TCH 401

Before you begin:  Open this Sign up Genius. and sign up for a topic (these topics come from the nine elements you read about). Topics will be first come first serve.  

 

Learn more about Hyperdocs. 

• Read this blog post from Cult of Pedagogy How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching. 

• Check out this blog post from The Infused Classroom: What is a HyperDoc? A Quick Look. If you are unfamiliar with HyperDocs I recommend you view the videos in this post for more information. 

 

Read more about your Digital Citizenship Element. 

• Once you are assigned your element, do some research. Look for 4-5 resources that will give you more information about the topic and is implications on the classroom (the resources tab could be a good place to start, but be sure to find sources outside of that). Some of these resources will be useful for you as an educator (and digital citizen yourself), and others might serve as resources for your students. Keep track of these resources, and again be sure to include more than the ones you find on the resource page. 

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In the moment: Develop a hyperdoc on your assigned element that you can use in YOUR classroom. The idea here is that you are engaging your students in one of the nine elements AND showcasing that you are now an "expert" on this topic. In the before you begin you should have spent time learning about the topic. You are the only (or one of two) classmates that covered this topic so you are responsible for sharing that information out in your hyperdoc so that your students understand, but also so that  peers who view your artifact and blog could learn more. Additionally, you will see later the directions for the blog post where you will specifically address your peers in this class.

Remember a Hyperdoc is more than just a list of links. It is an intentionally designed lesson that typically includes seven sections: Engage, Explore, Explain, Apply, Share, Reflect, Extend.  Your Hyperdoc should contain all seven of those sections. You may start with this basic template (go to file-->make a copy to get editing access): Basic HyperDoc Template. If you are already familiar with Hyperdocs, or want an additional challenge, feel free to start your doc from scratch. You can find more examples, and templates at Instructional Technology Hotspot,  While you are creating your HyperDoc use this opportunity to explore new tools. For example, in the Explain category consider going beyond just a Google SlideDeck. Could you use VoiceThread, Voki, or maybe, Explain Everything? Same for the Apply category. Instead of a Powerpoint, might your students create a Thinglink, a poster in Canva, or a video using Powtoon? See the resources tab to explore more tools. **Your "Explain" section should contain an ORIGINAL presentation. You will compose this using the resources  and information you found in "Before you Begin"--Original presentation means that it should be something you create from scratch.**

 

NEW To You tools: We are all entering this course with a different set of tech tools that we regularly use. The idea in this course is to move beyond those that are familiar, and try tools you are not familiar with. Not only will that help you widen your tool box, it will also give you time to play and the opportunity to get the "new user" experience that your students might have when using new tools. Each tool is bringing with it affordances and obstacles that impact teaching and learning. Being able to recognize those helps you to know what tool is best. For each challenge I will ask that you ALWAYS explore at least TWO new tools for each challenge. You will describe these in your "complete the challenge" blog post. Hopefully you will use one of those tools in the challenge, but if those tools will not work for what you are trying to accomplish, and you discuss that ,you are free to use the tool that would work best in your classroom. This should be more rare than not. Please do not plan to rely on only the Google Suite throughout the course. 

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Complete the challenge: Create a Teacher as Citizen post on your blog. Link your hyperdoc to the post. In your blog post be sure to address these areas: 

1. Reflect on your digital citizenship element. How do you define it? Discuss what you think is most important for your fellow teachers to understand about the topic, and the resources you used that were most helpful (this can include ones off of the resource page, but also those that you found on your own). 

2. Discuss which  ISTE substandard your element connects to. ​

3. Include a conversation of what two new to you tools you explored for this challenge.   What was your experience with each tool? Would you use it again? Why/How? What helped you make a decision about what you ultimately chose?