Not sure what tool to use?
Check out the diagram below to help you decide what tool is the most appropriate to use to achieve your instructional goals. We've modeled Weston Kieschnick's "Outcome/Strategy/Tool/Plan/Rigor-Relevance" framework.
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Bold School Framework for Strategic Blended LearningTable of Contents
Please note that these videos and PDFs may have been created previously, with another purpose in mind, such as the "Tech Challenge" or other building or grade level request. As you watch or read the resource, the hope is that you can get the gist of the process and make adjustments to the directions to your particular environment.
As always, if you need further guidance or assistance, feel free to reach out to Deb and Andrea at techintegration@oregoncs.org.
Schoology Tutorials
Schoology Tutorials - New to Schoology? Or would you like to review the basics or learn a new skill? These tutorials are for you!
<<< CLICK THE LIST AT THE LEFT TO GO TO THE TUTORIALS
Digital Feedback in Schoology Assignments - Deb covers the Audio/Video Recorder (located in many places) and annotations inside of the grading tool. She also discusses the comment feature within Docs, Sheets, Slides, & Drawings that you've assigned via the Google Drive Assignment App. This is helpful to provide feedback when students turn assignments in but ALSO along the way while they are working on their assignments. Deb also covers the "Comment Bank" within Google Keep.
Schoology Portfolio Feature - Students can create a portfolio to save their work - pictures, videos, presentations, or any type of files for a particular subject, school year, or accumulate their work over their entire 5-12 school years. Use the portfolio to reflect on the learning process, challenges, and successes of the work collected.
Creating Assessments in Schoology - Recorded webinar from April 22, 2020 showing how to create different question types using the Schoology Assessment tool. Here are the articles Deb referenced in her training:
Model Schoology Unit of Instruction - Check out this video to explore the best practice for organizing and presenting your materials using Schoology. You will see how to create your course content that includes context, a variety of types of materials, and the use of images to help guide the instruction and address different learning modalities. The sample walks you through both the teachers' and the students' experience. Deb created this for her Masters Thesis.
Schoology's Built In Audio and Video Recorder - Check out Deb's blog post on this often overlooked feature built right into Schoology. Teachers can record their directions or ask a question. Students record short audio or video responses to prompts or questions. Great for music, foreign language, or just any subject or topic.
Upload to YouTube THEN to Schoology - This is the preferred option. You do have to create a YouTube channel, but this is built right into Google, so it is very easy. With this option, once the video is at YouTube, you can delete the video off your hard drive on your computer to save hard drive space.
Upload to Google Drive THEN to Schoology - As a second option, this option does not require you to create your YouTube channel, but will potentially begin to fill up your hard drive the more videos you create. With this option you can NEVER delete the video from your computer.
Create Your Own Video/Audio Files
QuickTime VIDEO Recording - Use your computer to record you doing something - sharing a message your students, reading something, providing them verbal instruction. Anything where you pre-record you on camera saying and/or doing something. You can then post to your Schoology course.
QuickTime SCREENCAST Recording - Use your computer to record what you're doing on your computer. This is what Deb's videos are often doing. Show students how a website works, or walk them through a Google or Powerpoint slideshow. This process records any activity on your screen. It also captures your voice as you're navigating on your computer. Then you can post that video to your Schoology course.
QuickTime AUDIO Recording - Just like the two above, but it ONLY captures audio. Simple and straight forward. Then you can post the audio file to your Schoology course.
Quicktime Player Video Editing - Use Quicktime Player to complete any final edits to your video that you wish, to eliminate any blunders, or combine videos. Finally, upload that video to YouTube for your students. It is that YouTube link that you will embed into Schoology or add to Google Classroom. Instructional videos or “live session” recordings (with no student faces or voices) can be posted as Public or Unlisted. To include student faces & voices, see the next video.
Posting Videos as Private -
Videos that contain student faces or voices MUST be posted as PRIVATE.
Use the ADDITIONAL 2 step process as illustrated HERE
Integration of Applications & Websites
-Kami-
Kami App Tools - This video will give you a basic overview of the Kami dashboard and tools built into Kami assignments.
CURRENTLY WE HAVE THE FULL VERSION OF KAMI!
Kami & Schoology- In this video created by Kami, learn how to integrate Kami into Schoology and review all of the amazing features Kami offers to help you provide student feedback and streamline grading.
-Edpuzzle-
Creating Edpuzzle lessons - First, you take any video from YouTube, Khan Academy, etc. OR re-use other teachers’ video-lessons from Edpuzzle's amazing video-collection OR you can also upload your own videos directly from your computer. THEN crop the video, use only what you need for your lesson. THEN embed questions along the video and check if your students truly understand the lesson.
<<<<<<<<< To the left is a how-to video created by Edpuzzle.
CURRENTLY WE HAVE THE FULL VERSION OF EDPUZZLE!
Edpuzzle in Schoology - It is easy to embed Edpuzzle lessons directly into your Schoology courses. This route makes it simple to assign lessons to students, provide feedback, and sync students' grades to PowerSchool.
<<<<<<<<< Check out this tutorial for step-by-step integration directions.
CURRENTLY WE HAVE THE FULL VERSION OF EDPUZZLE!
-Padlet-
Getting Started with Padlet - Padlet is an online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, in a secure location. Everyone can contribute all at once and all users see everyone's contributions.
Click here to get started.
-Flip-
Getting Started with Flip (formerly known as Flipgrid) - Flip is a video tool that allows teachers to post "Topics" that are essentially videos with some accompanying text. This is then shared with students, who can be prompted to respond. The response can be made using the software's camera to create videos that are then posted to the original Topic.
<<<< For detailed information about getting started, see the document to the left.
-Pear Deck-
Make your lesson interactive by combining your Google Slides with questions, drawing tools, polls, simulations, review or practice activities, and more. There is also a plethora of ready-made templates for all grade levels available to use.
<<<<<<<To the left is a link to a variety of help videos provided by Pear Deck.
CURRENTLY WE HAVE THE FULL VERSION OF PEAR DECK! - allows students to work at their own pace (student-paced mode) or with teacher control (live lesson mode).
Getting Started with Schoology Integration
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To the left are step-by-step directions for creating a Pear Deck assignment in Schoology.
-Jamboard-
-StudyMate-
Getting Started with StudyMate - StudyMate is similar to Quizlet, but requires ZERO setup on the teacher's end. Students and teachers can create study materials such as flash cards, quizzes, and learning games right in Schoology.
<<<< For detailed information about getting started, see the document.
-Canva-
Getting Started with Canva - Canva is a design platform that provides teachers and students with thousands of templates to get their digital projects started! OCS currently has a free district license which allows all teachers and students to access the app's premium features by logging in with their OCS Google Account.
<<<< Check out the Canva video tutorials designed specifically for educators to the left.