Docs

There are a few basic Google Skills that you will need to understand in order to effectively build and use Hyperdocs with your students.

1. Access the basic Google Docs and Slides apps

2. Change the page size if using Google Slides

3. Change background color of a Google Doc or Slide (tutorial)

4. Inserting text, text boxes, images, tables, & videos into Google Docs or Slides

5. Format text and tables for color interest

6. Add more fonts to Google Docs and Slides for variety

7. Create hyperlinks in Google Docs or Slides

8. Create bookmarks in a Google Doc or Slide

9. Organize your files in Drive for easy location of documents

10. Adjust share settings of the files (so that students will be able to access the work)

11. Force "Make A Copy" in Google Docs and Slides

12. Plan on how to distribute and assign the work to your students (we use Oncourse Classroom in our parish) 

source: http://talktechwithme.com/2017/04/13/8-essential-google-drive-elements-to-create-hyperdocs/ 

Is this a HyperDoc or a digital worksheet? Ask yourself the following:

1. Does your lesson follow a specific lesson design? These templates will help with your structure.

2. Did you include the 4 C's in your lesson? Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creation?

3. What level of critical thinking and technology did you integrate? Is this a simple recall task or does this push your student's thinking? Is it substitution or is the technology used transforming the learning?

What differentiates a really good HyperDoc from just an average learning activity? What is the big picture? What are your goals?

7 KEY POINTS FOR EVALUATING HYPERDOCS

1. Activate Prior Knowledge

2. Engage (Explore)

3. Collaboration (Explain)

4. Creation (Apply)

5. Self-Assess (Reflect)

6. Authentic Audience (Share)

7. Student Choice (Extend)

source: https://flippedtechcoaching.com/2017/10/07/7-key-points-for-evaluating-your-hyperdocs/ 

The most simple form of a hyperdoc is to use the Google Docs app to create a lesson outline. Within the outline, the teacher will include hyperlinks to outside sources for the students to engage with the content.

Some of the links may include:

• links to various documents living in a shared folder on Google Drive

• links to external websites (school and filter approved) 

• links to published online articles

• links to videos on school approved sites such as Common Sense Media, Mystery Science, Khan Academy

• links to share collaboration and sites such as padlet, educreations, answergarden

• links to a questionnaire or quiz created in Google Forms

Browse through some of the online resources below to gather ideas on how to make Hyperdocs work for you!

There are many practical applications for using Hyperdocs to make your classroom connections even more grand!