 OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Today we're going to be talking about six instructional strategies to integrate with EdTech for any classroom setting. And I'm here with Janelle McWalklin and Shannon Moore and I'm Dr. Matt Rhodes. We're going to introduce ourselves and then really jump into this. So here we go. I'm a tech trainer and EdTech integrationist for the consortium of Education to Career Network of North San Diego County. We have six adult schools within our consortium. Additionally, I work at San Diego State University and Concordia University Irvine working with new teacher candidates as well as doctoral students. And I hope that you can follow me on my social media at Matt Rhodes 1990 and check out my website. Hey everybody, I'm Janelle. I'm actually coming to you from Indiana. So it's good afternoon from my state. I'm an education consultant and previous teacher, although I say I'm still teaching, I'm just teaching adults. So I work with educators across our country, and am also a speaker and author so happy to be here. There's my website and my Twitter and I always love connecting with new people. Hey everybody, Shannon Moore, I am in Central California. I'm a teacher on special assignment in our HRD department in Vicelia Unified School District. So I work primarily with new teachers and their mentors as they're moving through the induction process. You know, we're kind of a support all teachers kind of department and so love what we do. Excited to see you guys here today. So really, our next activity really is dependent upon you all and your cameras. So if you wouldn't mind turning your cameras on for a minute if not we'll go ahead and give you an alternate kind of, you know, way to participate. What we need to do is really it's all about who is in our room right because we can't really continue with this content unless we understand a little bit about who is in our room and so what we're asking you guys to do if you're if you're comfortable is to change your virtual background to a scene that means something to you or captures your mood. You are like you know what my computer is not allowing me to do that that is fine to do us a favor and go to Google and search an image or a gift and just add it to the chat for us what is what is a virtual background, or an image rather that you know support something you're you're about you're interested in or captures your mood so the way that you do that is if you go ahead and hover over the stop video icon at the bottom of your zoom screen you'll see a little carrot top pointing up. You'll click that carrot top it'll go ahead and direct you to choose virtual background, and from there you can choose one that's already preloaded, or you can go find an image on your, you know desktop or your computer that represents you have will in space. Love it will Jamie your background is so fun, so much fun. Janet we have you at the golden gate bridge it's awesome. Janelle's living in the beach, which is always fantastic. Blanc I love the virtual filter you've added or the video filter with all the happy faces. Matt looks like he's in the mountains it's okay Patricia, totally fine. Laura we got you in a library I'm guessing. And so if anybody's comfortable at this point, if you'd like to go ahead and wouldn't mind unmuting and just kind of share a little bit about what your virtual virtual background or video filter means to you we would love to hear it. So we can share that. The libraries. This is actually the Stockholm city library it's very famous rotunda they have. I have the privilege of living there in Stockholm briefly so it's really meaningful to me I love libraries and reading. Yeah, I feel you libraries are the absolute best it's just something about the smell right. It makes you a place that just warms your heart. Thank you for sharing Laura that's awesome anybody else want to share what their video background or image or filter Jamie thank you. Sure, I put as many things that that I love in the background. So I've got hummingbird and a raccoon and plants and, and then I'm lighthearted learning so that's why it's laughing learn on the pillow. Thank you so much raccoons huh you like raccoons. What is it about raccoons that make your heart happy. Well, they used to my mom and dad lived in Oregon and they would come and and feed it. The dog kibble and they were just, they just, I love their little hands I know people consider them to be pests but I just think they're adorable. I think they're cute too. Thanks for sharing anybody else. I'll go. Thank you. Okay thank you Blanca and then we'll shoot over to Lois. Well, I probably should have put a rainy day background, you know I live in Central California and it's been so dry, even though it's, you know, and not even spring yet, but it's raining today so that is fantastic so it makes me happy. Yeah, absolutely what part of Central California. Wasco. Oh cool so not far not far from me. Right on thank you. Lois what about you. Oh, very simply. I just love gardening, but most of the time it is seems to be a state of weeds notice the background there. It's all over the place, but it delights me and being here at for all this training is just like that you got to pick the bouquet. In this case this crazy little thing it's on my head. You had what enriches enhances and delights your life so, and then some of those things in the background, you know, what seems like weeds right now becomes. I can navigate later and I'll be able to understand how to use that so I want to thank you for doing these presentations and. I just like to hide behind not having the video on so I'll see you. That's fine. Thank you guys so much for those you guys that took the time to turn your video on and play along with us we really appreciate it you know it is like it's a lot it's nice to see people's faces. I'll leave that up to you we're all adults, you'd like to leave your video on by all means if not that's fine too thank you so much. So I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to my friend Matt again I'll pop the slide deck today slide deck in the chat so if you want to grab that you can kind of follow along and click on the clickable links that exist thank you. I've seen everyone's backdrop just shows kind of how everyone's mood is, or you know what they're proud of good social emotional learning icebreaker to start your lessons at their synchronous online or can even do it in person with Google slide so I'm going to talk a little bit about a strategy that you can do that later on in our presentation today but really we got together Shannon Janell and I am just under this this idea and philosophy that really as a result of the last couple years that Pandora's box has been open and instruction has no boundaries and that's our philosophy inward. Our goal is to create a number of strategies that can be utilized in any sort of educational setting whether you're in person online in a blended type instructional model our goals to develop strategies that can go align with a lot of various tools to amplify student learning and we are also in the works of creating a toolkit in the form of a book where we share all these various strategies that can use in any sort of educational setting and our goals to have research driven and teacher driven strategies that can utilize in any of these instructional settings because we feel like that's the future and specifically for you know higher education adult education want to provide choices for students and I think this all rests under the equity argument that you want to provide these choices for students to meet our students where they're at, especially as adult learners and we feel that these strategies can help teachers in our consortium, whether it's an adult education or within K 12 or higher ed, because we want to provide our choices to students for these actual learning environments so I'm going to have it move over to our first strategy concept mapping and Shannon take us away. Thanks so much Matt. And one thing last thing before we move into all of these so the way that we've structured today's kind of presentation. We've taken elements from each of the chapters you know Matt mentioned we're writing a book of putting these tools into a book and today is not a pitch for us to like you know, buy our book that's not our point our point today though is to support everybody with some concrete tools that would be effective in various instructional areas across you know the classroom so each of these concepts or these ideas are presented in each individual chapter. So we'll kind of go through it in that way. Thank you Jill. Thank you for that for that we'll go ahead and take that note. So first and foremost, we're talking about engagement now engagement is one of those things that you know you you Google that, and there's 1000 things that come up right how do I engage my students why are students not engaged is probably what you're going to see lately with the pandemic education but what we've striven to do is we we really have tried to incorporate a bunch of different engagement structures that would work in both you know in person virtual blended, but one particular that has really proven to be effective is the idea of concept mapping and concept maps, you know, essentially in a nutshell they are visual representations of information. In my mind, you know, since we can't really see your faces if you go ahead and open the chat, and maybe just give us some insight do you use concept mapping in, you know, working with with the students that you work with the educators that you work with have concept maps been a thing that you are familiar with just pop it in the chat like yes no maybe I have I need to know more information. I'm going to kind of go through and show you some examples. But really the goal of a concept map thank you Kathleen the goal of a concept map is most often they're used for study strategies or a way to take higher level concepts and break them into smaller manageable pieces. And so that the individual who's using the concept map can consume that information. And it looks a bunch of different ways there's no one one right way to do it. I have a couple but the goal really is to take those big concepts break them down into smaller concepts so they're manageable, but that also also we can make meaningful connections to the concepts. Right. In other words, knowing the big picture makes details more significant and easier to remember so we're going to go ahead and dive in. It looks like we have some those of us who have used concept maps. Jamie gave a really great example pre writing tasks to educators, KWL charts for sure comparison circles pros and con columns thank you. So let's jump in and see what else we can do with these. So, like I mentioned you have some options here. The goal here is to break large concepts into smaller ones. Sometimes, you know we use concept maps to identify how concepts relate. Oftentimes I've worked with educators who've used concept maps for vocabulary development. And then there's that element of visual note taking. All of us as educators can agree that no student is the same. Right. Everybody brings different skill sets different abilities different learning styles to the table. And what that means is us as individuals have to learn how to as educators we have to learn how to adapt to the individual learning style. Now, for me growing up, you know concept maps usually took like the form of a brainstorm right where you wrote us a topic in the middle and then you kind of branched out. Right and it helped kind of develop my writing or it helped me understand like concepts and science whatever it may be. But it goes beyond just the typical web right the brainstorming web. Oftentimes I mentioned that vocabulary development. Models are fantastic for vocabulary development and some people think oh it's just so simple but when we're talking with those who are maybe have some language acquisition barriers for your models are excellent. Because it asks them to dive in and really think about the individual vocabulary word in a way that is meaningful to them to them. Right. Thank you Kathleen absolutely right sparks a little bit. I'm really playing with a lot with my educators that I'm supporting these days is this idea of visual note taking. Right, or sketch noting some people try to like to call it. And what it does is it allows those students and I always give options right traditional note taking or sketch noting, but I do explicitly teach both but it allows those students who don't can't quite wrap their mind around a concept, using just you know, words to kind of fill in those and make those connections using images right so it lends to a different part of the brain. It helps encourage or, and it also empowers right because it gives those who are more visual learners. The opportunity to exemplify their learning in a way that's a little bit different so I'm a big fan of always providing a variety of techniques, some ways to use this are some rather some ed tech strategies that you can incorporate. I don't know if you've heard of wiser.me wiser.me is a little different. It's not necessarily a concept mapping platform but what it does include is a variety of already interactive digital worksheets. So if you're interested in concept mapping you can go here amongst other things and you can identify already pre made worksheets that have concept maps built into them right so the students can then engage digitally rather than do it by hand. I'm also a huge fan of using Pear Deck. Maybe you use near pod it's an interactive slide deck kind of add on, and you can integrate concept maps like say so earlier like a comparison contrast of in diagram. You can implement that in the back and the students can in real time add to their notes to it and you as an educator can see kind of the backside of it. So control alt achieve it's a wonderful blog I'll go ahead and pop this in the chat so you guys can peruse, but control alt achieve has 21 interactive Pear Deck templates that allows you to kind of person for most it shows you how to use Pear Deck. So you can kind of go through and see, you know, here is draw two things you already know about today's topic so they have lead ins they have in the middle of the lesson they have, you know, post lesson kind of reflection pieces, and you really could use these as an opportunity to, you know, frame some of the information that you're presenting to your students or when you're working with educators. So you can click this blog in the chat for you guys to peruse Pear Deck so wonderful thing and there's a lot of free templates. The next one that I wanted to kind of show you is some of us are Microsoft and not Google, you know districts and so Microsoft one note has wonderful options for not just taking notes like via text or typing but you can actually draw in one note. In Microsoft district, what I've done here if you clicked on the one note logo is you can see kind of the template of how to like create drawings in one note, as well as some like a sample like here if you guys were going to go ahead and draw the water cycle. How they could go about doing that so there's another example. And the last piece I wanted to show you was Miro. Okay, and Miro is not one that's often heard of, but it's one that I've come across a few times. What I want to talk about Miro is once you start a, you know, an account it's a single sign on with Google or Microsoft. Once you start your account you have the opportunity then instead of creating concept maps from like just blank template or platform. You can go ahead and see all of the different types of brainstorming and ideation pieces that they offer. And it's a matter of just like clicking and finding so, you know, here's like a concept map here's another way a mind map you can see it like big topic to to small. And just another, you know, resource for you guys to maybe think about when you're talking about, you know, concepts that are big. The five wise is one that I always like to use. It allows you to really kind of take a concept and really dig deeper. The five wise if you're not familiar with it the concept is ask why five times right it helps them develop from like a general statement to more specific idea. Thank you guys so much for the insight on that so those are the couple pieces. I encourage you again. Please click our slide deck there's a bunch of link of our clickable links there and you can ask the access that for yourself. Oh one last thing. Miro allows you to make teams. So if you have a team of teachers that you're working together with you guys could collectively create concept maps that you then could put in your team folder and everybody can access. I'm going to go ahead and pass it on over to Matt. Yeah, so let's talk about another really great strategy that can utilize in any sort of classroom today than we're in this one is jigsaw jigsaw can be used for so many different things and it's a great way also to differentiate the instruction for your students and what I'd like to do it a lot in the past is with reading comprehension with multilingual learners and I really enjoy doing it on Google slides. But you can also do it on Jamboard and you can do it also on Pear Deck in your pod in asynchronous mode and really the instructional uses. You can focus on annotation paraphrasing. You can have students read a passage together read part of a passage together. You can front load using jigsaw where you essentially provide, you know, two to four groups with different types of text or problems, and then have them come together and have a discussion based on the themes that they found relating to that. They can have problems they were solving or maybe they're reading each part of a story or of a passage and they can come together and develop those themes. And it can also be opportunities for a mentor text dissection so you can have various groups look at different parts of a essay or text. And then you can have them analyze it and then bring them together for further discussion. So really one of the best ways that I like to do it like I mentioned is with. Yeah, jigsaw is often an ELA so when I whenever I'm teaching English. So reading comprehension a pair of reading. Yeah, perfect. Yeah, so what I would do is I have for example on my slide right here is the biggest pumpkin. And, and this is a news ELA so I generally take a news ELA article and I make it different like sell levels based on where my students are at so this one is it 390 L and this is essentially for one of my lower group of readers, and then group number. If you go to the next group is slide number. The jigsaw to there at 560 level so that's my medium group and it's the same article that the other students are reading. And then so on for their group it's at the higher level but they're reading the same article, and they're analyzing it as well, generally like to give them a paraphrase or a annotation guideline that they use. So, as you can see, each group has a different like style. They're reading it, and this can be done in breakout rooms whether you're online or if you're in person you have them in groups in the class, you know, two to three students generally was is what I like or you can have them up before. And you can make as many of these groups you want. And what I generally like to do is if Shannon you can click on right that link right there. Yep. So, at the very end I like to have for reading comprehension is for each student to fill out a document like this and they do a collaborative review, and then they look at various types of key details they're able to get from the various groups, and then you know come together and discuss it so to really, I think, easy strategy, the number of protocols that are required so you go to next slide. So I provide all the steps here for you. And this is for online. And in person I talked about breakout rooms and groups that you can have. And I provide each of these seven steps as well as a video. It is a strategy that you can use really sort of any sort of content. So what I have to do is, I have, for example when I get an assignment on say Google classroom or canvas. I have the assignment, I can you can assign on canvas or Google classroom to various groups of students. So I create multiple assignments, and I deliver them to the various groups of students. So it's always easier. Or, for example, you can create one slide deck, and you can divide up for each of the levels, like I did here, but you can have all the levels there, but you don't say what the level is to the students you could say, you know, slide number two and three is going to be group number one, and then slide number four and five is going to be group number two. And so on you can do that as well and just give them that link directly through, if you're on online through zoom or whether you're delivering it on canvas or Google classroom, or sending it be like an email or, or whatnot. So that's generally what I like to do for jigsaw. And to really just fun engaging and you can do it quite often. You can do it a lot for independent practice, and it can be used for assessments as well by the way, if you want to do it in a team based assessment so there's a lot of different things that you can do here. Jamie did that answer your question, or did you want to maybe clarify and dive in deeper. I was thinking that maybe I should read through the instructions. I think I do it a little bit differently, but I was just curious about with the summary whether you, because you want them to actually type on the Google Doc and not necessarily collaborate because that moves the things around. So generally, yeah, so if it's for each of those slides slide decks, they're given one document in that team is focused on that one document, and then everyone else has their own document so each group has their own document they're working on. Got it. And I've also done it where we put the like a Google Doc document we've shown, and we put it on a Google slide so turn the slide eight and a half by 11 by going to file page set up so it's like a normal paper. And each group then is hanging out in the same slide deck, but they get their own individual one. And then they can have a gallery view of what a gallery walk of whatever's been going on which is, oh that's a great idea. Yeah, great idea. Thank you so much. All right, oops. Next up you get to hear from me again, and then we'll pass it over to Jenelle, but this next one we're kind of looking at we're moving into, you know, when we, as we're talking about 21st century skills and I heard that those I saw that those were mentioned in the chat right one of those aspects is this idea of inquiry or critical thinking. Right. And so there are so many different ways we could approach inquiry and critical thinking in our classroom, and oftentimes if I'm being honest, I think that that is one of the areas that my students may struggle a little bit on because oftentimes it does require them to get minimal instruction before they dive in and start to figure, you know concepts out and ideas out come to their own conclusions on their own which for my students and the teachers that I work with sometimes that's a little scary. Right because we're so conditioned to get the right answer. And so one way that we feel is a little less intimidating is this idea of a web quest or digital scavenger hunt. You hear that right and and immediately when I hear web quest or even digital scavenger hunt I'm brought back to when I was a kid. Right and we would go on scavenger hunts or we would do scavenger hunts in the classroom and that in and of itself like gets me excited right because we get to be the detectives for the day and so that's kind of what I have seen. You know my students and the educators I worked with kind of they've kind of jumped on that idea. One of let me just preface, you know this by saying one of the reasons why I think some individuals kind of shy away from using web quests or digital scavenger hunts in their classrooms is because it's a lot of work. But hopefully by the end of this you'll have a few more tools in your tool belt to be able to implement these without having to recreate the wheel. So let's talk about these digital digital scavenger hunts right. In a nutshell you can see there that the point is it requires students to follow a set of directions and procedures to ultimately gather evidence to solve a problem. And then ultimately create a student work product that highlights their findings. So it's beyond just that read this respond this way right this allows them to really investigate and dive in and use those research based skills to take concepts synthesize them and then ultimately come up with an understanding of, you know, the findings in the material and hopefully then you know the next step would be for them to share out somehow. So these strategies like do involve, you know, do involve the students kind of following. You know it's a process right so the teacher has to like choose the topic and then they have to include elements to, you know, videos photos websites podcasts that allow the students, the resources and the materials, so that they can dive deeply in and then definitely kind of come to their own conclusions. Here this little graphic you can see that there are a variety of ways to use web quest in class in fact if you've Googled web quest or digital scavenger hunt educators across the world have been so kind to share so much, you know, information or different web quest they created. One of the reasons I love web quest so much beyond the fact that it's entertaining and engaging is it allows me to really when I really want to flip my classroom. So have students kind of investigate and dive in, you know, they can either do it in class or before they come to class right, depending on like what your, you know, focuses or the objectives of the activity. And then, you know, say they do it outside of class and come to come to class with their findings. It allows them for the class to collaboratively engage with the, you know, product that the students have created and dive a little bit deeper and from a variety of perspectives. So when you do it in class and then send them home to create the the web quest finding or the product. It allows you as an educator to kind of guide them through that inquiry cycle so when I start with web quest or digital scavenger hunts I always start with doing the web quest and the scavenger hunt in class together, and then I send them out and at home they create like some sort of product, because I want to guide them through those steps first as we continue the class a little bit. So when we get further into the semester, I oftentimes will flip that and allow them to do the web quest at home and come to class with something or create the product in class the next day. There's so much power here, because it gives ownership to the students, it allows the students to kind of use those higher level order thinking skills to come up with an understanding and then, you know, you as a teacher, or can can support them. Educators are using this that is what I would encourage you to tell them really that that level of empowerment is high, high engagement high level of empowerment. So, if you're going to create your own if you want to get crazy and create your own. Also, let me know in the chat if you have created your own web quest we'd love to we'd love to see where where we're at on different levels. Here's this wonderful web quest structure that was created by this individual lasting dodge. And he kind of goes through these are the different parts of a web quest that you can use to guide you as you're creating your own. For me, to be honest, it's a lot of time to create your own web quest and I don't have a lot of time. I don't know if I'm alone in that but a lot of time is not time is not a luxury for me. And so what I've done is I've linked a couple different websites here. We have some science web quests here. Web quest and science are wonderful because it kind of follows that similar like lab structure, you know, and asked them to dive in. And then this other piece this website I found is a variety of web quest that have been created by college students for elementary aged children so you know if you're teaching adults potentially who are going to go on and be an educator or they're going to work in a field where they're going to have to like support others. This is a great kind of resource for them to see like what it could look like. These are the reasons we use web quest kind of talks about that I love them for preloading information as well when you're jumping into a unit right if you want them to dive into you know Sam doing a unit on Shakespeare. I'm an English teacher by trade. Sam is doing a unit on one of Shakespeare's plays and I want I don't want to spend a ton of class time, like just lecturing about you know the age of you know the Elizabethan era or whatever. I can have him do a web quest to figure that stuff out and we could even turn it into a jigsaw, like Matt talked about where they then can turn that around and teach the class based on their, their you know integration. This website here quest garden calm, I'm going to show you just a little bit of what it is it's kind of cool so quest garden is a database where individuals have added web quest so they collect web quest and they throw it up so if you are saying going to do a web web quest on angles. You can put in the free text search here angles press enter and you'll see all of these different web quest that exists for angles right. And you can hit back and that could be angles and math it looked like we have some for English like media bias right. Additionally, the other cool thing about this is you could really kind of search based on curriculum and grade level and that gives you like a matrix of web quest so say you want to focus on professional skills right and specifically you know for adult learners. You can do a search and it would go ahead and give you this matrix that you could then use by clicking through and maybe even build units right. Throughout the course of your experience or the student experience or the educator experience so of course it's going to take a while to load, but my encouragement to you is. Sometimes these can be scary but I encourage you, you know, we really are finding in the age of pandemic education as we are bridging like both in person and virtual learning that giving over some ownership to learning really does reinforce, you know, student learning in in and of itself so don't be afraid to like give students something and hope for the best and then you can redirect along the way, but it also will tell us a lot about you know who the students are and what they what they do. So, as you can see you have your grade content areas all of these different web quest one to 49 give you some some ideas right of how you could use them. So, that is web quest, and if you're going to create your own Google site Google sites is a great resource for that. And because you can just create a simple Google site to house all of the different, you know the task, and all of those kind of resources that they would use to complete the web quest so if you have questions at all obviously please. You know don't hesitate to pop those in the chat as we're speaking. With that being said, thank you for your comment Jamie absolutely. I'm going to pass it over again I guess to Matt, and then we'll go to Jenelle I lied I'm sorry. Let's talk about photo essay and what I really like about this strategy said we kind of already did a little bit of a preview of that beginning for that intro for that. That cell activity. So essentially what you can do photo essay is it allows students utilize and illustrate using text graphics gifts even videos. You can do a snapshot of what they're learning can even utilize photo essay is a tick tock. And there's a lot of different tools that you can do it on. So I like to do it for instructional uses for formative and some of the assessment you can do this, you can do this for jigsaw, you can do it to activate prior knowledge to begin a lesson. You can do it to create a metacognition and reflection and then also social emotional learning. And I generally like to do it the easiest way for me I think to deploy is on both slides you create a slide show with everyone on it. And I'm popping in that link right there if you want to check it out and I made this slide editable for everyone to access if they'd like. So this is really the prompt. This is about a story that we would read in class this one summer, and, you know, I would just say you know create a photo essay, you know, talking about like a character or event or a theme of the story. And I chose on my slide specifically a the mentor text. And I would use that as the first example there. So, yes, I love the squirrel and if you've read the story, it's a story about having fun in leisure but a lot of family drama takes place on that vacation in the summer so I tried to illustrate that in that photo there. But generally so I like to create just a simple slide deck on Google slides and then sharing it to the class it's everyone gets a slide so if you notice if you scroll down Shannon on slide number four. Everyone has a slide name, I tell the students hey go click on your slide after I give you the link, whether I'm sitting it on zoom or it's on Google classroom or on canvas. And then everyone goes to it and then they complete the task there. And what I like to do there after once the photo essays are done and they can be done in pairs to is for there to be a digital gallery walk. And then that can go into further discussion and move into the next part of our lesson. To really fun strategy to utilize and then Shannon move on to the next slide and describe the steps that I like to do with the photo essay. And it's just a something that really is fun and engaging for students and it's a great way for students to summarize what they're learning about summarize how they're feeling. And if, in the world that we live in having that snapshot of visuals, text and video. That's a great way for students to, you know, illustrate whether they are understanding something or not. And it's a great way for you to assess, assess students. Yep. I love that yeah creativity and concise this. Alrighty well let's move on to the next piece and we'll move on to Janelle. So you'll probably see a trend and a lot of what we're talking about today is focusing on those what what most people would call 21st century skills and thank you Jamie choice for there were my very favorite things too, which is why I chose to get to talk about them. I think in choice words that we can foster even more than just creativity and innovation which is what we were focusing on today. So just Shannon and Matt we're talking I jotted down how choice was obvious or present in the strategies they talked about before, like in web quest choice was brought in by what product they chose to create to demonstrate their learning she mentioned there's lots of choice in concept maps if you are allowing your learners to choose what kind of concept map that's their learning style best. Mine totally would be the brainstorming webs just like that's what we that's how I think I'm not good at sketchnoting I would never choose that I do it every once in a while because I think it's good to challenge and stretch. But I definitely think that offering choices good because it's tapping into different types of learning. And then in jigsaw, you can even offer the resources that students are reading on a choice for it as well. If you weren't going by reading level. So obviously if we're if we're categorizing by reading level we want our learners to read at the level that is best for them. So if you're not and it's on topic or on sections then you can also for choice there. So anyway choice boards are also called learning menus sometimes people call them think tack toes. So you maybe have heard them referred to different ways, or different titles, but they're really great for differentiating learning. Because it gives students choice which increases their ownership. So another thing that is common in all of the strategies and the resources that we've shared today is that we really focus on the learner. And we want everything to be a student driven as possible. And I remember somebody writing in the chat about scaffolding the learning and that's so important when we're trying to empower students to be more student driven, because they really don't have that opportunity often in their learning careers. So sometimes we have to scaffold more than others to have them be comfortable with taking over. So in the choice on the choice boards it encourages our students to engage in that activity. It will require them to explore synthesize or apply important content depending on how we design those. And with this anytime we increase choice we're going to increase engagement and ownership so I like to use choice boards or introducing new content to preload that knowledge. At the end of something to review the content choice boards are great for that. One of the, one of the teachers I've worked with, one of my favorite ones to see was the plainest, most boring looking choice board I've ever seen, but I also thought it was one of the most boring choice boards. And she just took a Google Doc, she turned at landscape position, and it was just full of grids I think maybe 15 to 20 squares on there. And what she did was color code the background of each square to be either blue, yellow or white and it was at the end of a math unit. And yellow, it was optional like reteaching the students could access the resources or the problems in that box, if they weren't quite sure on it, on the topic concept, and they wanted a little extra practice. The blues were practice problems that everyone had to do. And the white was, I think, access just to notes. I can't remember exactly what the white but there was only one color that they had to do. And that's what she used as a check to make sure everybody was ready for the assessment was just the blue ones that they were doing. And so anyway, lots of different uses for them. I'm going to show you a couple examples to but my favorite part about them is to differentiate, even if you're not differentiating by level you're differentiating by content and learning styles. So to empower and motivate our students, we can provide them with those choices as they complete activities and tasks within the classroom. So these are two of my favorites, the one is you can see why some people might call it a think tacto. The directions are actually caught off at the top but this particular teacher had 20 points assigned to every box and her students had to accumulate 100 points in a week's time. She was completely virtual, but she gave them options on if they wanted to do things virtually or paper pencil, and she even gave them options on how they were turning those in if they didn't want everything to be digital. So in other instances when people use these tic-tac-toe choice boards, teachers might say you've got to get just three in a row. So then how you, yeah, the color can be an issue. That's my idea. That's great, Jamie. So this one I'm not sure why she color coded if it had any kind of any kind of reasoning in the one that's on the example here. And then the other one is, is completely split between the four C's so in this one the students had to choose one from the communication column, one from collaboration one critical thinking and one creativity. Both of these are actually from ShakeUpLearning.com. That's a fantastic resource. If you've never gone to that website I will forewarn you that it's a bit overwhelming. It's super text and graphic heavy. So what I like to use is the search bar at the top. So if you go to ShakeUpLearning.com and search in the search bar just choice boards or learning menus, you'll find a lot of templates there available. This is similar to the web quest. I don't like the design part of it because I don't have the time. So if I can find one that somebody's already designed and delete out content and put in my own, then I'm happy. Thanks Shannon. And then Pinterest also similar in the search if you just go to Pinterest and search choice boards or learning menus, you'll find a lot that are already created. You can also find templates. Again, you can make your own just like my math teacher friend that I coached. She just made her own with a playing Google Doc. And that wouldn't have taken a lot of time to create other than filling in all of those boxes but if you want it to look pretty, find one that's already done, unless that's just a way that you'd like to spend your free time. The best tools I think are the easiest. Google Docs, Google Slides, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, those would all be super simple if you were creating your own. If you are doing searches, those are probably the platforms you're going to find them already created in, which makes it easy to create an easy to share with your students. Okay, so our last one that we're going to talk about kind of summarizes everything else and actually in our book this is the chapter we start with. And then we went to finish with it today. A lot of us when we had to transition during COVID transition from an in person situation to a virtual or digital classroom situation. And we did it on such a fly that we didn't think through that digital classroom routines are just as important as in person classroom routines, and that we actually have to explicitly teach them. And it doesn't matter if we're teaching kindergarteners or if we're teaching 45 year olds, we still have to go through what those classroom routines are. So, so making sure that we establish norms and what it looks like regardless of the environment is really important. In part of digital classroom routines is talking about digital citizenship. So we want to make sure that our learners are good citizens whether it's in a digital environment or in an in person environment. And there's so much that has been produced and developed and reiterated on over the last gosh 20 years for digital citizenship that the resources out there are really good and really powerful so you don't have to feel like you have to recreate those. But I do want to highlight what all digital citizenship includes. And if you go to digit that us or is he also has their digital citizenship standards, you'll find this huge umbrella, and not to be overwhelmed by that but to think about how that each one of those naturally integrates into what you're teaching and when you're teaching it. So some things that digital citizenship includes is using technology to make your community better, engaging respectfully online with people who have different beliefs than you. Sometimes I think adults need more of that teaching them children when you go on social media and look at some posts using technology to make your voice heard by public leaders and and shake public policy and then determining the validity of online sources of information. That last one is one of the most important ones also for learners of all ages that we don't just see something that somebody posts and take it as a valid resource so teaching learners of all ages, how to find the validity of online sources of information. So that was a quick highlight of digital citizenship. When I think of that I think of the three words safety security and efficiency, and that goes not just with digital citizenship but just with those digital classroom routines. And one of the easiest ways to manage that is by using your learning management system. So a lot of schools have something adopted either Google classroom. Canvas, Schoology, those are some of the big ones out there. And by using that learning management system, it helps you as the instructor to be clear and consistent with those routines. If my learners are coming in and they know the first thing that they do either in an in person class or virtual classes that they log into the learning management system. They will then find whatever the first thing is for that class period either a bell ring or an opening activity, but that consistency is important to get them engaged immediately with the learning that's going to happen that day. Using vetted resources for digital citizenship if you're going to be teaching explicit lessons that's really important, and I would go directly to common sense media for that. The internet awesome is a really good one if you are instructing elementary teachers because that one is designed for K to five learners. It's like a video game that teaches digital citizenship but common sense media is one where you can again do a search for just about any type of digital lesson that you would like to provide and the resources and the lesson is there for you. So again in that learning management system though is where you're going to set up and establish those routines to make it an easy one stop shop for your learners. And then we talked about norms. These are just some of the digital classroom routine norms that I've, I've helped elementary and secondary teachers develop the secondary one is actually one that I use when I'm working with adult learners as well. So it's just something to kind of state at the beginning of our time together we're going to be present. We're going to listen actively we're going to collaborate with ideas take risks, be honest and kind be critical don't criticize. When I have a new group that I'm going to be working with ongoing, I prefer to have them help me create those norms at the beginning because then again they have an increased ownership and what's going on. So you also can make sure everybody understands what those mean at the very beginning. So, I know one that that we've talked about before is become be comfortable being uncomfortable. And that makes a great norm because then you can discuss what that looks like and sounds like in your classroom as well. But the importance of these images is just to make sure that we have those norms and what that looks like. So in whole class settings in small group settings. I know somebody had put in their in the chat earlier about collaborative learning. We couldn't agree more about the power of collaborative learning between the three of us, but norms for small collaborative groups are different than whole class norms. So making sure we take time to establish those routines as well. So we have a protocol that we really like using to with, again, learners of all ages and this is also a protocol that's in our book. So we're going to use another favorite tool which is padlet. And the quick protocol is I used to think, and now I think so I used to think this about instruction or about digital integration. And now I think this. I'm going to go through the public link into the chat if you're not following along in the side deck. And so if you're not familiar with padlet, you're just going to click on the little plus button underneath each column, and then you'll be able to type. You can feel free to video record your response. You can add pictures that demonstrate. There's so many different integrations within padlet. Feel free to be as creative or not as you want to on a Friday morning. And it may just be typing and that's okay too. And then Shannon, did you set the settings for. Yes, she did so feel free also once people type in bears, you can add comments and interact with other padlet entries and you can also click the little heart if you really like somebody's as well. So take a few minutes to go ahead and reflect briefly on everything we just shared. Yeah, padlet is only for three for three of the padlet boards. And then if you want to use premium padlet it's $10 a month. However, if you use your three padlets, and you know, you've they've served its purpose you're more than welcome to delete a padlet or delete a few of the padlets and keep reusing them as many times as you want, as long as there's only three house there. And yes, thank you Jamie. Do they still they used to give you additional free boards for referrals. So if you refer it with two students there's a referral link under your settings and your padlet account and if you would give it to your students and they sign sign in, then it used to be like for every five people that signed up you got an additional board. And it checked into that recently but it's a way to get some extras. So take a screenshot but you can also download it as an image directly from padlet to and then clear it clear all posts after you download as an image. Okay, one more way to integrate tech that also looks at our social emotional well being. There are a million of these, I shouldn't say million. That's that's a little bit of an exaggeration but there are lots of these scales out there that are super fun. And I, I'm a huge office fan so there's one on a scale of Jim helper, there's also on a scale of Michael Scott. This one's on a scale of cat how are you feeling about integrating technology right now. So if you will just pick the number that shows how you're feeling about integrating technology. And listen number one might be how I feel about it being Friday but about technology I'm feeling more like maybe number six. So throw in how you're feeling about integrating tech into the chat. And if you want to just do the number just do the number if you want to add some commentary, we're happy to have extra context as well. And if you're super involved in that padlet feel free to keep working in there too. Jamie, great question is everybody's throwing those and I'm kind of laughing about number seven and eight and love that people are super honest. I think what you'll find is that it's super applicable there's so much access in there and like the steps that Shannon and Matt provided for how to do some of the, like how to set up a jigsaw and how to set up a web quest. That's included in all of our strategies in that book, we wanted to make something that a teacher could take and immediately do in the classroom without having to go and research how to do it. So, tons of access. And we even have some QR codes that are going to be linked to some screencast and different links in there so I think you'll find it very user friendly. It's, it's not so much about the user friendly it's about the students issue with access. So, are you, are you providing that differentiation in there, because we have smartphone users and the adult and we have Chromebooks. Yes, so all of our stuff is device agnostic that we talk about in there. We also, I'm pretty sure you guys can correct me if I'm thinking wrong but I'm pretty sure everything is free that we talk about also. If it's a paid for version we highlight that or talk about it to you but I'm pretty sure everything's a free version. So, and I know this isn't instrument by access Jimmy but we do have a whole section on accessibility to for students that are different differently able. And since you brought that up, we will go ahead and say, our book is supposed to be released sometime this summer, it's still in the final editing stages. And if you want to stay up to date on where we are in that process and when it'll be released if you follow any of us on Twitter we're going to make sure that we keep that up there and current as well. There was also a question in the chat from Laura about the difference between hyper docs and web quests. And, you know, she mentioned that many of the web questers out there feel outdated. You know, I agree with you I think you know it does require quite a bit of up searching as far as hyper docs go. You know, it's a very similar concept. I know the like founders of hyper docs co which I just put in the chat. You know they give you a variety of different hyper docs they have a ton of resources there. But really the goal is inquiry right and they approach it from the five ease. And so they, you know, many of them do at least and so it's broken down and kind of guides students through that cycle of inquiry. It's a very similar concept with web quest. I use hyper docs more so oftentimes I'll use web quest for like the pre loading of information right the investigation prior to getting into unit or a lesson maybe that they're not familiar with. Oftentimes I'll use hyper docs throughout the course of a of a lesson so that that inquiry piece like throughout a lesson. So for me seems to to be more effective right we'll go through the engage and then they explain all of all of the five ease or sixies one of the two sorry. And then throwing it back, I often end my hyper docs with choice boards at the end so that they can create their products and the great thing about hyper docs if you're not familiar. You can either use docs or just documents or you can use slide decks, where there is a variety like a guidance of steps that that students walk through, and the resources are linked all on one seamless page and students respond there as well. Matt Janelle do you guys want to add. I'm going to share my screen real quick. Keep in mind, this is an example that a third grade teacher me, but it really is an example of how what a hyper doc can look like for anybody. And this was a teacher that happened to use. They were studying ecosystems, she let her students decide which ecosystem they wanted to research, and then she put them into groups of three. But this is what her hyper doc look like. She did not create the design or the format she found one that was already done took out their information put in her content. So the purpose of the lesson. I don't really call this a rubric but some assessment guidelines she has at the top, and then she has this so each group have their own copy of it so students were typing directly into this which made it easier for her to manage. They had to type which ecosystem they were learning about. They have these are their norms. So she calls them group computer jobs it was really their collaborative. They had roles for each person in there, and this just reminded them what their jobs were so then they have to self select who is going to be the leader designer writer. This group norms that we were talking about and it just was a link to a presentation to remind them what those were supposed to be like and as a team they had to type down which three they were going to use in order to work positively in a team. And then she had this overarching question, and then they had to write a hypothesis, come up with three more guiding questions about their ecosystem to guide their research. And then down here she gave them all these different websites that they could do or use to find information because those were valid. And then here's that choice board that Shannon was talking about they got to choose how they were going to present their information about their ecosystem to the rest of the class, and they could choose Google side, sway Adobe Spark, poplet Google sites, a poster, or if they had a different idea go tell the teacher. The other thing that I like the most down here she had a reflection at the end, where the kids had to evaluate themselves as a team member, and the other people in their team because she wanted it to be reflective of how they worked in a collaborative group so that's a quick example of a hyper doc. It can be that extensive or it can be much shorter. I will give you access to that project. I'm just going to give her credit for it. So it's a teacher, a third grade teacher in Flugerville, Texas that created it. And I'm going to share with you a view only version so if you want to use it just make a copy of it, and then you can edit it as much as you like. Any other questions. I answered a couple in the chat. Let me do say this real quick to Matt if you go to that hyperdocs.co website that Shannon said there are tons of lessons hyperdocs already created that you can search by subject area and grade level, and they also have templates there as well already created. Thanks so much for joining us if you don't have more questions then fill out the evaluation that was mentioned at the beginning by Anthony. Make sure you do that. A couple people have asked us about like how can we stay apprised on the book, and all of that stuff. You know, we are primarily social media users and we're aware that some people don't use that. And we're in the kind of in those that phase of like getting our newsletter, you know, get getting it going in such and so what I've done is I've created a quick Google form. I'm going to pop it in the chat. It's simply just your name and your email and once we have more information about release date and everything. If you fill that out, we'll go ahead and add you to our email list to notify you of where you can get the book. And in such but we just want to say how grateful we are for you giving your time today and allowing us to share with you some of the things that we're passionate about. We're excited to see a group of awesome educators those supporting students and adult learners like in the room, willing to give up time to, you know, enhance their own toolboxes so we're so grateful for you we can't do what we do without you. If you have any questions at all, please, please, please don't hesitate to reach out to any of us.