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Teaching Digitally Resource Guide – SULS098

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In this interview, I’m chatting with tech specialist Nadine Gilkison.

Nadine freely shares tons of online resources, templates, Hyperdocs, and more.

Let’s take a deep dive into Nadine’s “Teaching Digitally Resource Guide for Teachers.”

Her resource guide has so many great ideas to help teachers and students with essential technology skills, thriving through remote learning, and preparing for what’s next.

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— Joey Mitchell (@itsthemitchell) February 11, 2021

Quick Tip (Video Feedback in Google Classroom with Screencastify)

It’s so easy to use Screencastify to record quick feedback for students. Let’s take this a step further and share feedback in Google Classroom.

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Teaching Digitally Resource Guide

I’d be surprised if you haven’t seen one of Nadine Gilkison’s free resources online!

Today, we are looking at her “Teaching Digitally Resource Guide,” an online slide deck of resources and tips to help teachers make the shift to teaching digitally.

CLICK HERE to access: Teaching Digitally Resource Guide

Driven by the needs of the pandemic, Nadine put together this professional learning guide for her teachers at Franklin Township in Indiana.

The Table of Contents

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Types of Learning

I like how Nadine kicks things off with some definitions for synchronous, asynchronous, and blended learning. AND! She adds audio of her explaining things on the slide so teachers can come back to it and review it. Which actually happens to be a great way to model asynchronous learning!

COVID Distance Learning – Where are you?

Nadine uses these levels (as defined by @JenniferWathall) to help teachers see where they are and how they can improve.

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Digital Lesson Design

Nadine helps her teachers start where they move through levels to take things beyond simple substitutions.

She shares tips, ideas, and web tools that help teachers better understand how to create a digital learning experience by adding in the 4 C’s and learning how to create Hyperdocs and use Eduprotocols.

Essential Skills for Teachers and Students

Nadine has taken the tools her teachers use and need the most and broken down the most essential skills–like the Google Classroom example below.

These are the things that every teacher and every student needs to know about Google Classroom.

We only had time to scratch the surface of this amazing guide from Nadine.

What would you add to this guide? Please leave us a comment and share!About Nadine Gilkison

Twitter: @nadinegilkison

Websites: www.fttechtips.com www.dyslexicmindset.com

Bio: I have been a District Technology Integration Specialist for 8 years in Franklin Township Schools and also served as an Innovation Specialist for the Office of eLearning/IDOE. I am a Google Certified Innovator, part of cohort NYC#19, with a project focus on #dyslexicmindset. I love helping all teachers and students excel at technology integration. My specialties include: Hyperdocs, Accessibility, eLearning, blended learning, Chromebooks, district-level coaching, and anything Google. I believe in sharing all of my work to help as many teachers as possible on a global scale. #bettertogether

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Quick Tip: Create QR Code in Chrome

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Google Chrome has a new feature!

In one-click, you can create a scannable, custom QR code of any website!

No extensions, add-ons, or special accounts needed!

I love Google Chrome!

Watch the video tutorial below to find out just how easy this is!

Quick Tip: Create QR Code in Chrome (no extension needed!)

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Asynchronous Learning Tips for Teachers – SULS097

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In this episode and blog post, I am sharing asynchronous learning tips for teachers.

As more and more teachers and students adapt to online and blended learning, let’s take a closer look at creating more meaningful asynchronous learning experiences.

Every student doesn’t have to do the exact same thing at the exact same time.

Asynchronous online learning is a powerful tool for teachers.

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Asynchronous Learning Tips for Teachers

In general, the terms synchronous learning and asynchronous learning have historically referred to online learning. As the lines between online, distance, remote, and blended learning get blurred, these definitions will continue to grow and evolve.

What is Synchronous Learning?

“Synchronous online activities are those that require students and instructors to be online at the same time. Instructions, lessons, discussions, and presentations occur at a specific time. (not flexible)” – Blended Learning with Google by Kasey Bell

What is Asynchronous Learning?

“Asynchronous online activities are just the opposite. Instructions, lessons, discussions, and presentations occur at different times for each student. Teachers provide materials, instructions, lessons, and assignments that can be accessed over an extended period.

Students are given a timeframe or due dates to complete the work and watch lessons and videos. Interactions and discussions take place using asynchronous tools such as discussion boards that do not require everyone to be connected at the same time (flexible).” – Blended Learning with Google by Kasey Bell

Asynchronous activities require some student autonomy and ability to self-direct, as well as monitoring of progress.

Example: Zoom or Google Meet video recordings where the lesson video is posted online, and students can watch at different times. 

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Why Asynchronous Learning?

Both synchronous and asynchronous learning are important.

But there are some superpowers that lie with the flexibility offered by asynchronous learning activities.

Every student doesn’t have to do the exact same thing at the exact same time.

Asynchronous learning can help build confidence and competence in our students, helping them take ownership of their learning and become more self-directed learners.

Yes, at this moment, we have come to rely on asynchronous learning more than ever. But these skills will be a good bridge into the new normal.

In and of itself, asynchronous learning IS STUDENT-CENTERED!

When we shift to the online environment, we have to think differently about our online activities and assignments.

Related: 7 Ways to Rethink Assignments

Generally, students prefer many asynchronous learning activities, especially recorded videos that they can watch and rewatch.

Asynchronous Learning TipsPre-assess Your Students!

This can happen synchronously or asynchronously to prepare for asynchronous learning.

If you don’t know what your students know, you are going at this blind. Quite possibly, one of the most powerful tools teachers can use is pre-assessment. It may seem like it is too time-consuming, but it will save you and your students valuable time in the long run.

If we are teaching something students already know, we are often wasting valuable instructional time.

Pre-assessment can be a formal pre-test or quiz, but it doesn’t have to be.

Can they explain the concept or skill using video or writing?

Pre-assessment strategies to activate prior knowledge:

KWL (What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Have Learned): Yes, you can do this digitally–Docs, Slides, Jamboard, Padlet–all you need is 3 columns!DiscussionConcept mapsThink-Pair-ShareGraphic organizersRecorded Videos

Use short, recorded videos and make them accessible to students online.

Generally, you want to keep your videos to ten minutes or less, even shorter for the littles.

Think of it this way. Recording videos that can be reused over and over again, even reused in the coming years, is a powerful tool to have in your pocket.

You can create a database of videos to reuse year and year.

Instructional Videos

Think mini-lessons: Chunk content into bite-sized pieces focused on the learning goal.Combine voice-over slides, screencast when necessary, and show your smiling face.

Feedback Videos

Personalize feedback for students by using video when you can.Create a comment bank of videos to save time when you can’t personalize. Screencastify is perfect for this! Just save the links in your Google Classroom comment bank or somewhere you access frequently!

Good Morning Videos

If you do not see all of your students face-to-face, consider recording good morning videos to help connect with your students.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Check-in Videos

Take the time to check-in on your class, and if you have concerns about specific students, create a personalized check-in video for them.

Provide Student Choice

Consider creating videos to provide choice in learning for students.Video-based choice explanations for choice boards (especially littles that can’t read), station rotation options, or any kind of choice.

Student-Created Videos

Let’s flip this around and think about how students can create and use recorded videos.

Introductions: Students can create a video to introduce themselves to the class. (Flipgrid is perfect for this!)Peer-to-peer videos: Students can create videos to give feedback to their peers, make connections, support each other, and build classroom culture.Tools for Student-Created Video: FlipgridPhone/tablet/webcamLoomScreencastifyamzn_assoc_tracking_id = "shauplea-20";amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual";amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart";amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon";amzn_assoc_region = "US";amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links";amzn_assoc_asins = "1735601802";amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit";amzn_assoc_linkid = "4c02c8cc44526bc9fbb710edf527215a";
Audio

Everything doesn’t have to be video! Audio can be a powerful tool in your bag of tricks. Audio recordings will let students hear your voice even if they can’t see you.

The audio file size is much smaller than video, so you can save bandwidth for low access areas.

Audio may not be as personal as video, but it is more personal than text.

Audio Creation Tools:

Flipgrid (mic-only mode)Screencastify (export audio)Garageband on Mac and iOSAudacity on PCChromebook audio recordersVoice recorders apps available on just about any device

Related: 13 Tools to Record Audio on a Chromebook

Provide Multimodal and Multimedia Support with Your Videos and Audio Files

To better support your learners, be sure to provide additional resources with your video and audio to clarify. Think of different ways to present information like:

ImagesInfographicsGIFsTextDifferentiate

Don’t forget to differentiate your asynchronous learning activities. Just because you are doing asynchronous learning doesn’t mean that it is automatically differentiated.

Consider:

Creating videos for different skill levels.Provide enrichment opportunities for students who are ready for more.Allow students to progress on to the next learning goal, unit, etc.Gamify your lessons. (Check out episode 96 about digital badges)Collaboration

Be sure there is a purpose to the collaboration, not just to break up the mundane. If there is not a clear purpose, don’t do it. Please do not use breakout rooms just because you can.

Assign roles, so students know what is expected.Create check-ins and deadlines. (video chat, or feedback deadlines)Constantly facilitate collaboration. Discussion/BackChannels

Students talking isn’t necessarily a bad thing! Just because they are chatting with another student can be used for learning.

Guide discussion–design it, monitor it and respond to it.Use the built-in comments feature that is available in many applications you already use.Try Jamboard, Padlet, comments, or discussion boards.What asynchronous strategies will you try with your students?

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How to Pass the Google Certified Educator Exams (10 Tips!)

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Wondering how to pass the Google Certified Educator exams?

I get asked all the time, “How hard are the Google Certified Educator exams?” The answer depends on a lot of things, so I decided to put together this set of tips and tools to help you prepare. It’s a free download: How to Pass the Google Certified Educator Exams.

Becoming a Google Certified Educator can be intimidating and confusing.

The program has grown, evolved, and changed over the last couple of years.

So to be sure you have the most accurate information, and that you know what to expect, I have put together these tips to help you pass the Google Certified Educator Exams.

These tips may seem simple at first glance, but be sure that you read all of the details in the 19-page download.

Most will tell you that the exams are not hard, but intricate, long, detailed and somewhat exhausting and stressful.

I have compiled the best tips from educators that have passed the GCE exams and added tips from my own experience in the program. 

While the two exams contain different levels of content, the testing system and design of the exam itself are very similar. These tips will help you better prepare and know what to expect on the Google Certified Educator exams. YOU CAN DO IT!

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I also teach online boot camps to walk you through all the skills and help you prepare for the exams. I have helped thousands of educators through these online, self-paced courses!

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Everything you need to know to pass the exam and become a Google Certified Educator Level 1!

50 Video Lessons (hands-on learning with Kasey Bell)20+ PDF Downloadable Study MaterialLesson ChecksTesting Tips12 hours of Professional Learning CreditBONUS 1: Includes the ENTIRE Google Classroom Master Class!BONUS 2: The Level 1 Capacity Matrix and skills checklistBONUS 3: The Level 1 Challenges (performance tasks designed to mimic the exam)and much more!Payment plans and scholarships availableBulk discounts! Get your whole school Google certified!Learn more and see the course curriculum Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy

Everything you need to know to pass the exam and become a Google Certified Educator Level 2!

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YouTube Video Library for Teachers

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YouTube Video Library for Teachers

FREE Tech Tip videos for teachers! Save time, learn tricks, and up your Google game!

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Quick Tip: Create with FREE Google Templates

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Did you know many of your favorite Google apps have built-in TEMPLATES for things like lesson plans, reports, contact forms, and more?

Find templates in your favorite Google apps–Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms!

Yes! And it’s ALL FREE!

Watch the video below to learn how to access these free Google templates.

Quick Tip: Create with FREE Google Templates

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Related: How to Use Templates and Assign in Google Classroom

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Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How) – SULS096

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Let’s talk digital badges with the experts: Cate Tolnai and Jen Gibson!

Digital badges can help us engage students (even remote learners).

Learn what digital badges are, when to use them, and how to implement them in your classroom.

Yes, you can do this in your remote, online, or blended learning environment!

These two creative ladies will help us learn how we can use digital badges in the classroom to engage and motivate our students.

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Quick Tip

Did you know many of your favorite Google apps have built-in TEMPLATES for things like lesson plans, reports, contact forms, and more? ALL FOR FREE!

Watch this quick video to learn how! 

Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How)

You may happen to notice that the URL for this post looks a little different. The post that originally appeared on this page in 2014 was completely out of date. I needed to find new and fresh information about badges, so I called in some help from my friends, Cate Tolnai and Jen Gibson!

Related: Power Up Your Classroom with Game Play

What Are Digital Badges?

Digital badges (aka micro-credentials) are images that represent an accomplishment or skill achieved by the student or stakeholder. They can be displayed online, and many also have connected data that shows how the badge was earned.

Think digital versions of those patches we used to earn in scouts!

They can range from a simple, digital sticker to something much more complex like passing an assessment or competency.

Cate has a ton of professional learning badges in her email signature! (Show off!)

Cate Tolnai’s email signature badges

Badging has grown a lot in popularity for professional learning, higher education, and career and technical education classes (CTE) at the high school level.

But there are so many ways that K12 classrooms can take advantage of digital badges!

Using Digital Badges in the K12 Classroom

Digital badging is at its heart, a student-centered strategy. It’s empowering for students of all ages.

By connecting the play environment to the classroom, “the learning bridge,” can help students see that failing is part of the learning system. You can have multiple attempts and multiple lives, like in a game.

If we are using technology more, how can we use these to demonstrate mastery of skills and knowledge in our classrooms?

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Classroom Badges – Backwards Planning for Authentic Assessment

Start with your content standards! Then deconstruct it into bite-sized pieces–what Cate call’s micro-tasks.

STEP 1: Determine your unit of study.

STEP 2: Plan the lessons of learning (sub-standards).

STEP 3: Identify the measurable objectives (micro-tasks).

STEP 4: Assign the task aligned with a master badge or micro badge.

STEP 5: Students submit evidence.

The infographic below will walk you through the steps!

CLICK HERE to Download Cate’s PDF

Badges are Great for Choice and Differentiation

When we give students more voice and choice in their learning, that flexible learning path to the learning goal, we can easily align the badge with the competency or mastery.

Tools for Creating Badges

Many of the tools you are already using may already have badges or creation tools available.

Tools to design your own badges:

Google DrawingsCanvaAdobe Spark

Badging Systems

Badgelist.comCanvas (Badgr is integrated)Add-On for Google Sheets: Magic Digital BadgesHow can you use digital badges to increase engagement with your students?About Cate Tolnai & Jen Gibson

Twitter: @BuoyConsultants

Website: BuoyConsultants.com

Podcast: BuoyCast

Cate Tolnai: In her 18th year in education, Cate Tolnai’s professional experience spans online and blended professional learning design and implementation, strategic social marketing and communications, K-12 education, and both district and county level administration. As co-founder of BUOY, her deep interest in professional learning and development coupled with her communication skills positions her to successfully partner with a wide variety of teams. Author of Power Up Your Classroom with Game Play.

Cate’s website: CateTolnai.com

Jen Gibson: With more than 25 years of experience in education, public policy, edtech, and K12 business development, Jen specializes in strategic thinking and unique approaches to work on behalf of BUOY’s clients. Jen is a partner with a passion for learning, combined with innovative strategies that provide growth opportunities, powerfully designed programs, future visioning, diagnostics and analytics that drive success.

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Kasey’s TCEA & IDEAcon 2021 Presentations and Resources

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I just wrapped up a fun-filled week at TCEA 2021 virtually.

TCEA, or Texas Computer Educators Association, is one of my favorite educational conferences.

I’ve attended and presented for many years. It’s like a little family reunion with all my Texas folks.

This year they teamed up with IDEAcon to make it even better.

Even though I miss seeing everyone in person, it was a great online conference! (Many parts of the combined conference are still going on through the entire month of February.)

This year, I was honored as a Featured Thought Leader. (Thanks, TCEA!)

I always share my slides with the Shake Up Learning readers, so even if you couldn’t attend the conference, you can learn along with us.

Kasey’s #TCEA & #IDEAcon 2021 Presentations and Resources

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Click on the links below to open the Google Slides presentation and access the resources.

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Through teacher empowering publications and award-winning educational resources at ShakeUpLearning.com, learner-driven workshops, and presentations, and hosting two weekly podcasts, Kasey proves why we should never settle for the boring when it comes to bringing out the very best in our students, and we should always strive to Shake Up Learning!

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Quick Tip: Fullscreen Interactive Google Slides

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Don’t you love interactive Google Slides? I do!

But many teachers wish there was a way to keep the interactivity in full-screen mode.

I found a Chrome extension that will let you do just that!

Watch the video below to learn how simple it is to use.

Grab the chrome extension here.

Quick Tip: Fullscreen Interactive Google Slides

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