABOUT ME infographic that you might share on the first day of school.
• Share your infographic on Padlet.

WeVideo

• WeVideo is a video, gif, and podcast creation tool. D155 has the premium version.

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• Functioning similar to iMovie or MovieMaker, this tool is fairly intuitive to use.

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• Expert tip: Give students options. If they aren’t tech savvy - encourage them to use Flip (one take video recording) or Vocaroo (one take audio recording).

WeVideo Process

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1. Hit the plus button to create a new project.
2. Choose a template or create a blank video.
3. Upload, record, or find stock media.
4. Build the video timeline.
5. Add and layer multiple media files to create the final product.
6. Export to Google Drive or YouTube.
7. Share your finished project.

Green Screen Action

Use the green screen feature in WeVideo!

• Have students create individual videos using a solid color background.
• Use the eyedropper to edit out backgrounds.
• Layer videos together to create the illusion that students are filming together.

Example

SoundTrap

• SoundTrap is a audio recording platform and editor.
• It allows users to add in sound effects and splice together audio files.
• SoundTrap is user friendly and can be used to create Podcasts.
• In the free version, students can create up to five audio projects.

App Smashing

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• How do you share those audio files once your done?
• Have students upload Podcasts to Flip or Padlet.
• Once files are accessible, students can peer review and listen to each other’s work.
• Expert tip: Save strong examples for future years!

App Smashing

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STOP! Take 15 minutes to play with one of these tools. Create or adapt a lesson or activity to foster creation in your classroom.

Share out what you’ve explored, learned, or adapted for your classroom about

tools for creating.

Tools for Assessment

Permanent Clipboard

• Looking for a way to improve your feedback while also saving you time? Check out permanent clipboard.
• Get the extension here.

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Formative Assessment Tools - Greatest Hits

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Flip the Narrative:

• Use formative assessment tools to TEACH content.
• Include vocabulary and key ideas that serve as a way to highlight critical information.
• Include fun prizes or incentives to keep students engaged!
• Don’t have time to play it live? Embed Kahoots into a Canvas page by using iFrame Generator.

Blooket

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• Blooket is formative assessment tool that gamifies review.
• You can important flashcards from Quizlet, upload from a template, or enter manually.
• Games can be played as a class or individually.

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Canvas Studio

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STOP! Take 15 minutes to play with one of these tools. Consider how you might assess students formatively this fall.

Share out what you’ve explored, learned, or adapted for your classroom about

tools for assessment.

Tools for Reflection

Pear Deck

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• Pear Deck is an interactive slideshow extension.
• It encourages everyone to have a voice and provides different ways to respond and engage with a lesson.
• Pear Deck can be teacher-led or student-paced.
• Check out the Pear Deck template libraries .
• You can monitor engagement and even export data from your slides.

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Google Jamboard

• Similar to Padlet, this tool allows students to post text, video, images, and other media to a single corkboard.
• This tool is more flexible in terms of how/where students post. Templates can be created in Canva to encourage deeper reflection.
• Create group or individual Jamboards
• Use the touch screen to encourage students to WRITE on their templates.
• Check out these exit slip templates.

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Google Forms - Quest

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• Google forms are great for fast reflection and gathering information.
• They can be used to help get feedback from students.
• You can build breakout EDU-style reviews to help students demonstrate mastery!

Google Forms - Quest

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• Try it from the student perspective!
• Let’s review what we’ve learned today.
• Remember to SHOUT your answers by typing in all caps.

Google Forms - SEL

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• Google forms are great for fast reflection and gathering information.
• They can be used to help get feedback from students.
• If you have an SEL goal, you can have students self-reflect and evaluate their own growth throughout the semester.
• Make a copy here.

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Plug your tools!

Resources

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