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What is a HyperDoc?
What is a HyperDoc?
A Hyperdoc is a single document (often a Google Doc) that guides students through an activity or an entire lesson. With one shortened link, students can access a lesson that contains instructions, links, tasks, and other clever ways to get kids thinking. A HyperDoc creates opportunities for choice, exploration, and ways for kids to apply their knowledge.
If all assignments are in one place, isn't that just like Schoology?
If all assignments are in one place, isn't that just like Schoology?
Yes, they are kind of similar. An LMS (such as Schoology or Google Classroom) is meant to be a place where files are stored (like a digital filing cabinet) and students can access. A HyperDoc is often more visually interesting and interactive (with readings, questions, videos, images, etc. in one document. A HyperDoc allows students to "see" your lesson plans (including your connections between ideas) while also allowing students to work at their own pace. Building a HyperDoc specifically for IEP or ELD students can be a powerful way to further support them in your classroom.
Isn't this just one more thing?
Isn't this just one more thing?
That's entirely up to you. HyperDocs have transformed my teaching and my organization. These do take time. Make one new HyperDoc a year.
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HyperDocs
HyperDocs
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1. You don't have to start from scratch. Find a template that works for what you're already doing. You're repackaging it for your students.
2. You can go beyond the textbook. You can still use the textbook as the heart of your lessons, but provide students with extra materials (videos, websites, simulations) that help students make connections.
3. Diversify your students' learning options. You can still use a worksheet, but you can also give students other options.
4. Unleash new teaching (and learning opportunities). Ask yourself, What is it now that I couldn't do before?
5. Blend the best tools from the web. Want to use Kahoot, Google Maps, Google Slides, and a YouTube video? Done.
6. Facilitate rather than dictate. This doesn't mean that you never talk to (or at) your students, but you can spend less time talking so students can spend more time doing.
7. Create more collaborative learning. With HyperDocs (and self-paced learning), you can spend more time one-on-one with students that need extra, guided support while other students, that don't need your guidance, know exactly what to do.
8. Combine their digital and face-to-face worlds. Digital assignments can still use non-digital resources!
HyperDoc Templates
HyperDoc Templates
Let these templates offer a foundation as you create your own HyperDocs. Allow these templates to sere as a starting point, offering ideas and inspiration. Select the template that best fits your classroom. To make a copy, click on the template title. Eventually, you may design your own HyperDocs without the need of a template.
Let these templates offer a foundation as you create your own HyperDocs. Allow these templates to sere as a starting point, offering ideas and inspiration. Select the template that best fits your classroom. To make a copy, click on the template title. Eventually, you may design your own HyperDocs without the need of a template.
Build Your Own HyperDoc
Build Your Own HyperDoc
Engage Tools
Engage Tools
YouTube
Podcasts/Audio Books
Images
Memes
Quotations
Explore Tools
Explore Tools
Share Tools
Share Tools
Reflect Tools
Reflect Tools
Extend Tools
Extend Tools
What if I don't know any of these tools and don't feel comfortable using them?
What if I don't know any of these tools and don't feel comfortable using them?
The tools that you use are up to you. Can you link a Google Doc to a Google Doc? Yes!
Examples
Examples
Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis
This is a more advanced example of a HyperDoc. The students do not respond directly on the document, but instead respond on a variety of different pages. This type of HyperDoc would be used by a teacher who has easy access to technology and feels comfortable with a variety of media.
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